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

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  Speaker 1: It's the Mark Simone Show on seventeen wor well, hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's Friday the thirteenth. We got a three day weekend
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  Speaker 1: coming up. You got five weeks until spring, that's all,
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  Speaker 1: just five weeks. Spring training is already underway right now
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  Speaker 1: as we speak. You know, we have a US Attorney
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  Speaker 1: of the Southern District. That's the big one, the Southern District.
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  Speaker 1: That's Jay Clayton, doing an excellent job. But there's a
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  Speaker 1: Northern District which goes, you know from here upstate. The
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  Speaker 1: US Attorney for the Northern District had been a great
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  Speaker 1: guy who everybody. Everybody loved this guy doing a great job.
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  Speaker 1: John Sarcone. He's the US Attorney for the Northern District.
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  Speaker 1: He was not confirmed, he was appointed, but Sarcone is
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  Speaker 1: considered a great US attorney. Everybody's happy when they think
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  Speaker 1: he's doing a great job. Well, you got these crazy
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  Speaker 1: left wing judges here in New York. So they ruled
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  Speaker 1: that he can't be the US attorney because he hasn't
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  Speaker 1: been confirmed yet, and there's a temporary The judges decided
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  Speaker 1: to all appoint their own US attorney for the Northern District,
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  Speaker 1: and they chose somebody and made him the US Attorney
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  Speaker 1: for the Northern District, and day one President Trump fired
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  Speaker 1: him and said, judges don't pick US attorneys. The President does.
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  Speaker 1: So I think what Sarcone did was he made himself
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  Speaker 1: the number two guy just to make sure he's still there,
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  Speaker 1: because everybody thinks he's doing a great job. So hopefully
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  Speaker 1: the President will reappoint him as the US attorney. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know the beautiful Waldorf Astoria, the Waldorf Hotel, one
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  Speaker 1: of the great landmarks in New York. Members closed for
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  Speaker 1: like ten years while they were rebuilding it and took forever,
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  Speaker 1: and then it reopened about six months ago, and it's spectacular.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like some of the changes, but it's spectacular inside.
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  Speaker 1: It's up for sale now. I don't know why they
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  Speaker 1: spent all these years rebuilding it just to sell it.
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  Speaker 1: But half the building is now apartments condos, which you
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  Speaker 1: can buy a condo, but you could also buy the
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  Speaker 1: whole building if you want. It's for sale one billion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: It'd be interesting to see who buys it. New York
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  Speaker 1: is as hot as ever, despite despite Mom, Donnie and
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  Speaker 1: Hokeel and all of that. It's despite them, it's doing well.
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  Speaker 1: Apartment sales high end through the roof apartment rentals is
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  Speaker 1: as big as ever. In fact, there's no inventory left,
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  Speaker 1: so people are buying stuff here. The Waldorf may easily sell,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see. So we got this crazy Mom Donnie running things,
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  Speaker 1: and you got crazy Kathy Hokele, who really is becoming
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  Speaker 1: just as bad as as Mom Donnie. That's why you
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  Speaker 1: need Bruce Blakeman to be governor. He'll be with us
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  Speaker 1: later this hour. We'll talk to me about that. But
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  Speaker 1: you got to get rid of Hockle. You can't get
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  Speaker 1: rid of Mom Donnie for three and a half more years,
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  Speaker 1: but you can get rid of Hokele and get a
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  Speaker 1: real governor in there, a good, common sense, Bruce Blakeman
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  Speaker 1: type of governor. But Mom Donnie's up there in Albany
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  Speaker 1: wants to raise taxes. There's no reason at all for
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  Speaker 1: raising taxes. We got a budget gap twelve billion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: The budget is double what it's supposed to be. It's
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  Speaker 1: all waste, fraud, bloat, it's double. You can cut the
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  Speaker 1: budget in half, just like that half twelve billion dollar gap.
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  Speaker 1: Cut it in half, and then we got a sixty
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  Speaker 1: five billion dollar surplus just like that, cut it in half.
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  Speaker 1: Florida's budget is half of ours New York States, but
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  Speaker 1: just cut it in half. So there's Mom Donnie testifying
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  Speaker 1: about the rich, the rich, the rich, the rich.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you're going to continue to advocate for a variety
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  Speaker 2: of options. We believe the two of them that are
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  Speaker 2: the most straightforward and critically important are increased taxes on
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  Speaker 2: the wealthiest New Yorkers and the most profitable corporations.
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  Speaker 1: On the tax of corporations. Do you remember the tariffs?
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  Speaker 1: Remember how crazy the Democrats got about the tariffs. They
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  Speaker 1: were yelling the scream and how bad tariffs are. They're
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  Speaker 1: putting tariffs on themselves. These are tariffs. That's a tariff
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  Speaker 1: when you tax the corporate tax is already the highest
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  Speaker 1: in the world. American corporate tax is higher than any
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  Speaker 1: place else in the world. They want to increase it.
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  Speaker 1: That's a tariff on a business. You know, when you
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  Speaker 1: put a ten percent tariff on a business, the business
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  Speaker 1: doesn't pay the ten percent. You know, some of it's
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  Speaker 1: paid by the exporter overseas, some of it's paid by
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  Speaker 1: the middleman. Maybe the business has to pay two percent
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  Speaker 1: of the ten percent. But when you put a ten
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  Speaker 1: percent tax on the business here in this country, they
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  Speaker 1: got to pay the whole ten percent, which means they
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  Speaker 1: got to raise the price of all the products ten percent.
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  Speaker 1: So when he talks about taxing these corporations, it just
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  Speaker 1: means a tariff. It just means the price of every
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  Speaker 1: product goes up. And when he talks about taxing the rich,
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  Speaker 1: some of them leave. And they're the ones that pay
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  Speaker 1: all the taxes here. The top one percent pays like
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  Speaker 1: fifty percent of the tax in.
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  Speaker 3: New York, asking for a two percent raise in personal
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  Speaker 3: income taxes on the most affluent New Yorkers, someone earning
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  Speaker 3: a million dollars a year, the top one percent of
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  Speaker 3: New York City can afford to contribute twenty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 3: more in taxes.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe, but they don't want to contribute twenty thousand more
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  Speaker 1: because you just waste it. You know, for every dollar
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  Speaker 1: you give to the government, like ninety eight cents of
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  Speaker 1: it is totally wasted on bloat, fraud, waste. They just
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  Speaker 1: don't want to waste their money. So he keeps fighting
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  Speaker 1: for it. In Albany, they keep arguing with him, keep
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  Speaker 1: fighting him, Well, we.
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  Speaker 4: Can't keep raising taxes and have people fleeing. You're talking
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  Speaker 4: about free busting, free childcare, you know, so that's pretty ambitious,
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  Speaker 4: and state is in serious fiscal trouble as well.
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  Speaker 1: I have a big consort bequaus of your philosophy. So
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  Speaker 1: do you have any consort about that.
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  Speaker 2: I am confident that people will continue to stay in
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  Speaker 2: the city. There's no doubt in my mind that what
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  Speaker 2: should be driving all of our politics are the needs
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  Speaker 2: of working people.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, when he's socialists, when they start in with all
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  Speaker 1: their stuff, the end result is always the working people suffer.
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  Speaker 1: The rich will never suffer. They can move, they can
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  Speaker 1: do whatever they want, they can pay the tax if
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  Speaker 1: they want. It's always the working people whenever you do
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  Speaker 1: this Soviet style suff whenever you do this socialist of
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  Speaker 1: the lower and middle income classes that get hit the
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  Speaker 1: hardest by it. So you'll see that. You'll see that
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  Speaker 1: happen mom. Donnie announced he's going to try out his
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  Speaker 1: member campaign with those free buses. They're going to try
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  Speaker 1: the first one, one route will become free. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to do his free buses on one route trial run
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  Speaker 1: of a free bus. Then if you look at the
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  Speaker 1: fine print, it's a cost of the program will be
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy eight million dollars. Well, how's that freeze?
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  Speaker 1: The rest of us have to pay one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: seventy eight million. It's not free. There's no free bus.
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  Speaker 1: It just means taxpayers pay for it. It means ninety
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  Speaker 1: eight percent of taxpayers pay for two percent to ride
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  Speaker 1: around for free. But they love giving them a hard time.
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  Speaker 4: In Albany, increasing taxes risks alienating and driving away businesses
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  Speaker 4: that create jobs and people who disproportionately pay a lot
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  Speaker 4: in our taxes that fund our public schools, our police
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  Speaker 4: are sanitation. We need to be competitive. That's why we
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  Speaker 4: should hold.
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  Speaker 1: The lot on taxes. There you go, good, But like
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  Speaker 1: talking to a tree stump there, he's not listening. But
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  Speaker 1: the good news is he does not have the power
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  Speaker 1: to raise taxes. Governor has more power up there. That's
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  Speaker 1: why you got to get rid of a hkal. She's
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  Speaker 1: just as bad as Mom Donnie. Now. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if she really was deep down in her heart, but
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  Speaker 1: she's decided to become a left wing wacko. She needs
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  Speaker 1: Mom Donnie support. Bruce Blakeman is a tough candidate against her.
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  Speaker 1: She knows she's got a tough race. He's gonna need
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  Speaker 1: the mom Donnie Army at voting time. That's why she
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  Speaker 1: started so left wing. Look at her on ICE. She's
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  Speaker 1: just making up all this nonsense, yelling and screaming about ICE.
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  Speaker 1: She says, this is her quote, we have a bloated
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  Speaker 1: agency dedicated to taking people off our streets without any cause.
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  Speaker 1: Just an out and out lie. She's just out and
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  Speaker 1: out lying. Now, No, there's no ICE agents taking people
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  Speaker 1: out without cause. You know, they've rounded up four hundred
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  Speaker 1: and seventy five thousand people. Okay, maybe there were two
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  Speaker 1: mistakes in there they had to let go, but it's
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  Speaker 1: an incredibly high batting average, So an absolute nut job.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about the governor's race later this hour. Bruce
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  Speaker 1: Blakeman will be with us. Hey, I got to ask
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  Speaker 1: him about this because so Hochel Blakeman is obviously very
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  Speaker 1: popular on Long Island. It's the best run county in America,
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  Speaker 1: Nassau County. So she goes out there to campaign and
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  Speaker 1: then she mentions it later. She says, I was in
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  Speaker 1: Long Island campaigning all week, so people get all upset.
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  Speaker 1: She's supposed to say on Long Island. Not I was
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  Speaker 1: in Long Island. But sometimes I say in Long Island. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll ask he's the leader of Long Island. We'll ask
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  Speaker 1: him later this hour. I think it's okay to say
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  Speaker 1: in Long Island. Janine Piro, you know, she lives in Rye,
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  Speaker 1: New York. She was in her hometown of Rye, beautiful
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  Speaker 1: suburb in Westchester, a while back. It was last summer,
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  Speaker 1: and she fell. She was walking on the Purchase Street.
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  Speaker 1: There's a beauty, utiful downtown and Rye. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: great restaurants there. There's Ruby's Oyster Bar, there's a water Moon.
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  Speaker 1: There's all kinds of great places in Rye. Frankie and
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  Speaker 1: Johnny's Steakhouse, great stuff in Rye. But she fell right
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  Speaker 1: in the street there. Con Edison was doing some work
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  Speaker 1: and had a dangerous construction site with them big things
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  Speaker 1: sticking out that she tripped on. So she suffered brain
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  Speaker 1: bruising and other injuries. Was laid up for a while.
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  Speaker 1: This is last August, So she is suing con Edison.
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  Speaker 1: There was a large block sticking out of the roadway.
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  Speaker 1: Probably got a pretty good lawsuit. And if you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get sued, I would say the worst person to get
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  Speaker 1: sued by is the former District Attorney of West Cheshire,
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  Speaker 1: the current District Attorney of Washington, DC. A great judge,
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  Speaker 1: great attorney, Probably the worst person you can get sued by. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: CBS News, more layoffs are coming. Yeah, they just did
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  Speaker 1: a big round of layoffs. Now they look like they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do another round. And they said it could be
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  Speaker 1: as much as fifteen percent of the workforce. So CBS News,
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to get rid of a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: They offered this buyout plan, and apparently a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: people on the Evening News took the buyout plan. Because
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  Speaker 1: these are all these left wing, very biased fake news types,
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  Speaker 1: and they don't want to go middle of the road
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  Speaker 1: balance news. They don't want to do that. One of them,
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  Speaker 1: when leaving, put out this letter to everybody about how
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  Speaker 1: horrible what's happening is. She said, I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: what the hell she's saying. This is another reason the
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  Speaker 1: should have gotten rid of her. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: else she's saying in this letter. She said, they're prioritizing
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  Speaker 1: a break from traditional broadcast norms to embrace what has
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  Speaker 1: been described as heterodox journalism. What the hell does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: I gotta have a dictionary just to read this letter.
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  Speaker 1: What the hell's a heterodox I don't know. So very
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  Speaker 1: excellence we seek to sustain is hindered by fear and uncertainty.
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  Speaker 1: They they just want to stop the fake news. They
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  Speaker 1: want to stop the bias, the slanted stuff. She quote
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  Speaker 1: Walter Cronkite, who once said to critics, if this is
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  Speaker 1: what makes us liberals, so be it. Huh. I knew
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  Speaker 1: Walter Kronkite. He was a wonderful guy, and he was
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  Speaker 1: pretty balanced when he was in the anchorchair. Okay, it
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  Speaker 1: was a little left wing, but it was slight, just
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  Speaker 1: a little slanted, but pretty much. He kept the broadcast
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  Speaker 1: pretty balance. Now, when he retired and there was a
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  Speaker 1: retired guy, then he started letting out all I didn't
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  Speaker 1: realize how left wing he was till he was retired
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  Speaker 1: and started shooting his mouth off a lot. But when
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  Speaker 1: he was in the anchor chair, he kept the broadcast
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  Speaker 1: pretty honest. Hey, there's gonna be no football this weekend, right,
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  Speaker 1: what do I do? This is the first weekend without
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  Speaker 1: football in many, many, many weeks. Right. Now, here's another problem.
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  Speaker 1: I've talked to you about this before. When there's something
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  Speaker 1: great food wise, the greatest restaurant in the world, the
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  Speaker 1: greatest chef in the world, it used to be like
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  Speaker 1: that's it. Everybody would go. Now when you're the greatest
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  Speaker 1: chef with the greatest restaurant, you open another restaurant, and
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  Speaker 1: another restaurant and another restaurant. You take that John George,
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  Speaker 1: He's got like seventy five restaurants. Now it becomes a chain.
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  Speaker 1: Take Danielle, who's one of the great chefs in the world.
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  Speaker 1: He's got like forty five restaurants, and every time they
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  Speaker 1: open another one, the quality suffers. You see it happen
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  Speaker 1: all the time. I mean, let's be honest, no bu unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: Then there's seventy two nobuos. Well it's a little Everything
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  Speaker 1: changes when you've got to be become a chain. And
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  Speaker 1: it's happening with everything, even pizza Frank Peppy's in New Haven,
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  Speaker 1: that white clam pizza there, Frank Peppy's pizza unbelievable. Then
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden they have twenty five places. It's
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  Speaker 1: not quite as good. And now they are announcing they
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  Speaker 1: have one hundred places. What And then Sally's. That's the
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  Speaker 1: other great one in New Haven. They're talking about opening
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  Speaker 1: two hundred places. The quality suffers. Now do you know
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  Speaker 1: that in New York when they do the the pizza studies,
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  Speaker 1: who has the best pizza in America? Dave Portnoy, whoever
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  Speaker 1: does this, it always comes down to Defara Pizza in Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 1: Defara always wins best pizza in America, maybe the world.
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  Speaker 1: They always win. They don't make that. They only make
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  Speaker 1: like two hundred pizzas a day. They're only opening certain hours.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta wait in line for an hour. Defara Pizza.
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  Speaker 1: All right, here's the bad news. Same thing with these guys.
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  Speaker 1: Now they're making the frozen one. It'll be in every supermarket.
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  Speaker 1: They just launched. You can now get Defara Pizza frozen
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  Speaker 1: in shop.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm reading all the reviews. Everybody says it's not the same.
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  Speaker 1: It's not They said for frozen pizza, it's very good,
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  Speaker 1: but it's nothing like the original. So they're in all
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  Speaker 1: the shop rights. Now they're saying they're gonna go in
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  Speaker 1: food town. Uncle Giuseppes, They're gonna go national. They're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be in one hundred simpermarkets. Said this is not right.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta stop this stuff. You gotta stop because these
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  Speaker 1: said they have like one store, one restaurant and it's phenomenal,
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  Speaker 1: and then they franchise and everything changes. It's different if
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  Speaker 1: you're a franchise to begin with, if your cheesecake factory
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  Speaker 1: or PF Chang's from the beginning, you know how to
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  Speaker 1: mass produce it in a thousand locations, that's different. But
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  Speaker 1: they gotta stop this franchising stuff. So, hey, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein files are out. I've been every time I
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  Speaker 1: run into anybody, I put their name in the Epstein Files.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing. Who comes up. You can look up anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Just go just google Epstein Files. It'll take you to
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  Speaker 1: the Department of Justice website. It's called the Epstein Library.
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  Speaker 1: When you get there and then you can search type
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  Speaker 1: in the name of it. You'd be surprised. Remember we
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  Speaker 1: had Jimmy Feila on yesterday. I said, hey, you're in
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein files. He was stunned. That was nothing bad.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody was emailing him by telling them something. Jimmy Phylis
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  Speaker 1: said on Fox News, I come up in the Epstein
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  Speaker 1: Files five times. I couldn't believe nothing bad nothing bad,
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  Speaker 1: nothing bad, just about something I did on the air
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  Speaker 1: or was coming to a lunch, and I was the
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  Speaker 1: MC of nothing bad. But if you want to google
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  Speaker 1: your friends or search your friends in the Epstein files,
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  Speaker 1: you can do it. Hey, we'll take some calls. Next
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the
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  Speaker 1: number eight hundred three two one zero seven ten