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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, much more Mark. Mark Simone. Now, 9 till noon weekdays.
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  Speaker 1: On 710WOR. Hey, let's take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Frank in Phoenix. Frank, how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Mark. Mark, the socialist must have hated Dolly Parton.
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  Speaker 2: She is exactly everything they hate. She came up from nothing.
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  Speaker 2: She created an empire, and she was loved by millions.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was a great American story. Dolly Parton,
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  Speaker 1: born in a one-room cabin, and look what she achieved.
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  Speaker 1: Lives in a mansion in Tennessee. She also had a
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  Speaker 1: nice place in New York. I guess I can say
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  Speaker 1: it now. She's no longer with us. It was 800
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  Speaker 1: 5th Avenue, that building at 61st Street. She had an
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  Speaker 1: apartment with a beautiful view of the park. Let's go to...
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  Speaker 1: Chris in Manhattan. Chris, how you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Mark. I'm okay, thanks.
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  Speaker 4: How you doing?
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  Speaker 1: You're always worried about something.
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  Speaker 4: What are you worried about? I am worried, but I'm
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  Speaker 4: kind of resigned now. I think Trump has handed the
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  Speaker 4: midterms to the Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just point out, Chris is a panicking. He's
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  Speaker 1: always panicking. We go through this every election. Remember when
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  Speaker 1: it was abortion? He was going to lose because of abortion.
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  Speaker 4: I do remember that, and I was wrong, and I
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  Speaker 4: still can't believe I was wrong about that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, tell us what you're wrong about this time.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, listen, he's desperately trying to get back with Iran
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  Speaker 4: to where we were before he started the war.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just point out in the midterms.
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  Speaker 4: That's one thing.
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  Speaker 1: The same thing with abortion. I was trying to tell
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  Speaker 1: you this back with abortion. It's no longer a federal issue.
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  Speaker 1: The president has nothing to do with abortion anymore. It's
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  Speaker 1: a state issue. And in every focus group they studied
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  Speaker 1: on voters, abortion was like the number 27th issue. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't even.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not talking about abortion.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, it's the same thing with Iran. Iran is now
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  Speaker 1: number 15 on the list of issues. 96%—forget the people
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  Speaker 1: you know in Manhattan. In America, nobody is concerned about Iran.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's talking about it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not concerned about it. I'm concerned about how much
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  Speaker 4: more money it's costing me to live.
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  Speaker 1: I voted for him three times. That has nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with Iran. There's no connection between that and Iran.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I hate to break it to you, but gas is like— Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we have people calling from all over the country. Gas
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  Speaker 1: is $ 2. 60 here. It's $ 3. 50 here.
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  Speaker 4: My frozen pizza at Whole Foods went up $ 1. 50 in
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  Speaker 4: a week. What's that from?
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  Speaker 1: It's from state, city taxes. It's from congestion pricing. It's
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  Speaker 1: from fees they're charging. It's from rent. If you go
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  Speaker 1: to the supermarket, you're just paying ridiculous prices in New York. See,
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  Speaker 1: your problem is you've got to get out of New
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  Speaker 1: York City. I know you go to the Hamptons. Forget that.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to go to, like, Tennessee. You've got to
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  Speaker 1: go to, like, real places and see what things actually
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  Speaker 1: cost and how people actually live. It's like a Manhattan
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  Speaker 1: thing that you're paying these crazy prices.
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  Speaker 4: But now he's starting a war with Canada. Canada, they're
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  Speaker 4: our neighbors. They're our brothers. No, they're not.
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  Speaker 1: They're screwing us on tariffs. We'll screw them. There's no
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  Speaker 1: war with Canada. He's just negotiating.
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  Speaker 4: You heard that the biggest impact of the tariff wars
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  Speaker 4: is going to be a rise in the price of
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  Speaker 4: toilet paper again. 25 to 50 percent price rise because
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  Speaker 4: of the wood.
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  Speaker 1: Let me explain to you. What a real tariff is.
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  Speaker 1: These tariffs are nothing. They get negotiated away and they're gone.
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  Speaker 1: And we don't have to pay the tariffs. Usually tariffs
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  Speaker 1: are paid by middlemen and exporters. A tariff, a real
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  Speaker 1: tariff that affects you is corporate tax. Every time the Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: especially in New York, when they raise corporate tax, that's
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  Speaker 1: a tariff on the corporation. And they put the cost
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  Speaker 1: right into the product. So if they raise corporate tax
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  Speaker 1: in New York State, every product goes up in price
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  Speaker 1: to match it. So don't be a panicking.
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  Speaker 4: We'll have a great weekend, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be a panicking. Don't be a panicking. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to Mike in Florida. Mike, how you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Mike.
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  Speaker 5: I see also that J.P. Morgan passed away.
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  Speaker 1: J.P. Morgan was alive?
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  Speaker 5: No, I couldn't believe it. I think he was like
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  Speaker 5: 92 or something.
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  Speaker 1: No, it should be more than that.
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  Speaker 3: J.P.
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  Speaker 1: Morgan was a singer. who was very funny and got
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  Speaker 1: herself on The Tonight Show. She was funny and good
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  Speaker 1: with Johnny Carson. She became a regular guest, and she
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  Speaker 1: was a game show panelist. But she was probably best
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  Speaker 1: known for The Gong Show. She was one of the
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  Speaker 1: panelists on The Gong Show for years.
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  Speaker 5: She was a real hoot in her day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, very funny.
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  Speaker 6: I wanted to make a point about the Dolly Parton thing.
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  Speaker 7: I saw Tony Bennett would have turned 100 earlier in
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  Speaker 7: the month. And I know you've spoken about him cutting
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  Speaker 7: off all ties with you because of your politics differing.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no. Unfortunately, he didn't cut off all ties.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever I'd see him, he'd start yelling at me. We'd
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  Speaker 1: get into a big fight every day.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now, then he got Alzheimer's and he forgot that he
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  Speaker 1: was mad at me. So all of a sudden he.
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  Speaker 4: Was nice again.
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  Speaker 5: He didn't remember why he was yelling at you. But
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  Speaker 5: it's always one-sided. You know, the right doesn't do that.
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  Speaker 6: They don't excommunicate people like the left does. And it's,
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  Speaker 6: you know, they are more forgiving. And it's a problem
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  Speaker 6: in politics because it's, you know, the right is insisting
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  Speaker 6: on doing the right, you know, the correct thing. Well,
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  Speaker 6: then Blakeman, on his decision not to, you know, to
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  Speaker 6: go along with this stupid.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no, no. It was not... That was not... No, no. Oh, Mike, Mike.
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  Speaker 1: There was no decision by Blakeman. The lawyers just told him... No,
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  Speaker 1: I understand that. Told him, you got no choice. You can't...
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  Speaker 1: You have to do this. It's... the law but.
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  Speaker 5: But yes you're right but a democrat would you know
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  Speaker 5: politician would say to hell with the lawyers i mean
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  Speaker 5: mickey shovel was ordered by the fed they'll turn over
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  Speaker 5: the name she still hasn't does it they're very they're
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  Speaker 5: much more defiant that's my point oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You're right you're absolutely right and it's good point all
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  Speaker 1: right thanks for calling mike let's go to uh vincent
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  Speaker 1: in brooklyn vincent how you doing good.
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  Speaker 3: Morning mark mark this eighteen billion dollars that matters settled
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  Speaker 3: before the trial this is nothing but a shakedown you
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  Speaker 3: notice it's all the blue states that are suit matter
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  Speaker 3: they do the same thing in the socialist countries of
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  Speaker 3: europe every time there's a budget for a shortfall they
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  Speaker 3: look at what american tech company they could sue what
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  Speaker 3: america uh... that mainly the tech companies Letitia James and
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  Speaker 3: Kathy Hochul already salivating over that $ 1 billion that they're
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  Speaker 3: estimated to get. I don't understand these people, just like
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  Speaker 3: Rupert Murdoch. Right before the trial, they go settle. They
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  Speaker 3: fold like a cheap suit and they settle.
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  Speaker 1: Vincent, in the case of Murdoch, if you talk to
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  Speaker 1: him about it, he can explain it so logically. It
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  Speaker 1: was $ 500 million for him to settle. He would rather
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  Speaker 1: do that and move on immediately than tie up a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of lawyers and fight.
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  Speaker 4: For 36 months.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Bob, but let's talk about matter. We're talking about
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  Speaker 3: $ 18 billion. I would have spent a billion dollars on
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  Speaker 3: my lawyers that I have in retainer bollocking the government up.
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  Speaker 3: getting delays, doing whatever I can, because.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I know, but Vincent, we've got to go do
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  Speaker 1: the news, but it's just the way they... It's a shakedown, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: You're absolutely right. It's a good point. Absolutely right.
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  Speaker 3: We'd be in jail for it.
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  Speaker 1: It is a shakedown, but if you're Meta and you're
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  Speaker 1: Zuckerberg and you've got a million things going on, it's
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  Speaker 1: 18 billion's pocket change if you don't have to hear
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  Speaker 1: about this again. To them, it's worth it. Hey, when
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  Speaker 1: we come back, Steve Moore, the great economist, he'll be
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  Speaker 1: with us next on 710WOR. Let's go.