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

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  Speaker 1: Beck to Mark Simone on, Hey, we got a lot
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  Speaker 1: to get to this hour. So Mom, Donnie, how did
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  Speaker 1: this happen? How did we have stuck with this crazy
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  Speaker 1: guy with angry acceptance speech like we've never seen before.
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  Speaker 1: He held a press conference yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I think there are a lot of voters for whom
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  Speaker 2: the trust comes from the actions that you actually take.
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  Speaker 2: Many have, like you know, I've understandably been disappointed by
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  Speaker 2: politics and the promises that have been made by many
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  Speaker 2: before me. Now my opportunity is actually to deliver it.
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  Speaker 1: Now, that's one of the secrets. He looks good, he's
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  Speaker 1: got a nice smile, and he talks very fast. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when you talk like this and you keep going in
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  Speaker 1: and talk very quickly, people think you must be very smart. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: how would you talk so fast if you weren't that smart?
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  Speaker 1: As opposed to Andrew Cuomo, who talks like this, but
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  Speaker 1: he's a great salesman, can he actually get anything done?
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to show the power of an example
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  Speaker 2: here in New York City. An example of what it
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  Speaker 2: means to not just diagnose the despair in working people's
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  Speaker 2: lives is the cost of living crisis, but to deliver
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  Speaker 2: on it. And that's the contrast between myself and President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Ye see, you use those kind of words. He was
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  Speaker 1: going to diagnose the despair of the cost of living crisis.
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  Speaker 1: It just sounds good. But you know, this is a
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  Speaker 1: frightening time for him because this is the first time
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  Speaker 1: he's ever going to actually have a job. This is
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  Speaker 1: the first job on his resume. I know he was
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  Speaker 1: in the legislature, but that assembly, that's like a part
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  Speaker 1: time it's not a real job. He's in the Puerto
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  Speaker 1: Rico right now. Believe it or not. Every year the
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  Speaker 1: Democrats here in New York, the Democrats have some sort
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  Speaker 1: of I don't know what you call it. I guess
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  Speaker 1: they would claim it's a conference, a convention. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what the hell it is. It's in Puerto Rico.
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  Speaker 1: Every year they all go down there for a few days,
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  Speaker 1: a whole weekend in Puerto Rico. They give it some
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  Speaker 1: fancy business like name, but it's really just wasting a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money in Puerto Rico. But what it really
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  Speaker 1: is all the lobbyists flying down there, all the big
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  Speaker 1: lobbyists and donors, and they mingle and mix with these
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  Speaker 1: politicians and all kinds of Weasley deals are made down there,
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  Speaker 1: so Mom Donnie has flown down there to be a
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  Speaker 1: part of all of this. Now, a lot of business leaders, billionaires,
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  Speaker 1: all these CEOs, they've been quietly reaching out to him.
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  Speaker 1: There have been a lot of meetings, conversations. He's trying
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  Speaker 1: to make peace with them. They're trying to start some
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  Speaker 1: kind of relationship with him, you know. Whatever. There's a
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  Speaker 1: new mayor, the billionaires all have to get to know him.
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  Speaker 1: And what they usually do. The billionaire calls around to
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  Speaker 1: see who knows this guy, who can set up a
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  Speaker 1: lunch or dinner or a phone call, and usually they'll
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  Speaker 1: find somebody they know who knows them and can arrange
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  Speaker 1: the luncheon. If not, every billionaire has lobbyists on the payroll.
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  Speaker 1: Big lobbyists are usually very well connected to democratic city
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  Speaker 1: hall types and they arrange the meeting and then you
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  Speaker 1: meet with the guy and you try to you know,
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  Speaker 1: start a relationship with him. Now, some of them were
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  Speaker 1: easier than others. Built Deblasia was the easiest because he
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  Speaker 1: was looking for looking for billionaires. He would show up
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  Speaker 1: at the Al Smith din or wherever it was, where
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  Speaker 1: every billionaire in town would be there. He'd just walk
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  Speaker 1: right up to me. You have my cell number, right, No, well,
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  Speaker 1: let me give it to you. They know what that man.
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  Speaker 1: You call me anytime you need anything, We'll be calling
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  Speaker 1: you if we need donations. See, you can start that
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  Speaker 1: kind of relationship with here's more a mom Johnny businesses.
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  Speaker 2: The city's inability to provide childcare means that businesses often
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  Speaker 2: have to provide stipends for that childcare. Right now, the
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  Speaker 2: absence of universal childcare means that a family will pay
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  Speaker 2: around twenty two dollars a year.
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  Speaker 1: See, it sounds very smart, very smart with his stipends
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  Speaker 1: and all that, and it's very sounds very academic about it.
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  Speaker 1: And one good thing about academic they can never actually
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  Speaker 1: make it work in the real world. But again, the
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  Speaker 1: socialism stuff. The end result of socialism. Whenever they try
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  Speaker 1: this stuff, it screws up the poor even more and
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  Speaker 1: it really helps the rich. Nobody profits more in these
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  Speaker 1: socialist things than the rich, the oligarchs. That's where that
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  Speaker 1: term comes to. The oligarchs. They all came from these
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  Speaker 1: socialist places. You know, like the inflation is coming down
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  Speaker 1: slowly but surely, prices are dropping on everything. But they'll say,
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  Speaker 1: and this is what Democrats did in the election. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they may say the price of this is down in
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  Speaker 1: the price of that, but healthcare universities that's way up. Well,
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  Speaker 1: price at universities has nothing to do with inflation. It's
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  Speaker 1: a whole separate thing. And the price of healthcare all
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  Speaker 1: has to do with the government taking it over and
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  Speaker 1: making it inefficient. And you know that sort of healthcare
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  Speaker 1: is government run inefficiency regulations that drives up that cost.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a direct result of inflation. But how the
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  Speaker 1: hell did Mom Danny do this? Mom Donnie came out
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  Speaker 1: of nowhere. He was at absolutely zero in the polls,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely the zero. He put together a coalition. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of it was young young Brooklyn, the gentrifiers, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the queen all these hipster young Brooklyn people, and there's
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  Speaker 1: a ton of the millions of them, and then a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the working class of Queens, the poor of Queens.
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  Speaker 1: He put them together and just harnessed all this. But
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  Speaker 1: there were also a lot of backroom deals that followed.
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  Speaker 1: You know, way back then, in the beginning, this is
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  Speaker 1: early in the year, he started arranging meetings with the
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  Speaker 1: CEOs intimate phone calls all sorts of things. There's a
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  Speaker 1: woman named Kathy Wilde who runs the whatever they call
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  Speaker 1: that partnership from New York. It's like a club for CEOs,
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  Speaker 1: all the billionaires and CEOs. It supposedly does some kind
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  Speaker 1: of work. Nobody knows what the hell they do. And
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  Speaker 1: the people that worked there overpay themselves like crazy. But
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  Speaker 1: she made a lot of the introductions. She introduced them
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people. They had a series of events
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  Speaker 1: and then billionaires got to know him. And it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: that he was trying to win them over, become friends
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  Speaker 1: and them. He's just trying to calm them down a little.
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  Speaker 1: Then all these young people that got behind Mom Donnie.
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  Speaker 1: He knew how to harness it. And the problem with
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  Speaker 1: the guy like Cuomo, he's still in the nineteen seventies
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  Speaker 1: with bumper stickers and buttons that you wear. Well, that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything one thing about all these young people
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  Speaker 1: they want a lot of them have a loneliness to them.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they are kind of isolated and they're always
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  Speaker 1: on their phone. Everything is online. They socialize on TikTok
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that, but not in person. So Mam
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  Speaker 1: Donnie started to create events. Instead of hanging out to
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  Speaker 1: bumper stickers and campaign buttons. He did a citywide scavenger hunt.
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  Speaker 1: He did a soccer tournament Coney Island, all sorts of
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  Speaker 1: events where people showed up and it created a whole
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  Speaker 1: social life for them. It also got them organized into
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  Speaker 1: a movement and they became volunteers. He recruited a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people that way. While he's doing that, he does
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  Speaker 1: that CEO charm Offensive met with a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: black Rock, Blackstone, all these hedge funds. You're not supposed
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  Speaker 1: to know this, but while he was wooing all the
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  Speaker 1: young crazy socialist types, he's meeting with all the CEOs privately,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of them started develop relations with him. Now, Mom,
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  Speaker 1: Donnie is a child of two very rich people, comes
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  Speaker 1: from a rich family. So he's quite at ease with
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  Speaker 1: all the billionaires and the CEOs, quite natural at ease
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  Speaker 1: with them. And they kind of saw that and they
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  Speaker 1: like that. Now. The problem was Kathy Hochel was against him.
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  Speaker 1: Hokel was going to do everything to stop him. She
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  Speaker 1: did not like him. But after one of those parades,
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  Speaker 1: they went back to the hotel where everybody was headquartering,
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  Speaker 1: and he met privately with Hokele, and he apologized to her.
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  Speaker 1: It was the City Pride parade. He apologized to her
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  Speaker 1: from some things he said, really apologizing, so he kind
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  Speaker 1: of won her over. She was quite surprised, so she
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  Speaker 1: said she would consider endorsing him. She said, I'd like
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  Speaker 1: you to keep Jessica Tish. I want to endorse you,
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  Speaker 1: but you got to agree to keep Jessica Tish And
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  Speaker 1: he said he would certainly consider that and made it
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  Speaker 1: sound like he would do that. Then his harsh criticism
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  Speaker 1: criticism of Israel made it impossible to win over Bloomberg.
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  Speaker 1: He tried Michael Bloomberg. They met at Bloomberg's Midtown headquarters
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  Speaker 1: and it was a good hour. They kind of debated
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  Speaker 1: management styles. Bloomberg, you know, Bloomberg was mayor of twelve years,
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  Speaker 1: tried to tell him some things about it. But as
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  Speaker 1: much as he tried to get along with Bloomberg, Bloomberg
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  Speaker 1: kind of saw through him and kind of saw that
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't really listening to all this sage advice Bloomberg
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  Speaker 1: was giving. So Bloomberg got behind Cuomo. Like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these billionaires, they decided Cuomo is the guy. Now
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  Speaker 1: Cuomo was a disaster in the primaries. He was the
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  Speaker 1: worst debater in two debates. He was just awful, and
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  Speaker 1: he was the worst campaign. Hardly did anything, very few interviews,
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  Speaker 1: no rallies, very few speeches, the lazy, outdated old campaign.
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  Speaker 1: But Bloomberg kept back in him. And then there came
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  Speaker 1: a point where Bloomberg privately told people he was done
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  Speaker 1: with Cuomo, said I wasted eight million on this guy
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  Speaker 1: in the primary. He just was awful, awful. He just said,
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  Speaker 1: I just threw away eight million on this guy who
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  Speaker 1: can't win. Well. Then he met with Mam Donnie again
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  Speaker 1: and he kind of got angry at Mam Donni. Mom
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  Speaker 1: Donnie said things about Israel he didn't like, so Bloomberg
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  Speaker 1: decided to go back at the end last couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks to Cuomo. Bloomberg wrote a checks for five million
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  Speaker 1: dollars to two big super packs to attack Mam Donni
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  Speaker 1: like crazy and try to win it for a Cuomo.
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  Speaker 1: But this was like six days before election day started
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  Speaker 1: running all those commercials. It was way too late, and
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  Speaker 1: Cuomo didn't help himself at all. He was just caught
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  Speaker 1: himself together the last week. But that was about it.
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  Speaker 1: Hey we'll talk to Curtis later this hour. We'll go
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  Speaker 1: over all of this. Now, Curtis being in the race
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  Speaker 1: did not interfere with Cuomo. If Cuomo had gotten every
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  Speaker 1: single Curtis voter, he still would have lost by three points.
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  Speaker 1: So he had nothing to do with Curtis. But we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk to Curtis later. Now turns out that Curtis talked
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  Speaker 1: to him. I'm downey after the election. We'll ask him
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  Speaker 1: about that. Are we done with Cuomo once and for all?
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's hoping we never have to deal with Cuomo again.
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  Speaker 1: Wall Street Journals, big article, half a century, fifty years
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  Speaker 1: of the Cuomos in New York comes to an end.
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  Speaker 1: Mario Cuomo for all those years, Andrew Cuomo by his side,
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  Speaker 1: his campaign director'll be on the sidelines. Now he'll go back,
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  Speaker 1: maybe back into the private sector. You know, before this
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  Speaker 1: may all race, Cuomo had his own private consulting firm.
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  Speaker 1: He worked as a consultant in his own consulting firm
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  Speaker 1: called Innovation Strategies. Apparently he made five million in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, so five million a year. He'll be very happy.
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  Speaker 1: What does he do for these clients? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: High paid consulting work. You know, if you're a former governor,
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  Speaker 1: former attorney general, supposedly have a lot of expertise and
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  Speaker 1: connections with the state government, and you can help out
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  Speaker 1: businesses and people and make phone calls for him, and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these guys, these billionaires, will pay Cuomo
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  Speaker 1: as a consultant just to have him around. He's like
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  Speaker 1: a celebrity. You can bring to lunch, bring to dinner,
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  Speaker 1: have him in your office to meet people, that kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. So he'll go back to that most likely,
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  Speaker 1: you probably most people believe will never ever ever see
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  Speaker 1: him again as a candidate. And let's hope. But Wall Streets.
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  Speaker 1: You're in an article about the end of all this.
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  Speaker 1: Now they point out Melissa de Rowe, who worked for him.
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  Speaker 1: He thought they had a great chance. There was polling
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning that showed him having no chance. She
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  Speaker 1: dismissed the polling, didn't think it was real. Then the
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  Speaker 1: June primary, everything reality came crashing down on them, total loss.
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  Speaker 1: But over the summer, his campaign decided to create a
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  Speaker 1: new Cuomo. Well, the new Cuomo was exactly the same
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  Speaker 1: as the old Cuomo, but they had him making appearances
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  Speaker 1: of out there meeting voters for the first time, but again,
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  Speaker 1: and he got good at in the last week. But
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  Speaker 1: it was too little, way way way too late. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer, you always give him credit, you know, for
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  Speaker 1: being the biggest weasel ever. There's no bigger weasel than
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer. So he voted on Tuesday in the election,
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  Speaker 1: and the press, of course, as to who did you
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  Speaker 1: vote for, he wouldn't say, Look, I voted, That's all
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  Speaker 1: he said. Look, I voted. I look forward to working
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  Speaker 1: with the next mayor. He wouldn't say who he voted for.
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  Speaker 1: Could you imagine being more of a weasel than that.
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  Speaker 1: You're the leading number one Democrat in the state, you
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  Speaker 1: won't say who you voted for. There's rumors everywhere the
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  Speaker 1: shutdown will get settled in the next day or two.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see f AA slashing ten percent of the flights
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  Speaker 1: in forty cities. It's already backed up, it's already a
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  Speaker 1: mess at the airport. This will make it even worse.
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  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Holiday's big getaway weekend. They're going to have to
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  Speaker 1: settle it by then. Shutdown. It's an all time record
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  Speaker 1: now thirty seven days. The old record was thirty five.
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  Speaker 1: Even Democrat Senator John Fetterman says, it's all I can't
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  Speaker 1: say the word, A blanky political game. It's the S word.
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  Speaker 1: It's all a game. Even he admits, Hey, Curtis will
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  Speaker 1: be with us in a few minutes. Let's see what
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  Speaker 1: he has to say about the election. And after it's
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  Speaker 1: all over, and we'll take some calls. Next eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: three to two one zero seven. Ten is the number
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred three two one zero seven. Then