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Hour 1: Iran's economy. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Now Seor Presents no Mark Simon Shaw. Hey, another beautiful day.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be in the eighties today, Summer day today.
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Speaker 1: All right, a lot to get to. We'll get to
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Speaker 1: the met Gala, We'll get to President Trump, We'll get
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Speaker 1: to Iran, We'll get to crazy Mom Donnie, the news
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Speaker 1: about uh Ron DeSantis, and a whole lot more coming up.
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Speaker 1: Here's the latest on Rudy Giuliani. It's good news, not
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Speaker 1: great news, but it's good news. He was in a coma,
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Speaker 1: he was on a ventilator. He was even given his
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Speaker 1: last writes by a priest. But he came out of
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Speaker 1: the coma yesterday. He came off the ventilator yesterday. He
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Speaker 1: has turned a corner and hopefully is on his way
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Speaker 1: to a full recovery. We'll keep you posted, but that's
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Speaker 1: very good news for yesterday. John Sterling, the great Yankee
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Speaker 1: announcer who everybody just stunned by his death yesterday mourning him.
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Speaker 1: There was a beautiful night last night at Yankee Stadium.
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Speaker 1: Tributes everywhere. It was really well done. The Yankee Caps
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Speaker 1: every one of them had Sterling's initials on them for
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Speaker 1: the night, and crowd just stood and cheered for him.
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Speaker 1: It was quite an emotional night. The great John Sterling
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Speaker 1: who game over, World Series over, Yankees win the Yankees.
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Speaker 1: Whew yeah, Now there's a video. I don't want to
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Speaker 1: play it. It's too it's Michael Kay really teared up,
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Speaker 1: just started crying talking about John Sterling, and it was
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Speaker 1: very emotional. But during the game last night, Judge hits
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Speaker 1: a home run and Michael Kay pays tribute to Sterling
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Speaker 1: and the pitch high dry light center field going down
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Speaker 1: to Varis is.
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Speaker 2: Gone.
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Speaker 3: How do we judge Judgy?
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Speaker 4: At plast here comes.
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Speaker 1: The Judge, all great John Sterling catchphrases. So the latest
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Speaker 1: in Iran. Things are good. Don't worry, don't panic, don't
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Speaker 1: let the media frighten you. The straits of horn Moose
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Speaker 1: totally under our control. We have complete control of the
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Speaker 1: Strait of horm Moose. And they've tried to move a
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Speaker 1: few boats through there. Other countries, a lot of countries
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Speaker 1: have boats that have been waiting in port, just backed up,
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Speaker 1: waiting there for weeks, trying to get out. We moved
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Speaker 1: a couplet, a couple of them moved through. They were
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Speaker 1: fired upon, but not successfully, no real damage. And then
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Speaker 1: what they call the mosquito boats came out of the
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Speaker 1: coast of Iran. These are these little boats with explosives
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Speaker 1: on them, little suicide boats, and some of them not
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Speaker 1: nobody on them. They're totally remote controlled. So they tried
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Speaker 1: to take out the ships. They were blown out of
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Speaker 1: the water. Six of them just immediately blown out of
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Speaker 1: the water. It's believe there's hundreds of those along the shore.
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Speaker 1: We'll could go in and clean them all out, but
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Speaker 1: it's not necessary. The straight Ohorn Moose is we actually
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Speaker 1: have opened a channel in it on the other side,
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Speaker 1: you know, the straight two sides. One side is Iran,
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Speaker 1: the other side is UAE and as you go down
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Speaker 1: the coast other countries, so that other side is not Iran.
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Speaker 1: We've opened a channel along that side where we can
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Speaker 1: move ships in and out. Nobody is ready to go yet,
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Speaker 1: and there's mostly the insurance companies that hold it up.
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Speaker 1: There are ships that would go and would feel safe
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Speaker 1: with the US Navy guarding them, but the insurance company
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Speaker 1: won't give the go ahead. And one of those tankers
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Speaker 1: millions of dollars the cargo on it also millions of dollars,
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Speaker 1: so they're not going to go without the insurance. So
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Speaker 1: it's really Alloyd's a London problem right now. But the
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Speaker 1: other thing that might happen. Iran did fire on the
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Speaker 1: UAE yesterday. The missile is not really doing much damage.
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Speaker 1: They for the most part, were shot down. Almost all
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Speaker 1: of them were shot down, and one started when the
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Speaker 1: debris landing cost a small fire in the United Arab Emirates.
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Speaker 1: But fifteen missiles were fired at the UAE, every one
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Speaker 1: of them intercepted, taken down. Four drones were fired by Iran,
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Speaker 1: all of those taken out, but the one caused a
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Speaker 1: fire at an oil facility. Now here's what's going to
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Speaker 1: happen from what we're hearing is others might join this fight.
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Speaker 1: The UAE cutter may also declare war on Iran and
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Speaker 1: join the fight officially. That would be interesting. And we
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Speaker 1: are creating right now a dome over the Strait of
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Speaker 1: Hormuz an actual, you know, like Israel has the Iron Dome.
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Speaker 1: We'll create a dome that would if anything comes into
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Speaker 1: the water, anything from the side, anything from the Iranian coast,
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Speaker 1: a boat, a drone, anything, we could shoot it down immediately.
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Speaker 1: So that's the latest on Iran. Price of gas, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's gone up a little, but a lot of that.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's not as high as you think. If
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Speaker 1: you're in New York, it seems very high. If you're
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Speaker 1: in California, it's right through the roof. It's like hitting
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Speaker 1: it's going to hit ten dollars a gallon. But that's
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Speaker 1: nothing to do with this war. In New York, it's
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Speaker 1: Kathy Hokeel taxes. In California, it's an absolute mess. It's
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Speaker 1: state taxes are adding like five dollars to a gallon,
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Speaker 1: but it's more than that. California is pretty much running
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Speaker 1: out of gas. They have for two reasons. One because
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Speaker 1: of all their crazy green stuff. They never allowed pipelines
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Speaker 1: to be built to California. You know, we produce more
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Speaker 1: gas than we could ever use. We produce twice as
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Speaker 1: much gas as we use. Every day. We produce more
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Speaker 1: gas than anybody in the world, fourteen million barrels a day.
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Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia only produces eight million barrels a day, so
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Speaker 1: we use about half the gas we produce. The other
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Speaker 1: half we sell around the world. We could give California
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Speaker 1: all the gas they need, but they never allowed the
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Speaker 1: pipelines to be built to get it there, and as
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Speaker 1: far as their own refineries and facilities, because they're all
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Speaker 1: there green nonsense, they shut them down years ago, so
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Speaker 1: they decided to outsource. Sounds kind of crazy. You got
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Speaker 1: your own gas and oil, which you could easily get
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Speaker 1: out of the ground, why would you want to go
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Speaker 1: all over the world and pay a fortune for the shipping.
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Speaker 1: But because of these slow permitting all their green nonsense,
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Speaker 1: they don't have most of their refineries working, so they're
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Speaker 1: having a huge gas shortage. That's driving the price up too,
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Speaker 1: and it's getting to the point where they're gonna have
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Speaker 1: a problem in a few weeks that could actually actually
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Speaker 1: run out of oil because when I say they were importing,
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Speaker 1: they were reporting from places that are the places they
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Speaker 1: were importing for can't get their gas anymore. So it's
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Speaker 1: going to be a bit of a mess. President Trump
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Speaker 1: on Iran, they have no.
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Speaker 2: Navy, they have no air force, they have no anti
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Speaker 2: aircraft equipment, they have no radar, they have no nothing,
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Speaker 2: they have no leaders.
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Speaker 1: Actually, yeah, it's a mess. I mean, they've got a
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Speaker 1: few little those what they call them. They call them
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Speaker 1: mosquito boats because they're little and they just annoying and
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Speaker 1: they don't do much damage. Secretary Scott Bessen, we have
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Speaker 1: absolute control of the strait. We have blockaded the ships
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Speaker 1: going into or out of Iranian ports. Their economy is
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Speaker 1: in free fall. And everyone says they have the high
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Speaker 1: tolerance for paying, well, their soldiers will not have a
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Speaker 1: high tolerance for not getting paid. Yeah, that's the other problem.
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Speaker 1: They're totally with the straight of hor moves shut. There's
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Speaker 1: no revenue. This is a weeks now, seven weeks of
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Speaker 1: no revenue coming into Iran. It's just a matter of
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks before they totally run out of money.
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Speaker 1: Nobody can pay for anything there. They can't make their payroll.
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Speaker 1: So it's going to be a disaster for them. Hey,
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Speaker 1: when I say that they sent those little mosquito boats
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Speaker 1: out off the coast hit the ships that were coming.
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Speaker 1: It was six of them. Now, what's significant is it
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Speaker 1: used to always be twenty or thirty of them, sometimes forty.
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Speaker 1: It was always twenty or thirty when they did that,
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Speaker 1: sometimes forty. This time it was only six, So that
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Speaker 1: tells you how depleted they are. Oh hey, let's get
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Speaker 1: to the met gala last night. What an event? Oh
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Speaker 1: jeez it Now the met Gala through the years has
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Speaker 1: changed a lot. It used to be the most elegant, formal,
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Speaker 1: unbelievable ball you ever saw. It been going on since
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Speaker 1: nineteen forty eight and back in the eighties and nineties.
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Speaker 1: I think that was really the peak. It was so
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Speaker 1: I used to go to that all the time. It
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Speaker 1: was all you would know everybody in the room. They
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Speaker 1: were all famous names. If you went now, I mean
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Speaker 1: you'd recognize Beyonce and but half the names you wouldn't
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Speaker 1: know who the hell they are. And the costumes. It's
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Speaker 1: just really like a trick or treat gala. It's like Halloween.
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Speaker 1: It's just outrageous, crazy stuff. It's all music stars, but
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Speaker 1: it's not the old met gala. For all those years,
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Speaker 1: he'd go and there'd be Jackie Kennedy, had be William F. Buckley,
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Speaker 1: who would be Henry Cravis and Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters.
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Speaker 1: It was that type of thing, all tuxedos and every
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Speaker 1: women just wore gowns. Elegant, beautiful gowns, but not crazy,
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Speaker 1: ridiculous get ups. It used to be years ago. It
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Speaker 1: started nineteen forty eight. It was in the Waldorf for years.
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Speaker 1: It was in the Rainbow Room. A couple of years,
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Speaker 1: it was Diana Veland, remember the great Diana Vreeland. She
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Speaker 1: took over in nineteen seventy two, and then it was
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Speaker 1: just the classiest, most elegant thing, you know. Then through
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Speaker 1: the years they had other chairs like Jackie o' nassas
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Speaker 1: with his chair, and William F. Buckley's wife, Pat Buckley,
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Speaker 1: who was one of the real society women, one of
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Speaker 1: the real top you know, old school society women. She
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Speaker 1: was the chairman of it for about twenty years, and
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Speaker 1: then Anna wind Tower took over and everything changed, It
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Speaker 1: really changed. She started just inviting, you know, like all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, it was Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger
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Speaker 1: and Elton John and Liza Minelle. Okay, that was okay,
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Speaker 1: but back then you knew who they were. Everybody knew
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Speaker 1: who they were. And then I think the problem is
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Speaker 1: with all these great elegant society people, they're all dead,
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Speaker 1: and all the big business billionaires on it, they're all
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Speaker 1: ninety eight years old. They're not going to this. So
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Speaker 1: you can't blame Anna win Tower. She kind of veered
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Speaker 1: off into hip hop and rappers and crazy music stars
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Speaker 1: and Kardashians and that kind of stuff. It's not what
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Speaker 1: you really want, but but that's all you had left.
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Speaker 1: And it was smart financially. You know, they set a
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Speaker 1: record last night. They brought in forty two million in
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Speaker 1: one night. You know, it used to be five hundred
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Speaker 1: for a ticket, one thousand for a ticket, twenty five
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Speaker 1: fifty thousand for a table. Now it's one hundred thousand
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Speaker 1: for a ticket. Tables start at three hundred and fifty thousand,
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Speaker 1: and these people pay it. So it may not be
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Speaker 1: the most elegant crowd in the world, but you're gonna
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Speaker 1: make a lot of money off them. Share with there
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Speaker 1: last night one of the few people you'd actually recognized,
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Speaker 1: but it's one of the few from the old days.
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Speaker 1: Madonna was there from them back in the nineties, and
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Speaker 1: they have all these crazy things there. You come up
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Speaker 1: the stairs and there's Anna Wintower to greet everybody. Everybody
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Speaker 1: comes up the stairs. There she is. You stop and
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Speaker 1: you say hello or you talk. You're allowed twenty seconds.
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Speaker 1: And they're very, very firm about this. When you stop
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Speaker 1: to talk to it, you have twenty seconds and that's it.
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Speaker 1: And if it's at twenty seconds, somebody will slap you
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Speaker 1: in the back and move you on. You're not allowed
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Speaker 1: to sit with your partner, which is terrible a lot
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Speaker 1: of people hate when they do their husband and wife.
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Speaker 1: They separate you. If you're there with a date, you
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Speaker 1: have to sit at separate tables. It's kind of silly,
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Speaker 1: but that's what they do. The food is very good,
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Speaker 1: but there's no garlic or onions allowed in the kitchen.
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Speaker 1: No garlic and onions anywhere in the food. That's because
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Speaker 1: Anna Winter doesn't want anybody to have a breath problem. Also,
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Speaker 1: they're not allowed to use parsley or chives. No parsley
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Speaker 1: or chives because she says they could stick in your teeth.
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Speaker 1: You don't want anything sticking. This is how seriously they
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Speaker 1: take themselves. Now, you see all these celebrities come in,
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Speaker 1: the car pulls up, they get out, or they the
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Speaker 1: next one comes up there. How do they work that
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Speaker 1: out so it's not a traffic jam. They're all given
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Speaker 1: scheduled arrival times. You have to come at exactly your
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Speaker 1: arrival time. Her time is seven twelve, her time is
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Speaker 1: seven fourteen. They're all scheduled, and you got to be.
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Speaker 1: If you screw up your arrival time, you're never invited back.
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Speaker 1: There are a lot of people banned from this event
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Speaker 1: because they did something wrong that Tim Gunn I think
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Speaker 1: is banned. Donald Trump is banned from the not like
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Speaker 1: he was going to go, but he's banned from the event.
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Speaker 4: Oh.
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Speaker 1: Also you see some of these get ups, like the
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Speaker 1: Madonna one was this the thing with this the dress
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Speaker 1: had a train that went for like ten feet behind her,
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Speaker 1: so she had ten assistants to carry the train. And
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Speaker 1: then you saw Kardashian had that. I mean it was
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Speaker 1: the weirdest get up. I mean some of them you're
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Speaker 1: like in saran wrap, You're like in bubble wrap, you like.
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Speaker 1: So they also have what are called bathroom assistance. There's
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Speaker 1: a bunch of them, because if you're in one of
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Speaker 1: those get ups, how do you go to the bathroom?
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Speaker 1: How do you like open it do? It's a whole
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Speaker 1: project to do that. So they have dozens of bathroom
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Speaker 1: assistants to help these women get out of that costume
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Speaker 1: for a second. They if they have to. I know,
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Speaker 1: it sounds insane. Hey, that terrible stabbing in Long Island,
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Speaker 1: two people stabbed by this illegal this illegal alien. His
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Speaker 1: name is Ronnie ya hear Alva ringa ri rivera here
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Speaker 1: illegally from al salvad Or, twenty two years old. He
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Speaker 1: killed his roommate, then he killed the coworker, two separate, ugly,
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Speaker 1: vicious stabbing a Texas an illegal alien here committing this
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Speaker 1: horrible crime. Now, it was all over the news. If
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Speaker 1: you picked up the New York Post, it was on
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Speaker 1: the front page. If you went to a lot of
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Speaker 1: news sites, right up there in front. It was a
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Speaker 1: big story happened in Long Island, and the actual official
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Speaker 1: Long Island newspaper, although nobody reads it anymore, Newsday buried
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Speaker 1: the story. You know, Newsday is the most liberal, slanted,
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Speaker 1: partisan newspaper. They didn't want a story about an illegal
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Speaker 1: stabbing anybody. But people started to notice they weren't covering it,
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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden they covered it. But
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Speaker 1: it's buried in it. If you go to the website,
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Speaker 1: you got to go to the search bar and type
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Speaker 1: the name of the guy in. They really did a
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Speaker 1: good job hiding it. So if you're if you're looking
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Speaker 1: for news, you want to know what's going on, don't
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Speaker 1: look to news Day. Hey, we'll take some calls. Next
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Speaker 1: eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten is
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Speaker 1: the number eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
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Speaker 1: Its in access to Mark by setting the pre set
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Speaker 1: in the iHeartRadio app for his live show and his podcast.
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Speaker 1: Now back to the Mark Simone Show on wo Hey,
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Speaker 1: that's stock market up. Oil prices are dropping a little. Hey,
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Speaker 1: we'll take some calls. I see a couple of open
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Speaker 1: lines there. I don't usually see that.
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Speaker 4: Call me.
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Speaker 1: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
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Speaker 1: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. Let's go
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Speaker 1: to Rich Myrtle Beach. Rich, how you doing?
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Speaker 5: Hey?
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Speaker 3: Thanks Mark, he I'll be the price of gas down
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Speaker 3: here Myrtle Beach is now well over four dollars. It's
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Speaker 3: un American with WTI and what our congress and centive
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Speaker 3: people are doing. The amount of oil and gas produces
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Speaker 3: this country is zero reasons on American And there's your
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Speaker 3: reason our gas should be anything other than two fifty
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Speaker 3: to three dollars a gallon, even in a crisis like this.
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Speaker 3: It's on board as treason.
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Speaker 1: It's unnecessary.
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Speaker 3: It's not if there's it is unnecessary.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, we have more gas and we could ever use.
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Speaker 1: There's absolutely no reason the gas prices should be up
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Speaker 1: in America. But if that's the worldwide price, technically these
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Speaker 1: American producers can raise the price to match the world price.
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Speaker 3: That's that's only market's un American dougingtinus.
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Speaker 1: It's not good. But if you, let's say, the present
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Speaker 1: clamp down on and made him put the price back down,
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Speaker 1: then what happens is they Tim Scott, let me finish,
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Speaker 1: let me finish the sentence. If if the present were
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Speaker 1: to order them put the price back down, and they
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Speaker 1: could easily, then the problem is they'll just not drill
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Speaker 1: as much. They'll cut down on drilling. They'll cut down
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Speaker 1: in production right now, where at fourteen million barrels a day,
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Speaker 1: they'll cut back to like eight million barrels a day.
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Speaker 1: And and't just do that to raise is the price up?
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike, how you doing, Good.
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Speaker 4: Morning, Mark, that's Mike. American Graffiti was on Turner Classic
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Speaker 4: Movies again last night, so I watched it for a
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Speaker 4: million times, but got me to think.
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Speaker 1: And Jacks, that was the movie with Wifeman Jack and
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Speaker 1: they were looking at this beautiful blonde and the thunderbird,
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Speaker 1: and that was a young Suzanne Summers right.
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Speaker 4: Suzanne Summers.
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Speaker 2: It was a great, great movie I've seen in a
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Speaker 2: million times, and you mentioned the wolf Man Jack. But
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Speaker 2: it got me to thinking when you were still up
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Speaker 2: coming up as a DJ and playing records. You know,
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Speaker 2: back in the day there was cousin Brucy and Marie
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Speaker 2: de Kay and they had stage names, you know, Dandy, Dan, Daniel.
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Speaker 2: Did you have a a you know, you always Mark
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Speaker 2: Simon or I was born.
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Speaker 1: With that name, and I always thought, you know, I
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Speaker 1: never met anybody else with that name, so I thought,
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Speaker 1: it's kind of an odd name. I guess I'll have
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Speaker 1: to change my name. But from the time I got
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Speaker 1: in the radio, nobody ever asked me to change my name.
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Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't It wasn't until it wasn't un
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Speaker 1: till the Internet was invented. You know, how you could
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Speaker 1: google your name on the Internet when it first came
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Speaker 1: along with search engines. That I realized there's plenty of
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Speaker 1: people named Mark Simone. There's all over the place. There's
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Speaker 1: a famous soccer star in Europe named that. There's some
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Speaker 1: minister in the Midwest that has best selling books. There's
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Speaker 1: a car dealer and.
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Speaker 4: No relation to Nina Simon and of course no, but.
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Speaker 1: You ever do that? Google your own name just to
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Speaker 1: see how many people I have.
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Speaker 2: There's a couple of actors with there's a one or
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Speaker 2: two actors and and so's it's strange.
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Speaker 4: And it's actually somebody where I lived.
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Speaker 2: That's got the same name, which is strange.
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Speaker 4: I keep it. I was getting his mail for a while,
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Speaker 4: which is very odd.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Now sometimes I have a Google alert. You can
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Speaker 1: go to Google and put your name in there on
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Speaker 1: an alert. If your name is ever on the internet,
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Speaker 1: it'll send you an alert. So sometimes I see my
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Speaker 1: Google alerts and it says Mark Simone being honored with
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Speaker 1: a parade thousands. Then I realized it's that's soccer guy
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Speaker 1: in Europe. It's not me.
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Speaker 4: But as long as it's not the obituary that comes through,
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Speaker 4: that must be cool.
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Speaker 1: That has actually happened. I think. I think one of
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Speaker 1: them died and I saw it in the obituary. So
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Speaker 1: all right, and did you have.
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Speaker 4: Any did he have any of those jingles? I remember
19:15
Speaker 4: Harry Harrison here and Harry Harrison, you know, did you
19:18
Speaker 4: have any of those?
19:19
Speaker 1: I had plenty of those jingles? In fact, not that
19:21
Speaker 1: long ago. It was it ten No, fifteen years ago
19:23
Speaker 1: we did the Saturday Night Oldie Show. I had all
19:25
Speaker 1: those jingles of my own money. Yeah, those were great
19:28
Speaker 1: those You.
19:28
Speaker 4: Should release them. You should release them as sort of
19:30
Speaker 4: an album movie.
19:31
Speaker 2: It would be awesome.
19:33
Speaker 1: I got to be honest, I don't think there'd be
19:34
Speaker 1: a line around the block to get that. But all right,
19:38
Speaker 1: thanks for calling. Yeah that was Radio used to use
19:40
Speaker 1: jingles all the time. We don't really use it anymore.
19:42
Speaker 5: Uh.
19:43
Speaker 1: It just kind of went out of fashion. Some stations
19:45
Speaker 1: would throw them in once in a while. It's kind
19:47
Speaker 1: of a nice nostalgic thing. And let's go too. Let's
19:53
Speaker 1: go to Will in Connecticut. Will. How you doing?
19:56
Speaker 4: Hey?
19:56
Speaker 3: Mark?
19:57
Speaker 1: Good?
19:59
Speaker 3: Yeah, real quick. You're just saying about playing that clip
20:02
Speaker 3: from Scott beston not.
20:04
Speaker 4: Being able to pay their soldiers.
20:06
Speaker 3: I'm just curious what currency are they paying them?
20:10
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you're right, the Iranian currency is pretty bad,
20:13
Speaker 1: but it's pretty worthless thanks to US shutting down their economy.
20:16
Speaker 1: It's killing their currency.
20:19
Speaker 4: I'm not paying them a dollars, I hope, No, No.
20:22
Speaker 1: It's an Iranian I don't I don't know what the
20:24
Speaker 1: currency is there, but you're right, we've crushed their currency.
20:26
Speaker 1: It's a good point. So they're running out of money.
20:29
Speaker 1: It's the straight of horror. Moose being closed is great
20:32
Speaker 1: for us. We don't get any oil out of there.
20:35
Speaker 1: We don't need it for anything. The entire Iranian economy
20:40
Speaker 1: depends on the strait of horn Moose going through there.
20:43
Speaker 1: As long as it's closed, they have no economy. So
20:46
Speaker 1: it's killing them and they're not gonna be able to
20:48
Speaker 1: make their payroll. So they're saying, well, if they don't
20:51
Speaker 1: pay the soldiers. I don't know how that works in Iran.
20:55
Speaker 1: You have a feeling if you're an Iranian soldier in
20:57
Speaker 1: that Republican Guard or whatever that is, that revolutiontionary Guard,
21:01
Speaker 1: and if your paycheck doesn't come through, I have a
21:03
Speaker 1: feeling you can't just quit and walk away. It's probably
21:05
Speaker 1: not the safest thing to do. I don't know. Let's
21:08
Speaker 1: go to is it, Joseph, whoever it is. Nope, that's
21:13
Speaker 1: not good. Let's go to David in New Jersey. David,
21:16
Speaker 1: how you doing?
21:17
Speaker 6: Hey, I'm doing good. Minus theologies. I wanted it.
21:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know it's terrible, these allergies.
21:24
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I wanted to politely ask I'm going to
21:26
Speaker 6: vote regardless in November. But I can appreciate that a
21:30
Speaker 6: lot of people are very disillusioned with a lot of
21:34
Speaker 6: nonsense in terms of Congressional responsibility, no promises kept since
21:40
Speaker 6: they got reelected or elected about a year and a
21:43
Speaker 6: half ago.
21:43
Speaker 4: And I was just curious.
21:45
Speaker 6: Winning the hearts and minds is never easy. I'm voting regardless,
21:48
Speaker 6: and as a registered Democrat, I'll vote Republicans, so I
21:52
Speaker 6: at least double my action. But in terms of getting
21:55
Speaker 6: out the vote for people that are tired of I mean, Congress,
21:59
Speaker 6: let's face it, they're not really doing much of anything else.
22:02
Speaker 1: No, that's the problem. That's why you see. You know,
22:03
Speaker 1: they always show you the poll Republican approval of Congress.
22:07
Speaker 1: Republican approval. Oh, it's only forty two percent. They always
22:09
Speaker 1: show you that. They never show you the other part
22:11
Speaker 1: of the poll. Approval for Democrats in Congress is like
22:14
Speaker 1: fifteen percent. It's actually set a record. Democrats in Congress
22:18
Speaker 1: approval rating is at the lowest in the history of polling.
22:22
Speaker 1: They forget to show you that part in the poll.
22:24
Speaker 1: And you got these awful, awful people in Congress, all
22:29
Speaker 1: of them. You just got to throw them all out,
22:31
Speaker 1: one by one. Anybody. It's been there over fifteen years.
22:34
Speaker 1: Just throw them the hell out. Chuck Schumer, the phoniest
22:39
Speaker 1: guy in the world. Jilibrand seems better, but she just hides.
22:42
Speaker 1: You know, she never see her, you never hear from her.
22:46
Speaker 1: She's it's like she's in the witness Protection program. She's smart,
22:50
Speaker 1: she just hides. And both these, the two of them,
22:53
Speaker 1: all they do is donor service. They just take care
22:55
Speaker 1: of the donors all day. Otherwise they get absolutely nothing done.
23:00
Speaker 1: And the guys that they're all over television, Adam Schiff
23:02
Speaker 1: and those types, you know, I'm talking the one's always
23:06
Speaker 1: the Trump Arrangement syndrome, just get absolutely nothing done. Just talk,
23:11
Speaker 1: just do shows, looking for TV shows. Never otherwise nothing
23:16
Speaker 1: gets done by them. Hey, when we come back, Michael Goodwin,
23:18
Speaker 1: the greatest columnist in America. We'll talk to him next
23:22
Speaker 1: on seven to ten Wry.
23:25
Speaker 3: The Mark's Alone Show on seventr.
23:30
Speaker 1: Well, Michael Goodwin, the greatest, the finest columnist in America.
23:34
Speaker 1: You can read his column every Sunday and every Wednesday
23:37
Speaker 1: in the New York Post. And they're all up on
23:39
Speaker 1: the New York Post website. You can go read them
23:40
Speaker 1: all there. Michael Goodwin, how you doing.
23:43
Speaker 5: Good morning, Mark, Thank you.
23:45
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm talking a while the King's visit. You know,
23:51
Speaker 1: everybody just applauding, bowing, standing ovations. Can can these people
23:56
Speaker 1: ever do a no King's protest ever again after they
24:00
Speaker 1: fond all over the actual king.
24:02
Speaker 5: Yeah, that is funny that, you know. It's all about theories,
24:07
Speaker 5: it's all about name calling and what can you what
24:11
Speaker 5: can you create by way of an argument? So when,
24:15
Speaker 5: as you say, when the real king comes not a problem.
24:19
Speaker 1: So but what about the you wrote about our relationship
24:22
Speaker 1: with the British. It has changed, hasn't it?
24:25
Speaker 5: It has? And I think that Starmer the Prime Minister,
24:29
Speaker 5: is a major problem. But I think we're seeing it
24:34
Speaker 5: all throughout Western Europe, Germany and France included. But the
24:39
Speaker 5: special relationship is a phrase that Winston Churchill coined to
24:47
Speaker 5: capture the long, long history of these two nations together,
24:52
Speaker 5: and of course World War Two cemented that idea for
24:56
Speaker 5: a lot of people. And yet when the new British
25:01
Speaker 5: ambassador says he doesn't think that a special relationship is
25:07
Speaker 5: the same as it was, and he says, if America
25:11
Speaker 5: has a special relationship with any country, it's probably Israel,
25:18
Speaker 5: and that to me, Mark was such an astounding statement.
25:22
Speaker 5: I happen to agree with it. I think Israel has
25:26
Speaker 5: emerged as America's the most important ally, certainly in the
25:31
Speaker 5: Mid East. But when you look at the war as
25:33
Speaker 5: a whole, so much of the trouble coming from the
25:37
Speaker 5: Mid East. It's it's the right place to have the
25:40
Speaker 5: right ally.
25:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, a simple what's going on around it'd
25:46
Speaker 1: be a simple thing for the British or any other
25:49
Speaker 1: country who's really more dependent on that oil than any
25:52
Speaker 1: of us, to just send something, just back us up
25:55
Speaker 1: with something a ship or to something.
25:57
Speaker 5: You see, they depend on that a lot. It affects
26:02
Speaker 5: their economies. But we have seen the same thing. Remember
26:07
Speaker 5: when the Germans and others are buying natural gas from
26:12
Speaker 5: Russia even as they were helping to fund Ukraine's defense
26:19
Speaker 5: against Russia. So they were giving money to both sides.
26:24
Speaker 5: That's the kind of thing that Europe is specializing in
26:28
Speaker 5: these states. It's a weak about its own defense, it's
26:32
Speaker 5: a weak about its own culture. It's a weak about
26:35
Speaker 5: freedom of speech that JD. Vance pointed out. So I
26:40
Speaker 5: think the decline in the relationship with America is really
26:45
Speaker 5: symbolic of an overall decline in the values of Western
26:52
Speaker 5: European nations.
26:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, and all these leaders around the world, and all
26:57
Speaker 1: the leaders here in America and all of our presence
27:00
Speaker 1: for years have dreamed of getting rid of this evil
27:03
Speaker 1: terrorist regime in Iran. We've just it's been a dream.
27:07
Speaker 1: Why are they getting so panicky when we're pretty close
27:09
Speaker 1: to actually getting it done.
27:11
Speaker 5: Yeah, because you're right, it has acquired so much of
27:17
Speaker 5: the sort of Western brain power and military costs and
27:22
Speaker 5: everything to keep the Iranian regime that day. But you know,
27:28
Speaker 5: when you think back to its impact in Syria and Lebanon,
27:33
Speaker 5: of course hamas a cutter. I mean, all these the
27:38
Speaker 5: Hoodies and Yemen, all of these troubles Iraq. Look how
27:43
Speaker 5: many Americans died in Iraq because of the Iranian influence,
27:50
Speaker 5: the cousin Salomoni, whom President Trump droned in the first term.
27:56
Speaker 5: It was the first time any Western country he had
28:00
Speaker 5: said to Iran, no, you are the source of the problem.
28:05
Speaker 5: We are stopping it now. And yet still Europe will
28:09
Speaker 5: not say that.
28:11
Speaker 3: Yeah.
28:11
Speaker 1: Hey, Michael Goodwin, let me just switch subjects here. We're
28:15
Speaker 1: about three four months into mom Donnie he's quite annoying
28:20
Speaker 1: the things he's talking about but doesn't seem to actually
28:23
Speaker 1: do anything. If it continues along where it's just talking
28:27
Speaker 1: Instagram videos and he doesn't actually much done, will we
28:30
Speaker 1: survive him?
28:32
Speaker 5: You know, Mike, I had a similar thought, and it
28:36
Speaker 5: may be it may be a good sign that he
28:39
Speaker 5: seems somewhat hesitant to go beyond the rhetorical, symbolic statements
28:48
Speaker 5: and appointments. This budget thing, I think is a real
28:53
Speaker 5: issue for him and for the state that neither the
28:57
Speaker 5: city nor the state campaign that's a budget right now,
29:01
Speaker 5: because it's all about trying to satisfy Mom Donnie's need
29:07
Speaker 5: for billions and billions and billions of dollars for these
29:11
Speaker 5: free things that he wants to give away. And so
29:15
Speaker 5: I think he's run up against some reality in that sense.
29:19
Speaker 5: We haven't seen a real change in him, but I
29:24
Speaker 5: do believe there is a sense that, you know, he's
29:27
Speaker 5: met the real world with a budget issue and it's
29:32
Speaker 5: not looking like an easy thing to solve.
29:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he's not a guy who's ever run anything.
29:38
Speaker 1: He's never had a job, he's never been in a right,
29:40
Speaker 1: never been in a manager. He's like a crazy stary
29:43
Speaker 1: eyed college kid. And when you say they've met reality,
29:46
Speaker 1: I don't think they really care, do they? They just
29:48
Speaker 1: go on dreams.
29:49
Speaker 5: Well, I think they're going to have to in the
29:53
Speaker 5: sense that if they can't get the money. If you
29:57
Speaker 5: have a big uproar on Wall Street over the credit ratings,
30:02
Speaker 5: I mean, I think a couple of things Mark that
30:06
Speaker 5: you and I have both lived through in our time,
30:10
Speaker 5: essentially from the seventies in the eighties. It was first
30:15
Speaker 5: the budget crisis and then the crime crisis, and those
30:19
Speaker 5: two things I think are triple rs for every mayor
30:24
Speaker 5: now and every governor too. You cannot risk the city
30:29
Speaker 5: standing with the credit rating agencies and therefore what it
30:33
Speaker 5: pays in interest when it borrows money from the public.
30:38
Speaker 5: And the crime it's impact on people leaving on just
30:43
Speaker 5: the headlines, really damage a mayor. So I think those
30:49
Speaker 5: are two main things that every mayor has to confront
30:53
Speaker 5: and so far I would say Mamdani has done a
30:56
Speaker 5: lousy job on both. But at the same time, I mean,
31:00
Speaker 5: he hasn't denied that these are important, so that to
31:04
Speaker 5: me is the one hopeful son. He's not trying to
31:08
Speaker 5: create a tirely new landscape for how you judge a mayor.
31:14
Speaker 5: He knows he can't escape the crime issue, and he
31:17
Speaker 5: can't escape the budget issue.
31:20
Speaker 1: Now what about Kathy Hopeless, she's a doubling down on
31:23
Speaker 1: this anti ice stuff sanctuary city. He wants to make
31:26
Speaker 1: that go even further. Why does she do that? Is
31:30
Speaker 1: that just to get elected again?
31:33
Speaker 5: Look, I think she won't say anything that will cost
31:38
Speaker 5: her votes among Mom Donnie voters. I think that's her
31:44
Speaker 5: only goal. That's why she endorsed him, That's why she's
31:48
Speaker 5: done all these things for the city. She got his
31:51
Speaker 5: endorsement in return. But now what she will need in
31:55
Speaker 5: the fall is to get his voters to come out
31:59
Speaker 5: for her in November. And if they all do, let's
32:04
Speaker 5: say a million of them roughly, then she will be
32:08
Speaker 5: in a good position to win reelection. So the answered
32:12
Speaker 5: your question is, yes, that's all she cares about.
32:17
Speaker 1: Huh. Can you imagine you spend your whole life in
32:19
Speaker 1: politics finally, and then you end up having a cater
32:22
Speaker 1: to the Mondami crowd.
32:24
Speaker 5: Exactly like a bunch of twenty year old who don't
32:29
Speaker 5: really know anything about anything except you know, they love
32:33
Speaker 5: communism and socialism. They apparently never read a book about either.
32:38
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, Michael Goodwin, great stuff. Everybody read his columns
32:41
Speaker 1: every Sunday. New columns coming out tomorrow, and give us
32:44
Speaker 1: a hint. Do we know what it's about yet?
32:48
Speaker 3: No?
32:49
Speaker 5: I can't. Oh, okay, it's still a formulation. I don't
32:53
Speaker 5: want to make a commitment. And then you're listening Marcus
32:56
Speaker 5: a good one. He didn't do what he said they
32:59
Speaker 5: were going to do. Show. I have to a little
33:02
Speaker 5: wiggle room.
33:03
Speaker 3: Here, all right.
33:03
Speaker 1: Well, when you get up in the morning, check out
33:05
Speaker 1: Michael Goodwin's column it'll be in the New York Post
33:07
Speaker 1: new column tomorrow. All this columns are up on the
33:10
Speaker 1: New York Post website. Michael Goodwin, thanks for being with us.
33:13
Speaker 5: My pleasure, Mark, thank you.
33:15
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33:56
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33:59
Speaker 1: York City's getting one one more area code four six'
34:02
Speaker 1: five will be the new area. Code so how many is?
34:06
Speaker 1: That it was always two to one two that was
34:08
Speaker 1: the area code For New York city two one two
34:10
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34:14
Speaker 1: EIGHTIES i guess it was the, eighties and they introduced
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34:19
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34:25
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34:28
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34:33
Speaker 1: Code there's like four of them now actually maybe three
34:39
Speaker 1: four seven was the other area. Code and you know
34:42
Speaker 1: then there was another area code nine two, Nine so
34:44
Speaker 1: there's already four area codes For New. York the new
34:48
Speaker 1: one will be four six' FIVE now i don't know
34:51
Speaker 1: exactly why. This is you know why they had to
34:53
Speaker 1: create a second. Area code way, back then the fax
34:56
Speaker 1: machine had, been invented so everybody had a. Phone number
35:00
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35:02
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35:04
Speaker 1: Fax machine and then When the, internet started remember it
35:08
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35:12
Speaker 1: people had, especially businesses had to have lots and lots
35:15
Speaker 1: more phones for the, fax machines for the modems for the.
35:18
Speaker 1: Dial up but all that's. Gone now there's no more,
35:20
Speaker 1: fax machines there's no more dial. Up modems so you
35:23
Speaker 1: think we wouldn't need all these new, area codes but
35:26
Speaker 1: apparently we'll be. Running out the new four to six
35:29
Speaker 1: five area code will be In, The Bronx, Brooklyn Queens,
35:32
Speaker 1: staten island And The marble hills Section. Of manhattan it
35:36
Speaker 1: will Start. In october existing phone numbers will. NOT change
35:40
Speaker 1: i kind of would like to. Get that it'd be
35:42
Speaker 1: great to have a four to sixty five. Area code
35:44
Speaker 1: nobody will know where the hell you're. Calling from but
35:47
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35:50
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35:53
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35:58
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36:00
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