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

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  Speaker 1: It's morea Mark Mark Simone on seven tenor well, it's Monday,
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  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving week, it's Thursday's Thanksgiving and it looks like a
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  Speaker 1: windy day. It may affect the parade. They may have
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  Speaker 1: to lower the balloons. But we'll see a little rain
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow maybe Wednesday morning, but Thursday, no rain. It just
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  Speaker 1: could be very, very windy. So if you're going to
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  Speaker 1: a big Thanksgiving dinner and you don't want to get
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  Speaker 1: a fight about Trump and all that, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: have some expert advice for you a little later this hour.
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  Speaker 1: A great psychologist that doctor Keith Ablow, has done a
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  Speaker 1: lot of work on Trump derangement syndrome. He's sort of
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  Speaker 1: getting to the bottom of it psychologically. How bad is it?
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  Speaker 1: What do you do with it? We'll get that coming up.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a fascinating later this hour. I
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  Speaker 1: notice President Trump did not go to marrow Lago this
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  Speaker 1: past weekend, even though it was a cold, windy weekend
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  Speaker 1: in Washington, d C. Normally you think he'd want to
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  Speaker 1: get down to Florida, but he just didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: go to mar Alago this weekend. There was nothing major
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  Speaker 1: on the schedule, nothing that would keep him in Washington.
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe he's just a little sick of those
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  Speaker 1: old ladies at mar Alago that just chase him around
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  Speaker 1: the dining room. You know, if he goes anywhere in
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  Speaker 1: mar A Lago, the million old ladies you see in
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  Speaker 1: the pictures chase him around. Now, Wi you wanw. I
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  Speaker 1: just think he couldn't take it for the weekend. One
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  Speaker 1: thing he did on Saturday, he went to Andrews Air
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  Speaker 1: Force Base or whatever they call it now, Joint Base Andrews,
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  Speaker 1: which clumsy name, but Andrews Air Force Base for years
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  Speaker 1: had the best golf courses in the whole federal government system,
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  Speaker 1: believe it or not. Andrew's Air Force Base, it's twenty
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  Speaker 1: miles from the White House. It's in Maryland. Has always
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  Speaker 1: had this nickname the President's Golf Course, because this facility
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  Speaker 1: has two eighteen hole championship golf courses, the East and
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  Speaker 1: the South courses, each designed as a par seventy two layout.
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  Speaker 1: And apparently it's gotten run down. Like everything in the
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  Speaker 1: federal government, it hasn't been kept up to speed. So
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  Speaker 1: the president is going to have Jack Nicholas, the great golfer,
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  Speaker 1: the legend. But Jack Nicholas runs a company that builds absolute, incredible,
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  Speaker 1: state of the art golf courses. Is going to have
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  Speaker 1: Nicholas and his company redo these golf courses so they'll
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  Speaker 1: be as fine as any golf courses in America. Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: during the day, he went out to Andrews, had Jack
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  Speaker 1: Nicholson meet him there and they walked the course and
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  Speaker 1: figured it out what they're going to do. Remember, Trump
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  Speaker 1: has also built dozens and dozens and dozens of world
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  Speaker 1: championship golf courses all over the world. Knows exactly what
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  Speaker 1: he's doing. So these two experts, you know, you're really
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  Speaker 1: lucky to have this guy in the White House. You
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  Speaker 1: imagine Obama trying to rebuild a golf course. Can you
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  Speaker 1: imagine Joe Biden trying to build anything. So you got
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  Speaker 1: these two experts at building golf courses looking this thing over.
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  Speaker 1: Trump's an absolute expert at building ballrooms construction. He's been
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  Speaker 1: redoing bit by bit by bit parts of the White House.
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  Speaker 1: Oh not just the ballroom, but there's a thing called
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  Speaker 1: the Palm Court. When you come in to see the
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  Speaker 1: President foreign leaders and you go through that door. The
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  Speaker 1: first area you're in, it's a big lobby area it's
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  Speaker 1: called the Palm Court, was just so old and decrepit.
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  Speaker 1: President has rebuilt that completely. It had like a linoleum floor.
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  Speaker 1: He put in the finest marble and he fixed the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing up, paying for most of it himself or
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  Speaker 1: with private donations. He's redone the residence. He's redone the
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  Speaker 1: Oval Office. Obviously, some say overdone the Oval Office. But
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  Speaker 1: and you know, when you're in the Oval Office, that
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  Speaker 1: big Oval office, there's a doorway on the side. If
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  Speaker 1: you go through that door, there's a hallway that goes
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  Speaker 1: to the real office. What's something called the real President's office.
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  Speaker 1: That little hallway goes down to a few rooms. One's
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  Speaker 1: a private bathroom, one's a little den, one's a little
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  Speaker 1: dining room, one's a little office. And that's where many
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  Speaker 1: presidents would really work. Nixon didn't like the big Oval office,
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  Speaker 1: so he'd go to a little office work out of there.
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  Speaker 1: President turned it into kind of a TV room, and
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  Speaker 1: he turned one room. He gets a lot of flak
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  Speaker 1: for this. You'll see a lot of articles in the
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  Speaker 1: left wing fake news, all the left wing sites. He
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  Speaker 1: turned it into a gift shop. Why it's so tacky
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  Speaker 1: it's a gift shop. And if you look at the pictures,
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  Speaker 1: it's got shelves of gifts, Trump hats of all kinds,
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  Speaker 1: Trump matchbooks, Trump cufflinks, trump watches, Trump pens, And they
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  Speaker 1: make it sound like this is the cheesiest thing any
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  Speaker 1: president has ever done. What is he thinking? A gift shop?
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  Speaker 1: What an ego? A None of these articles point out
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  Speaker 1: that every president did exactly the same thing, but not
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  Speaker 1: on such a good scale. If you went to see
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  Speaker 1: President Bush, if you went to see President Clinton, if
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  Speaker 1: you went to visit any president, they would always at
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  Speaker 1: the end walk you over to that thing where they
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  Speaker 1: would give you gifts. There was always presidential cuff links,
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  Speaker 1: presidential pen, oval, office matchbooks. I mean, I got a
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  Speaker 1: big collection of this stuff. They'd give you this. It
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  Speaker 1: was mostly the cufflinks. That was the big thing. That
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  Speaker 1: the cuff links at the presidential seal. For a million years,
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  Speaker 1: that was the main gift. But it's now twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five and nobody wears cuff links anymore. You never see
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  Speaker 1: French cuffs anywhere anymore, so why would you give cuflinks?
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  Speaker 1: Nobody can use them anymore. So that's why Trump has
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  Speaker 1: switched to hats and all that stuff. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: still have the presidential cuplings, although I've never seen him
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  Speaker 1: give anybody, and so pens are good, even a pen.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of out. Most people don't use pens that
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  Speaker 1: much anymore. So he didn't go to mar A Lago
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  Speaker 1: this week and stayed in Washington. They were working on
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  Speaker 1: the Ukraine deal throughout the weekend. Now, the problem with
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  Speaker 1: this Ukraine twenty eight point piece plan, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: it favors Russia completely. It's very bad for Ukraine. But
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  Speaker 1: this is round one. This is how Trump does if
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  Speaker 1: you put out a plan that's way too far in
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  Speaker 1: this direction, and then you make the other side negotiate back,
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  Speaker 1: so he knows what he's doing. There's a deadline Thanksgiving Day.
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  Speaker 1: Marco Rubio was asked about that.
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  Speaker 2: The deadline is, we want to get this done as
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  Speaker 2: soon as possible. Obviously, you know, we'd love it to
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  Speaker 2: be Thursday. We'd love to be ultimately. The important point
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  Speaker 2: today is that we have made substantial progress. We've really
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  Speaker 2: moved forward. So I feel very optimistic that we're going
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  Speaker 2: to get there in a very reasonable period of time,
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  Speaker 2: very soon.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but the deal is so pro Russian. They think
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  Speaker 1: Russia wrote it.
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  Speaker 2: No matter what we came up with today. Obviously we
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  Speaker 2: now have to take what we come up with. If
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  Speaker 2: we can reach that agreement with the Ukrainian side to
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  Speaker 2: the Russian side, that's another part of this equation. They
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  Speaker 2: have to agree to it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so whatever you see in the agreement, it's not
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  Speaker 1: going to be the agreement. This is just round one.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is a very very meaningful I would say,
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  Speaker 2: probably best meeting we've had so far in this entire process,
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  Speaker 2: going back to when we first came into office in January.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so apparently they're talking, they're making progress, they're getting
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  Speaker 1: there in this deal. And again it's round what like
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  Speaker 1: the greatest movie you've ever seen that you love, What
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  Speaker 1: a brilliant script. If you went and looked at the
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  Speaker 1: first draft of the first round of the script, it
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  Speaker 1: looked terrible. So it gets rewritten and rewritten and rewritten.
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  Speaker 1: That'll total happen until they get approval.
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  Speaker 2: It's ultimately have to be signed off of by our presidents.
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  Speaker 2: Although I feel very comfortable about that happening given the
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  Speaker 2: progress we've made. And then obviously there's the Russian side
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  Speaker 2: of the equation. But again we think we have some
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  Speaker 2: pretty substantial insights over the last nine months into some
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  Speaker 2: of the things that are really important to them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, remember they did the Gaza peace deal. That
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  Speaker 1: took a lot of rounds, but they learned a lot
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  Speaker 1: from that that they've applied here to this. Speaking of Gaza,
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  Speaker 1: the president has had all the hostages he can visit
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  Speaker 1: the White House a no number of these hostages telling
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  Speaker 1: horror stories about torture. You know, well, the crazy left
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  Speaker 1: out there protesting Israel, the absolute horrible villains in this
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  Speaker 1: where the Hamas idiots with it wasn't just torture, many
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  Speaker 1: of them telling stories of sexual abuse, men being abused
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  Speaker 1: by men sexually. It's just the most ugly stuff imaginable.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're probably saying, yeah, I didn't know that. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's because obviously the media looks the other way on it.
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  Speaker 1: They make it look like Israel's the bad guy here
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  Speaker 1: when Hamas has been the most awful thing on earth.
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  Speaker 1: That everything they've done talking about war crimes, the worst
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  Speaker 1: stuff in the world, and of course the media totally
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  Speaker 1: ignoring it. This story about the sexual abuse of these prisoners,
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  Speaker 1: go back look at all the Sunday shows. See if
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  Speaker 1: you see a word about this there the hostage is
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  Speaker 1: telling these stories. Not a word on these Sunday shows.
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  Speaker 1: But they'll do a half hour on Marjorie Taylor Green.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know why I still I don't know
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  Speaker 1: why I still watch these Sunday show They are so
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  Speaker 1: corrupt and so fake and so awful. Hey, here in
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  Speaker 1: New York, you got the governor's race coming up next year.
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  Speaker 1: You got Elis Stephonic who looked like a shoe in
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  Speaker 1: for the nomination the candidate, but then Bruce Blakeman jumps in.
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  Speaker 1: Now Blakeman is the finest county executive in America. And
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  Speaker 1: what is a county executive? Well, it's like a governor.
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  Speaker 1: He's the governor of Nassau County and he's done a
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  Speaker 1: brilliant job. Elise Stephonic, lover, she's brilliant, she's great, But
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  Speaker 1: she's a legislator. Does she have any management experience? Because
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  Speaker 1: you're a great legislator, does that necessarily mean you'd be
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  Speaker 1: a great governor? I don't know. Kathy Hochel came out
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  Speaker 1: of the legislator legislator les later who it was Couoma
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  Speaker 1: that picked her as a legislator picked her to be
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  Speaker 1: the lieutenant governor. Now, what you usually do if you're
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  Speaker 1: a governor, you picked somebody who's not so great so
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  Speaker 1: you don't get shown up. And then he picked her,
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  Speaker 1: and of course she was just awful, and we got
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  Speaker 1: stuck with her as governor. You can blame Cuomo for
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  Speaker 1: picking her, but if you say that to him, he'll say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but you guys re elected her. Well, he's got a
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  Speaker 1: point there, so you'll have a legislator versus a former legislator. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if Blakeman jumps in, he's the only guy with any
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  Speaker 1: management experience, a great governor himself. And you know, Stephanic
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  Speaker 1: is very smart, number one in her class at Harvard
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  Speaker 1: and all that. But let's be honest, Blakeman is as
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  Speaker 1: smart as anybody. So he's gonna be her equal, if
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  Speaker 1: not better, on that score. Now, Stephanic is stronger upstate.
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  Speaker 1: She's from upstate. She's an upstate type. Blakeman is a
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  Speaker 1: more sophisticated, downstate New York City sort of a guy.
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  Speaker 1: And half the votes for governor are here in New
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  Speaker 1: York City. But can Blakeman play upstate? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But he's a very smart guy. And he went up
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  Speaker 1: there and did a were of Binghamton and all these
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  Speaker 1: different areas, meeting with people, you know, going to the diner,
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  Speaker 1: talking to people like a Bill Clinton kind of a tour.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what you got to do. So he's weighing
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  Speaker 1: it very carefully. He's a very smart guy, so he'll
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  Speaker 1: check it out real carefully. He's got to make a
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  Speaker 1: decision in the next couple of weeks on whether to run.
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  Speaker 1: He was at the Binghamton diner last week. Now, this
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  Speaker 1: could mean a primary, and a lot of people said, well,
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  Speaker 1: this is not good. We don't want to have a fight.
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  Speaker 1: Why should we have a prime? Well, you want a primary.
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  Speaker 1: Even President Trump said, you know you're better off having
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  Speaker 1: a primary. You don't want to have a coronation of
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  Speaker 1: a candidate that never works. That's not a good idea.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to Kamala Harris sort of a coronation.
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  Speaker 1: You want a primary. Somebody wins and earns the nomination.
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  Speaker 1: That's the best way to do it. So we'll see
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  Speaker 1: what happens. We'll take some calls in a minute. Eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred three to two one zero seven ten is the number.
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  Speaker 1: So I've had two, three, four Thanksgiving dinners already? Is
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  Speaker 1: it five? I think we even got one down the
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  Speaker 1: hall here today. You know, we have these buffets all
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  Speaker 1: over the place down the hall that way Power one
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  Speaker 1: oh five front of Charlemagne Studio is it's Golden Corral,
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  Speaker 1: very good caterer, and they do these beautiful Thanksgiving dinners
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  Speaker 1: and turkey and ham and stuffing and sweet potatoes in
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  Speaker 1: every kind of pumpkin pie pee can I mean, the longest,
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  Speaker 1: most elaborate Thanksgiving buffet. This is the fourth time they've
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  Speaker 1: been here in the last ten days, so I've had
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  Speaker 1: for these Thanksgiving dinners. I gotta be honest. Thursday, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think I can eat any more turkey. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to see anymore Cranver. I've had enough. Hey, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, there's a buffet down the other end of
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  Speaker 1: the hall with it's delicious and what the food these scones. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's delicious. But I didn't Normally the restaurant has a
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  Speaker 1: big sign or something, but I didn't see, and I said, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's right in front of lightl M. I said, who
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  Speaker 1: did the buffet? It's phenomenon? He said, oh, Luftanza Airlines
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  Speaker 1: I'm meeting airline food here, but it was great, So
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's just American airlines US airlines that have
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  Speaker 1: bad food. This Leftan's a pretty good food there. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we'll take some calls. We'll get the Trump Arrangement syndrome.
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  Speaker 1: We've got an expert to explain it to us, but
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  Speaker 1: we'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three two one
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  Speaker 1: zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred three two
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  Speaker 1: one zero seven ten