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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: What's better than two hours of Marc Simone? Three. The
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  Speaker 1: Marc Simone Show. Now nine till noon weekdays.
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  Speaker 2: 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, we'll take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you got to give the New York Times credit. They
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  Speaker 1: do some amazing journalism. Look at this hard-hitting piece here
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  Speaker 1: in today's New York Times. Is it unprofessional to bring
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  Speaker 1: iced coffee to a job interview? Well, it's a long
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  Speaker 1: article exploring this. I could give you the answer without
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  Speaker 1: even reading it. Yes, of course it is. Don't bring
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  Speaker 1: iced coffee into a job interview. First of all, don't
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  Speaker 1: bring anything to drink into it. It doesn't look good. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you brought a cup of coffee and you're sipping coffee,
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  Speaker 1: that's one thing. The problem with iced coffee, everybody drinks
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  Speaker 1: it with a straw. You always look like an idiot.
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  Speaker 1: sipping a straw during a job interview. You don't do that.
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  Speaker 1: Would you bring a martini into it? Would you bring
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  Speaker 1: an espresso martini into a job? No, don't bring iced coffee.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, it's insulting to them. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: show up and if they want to offer you some water,
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  Speaker 1: some coffee, they will. Now, you know, years ago, it
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  Speaker 1: was an old salesman trick. All the old sales guys
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  Speaker 1: When they'd go see a buyer or a client, they
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  Speaker 1: would bring food. They would bring bagels. They would bring donuts.
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  Speaker 1: They would bring something because when you hand the guy
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  Speaker 1: the box, it wasn't for them. You'd give it to them.
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  Speaker 1: They'd always open it up and have you eat. You'd
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  Speaker 1: both eat it while you're sitting at the desk. And
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  Speaker 1: they said it was quite the icebreaker because now you're
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  Speaker 1: both eating together. It creates a bond that wasn't there otherwise.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take some calls. Let's go to Bonnie in New Hope. Bonnie,
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, how are you, Mark?
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  Speaker 1: Let me check. Not bad, not bad.
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  Speaker 2: I was calling to talk about the Jesse Kelly show.
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  Speaker 2: I never heard anybody really mention it before.
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  Speaker 1: Then how'd you know about it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, on WLBR. He has a great show.
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  Speaker 3: W what?
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  Speaker 2: I've been listening to him since he started. He's a historian.
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  Speaker 2: He can talk about any topic.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's a good show. That's why we have it
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  Speaker 1: on six to nine every night here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's great.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thanks for letting us know what shows we have.
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  Speaker 2: And I wanted to mention this. Vincent was right last week.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: He wanted to know, how did that criminal ever get
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  Speaker 2: a driver's license?
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  Speaker 1: Well, anybody get a driver's license now. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: to be a citizen. You don't have to be anything.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, Mrs. Kelly, thanks for calling. Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: Mike in Florida. Mike, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Mike.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's interesting that Mondani, while he's hysterical about
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  Speaker 3: this guy, the shooting in the Bronx, he seems to
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  Speaker 3: forget that the Italians in this country were treated quite poorly. Many, many,
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  Speaker 3: many lynchings in the 1800s and 1900s, culminating probably the
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  Speaker 3: most notorious case with Sacco and Vanzetti, who were railroaded
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  Speaker 3: to the death's house. So here he is in a
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  Speaker 3: country discovered by Italians, by the way, in a country
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  Speaker 3: where he's allowed to crap all over it, and he
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  Speaker 3: can't show up at a parade and be amicable.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what would you do if you're him? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the right thing to do is show up, but if
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  Speaker 1: you're him, you know you're going to get booed the
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  Speaker 1: whole way. What would you do?
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's the thing. He's put himself in his corner,
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  Speaker 3: and he can't show up because of that very thing.
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  Speaker 3: You're right. It would be phony for him to show up.
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  Speaker 3: Beyond that, the parade is one thing. It's just not
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  Speaker 3: recognizing the contribution of this population that suffered just as
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  Speaker 3: much as the people he's complaining about now suffering.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. And what would we do without the Italians? What
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  Speaker 1: the hell would we be eating?
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  Speaker 3: Forget it. I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 1: If you.
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  Speaker 3: If you counted up all the pizza I've had in
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  Speaker 3: my life, it could go from here to Mars.
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  Speaker 1: There'd be no food on the Upper East Side. It's
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  Speaker 1: all Italian restaurants. What would you do?
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  Speaker 3: And movie making and music. I mean, you know, between
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  Speaker 3: Italians and Jews and the Irish, the great American songbook
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't exist.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. Well, Jews mostly were tin panning.
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  Speaker 3: No, they wrote them and the Italians sang them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, basically. But without the Jewish songwriters, you wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: the great American songbook, for the most part.
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  Speaker 3: There were some exceptions.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I think the problem with Mamdani, a parade you
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  Speaker 1: don't talk. And I've been in these parades. It's tough.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to walk for miles and keep waving. Your
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  Speaker 1: arm gets tired. You're just waving. But he doesn't like
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  Speaker 1: things where you don't talk. He's a good talker. He
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  Speaker 1: likes to talk. Things where you just wave, that's not
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  Speaker 1: for him. I think that's the other one.
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  Speaker 3: You're right about pointing out how fast these guys talk.
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  Speaker 3: El-Fayed does the same thing. They talk a mile a minute,
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  Speaker 3: and you think, boy, this guy is a genius. I
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  Speaker 3: can't believe it. Anybody who can talk that fast has
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  Speaker 3: to be a genius.
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  Speaker 1: It's a younger generational thing. It's like you listen to
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  Speaker 1: the Ben Shapiro show. You listen to a normal show.
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  Speaker 1: The guy just says, hi, how are you? Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: You listen to the Ben Shapiro show. It's like a
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  Speaker 1: mile a minute. A mile a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It makes you sound very smart. It works, though. Well,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for calling, Mike. Yeah, a parade is a tough— I' ve
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  Speaker 1: had a march in a few of those. And it's fun.
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  Speaker 1: You're right in the middle of the street, crowds on
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  Speaker 1: both sides. You wave, you wave, you wave. By block
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  Speaker 1: number 75, your arm wants to fall off. You're tired.
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  Speaker 1: I admire the royal family because that's basically all they
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  Speaker 1: do is wave at a parade. But they must have, like,
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  Speaker 1: the greatest arms. They just never get tired of it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Tom in Queens. Tom, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Mark, good morning. So I saw the Letitia James
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  Speaker 3: debate last week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she got slaughtered in that, didn't she? Oh, she
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  Speaker 1: got creamed.
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  Speaker 3: But the big thing was, you have to admit, if
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  Speaker 3: that button ever flew off, it would have broke the
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  Speaker 3: sound barrier.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you mean her jacket was too tight? Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: She would have gave Rodney Dangerfield a year's worth of jokes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, good point. Yeah, Letitia James had a debate.
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  Speaker 1: The Republican candidate for Attorney General is phenomenal, and she
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  Speaker 1: showed real brilliance in that debate. And Letitia James, it
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  Speaker 1: was clear she didn't know anything about anything, even a
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  Speaker 1: simple question like the past attorney generals in New York,
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  Speaker 1: who do you admire? And the Republican candidate immediately said,
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  Speaker 1: Dennis Vacco. And she went through some of the things
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  Speaker 1: Vacco accomplished. And then they went to Letitia James and
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  Speaker 1: she couldn't name any previous attorney general. It was clear
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  Speaker 1: she had no idea who was attorney general in the past.
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  Speaker 1: And there were a lot of other questions where she
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  Speaker 1: just didn't know what the hell she was talking about.
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  Speaker 1: It was a disaster for her, that debate. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: good thing for her, and it was smart of her,
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  Speaker 1: they made sure it was on New York One. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: sees New York One. New York One has like 12 viewers.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a very biased channel. New York One is
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  Speaker 1: the most biased left wing. So when she got into trouble,
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  Speaker 1: Letitia James kept lying. She said, Trump who put kids
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  Speaker 1: in cages. Well, that's not true. That was the Biden-Obama administration.
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  Speaker 1: All those pictures of the kids in the cages are
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  Speaker 1: from 2008. It was Biden and Obama, but it's New
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  Speaker 1: York One, so of course the moderator never corrected her.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Dave in New City. Dave, how you doing? Nope,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute. Dave, are you there? Dave? There's something
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  Speaker 1: wrong with that phone line, I think. Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: Marco in New Jersey. Marco, how you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just wanted to comment on the lady that
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  Speaker 3: called it, how did that criminal get a driver's license?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. How did a criminal become president?
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  Speaker 3: That's what I want to know. That's the real question.
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  Speaker 1: You're talking about Biden?
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  Speaker 2: No, Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Trump.
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  Speaker 3: Trump, he was... Yeah, wasn't he convicted in New York
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  Speaker 3: City of, you know, defrauding the taxpayer?
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  Speaker 1: Not really. It wasn't a real case. It wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: real charge. Higher courts just tossing it out, ruling it
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  Speaker 1: absolutely idiotic. You didn't actually fall for that, did you? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but you really thought he committed a crime?
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  Speaker 2: But why would I Google that?
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  Speaker 3: It says, yes, he's convicted. He was convicted.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was, but it wasn't a real charge. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't actually a crime. It'll all be tossed out. But
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  Speaker 1: you fell for that? Seriously. You sound like a smart guy.
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  Speaker 1: You fell for that?
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  Speaker 2: So he's not a criminal?
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  Speaker 3: No. He wasn't convicted?
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  Speaker 1: Tell me what the crime was.
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  Speaker 3: 34 counts of defraud in the state of New York.
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  Speaker 3: He was found guilty of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes or no? Yeah, and it all gets tossed out.
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  Speaker 3: When? When are we going to get tossed out?
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  Speaker 1: Well, they're delaying the appeal. But seriously, this is a
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  Speaker 1: good example of how this works. People will fall for
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  Speaker 1: this stuff. Absolutely fall for it. You know, our greatest
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  Speaker 1: legal scholars, the Alvin Bragg case, our greatest legal scholars,
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  Speaker 1: guys like Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz actually said, I've been doing
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  Speaker 1: this for 60 years. I still can't figure out what
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  Speaker 1: the hell the charge was. There's not any conviction on
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  Speaker 1: any of those cases that will stand up anywhere. Every
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  Speaker 1: appeals judge has already, they haven't, if you're the governor,
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  Speaker 1: you can delay the appeals. But every appeals judge has
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  Speaker 1: said this case is absolutely ridiculous. It'll be tossed out instantly.
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  Speaker 1: But you see, it works. People fall for that. They
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  Speaker 1: actually believe that there was a crime committed. Anyway, we
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  Speaker 1: got a lot to get to in the next two hours,
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  Speaker 1: including John McLaughlin, the world's best pollster. We'll see what
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  Speaker 1: the real numbers are. And hey, don't forget, coming up
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  Speaker 1: at noon, Buck Sexton and Clay Trapp. do a very
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  Speaker 1: good show. You can learn a lot listening to them.
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  Speaker 1: Noon to three. And then at three o'clock, the most
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  Speaker 1: listened to radio show in America, Sean Hannity. Oh, actually,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be filling in for Sean today. So it'll be
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  Speaker 1: me today, three to six. Then the aforementioned Jesse Kelly
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  Speaker 1: at six. Then the very funny Jimmy Fela every night,
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  Speaker 1: 9 to midnight, here on 710WOR.