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Mark interviews former Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's time for me. Uh, we're looking for Curtis Lee.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing yet. Well, we'll see if we can find them.
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  Speaker 1: He'll turn up all kinds of things. I want to
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  Speaker 1: ask Curtis Andrew Cuomo tweeting away. That's his full time
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  Speaker 1: job now Twitter, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: But he put out a statement about something about the future.
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  Speaker 1: But in the statement was the horrifying implication that he
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  Speaker 1: might run again for something. Last thing anybody wants to
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  Speaker 1: see is Cuomo come back? But he's uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's kind of like herpies, can never get rid of
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  Speaker 1: it complete. It's always comes back at some point. People
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  Speaker 1: a little upset about all of that. Mam Donnie, of
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  Speaker 1: course is the mayor elect. Rudy Giuliani put out a
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  Speaker 1: statement saying he's absolutely He says, I'm sick to my
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  Speaker 1: stomach seeing Mamdannie in the office, And of course he says,
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  Speaker 1: I want to see New York City do well, but
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  Speaker 1: he's sick seeing this. Oh we found Curtis all right.
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  Speaker 1: The guy that should have been the mayor maybe will
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  Speaker 1: be someday in the future, is with us. The great
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  Speaker 1: Curtis Slee. What Curtis, how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Not too good Mark.
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  Speaker 3: I was in Malba and Queens last night talking to
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  Speaker 3: the residents whose neighborhood was taken over by a car gang.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a symptom of things to come in the
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  Speaker 3: era of Johann Mandami.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't understand the story. This cargang, the drag
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  Speaker 1: racist cars. They picked this beautiful neighborhood, quiet neighborhood in Malba.
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  Speaker 1: They come down there from the Bronx they do this,
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  Speaker 1: total chaos. People are being beaten up. It's awful. Where
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  Speaker 1: were the police doing this?
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  Speaker 3: Well, they've been doing this for in fact two years, Mark,
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  Speaker 3: and they go from community to community in Queens, especially
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  Speaker 3: residential communities, because they know it'll take the police a
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  Speaker 3: long time to catch up to them. So there are
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  Speaker 3: only two squad cars that are signed out at night
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  Speaker 3: in the precincts in the outer boroughs.
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  Speaker 2: This needs to be dealt with. We don't have enough police.
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  Speaker 3: So imagine from twelve min night to five, or from
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  Speaker 3: one to five, you only have two squad cars that
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  Speaker 3: are patrolling a precinct area. Now, let's say there's a
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  Speaker 3: nine to one one called domestic dispute, a fight in
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  Speaker 3: a bar.
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  Speaker 2: That's two cars that are tied up.
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  Speaker 3: They can't go to where this gang was just tearing
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  Speaker 3: up the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 2: But this has been done before.
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  Speaker 3: In those Zone Parts South, those Zone parts Massis, Middle Village, Glendale.
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  Speaker 3: And now that it's hit Malba, which is a very
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  Speaker 3: upscale neighborhood in the shadow of the White Stone Bridge
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  Speaker 3: on the Queen's side, everybody's taking notice of it.
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  Speaker 2: But it didn't just happen.
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  Speaker 3: It's been happening for two years, and the NYPD has
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  Speaker 3: done nothing to shut down these card gangs.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's a precinct, But isn't there like a Burrough
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  Speaker 1: command or of some isn't there a special task for
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  Speaker 1: isn't there anything that been called in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the night to come out?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The problem is, though they're so far away from one another,
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  Speaker 3: and they're just so few cops. We need forty thousand
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  Speaker 3: police officers, we only have thirty two thousand and five hundred,
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  Speaker 3: and so they spread them around during the day when
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  Speaker 3: obviously most people are awake, they're up, they're working, they're
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  Speaker 3: going to and from their place of business or their home.
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  Speaker 3: So what they do is they cut back on policing
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  Speaker 3: from about twelve mid nine to six in the morning
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  Speaker 3: because they just don't have enough cops. So if we
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  Speaker 3: don't hire more cops, we're going to see more of
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  Speaker 3: that because of attrition. We won't be able to retain
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  Speaker 3: the cops we already have, recruit the cops we need.
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  Speaker 3: And the other thing that's not discussed at all Mark
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  Speaker 3: is qualified immunity. That's the insurance that every civil servant has,
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  Speaker 3: from the mayor right on down to a sanitation worker
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  Speaker 3: that protects them from being sued personally.
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  Speaker 2: The only department where.
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  Speaker 3: That does not exist because we're stripped away from them
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  Speaker 3: by the city Council in twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: Other police, if.
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  Speaker 3: They take any physical intervention, which is part of what
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  Speaker 3: is the requirement of their job, they can be personally suited.
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  Speaker 3: So that's why you see the police are not at
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  Speaker 3: all aggressive. They fear a personal lawsuit. They cannot bear
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  Speaker 3: the burden of that. So it's going to be impossible
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  Speaker 3: to retain the cops we already have and try to
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  Speaker 3: recruit a new generation of cops.
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  Speaker 1: Well, hey, that part of Queen's has a great councilwoman,
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  Speaker 1: a real loud mouth. I mean that in a good way.
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  Speaker 1: Vicki Palladino. Why isn't she screaming for help?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? No, she has been, She has been.
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  Speaker 3: But again, you know, I was there last night talking
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  Speaker 3: to the cops. Obviously they were spread everywhere. You know
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  Speaker 3: what happens, Mart, you have no cops, and then all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden, the situation in city Hall says, I
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  Speaker 3: don't care send the whole precinct out there. I want
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  Speaker 3: cops bobbing into one another. But I spoke to the
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  Speaker 3: cops and they said, Curtis, this is an ongoing situation.
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  Speaker 3: Imagine from twelve midnight at night to five in the morning,
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  Speaker 3: you only have two cars to cover an entire district,
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  Speaker 3: especially in a residential area where it takes you maybe
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  Speaker 3: forty five minutes to go to one one part of
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  Speaker 3: the precinct to the other part of the precinct. There's
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  Speaker 3: just not enough cops. Jessica Tish won't acknowledge that. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: the incoming mayor won't address that. And Eric Adams, where's
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  Speaker 3: he today? By the way, Mark Samo, where is the
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  Speaker 3: mayor today? It's sort of like the old Matt Lawell.
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  Speaker 3: Where is Matt Lauer today? Where's the mayor today?
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  Speaker 1: Well, he is getting ready for the next vacation. This
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  Speaker 1: is coming up pretty soon. But now tell me about
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  Speaker 1: the Parky Synagogue. That was a horrible incident. That was
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  Speaker 1: Muslim terrorism.
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  Speaker 2: There, Oh, there it is.
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  Speaker 3: They blocked the entry into the synagogue, a well renowned synagogue.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing was done to them.
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  Speaker 3: So Jessica Tiss goes in and apologizes and them swears
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  Speaker 3: it will never happen again.
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  Speaker 2: You know it's going to happen again.
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  Speaker 3: Zorhanmandami said nothing to condemn it, said, oh no, no,
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  Speaker 3: it was a violation of international law. What Jews meeting
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  Speaker 3: plan on doing alia, which is part of their Talmud Torah.
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  Speaker 3: Jews are encouraged if at some point in their lives
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  Speaker 3: to return to Israel, if not to have dual residency,
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  Speaker 3: maybe they live there permanently. That's not a violation of
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  Speaker 3: international boar that happens with other countries also, So again
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  Speaker 3: we see Zorhan Mandami, he's not even been sworn in,
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  Speaker 3: not at all condemning the demonstrators who were violent, who
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  Speaker 3: were blocking people's ability to enter that synagogue, and the
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  Speaker 3: police did not.
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  Speaker 2: Do their job.
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  Speaker 3: And all I heard was Randy Mastro complaining the real
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  Speaker 3: mayor of the City of New York and the mayor complaining.
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  Speaker 3: Where was he again, Eric Adams when he was complaining
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  Speaker 3: and tweeting about this?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Spekistan. What was he doing there, Mark?
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  Speaker 3: Nothing good happens to it Uspektistan? What was he coming
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  Speaker 3: out with more bags of money to bring back?
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  Speaker 1: Well, what did you call it? Wining, dining, pocket lining,
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly in Tashkent.
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  Speaker 3: People I know from Uzbekistan who are here from tajh Kent,
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  Speaker 3: they cut hair, A lot of them have become hairstylists,
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  Speaker 3: and they'll tell me the only reason the mayor is
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  Speaker 3: over there is to get weindein in pocket line because
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  Speaker 3: that's a corrupt administration there. Well, why would a mayor
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  Speaker 3: need to be in Uzbekistan or Albania? Remember when he
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  Speaker 3: began this trip around the world at taxpayer's expense on
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  Speaker 3: my dad?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, Curtis Leewell, let me ask you something. Andrew
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  Speaker 1: Cuomo put out this tweet. He's talking about the future
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  Speaker 1: of the democratic this he implied in there. He made
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  Speaker 1: it sound like he's gonna run again. Is that possible
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  Speaker 1: that we have to deal with this guy again?
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  Speaker 3: Of course, Mark, Remember he's like Napoleon, who's retreated to
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  Speaker 3: his island of Elba. Probably the Hampton's plot is comeback.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think he gets it. People are tired of him,
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  Speaker 3: they don't want him. He had two opportunities to beat
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  Speaker 3: Johan Mandami. He got beaten, effectively, his own Democrats have
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  Speaker 3: turned against them. But hey, you know what else is
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  Speaker 3: Andrew Cmo going to do all day March Simon, you
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  Speaker 3: know Andrew Cmo.
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  Speaker 2: I know Andrew Como. All he does. He's like a
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  Speaker 2: political zombie.
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  Speaker 3: He plots his revenge, his vendettas, and his return. And
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  Speaker 3: I think we're going to have to live with Andrew
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  Speaker 3: Como until the day we die, always teasing us, talking
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  Speaker 3: about what position.
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  Speaker 2: He wants to run for. I would suggest to him
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  Speaker 2: that he just leave New York State.
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  Speaker 3: You go down to Florida, like he threatened to do
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  Speaker 3: if Johan Mandami was elected mayor. Remember he was out
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  Speaker 3: there in the Hamptons he said, hey, look, if Zoraan's elected,
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  Speaker 3: I'm leaving in Florida.
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  Speaker 2: Try your luck in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: All right, But he in this race, he had every
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  Speaker 1: powerful person in America pushing him, telling everybody to vote
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  Speaker 1: for him, trying to chase you out of the race.
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  Speaker 1: He was up against a lunatic Democrat, everybody including the president,
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  Speaker 1: telling everybody vote for him. If you can't win, then
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  Speaker 1: what makes you think you could ever win?
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  Speaker 3: Well, remember, if you're if you're a child of entitlement,
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  Speaker 3: if you felt that your position in this world was
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  Speaker 3: to be the sheep herder and the rest of us
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  Speaker 3: are sheep, and we don't understand. He'll continue, he'll continue
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  Speaker 3: to keep attempting to push his name upon us. I
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  Speaker 3: would suggest to him that he go and he write
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  Speaker 3: his memoirs. Nobody bought his other two books, even though
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  Speaker 3: he got paid five million dollars for that book during
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  Speaker 3: the pandemic that was written by his staff.
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  Speaker 2: And write a memoir.
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  Speaker 3: You know, maybe twenty five copies will be sold. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he can invite some of his friends. Yeah, but it's
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  Speaker 3: over fans.
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  Speaker 2: Who came on.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, if he wants to fight for
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  Speaker 3: the Democratic Party, he's the one who rolled over and
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  Speaker 3: sacrificed it with no cash.
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  Speaker 2: Barel raised the age closed writ his island.
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  Speaker 3: He's set it up for Zorhan Mandami and the Democratic
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  Speaker 3: Socialists of America.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, in all those billionaires trying to give you money
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  Speaker 1: to get Where are they with him? Why aren't they
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  Speaker 1: giving him something to do, some job or something.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you know they will no show job.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he'll be in charge of some kind of
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  Speaker 3: think tank he will need to be in.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he could run for the mayor of Southampton.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he spends more time in the Hamptons than
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  Speaker 3: he does in the city of New York.
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  Speaker 2: That's you know, that's the position he might be able
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  Speaker 2: to win. Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's a good job. Who's that young guy,
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  Speaker 1: Jesse whatever his name was, the mayor of Southampton?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? No, no, he could make headlines from there.
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  Speaker 3: You know a lot of influential people obviously have homes
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  Speaker 3: out there.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I would suggest he do.
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  Speaker 3: That he needs to go home to the Hamptons and
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  Speaker 3: be with his brother Fredo Chris and this. This way
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  Speaker 3: they can talk about how how they're victims.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, poor, the poor Quall boys. We're victims again, oh Fox.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, Curtis Lee, we're great having you on
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  Speaker 1: working that people can follow you on Twitter and Instagram
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  Speaker 1: and all that keep track of you.
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  Speaker 3: There, uh at Curtis Lee, you can check out I
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  Speaker 3: was in Malba last night and getting down to the
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  Speaker 3: nitty gritty of how to stop these card gangs from
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  Speaker 3: taking over a neighborhood near you, because they will be
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  Speaker 3: coming to a neighborhood near you with Johann Mandami in town.
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  Speaker 2: Oh god.
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  Speaker 1: Well, everybody check out Curtis on Instagram and Twitter and
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  Speaker 1: I'll follow him there. Curtis Lee, Well, thanks for being
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  Speaker 1: with us always. Mark all right, take care. Uh, don't
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  Speaker 1: forget Bucking Clay coming up noon today, seven to ten
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  Speaker 1: wor