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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Okay, So Mark Simone show on sevent ten.
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  Speaker 2: Woo, we'll take some calls. Eight hundred three two one
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  Speaker 2: zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred three two
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  Speaker 2: one zero seven ten. Let's go to John and Bayonne. John,
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  Speaker 2: how you doing?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing? Okay. Uh, just a suggestion for mister Blakeman.
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  Speaker 3: I received one of these postcards. On one side they
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  Speaker 3: had Hochel and Mondamie. On the other side they had Blakeman.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I wouldn't share the postcard with.
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  Speaker 2: Well, who's the postcard from.
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  Speaker 3: It's from Blakeman. It's promoting him as as governor.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, why are you getting it? You can't vote. You're
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  Speaker 2: in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I'm sorry. I'm working in New Jersey, but I
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  Speaker 3: live in Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. Oh okay, Well that makes sense. All right. Well
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  Speaker 2: he's probably listening. So you just told him thanks for calling.
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  Speaker 2: Take care. Let's go to Mike and Florida. Mike, how
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  Speaker 2: you doing.
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  Speaker 1: In the morning? Mark, you were speaking earlier with another
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  Speaker 1: caller and he mentioned the Nycha housing. Another thing that
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  Speaker 1: Nitcha is, uh sort of manages in the city and
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  Speaker 1: in the state or the state manages and they're part
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  Speaker 1: of it is the Section eight housing, which is a complete, correct,
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  Speaker 1: corrupt mess that the government sinks money into alarming amounts.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's a total government running. Housing is the
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  Speaker 2: worst disaster ever'll you'll beg the slumlord to come back
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  Speaker 2: and take it over exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And that goes to the supermarket scam. You know who,
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  Speaker 1: I doubt anybody in Chinatown is going to trace up
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  Speaker 1: to East Holland to go to a supermarket where they
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  Speaker 1: can save a dime on a can of corn. It
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  Speaker 1: makes you know, it makes no sense practically even you know,
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  Speaker 1: except for maybe somebody in the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 2: No, and you could lower the price in every supermarket
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  Speaker 2: in New York just like that, just no property tax
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  Speaker 2: on supermarkets and then cut exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And you know it's you know, we have Bloomberg opened
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  Speaker 1: up these green markets all over uptown. You know where
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  Speaker 1: I used to live up on the Upper East Side
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  Speaker 1: and I would go up to Spanish Harlem to go shopping.
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  Speaker 1: There was these green markers and every other corner green glosses,
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  Speaker 1: and they were always empty. I'd be the only one
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  Speaker 1: shopping there because nobody, you know Who's like a complete
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  Speaker 1: waste of money. You got a part of the city
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  Speaker 1: to even establish these things. So these things don't work.
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  Speaker 2: Now, why would you leave? You left the Upper East Side,
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  Speaker 2: You're in Florida. Where are you in Florida?
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  Speaker 1: Don't ask? Don't ask, please every time I go back
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  Speaker 1: to you, I thought my rent was too high, and
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  Speaker 1: now it's tripled. So I believe me.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody, how bad it gets in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: It's horrible. As it's hurricane season, so NonStop, all they're
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  Speaker 1: talking about is hurricane preparedness. It's like a horricane, hurricane
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  Speaker 1: torn They love it. They can't stop talking about. Every
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  Speaker 1: other word out of their mouth is hurricane, this, hurricane that.
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  Speaker 1: It's It's it's unnerving. It's a billion old people doddering
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  Speaker 1: around believing. Stay in your stay in your apartment in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 2: Don't believe all right, thanks for yeah. Yeah. The one
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  Speaker 2: argument people said, well, I can't. I can't take the
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  Speaker 2: snow anymore. I can't take the winter. And hey, we
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  Speaker 2: did have a bad winter this year with a couple
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  Speaker 2: of really heavy blizzards, But how much was that. It
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  Speaker 2: was like two weeks here, three weeks there. There's like
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  Speaker 2: a total of six weeks of snow on the ground. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: it was cold, but I'll take that over six months
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  Speaker 2: of one hundred degree heat in the summer and hurricanes
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  Speaker 2: and having to evacuate every two seconds. Just stay in
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  Speaker 2: New York much better. Let's go to Joe in Elmwood Park. Joe,
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  Speaker 2: how you doing.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: We had the same thing in Paterson, New Jersey that
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  Speaker 1: we called the public housing. They destroyed them, They took
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  Speaker 1: the copper out, They destroyed the building so bad they
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  Speaker 1: couldn't even fix them.
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  Speaker 3: They head to demolish them. Yeah, so that's so much
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  Speaker 3: for your public housing. That's what happens.
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  Speaker 2: All right, thanks for calling. Oh I forgot I was
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  Speaker 2: going to tell you the sinkhole on the Lie. People
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  Speaker 2: really concerned about this in the middle of the Long
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  Speaker 2: Island Expressway out and stuff County. I think at the
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  Speaker 2: Huntington exit, what's that forty nine Route one ten somewhere
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  Speaker 2: on there. Sinkhole. Now, usually that's a tremendous amount of groundwater.
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  Speaker 2: The water underneath erodes the bedrock and the soil, It
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  Speaker 2: creates a big cavity, and then the ground sinks into it.
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  Speaker 2: So it's usually natural groundwater. That's why it happens. Like
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  Speaker 2: in Florida places like that. But so it was. The
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  Speaker 2: thought was last week, as we told you, there are
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  Speaker 2: pipes under there, infrastructure water pipes, and they thought that
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  Speaker 2: one of them was so old and maybe the joint
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  Speaker 2: broke or it leaked and put all that water and
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  Speaker 2: that's why the sinkhole. Now that's pretty scary because you
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  Speaker 2: got these pipes all under the lie. Well, there might
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  Speaker 2: be another explanation. This might make you feel better. There
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  Speaker 2: was a contractor doing work on the side along the
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  Speaker 2: service road there and they were trying to drill under
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  Speaker 2: the lie to put something through, like a pipe all
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  Speaker 2: the way underneath. And they think that something went wrong
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  Speaker 2: with whatever they were doing and that might have caused
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  Speaker 2: the water, which would be a good thing because that
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  Speaker 2: means it's just that one particular thing. It wasn't the
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  Speaker 2: infrastructure rotting. Let's go to Jane in Long Island. Jane,
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  Speaker 2: how you doing.
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  Speaker 4: Mark the Moon?
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 4: Longtime listener?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, how's everybody? It's really nice to hear your boys.
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  Speaker 2: In Long Island.
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  Speaker 4: In Long Island, we're in plain View, Hicksville area.
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  Speaker 2: I love plain View. Yeah, you don't hear people say
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  Speaker 2: that a lot, but I like Plaine View. You got
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  Speaker 2: the La Piazza there, you got cravings that great? The supermarket,
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  Speaker 2: that's right, that's right.
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  Speaker 4: You do know, you do know your Oh you.
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  Speaker 2: Got the new Ivorone pizza.
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  Speaker 3: There, we got.
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  Speaker 4: Ivorone actually not too far away. Up on him, said Turnpike.
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  Speaker 4: We're getting an Uncle Giuseppe over in beth Page.
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  Speaker 2: Uncle Giuseppes is the greatest supermarkets, like the Italian Wegmans.
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  Speaker 2: They're all over Long Island. The best one is in Melton.
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  Speaker 4: Food is you got the best?
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  Speaker 2: We can't get. I can't get him open in Manhattan,
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  Speaker 2: but they should, but go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Not on politics, just wanted to know how's our buddy,
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  Speaker 4: Joe Bartlett.
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  Speaker 2: Doing's very happy. He's in Hilton Head, plays golf every day.
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand these guys that can play golf every day.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I used to a million years ago. I
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  Speaker 2: can't do it anymore every day, but they love it
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  Speaker 2: and he's very very happy. We'll have to get him
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  Speaker 2: on one day and check in with him. He's on
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  Speaker 2: the morning show now and then checking in. But thanks
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  Speaker 2: for calling. Let's go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent, how you.
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  Speaker 5: Doing, good morning, Mark? Good morning, Marra. No matter where
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  Speaker 5: public housing are tried, they always get bad news. Even
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  Speaker 5: in Italy, public housing are terrible. They're all slums and ghatos. Mark,
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  Speaker 5: you pointed out one of the reasons why public housing
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  Speaker 5: is bad news when you said Monda, he's going to
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  Speaker 5: open up these supermarkets and he's going to make them cheaper,
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  Speaker 5: so he says by not being charged property taxes and
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  Speaker 5: water and sewer use. Well, that's the reason why people
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  Speaker 5: should be against any more public housing projects being built,
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  Speaker 5: because when the city comes in and on the eminent
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  Speaker 5: domain and right away ubscons a bunch of private property
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  Speaker 5: that was contributing to the tax base that was paying
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  Speaker 5: water and sewer taxes. Since the city doesn't pay water
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  Speaker 5: and sewer taxes. Now that financial load that those private
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  Speaker 5: owners were paying has to now be distributed to the
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  Speaker 5: rest of the citizenry in that area because the city,
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  Speaker 5: as you pointed out, does not pay property or water
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  Speaker 5: or seward taxes. And I learned that forty years ago
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  Speaker 5: when the city absconded a bunch of single family homes
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  Speaker 5: in Coney Allen and built those high rise projects over there,
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  Speaker 5: which all of them a crime infested and my brother
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  Speaker 5: had a friend who owned one of the houses that
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  Speaker 5: under eminent domain they took away. And I said, well,
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  Speaker 5: why is anybody against us? He says why? He says,
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  Speaker 5: they're not giving you mock the value for your property
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  Speaker 5: and plus the financial burden.
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  Speaker 2: It's a mess, but we got to go do the news.
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  Speaker 2: But great point. Thanks for calling. Hey when we come back.
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  Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman the next governor of New York. He'll be
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  Speaker 2: with us next on seven to ten. Wor