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Mark interviews author Ann Coulter. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: It's the Mark Simone Show. Live from the WOR LifeVac studios. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Ann Coulter, the best-selling author, the great columnist, and now
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  Speaker 1: Rumble star. Make sure you watch her Rumble channel and
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  Speaker 1: follow her on Twitter. And, of course, Substack. She's got
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  Speaker 1: videos and podcasts and all sorts of stuff. AnnCoulter.substack.com. Ann Coulter,
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing? Fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: How are you, Mark Simone?
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  Speaker 1: I'm good. Summer's almost over. Aren't you sad about that?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, of course I am. I have to get back
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  Speaker 2: to work.
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  Speaker 1: Now, midterms, what do you think? How does it look?
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  Speaker 2: You probably don't want to ask me that. I think
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  Speaker 2: it looks like a complete wipeout for Republicans. This Iran
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  Speaker 2: war has long, long tentacles. and the gas price has
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  Speaker 2: gone up. I mean, it's great that we're trying to
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  Speaker 2: get Venezuela's gas now, but at the moment, if you
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  Speaker 2: had to bet, it's just going to be a bloodbath
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  Speaker 2: for Republicans. I just don't understand why Trump does not
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  Speaker 2: run or do the things he ran on. His main
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  Speaker 2: issue was immigration. To this day, his most popular issue
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  Speaker 2: is immigration. and he is underwater on every single issue,
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  Speaker 2: including the issues Republicans usually crush on, like the economy. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, least of all popular is the Iran war.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the economy's in pretty good shape by every metric. Immigration,
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  Speaker 1: he's been arresting people like ICE. He's been doing a
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  Speaker 1: great job. Wouldn't you agree on that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I do, but I think what happens is, as
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  Speaker 2: long as, I mean, anything he does on immigration, and
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  Speaker 2: it does seem that... Stephen Miller has been a careful
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  Speaker 2: steward of what is going on. The more they can do,
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  Speaker 2: the better. But what happens in these polls is if
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  Speaker 2: you're mad about one thing, if you're mad about the president,
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  Speaker 2: it just colors your opinion of everything else, so it
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  Speaker 2: drags all the categories down. That's why it's striking that
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  Speaker 2: the single most unpopular issue is, of course, the Iran war.
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  Speaker 2: And Americans overwhelmingly want to just wrap it up quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Clear victory and move out.
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  Speaker 1: That's if you look at the media polls and those
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  Speaker 1: college polls. But if you look at the real internals,
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  Speaker 1: Iran comes up like number 15 on issues for most Americans.
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  Speaker 2: Internal polls are famously nonsense.
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  Speaker 1: No, they're pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Daniel Shore and I believe Nate Silver. i'm definitely make
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  Speaker 2: silver point out that the quote internal polls uh... are
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  Speaker 2: often done to please the boss and if there's any
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  Speaker 2: boss who needs to be pleased uh... you can twist
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  Speaker 2: them you can manipulate and there are a million different
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  Speaker 2: polls and iran has just i mean especially the democrats
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  Speaker 2: and independents you're right about that uh... but even among
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  Speaker 2: republicans forty percent yes just just republicans are not people
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  Speaker 2: are still calling themselves republicans uh... Slight majority say, yes,
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  Speaker 2: Iran's going great. Forty percent say, no, please wrap it up,
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  Speaker 2: please wrap it up. And like I say, that pulls
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  Speaker 2: down everything else. The gas prices, that is, oh, my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: that's going to kill Republicans. It's going to kill them.
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  Speaker 2: Let's hope the Venezuelan oil does something.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think you might be a little too worried about,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, gas prices aren't that high. They're high
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  Speaker 1: in New York, but it has nothing to do with Iran.
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  Speaker 1: They're high in California. It has nothing to do with Iran.
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  Speaker 1: But they're pretty low around the country. They're averaging around
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  Speaker 1: 350 now. That's not that bad.
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  Speaker 2: Mark Simone, you know I love you, but this is
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  Speaker 2: like the Biden administration and MSNBC trying to convince people, no,
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  Speaker 2: the economy is great. No, I mean, you can look
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  Speaker 2: at a chart. Since the Iran war, gas prices have
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  Speaker 2: been substantially higher, and they haven't come back down. And yes, okay,
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  Speaker 2: you can compare it. Oh, did you complain under Biden? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: we did complain under Biden.
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  Speaker 1: That has nothing to do with Biden.
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  Speaker 2: Starting a war. It was when Russia invaded Ukraine. There
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  Speaker 2: was a spike in gas prices here.
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  Speaker 1: We've had a rise.
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  Speaker 2: Not that Biden did, and we still blame him.
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  Speaker 1: We've had a rise, but not a spike, and the
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  Speaker 1: numbers are nowhere near Biden's gas prices. Not even close.
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  Speaker 2: That was very brief.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I don't want this to be the case, because...
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the problem is, you know, Democrats will get in,
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  Speaker 2: they'll run on stuff that they know is more popular
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  Speaker 2: and the issues that are less popular with concerning Trump,
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  Speaker 2: but then they're going to get in and it's not
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  Speaker 2: going to be anything they ran on. It's going to be,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like wrapping up the Iran war. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to be pedal to the metal for DEI stuff. Oh
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  Speaker 2: my gosh, it'll be a disaster. But nothing they actually
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  Speaker 2: ran on will come true. It'll be all the things
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  Speaker 2: that they're afraid to run on because they are so
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  Speaker 2: unpopular on. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll see. I think you'll be quite surprised in November.
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  Speaker 1: Even here in New York.
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  Speaker 2: I hope so.
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  Speaker 1: Where I think Bruce Blakeman will win. You'll be quite surprised.
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  Speaker 1: And the good news with that Mamdani, like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these socialists, everything he proposes... He never does anything.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing ever actually happens. He gets nothing done.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I wish.
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  Speaker 1: He gets nothing done.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I loved about Black Lives Matter. Go ahead,
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  Speaker 2: spend it on mansions. It's fantastic. Please don't do anything.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Mom Donnie, his daycare centers aren't funded. There's no
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  Speaker 1: grocery stores that are ever going to be built. The
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  Speaker 1: pied-à-terre tax will never happen.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you're right about that. I don't know why
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  Speaker 2: you think that now. I certainly hope you're right about
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  Speaker 2: that because it's real. That will be such a disaster
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  Speaker 2: for New York. I'm sure you've talked about this and
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  Speaker 2: your listeners have thought about it until they're blue in
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  Speaker 2: the face. But all of this pointless rearranging where massively
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  Speaker 2: wealthy people... There was just an article, I think, in
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  Speaker 2: the New York Times about this yesterday. Massively wealthy people
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  Speaker 2: are just going to rent now. Because if you don't
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  Speaker 2: own it, you're not a peer to tear. They'll rent,
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  Speaker 2: and they'll rent out their gigantic apartments. Rental prices are
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  Speaker 2: about to go through the roof. Sale prices are collapsing.
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  Speaker 1: And for no reason.
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  Speaker 2: It's utterly artificial.
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  Speaker 1: Not in New York. Sale prices were actually up over
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  Speaker 1: last year. High-end sales are up over last year. Numbers
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  Speaker 1: are pretty interesting. Everything is up over last year. Even
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  Speaker 1: commercial leasing is through the roof right now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's not commercial leasing I'm worried about. And I
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  Speaker 2: know real estate brokers always tell me that no sales
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  Speaker 2: are going through the roof. But not when this Pieta
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  Speaker 2: tear tax starts being enforced. I mean, maybe it's only
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  Speaker 2: a few people at the very high end who are
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  Speaker 2: worried about it. But talk to accountants. Talk to the
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  Speaker 2: accountants of really rich people. They're all scrambling now to
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  Speaker 2: figure out what they can do.
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  Speaker 1: You'll never see the Piedra Terra tax, even the rollout,
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  Speaker 1: completely bungled and bogged.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I hope you're right. It's so stupid. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to be so bad for housing in New York and
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  Speaker 2: for New York City. I mean, even if all you
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  Speaker 2: care about is all the stupid social programs that I'd
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  Speaker 2: eliminate across the board. New York Times did have an
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  Speaker 2: article about this in the past week. New York needs
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  Speaker 2: more millionaires. They need more multi-millionaires. And they have been fleeing, fleeing, fleeing.
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  Speaker 2: Where does Albany and Mondami, where do they think the
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  Speaker 2: money comes from? But they keep driving out the golden goose.
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  Speaker 2: And boy, is the Pieta terror tax a good way
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  Speaker 2: to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Now, why do you keep reading the New York Times?
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  Speaker 2: Because it's the most articulate... expression of liberal opinion, whereas
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  Speaker 2: I watch MSNBC now. I can't get out of calling
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  Speaker 2: it MSNBC MS now. That is the most comedic version
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  Speaker 2: of liberal opinion.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I like calling it MSNBC. It's still the
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  Speaker 1: 59th Street Bridge. Nobody calls it the Ed Koch Bridge,
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  Speaker 1: although we love it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's hilarious. I didn't even know it was supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be the Ed Koch Bridge. I really hate that.
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  Speaker 2: Any of your listeners outside of New York probably do
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  Speaker 2: not care about this. But all of these street names,
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  Speaker 2: you know, one of the beauties of New York City,
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  Speaker 2: I was in Amsterdam and London this summer. I could
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  Speaker 2: never find my way back to my hotel because the
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  Speaker 2: streets are so, you know, sort of confusing. And you
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  Speaker 2: don't even know what the words are, what the names
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  Speaker 2: are in Amsterdam. So how can you remember a name
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  Speaker 2: that's all continents? That's what I love about New York.
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  Speaker 2: I know where 59th Street is because it's above 57th
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  Speaker 2: and below 60th. And so when you get out of
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  Speaker 2: a subway or you're wandering around trying to find something
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  Speaker 2: and what you have is, you know, the Louisa Ortiz Street, man,
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  Speaker 2: that drives me crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's still the Triborough Bridge. It's not the Robert F.
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  Speaker 1: Kennedy Bridge. And if you say the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge,
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  Speaker 1: nobody knows where that is.
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  Speaker 2: I actually discovered that to my detriment when I was
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  Speaker 2: driving in and out. I think it had just been
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  Speaker 2: changed to visit my mother in Connecticut. And I'm afraid
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  Speaker 2: of driving in New York. It's crazy. Why would you drive?
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  Speaker 2: We used to have a subway system I could use
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  Speaker 2: every day. So anyway, I'm driving in and out every day.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm at the top of Manhattan looking desperately for
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  Speaker 2: the Triborough Bridge. I can't find it. And then finally
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  Speaker 2: it dawns on me, wait, I've never heard of the
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  Speaker 2: RFK Bridge before. I wonder if that's it. I actually
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  Speaker 2: had no idea.
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  Speaker 1: They hate Kennedy Jr., so they'll probably take the name
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  Speaker 1: off now. They'll probably go back to the... tribe borough
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  Speaker 1: you know uh they want trump's name off the kennedy
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  Speaker 1: center if democrats knew what john f kennedy stood for
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  Speaker 1: uh he was anti-abortion he was pro-war he was a
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  Speaker 1: tax cutter don't you think they'd want his name off
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  Speaker 1: the building.
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  Speaker 2: Too That's a good point. Well, they don't want Trump's
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  Speaker 2: name on any buildings, and I can't say I disagree
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  Speaker 2: with them. As I've just, not any insult to Trump,
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  Speaker 2: but as I've just indicated, you just stop naming stuff
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  Speaker 2: after politicians. In fact, I'd strip a lot of them away.
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  Speaker 2: Republicans still refer to it as the East River Drive.
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  Speaker 2: Really hate that one. And okay, except for the A president,
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  Speaker 2: the two Kennedys who were assassinated, okay, enough has been
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  Speaker 2: named after them, but could we please stop now? And, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you Reagan National, though I wasn't working in
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  Speaker 2: the Senate then, and I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about that,
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  Speaker 2: but they told me it was just retaliation for everything
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  Speaker 2: being named after FDR and Kennedy.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I like that. That's good. Well, Ann Coulter, we're
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  Speaker 1: out of time, but she's got a great Rumble channel,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got new stuff coming tomorrow? On the Rumble channel?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes, I will. I've been doing Mondays, but I
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  Speaker 2: just flew back from across the pond, so I didn't
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  Speaker 2: do a Monday one. So tomorrow at 5 p.m., we're
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  Speaker 2: going to have a live Rumble.
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  Speaker 1: Live Rumble. Rumble's like the conservative YouTube, so take a
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  Speaker 1: look at that. Follow Ann Coulter on Twitter. And her
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  Speaker 1: Substack is great. It's got interviews and videos and podcasts. AnnCoulter.substack.com.
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  Speaker 1: Ann Coulter, thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 2: Good to talk to you, Mark Simone. Bye-bye. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Take care. Hey, coming up, by the way, I'll be
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