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

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  Speaker 1: Now more marks alone. I'm seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, Mayor, mom, Donny moved into Gracy Mansion. He's
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  Speaker 2: actually there now. I don't know how much moving it took.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I would imagine the guy has a lot
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  Speaker 2: of stuff to move. He lived in a little apartment
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  Speaker 2: in an apartment building in Queen's. He wanted to stay there,
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  Speaker 2: believe it or not, in this apartment building, but there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of security around him, Mayor, and they have
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  Speaker 2: to stop and question everybody coming in and out of
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  Speaker 2: the building. Would just be impossible and too disruptive in
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  Speaker 2: a normal, large sized apartment building. So he's moved into
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  Speaker 2: Gracie Mansion. Here he is yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: We are humbled to be the latest tenants of the
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  Speaker 1: People's House, Gracie Mansion. This is a remarkable home with
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  Speaker 1: a remarkable history of belonging to the people of this
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  Speaker 1: incredible city.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not a bad place. It's not as spectacular
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  Speaker 2: as you think. It's nice. It's very old, very very old.
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  Speaker 2: You walk in, there's a couple of little rooms, like
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  Speaker 2: a living room, a dem there's something I guess it's
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be a ballroom. It's not that big. You
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  Speaker 2: can put about fifty people in there. You go upstairs,
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  Speaker 2: there's a big bedroom that's the mayor's bedroom. Then there's
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  Speaker 2: a couple of small bedrooms I guess for kids, and
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  Speaker 2: not as big as you think. But it's got its
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  Speaker 2: own grounds, and it's right on the water and in
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  Speaker 2: the summer it's beautiful out in the lawn there. And
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  Speaker 2: Mayor Adams lived there, of course, although I think a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the nights he was in New Jersey. He
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  Speaker 2: has an apartment in New Jersey, you know, well, and
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  Speaker 2: not supposed to know that the girlfriend has the apartment
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  Speaker 2: in you but he stayed there a lot of nights.
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  Speaker 2: Before that, it was who's before that, Bill de Blasio,
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  Speaker 2: he lived there, and remember he built the fence a
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  Speaker 2: little higher because apparently he was let's just say, herbing
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  Speaker 2: up a lot of herbs there. Didn't want people to
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  Speaker 2: see what was going on back there. A lot of
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  Speaker 2: the police detail that was around him amediting myself, so
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  Speaker 2: you know, they had to get the herb smell out
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  Speaker 2: of their clothes a lot of the times they didn't
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  Speaker 2: know quite what to do about it. And then before Deblasio,
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  Speaker 2: it was Mayor Bloomberg, who did not live there, first
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  Speaker 2: mayor in our lifetime not to live in Gracy Mansion because,
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  Speaker 2: as I say, it's not that big inside, and it's
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  Speaker 2: very old. And Bloomberg has a beautiful house on seventy
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  Speaker 2: ninth Street. It's actually two big townhouses cut together into
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  Speaker 2: one enormous house. And he continued to live there. He
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  Speaker 2: would go to Gracie Mansion for events and for parties,
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  Speaker 2: and he did spend a lot of money fixing up
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  Speaker 2: Gracy Mansion making it better. Before that, of course, Rudy Giuliani,
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  Speaker 2: Rudy lived in Gracy Mansion until the last I think
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of years of his was the member
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  Speaker 2: the wife. I guess he got kicked out of Gracie Mansion.
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  Speaker 2: He was living in an apartment with his friends there
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  Speaker 2: on fifty seventh and second, while the first lady continued
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  Speaker 2: to live in the mansion. But it's a I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's a nice place to love it. It's secure, very secure.
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  Speaker 2: So now you got protests going on all over the place,
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  Speaker 2: and you got Mom Donnie, of course he loves protesters.
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  Speaker 1: That language is wrong and has no place here in
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  Speaker 1: our city. And there is no place for the support
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  Speaker 1: for a terrorist organization, and That is something that I
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  Speaker 1: will always share with New Yorkers. It is a part
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  Speaker 1: of my principles of politics, which is to actually stand
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  Speaker 1: up for the humanity of all people.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't know what he's talking about, but it
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  Speaker 2: sounds good, and he talks very fast about the humanity
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  Speaker 2: of all when you say the humanity of all people,
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  Speaker 2: but that sounds impressive. I don't know what all he's
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  Speaker 2: talking about, and of course he hates ICE.
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  Speaker 1: My guiding principle is to follow the law and the
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  Speaker 1: laws that we have here in New York City, especially
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  Speaker 1: our sanctuary city policies. They prohibit coordination with ICE agents,
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  Speaker 1: for example, if they want to enter into a city
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  Speaker 1: property without a judicial warrant signed by a judge. However,
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  Speaker 1: what it does permit is the coordination between city and
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  Speaker 1: federal government on around one hundred and seventy crimes if
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  Speaker 1: someone has been convicted of that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, of course this is all nonsense. ICE is
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  Speaker 2: enforcing the law. You can become a sanctuary city where
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  Speaker 2: you don't enforce the law, but legally it's very, very
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  Speaker 2: very questionable. You got this big nurses strike, about fifteen
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  Speaker 2: thousand nurses are on strike, and if you're the mayor,
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  Speaker 2: you're supposed to get in there and try to settle it.
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  Speaker 2: You're supposed to try to bring both sides together and
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  Speaker 2: see if you can work something out. And if you're
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  Speaker 2: the mayor, you got a lot of clout with these
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  Speaker 2: big hospital executives and maybe you can, you know, move
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  Speaker 2: them a little or get something. But instead Momdani, being
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  Speaker 2: the socialist, left wing Kookoa mayor, he's out there on
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  Speaker 2: the picket line with the nurses.
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  Speaker 1: These executives are not having difficulty making ends mee. But
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  Speaker 1: for too many of the fifteen thousand nys, the nurses
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  Speaker 1: who are on strike, they are not able to make
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  Speaker 1: their ends meet. They are not asking for a multimillion
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  Speaker 1: dollar salary. What they are asking for is for their
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  Speaker 1: pensions to be safeguarded, to be protected in their own workplace,
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  Speaker 1: to receive the pay and the health benefits that they deserve.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's good, we like that. But sometimes salaries
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  Speaker 2: do get a little out of control. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: whole hospital system is all screwed up. It makes no
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  Speaker 2: sense at all. You know, you go in to a hospital,
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  Speaker 2: if you stayed in a hospital room, you get a
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  Speaker 2: bill for like seven thousand a night for a hospital room,
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  Speaker 2: a dumpy little hospital room with a linoleum floor. You know,
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  Speaker 2: if you went and stayed in the Ritz Carlton in
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  Speaker 2: the presidential suite, it's only two thousand a night. Why
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  Speaker 2: would it be five times more in them in a hospital.
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  Speaker 2: But he really goes after these hospital executives.
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  Speaker 1: The CEO and president of Montefiori made more than sixteen
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  Speaker 1: million dollars last year. D CEO of New York Presby
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  Speaker 1: where we are today made twenty six million dollars last year.
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  Speaker 1: But for too many of the fifteen thousand knys and
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  Speaker 1: nurses who are on strike, they are not able to
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  Speaker 1: make their ends meet. They are not asking for a
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  Speaker 1: multimillion dollar salary. What they are asking for is for
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  Speaker 1: their pensions to be safeguarded, to be protected in their
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  Speaker 1: own workplace, to receive the pay and the health benefits
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  Speaker 1: that they deserve.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah right, it sounds good. He's right, But you know,
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  Speaker 2: why would they pay the hospital executive sixteen million a year.
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  Speaker 2: Why would a hospital executive get twenty million a year? Well,
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  Speaker 2: apparently because they can. They can do things that make
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  Speaker 2: them worth that they can turn around the finances. They
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  Speaker 2: can the fundraise, they can do all kinds of things
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  Speaker 2: for a hospital and make it very very successful. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about Jamie Diamond at JP Morgan Chase getting
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  Speaker 2: seven hundred and seventy million last year. How most of
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  Speaker 2: that was his stock options. The stock went way up,
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  Speaker 2: but he with his leadership, made JP morgan Chase stock
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  Speaker 2: the biggest stock of twenty twenty five, who was up
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  Speaker 2: like forty percent. It made the company go up in
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  Speaker 2: value like thirty four billions. So I could if you
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  Speaker 2: could bring in thirty four billion for a company, it's
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  Speaker 2: not outrageous. They would pay a seven hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 2: million to do that. So and you know, you can't
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  Speaker 2: just hate the head of the hospital. If you want,
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  Speaker 2: you can go become the head of the hospital. You
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  Speaker 2: can get sixteen million a yere become the head of
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  Speaker 2: the hospital. You know, it's not you don't have to
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  Speaker 2: inherit this, you don't have to be born into it.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, who's the head of Northwall He just left.
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  Speaker 2: What's his name, Michael Dowling, great guy, he just retired.
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  Speaker 2: But I remember talking to him once about his background.
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  Speaker 2: He came here from Ireland. He was an immigrant came
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  Speaker 2: here with no money. He worked as a longshoreman, and
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  Speaker 2: I forget the whole story, but somehow he got into
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  Speaker 2: the hospital world and then rose up and became the
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  Speaker 2: chairman of Northwell and made a fortune. So you can
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  Speaker 2: do that too. You know, you can hate these billionaires
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  Speaker 2: or you can just become one of them. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of these guys started a company in a garage with
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  Speaker 2: a couple of bucks, and it became Amazon, or it
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  Speaker 2: became something like that. But Mom, Donnie, you can never
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  Speaker 2: explain this to him. He loves to be out there protesting.
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  Speaker 1: That language is wrong and has no place here in
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  Speaker 1: our city, and there is no place for the support
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  Speaker 1: for a terrorist organization.
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea what he's talking about there. I
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  Speaker 2: think we already played that. But Mom, Donnie, always yelling
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  Speaker 2: and screaming. And now the good news is he may
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  Speaker 2: not actually about all the horrible things he wants to do.
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  Speaker 2: He may not actually get that much done. He's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of talk. He's out there with the picket sign,
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  Speaker 2: he's out there campaigning, and it's mostly talk. He's put
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  Speaker 2: together a massive press office, office and communications, so it
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  Speaker 2: might be that it's more of a public relations thing
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  Speaker 2: than actually doing anything. So, hey, you mentioned Kathy Hockle's
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  Speaker 2: got her State of the State speech coming up, and
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  Speaker 2: apparently she's gonna talk a lot about affordability. But I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how she does that. When she puts in
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  Speaker 2: congestion pricing and makes it more expensive for anybody to
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  Speaker 2: drive to work, you might say, well take mass transit, okay,
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  Speaker 2: But she just raised the price of the buses. She
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  Speaker 2: just raised the price of the subway. So how do
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  Speaker 2: you raise the prices of anybody on everybody and then
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  Speaker 2: talk about affordability. Hey, you know member MacArthur Park. The
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  Speaker 2: song MacArthur Park Richard Harris Jimmy Webb wrote this great song,
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  Speaker 2: one of the best songs ever. MacArthur Park. Well, apparently
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  Speaker 2: if you went there right now, you'd find out it's
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  Speaker 2: a total disaster. MacArthur Park is just filled with homeless drugs.
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  Speaker 2: It's an absolute mess. It's disgusting, it's decrepit. MacArthur's Park.
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  Speaker 2: It needs to be cleaned up at some point. Now.
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  Speaker 2: San Francisco has a new mayor. San Francisco became a
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  Speaker 2: total disaster area. Needles, feces in the street, homeless camps, crime,
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  Speaker 2: everything the new mayor is slowly but surely trying to
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  Speaker 2: clean that up. Let's see if he does. Meantime, billionaires
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  Speaker 2: are leaving California like crazy. They want to put in
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  Speaker 2: this five percent tax on billionaires. So you got Peter Teel,
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  Speaker 2: huge tech billionaire, leaving. You got Google co founder Larry
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  Speaker 2: Page leaving. The other guy, what's his name, Surge whatever
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  Speaker 2: his name, is leaving. Some of them going to Texas,
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  Speaker 2: some of them going to Nevada, some of them going
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  Speaker 2: to Florida. Just to avoid this in California, if you're
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  Speaker 2: a multi billionaire, they want to put a five percent
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  Speaker 2: tax on you. In other words, just take five percent,
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  Speaker 2: not of your income, but of everything you have, all
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  Speaker 2: your assets. Just seese five percent of it. It's absolutely crazy,
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  Speaker 2: but this is what they're trying to do. So a
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  Speaker 2: lot of them are leaving right now. They've lost about
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  Speaker 2: seven eight billionaires. It's a big deal because a billionaire
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  Speaker 2: pays so much tax. If you take ten of these
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  Speaker 2: guys and they leave, you're losing like a major chunk
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  Speaker 2: of revenue every year. Now California is saying the tax
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  Speaker 2: will be retroactive. Even if you leave, you still owe it.
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  Speaker 2: But good luck trying to collect it. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how they're going to do that. They're not only moving personally.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of these guys have corporations, lots of corporations.
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  Speaker 2: One of these billionaires has like fifteen corporations. One that
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  Speaker 2: runs is real estate, one that runs his yachts. So
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  Speaker 2: all these corporations are reregistering out of state. So when
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  Speaker 2: you do that, that's a lot of money lost in fees.
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  Speaker 2: And all sorts of corporations pay all sorts of taxes
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  Speaker 2: on fees, regulations, this sort of stuff. Hey, I mentioned
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  Speaker 2: this new Frank Sinatra documentary. It's on Fox Nation. It's very,
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  Speaker 2: very good, incredible documentary on Frank Sinatra. It's called Sinatra
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  Speaker 2: Echoes of an Icon. Not crazy about the title, but
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  Speaker 2: it's really good. So I'm talking to friends of President
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  Speaker 2: Trump yesterday. They tell me he's been watching it. He's
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  Speaker 2: watched it several times. He loved Frank Sinatra and he
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  Speaker 2: loves this documentary. So if you haven't seen it yet,
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  Speaker 2: go to Fox Nation. Look at the Sinatra documentary. I'm
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  Speaker 2: in it. A lot of people are in it. Fox Nation.
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  Speaker 2: It's Fox's streaming service. You got to sign up for it.
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  Speaker 2: But it's really really good. So a Bruce Blakeman I
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  Speaker 2: mentioned great inauguration yesterday out in Long Island. I was
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  Speaker 2: there for that. It's the Cradle of Aviation museum. This
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  Speaker 2: is like it's on Charles Lindbergh Boulevard. It's very impressive place.
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  Speaker 2: Thousand people there for Bruce Blakeman's second inauguration, powerful speech.
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  Speaker 2: You got many standing ovations, and you're in this big
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  Speaker 2: museum more than like an enormous museum. And hanging above
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  Speaker 2: you are all these planes, valuable planes, you know, from
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  Speaker 2: Charles Lindberg to air force planes. Really impressive place. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of famous faces there, a lot of Long Island
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  Speaker 2: political figures, business figures, and a big dinner afterwards. It
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  Speaker 2: was great. Mia Posto that was the restaurant where it was.
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  Speaker 2: Lots of great people. Zach Iridam, King of the Hamptons,
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  Speaker 2: was there, Sid Rosenberg, radio star and other people there.
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  Speaker 2: If you check my Instagram you'll see a picture of it. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: the Clintons were supposed to testify yesterday about Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Speaker 2: Now you know, Trump had very little to do with
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  Speaker 2: Jeffrey Epstein a million years ago. He knew him briefly
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  Speaker 2: and saw what he was all about, and had him
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  Speaker 2: thrown out of mar A Lago, had him banned from
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  Speaker 2: the club, cut him off, warned everybody to stay away
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  Speaker 2: from me. I remember in me a million years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Stay away from this guy. And he had nothing to
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  Speaker 2: do with Epstein. The Clintons were all over Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Speaker 2: They were regular visitors. They were on planes with them,
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  Speaker 2: flying all over the world, doing all kinds of deals
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  Speaker 2: and stuff, very close to Jeffrey Epstein. So Congress is
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  Speaker 2: investigating James Comers, the chairman. They asked the Clintons to
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  Speaker 2: appear and answer questions. The Clintons refused. They did not
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  Speaker 2: show up for their testimony. That would put them in
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  Speaker 2: contempt of Congress. Now remember, if you don't show up,
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  Speaker 2: you refuse to show up, and you're in contempt at Congress.
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  Speaker 2: You can go to prison. It happened to Steve Bannon,
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  Speaker 2: it happened to Peter Navarro. Now I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: they'll do. Chairman Comer said he may begin contempt proceedings,
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  Speaker 2: contempt of Congress proceedings against the Clintons. This is Congress,
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  Speaker 2: not the White House. But you would think with this
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  Speaker 2: Jeffrey Epstein stuff. If you had nothing to hide, you
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  Speaker 2: would want to show up and clear up everything. You
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  Speaker 2: would want to clear your name. But refusing to answer
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  Speaker 2: any questions, refusing to testify, makes it look all the
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  Speaker 2: more suspicious. So this is just beginning with the Clintons
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  Speaker 2: and Epstein. It's not going to go well for them. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three two one
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