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Hour 2: Who takes over next in Iran? · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Mister New York Mark Simone.
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Speaker 2: Hey, it's Wednesday. It's just seventeen days away from spring
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Speaker 2: daylight saving time this weekend. The war continues, as Chuck
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Speaker 2: Schumer called it, Trump's endless war. That's Schumer yesterday, Trump's
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Speaker 2: endless war. It's four days. Actually, it's day five today.
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't call that endless. Schumer has never once said
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Speaker 2: Ukraine is an endless war. It's year five, and he
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Speaker 2: hasn't said that. They look so silly, these people. You
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Speaker 2: got Richard Blumenthal, he's the Schumer of Connecticut. Another gloomy,
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Speaker 2: old fossil old, washed up old dinosaur. Bloomenthal saying he's
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Speaker 2: worried the US may deploy soldiers in Iran boots on
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Speaker 2: the ground. I think Trump has made it pretty clear
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Speaker 2: no boots on the ground really not necessary. We've wiped
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Speaker 2: out everything in record time four days, and we've destroyed
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Speaker 2: seventy five percent of everything there. We should be done
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Speaker 2: in a couple of weeks and then that's it. There's
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Speaker 2: no need for boots on the ground. There could possibly
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Speaker 2: be boots on the ground, but it won't be US.
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Speaker 2: It'll be local militias that will arm and supply that
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Speaker 2: could happen. Now the court's the big thing is you
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Speaker 2: got to worry about who takes over. You needed to
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Speaker 2: be the right group. You know, what we're doing in
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Speaker 2: Iran is exactly what Barack Obama did in Libya. Now
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Speaker 2: he's a Democrat, so it was okay when he does it.
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Speaker 2: It's fine, great when he does it. But the Democrat,
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Speaker 2: what a decisive, brilliant leader. If it's a republican today,
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Speaker 2: illegal war, it's a violation of so Obama did it
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Speaker 2: in Libya. But you know, years later in an interview,
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Speaker 2: when Obama was asked the biggest regret that he had
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Speaker 2: as president, he actually said it was when he went
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Speaker 2: to war in O Libya and wiped out Gaddafi and
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Speaker 2: got rid of him and killed him. He said he
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Speaker 2: should have been better prepared for the aftermath. They carried
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Speaker 2: out the strikes. It was designed to protect the population.
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Speaker 2: They got Kadafi, he was killed, but Obama said he
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Speaker 2: regretted he hadn't planned more because Libya did plunge into
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Speaker 2: chaos with militias taken over, civil war, all that sort
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Speaker 2: of stuff. Now, Trump obviously a much more highly skilled
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Speaker 2: manager than Obama. Trump has managed hundreds of thousands employees
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Speaker 2: managed a global empire for forty years. Obama never had
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Speaker 2: a real job before before getting into politics. He was
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Speaker 2: what did they call that, a community organizer. Nobody knows
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Speaker 2: what the hell that is. But he's never managed anything.
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Speaker 2: So Trump much more management skill, and I think that's
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Speaker 2: the big difference. Hey, Epstein hearings they're going to call
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Speaker 2: in Howard Lutnick. Now, why what does Lutnik have to
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Speaker 2: do with Epstein? Basically nothing. He had lunch with him once.
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Speaker 2: Lutnik years ago bought a townhouse on seventy first Street
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Speaker 2: and the guy next door was a guy named Jeffrey Epstein.
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Speaker 2: That's how they met. He was the next door neighbor.
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Speaker 2: You know, we have these townhouses they're actually connected. I
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Speaker 2: mean the two walls actually touch each other. You should
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Speaker 2: like share a wall in between. So that's how he
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Speaker 2: met Epstein. I think one time he took a tour
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Speaker 2: of Epstein's house and then Epstein kept bugging him to
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Speaker 2: have lunch. Because Howard Lutnik back then was.
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Speaker 1: A big deal.
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Speaker 2: He was the chairman of Canther Fitzgerald. So Epstein always
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Speaker 2: trying to woo and court anybody who's anybody and kept
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Speaker 2: begging Epstein to come to lunch. And Epstein had a
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Speaker 2: big yacht, I mean, Lutnik had a big yacht. And
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Speaker 2: he was down there in the Caribbean, not far from
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Speaker 2: the island, and he said, okay, we'll stop by for lunch.
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Speaker 2: When he said we will stop by for lunch, it
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Speaker 2: was Howard Lutnick, his wife, his four kids, two nannies,
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Speaker 2: and they had a number another couple with them that
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Speaker 2: had kids and nannies. And he said, be okay if
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Speaker 2: we bring them. So, I mean, the only thing we
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Speaker 2: learned from this, don't ever invite Howard Lutnick to lunch
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Speaker 2: because suddenly you get fourteen people show up. But Epstein
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Speaker 2: didn't mind. But so Lutnick came, but with like twelve
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Speaker 2: other people and that was it. So he'll testify. There's
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Speaker 2: nothing to testify about, but it'll look good. It looked
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Speaker 2: like we see we called in, we called in somebody
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Speaker 2: from the Trump administration. Now Hillary Clinton testified, and if
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Speaker 2: you saw the video, she didn't look so bad. I mean, listen,
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Speaker 2: she's not going to win any beauty contest. I mean,
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Speaker 2: she but she didn't look as bad as you thought
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Speaker 2: she would look. You know, sometimes you see a picture
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Speaker 2: of her, she looks like just like a drunken old hag.
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Speaker 2: But in this she looked not so bad. Well, it
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Speaker 2: turns out the committee now revealed that the Hillary team
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Speaker 2: showed up and demanded all kinds of things. You know.
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Speaker 2: They to do this, they rented the Chapequa Performing Arts Center.
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Speaker 2: It's like a little theater, and they set up a
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Speaker 2: like a table where the people being interviewed would sit,
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Speaker 2: and behind it was a black curtain which belonged to
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Speaker 2: the theater. It was part of the theater. Well, apparently
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Speaker 2: the Hillary team didn't like it. They wanted something softer.
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Speaker 2: They wanted a nice blue background. They found a local
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Speaker 2: vendor to manufacture. It had to be built quickly. They
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Speaker 2: built a special set for her, the nice blue thing
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Speaker 2: behind her. They wanted special lighting to make her look good.
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Speaker 2: They wanted what they call beauty lightning. Beauty lighting. Beauty
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Speaker 2: lighting is sometimes when you're on television, you know there's
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Speaker 2: lights above you, there's lights on the side, there's lights
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Speaker 2: behind you. Beauty lighting is they put lights below you,
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Speaker 2: shining up like when you're on a TV show. Sometimes
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Speaker 2: you know, see the desk, you're all sitting at a desk,
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Speaker 2: and it's like a beautiful glass top, actually loose sight.
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Speaker 2: It's like a loose sight top. Well sometimes underneath there's
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Speaker 2: light in there. There's all kinds of light shining up
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Speaker 2: into your face. It takes out the wrinkles.
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Speaker 1: So if you have the.
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Speaker 2: Lights above, it'll create a shadow on the bags under
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Speaker 2: your eyes. It'll put a little shadow. You can see
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Speaker 2: the wrinkles. But if you put a light under the
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Speaker 2: tables shining up, it takes out the shadows from the
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Speaker 2: wrinkles or the bags, and you look younger. So Hillary's
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Speaker 2: team demanded this beauty lighting be put in. And then
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Speaker 2: they wanted you remember on the table that had a
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Speaker 2: white tablecloth. The reason they wanted that if you put
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Speaker 2: a white tablecloth, it reflects the light, so more light
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Speaker 2: will come shining up into your face and make it
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Speaker 2: look softer and get rid of the wrinkles. Hillary's team
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Speaker 2: tested the lighting. They had somebody sit in the chair
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Speaker 2: and they adjusted the lights. While the test person sat
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Speaker 2: in the chair, they moved the camera angles to make
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Speaker 2: her look good. This was the result. Now if you
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Speaker 2: saw there, still look pretty bad, but you looked apparently
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Speaker 2: a lot better than she could have. And it helped
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Speaker 2: Bill Clinton a little. It softened him up, made him
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Speaker 2: look a little better. Hey, he's he saw that plane.
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Speaker 2: Remember the plane that went down in the Hudson. What
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Speaker 2: was his name, Sully Sullenberger, that great pilot. The engines
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Speaker 2: went He had no engines. He couldn't get to Laguardi
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Speaker 2: without the engines just went off. Bird strike knocked out
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Speaker 2: his engines and you're without any power. Now, it turns
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Speaker 2: out this old veteran pilot, Sully Sullenberger, he'd been a
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Speaker 2: pilot in Vietnam, and it turned out he had a
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Speaker 2: lot of training as a glider pilot. I mean, what
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Speaker 2: are the odds of that. You're on this plane all
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Speaker 2: of a sudden, all the engines are out, and this
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Speaker 2: guy's a trained glider pilot. He knew how to glide
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Speaker 2: the plane right into the Hudson. You have to keep
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Speaker 2: the wings absolutely level and steady in the right angle.
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Speaker 2: And he landed that plane in the Hudson. Now this
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Speaker 2: is a little easier because it's a little tiny plane.
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Speaker 2: But it's flying way way up the Hudson, upstate, and uh,
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Speaker 2: it crashed. A little tiny private plane crashed. Here's the
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Speaker 2: transmission to the control tower. They're trying to get him
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Speaker 2: to the airport in this emergency.
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Speaker 3: We're going to go into the Hotson Curio against LA.
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Speaker 3: We're going into the Hudson River. I don't think we're
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Speaker 3: gonna make the airport.
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Speaker 2: Sounds like a pretty experienced pilot if you could say, Uh,
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Speaker 2: we're going to go into the Hudson. What's that? Uh,
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Speaker 2: we're going to go into the Hudson. I mean, how
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Speaker 2: do you stay that calm? Remember that, Sally Sellenburger audio
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Speaker 2: is the same thing. We're going to land in the Hudson.
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Speaker 2: Would you say we're going to land in the Hudson.
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Speaker 2: I mean, if if that were me or anybody, we'd
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Speaker 2: be saying, you'd be going crazy. Listen that again. How
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Speaker 2: calm this guy is.
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Speaker 3: We're going to go into the Hodson AGAINSTLA. We're going
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Speaker 3: into the Hudson River. I don't think we're gonna make
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Speaker 3: the airport.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 5: Uh.
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Speaker 2: And this guy's a lot like Sellenberger. Sullenberger knew when
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Speaker 2: he was going to go into the Hudson where to
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Speaker 2: put the plane down. You could go north of the
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Speaker 2: George Washington Bridge, but he knew to turn and go south,
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Speaker 2: because if you went south of the George Washing Bridge,
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Speaker 2: you'd be right near all the docks and piers and
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Speaker 2: rescue equipment they could get to you. You go north,
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Speaker 2: you're farther away. He knew, go south of the bridge,
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Speaker 2: and that's where all the rescue stuff would be, and
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Speaker 2: they got to him very very quickly. The same thing
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Speaker 2: with this guy. He knew, like to go here, put
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Speaker 2: this part of the tson to be close to the
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Speaker 2: part where the rescue stuff would be coming from. Pretty amazing. Hey,
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Speaker 2: Christy Nome had to testify yesterday. I don't know about
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Speaker 2: this Christy Nome. I don't know how long she's gonna last.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. You know, there's all kinds of things
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Speaker 2: coming out, like her department, Homeland Security was shutdown or
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Speaker 2: the funding was cut, no more funding because of this
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Speaker 2: crazy shutdown government shutdown. And she's blaming this for, you know,
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Speaker 2: homeland security. Right now, with the Iran conflict, you need
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Speaker 2: homeland security look for any possible Iranian terrorist cells here.
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Speaker 2: But she's getting all kinds of flight now. For instance,
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Speaker 2: you know she spent all this money she bought a big, huge,
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Speaker 2: enormous private jet basically for her to fly around on.
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Speaker 2: She claimed it was going to be to transport deportees.
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Speaker 2: But it's not.
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Speaker 1: It's not.
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Speaker 2: It's a it's got a bedroom in it. It's got
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Speaker 2: and you know, she's got this Corey Lewandowski with her,
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Speaker 2: and everybody keeps saying they're sleeping together. They're both married
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Speaker 2: and having this affair. So the plane with the bedroom,
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Speaker 2: I don't know, you do the math on that. But
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Speaker 2: now she's getting hit for spending two hundred and twenty
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Speaker 2: million dollars of taxpayer funded funds to pay for TV ads.
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Speaker 2: Now the ads star her, two hundred and twenty million
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Speaker 2: on ads that feature her. I guess it's making herself
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Speaker 2: very famous there. When asked about this in the hearings,
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Speaker 2: she said, well, the President Trump told me to get
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Speaker 2: the message out to the country and to other countries.
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Speaker 2: Well that's the message, it's not put your face all
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Speaker 2: over television. Then well, here she was testifying yesterday about the.
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Speaker 6: Shutdown and all that the latest Democrat led shutdown of
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Speaker 6: DHS as reckless, it's unnecessary, and it undermines the American
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Speaker 6: national security, and it harms the men and women who
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Speaker 6: work at DHS and their families.
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Speaker 2: Now there's one Democrat, Senator Koons is going after her
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Speaker 2: about you know, what if ICE agents showed up at
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Speaker 2: the polls when it's voting time? What if ICE agents
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Speaker 2: were there because they could scare away the illegals? I mean,
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Speaker 2: who else would you be scared of an ICE agent?
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Speaker 1: Now?
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Speaker 2: But he asked her about this, will.
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Speaker 7: You rule out the deployment of ICE or CBP to
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Speaker 7: polling places this November?
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Speaker 6: There are no plans to have ICE officers at are
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Speaker 6: polling locations.
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Speaker 1: And I'm glad you hear that, But would you rule
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Speaker 1: it out?
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Speaker 2: Would you say it will not happen?
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Speaker 6: Do you plan on illegal aliens voting in our elections?
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Speaker 5: Son?
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Speaker 4: I do not?
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, that was pretty good. Why would you
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Speaker 2: be afraid of Well, I just hope you don't send them.
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Speaker 2: Why would you hope there's no law enforcement at a
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Speaker 2: polling place. That doesn't make much sense. That's a little crazy. Hey,
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Speaker 2: you know, ozempic is more and more. It's not just ozempic.
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Speaker 2: There's like a bunch of these drugs, they call them
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Speaker 2: GLP one drugs. It takes away a lot of your appetite.
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Speaker 2: You still eat, but you eat a lot lot less
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Speaker 2: so restaurants were going nuts because people there on ozempic
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Speaker 2: and they can't eat that much, so they don't order
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Speaker 2: as much. It's costing restaurants money. Now a lot of
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Speaker 2: restaurants started to do a special ozempic menu where it's
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Speaker 2: small portions. You know, otherwise you order a whole big entree,
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Speaker 2: you gotta throw away sometimes half of it, three quarters
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Speaker 2: of it. But the problem with the ozempic menu, you're
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Speaker 2: gonna get a small portion. You can't charge as much,
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Speaker 2: you gotta charge less, so it doesn't really help the
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Speaker 2: restaurant at all. And now bakeries are complaining. A lot
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Speaker 2: of bakeries in the trist area they've seen a big
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Speaker 2: drop in business because of this ozembic, big gardaland news
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Speaker 2: day to day. Here's a Messina market East Norwich, Oyster Bay.
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Speaker 2: I love that Messina market. It's great. But they own
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Speaker 2: the bakery next door. They said they've seen a big drop.
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Speaker 2: Here's a couple of bakeries in Long Island, seen a
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Speaker 2: big drop in business. Now some of them they're gonna
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Speaker 2: do the same thing. They'll sell little tiny items for
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Speaker 2: the Ozmpic people. So you can buy a tiny croissant
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Speaker 2: you can buy a tiny donut, you can buy a
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Speaker 2: little pastry. But again the problem is you can't charge
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Speaker 2: as much. You got to cut the price. So it
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Speaker 2: really doesn't help the bakeries. Now, if you own a bakery,
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Speaker 2: I guess the only going to tell you is just
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Speaker 2: keep waiting, because once the side effects from all these
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Speaker 2: drugs start to show up and hit people less unless
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Speaker 2: people will be taken them. Now, the ozembic is like
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Speaker 2: twelve hundred dollars a shot, although President Trump is working
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Speaker 2: on getting that down to five hundred a shot. It's
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Speaker 2: got some effects. I mean, we've already seen you get
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Speaker 2: that ozempic face where you everything's just starts drooping in
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Speaker 2: your face. You can see it. It's ozempic face. It
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Speaker 2: doesn't look good. Then you got the apparently there's problems
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Speaker 2: with your teeth from ozampik, all kinds of teeth problems.
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Speaker 2: So I would wait. You know what, there's a freeway
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Speaker 2: to lose weight, just eat less. You can actually actually
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Speaker 2: do it. Hey, big announcement this morning, Curtis Leewa joining WR.
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Speaker 2: He will be co host of the morning show starting
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Speaker 2: Monday Curtis six to ten AM on seven to ten
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Speaker 2: Woor Monday through Friday. It all begins on Monday. He'll
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Speaker 2: be co hosting with Larry mante.
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Speaker 1: This is big.
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Speaker 8: I am coming to the oldest talk radio station continuously
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Speaker 8: running in New York City and the best talk radio station.
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Speaker 8: So it doesn't get any better than that, joining with you,
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Speaker 8: Larry and the crew there at WOOR. I come back
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Speaker 8: to what people have been asking me to do ever
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Speaker 8: since I lost the election on November four.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people said, when are you getting back?
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Speaker 1: When are you getting back to talk radio?
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Speaker 2: Well, Monday, Monday, he'll start with Larry Mantin. Now, it's
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Speaker 2: tough to do a morning show. I can't do it.
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Speaker 2: It's just too tough. You got to get up, like,
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Speaker 2: I don't know, if the show starts at six, you
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Speaker 2: got to get up at I don't know, four thirty five. Now,
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Speaker 2: some of these, all these morning guys, you know, they
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Speaker 2: live way out in the suburbs. They got to get
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Speaker 2: up like at three o'clock. And what I mean. I've
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Speaker 2: had to do a morning show through the years, filling
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Speaker 2: in a lot of times for Curtis. But if at
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Speaker 2: the morning show six to ten, I would get there
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Speaker 2: at six oh four, because you got a newscast at
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Speaker 2: six oh five. But Curtis, if he has a morning
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Speaker 2: show at six, he'll get there at two. He's the
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Speaker 2: hardest working guy. In fact, Curtis will sleep at the station.
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Speaker 2: That's how dedicated he is. But remember, for years he
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Speaker 2: had like the number one morning show in New York.
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Speaker 2: It was Curtis and Kooby. We could live without Kobe
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Speaker 2: much better with Curtis and Larry. And that all starts
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Speaker 2: Monday and seven ten w R. Hey, we'll take some
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Speaker 2: calls next. Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten
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Speaker 2: is the number eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
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Speaker 8: It's the Mark Simone show on seven ten WR.
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Speaker 2: Well, let's take some calls. Let's go to uh Let's
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Speaker 2: go to Henry in New Brunswick.
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Speaker 9: Henry, how you doing, Good morning, sir. I want you
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Speaker 9: to know I am a great fan of your show
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Speaker 9: and your personal opinions. You are highly opinionated and you
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Speaker 9: don't hold any punches. I've learned a lot from you,
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Speaker 9: and I'm telling you I follow your show religiously. You
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Speaker 9: give insight into what's going on in the world that
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Speaker 9: I can't get anywhere else.
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Speaker 3: We want to.
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Speaker 9: Borrow money, what is all this flattery about I don't
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Speaker 9: appreciate you knocking, Oh Koby.
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Speaker 2: Oh he's a friend of mine. We're not We're not
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Speaker 2: knocking Ron Kooby.
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Speaker 1: It's just he would drive you.
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Speaker 2: He would drive you crazy with your left wing opinions.
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Speaker 9: Okay, he he cannot possibly be more annoying than Curtis Slia.
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Speaker 2: We love, we love, we love Curtis. We love Curtis.
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Speaker 9: When the two of them get together, you're a little annoying.
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Speaker 9: I learned so much from that show. I was so
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Speaker 9: sorry when Ron Cooby got off the radio. It's all
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Speaker 9: I'm saying, the two of them.
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Speaker 2: He's a good guy, you know. He was like the
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Speaker 2: audience would go crazy with his left one.
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Speaker 9: I just I just wanted to make that point. Thank
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Speaker 9: you very much for taking my car.
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Speaker 2: All right, thanks for Colin. Let's go to rich In
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Speaker 2: Myrtle Beach. Rich How you doing hey?
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Speaker 10: Thanks Mark. You know, the big news last night was
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Speaker 10: Crockett is out, that Kane wielding Green is out, and
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Speaker 10: Ben Crenshaw is out in their primaries, and I was
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Speaker 10: Ben Crenshaw was going off the reservation as a Republican.
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Speaker 10: I'm glad he got primaried out, but You got rid
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Speaker 10: of Crockett. You got rid of that guy, Al Green
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Speaker 10: or whatever his name is. The only problem is they
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Speaker 10: want to They're on our doll for the rest of
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Speaker 10: their lives, with free healthcare and everything, because the one
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Speaker 10: term in Congress, it's.
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Speaker 2: Worth it just to get rid of them. We'll pay
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Speaker 2: it if they'll leave, we'll pay their health care. Thanks
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Speaker 2: for calling. Let's go to Richard in Bay Shore. Richard,
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Speaker 2: how you doing.
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Speaker 5: I'm doing well.
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Speaker 1: Fuck, good morning.
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Speaker 5: Three politicians with zero military experience Chuck Schumer, Tim Jeffries,
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Speaker 5: and of course previous president's name I've forgotten Obama Lincoln.
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Speaker 5: Obama Lincoln served in the militia for ninety days. He
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Speaker 5: defeated the West Point trained one time Secretary of War
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Speaker 5: Jefferson Davis.
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Speaker 2: So that good, good, very good point. Yeah, there are
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Speaker 2: times when Democrats get so desperate they'll actually attack somebody.
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Speaker 2: If a republic goes to wards, they'll attack them. You
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Speaker 2: never served, you never served, you never served. They tried
18:51
Speaker 2: this nonsense. First of all, there hasn't been a draft
18:56
Speaker 2: in a million years. I think Bill Clinton was the first,
19:00
Speaker 2: I believe, the first president with no military experience. It
19:05
Speaker 2: like in our lifetime. But after a certain point, nobody
19:10
Speaker 2: has any military experience. There was no draft, so nobody
19:13
Speaker 2: served anymore. I mean, are people who, thank God, they serve.
19:16
Speaker 2: But it's this tiny, tiny percentage of population. Now let's
19:19
Speaker 2: go to Tony in White Plains. Tony, how you doing it?
19:22
Speaker 11: Yeah, good morning, Mark. I want to congratulate Curtis Slatto
19:27
Speaker 11: over there on the other station. He kept saying, well,
19:29
Speaker 11: where's Curtis?
19:30
Speaker 3: Now?
19:30
Speaker 11: Where's he? Now? Well, he's on a good station.
19:33
Speaker 4: W O R.
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Speaker 11: At least now, maybe people could call up and give
19:38
Speaker 11: their opinion about the about the election instead of I'm
19:41
Speaker 11: cutting them off and they keep playing in Curtis that
19:43
Speaker 11: Curtis is the reason why Montdomin got elected. Are you
19:47
Speaker 11: kidding me? They're the reason from day.
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Speaker 1: One the problem.
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Speaker 2: The problem was in that election. I don't know how
19:53
Speaker 2: this happened. It's just there was a book On's called
19:56
Speaker 2: The Madness of Crowds. It was the craziest group think.
19:59
Speaker 2: They somehow got it through their head that Andrew Cuomo
20:03
Speaker 2: could get elected, which was absolutely insane. The guy just
20:06
Speaker 2: got run out of office. He just left office in disgrace.
20:10
Speaker 2: He had a flea allbity being chased by the police.
20:12
Speaker 2: I mean, it was just I guess, and if you
20:15
Speaker 2: waited fifteen years you could run, but two seconds later
20:19
Speaker 2: you can't run after you just left in disgrace. It
20:22
Speaker 2: was insane, but they somehow convinced themselves that he actually
20:25
Speaker 2: had a shot. Even the Democrats wouldn't vote for him
20:28
Speaker 2: lost the primary. If it wasn't for Cuoma, you wouldn't
20:31
Speaker 2: have Mom Donnie. He chased Adams out of the primary.
20:35
Speaker 2: Had Adams been in the primary, he had a shot
20:36
Speaker 2: at beating Mom Donnie and Curtis had nothing to do
20:40
Speaker 2: with Cuomo losing. Nothing, absolutely nothing. You can prove it mathematically.
20:45
Speaker 2: Let's go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent, how you.
20:48
Speaker 4: Doing, Good morning, Mack. I'm okay. Most people don't notice,
20:52
Speaker 4: but Barack Obama destabilize Libya. Libya seven years ago was
21:01
Speaker 4: at a colony of Italy, and at one point, I
21:05
Speaker 4: believe it was Kadaffi either tried to take out Ronald
21:08
Speaker 4: Reagan or George Bush, and they put a missile in
21:11
Speaker 4: his tent and killed his kid. And after that he
21:15
Speaker 4: was walking the straight and narrow. He gave up his
21:17
Speaker 4: missiles and all of his really hard military stuff. And
21:22
Speaker 4: he was kind of walking the straight line. Sure there
21:25
Speaker 4: was a lot of bladder over there. But I saw
21:28
Speaker 4: on Italian TV when the rebels, actually the rebels who
21:33
Speaker 4: actually turned out to ruin the country found Kadaffi. He
21:37
Speaker 4: was hiding in a drainage and they grabbed him. The
21:43
Speaker 4: crowd was yelling and this and that, and they are
21:47
Speaker 4: pushing and shoving him along, and all of a sudden
21:49
Speaker 4: you hear a bullet being fired and they put a
21:52
Speaker 4: cap in the back of his head. But by it
21:54
Speaker 4: to that, the terrorists who were in Libya, he kept
22:00
Speaker 4: them in the line. Kadaffi kept him in line. And
22:02
Speaker 4: this is what I'm going to say, is Vince's opinion.
22:05
Speaker 4: We want to set money out of this conflict. This
22:08
Speaker 4: is not w WAT. This is VIC And I know
22:11
Speaker 4: Bob Stock and North American Radeon because as richeals from
22:15
Speaker 4: South Carolina will tell you, all the guidance devices in
22:19
Speaker 4: these missiles are made by Rating.
22:22
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, a lot of there's a lot of UH
22:25
Speaker 2: defense contractors. We're gonna have to replace all of.
22:26
Speaker 4: The one of them is rape Rayon.
22:29
Speaker 2: All right, Vincent, thanks for calling. We're gonna have to
22:31
Speaker 2: replace all of this stuff. So defense contractors are going
22:33
Speaker 2: to make a fortune. Hey, when we come back, Steve Cuso,
22:36
Speaker 2: the great New York Post columnist. Uh, now is New
22:40
Speaker 2: York dying? Are people moving out? Or is there everybody
22:43
Speaker 2: leaving the way? Do you hear the actual facts? We'll
22:46
Speaker 2: get to that next on seven to ten WR.
22:49
Speaker 11: On seventen WR, it's more of the Marximosia.
22:55
Speaker 2: Well, let's see how New York is actually doing. The
22:58
Speaker 2: great columnist, Steve Q New York Post, nobody better on
23:02
Speaker 2: real estate, on restaurants. Steve Cuzo's columns are all in
23:06
Speaker 2: the New York Post website. You can you can see
23:08
Speaker 2: them all there. Steve Cuzo, how you doing?
23:11
Speaker 1: Hey, good morning, Mark, Good thank you.
23:13
Speaker 4: No.
23:13
Speaker 2: So every time I turn on, somebody's that's it. Everybody's
23:16
Speaker 2: leaving New York. Everybody's moving, everybody's what's the truth.
23:21
Speaker 1: Nobody's leaving. I don't know anybody who's leaving.
23:23
Speaker 7: All my friends are trying to get back to town.
23:25
Speaker 7: They're stuck in Palm Beach, problems with the planes, all
23:29
Speaker 7: that kind of stuff.
23:31
Speaker 1: So no, nobody's leaving. It's all boloney.
23:35
Speaker 7: And in fact, if you look around, there's more real
23:39
Speaker 7: estate investment than ever. I read that there's a couple
23:43
Speaker 7: of apartments or townhouses on the Upper east Side that
23:47
Speaker 7: sold for crazy numbers. Uh so uh, there's almost no
23:52
Speaker 7: office space left because really the companies companies are are expanding,
23:57
Speaker 7: signing new leases and and there's new construction going on.
24:02
Speaker 7: And the big best news of all for the city
24:05
Speaker 7: is that American Express MS announced last week they're building
24:11
Speaker 7: a new building at the World Trade Center to be
24:13
Speaker 7: their headquarters.
24:14
Speaker 1: You know, there's a.
24:16
Speaker 7: Site called Tower two or two World Trade Center that
24:20
Speaker 7: was never developed after nine to eleven.
24:23
Speaker 1: The other buildings went up, but.
24:25
Speaker 7: That corner Fulton and the Church Street has been empty.
24:29
Speaker 7: It's like it's being used as a beer garden and
24:32
Speaker 7: an art installation. And Larry Silverstein, the developer, is going
24:37
Speaker 7: to build this new, beautiful, twelve hundred foot tall skyscraper
24:41
Speaker 7: for MX, which is going to move from where they
24:46
Speaker 7: currently are right nearby.
24:48
Speaker 1: And it's an extraordinary thing.
24:50
Speaker 7: It's confidence in the city and it's also reflects you know,
24:54
Speaker 7: it finally completes the World Trade Center a quarter century
25:00
Speaker 7: nine to eleven, We're finally going to get.
25:02
Speaker 1: The last piece of the puzzles. It's great news.
25:05
Speaker 2: How old is Larry Silverstein got to be in his nineties,
25:08
Speaker 2: ninety four, and he's going to build.
25:10
Speaker 1: A skuty spry, he's very spry.
25:13
Speaker 7: Well, he's not going to be down on his hands
25:14
Speaker 7: and knees, you know, he's not going to be wielding
25:18
Speaker 7: a shovel.
25:19
Speaker 2: No, but I'm sure when you're the builder, you're in
25:21
Speaker 2: there fighting with unions and arguing everybody.
25:25
Speaker 7: Actually, you know, Silverstein has very good relationships with the
25:28
Speaker 7: construction unions. Not all developers use union labor. He does,
25:32
Speaker 7: and it's never been a problem. And I suspect that
25:36
Speaker 7: whenever they schedule a groundbreaking, likely in the next quite soon,
25:41
Speaker 7: within the next few months, you'll see Larry Silverstein there,
25:44
Speaker 7: you know for the photo op with the shovel.
25:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, good for him. So I also notice there's
25:52
Speaker 2: buildings going There's like a huge skyscraper going up at
25:55
Speaker 2: fifty eighth in Madison. There's one going up at Park
25:58
Speaker 2: Avenue and fifty second. Yeah, dozens of these planned.
26:02
Speaker 7: So there are two of them on Madison Avenue. One
26:05
Speaker 7: is at like roughly fifty eighth Street, the other is
26:08
Speaker 7: two or three blocks north. Developers are Extel and related
26:14
Speaker 7: companies and the ones, you know, the ground has been excavated.
26:21
Speaker 7: The other is I think beginning construction, and there will
26:24
Speaker 7: be new combination condo apartments, uh, some office space, partly hotels,
26:32
Speaker 7: and of course a lot of retail because it's Madison Avenue,
26:36
Speaker 7: you know, the world's greatest shopping boulevard.
26:40
Speaker 2: Yeah. So these are the smartest real estate guys in
26:43
Speaker 2: the world, these companies, they wouldn't be building here if
26:46
Speaker 2: they had any doubt about New York having a big future,
26:49
Speaker 2: even with Mom.
26:49
Speaker 7: Down It's so true, even with it'll be interesting if
26:53
Speaker 7: he shows up for the groundbreaking of the MX Tower.
26:56
Speaker 7: But yes, they are among the smartest people in the world.
27:01
Speaker 7: You don't hear about as you read about in Miami,
27:04
Speaker 7: sometimes La even in London sometimes about excuse me, yeah,
27:11
Speaker 7: developers that over they're over leveraged.
27:14
Speaker 1: They borrowed too much.
27:15
Speaker 7: Money, the demand wasn't there for their product, and so
27:19
Speaker 7: their buildings go into foreclosure.
27:21
Speaker 1: They have to get bail out by the banks.
27:23
Speaker 7: I mean this happens in New York, as it does everywhere,
27:25
Speaker 7: but not at the highest level, which is very impressive.
27:29
Speaker 2: Wow. Hey, so I remember after nine eleven everybody said, well,
27:32
Speaker 2: nobody will ever go downtown again. Nobody will ever open downtown.
27:35
Speaker 2: Of course, that's nobody.
27:37
Speaker 7: Cities were going to be dead, remember, not just New York,
27:41
Speaker 7: but cities are dead because there's too much of a
27:43
Speaker 7: threat to of terrorism everywhere, and nobody's going to want
27:46
Speaker 7: to be concentrated in a small area. And you know
27:50
Speaker 7: we laughed at that. We didn't laugh, so it was
27:52
Speaker 7: taken seriously at the time. I never believed that. And
27:55
Speaker 7: then you have other catastrophes of the lesser order. You
27:59
Speaker 7: had heard Cane sandy, you had the Wall Street crash
28:02
Speaker 7: of what is it eight I think, and when you
28:06
Speaker 7: had a lot of companies have to contract their space,
28:09
Speaker 7: and of course the worst of all, which was the pandemic.
28:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then they said, nobody will ever go back
28:15
Speaker 2: to work in an office.
28:17
Speaker 1: Nobody's ever come back to work in the office. Is
28:19
Speaker 1: it's over? And even some very smart people believe that.
28:23
Speaker 7: I never did. Yeah, maybe I'm not one of the
28:25
Speaker 7: smart ones. But look what's happened. You can't move in
28:29
Speaker 7: midtown excuse me. It's so full of life, and there's
28:35
Speaker 7: very little, as I mentioned, very little office space still
28:38
Speaker 7: available because demand is so high.
28:42
Speaker 2: Wow, So uh, what about restaurants you still got. Every
28:46
Speaker 2: time I turn around, this is another big restaurant opening.
28:48
Speaker 2: So obviously, yeah, demand is.
28:51
Speaker 7: There, Demand is there. And the funniest thing is that
28:54
Speaker 7: if you read the you know, the food media, the
28:57
Speaker 7: blogs and all this stuff, all they write about is
29:00
Speaker 7: vegan vegan veganness, obscure cuisine combinations, you know, Mexican, Malaysia,
29:07
Speaker 7: all these kind of crazy things.
29:08
Speaker 1: But what people really want is steak. And so right
29:12
Speaker 1: now I think there are.
29:13
Speaker 7: Probably more steakhouses in the city than there ever were,
29:17
Speaker 7: more new ones. I just read in the last I'm
29:20
Speaker 7: so sorry, last few days, last few days, there's a
29:24
Speaker 7: new hotel, a Kimpton Hotel right near my office on
29:28
Speaker 7: West forty eighth Street, which is developed by Extel, and
29:31
Speaker 7: that hotel is going to have four restaurants or three
29:34
Speaker 7: restaurants in a lounge.
29:36
Speaker 5: And one of the.
29:36
Speaker 7: Restaurants is Roco de Spirito, you know, the great Italian
29:39
Speaker 7: American chef. But the other is a big steak a
29:42
Speaker 7: Latin steakhouse. I don't remember the name, but there you go,
29:46
Speaker 7: another steakhouse. And then I read that there's another steakhouse
29:50
Speaker 7: which I can't recall the name of. There were just
29:52
Speaker 7: so darn many on near Eighth Avenue. On Eighth Avenue
29:56
Speaker 7: in Midtown, the appetite is insatiable for red meat. And
30:01
Speaker 7: it's remarkable because the price of beef at the wholesale
30:05
Speaker 7: level has gone up enormously over the last ten years.
30:09
Speaker 7: Anyone in the business will explain that the herds, for
30:14
Speaker 7: various reasons, the herds at the large ranches to be
30:19
Speaker 7: reduced in numbers, so there was less supply. At the
30:23
Speaker 7: same time, there was still this insatiable demand, so prices
30:28
Speaker 7: have gone up. Other prices have come down, the price
30:31
Speaker 7: of chicken, the price of.
30:33
Speaker 1: Eggs has come down.
30:35
Speaker 7: But for people who love meat, red meat, none of
30:39
Speaker 7: it seems.
30:40
Speaker 1: To make a difference.
30:41
Speaker 7: Steakhouses open and they put there like palladinos. I'm happy
30:47
Speaker 7: to be going this evening has great steak, and the
30:51
Speaker 7: prices have gone up, but only a little, not that much.
30:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you go to a restaurant in the steakhouse
30:57
Speaker 2: and it's eighty dollars for the steak, they're paying like
30:59
Speaker 2: seventy eight dollars for the steak. It's not that they're
31:01
Speaker 2: trying to gas.
31:02
Speaker 7: They're not gouging, they're not gouging at all. And you
31:05
Speaker 7: know they restaurants are very, very creative people. They have
31:09
Speaker 7: to adapt and so you know, they can tweak their menus,
31:13
Speaker 7: they can tweak their labor costs to an extent, and
31:16
Speaker 7: somehow they always come through. You know, after the nightmare
31:21
Speaker 7: of the pandemic, when restaurants literally in New York City
31:25
Speaker 7: had to close, and then when they were allowed to reopen,
31:29
Speaker 7: they were reopened in this grudging way, you know, only
31:33
Speaker 7: serving on the street, limited capacity. Everybody had to wear masks.
31:38
Speaker 7: You remember we all had to go to restaurants. You
31:40
Speaker 7: had to have your temperature taken.
31:42
Speaker 1: Do you remember that?
31:44
Speaker 7: And so how if an industry, a business that can
31:48
Speaker 7: survive that kind of collective trauma, can survive anything. You know,
31:54
Speaker 7: an incidental increase in the price of steak is not
31:58
Speaker 7: going to make a difference.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
32:00
Speaker 2: Well, Steve Cuzo, we're out of time. But if you
32:02
Speaker 2: want to read some great columns or restaurants, about real estate,
32:04
Speaker 2: about New York, Steve cuzou New York Post website. You
32:08
Speaker 2: can get all his columns there. Steve Cuzo in the
32:11
Speaker 2: New York Post. Steve Cuzoh, great stuff. Thanks for being
32:14
Speaker 2: with us.
32:15
Speaker 9: Thank you.
32:15
Speaker 1: Mark, always fun, all right.
32:17
Speaker 2: Take care. Yeah, so that's true. At the stake, if
32:21
Speaker 2: it's eighty dollars the restaurant, it's like seventy eight to them.
32:25
Speaker 2: They're not even making a profit. In fact, they only
32:28
Speaker 2: make the profit on the side dish. If you ordered broccoli,
32:30
Speaker 2: it's like fifteen dollars and it cost them twelve cents.
32:32
Speaker 2: So if you don't order a side dish, they go crazy. Anyway,
32:36
Speaker 2: don't forget Buck and Clay. They'll be here right after
32:39
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32:42
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32:46
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33:00
Speaker 8: Back to Mark Simone on Wars.
33:04
Speaker 2: Well, Hey, Chuck Schumer calls it the Endless War. It's
33:08
Speaker 2: five days now, five days, and we've made incredible progress.
33:11
Speaker 2: We've now eliminated seventy five percent of their offensive capability.
33:15
Speaker 2: We've completely eliminated the Iran now longer no longer has
33:18
Speaker 2: an air force. We've eliminated it. They no longer have
33:21
Speaker 2: a navy, We've eliminated it. The last great the moment
33:25
Speaker 2: was they had their biggest warship, the Solomony. Remember that
33:29
Speaker 2: was the terrorist Trump took out in his first term.
33:33
Speaker 2: And they had the Solomony, big Iranian warship in the
33:37
Speaker 2: Indian Ocean and US submarine blew it up and destroyed
33:41
Speaker 2: it yesterday. So they are completely without an air force,
33:44
Speaker 2: have absolutely no navy, lost all their offensive capability. By
33:49
Speaker 2: the end of the week it'll be one hundred percent gone.
33:52
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33:55
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