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

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  Speaker 1: In case the marks among show on seven tenor.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, a nice warm day, seventies, eighties all this week.
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  Speaker 2: That's great news. A lot to get to this hour.
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  Speaker 2: So the blockade is now underway. We are now controlling
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  Speaker 2: the Straits of horn Moose. US has blockaded it. It
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  Speaker 2: will be strictly enforced now. A lot of experts on
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  Speaker 2: this who've been watching this carefully are a little surprised
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  Speaker 2: that Iran miscalculated this badly. The you know, war is
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  Speaker 2: not about the Straits of horn Moose. Having it closed
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  Speaker 2: doesn't affect us in any way. We don't get any
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  Speaker 2: oil from there. It completely completely screws up Iran. It's
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  Speaker 2: their only source of revenue, and it seriously hurts China
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  Speaker 2: because they depend on oil from the Straits of horn Moose.
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  Speaker 2: But it was a bargaining chip in the United States,
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  Speaker 2: bargaining for all kinds of things. And the one thing,
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  Speaker 2: or you know, when Trump says they have no cards,
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  Speaker 2: the only card they had was They've got that straight.
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  Speaker 2: So her Moose closed. Now. The only thing is we
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  Speaker 2: could open it anytime we want militarily. The plan to
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  Speaker 2: open it is pretty simple, straightforward. Every general that's looked
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  Speaker 2: at it said, it's a perfect plan, one hundred percent
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  Speaker 2: success rate on it sent com anytime they want to
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  Speaker 2: open her Moose can So why this, Why all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden, why does the Trump administration announce they're closing it,
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  Speaker 2: they're blockading it. What this is a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: have pointed out, this is the biker scene from a
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  Speaker 2: Bronx tale. You remember when he kept telling them bikers
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  Speaker 2: to leave the bar, leave the bar, and then finally
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  Speaker 2: remember he locked the door and he goes, now you
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  Speaker 2: just can't leave. That's basically what this is. And you
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  Speaker 2: remember that scene where it showed the bikers' faces and
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden they realized they'd made a huge mistake.
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  Speaker 2: So now Iran, and again people can't believe they miscalculated this.
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  Speaker 2: They're starting to realize that made a huge mistake. Here
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  Speaker 2: we now control the straits of Horn Moose. US Navy
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  Speaker 2: warships have been traveling through the straits over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing really Iran can do to those big US warships.
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  Speaker 2: They are perfectly capable of defending themselves. If they could
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  Speaker 2: hit one of those ships, they would have done so.
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  Speaker 2: In the last four or five weeks, they just can't
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  Speaker 2: do it. Too many defense systems on those ships. Now
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  Speaker 2: we've taken out their navy, it's completely gone. They do
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  Speaker 2: have what they're calling the fast boats, the little tiny
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  Speaker 2: fast ships. They can put a ton of explosives on
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  Speaker 2: a fast ship and just shoot it across the water.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump now saying they they didn't take out all
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  Speaker 2: those ships before. It's a small number of them, but
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  Speaker 2: we didn't hit them, just didn't consider them much of
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  Speaker 2: a threat. But he said, now we're going to take
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  Speaker 2: out all those ships. Just get rid of all of them.
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  Speaker 2: We have very sophisticated mind sweeping technology. We will get
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  Speaker 2: all the mines off the floor there of the Straits
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  Speaker 2: of Horne Moose. We also have all kinds of new
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  Speaker 2: mind detection. We have underwater drones, all sorts of SIMP systems.
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  Speaker 2: One thing you've noticed in the last year, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: Venezuela or here, all of a sudden we unveiled these
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  Speaker 2: new weapons nobody knew about. And you're going to see
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  Speaker 2: that here. So the Straits of Hormus is now under
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  Speaker 2: US control, and we'll see, we'll see what Iran does
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  Speaker 2: for the rest of the day. President Trump, mar A
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  Speaker 2: Lago yesterday, Now it was quite a weekend. Saturday went
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  Speaker 2: to Miami for the UFC fight, where he got an
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  Speaker 2: enormous standing ovation from the crowd. Ultimate fighting UFC. This
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  Speaker 2: is not something democrats enjoy. This is not a Democrat activity.
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  Speaker 2: The crowd loves Trump. He cheered them. We walked in,
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  Speaker 2: we had the whole family with him, went over to
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  Speaker 2: say hello to Joe Rogan, who he saw there. Then
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  Speaker 2: Sunday it was mar A Lago, so he went from
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  Speaker 2: UFC ultra fighting Joe Rogan to the mar Alago crowd.
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  Speaker 2: How we yield that crowd. All of a sudden and
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  Speaker 2: surprise visitor yesterday at mar A Lago was Ron DeSantis
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  Speaker 2: and his wife Trump, meeting him on the golf course.
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  Speaker 2: DeSantis I don't think played golf. He's not not really
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  Speaker 2: a golfer and certainly not good enough to play a
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  Speaker 2: game with Trump. But he did spend the day with
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  Speaker 2: President Trump. They had lunched together. Nobody knows what that
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  Speaker 2: was all about. DeSantis is out of office at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the year. It's his second term. He's term
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  Speaker 2: limited out, nobody's gonna Nobody knows what he's gonna do next.
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  Speaker 2: He's been a great governor of Florida, just absolutely brilliant
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  Speaker 2: as governor of Florida. Other than that, he's got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of problems. His personality the biggest one of all.
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  Speaker 2: He has managed to alienate just about everybody behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 2: He's and I again, I don't know why, but he's
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  Speaker 2: one of the nastiest, rudest guys in private with people
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  Speaker 2: in the party, with people, you know, donors, even the donors,
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  Speaker 2: his biggest donors will tell you how cold and rude
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  Speaker 2: he is to them. Again, I can't explain why. I
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  Speaker 2: have absolutely no idea why. So what's he going to
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  Speaker 2: do next? I don't know. Before he was governor, he
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  Speaker 2: was a very undistinguished congressman. As Roger Stone said, what
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  Speaker 2: do you say, an undistinguished congressman in a bad suit?
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  Speaker 2: That's what he was before office. So how did he
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  Speaker 2: become governor Florida? Donald Trump made him governor Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: There were a bunch of people running. Donald Trump took
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  Speaker 2: him from obscurity, promoted him, endorsed him, and got him
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  Speaker 2: elected as governor. He should be very grateful to Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: But again, he's not a nice guy behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 2: Now here's one of the things that really really irked Trump.
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  Speaker 2: Remember the mar Alago raid. The FBI rated mar a
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  Speaker 2: Lago went through, everything went through, Baron's room, went through.
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  Speaker 2: Malaney is underwear d for everything. Ron DeSantis, the governor,
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  Speaker 2: was tipped off about the FBI raid way ahead of
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  Speaker 2: time and never told Donald Trump. Never told him, never
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  Speaker 2: told his mentor his benefact never told him. Trump got
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  Speaker 2: elected despite all the law fair all the attempts to
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  Speaker 2: Trump got elected. Behind the scenes, Ron de Santis begged
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  Speaker 2: and begged to be Attorney general, but again, nasty guy
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  Speaker 2: behind the scenes. Trump would never trust him in that
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  Speaker 2: kind of role. So he said, he just said no way,
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  Speaker 2: and that was the end of that. What's he going
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  Speaker 2: to do after this? I don't know. He's a very
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  Speaker 2: ambitious wife. She's the one always pushing him. So we'll see. Hey, mom,
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  Speaker 2: Donnie celebrated one hundred days and that's been a benchmark
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  Speaker 2: that they used for a lot of politicians of the
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  Speaker 2: first hundred days. You look back, what did you accomplish
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  Speaker 2: during the first hundred days? Nobody knows. He had all
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  Speaker 2: these promises and he had a big speech. He's a
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  Speaker 2: hell of a speaker. I guess that's what he accomplished.
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  Speaker 2: He made some good videos, he made some great speeches.
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  Speaker 2: So he held one hundred days celebration at this big
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  Speaker 2: center in Queen's. Bernie Sanders showed up. That was the
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  Speaker 2: one dignitary Bernie Sanders, so he spoke about his first
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  Speaker 2: one hundred days. There's no real accomplishment, but he's a
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  Speaker 2: hell of a speaker, so he made up a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of things. It sounded okay.
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  Speaker 3: Since we took office, murderers have hit record lows. There
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  Speaker 3: has not been a murder on Staten Island in more
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  Speaker 3: than one hundred and eighty days.
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  Speaker 2: Crime in our city is down there you go, Actually,
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  Speaker 2: crime is way up here in a lot of categories.
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  Speaker 2: You won't get murdered. But subway crime is up, robbery
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  Speaker 2: is up, felony stuff is up, carts, theft, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of stuff is up. But you forgot to mention that.
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  Speaker 2: Here's more.
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  Speaker 3: No longer can someone charge you a hidden fee for
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  Speaker 3: the hotel you book, or make it impossible to cancel
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  Speaker 3: a gym membership. As we set the global standard for
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  Speaker 3: protecting consumers, we will also ensure that New York City
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  Speaker 3: remains the global center of business. We want to build
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  Speaker 3: the strongest economy that our five boroughs have ever seen.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you got to admit those are impressive. Impressive accomplishments.
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  Speaker 3: No longer can someone charge you a hidden fee for
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  Speaker 3: the hotel you book, But we.
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  Speaker 2: All live here, We're not staying in a hotel. How
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  Speaker 2: does that help us? It's great that keet me to
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  Speaker 2: the hidden fee, but we live here. We don't need that.
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  Speaker 2: You're supposed to be helping the people that live here.
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  Speaker 2: What was the other accomplishment?
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  Speaker 1: Make it impossible to cancel a gym membership?
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  Speaker 2: Was this a big problem? Do you know anybody had
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  Speaker 2: their gym membership canceled? Is that an issue? But you
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  Speaker 2: see here a lot of that in the campaign. How
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  Speaker 2: many times do somebody said, I can't believe they canceled
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  Speaker 2: my team membership. It's the opposite problem. You can't cancel
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  Speaker 2: your gym membership. You ever tried to cancel? They beg
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  Speaker 2: you to stay, They charge your credit card. You didn't
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  Speaker 2: realize you signed up for audumnt renewal. They get you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's like trying to get rid of serious radio. You
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  Speaker 2: can't do it. Go go call him, say you want
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  Speaker 2: to get rid of it. They'll they'll give you a
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  Speaker 2: lower price. Then tell no, I don't want to I
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  Speaker 2: don't care what your prices. They'll give you a lower
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  Speaker 2: price seventeen dollars a month. You try to cancel, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we'll give you fifteen. I don't want it. I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 2: I just want to cancel. My guy, all right, we'll
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  Speaker 2: give you twelve. I don't care what the price is.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to cancel. We'll give it to you
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  Speaker 2: for six a month. Really, you can't get rid of
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  Speaker 2: It's the same thing with the gym membership. Go stand,
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  Speaker 2: what's up? Gym? Right there? There's lifetime fitness right next
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  Speaker 2: to us, right next to Go stand outside and see
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  Speaker 2: if this people coming out crying to cancel my membership.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know what the hell he's talking about. Now,
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  Speaker 2: what about the stuff he promised? The grocery stores? What
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  Speaker 2: happened to the free grocery years? The government grocery.
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  Speaker 1: Store, the same market that Fierro LaGuardia opened in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: thirty six, so working people then could save my me
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  Speaker 1: on fruits and vegetables. We will continue his legacy.
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  Speaker 2: Now, everything sounds great. Everything sounds great. Government grocery store
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  Speaker 2: you'll save a fortune. Well, the problem is, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: there's really no markup in the grocery stores. You know,
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  Speaker 2: profit margin. When they sell something, the profit on it
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  Speaker 2: is like twenty percent or up to forty percent, somewhere
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  Speaker 2: around twenty thirty percent. That's your profit margin, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in the grocery business, it's one percent. That's why most
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  Speaker 2: of the grocery stores are going away. You can't exist.
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  Speaker 2: And if you run a grocery store, you know, if
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  Speaker 2: you're Cristidis, if you're a whole food, you gotta be
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  Speaker 2: a genius at running that business. To operate on a
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  Speaker 2: one percent profit might be like no room for air.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's one and a half percent maybe, but
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  Speaker 2: so they're not really gouging anybody. So Mamdani came up
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  Speaker 2: with a plan, one government grocery store in each borough,
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  Speaker 2: five of them. Now, the first of all, the first
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  Speaker 2: one in Manhattan. It's a government space in East Harlem.
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  Speaker 2: That's great. But if it's a government grocery, let's say
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  Speaker 2: you live in the village. Let's say you live in Tribeca.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see. I mean, who's going to go to East Harlem?
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  Speaker 2: You know how far that is? Do you know, anybody
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  Speaker 2: drives like to the other end of the county to
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  Speaker 2: get to get their groceries. No, you need a neighborhood
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  Speaker 2: grocery store, So I don't know what that does. He
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  Speaker 2: also said it would cost seventy seven h seventy million
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  Speaker 2: for the five grocery stores. Well, he announced the first
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  Speaker 2: one he's going to open it to be the East Harlem.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to cost thirty million. Well wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a math genius, but you said you'd do
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  Speaker 2: five for seventy. So if this one's costing thirty that
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  Speaker 2: means the real price is one hundred and fifty million.
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  Speaker 2: And since it's the government doing it, which always means
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  Speaker 2: cost overruns, that means it's going to be three hundred million.
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  Speaker 2: And now look at this, they're not going to open
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  Speaker 2: till twenty twenty nine. This is why you don't want
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  Speaker 2: the government doing anything. As soon as the government got
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  Speaker 2: into healthcare, all of a sudden, it was a total mess.
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  Speaker 2: It's a total disaster. You ever go to the motor
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  Speaker 2: vehicle department and wait in line three hours? Can you
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  Speaker 2: mention buying your groceries that way? So twenty twenty nine
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  Speaker 2: they'll get these open now, if you got tick. My
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  Speaker 2: friend John Katzimtitis, he's an absolute expert in how to
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  Speaker 2: create a grocery store. He's got hundreds of them, probably
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  Speaker 2: the biggest expert in the city how to create a
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  Speaker 2: grocery store. I guarantee if we said to him, here's
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  Speaker 2: a piece of land in East Harlem, how soon can
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  Speaker 2: you get a grocery store up there, he'd probably tell
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  Speaker 2: you three months. If I really rushed two months, I
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  Speaker 2: guarantee you he wouldn't say, well, I can't get it
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  Speaker 2: open till twenty twenty nine, three years now, it wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: take three years. So that's the other problem with the
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  Speaker 2: government trying to do anything. It's a total total disaster
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  Speaker 2: whenever they attempt to do anything. Hey, this, I don't
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  Speaker 2: even understand this. Do we even know this? Chick fil
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  Speaker 2: A shooting? Chick fil A is a great place, great
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  Speaker 2: chicken in New Jersey. At the Chick fil A, A
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  Speaker 2: whole bunch of guys go in there and start shooting
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  Speaker 2: up the whole place. Do we still haven't figured out why?
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  Speaker 2: It was a war zone in there. People were shot.
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  Speaker 2: It was just horrific. Here's the nine one one call.
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  Speaker 1: A gunshot victim at that location who don't enter the scene.
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  Speaker 2: The scene it's not safe at this time. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: was just horrible, horrible, horrible. I've got an unconscious witness,
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  Speaker 2: I've got one shot in the face.
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  Speaker 3: Like I've got five victims, three gunshot victims.
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  Speaker 2: This is nine o'clock Saturday night, Route twenty two location
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  Speaker 2: in Union. Group of men stormed in, went behind the
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  Speaker 2: food counter, just open fire. We don't know why yet.
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  Speaker 2: Just a horrible story. Hey, Also in the news, Eric
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  Speaker 2: Adams has announced he's now become a citizen of Albania.
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  Speaker 2: You know what this guy's up to. He's now become Albanian,
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  Speaker 2: which is great if you want to open an Italian
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  Speaker 2: restaurant in Westchester, these all these Italian restaurants, it's actually
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  Speaker 2: Albanians running up. They're very good at restaurants, and many
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  Speaker 2: of them, the Albanians came through Italy at some point,
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  Speaker 2: so they're very good at Italian restaurants. But he announced
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  Speaker 2: he's actually an honorary They've made him an honorary citizen
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  Speaker 2: of Albania. He'll remain a US citizen. Todd Shapiro, his spokesman,
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  Speaker 2: Todd Shapiro, friend of mine, great pr guy. The decision
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  Speaker 2: by Albanian the grant Mayor Adams citizenship reflects the enduring
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  Speaker 2: relationship mutual of respect, further strengthens the bond between New
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  Speaker 2: York and Albania. Okay, but it could just be an
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  Speaker 2: honorary thing.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: He described himself as an international mayor. He loves Albania.
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  Speaker 2: His adult son has lived there for a while. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: his adult son competed in the Albanian version of American Idol.
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  Speaker 2: There is such a thing. Adams himself traveled there quite
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  Speaker 2: a bit, one of the several inners. So who knows what,
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  Speaker 2: you who knows why? But I kind of miss him.
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  Speaker 2: We all miss him. Now. You know you weren't that
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  Speaker 2: drilled with him in Mayor. Now you'd give anything to
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  Speaker 2: happen back. He was a lot better than what's going
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  Speaker 2: on now. Hey, we'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred
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  Speaker 2: three two one zero seven ten is the number. Eight
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  Speaker 2: hundred three two one zero seven ten