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Hour 2: Electric bills for New Yorkers. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: No the mark simone show nine till noon weekdays more
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  Speaker 1: mark 710 wor well.
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  Speaker 2: Hey uh welcome to the second hour that's right if
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  Speaker 2: you just joined us we start at nine o'clock now
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  Speaker 2: you missed the first hour nine to noon every day
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  Speaker 2: here on 710 wor it's friday that's the good news
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  Speaker 2: uh later tonight it's going to start raining it's going
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  Speaker 2: to rain all day tomorrow That will continue into Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: That's the bad news. If you're east of the city,
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  Speaker 2: it might be really ugly, what they call a nor'easter.
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  Speaker 2: If you're right in the city, it shouldn't be that bad.
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  Speaker 2: Just a lot of rain. The wind won't be as bad.
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  Speaker 2: If you're in Westchester, Fairfield County, it's not going to
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  Speaker 2: be horrific. But if you're in eastern Long Island, you
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  Speaker 2: get pretty ugly out there over the weekend with 60-mile-an-hour winds,
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  Speaker 2: that sort of thing. If you're... West of the city,
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  Speaker 2: north of the city, you're probably okay. It's south and
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  Speaker 2: east of the city that's going to get the worst
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  Speaker 2: of it. So the good news also is the last
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  Speaker 2: big day of UN week, Netanyahu was probably the busiest day.
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  Speaker 2: Then today, they start going away, these world leaders. Tonight,
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  Speaker 2: they start leaving. Some of them stay Saturday, Sunday to
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  Speaker 2: run around New York and do stuff. But then by Monday—
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  Speaker 2: Even though the UN General Assembly continues, most of the
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  Speaker 2: world leaders will be gone and the gridlock, the street closures,
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  Speaker 2: all of that, that should be all gone by Monday.
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  Speaker 2: This is the most useless event in the world, this
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  Speaker 2: United Nations General Assembly this week. Over there, they call
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  Speaker 2: it UNGA, U-N-G-A, UNGA. It is the most useless thing
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  Speaker 2: in the world. It is the worst organization on earth,
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  Speaker 2: the United Nations General They are absolutely horrible. It's just
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  Speaker 2: a big VIP lounge for anti-Semites. It's a horrible place.
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  Speaker 2: They get absolutely nothing done. They're concerned about nothing important.
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  Speaker 2: Their anti-Semitism is very important to them. This is the
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  Speaker 2: same U.N. that totally, totally ignored Islamic terrorism, totally ignored
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  Speaker 2: genocide against Christians in Africa. They never mention it, never
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  Speaker 2: comes up at the U.N. It's just a horrible place.
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  Speaker 2: It's the most disgusting building you've ever seen on the inside. Outside,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't look bad. When you get in there, it's
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  Speaker 2: a rundown, broken down, crappy mess in there. Their finances
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  Speaker 2: are a total disaster. They're heavily in debt. Their budget
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  Speaker 2: is $ 4 billion a year. They end up spending $ 70
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  Speaker 2: billion a year. They're an absolute, reckless, out-of-control mess. But
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  Speaker 2: for some reason, people still pay attention to them. So
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  Speaker 2: that's why it was important for Netanyahu to come address
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  Speaker 2: the U.N. He knows it's a room full of disgusting anti-Semites.
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  Speaker 2: And sure enough, as Netanyahu gets up, he didn't say
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  Speaker 2: anything yet. Just the fact that he was standing there,
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  Speaker 2: half the U.N. walked out. They stood up and walked
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  Speaker 2: out of their seats. And Netanyahu, good for him. Listen
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  Speaker 2: to what he said.
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: President.
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  Speaker 5: Before I begin, just a quick announcement. If there are
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  Speaker 5: any other moral cowards who haven't yet left this hall,
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  Speaker 5: please do so now. Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good for him, walking out. This is like one
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  Speaker 2: of the most crucial international situations. Israel, Netanyahu, they all
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  Speaker 2: walk out on him. They walk out. They're not there
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  Speaker 2: for any serious purposes. They're there to waste money. They're
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  Speaker 2: there to celebrate their anti-Semitism. But Netanyahu is a great speech.
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  Speaker 3: To the protesters outside, to the hypocritical delegates who left
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  Speaker 3: us all, I ask, where were you when the Iranian
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  Speaker 3: tyrants butchered and maimed tens of thousands of unarmed Iranian civilians?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Iran slaughtering citizens in the streets. The reaction from
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  Speaker 2: the UN? They couldn't have cared less.
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Mamdani, you tried to stop me from coming here. You
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  Speaker 3: tried to silence me. Well, you can't silence me. You
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  Speaker 3: can't silence the truth. And here's the simple truth.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Mamdani, he's kind of doing like a
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  Speaker 2: Like a Megyn Kelly, like a Tucker Carlson. You know
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  Speaker 2: these two lunatics, Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson? Every time you look, oh,
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  Speaker 2: look what they said. Oh, my God, they said something
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  Speaker 2: so outrageous. That's why Tucker Carlson does that. Megyn Kelly
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  Speaker 2: does that because they'll get, you know, it might be
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  Speaker 2: an attack article, but they'll make headlines in all the
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  Speaker 2: liberal stuff, and then people will click on the link,
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  Speaker 2: and they'll get clicks on their websites and on their whatever.
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  Speaker 2: And then they get credit for that. They call those
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  Speaker 2: click whores. A click whore will say anything to get
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  Speaker 2: clicks on their website. For instance, Tucker Carlson yesterday demanding
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  Speaker 2: that Trump's cabinet remove him from office via the 25th Amendment.
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  Speaker 2: He should be bundled up and taken out. This is
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  Speaker 2: a guy whose whole life is devoted to supporting Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: Now he's demanding he be removed from office, that they
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  Speaker 2: tie him up and carry him out. So why does
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  Speaker 2: Tucker Carlson do this? Why does Megyn Kelly do this?
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  Speaker 2: Because they got fired yesterday. They can't get on the air.
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  Speaker 2: If you're on the big network, you've got millions and
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  Speaker 2: millions of viewers. If you're on iHeart, you've got millions
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  Speaker 2: and millions of listeners. If you're fired from everywhere and
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  Speaker 2: you're doing the show from your home in your pajamas,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to get attention. Nobody would know about it
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  Speaker 2: or listen to it unless you get attention. So you've
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  Speaker 2: got to say crazy, outrageous things. And then everybody covers
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  Speaker 2: you and then you'll get clicks. As they say, they're
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  Speaker 2: click whores. I think Mamdani is a bit of the
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  Speaker 2: same thing. Now, he knows he can't arrest Netanyahu. He
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  Speaker 2: had absolutely no authority to arrest Netanyahu. Actually, nobody can
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  Speaker 2: arrest Netanyahu. He's got diplomatic immunity when he comes to
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  Speaker 2: speak at the UN General Assembly. And he's not guilty
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  Speaker 2: of anything. And you can say, well, the International Criminal
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  Speaker 2: Court has indicted him. That's not a real court. It's
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  Speaker 2: not a real court. It's not recognized by anybody. It's
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  Speaker 2: just a made-up fake court. You could make up your
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  Speaker 2: own court. The Global Citizen Criminal Court. Print up some
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  Speaker 2: stationery and there you go. But it's not a real court.
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  Speaker 2: So he knows he can't do it. So why would
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  Speaker 2: he say it? Because it gets him all over the headlines.
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  Speaker 2: He becomes a subject of a speech in the United
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  Speaker 2: Nations General Assembly. So he's like Tucker Carlson. You just
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  Speaker 2: say this crap and you get a lot of attention
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  Speaker 2: and people talk about you. It makes you seem more
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  Speaker 2: important than you are. Hey, good news. Bruce Blakeman has
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  Speaker 2: pretty much caught up to Kathy Hochul. polls. It's pretty
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  Speaker 2: much tied. Now, you could tell even without reading the,
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about the real polls, not the fake public polls,
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  Speaker 2: but he's pretty much tied Kathy Hochul. If you watch
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  Speaker 2: a lot of television, you'll notice you're seeing these attack
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  Speaker 2: ads against Blakeman all over the place. Every time you
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  Speaker 2: turn around, there's an attack ad against Blakeman. This is
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  Speaker 2: from Kathy Hochul. She's spending a fortune right now with
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  Speaker 2: these attack ads. She's running them day and night, a
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  Speaker 2: whole series of Vicious attack ads. Why all of a sudden?
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  Speaker 2: Because she saw the real polls, the private polls, the
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  Speaker 2: internal polls. She saw him catching up. This is panic
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  Speaker 2: on her. This is fear, panic on her part. That's
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  Speaker 2: why they opened up the checkbook and start spending a
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  Speaker 2: fortune real fast on attack ads because he caught up.
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  Speaker 2: But Blakeman... doing very well in the campaign.
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  Speaker 1: How can it be possible that in a deep blue state,
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  Speaker 1: a Republican could be neck and neck with a Democrat?
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  Speaker 1: And it's because Kathy Hochul is the worst governor in America.
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  Speaker 1: We have the highest taxes in America. Our utility bills
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  Speaker 1: are 70% higher than the national average. And she is
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  Speaker 1: the most pro-criminal governor in the United States.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she's one of those no bail, no jail. Andrew
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  Speaker 2: Cuomo created that no bail, no jail. He's the guy
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  Speaker 2: that pushed it, signed it. And she backs it up.
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  Speaker 2: No bail, no jail. Let the criminals loose. Cuomo started
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  Speaker 2: that thing of close the prisons, let them all out.
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  Speaker 2: That's Kathy Hochul. And she, Cuomo started it with closing
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  Speaker 2: Indian Point. She's continued it. Cuomo and Hochul. Remember your
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  Speaker 2: electric bill was like $ 100. Now it's 400. That's because
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  Speaker 2: of this, because of them, these two. They closed Indian Point.
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  Speaker 2: They banned fracking. So it drove up the... Indian Point
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  Speaker 2: was 25% of our electricity. It drove up the price
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  Speaker 2: of electricity. You know, if you're complaining about the gas prices,
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  Speaker 2: 75 cents of that is a state tax. 75 cents
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  Speaker 2: a gallon is state tax. They could drop that right now. Or,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if the war is raising the price, freeze
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  Speaker 2: that state gas tax. Eliminate it for 30 days or
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  Speaker 2: 60 days. So Hochul... drives your electric bill way up.
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  Speaker 2: And now she's offered, she's now saying she's going to
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  Speaker 2: send everybody a $ 500 credit for electricity. But you've paid
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  Speaker 2: an extra $ 5, 000 thanks to her for electricity, but she'll
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  Speaker 2: send you $ 500 of your own money. But Blakeman talking
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  Speaker 2: about this every day.
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  Speaker 1: It's taxes and utility bills. We are losing hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: thousands of people a year moving to other places because
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  Speaker 1: it's so expensive. Kathy Hochul's approved $ 48 rate hikes on
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  Speaker 1: our utility bills, 21 fare hikes on our trains, subways,
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  Speaker 1: and buses. Basically, people have said, we don't see economic
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  Speaker 1: activity in this state. We're number 50 in economic outlook.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, it's a mess. It's a mess under Hochul.
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  Speaker 2: People are leaving. Hey, and Blakeman has basically been a
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  Speaker 2: governor for the last five years, six years. That's what
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  Speaker 2: a county executive is, is a governor. Nassau County is
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  Speaker 2: a big place. It's like 4 million people. It's bigger
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  Speaker 2: than half of our states. It's a big place. So
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  Speaker 2: he's been considered the best county executive in America, and
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  Speaker 2: that's being a governor.
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  Speaker 1: You take a look at my record in a county
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  Speaker 1: that's larger than eight states. As chief executive, I cut
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  Speaker 1: a $ 150 million increase of my predecessor. I haven't raised
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  Speaker 1: taxes a penny in five years.
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  Speaker 5: And U.S.
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  Speaker 1: News & World Report says I have the safest county
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  Speaker 1: in America. People want that kind of leadership. They're fed
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  Speaker 1: up with Kathy Hochul and one-party rule.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Hochul not only is in panic spending a fortune
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden on these attack ads against Blakeman.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you're doing well, you don't have to
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  Speaker 2: waste all that money on attack ads. But she saw
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  Speaker 2: the polls running attack ads all over the place. Now,
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  Speaker 2: she's refusing to debate Blakeman. She's refused to turn down
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  Speaker 2: the Channel 2 debate, the Channel 4 debate, the Channel
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  Speaker 2: 5 debate, the Channel 7 debate. The only one she's
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  Speaker 2: accepted is New York One. Why? It's a little tiny thing,
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  Speaker 2: New York One, very few viewers, and it's very left-wing,
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  Speaker 2: very biased, very slanted left. And the moderator will be
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  Speaker 2: Errol Lewis, nice guy, but the most left-wing slanted guy.
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  Speaker 2: That's the only one she'll agree to. Now, Blakeman's got
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  Speaker 2: a pusher. to do a real debate on a real
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  Speaker 2: TV channel.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about my record and compare it
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  Speaker 1: to hers. My record is one of achievement and hers
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  Speaker 1: is one of failure. So she tries to talk about
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  Speaker 1: everything other than her record. Any commercial you've seen about her,
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  Speaker 1: any social media post, says nothing about her record because
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  Speaker 1: she's got a terrible record.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, and the greatest compliment to Bruce Blakeman, all these
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  Speaker 2: attack ads, they only attack him on one thing, that
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  Speaker 2: he's friends with Donald Trump. And believe me, they had
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  Speaker 2: a team of opposition research people look at Blakeman for
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  Speaker 2: a billion hours to find something on him. Well, apparently
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  Speaker 2: they couldn't find anything on him because all the attack
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  Speaker 2: ads are, look at him with Donald Trump. He's friends
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  Speaker 2: with Donald Trump. He likes Donald Trump. That's the only
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  Speaker 2: thing they got on him. Quite a compliment to Blakeman. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: Macron of France made this ridiculous speech at the UN
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  Speaker 2: talking about... Free Palestine or something. You always count on
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  Speaker 2: the wormy, weaselly French president to cause some trouble. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: Carney of Canada, the Carney is the Canadian prime minister,
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  Speaker 2: Mark Carney. You know, there was a little battle there
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  Speaker 2: over tariffs. There was a battle over some issues with Canada.
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  Speaker 2: And this crazy Mark Carney, Canadian prime minister, confirms that
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  Speaker 2: he prepped for of the US to invade Canada. He
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  Speaker 2: said it would have been irresponsible not to. As they
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  Speaker 2: got into that tariff battle with Canada, he considered the
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  Speaker 2: possibility of the US launching an invasion of Canada. It
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  Speaker 2: was like a trade war, an economic trade war. He said,
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  Speaker 2: if you have a responsibility, you have to plan and prepare.
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  Speaker 2: So they were preparing for the invasion of Canada by
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  Speaker 2: the United States. What the hell would we invade Canada for?
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  Speaker 2: What on earth would we want in Canada? Absolutely. What
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  Speaker 2: are we going to invade Windsor, Canada? What are we
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  Speaker 2: going to invade? Quebec? Who the hell cares? And let's
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  Speaker 2: say we did invade. Not that we ever would. Let's
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  Speaker 2: say we were going to invade. What the hell would
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  Speaker 2: they do about it? What are they going to send
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  Speaker 2: some Mounties? What are they going to have Dudley do
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  Speaker 2: right in a couple of Mounties try to stop us?
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  Speaker 2: They invade Canada. Could you imagine? First of all, a
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  Speaker 2: Boy Scout troop could take over Canada. Anyway. Hey, Buck
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  Speaker 2: and Clay, you know, they do a great show. Buck Sexton,
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  Speaker 2: Clay Travis. They're on every day at noon, noon to three.
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  Speaker 2: It's a very big show. It's about 10 million listeners now.
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  Speaker 2: They replaced Rush Limbaugh. Remember when Rush left us? About
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  Speaker 2: 12 guys all of a sudden claimed they were replacing Rush. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to mention any names. You know some
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  Speaker 2: of them. Yes, I'm replacing Rush. I'll be on at noon,
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  Speaker 2: noon to three. I'm replacing Rush. None of them were
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  Speaker 2: replacing Rush. It was Buck and Clay that actually replaced Rush.
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  Speaker 2: They were hired by the company that did the Rush show,
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  Speaker 2: iHeart Premiere. They do the show from Rush Limbaugh's studio.
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  Speaker 2: They sit in Rush Limbaugh's chair. They have Rush Limbaugh's engineer,
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  Speaker 2: Mike Mamone. He's been there for a million years. He
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  Speaker 2: was the guy running the Rush show every day. So
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  Speaker 2: their show's produced by the Rush people, run by the
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  Speaker 2: Rush staff. It's in the Rush studio. They use Rush's
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  Speaker 2: theme song. But the reason I bring this up is
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  Speaker 2: this Mike Mamone, been with us for a million years,
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  Speaker 2: all the way back to the beginnings at WABC years ago.
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  Speaker 2: He is retiring. Today's his last day, so you want
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  Speaker 2: to listen to Buck and Clay. Sean Hannity had him
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  Speaker 2: on yesterday as a guest for a half hour. Mike Mamone,
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  Speaker 2: the great engineer of Rush Limbaugh's, he'll be on with...
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  Speaker 2: He's on with Buck and Clay, but I'm sure they'll
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  Speaker 2: talk to him on the air about it. It's his
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  Speaker 2: final day today. So we wish him well. We'll take
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  Speaker 2: some calls next. 800-321-0710 is the number.
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  Speaker 7: 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 2: And now, Mark Simone on 710WOR. Thank you, Shadow Stevens.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number. 800- 3
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  Speaker 2: 2 1 0 7 10. Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave,
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  Speaker 2: how you doing? Good morning, Mark.
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  Speaker 6: I'm doing very well.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Mark.
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  Speaker 6: I was highly impressed with Caroline Leavitt on the Sean
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  Speaker 6: Hannity podcast. I mean, she's just incredibly amazing. Some of
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  Speaker 6: her recollections of being in the situation, Rome meetings with
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  Speaker 6: world leaders. Mark, my question is, is it possible that
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  Speaker 6: a little further down the road, as she raises her
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  Speaker 6: two kids, uh, that Fox News would offer her her
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  Speaker 6: own show?
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  Speaker 2: They already have. She has a standing offer. So far
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  Speaker 2: she's said no, she doesn't want to go back to
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  Speaker 2: full-time work, but they've already made the offer. She has
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  Speaker 2: a standing offer to do a show at Fox. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of former White House press secretaries have shows at Fox.
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  Speaker 2: Dana Perino, Kayleigh McEnany. She will be one of them.
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  Speaker 2: But when she's ready, when her kids are a little older.
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  Speaker 2: She will go back to work. Good question, Dave. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go to Kelly in Brooklyn. Kelly, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Good.
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  Speaker 8: How are you, Mark?
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  Speaker 2: Let me check.
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  Speaker 8: I have a comment to make.
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  Speaker 2: Not bad.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 8: You've been saying about the kind of like a rebate
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  Speaker 8: check that she's going to send out to Hochul.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 8: Everywhere else I heard it was $ 200. I called Hochul's office.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure they were thrilled.
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  Speaker 8: No, too bad. So you called up.
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  Speaker 2: The local's office and you said, hello, and they.
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  Speaker 7: Went, oh, my God.
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  Speaker 8: Not at all. No, I am not from Long Island.
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  Speaker 4: No, I am not.
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  Speaker 8: I am from Dyka Heights, Brooklyn. All right.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 8: So it's $ 100 if you file your state income tax single.
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  Speaker 8: And $ 200 if you file as a married couple. And
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  Speaker 8: then I also asked, I said, oh, is this also taxable?
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  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, tell them you're trans, then it's $ 500.
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  Speaker 8: So that's what it is. And you will be federally
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  Speaker 8: taxed on it. So it's a scam. And I also said,
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  Speaker 8: why doesn't she do more debates on 2457? And there
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  Speaker 8: was no answer to that. So I just want you
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  Speaker 8: to know that's all these checks are. And it's our
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  Speaker 8: tax money that we're going to be taxed on again.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I always wonder what makes people call the
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  Speaker 2: senator's office or Kathy Hochul's office. It's like some junior
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  Speaker 2: staff intern you got on the phone. He doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: anything to do with anything. What do you think you'll
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: accomplish with that call?
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: Well, this one was the Albany office.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: And she's not even in the Albany office. She works
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: on third Avenue, 41st and third is where her real
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: office is.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 18:38
  Speaker 8: So should I be frustrated? I contact all of my politicians.
• 18:42
  Speaker 8: That's my legal right to do that and to let
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: them know that.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I know. I'm just saying when you call the offices,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: what they do, they have a huge staff. And if
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: you're the lowest on the totem pole, the brand new
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: junior intern, that's your job taking these calls.
• 18:57
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: All you're talking to is them. It never goes anywhere.
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: But I did get the correct information.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, that's good. There you go.
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Thanks for calling. Yeah, if you call Schumer's office, you're
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: going to get the most junior staffer, and you're going
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: to tell him what you think. I'm just telling you,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: he doesn't run down the hall to Schumer and go, hey,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: I just got a call from a woman in Brooklyn.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Here's what she thinks. It never goes anywhere. Now, if
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: you were to call Schumer's office or somebody's office and say, Yes,
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: I'd like to make a large donation. It's a whole
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: different story. You're going to be a big donor? Hang on,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: hang on. He'll actually come on the phone and talk
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: to you. Let's go to Michael in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Michael,
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: how you doing.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Michael hi how you doing good um i have i
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: have a well a comment and my comment is this
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: i get the new york post delivered to my house every.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Day the physical newspaper.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: Delivery person he delivered the new york times to.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Me all right wait a minute you get the physical
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: newspaper delivered to you.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm still one of those old guys.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: All right, stop that. Stop that. That's news from 36
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: hours ago. Go to the New York Post website, nypost.com.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: You'll get 10 times the news.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: I just like reading a physical paper.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: I know, but it's old news. The articles are not
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: as big as they are on the website. The pictures aren't.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Okay, but I got to tell you this, Mark. I
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: never called you before. I used to listen to you
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: on the weekends when you had that two-hour show on
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: the weekends. I loved it. You always spoke about all
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: the celebrities, and you always had interesting stories. But this
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: is the thing I wanted to talk to you about,
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: the New York Times, because I haven't read it in years.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: Like I said, the delivery guy delivered the wrong paper.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: I usually get the New York Post.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Well, this is a fascinating story, but can we get
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: to the point?
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, this is the point. The first 10 pages
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: of the New York Times, almost every article had an
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: anti-Trump article.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Well, that's the point of the New York Times. It's
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: an anti-Trump paper. It's not a newspaper anymore. It's just
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: an anti-Trump thing.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: It's absolutely disgusting.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Well, no, that's what their audience wants. It's all Trump haters,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: and that's their business model. Hate Trump, and they've got
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: a whole audience of Trump haters. Don't get the physical
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: newspaper anymore. Let's take the New York Post. I think
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: the print circulation is like 75,000. The website subscribers, I think,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: is 4 million right now. So you'll want to go
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: to the website because the print newspaper, the news is
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: from yesterday. when they printed it, it's like one-fifth of
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: what's on the website. The stories are shorter. They don't
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: have as many pictures. It's much better. Just go to
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: the New York Post website and get a subscription. You'll
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: love it. Let's go to April in Astoria, Queens. April.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Come on.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: Listen. Yes.
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: Hi.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: Good morning.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: I want to know. I am really confused when I
• 21:52
  Speaker 8: hear constantly on the radio, on the news, we will win.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: The Republicans will win. If people come out to vote,
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: we will win. But I don't know why won't people vote?
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Well, that's common when it's not a presidential year that
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: a lot of people don't bother.
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: But why won't they bother?
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Because you've got to go somewhere. You've got to wait
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: in line. It's a pain in the neck.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but how old are Republicans?
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: Are they all 85.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Years old in wheelchairs? What is it? They're all ages.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: You didn't know that people don't like to vote? You know,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: like only 5% of people vote nowadays. But anyway, April,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: thanks for calling. Hey, when we come back, this guy
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: is like a legend in the broadcasting business, Dan Mason.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: He ran CBS Radio. He ran Odyssey. He's the guy that–
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Imus worked for him and Howard Stern. He's got a
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: lot of great stories. He wrote a new book. We'll
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: talk to him next on 710WOR. Marks them all. Mr.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: New York. Now three hours every weekday from 9 till
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: noon on 710WOR.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Well, hey, with us right now, this guy's a legend
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: in the radio industry. You know, the two big giants
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: of radio are iHeart. And then it would be CBS
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Radio that owns a million stations and the CBS Radio Network.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: It's now called Odyssey. But Bob Pittman, of course, the chairman,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: CEO of iHeart, but the president and CEO of CBS
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Radio for years, Dan Mason. And he just wrote a book.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: It's a great book. It's called Fearless, The Life and
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Times of a Media Maverick. Dan Mason, Fearless. I want
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: you to go to Amazon and order it. Just go
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: to Amazon, type in Dan Mason, Fearless. By the way,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: All the proceeds are for charity. They go to the
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Broadcasters Foundation of America, which does a lot of great
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: humanitarian work. Dan Mason, how are you doing?
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: Mark, it is a pleasure to be here. Thank you
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: for inviting me.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: It's a pleasure to talk to you because you're the
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: big CEO, the big boss. I don't work for you.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: I don't have to worry about getting fired by you.
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: Well, hopefully people would say fairly nice things, I hope,
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: about me.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: No, they do. So you started... Like a lot of guys,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: you wanted to be on the radio, and then you
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: became the overnight DJ, right? That's where we all start,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: doing the overnight show. And how were you as a DJ?
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: Oh, I was okay. I was probably a C, but
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: it was pretty obvious to me that I wasn't going
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: to be someone like you. And I wanted to get
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: in to be a general manager. So after I did that,
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: I wanted to be in charge of the general managers.
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: But it was a long road from... an overnight dish
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: jockey to the CEO of CBS Radio. But especially, Mark,
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: because I never sold a day of my life. I
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: didn't come from sales. I came from programming. And it's
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: a tougher road for programmers to become high up in management.
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: But I did it because I think I had a talent.
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: And before I tell you what it is, I think
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: all of us, every one of us on this earth
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: has a couple of really special talents. I don't think
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: God dishes them out I think it gives you a few,
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: and you've got to make the best of it. But
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: I think the talent that I had was getting people
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: to listen to the radio, and companies paid dearly for that.
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: So I believe that's how I did it. Yeah.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Now, you had the biggest people working for you. You
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: had Imus. You had Howard Stern. You were the guy,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: I guess, when Imus got in all that trouble for
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: some comments, you were the guy that had to decide
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: what to do about it, right?
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: Well, actually.
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: In transparency, it was probably the CBS legal department that
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: probably finally made that final call. But yes, I was
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: part of it, and it was very sad. I mean,
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: I'm so happy that Don resurrected his career at WABC,
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: but it was a very sad, dark day, Mark. And
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: I'll never forget that. As a matter of fact, that
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: was probably the darkest day I ever had at the
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: company in all the years.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Now, I know working with Imus, if you just said hello,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: he'd start yelling and screaming and cursing. So what was
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: it like when you had to tell him, we got
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: to fire you? That must have been.
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: You know, I remember, well, like I say, the legal
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: department was the one that put all that together because
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: they had to deal with Don's agent and a lot
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: of the galleys to it. But they called me and said, listen,
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: we're probably going to make this move on Tuesday or Monday, Tuesday,
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: somewhere like that. But take the weekend and Maybe give
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: Don a call and kind of give him kind of
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: a heads up that things aren't going to be good.
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: And I did, and I found a quiet room like
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: a Saturday morning. I called Don, and we talked a bit,
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: and he said, is there anything you think you can
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: do for me? And I thought, Don, you know, I
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: wish I could, but I don't see it. I don't
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: see how it could happen. And it was just dead silence, Mark,
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: for like 20 seconds or so. And he said, well, listen,
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: thanks for everything, and I appreciate it. Hung up. And
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: I found the nearest garbage can where I could throw up.
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: I just felt awful. It was a whole awful situation
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: from top to bottom. I mean, you know, but like
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: I say, the good news is at least Don went
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: on to have some good years at WABC.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Hey, that's one thing I did notice about him is
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: for all his yelling and screaming and cursing, in a
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: moment like that, in the most crucial moment, he could
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: be quite the gentleman, quite a business person.
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and you know, he had a ton of remorse.
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: for what he said. He knew that he crossed the line.
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: I mean, we all know where that line is, Mark,
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: and you can't cross it. I mean, this is public airwaves.
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: You can't just say everything that comes at the top
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: of your head. But he made a terrible mistake that
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: I'm sure he wished he could have taken that 10
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: seconds back. You know, he did a lot of charity work.
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: He did a lot of good things for a lot
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: of people with the Imus Ranch. Wow, yeah.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Hey, Dan Mason, you also had Howard Stern working for you.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: That must have been a rollercoaster, too.
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: Most of those stories are too dirty to tell on
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: the radio. I'm sorry. You've got to read the book
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: for that, Mark.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, get the book. We can't say it on the air,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: but I guess Stern left when you were there, right?
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: That's when he went to the satellite?
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah. He had already gone, and then I came back.
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: I did two stints at CBS, and he was at
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: SiriusXM the second time, and that's where my story originates from.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Well, you've got a lot of stories. Hey, tell us
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: about Taylor Swift, your dealings with Taylor Swift.
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: That was really interesting. I'd just come back to CBS.
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: This was 2007. And a friend of, well, no, CBS
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: corporate wanted me to attend American Women in Radio and
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: Television dinner, which I was glad to do. I'd just
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: been back a month. And the My communications director said, listen,
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: we're going to set you next to Taylor Swift tonight.
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: And I thought, okay, that's fine. I mean, I didn't
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: really know who Taylor Swift was at 2007. And she's
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: probably like a 17-year-old girl then, and she comes and
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: sits down next to me. And I'm thinking to myself, God,
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: you need to be in high school, Taylor. Would you
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: do your homework or anything? I mean, why are you here?
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: But she kept her head down most of the night,
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: didn't say a lot, very unassuming, and had her mother
• 29:19
  Speaker 7: next to her. So it was... Actually, it was hard
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: to talk to her because I didn't know what to say.
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: So she got up and played a couple of songs
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: and did her thing, did a great job. And that
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: was the end of that. And lo and behold, I mean,
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: I had two or three other experiences with her over
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: the years. And, you know, look at her now. But
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: I will say... that you know of all the artists
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: that i've run into all of them there is nobody
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: better and more appreciative of uh radio people than taylor swift.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: But yeah so at 17 she gets up and sings
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: did you say to yourself she could be the biggest
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: star in music No.
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: Absolutely not. I mean, she got a nice kind of
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: golf clap from the audience, you know, but no. I mean,
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: she was fine, but absolutely not. I think that.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Hey, so Dan Mason, you're the chairman, the CEO of
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: the biggest radio company for years, and TV viewership is
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: way down, way down. But radio is pretty much holding
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: its own. What do you think is the future of radio?
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: Well, you know, they've been trying to kill off radio
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: since it began in 1920. So, you know, when color
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: TV came out in about 53 or 54 or something
• 30:31
  Speaker 7: like that, finally the naysayers all said, well, radio's dead now.
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: We've got television. And then, you know, you had satellite
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: radio come along and they said, well, now it's dead
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: for sure. And no, it kept going. And now this
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: Apple CarPlay and Android and everything else in the dash.
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: But you know what? That AM and FM radio is
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: still there.
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: It's still there. And I don't see it going anywhere.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Add podcasting to that, and you've got people spending more
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: time listening to audio than watching TV most of the time.
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: You know, it's interesting. That's a really good comment because
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: radio is not necessarily about a dumb appliance. It's audio.
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: It's companionship. If you look at a radio, it is
• 31:15
  Speaker 7: a pretty dumb appliance sitting there on somebody's desktop. But
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: they don't have a lot of those anymore. I think
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: I'm down to one radio in my whole house. But
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: it's all about audio. And then it's all about radio
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: is about making friends. That's what it's about. And that's
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: what you do at WOR. I mean, I've been listening
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: to your show this morning. And these people who are
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: calling in, they consider themselves your friends.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: They are.
• 31:39
  Speaker 7: Part of your family.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, it's a great book. We recommend it. Go
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: get it. It's on Amazon. It's Dan Mason, longtime president,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: CEO of one of the biggest radio companies. But the
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: book's called Dan Mason. It's Dan Mason. The book's called Fearless,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: The Life and Times of a Media Maverick. And it's
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: all for charity. It goes to a great charity, the
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Broadcasters Foundation of America. Dan Mason. The book is fearless.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Go to Amazon and get it. Well, Dan Mason, great
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: to talk to you. Thanks for being with us.
• 32:08
  Speaker 7: Thank you, Mark, for having me. All right.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Take care.
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: Thanks.
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: It's a lot of great stories in that book. We
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: got a lot coming up in the next hour. Don't forget.
• 32:16
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• 32:20
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• 32:22
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• 32:25
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• 32:29
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• 32:32
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• 32:36
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• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Mark Simone Show. Live from the
• 32:52
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• 32:57
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• 33:01
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• 33:03
  Speaker 2: lots to get to. And don't forget, I'm here three
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: hours every day, nine to noon. Nine to noon every day.
• 33:10
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• 33:12
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