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Mark interviews political commentator Liz Peek. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Back to Mark Simone on wor Well.
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  Speaker 2: There's right now the great columnists Lizpeak. You can read
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  Speaker 2: her at Foxnews dot com. Also, you should go to
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  Speaker 2: our website. There's great news and analysis and stories there
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  Speaker 2: every day. Go to lizpeak dot com, lizpeak dot com, Lizpeak.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm terrific, always the better for talking to you.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, So no want is explain what's going on in
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  Speaker 2: the world. Here you had these Democrats, these old fossils
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  Speaker 2: like Schumer and Elizabeth Warren, and now you got the
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  Speaker 2: AOC mom, Donnie, and there's a whole bunch of them
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  Speaker 2: springing up all over the place, this whole new generation
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  Speaker 2: of crazy left lunatic democrat. Is this the result of
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  Speaker 2: colleges in doctrinating generations of kids to become like this?
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  Speaker 1: I think that's part of it, Mark, And I also
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  Speaker 1: think that Democrats, moderate Democrats have not offered a reasonable alternative.
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  Speaker 1: And I also think this, and I know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of your Democrat listeners probably disagree. But Donald Trump has
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  Speaker 1: managed to occupy the middle on many many issues, and
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  Speaker 1: so you know he is probably partly responsible, frankly for
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  Speaker 1: pushing Democrats to the left. I mean when you talk
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  Speaker 1: about crime, for example, and you know, is Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: extreme on crime? I don't think so. He wants safe streets,
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  Speaker 1: state neighborhoods. That's what most of your listeners and what
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  Speaker 1: most voters want. Immigration again, does he want a closed border? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's what most of your listeners want. So when you
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  Speaker 1: talk about things taxes and immigration and crime, and frankly
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  Speaker 1: also federal spending, Trump's in the middle on this. He's
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  Speaker 1: with most of the American people, and so Democrats have
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  Speaker 1: nowhere to go. And I think where you know, in
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  Speaker 1: the last election, people talked a lot about working class
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  Speaker 1: voters and how Democrats had lost working class voters. Who
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  Speaker 1: are working class voters. That's it's most of America, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this isn't a fringe group. This is like
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  Speaker 1: most voters. So when you lose that group, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think basically your politicians are scrambling for niche issues
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  Speaker 1: like transgender surgeries, or who can be in a locker room,
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  Speaker 1: or you know, whether illegal immigrants should be able to vote.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of crazy stuff going on
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  Speaker 1: because that's where they are. They really don't know what
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  Speaker 1: else to do.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're right, these old fossil. These Schumers and
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  Speaker 2: even Kathy Hochel or Andrew Cuomo, they're kind of just
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  Speaker 2: empty suits. You're right, they have nothing specific to offer
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  Speaker 2: any voter.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I think they are scared to death of
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  Speaker 1: the far left now because what we've seen, and it's started.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have started in sort of my consciousness anyway,
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  Speaker 1: with AOC unseating a long time moderate Democrat, establishment Democrat
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  Speaker 1: and Alexandri Cacio Cortez, if you're a member, I married him,
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  Speaker 1: and the guy was so complacent, so sure of himself
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  Speaker 1: that he didn't even debate her. Remember her debating the
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  Speaker 1: empty chair. So that was kind of a shot across
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  Speaker 1: about to people who have been in office for a
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  Speaker 1: long time. And Chuck Schumer right now is the face
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  Speaker 1: of this because he is I mean, I was, I
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  Speaker 1: think one of the first to come out and say
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be a shutdown because he is Chuck
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  Speaker 1: Schumer scared a death of AOC and he is not
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  Speaker 1: going to want to bend to any reasonable even reasonable
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  Speaker 1: requests from the Democrats, I mean, excuse me, from the Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what's happened. I mean, polling has shown that
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  Speaker 1: AOC could probably beat Chuck Schumer in a primary, just
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  Speaker 1: like Mom Donnie is beating Andrew Cuomo. Andrew Clomo was
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  Speaker 1: a horrible governor, and so it's not surprising to me
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  Speaker 1: that people aren't turning out to vote for him. But
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  Speaker 1: the reality is, Mom Donnie is like a cartoon challenger, right.
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  Speaker 1: He has no experience, nothing but words, words, words. It's
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  Speaker 1: like the old My Fair Ladies, bobbot Henry Higgins. You know,
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  Speaker 1: nothing he's done will suggest that he can run anything,
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  Speaker 1: much less a city of the complexity of New York.
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  Speaker 1: I really think it's an astonishing thing that's happening right
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  Speaker 1: before our eyes, Mark, and I don't know what can
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  Speaker 1: change it at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. But these younger voters, highly educated, Well, how could
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  Speaker 2: they be so stupid? It's to fall for free buses
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  Speaker 2: and the free rent and the government grocery store. Do
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  Speaker 2: they really believe all this stuff could happen?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's a good question. There was an article that
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  Speaker 1: I read with some amusement in the New York Times
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  Speaker 1: from an opinion writer saying, well, it's not really the vibe.
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  Speaker 1: And no, I don't really believe in his programs because
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  Speaker 1: probably he can't get much of that done. But I
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  Speaker 1: just want someone who's really ready to shake things up
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  Speaker 1: and outside or saying, you know, it's a little bit
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  Speaker 1: like Donald Trump. No it's not. Donald Trump actually had accomplishment.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't just a political faker. You know. He had
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  Speaker 1: built buildings, he had run companies, and he had a
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  Speaker 1: very long history of solid opinions on things like taxes
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  Speaker 1: and deregulation and issues that could be helpful to the
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  Speaker 1: country and certainly could be helpful to New York. This
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  Speaker 1: guy has no such accomplishments. All he does he's very
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  Speaker 1: anti Semitic, he's very anti Israel, which really should put
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  Speaker 1: him at odds with a lot of New York voters,
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  Speaker 1: but hasn't seemed to move the dial. It looks like
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  Speaker 1: he's been taking money from overseas donors when that's illegal.
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  Speaker 1: And so the answer to question is young people are
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  Speaker 1: along for the ride. They don't really understand. I don't
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  Speaker 1: believe the gravity of it. They don't own homes in
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  Speaker 1: New York, they're not owning businesses. They don't know how
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  Speaker 1: fragile any city is. And I've lived through the downs
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  Speaker 1: in New York City. It's not fun and they're about
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  Speaker 1: to experience that. I think so. And by the way, yes,
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  Speaker 1: the schools are reprehensible. I mean, we have not taught
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  Speaker 1: kids anything useful in probably thirty years, and that is
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  Speaker 1: probably an understatement.
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  Speaker 2: Well, well, great analysis. Hey, speaking of Israel, Joe Biden
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  Speaker 2: pointing out that he's the one that laid the groundwork
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  Speaker 2: for this piece deal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's sad, isn't it to see these
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  Speaker 1: people coming out and saying, oh, yeah, Joe Biden released
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  Speaker 1: more hostages. Okay, it was easy to release the early
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  Speaker 1: hostages because that was not a big bargaining ship for
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  Speaker 1: hamas it was the last hostages that was you had
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  Speaker 1: to fight for tooth and nail. But look, Joe Biden's
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  Speaker 1: Middle East policy began I think the second day in
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  Speaker 1: office where he went out of his way to insult
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  Speaker 1: Mohammed ben Salomon, the ruler de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia,
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  Speaker 1: that the son of the king. And let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you something, from that moment on, basically he lost the
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  Speaker 1: goodwill not only of Saudi Arabia. Remember him going hat
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  Speaker 1: in hand begging for more oil because he knew gas
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  Speaker 1: prices in America were going up. And he would be
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  Speaker 1: blamed politically for that, and the Saudis robuffed him because
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  Speaker 1: they can't stand him, but also the whole Arab world
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  Speaker 1: couldn't stand him, and in particular because he constantly he
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  Speaker 1: went back to the Obama era handing, putting their hand
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  Speaker 1: out to help Iran, to bring Iran into the Family
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  Speaker 1: of Nations, a country that has never renounced is hatred
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  Speaker 1: for israel Is determination to obliterate not only Israel, but
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  Speaker 1: to attack the United States. That is not our friend
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  Speaker 1: in the Middle East, the Arab golf countries. Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: has played this exactly right. They have a vested interest
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  Speaker 1: in stability in working with the United States. But honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I wrote about it back literally his first month in office, saying,
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  Speaker 1: guess why gas prices are so Ohio folks, Not what
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  Speaker 1: you think is because of Muhammed bin Salman, who constantly
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  Speaker 1: restricted supply. What's he doing now He's pushing Opek to
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  Speaker 1: increase supply. Oil prices are low. Americans are happy with that.
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  Speaker 1: And also the Arabs are going to be our helper,
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  Speaker 1: I hope in achieving piece.
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  Speaker 2: In Theddle East Well, Liz Peak brilliant as always. Now
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  Speaker 2: your columns Foxnews dot com worlds, can we get them?
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you for mentioning my website, lizpeak dot com. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: p e e K. Everything's there, including things my daily rant,
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  Speaker 1: so to speak, which sadly is not daily because I
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  Speaker 1: just don't have that much time. But I do put
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  Speaker 1: out pieces there that I simply had some fun with,
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  Speaker 1: and like today was about the Nobel Literature Prize, which
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  Speaker 1: was beyond idiotic. They gave the Nobel Prize. My point was,
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  Speaker 1: don't feel too bad about the Peace Prize. Look what
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  Speaker 1: they did with the literature. They gave the prize to
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  Speaker 1: a guy who wrote a four hundred page book that
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  Speaker 1: only has one period. It's an entire book with one sentence.
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  Speaker 1: It's so stupid. I can't get my head around it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, if you want to read some great to
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  Speaker 2: read that and other great stories and columns liz Peak.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great site. New stuff every day, lizpeak dot com. Lizpeak,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me. Take care, Take care.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't forget Buck and Clay excellent show every day.
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