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

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  Speaker 1: You're ahead of the game just for being here. It's
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  Speaker 1: marks alone on sevent tenor.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's Friday Opening day at Yankee Stadium today, at
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  Speaker 2: the big event every year. It's gonna be nice. It
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  Speaker 2: should be nice later today, sun'll come out. It should
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  Speaker 2: be nice tomorrow. It looks like rain on Easter Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: The Easter Parade takes place on Fifth Avenue forty ninth
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  Speaker 2: to fifty seventh Street, but it looks like it'll rain
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  Speaker 2: throughout the parade on Sunday. So Iran is claiming it's
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  Speaker 2: shot down a US fighter jet and that the pilot
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  Speaker 2: is missing. Now this has not been confirmed by anybody.
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  Speaker 2: This is Iran claiming this. They put out a picture
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  Speaker 2: of the jet they shot down, saying it's an F
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  Speaker 2: thirty five, but US officials looking at it say it's
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  Speaker 2: clearly not. They can tell from the pieces it's an
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  Speaker 2: F fifteen. And it should be pointed out Iran has
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  Speaker 2: a history of claiming to have shot down US jets
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  Speaker 2: when they didn't, So we don't know if this is
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  Speaker 2: real or not real. And again Iran has light about
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  Speaker 2: it before. If it's true the pilot is missing, Iran
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  Speaker 2: has said to their public. They will pay a huge
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  Speaker 2: reward for anybody that can find the American pilot and
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  Speaker 2: turn him in. The US has launched a search operation
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  Speaker 2: inside Iran. Now again. Iran has a history of claiming
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  Speaker 2: to have shot down a US plane when they haven't.
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  Speaker 2: But I would imagine that our military knows where all
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  Speaker 2: their planes are, and I would imagine they can tell
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  Speaker 2: if they've lost a plane or not lost the plane.
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  Speaker 2: And they do say there is a search operation underway.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll keep on top of that for you. Tiger Woods. Well,
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  Speaker 2: he got permission to leave the country to go get treatment,
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  Speaker 2: big big rehabilitation, rehabit tree overseas, which will get him
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  Speaker 2: out of the spotlight, he hopes for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: More and more coming out about at the scene. The
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  Speaker 2: cops show up. They know immediately who he is, and
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  Speaker 2: they talked to him. They're going to do some test,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you walk the line and all that kind
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  Speaker 2: of stuff. But they asked him to wait in the
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  Speaker 2: car while they go do some stuff. And apparently at
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  Speaker 2: one point he got out of the car and started
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  Speaker 2: wandering a little and he wandered down the road and
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  Speaker 2: he picked you know, he was on his phone. He
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  Speaker 2: was making some sort of a phone call, wandering down
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  Speaker 2: the road away from them, making this phone call, and
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  Speaker 2: then he wandered back, and as he got back towards
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  Speaker 2: the cops, they can hear him saying into the phone, well,
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  Speaker 2: thank you so much, all right, you got it. Bye,
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  Speaker 2: And he then said to the cops, Wow, I was
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  Speaker 2: just talking with the president. Now. Is that to impress
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  Speaker 2: the cops? I was just talking to the President of
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  Speaker 2: the United States. That generally, I mean, it's impressive you're
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  Speaker 2: talking to the president of United States. It's been in
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  Speaker 2: a situation like that. It's more confusing the cops now.
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  Speaker 2: They don't know whether you're lying, what to think of you?
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  Speaker 2: Why are you telling him? This a strange thing to say,
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  Speaker 2: really strange thing to say. But if you look at
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  Speaker 2: outside of that, you look at the bodycam footage, there's
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  Speaker 2: nothing really bad in there. At one point where they
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  Speaker 2: put him in the car to take them away, you
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  Speaker 2: can hear him say, this is fun, all right. I
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  Speaker 2: guess he's being sarcastic with himself. So he wasn't drunk.
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  Speaker 2: He took a breathalyzer. There was no alcohol in his system,
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  Speaker 2: so it's not like he was. You know, look really drunk.
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  Speaker 2: He did have trouble with They give you this test.
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  Speaker 2: We got to walk a straight line. Have you ever
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  Speaker 2: tried that? Go? Try it totally sober. It's hard to do.
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't good on the test, but those tests are
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  Speaker 2: very hard to do. It's really tough. But we won't
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  Speaker 2: hear much about it.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: He'll go overseas to some rehab center. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: where it's going to be. He'll go away for months
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  Speaker 2: and months. Who knows, maybe I'll never come back. But
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  Speaker 2: he's going to try to just stay over there as
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  Speaker 2: long as possible avoid this trial, which could send him
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  Speaker 2: to jail. And when you're on your third or fourth offense,
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  Speaker 2: you most likely will go to jail and then the
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  Speaker 2: lawyers behind the scenes will try to try to work
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  Speaker 2: out something. And we were talking about the ballroom before
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  Speaker 2: President Trump. This was great. He was talking about no kings.
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  Speaker 2: They call me king. Now do you believe it?
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  Speaker 3: No King, I'm such you're king.
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  Speaker 2: I can't get a ballroom approved. So it is strange
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  Speaker 2: that he can't get this ballroom approved. It's a great idea.
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  Speaker 2: Presidents have always wanted the ballroom. It's kind of stupid
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  Speaker 2: that we don't have a place to hold a big
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  Speaker 2: event at the White House. Get if they do a
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  Speaker 2: big event, they got to put a tent on the
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  Speaker 2: lawn and it looks like a cheesy wedding in Long Island.
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  Speaker 2: So the ballroom's a good idea, and if you're going
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  Speaker 2: to do it, you might as well do it when
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  Speaker 2: you got the greatest ballroom builder in the world in
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  Speaker 2: the White House.
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  Speaker 3: Part of his opinion.
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  Speaker 2: Now the court rules against it and says he has
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  Speaker 2: no authority to do it, but he's got a good
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  Speaker 2: point here. It's not a government expense. If the government
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  Speaker 2: were paying for it, if he was going to use
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  Speaker 2: the government's money, maybe then you should get congressional approval.
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  Speaker 2: But there's no government money.
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  Speaker 3: Part of his opinion. But basically he's saying I need
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  Speaker 3: congressional approval, and he's so wrong. This is being financed privately.
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  Speaker 3: It's a donation that's being given by companies, very rich companies,
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  Speaker 3: very rich people. The ballroom is a donation. It's gotten
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  Speaker 3: great reviews, people love it, and presidents for one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and fifty years have wanted this ballroom to be built.
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  Speaker 2: So I guess the again, it's a crazy left wing judge.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a bow tie on, he's got those bizarre eyebrows.
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  Speaker 2: He's a weird looking guy, left wing, you know, an
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  Speaker 2: NPR listening ms NOW type of a judge. So he's
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  Speaker 2: just out to stop President Trump from doing anything. But
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  Speaker 2: I guess the argument would be because the judge said,
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  Speaker 2: he's he doesn't own the White House, he's merely the steward.
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  Speaker 2: So in other words, if I guess, what he's saying is,
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  Speaker 2: if you rent an Airbnb, you don't have the right
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  Speaker 2: to remodel the house while you're there, build an addition
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  Speaker 2: onto it. It's not your house. I guess that's what
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  Speaker 2: he said. But who says Congress has the right over
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  Speaker 2: the White House? You know, it's supposed to be a
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  Speaker 2: separation of powers, three branches of government. Why would the
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  Speaker 2: legislative branch be allowed to determine what the executive branch does.
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  Speaker 2: The executive branch controls the White House, I guess, And
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  Speaker 2: so the argument is to stop Now, there have been
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  Speaker 2: plenty of changes to the White House without Congressional approval.
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  Speaker 2: You know who it was, it FDR. Somebody decided they
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  Speaker 2: want a pool, so they took one room and built
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  Speaker 2: a swimming pool right in the White House, big swimming
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  Speaker 2: pool without congressional approval, and a lot of stuff happened
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  Speaker 2: in that pool. That's where JFK had those two hookers
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  Speaker 2: come and went with him, Pixie and Dixie or whatever
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  Speaker 2: their names were. That's where Lyndon Johnson would swim, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's where Joe Biden would go swimming when he was
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  Speaker 2: I think when he was vice president or president he would,
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  Speaker 2: but he would. This is kind of disgusting. Joe Biden
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  Speaker 2: would swim naked. And part of his Secret Service detail
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  Speaker 2: where female, and they hated looking at him naked. It
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  Speaker 2: was awkward, it was inappropriate. And you see how shriveled
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  Speaker 2: up he looks on the outside. When an old prune
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  Speaker 2: is I can imagine having a look at Joe Biden
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  Speaker 2: naked swimming in the pool. President Trump comes in and
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  Speaker 2: has no use for a swimming pool, and he has
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  Speaker 2: it covered up and he builds that the press room
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  Speaker 2: was not very big. They didn't have a big press room,
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  Speaker 2: so he decides to build a better one and they
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  Speaker 2: cover up the pool and build it over the swimming pool.
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  Speaker 2: Now all of this is without congressional approval. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of things are done without congressional approval. You could argue, well,
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  Speaker 2: the ballroom is different, it's so massive, it's almost the
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  Speaker 2: same as the whole White House. It's such a big change.
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  Speaker 2: But again, if you're allowed to change stuff without congressional approval,
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  Speaker 2: I think he'll win this in the end. He should
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  Speaker 2: win this in the end. To see, you'll get these
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  Speaker 2: crazy judges that mean's the kind of thing. I'll go
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  Speaker 2: to the Supreme Court and it'll probably come down to
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  Speaker 2: executive branch can do this without congressional approval. It's their building.
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  Speaker 2: Congress you know, changes things. Sometimes, they'll make a big
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  Speaker 2: change in the in the Capitol building. They'll build something new,
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  Speaker 2: they'll add a wing, they'll change the entrance. They'll do it.
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  Speaker 2: They don't have to go get executive branch approval. They
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  Speaker 2: don't have to get approval from the president. So it
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  Speaker 2: should work both ways. So now, who would you say
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  Speaker 2: if you ask Sharon Stone? Now, think of Sharon Stone.
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  Speaker 2: She's made a lot of movies with a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: If you asked her who is the greatest kisser in Hollywood?
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  Speaker 2: Who would she pick out of all her leading men?
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  Speaker 2: Sharon Stone, Well, she was asked that on Radio Andy
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  Speaker 2: podcast yesterday without hesitation, she said, Robert de Niro. She said,
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  Speaker 2: Robert de Niro the best kisser in the business. He
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  Speaker 2: was the greatest kisser. Sharon Stone, now sixty eight, said,
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  Speaker 2: and Casino, there were a couple of scenes where the
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  Speaker 2: kiss he gave her was unbelievable. It said he just
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  Speaker 2: kissed her right out of her shoes. In fact, there
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  Speaker 2: was one where the kiss was unbelievable. And then Scorsese said,
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  Speaker 2: that's good, that's good, or do you want to do
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  Speaker 2: another text? She goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, give me another text.
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  Speaker 2: She so, Hey, it's possible de Niro could be the
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  Speaker 2: greatest kisser in how it's possible. Not the brightest guy
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  Speaker 2: in the world. But he's now eighty two. No response
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  Speaker 2: from him yet. She also did say he was an
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  Speaker 2: actor that I admired the most. He was the actor
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  Speaker 2: I admired most and wanted to act with. So she
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  Speaker 2: kind of idolized the guy. Sometimes the kiss is better
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  Speaker 2: if it's a guy you happen to idolize that that
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  Speaker 2: can make a big differen Hey, you're going to see
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  Speaker 2: crime numbers coming down, mom. Donnie will take credit for that,
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  Speaker 2: and he deserves credit because he's figured out a way
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  Speaker 2: to bring the crime numbers down. Change the way you
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  Speaker 2: count them, changed the system for counting them. It's like
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  Speaker 2: the anti Semitic hate crimes. He brought the number down
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  Speaker 2: by changing the way they count them. He used to
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  Speaker 2: count them by whenever anybody calls nine to one one
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  Speaker 2: because of an anti Semitic attack, that counts. Now he's
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  Speaker 2: changed it too. There's a committee that will decide if
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  Speaker 2: it was a hate crime or not, and they'll tell
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  Speaker 2: you if it counts. Same thing with the crime statistics.
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  Speaker 2: You can change the way they count them, and that
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  Speaker 2: can bring the number down. But that doesn't stop from
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  Speaker 2: bragging about it.
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  Speaker 1: Each of these numbers paint a picture of a safer,
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  Speaker 1: more welcoming city for our fellow New Yorkers, and they
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  Speaker 1: tell a story that statistics can never fully capture. Countless
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  Speaker 1: subway rides, evening walks, and trips to the park that
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  Speaker 1: ended exactly as they should have, boringly without incidents.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well again, Hey, crime is pretty good for if
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  Speaker 2: you're out there in the suburbs or out there somewhere
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  Speaker 2: in America. You're listening to think. So it's too dangerous
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  Speaker 2: to most of Manhattan is very, very safe. There's not
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  Speaker 2: a lot of crime here. There is a crime in
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  Speaker 2: New York, but it's contained mostly in eight precincts. If
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  Speaker 2: you're in the middle of Manhattan, if you haven't been
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  Speaker 2: here in the years, and you come into right here
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  Speaker 2: in Midtown and walk around, it's absolutely fine. Looks like
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  Speaker 2: it looks like it always looked. Mom Donnie get into
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  Speaker 2: a huge fight with the city council. We got really lucky.
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  Speaker 2: You get the craziest, most left wing kook of a
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  Speaker 2: socialist mayor elected. We got really lucky that somehow the
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  Speaker 2: city council. I mean, they're going to elect a Democrat
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  Speaker 2: to be their speaker. It's always gonna be a Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: But we got really lucky. They picked a moderate, common
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  Speaker 2: sense Democrat, Julie Men and she has stood up to
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  Speaker 2: Mom Donnie on a lot of things. Mom Donnie wants
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  Speaker 2: to go crazy raising taxes, raising property taxes. It's absolutely insane.
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  Speaker 2: All you do is lose people and you lose revenue.
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  Speaker 2: Every time you raise taxes and raised property tax you'll
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  Speaker 2: lose revenue. People leave. You know, if you were one
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  Speaker 2: of these states, Texas, Florida, there's a lot of states
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  Speaker 2: where they got rid of all the taxes, and all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden they take in twice as much money
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  Speaker 2: because everybody starts moving there, business booms, the economy grows.
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  Speaker 2: But when he wanted to do this crazy tax raise
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  Speaker 2: and he's got his army ready to go to all
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  Speaker 2: billion push for it, city council speaker Julie Mennon stands
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  Speaker 2: up to him and said, if you got a five
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  Speaker 2: billion dollar deficit in your budget, which is out of
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty eight billion, you cut five billion
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  Speaker 2: and costs. You don't raise the taxes, that'll just make
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  Speaker 2: you lose money. You cut costs, and she proposed a
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  Speaker 2: whole bunch of it's easy to do. Most of that
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  Speaker 2: budget is waist fraud bloat. You could cut the budget
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  Speaker 2: in half easily without cutting any services. It's just all
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  Speaker 2: the waste in fraud. So she proposed some minor cuts
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  Speaker 2: and he went nuts. Mom Donnie made a video, a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of videos. That's what he does best. He's not
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  Speaker 2: a management guy, doesn't know how to run anything, but
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  Speaker 2: he's an Instagram guy. He's a TikTok guy. So he
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  Speaker 2: went out and made videos attacking this, saying that it's
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  Speaker 2: a doomsday scenario. City services would be cut, everybody's going
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  Speaker 2: to starve to death. But he put out all these
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  Speaker 2: videos and then she just lashed out at him. This
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  Speaker 2: is deeply misleading, potentially harmful. Even Democrats started to attack
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  Speaker 2: Mom Donnie. He said, I thought this would be different.
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  Speaker 2: I thought things would be better. So Mam Donnie got
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  Speaker 2: a hell of a backlash even from Democrats for his crazy,
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  Speaker 2: over the top videos. And even the Socialists aren't backing
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  Speaker 2: him on this, so that's pretty good news. Even the
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  Speaker 2: socialists have attacked him on this. Now, the mayor's videos
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  Speaker 2: he put up got two and a half million views.
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  Speaker 2: That's pretty good. But a council source also said, besides
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  Speaker 2: the backlash, Mom Donnie is burning a lot of bridges
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  Speaker 2: with lawmakers. This is standard stuff. Budget negotiation is pretty standard.
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  Speaker 2: You don't burn your bridges over this. Hey, Well take
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  Speaker 2: some calls next. Eight hundred three two one zero seven
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  Speaker 2: ten is the number. Eight hundred three two one zero
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  Speaker 2: seven ten