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- 0:00Speaker 1: Now more marximone on seventen.
- 0:04Speaker 2: Or hey, it's gonna be a rain on the way.
- 0:11Speaker 2: It's gonna be a bit of a mess. It's a
- 0:13Speaker 2: grid lack alert day to day. It's because of the
- 0:15Speaker 2: World Cup. I'm not a World Cup fan. A lot
- 0:18Speaker 2: of people here just they're not soccer fans. But it's
- 0:20Speaker 2: good for everything. It's been bringing in tons of business.
- 0:23Speaker 2: A million tourists have come in spending a fortune. You know,
- 0:26Speaker 2: it's not just here. They're in Philadelphia there, and they're
- 0:29Speaker 2: all over America, all these cities. And as you heard
- 0:32Speaker 2: on the news, American tourists love it here. I mean
- 0:35Speaker 2: the foreign tourists love it here in America. They're amazed.
- 0:38Speaker 2: You know, a lot of these people are for you know,
- 0:40Speaker 2: these countries where you know, if you're living England or
- 0:44Speaker 2: anywhere else Europe, they have fake news there too, and
- 0:48Speaker 2: it's the same fake news. It's all America's. You know,
- 0:51Speaker 2: it's a dictatorship. We have a fascist. It's awful. Everybody's suffering.
- 0:55Speaker 2: The economy is in shamble. You know, they believe all that.
- 0:58Speaker 2: Many of them are stunned with they get here find
- 1:00Speaker 2: out everything is booming, and everything is happy and everything
- 1:03Speaker 2: is wonderful than we said. He's a British American.
- 1:05Speaker 3: Only thing I'm loving about the World Cup is seeing
- 1:08Speaker 3: everyday America people finally get their moment in the spotlight.
- 1:11Speaker 3: Seeing the way you've welcomed the Scots in Boston, the
- 1:14Speaker 3: Algerian folks in Kansas, the Dutch in Texas.
- 1:18Speaker 2: It's just been I had enough of that guy? What
- 1:19Speaker 2: else we got here?
- 1:21Speaker 4: Australians feel like I've been lied to my entire life
- 1:24Speaker 4: about America. Like, I mean, Florida, this beach is insane,
- 1:30Speaker 4: like just as good as Australian beaches.
- 1:33Speaker 2: Well, okay, we've got them from all over the world there.
- 1:36Speaker 2: We don't hear all of them. But they're absolutely thrilled
- 1:39Speaker 2: being here. They really love it. They are amazed by
- 1:43Speaker 2: some things they didn't know about. You know what. One
- 1:45Speaker 2: of them is ranch dressing. Many many tourists here, then
- 1:51Speaker 2: some of the World Cup players they've never had ranch dressing.
- 1:53Speaker 2: They think it's the greatest thing they've ever tasted. They're
- 1:56Speaker 2: buying tons of it and shipping it back. Ranch dressing. Now,
- 2:00Speaker 2: all the major companies that make dressing make this ranch stressing.
- 2:04Speaker 2: I'm sure they're on this already and planning to bring
- 2:07Speaker 2: it to other countries as well. One of the problems
- 2:11Speaker 2: we have in many countries there's no you don't tip
- 2:15Speaker 2: when you're in a restaurant. There's no tipping. It's built
- 2:18Speaker 2: into the bill, it's a service charger. They just don't tip.
- 2:22Speaker 2: So it's a big problem here in American restaurants and
- 2:26Speaker 2: bars where all these World Cup people are coming, because
- 2:31Speaker 2: you know, they usually come in large groups. There's like seven, eight, nine,
- 2:33Speaker 2: ten of them, and that's a big check for a waitress,
- 2:38Speaker 2: and they just don't tip. So a lot of these
- 2:40Speaker 2: restaurants don't know what to do. Kansas City, Atlanta, Philadelphia,
- 2:43Speaker 2: they're all adding automatic twenty percent gratuities to the check,
- 2:48Speaker 2: and is that that they're cheap? These people, they just
- 2:50Speaker 2: don't know you're supposed to tip. There have been a
- 2:53Speaker 2: lot of big tables. They come in, like twelve in
- 2:55Speaker 2: a group, and the check seven hundred and they don't
- 2:58Speaker 2: leave a tip, so they're having to stick this on
- 3:01Speaker 2: the check. You know, about one point two million soccer
- 3:04Speaker 2: fans have come into this area, not all foreign, but
- 3:08Speaker 2: tourists of all kinds. One point two million soccer fans
- 3:12Speaker 2: are flooding the region for the World Cup matches at
- 3:16Speaker 2: MetLife Stadium. So that's why it's an absolute mess. Every
- 3:20Speaker 2: hotel room has booked, restaurants, everything is packed, all this
- 3:24Speaker 2: World Cup stuff going on. Hey, my friend Mitch Modell,
- 3:29Speaker 2: remember Modell's the great sporting goods store. They were all
- 3:31Speaker 2: over in New York, New Jersey, actually all over the northeast.
- 3:35Speaker 2: Having a press conference today. He says he's got a
- 3:38Speaker 2: big announcement. Everybody getting impression Models is coming back. I
- 3:44Speaker 2: don't know. I talked to him Saturday. He didn't say
- 3:45Speaker 2: a word to me about anything, but we'll see. It
- 3:49Speaker 2: may be coming back. That would be good. Hey mentioned
- 3:52Speaker 2: this before Sixth Avenue. Mom Donnie had this ridiculous plan
- 3:57Speaker 2: for Park Avenue to get rid of all the car lanes,
- 4:00Speaker 2: like one car lane, expand that mall in the middle. Well,
- 4:05Speaker 2: now he's got this plan for sixth Avenue and instead
- 4:07Speaker 2: of one bus lane, two bus lanes, and instead of
- 4:11Speaker 2: one big bike lane, two big bike lanes, which would
- 4:15Speaker 2: bring Sixth Avenue down to one or two lanes of traffic,
- 4:18Speaker 2: which is absolutely ridiculous. You realize how important sixth Avenue is.
- 4:23Speaker 2: We're on Sixth Avenue. Here, Foxes on sixth Avenue, Radio
- 4:27Speaker 2: Cities on sixth Avenue, a million things. It's one of
- 4:30Speaker 2: the main if you're coming up town. It's like the
- 4:32Speaker 2: main street to come uptown on. In fact, they move
- 4:37Speaker 2: the Thanksgiving Parade a few years ago to sixth Avenue
- 4:41Speaker 2: because it's the biggest, widest avenue. So this Mom Donnie
- 4:44Speaker 2: plan would take it down to like one or two lanes.
- 4:49Speaker 2: It's gonna be absolute gridlock every day everywhere. It's the
- 4:54Speaker 2: stupidest plan in the world. But that's the kind of
- 4:57Speaker 2: stuff Mom Donnie comes up with. Iran straight of horn Moose. Well,
- 5:02Speaker 2: they're all screaming about opening this straight. Oh, hor Moose
- 5:05Speaker 2: is slightly open. What they call the Southern Route is open.
- 5:09Speaker 2: It's been open for a while. That's the part that
- 5:12Speaker 2: hugs the coast of Oman. All the mines have been
- 5:16Speaker 2: removed from there. It's perfectly safe. The US Navy is
- 5:19Speaker 2: patrolling it. Many ships have quietly been coming out of
- 5:22Speaker 2: there with lots of oil. So that's what they call
- 5:25Speaker 2: the Southern Route is open. Straight of hor Moose, and
- 5:28Speaker 2: they'll have the rest of it open pretty soon. Hey,
- 5:32Speaker 2: the horses in Central Park, we've finally had a terrible,
- 5:37Speaker 2: terrible situation. The tourists are in the carriage. They want
- 5:41Speaker 2: to take a picture in the carriage, so the driver
- 5:44Speaker 2: gets out to go ten feet away and take the
- 5:48Speaker 2: picture of them in the carriage. Now he's not in
- 5:50Speaker 2: the carriage anymore, and the horse starts running and bucking
- 5:53Speaker 2: and going crazy, and it throws the mother out of
- 5:58Speaker 2: the carriage, and it throws the kid out, and the
- 6:00Speaker 2: kid falls and hits his head and dies. I mean,
- 6:03Speaker 2: it's a horrible, horrible accident. So the people that want
- 6:08Speaker 2: to get the horses out of Central Park are up
- 6:10Speaker 2: in arms again, but this time they got a lot
- 6:13Speaker 2: of people behind them City council holding hearings. Donnie looks
- 6:16Speaker 2: like he's behind them to get those horses out of
- 6:20Speaker 2: Central Park. I don't know. I mean, my first priority
- 6:24Speaker 2: get those petticabs off the street. They are the worst,
- 6:28Speaker 2: those petticabs with that illegal alien cycling bicycling a million
- 6:34Speaker 2: miles if they're awful, they just snarl up traffic. No
- 6:36Speaker 2: reason for them. The horses are kind of something special
- 6:40Speaker 2: about those horse drawn carriages, But do we really need them?
- 6:46Speaker 1: You know?
- 6:47Speaker 2: I think Curtis said the best idea, keep the carriages,
- 6:50Speaker 2: make them electric. You don't need the horse. Keep the carriages,
- 6:52Speaker 2: get rid of the horse, make them electric. You could
- 6:54Speaker 2: do that now. Part of the charm of it is
- 6:57Speaker 2: the horse. But you may I'm electric. They don't have
- 7:01Speaker 2: the smell of the horse, they don't have the droppings
- 7:05Speaker 2: of the horse, they don't have all those other problems.
- 7:08Speaker 2: I don't know. It's a good idea to me? Is
- 7:10Speaker 2: that Bruce? We have Bruce? Oh okay, uh, you know
- 7:14Speaker 2: we got the worst governor ever. Kathy Hockle is just
- 7:17Speaker 2: an absolute disaster. Nasau County has the best county executive
- 7:21Speaker 2: in the America and that job is basically being a governor,
- 7:24Speaker 2: so he he would be the greatest governor. Bruce Blakeman
- 7:28Speaker 2: is running against Kathy Hochland. We hope he wins. You
- 7:30Speaker 2: can help, donate or whatever you want to do. Go
- 7:33Speaker 2: to Blakemanfronewyork dot com Blakeman for New York dot com.
- 7:37Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman, how you doing.
- 7:40Speaker 1: Doing good? Mark? Thank you for having me on again
- 7:43Speaker 1: and thank you for your friendship.
- 7:45Speaker 2: Well, let's hope you. Hey, I notice you've been very
- 7:47Speaker 2: busy lately. Every time we call you on a plane.
- 7:49Speaker 2: You're on that till. You've really been working hard on
- 7:51Speaker 2: this campaign, haven't you.
- 7:54Speaker 1: We have, and it's really really working out great. We're
- 7:58Speaker 1: gonna win Mark every I go in this state. People
- 8:01Speaker 1: are miserable under Kathy Hoko. They know that we are
- 8:04Speaker 1: the most overtaxed state in America, that are electric bills
- 8:07Speaker 1: are seventy percent higher than the national average, that she's
- 8:11Speaker 1: the most pro criminal governor in the whole United States
- 8:14Speaker 1: of America, and that now she is Comrade Kathy completely
- 8:20Speaker 1: aligned with Mandami, the Kami again. People are miserable here
- 8:26Speaker 1: in New York. They want a governor that'll make them happy.
- 8:30Speaker 1: Mike County people are happy, they're making money, they're not
- 8:33Speaker 1: paying high taxes. They have the safest county in America,
- 8:36Speaker 1: according to US News, and we're a report. So we
- 8:40Speaker 1: just want to apply those principles to the state. Put
- 8:42Speaker 1: New Yorkers first, stop spending money on illegal migrants who
- 8:46Speaker 1: just got here. Let's spend it on New Yorkers. So
- 8:50Speaker 1: that's what they want, and that's what I will provide
- 8:53Speaker 1: when I become governor.
- 8:54Speaker 2: Doesn't Hope realize she's been governor for many years now
- 8:57Speaker 2: that if she had had any success, she would have
- 8:59Speaker 2: a huge, huge following, a huge base, and Mamdonnie would
- 9:03Speaker 2: be catering to her. When is it supposed to work
- 9:05Speaker 2: that way?
- 9:07Speaker 1: You would think so, But again, Kathy's record is a straights.
- 9:12Speaker 1: If you look at a report card, it's straight fs.
- 9:16Speaker 1: When it comes to taxation, I'm going to cut taxes.
- 9:19Speaker 1: I want to have the biggest middle class tax cut
- 9:23Speaker 1: in the history of the state. Any individual making fifty
- 9:27Speaker 1: thousand dollars or less, you don't have to pay state
- 9:30Speaker 1: income tax. If you're a joint filer one hundred thousand,
- 9:33Speaker 1: you don't have to pay state income tax. For those
- 9:35Speaker 1: who make more, your first fifty thousand dollars, no taxes.
- 9:40Speaker 1: Because it's the middle class that drive the economy here
- 9:44Speaker 1: in New York State, and they've been taking it in
- 9:47Speaker 1: the neck for far too long with Kathy Hokeel with
- 9:50Speaker 1: the high taxes and high electric rates.
- 9:51Speaker 2: Yeah, the reason we have such a ridiculous out of
- 9:55Speaker 2: control spending. We overpay by like ten thousand percent for everything,
- 9:59Speaker 2: whether it's paving the road or you know, subway stuff.
- 10:02Speaker 2: We just overpay like crazy. And that's the business model
- 10:06Speaker 2: of these politicians. Hand out these massive contracts in exchange
- 10:09Speaker 2: for whatever. What can you do about that?
- 10:13Speaker 1: Well, we're gonna we're gonna cut out all the fraud,
- 10:15Speaker 1: waste and abuse. Mark. There has to be tremendous fraud
- 10:19Speaker 1: and waste. When you think about the fact that our
- 10:23Speaker 1: state budget is twice the amount of the state of
- 10:28Speaker 1: Florida and they have four million more people than us. Wow,
- 10:32Speaker 1: it's just wrong. We don't have a revenue problem in
- 10:35Speaker 1: the state. We have a spending problem. Kathy Hochel has
- 10:39Speaker 1: spent money on illegal migrants eight billion dollars over the
- 10:44Speaker 1: last three years, eight billion dollars. She's given another five
- 10:49Speaker 1: billion dollars to Zo Roun Mondamie to bail out New
- 10:52Speaker 1: York City, and New York City has no strings attached,
- 10:56Speaker 1: so they're continuing to spend money on pro that don't exist,
- 11:01Speaker 1: programs that have fraud, programs that have waste and abuse.
- 11:06Speaker 1: That ends on day one when I become governor. I'm
- 11:08Speaker 1: going to cut our spending. We're going to give the
- 11:11Speaker 1: money back to the people. We're going to cut our
- 11:14Speaker 1: utility rates in half by getting rid of the green
- 11:17Speaker 1: energy scam and the taxes on your bill and the
- 11:20Speaker 1: excessive delivery charges. Kathy Hochel has approved forty five rate
- 11:25Speaker 1: hikes in just four years, and no wonder why we're
- 11:28Speaker 1: paying so much in electric bills.
- 11:30Speaker 2: Hey, but the other reason is Governor Calmall also a
- 11:33Speaker 2: disaster closed Indian Point that was twenty five percent of
- 11:36Speaker 2: our electricity. And shouldn't we be fracking. Don't we have
- 11:40Speaker 2: a ton of energy right under us.
- 11:43Speaker 1: Mark, We have one of the largest natural gas reserves
- 11:46Speaker 1: in the world here in New York. We don't extract
- 11:49Speaker 1: it because Kathy Hochel doesn't get campaign contributions from people
- 11:54Speaker 1: that live there on the southern tier in New York.
- 11:57Speaker 1: On the other side of the border in Pennsylvania, they
- 12:00Speaker 1: do extract. They're driving brand new Cadillac Escalades. On the
- 12:04Speaker 1: New York side of the border, it's twenty five year old,
- 12:06Speaker 1: rusted out pickup trucks. We could create jobs, we could
- 12:09Speaker 1: create economic prosperity, and we could materially lower the cost
- 12:15Speaker 1: of electric bills in our state with this big supply
- 12:20Speaker 1: of natural gas, which is clean energy. And the worst
- 12:24Speaker 1: part of it, Mark is in Pennsylvania where they are
- 12:27Speaker 1: allowed to extract that natural gas. We're buying it from them,
- 12:33Speaker 1: so it's totally hypocritical. It's not like we're saying no
- 12:36Speaker 1: natural gas. We're buying it from Pennsylvania, hurting our own people,
- 12:40Speaker 1: hurting the all the people who are ratepayers in the
- 12:43Speaker 1: state of New York, making Pennsylvania fat. And it makes
- 12:48Speaker 1: no sense whatsoever. So yes, I will extract that natural gas.
- 12:53Speaker 1: It will lower the cost by increasing the supply, we
- 12:56Speaker 1: will have a reliable source of energy that is right
- 13:00Speaker 1: here in New York State.
- 13:02Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow, it makes so much sense. And when people say, wow,
- 13:07Speaker 2: it's tough for a Republican to get elected the demographics,
- 13:11Speaker 2: how do you answer.
- 13:12Speaker 1: That, Well, I got re elected in a landslide in
- 13:16Speaker 1: the county with one hundred and ten thousand more Democrats.
- 13:19Speaker 1: So when you provide quality services at a cost of
- 13:25Speaker 1: fision price, you don't raise taxes. You create better jobs
- 13:31Speaker 1: with better benefits, You create economic activity. And when you
- 13:36Speaker 1: support law and order in your communities and support the
- 13:41Speaker 1: blue my county is the safest county in America according
- 13:45Speaker 1: to the US News and World Report. Because we take
- 13:47Speaker 1: that seriously, that's what everybody wants. I don't care where
- 13:50Speaker 1: you're Republican, Democrat, or independent. Everybody wants the same thing.
- 13:55Speaker 1: So I'm asking everybody to go to Blakemanfromnewyork dot com,
- 14:00Speaker 1: but save this state. Make a contribution, doesn't matter what amount,
- 14:04Speaker 1: give whatever you can. If you want to volunteer, you
- 14:07Speaker 1: can sign up there you want to learn more about
- 14:10Speaker 1: the campaign. But this is a campaign to save our state,
- 14:13Speaker 1: put New Yorkers first, and make New Yorkers happy again
- 14:16Speaker 1: because they're miserable under Mundamian Hoche.
- 14:19Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go to Blakemanfroewyork dot com, Blakeman from New
- 14:23Speaker 2: York dot com. But some people will They're going to say, well,
- 14:27Speaker 2: it's give the legislature these crazy left wingers. There's no
- 14:30Speaker 2: way to get anything done with that kind of legislature.
- 14:33Speaker 2: But you've been dealing with that kind of situation in
- 14:34Speaker 2: your whole life, haven't you.
- 14:37Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what. It's a negotiation process. The governor
- 14:41Speaker 1: of the State of New York has tremendous power and
- 14:44Speaker 1: leverage over the legislature. I will use that power and
- 14:48Speaker 1: leverage to cut taxes, cut utility rates, and make your
- 14:50Speaker 1: safer communities. And it'll get process. It'll be a negotiation process.
- 14:55Speaker 1: The Democrats, they'll want some things. I understand that we'll
- 14:59Speaker 1: work it out. But as long as I can make
- 15:02Speaker 1: this a safer state, a more affordable state, and a
- 15:06Speaker 1: state that our kids and our grandkids are going to
- 15:08Speaker 1: want to stay in, then it'll be worth it.
- 15:12Speaker 2: Well, Bruce Blakeman, great stuff. Want everybody to help Bruce Blakeman,
- 15:15Speaker 2: donate the volunteer, whatever you want to do. Go to
- 15:17Speaker 2: blakemanfro New York dot com. Blakemanfromew York dot com. Hey,
- 15:21Speaker 2: and make sure you follow him on Twitter and Instagram.
- 15:24Speaker 2: Very good social media, by the way. It's it's very
- 15:27Speaker 2: well done and some very funny stuff there.
- 15:29Speaker 1: Yeah, we got forty one million views in the last month.
- 15:34Speaker 1: We're rocking and rolling.
- 15:35Speaker 2: Yeah, follow them on Instagram and Facebook and Twitter and TikTok.
- 15:40Speaker 2: You'll love it.
- 15:41Speaker 1: Well.
- 15:41Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman, good luck and we're pulling for you. Thanks
- 15:44Speaker 2: for being with us.
- 15:46Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Mark God bless you, and thank you
- 15:48Speaker 1: again for having me on your show.
- 15:50Speaker 2: All right, take care. Yeah, we want everybody to help out.
- 15:52Speaker 2: Blakemanfronew York dot com. Hey, you got primary race tomorrow,
- 15:59Speaker 2: mostly can congressional seats. You got the Bradlander and all that,
- 16:02Speaker 2: and you know legislature stuff, Bradlander. You got that crazy
- 16:07Speaker 2: wacko Kennedy kid more, But we'll be talking about that tomorrow. Hey,
- 16:11Speaker 2: we'll take some calls next. Eight hundred three two one
- 16:15Speaker 2: zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred three two
- 16:18Speaker 2: one zero seven ten