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Bruce Blakeman | Nassau County Executive | 07-17-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: When I'm inducted officially into the New York Broadcasting Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame in October at that beautiful luncheon at the
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  Speaker 1: Rainbow Room. Guess who's going in with me? Rosanna Scatto.
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  Speaker 1: So Scotto had the governor on yesterday. And anybody with
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  Speaker 1: a half of brain knows that these data centers are
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  Speaker 1: not only important, but they provide ready for this word jobs.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman is the current Nassau County Executive. He won
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  Speaker 1: it with a second consecutive time, getting a lot of
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  Speaker 1: votes from Democrats and independents. He's running for governor. He's
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  Speaker 1: my brother. Here is the great Bruce Blakeman. Brucey, good morning, pal,
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  Speaker 1: how are you?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning? Said, We're doing great.
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  Speaker 1: I know you guys are, and I know because I've
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  Speaker 1: got a spy in your office every day.
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  Speaker 3: Happens to be my son.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to that later, but let me get to
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  Speaker 1: these data centers. Here is another example of Kathy Hokel
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  Speaker 1: costing New York jobs.
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  Speaker 2: This is an act of economic cowardice and malpractice on
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  Speaker 2: the part of Governor. Hockel said, there is a way
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  Speaker 2: to get this done where it can be a win
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  Speaker 2: win win. You sit down with the data center developers
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  Speaker 2: and local governments and other community people of interest, utility companies,
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  Speaker 2: and you figure out how to make it work. If
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  Speaker 2: there is a water problem, you make sure that there's
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  Speaker 2: a water recirculation element to the project so that the
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  Speaker 2: water keeps recirculating. If there's a utility problem, you make
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  Speaker 2: the dentist data center provide its own power generation, and
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  Speaker 2: on top of that, you let them sell for a
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  Speaker 2: minimal costs the excess energy to the grid to bring
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  Speaker 2: down people utility costs, and you provide tax abatements to
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  Speaker 2: people who live around the data centers so their taxes
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  Speaker 2: are reduced. So you cut their taxes, you cut their
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  Speaker 2: utility costs, and you put in data centers that create
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  Speaker 2: jobs that will be employing carpenters, electricians, plumbers, steam fitters
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  Speaker 2: to do the work to build these places, and you
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  Speaker 2: get along with the future of an industry that is
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  Speaker 2: now the fastest growing industry in America. But Kathy Hoko,
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  Speaker 2: she has continuously made blunders and huge mistakes that now
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  Speaker 2: have US ranked fifty fifty out of fifty states at
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  Speaker 2: the very bottom of economic outlook and economic development. And
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  Speaker 2: that's why people are leaving the state. They're looking for
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  Speaker 2: job in other places, and that's why businesses don't want
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  Speaker 2: to locate here. When I become governor, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: sit down with all the stakeholders and figure this thing
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  Speaker 2: out and get it done, so it's a win win
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  Speaker 2: win for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what is she complaining about? You have to because
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  Speaker 1: this is a little look. This is some pretty good
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  Speaker 1: inside baseball stuff. A lot of my listeners I stole
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  Speaker 1: from Boomerisciasin, so they're getting ready to watch the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: and the Dodgers later on tonight.
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  Speaker 3: You just explained it. It sounds like it's a.
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  Speaker 1: Great opportunity for people in any one of these states
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  Speaker 1: to build these data centers.
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  Speaker 3: What is she bitching about? What's her problem?
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  Speaker 2: Well, there are legitimate concerns. The number one concern is
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  Speaker 2: energy generation, because these data centers require a lot of energy.
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  Speaker 2: So the developers have said, we will produce on site
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  Speaker 2: the power generation not only for our data center, but
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  Speaker 2: we'll provide extra for this around in community, or we
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  Speaker 2: will rebuild your existing power plans to increase the capacity.
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  Speaker 2: They're willing to invest money in that. The data centers
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  Speaker 2: require a tremendous amount of water. There's new technology now
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  Speaker 2: with recirculation systems, so you can make it mandatory for
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  Speaker 2: the recirculation of water at the data centers. So there
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  Speaker 2: are solutions to the problems. But there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: misinformation out there, and it is coming from the left.
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  Speaker 2: It's coming from China who doesn't want us to beat
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  Speaker 2: them in this AI race. AI is the fastest growing
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  Speaker 2: industry in the world. For New York to completely shut
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  Speaker 2: themselves out of it is another reason why we are
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  Speaker 2: in a death spiral here in New York. The most
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  Speaker 2: overtax day utility costs seventy percent higher than the national average,
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  Speaker 2: and unsafe communities because Kathy ho Goals lack leadership and
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  Speaker 2: now she's partnered with Zorron Mandami, who is completely clueless
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to economic development as a communists. So
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  Speaker 2: the two of them together are trying to destroy our state.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to let that happen. I will be
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  Speaker 2: the governor on January first, and we will find solutions
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  Speaker 2: to these problems. We will make AI data centers work
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  Speaker 2: for the communities that they that they go into, and
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  Speaker 2: those communities will want them, provided that there are enough
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  Speaker 2: incentives to make sure that the surrounding communities are happy
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  Speaker 2: with the data centers, which I believe will happen because
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  Speaker 2: it's happening in every other state it is.
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  Speaker 1: And you mentioned the people leaving, and they all leaving.
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  Speaker 1: I know, you know, John Kamtumtit. Thank God is still here.
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  Speaker 1: We love John and others. You know, Bill Ackman is
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  Speaker 1: still here, and Grippin still has some stuff here, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but people are leaving. I think I saw a number
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  Speaker 1: like eleven billion in tax money basically out the door,
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  Speaker 1: you know, years and years ago. You remember, Bruce, before
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  Speaker 1: you ran for God, she actually told us to leave,
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  Speaker 1: he said, day leez Elden, President Trump, Sid Rosenberg, hop
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  Speaker 1: on a plane.
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  Speaker 3: See you.
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  Speaker 1: I was down in Fort Lauderdale a couple of months ago,
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  Speaker 1: and that was when she was begging New Yorkers to
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  Speaker 1: come back, and I joked around. I made a tweet,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm on the beach in Port Laudadale trying
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  Speaker 1: to convince New Yorker has to come back to a
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  Speaker 1: state where they want to overtax you with a mayor
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  Speaker 1: who hates Americans and.
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  Speaker 3: Jews, come on home. And I think it got like
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  Speaker 3: three million weak tweets but the.
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  Speaker 1: Truth is she has invited invited New Yorkers to leave
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  Speaker 1: for years.
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  Speaker 2: This is someone who is completely out of touch. Doesn't
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  Speaker 2: understand that when high net worth individuals leave, they take
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  Speaker 2: their tax revenue with them, So who has to sell
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  Speaker 2: that gap? The burden falls on middle class taxpayers. And
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  Speaker 2: when those rich people leave, who does it hurt. It
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  Speaker 2: hurts the waiter, the waitress, the electrician, the plumber, the carpenter,
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  Speaker 2: the cleaner, the local dry cleaner, the local pharmacy. It
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  Speaker 2: has a ripple effect in a diletorious way on the economy.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why New York is last in economic outlook.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the things she said on Rosanna's show yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: and it just shows her antipathy for people around this state,
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  Speaker 2: she said people upstate don't have the sophistication to deal
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  Speaker 2: with the people in the AI.
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  Speaker 3: I heard that. I heard to say that, and that's.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to me. I have traveled to every nook and cranny,
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  Speaker 2: every corner of the state, and I can tell you
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  Speaker 2: that I have found really, really bright, sophisticated, articulate people
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  Speaker 2: located throughout the state, whether they're farmers, whether they're working
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  Speaker 2: in in in blue cot jobs to have what Kathy
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  Speaker 2: Hokle doesn't have, Sid sense.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but here's where I'm going to agree with her.
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  Speaker 1: But it's her fault because I was just at my
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  Speaker 1: mom's house in White Lakes last Connie Younger Lake, New York,
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  Speaker 1: two weekends ago, Bruce. She's exactly five miles from Monticello.
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  Speaker 1: Those people barely have teeth. I'm being serious, let alone
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  Speaker 1: income or smarts. Because the last couple of governors, Andrew
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  Speaker 1: Cuomo Kathy Hulkel, who promised to help the people in Monticello,
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  Speaker 1: in Rochester, in Binghamton, in Syracuse, in Utica, promise to
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  Speaker 1: help them, have left them behind. And these people are
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  Speaker 1: drug addled, they don't have jobs, and quite frankly, they're
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  Speaker 1: not sophisticated. But that's because the leadership has basically left.
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  Speaker 3: Them to die. As todd Hood, He'll tell you first hand.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, Sid, there are pockets of abjects poverty
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  Speaker 2: throughout the state of New York created by Kathy hoche
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  Speaker 2: especially on the southern tier of our state where she
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  Speaker 2: won't let extraction of natural guests. But let me tell
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  Speaker 2: you something. I've talked to a lot of people in
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  Speaker 2: small towns upstate. I talk to a lot of farmers.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tell you something. They're sharp, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: and I wouldn't take them for granted. You know. It's
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  Speaker 2: like what Kathy Hochel said that that, quite frankly, I
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  Speaker 2: thought was racist when she said that black kids in
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  Speaker 2: the Bronx don't know what a computer is. Yes, she did.
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  Speaker 2: She has an antipathy towards people. She's an elitist. And
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  Speaker 2: and the fact that she would say something like that.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, uh, you know, I'm of the generation
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  Speaker 2: where I'm not the most technologically savvy. Okay, I can
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  Speaker 2: tell you right now that the majority, the vast majority
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  Speaker 2: of black kids in the Bronx or any other place
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  Speaker 2: are better on a computer than I am.
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  Speaker 3: Me too, well, that is that is absolutely a racist remark.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely well, it's like what she said about people upstate,
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  Speaker 2: lumping them all together. And she has this superiority complex
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  Speaker 2: that she knows better than anybody else what's best for
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  Speaker 2: our families. She wants to have government parent our children.
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  Speaker 2: This nonsense of ges stating parent a nonjest dating parent
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  Speaker 2: instead of calling them moms and dads or mothers and fathers.
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  Speaker 2: This is all part of her superiority complex where she
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  Speaker 2: thinks she should be able to control our lives and
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  Speaker 2: she's doing a miserable job. She is or repacts. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: seventy higher utility rates. How do you explain.
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  Speaker 3: That you can't. That's why people will And what is
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  Speaker 3: her issue?
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman, my man, Bruce, the next governor here in
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  Speaker 1: New York, write it down right now.
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  Speaker 3: What is an issue with Dan Stoves? What's the problem there?
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't fit into her green energy scam dogma. She
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  Speaker 2: is engaged in a scam on the ratepayers of everybody
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  Speaker 2: who pays an electric bill in the state of New York,
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  Speaker 2: where every time you make a payment, a portion goes
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  Speaker 2: to a fund that she controls, where they invest in
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  Speaker 2: science projects that produce very little energy. It's very costly,
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  Speaker 2: Like the solar farms in upstate New York that were
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  Speaker 2: under snow for four months. How's that going to produce
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  Speaker 2: any energy? But somebody made a lot of money off
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  Speaker 2: of that sid and somebody got a lot of political
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  Speaker 2: contributions from that. And how about sixty story wind turbines
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  Speaker 2: out in the middle of the ocean. Now, I talk
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  Speaker 2: to contractors and developers every single day and I asked them,
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  Speaker 2: is it cost efficient to build in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: the ocean. You gotta barge everything out there. It's dependent
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  Speaker 2: on weather, it's dependent on tides. You probably only get
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  Speaker 2: two days a week of work. It's insane when we
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  Speaker 2: have one of the largest natural gas reserves in our
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  Speaker 2: state and Kathy Hlkel won't let us use it. It
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  Speaker 2: would dramatically increase the supply, it would make us more
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  Speaker 2: secure with the electric grid, and it would bring down
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  Speaker 2: energy costs. It would create jobs and prosperity in our state.
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  Speaker 2: And here's the stupidest thing about it. She won't let
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  Speaker 2: us do it in New York State, but she's buying
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  Speaker 2: the same natural gas from Pennsylvania. Come on, come on, dumb.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's not only dumb. It's killing us. It's just
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  Speaker 3: killing us. I mean, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And the other thing you talked about, somebody's making money.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not accusing her necessarily, but you go back
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  Speaker 1: to COVID way before you ran for governor, there was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of rumors about her and her husband and
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  Speaker 1: masks and all the things that she wanted for New Yorkers.
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  Speaker 1: Where's some of that money?
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  Speaker 3: Meant?
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's out there, or those memorabilia stands
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  Speaker 1: at the football stadium with the Buffalo bills.
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  Speaker 3: All that stuff is out there. I'm not accusing her
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  Speaker 3: of anything. I'm telling you all that stuff is out there.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes when there's smoke, there really is a fire.
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  Speaker 1: I do want to clear up one thing this state
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  Speaker 1: and city. There are a bunch of horrible liberal losers.
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  Speaker 1: They white terrible things about me all the time. They
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  Speaker 1: actually accused me. You ready for this. They accused me
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  Speaker 1: of inspiring the guy that dropped the bombs at Gracy
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  Speaker 1: Mansion until they bound out it was two IS's guys.
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  Speaker 1: But the first story they wrote accuse me of inspiring
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  Speaker 1: some white supremacist to bomb Gracie Mansion. They're terrible people,
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  Speaker 1: and they've been writing all week that there's a much
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  Speaker 1: bigger discrepancy and funds raised between you and Hogel. Then
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  Speaker 1: you are willing to admit what's the.
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  Speaker 2: Truth there, Well, the truth is that they have these
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  Speaker 2: arcane accounting systems for the reporting of your funds, and
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  Speaker 2: right now my people tell me that they have done
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  Speaker 2: a thorough accounting and that we've raised over eleven million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Nice she's claiming I raised only eight million dollars. First
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  Speaker 2: of all, what's the difference. The bottom line is I
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  Speaker 2: will raise enough money to beat Kathy Hokeel because there
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  Speaker 2: are people out there that are writing me checks for
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  Speaker 2: one hundred dollars, They're going on my website and they're
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  Speaker 2: giving their credit card fifty dollars. They're doing whatever they
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  Speaker 2: can to support this grassroots effort to save our state.
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  Speaker 2: And Kathy Hockel tries to change the narrative all the time.
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  Speaker 2: And here's the bottom line. We are last in everything
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  Speaker 2: except for taxes, which were first, and utility costs, which
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  Speaker 2: we're seventy percent higher. That's all people have to know
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  Speaker 2: about Kathy Hockel, and then I'll put something on top
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  Speaker 2: of that that people have to know. She's the most
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  Speaker 2: pro criminal governor in the United States of America. Cashless bail,
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  Speaker 2: raised the age the Halt Act. We are in a
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  Speaker 2: death spiral in New York. She has partnered up with
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  Speaker 2: somebody who is a mayor of our great city of
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  Speaker 2: New York who is anti American. His July fourth speech
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  Speaker 2: was dark, it was vindictive, it was anti American. Couldn't
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  Speaker 2: get one sentence in his whole speech praise it in
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  Speaker 2: the United States of America, the freest country in the world,
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  Speaker 2: the country who's created more prosperity than any other country
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  Speaker 2: in the world, the leader of democracy in the world.
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  Speaker 2: He couldn't say one nice thing about us. He comes
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  Speaker 2: from Uganda. Lord knows what government is like there. Lord
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  Speaker 2: knows what life is like in Uganda. He was blessed
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  Speaker 2: to be able to come here. He was blessed to
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  Speaker 2: be elected mayor of the City of New York. And
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  Speaker 2: he hates America. Yep. And that's a problem for.
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  Speaker 1: Me, big problem. That's why when you win, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to remove him. So listen on the way, how everybody
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  Speaker 1: knows how close you and I are.
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  Speaker 3: We're brothers.
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  Speaker 1: I think people don't even realize how close we are.
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  Speaker 3: We talk every day.
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  Speaker 1: We are that close. But now, Bruce Blakeman, Now, now
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  Speaker 1: you've got two generations of Rosenberg's in love with you.
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  Speaker 1: My son Gabriel started working for you on Monday, you
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  Speaker 1: put in the last four days. He liked you, he
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  Speaker 1: knew who you were, he knew that I love you.
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  Speaker 1: I talk about you at home at the dinner table
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  Speaker 1: all the time. I'm not saying this just to patronize
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  Speaker 1: you or you know, make sure you take good care
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  Speaker 1: of Gabriel.
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  Speaker 3: He loves you, he loves you. He comes home now
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  Speaker 3: he talks about the governor's race. This guy's gotta win.
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  Speaker 1: My seventeen year old son even knows that you need
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  Speaker 1: to win to save New York. So, just so you know,
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  Speaker 1: two generations of Rosenberg's adore you well.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, he's a great kid, thank you. And
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  Speaker 2: second of all, look, I give kids an opportunity every summer.
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  Speaker 2: I got a lot of interns. I want them to
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  Speaker 2: learn about government. I want them to learn about public service.
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  Speaker 2: They come from all walks of life, they come from
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  Speaker 2: all communities, and I want them to see firsthand how
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  Speaker 2: government operates. And I gotta tell you, I got the
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  Speaker 2: greatest group of kids. I've got an alumni of interns
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  Speaker 2: that have worked for me, that are going to very
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  Speaker 2: prestigious universities, that are going on to do great things
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  Speaker 2: in their life. And that's what you have to do.
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  Speaker 2: You got to get young people involved. But let me
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  Speaker 2: tell you something. I love you Sid and I love Gabriel,
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  Speaker 2: But I only give an opportunity. It's up to the
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  Speaker 2: kids to produce. They got to do their job. And
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  Speaker 2: one thing. I asked one of my other interns who
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  Speaker 2: this is her second year. I said, how's Gabriel doing.
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  Speaker 2: She said, he's doing great, great kid, and he's a
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  Speaker 2: very kind person.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna make me cry.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for saying that. And I've heard from some
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  Speaker 1: of the other parents of the interns. You know Doug Goudstein,
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  Speaker 1: pre famous guy you worked for, Howard Stern and Mark Levan,
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  Speaker 1: His son jud is one of your interns. And one
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  Speaker 1: of the mothers actually reached out to me, Brielle's mom
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  Speaker 1: and said that Briella was working with Gabriel. So you
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  Speaker 1: got a great group of kids and the future, the
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  Speaker 1: future of New York works hard every day to ensure
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  Speaker 1: that Bruce Blateman wins. This was an amazing conversation, maybe
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  Speaker 1: our best yet. Mister Governor. Thank you for hopping on
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  Speaker 1: on this body. I have a great weekend. We'll do
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  Speaker 1: it again next week.
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  Speaker 3: Boos. I love you, Thank you so much, Love you too.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you sit and God bless America you too.
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  Speaker 1: There he is the amazing Nightshaul County Executive and the
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  Speaker 1: next governor of New York. He's an impressive guy, tremendous man.
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  Speaker 1: Will he is Bruce Blakeman.
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