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

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  Speaker 1: Now more marks alone on sevent tenor beautiful day to day,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be like a mere eighty sunny. It'll
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  Speaker 1: be cool tomorrow, but sunny and beautiful, gorgeous. Stay on
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday. You got I think it's twenty one, twenty
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  Speaker 1: two days until summer officially begins. It's actually still spring,
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  Speaker 1: believe it or not. So as you heard on the news,
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  Speaker 1: big fire on the Hudson River Tunnel. Penn Station closed down.
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  Speaker 1: It's a mess. Now they'll get that straightened out. But
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  Speaker 1: here's some Penn Station news. Now. You know, Penn Station
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  Speaker 1: is going to be rebuilt. A whole new Penn Station
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  Speaker 1: is coming. You know, if your commuter and you come
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  Speaker 1: into Grand Central, why it's beautiful. It's one of the
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  Speaker 1: most beautiful train stations in America. Grand Central is gorgeous.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a palace. You look up at that ceiling
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  Speaker 1: with the stars and the architecture of Grand in Central,
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  Speaker 1: and then you look around at the restaurants. There's a Chipriani,
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  Speaker 1: there's a great steakhouse. There's that new Brass array, there's
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  Speaker 1: the Campbell apartments, there's the best restaurants in Grand Central. Stores.
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  Speaker 1: We got everything you got the Apple Store there. You
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  Speaker 1: couldn't get a better store than that. And then they
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  Speaker 1: got that food court that's phenomenal. And then they got
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  Speaker 1: that Food Haul, which is like the best supermarket in
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  Speaker 1: the city. I mean, it's got the best of the best.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to do your grocery shopping, Grand Central
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  Speaker 1: it's got I mean, it's from the best places, Murray's
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  Speaker 1: Cheese and Eli Zabar and all the best suppliers. Really amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's Grand Central. If you go to Penn Station
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  Speaker 1: and you come up through the you come up out
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  Speaker 1: of the train, you think you're in Rikers Island. It
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  Speaker 1: looks like a prison camp. It is the most disgusting
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  Speaker 1: trading station in America. It really looks like a prison
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  Speaker 1: in there. It's awful and there's nothing to eat in there. Nothing.
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  Speaker 1: There's that one pizza place that everybody thought was pretty good,
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  Speaker 1: but it's good. But if you put that anywhere else
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  Speaker 1: it would be eh. But in Grand Central it stood out. Now,
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  Speaker 1: outside of Grand Central, they're starting to open restaurants and
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  Speaker 1: food halls and stuff like that. But so the idea
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  Speaker 1: is they're going to rebuild Penn Station. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: be magnificent. It's going to be beautiful, pallacious. I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: at the drawings, cavernous ceilings, monumental staircases, brass toned railings,
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  Speaker 1: massive columns that will evoke the grandeur of the original
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  Speaker 1: Beaux Art penn station that was torn down in the sixties.
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  Speaker 1: But in the federal government, the Trump administration has agreed
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  Speaker 1: to send the money. Now, this is not going to
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  Speaker 1: be done. Where's the date. I mean, this will be
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  Speaker 1: a work won't even begin till the end of next year.
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  Speaker 1: So that means government five years, ten years. You're talking
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  Speaker 1: about twenty thirty five or something. But here's the problem.
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  Speaker 1: The way design. Near the entrance on Eighth Avenue, there's
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  Speaker 1: a big carved into the marble, big beautiful presidential seal
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  Speaker 1: along with the words President Donald J. Trump. Now, this
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  Speaker 1: is going to drive New Yorkers nuts. It's carved right
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  Speaker 1: into the stone wall inside the station. It appears right
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  Speaker 1: near the escalators leading to the concourse. Now New York
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  Speaker 1: City has signed off on all this because they want
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  Speaker 1: the money. So it's an eight billion dollar project. Now
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  Speaker 1: that it'll be twenty eight billion by the time they
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  Speaker 1: get done with it, if it ever gets done. But
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  Speaker 1: by the time this is even really getting fully underway,
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  Speaker 1: President Trump will be out of office. If a Democrat
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  Speaker 1: takes office, you know he's going to change all that
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  Speaker 1: and take his name off it. But his name should
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  Speaker 1: be it should actually be called Trumps Station. They've renamed
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  Speaker 1: the Palm Beach International Airport Donald J. Trump International Airport.
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  Speaker 1: It's not unusual. There's a thirty airports in America named
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  Speaker 1: after presidents. And New York City owes Donald Trump a lot.
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  Speaker 1: They really do. I mean, as much as you want
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  Speaker 1: to hate him, we owe this guy a lot for
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  Speaker 1: what he's done for New York City. Transformed the skyline.
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  Speaker 1: This guy rescued neighborhoods. You know, you wouldn't have Grand
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  Speaker 1: Central look the way it does today. It wasn't for
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Nobody remembers this, but back in the with
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  Speaker 1: the late seventies early eighties, Grand Central, that whole area
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  Speaker 1: around there was in total decay. It was going way downhill.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody in the right mind wanted to be in that neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: There was a dilapidated hotel next to Grand Central called
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  Speaker 1: the Commodore, beat up, old, decrepit old hotel. Trump buys
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  Speaker 1: it rebuilds the whole thing into the beautiful, gleaming, brand
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  Speaker 1: new Grand Hyatt. It transformed the neighborhood. It changed everything.
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  Speaker 1: All of a sudden, everybody started looking at that neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: This one magnificent, beautiful glass and gold and shiny hotel
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  Speaker 1: there changed the whole neighborhood. Jack remember Jackie Kennedy back then,
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  Speaker 1: Jackie Onassis, she was trying to save Grand Central, save
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  Speaker 1: the neighborhood. There was a time where they thought they'd
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  Speaker 1: just tear it all down. But Trump turned that neighborhood around.
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  Speaker 1: Then he goes to Columbus Circle, which is a big
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  Speaker 1: booming place right now. But you forget when Trump went
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  Speaker 1: to Columbus Circle late eighties, it was in total decay.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody in their right mind would be in Columbus Circle,
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  Speaker 1: Nobody would open their office there. And it was the
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  Speaker 1: New York Coliseum, you remember that. It was the we
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  Speaker 1: had the trade shows. And in front of the New
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  Speaker 1: York Coliseum you'd see prison buses. That's where the buses
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  Speaker 1: came for Rikers Island. All the families that were visiting
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  Speaker 1: Rikers Island would get the bus in front of the coliseum.
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  Speaker 1: It was a pretty sleazy, slimy area Columbus Circle. Trump
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  Speaker 1: buys the old Gulf and Western building, rebuilds the whole
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  Speaker 1: thing into the Trump International Hotel, same thing, black, gleaming, shining,
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  Speaker 1: unbelievable hotel. He convinces John George to open the restaurant
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  Speaker 1: in that building. That gave it a lot of cachet
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  Speaker 1: right away, and it's the most magnificent new hotel ever
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  Speaker 1: at the time, and unbelievable apartments, and it transformed Columbus Circle.
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  Speaker 1: All of a sudden, Columbus Circle took off and became
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  Speaker 1: a very hot neighborhood and everything followed the time Warner Center.
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  Speaker 1: You owe all that to Donald Trump. That's two neighborhoods.
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  Speaker 1: He rescued, Hey, not to mention, he's the guy that
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  Speaker 1: started the Javit Center. Nobody remembers that. That was his
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  Speaker 1: first project, the Javitt Center. Although they didn't let him
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  Speaker 1: build it, he got it going, got the whole things started.
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  Speaker 1: They brought in somebody else to build it, but that
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  Speaker 1: was him. Come down the West Side Highway. You see
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  Speaker 1: those high rises, those twenty five unbelievable high rises in
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  Speaker 1: a row. That's Trump. Remember that was all just abandoned
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  Speaker 1: railroad yard. So New York goes this guy a lot.
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  Speaker 1: He transformed a lot of different parts of New York. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: if you're watching the NBA, see nightly news looks a
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  Speaker 1: little different all of a sudden. The reason is it
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  Speaker 1: was coming from across the street. It wasn't in the
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  Speaker 1: main building. It wasn't in the RCA building, ge Building,
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  Speaker 1: Comcast building. It was across the street, that little building
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  Speaker 1: with the Today Show is. They used to do it
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  Speaker 1: out of there, but you know, they threw MSNBC out
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  Speaker 1: of NBC. MSNBC had like the whole half the third floor, enormous, beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: magnificent studio for MSNBC. NBC threw them out. They don't
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  Speaker 1: want anything to do with MSNBC. Threw it out of
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  Speaker 1: the building, threw it out of the company. So NBC
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  Speaker 1: News has moved into the old MSNBC studios, built an
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  Speaker 1: incredible news set and looks absolutely magnificent. You know this
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  Speaker 1: Momdani plan. If you got a really bad landlord and
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  Speaker 1: the building's neglected and he's a slumlord and it's bad,
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  Speaker 1: and well, the government will step in take over, transfer
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  Speaker 1: ownership to the tenant. It sounds like a very You know,
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  Speaker 1: if you're a left wing kook, it sounds great, sounds
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  Speaker 1: like a real idealistic what a plan, mom. Donnie's talked
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  Speaker 1: about it at great length, but fails to mention this
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  Speaker 1: plan has been tried about eighteen times in the past
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  Speaker 1: and always resulted in total disaster. Every time it's done,
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  Speaker 1: it's even worse, and it's a total failure. It's a
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  Speaker 1: proven failure every time. But as we always tell you,
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  Speaker 1: democrats don't believe in science. They don't follow the science
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  Speaker 1: socialism perfect example, it's been tried ten thousand times, failed
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  Speaker 1: every single time. That's the science, ten thousand experiments. Every
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  Speaker 1: time it fails. You know, it doesn't work, they'll keep
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  Speaker 1: doing it. Remember his crazy Well, instead of police, we'll
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  Speaker 1: have social workers respond to domestic violence calls. A domestic
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  Speaker 1: violence call, a police will tell you it's the most
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  Speaker 1: dangerous call you could answer. We'll have social workers do
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  Speaker 1: it again. That program has been done about twelve times
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  Speaker 1: in the past over the years. Every time time it's
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  Speaker 1: a disaster, and the social workers either get killed or
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  Speaker 1: or seriously injured. They all end up in the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: So it doesn't work. But whatever doesn't work, these Democrats
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  Speaker 1: will bring it back. It didn't work ten thousand times.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe this time. Hey, remember I was telling you about
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  Speaker 1: that sinkhole the lie. They now believe it wasn't infrastructure
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  Speaker 1: that eroded or pipes that burst, or they think a
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  Speaker 1: contractor was doing work and nothing wrong with the contractor.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just something that can happen. They were
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  Speaker 1: digging under the lie, putting pipes on it. Something happened.
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  Speaker 1: They think this might be the reason. But this Newsday,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they still print Newsday, They still have a website,
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  Speaker 1: news Day. I don't know why. It's it's the most
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  Speaker 1: partisan biased paper in the world. Newsday. It's a tiny
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  Speaker 1: little paper. It used to be a big thing with it.
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  Speaker 1: One time it was like the fifth biggest newspaper in America.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's just tiny. But the news Day, they can't
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  Speaker 1: help this so partisan, so ridiculously one side had slanted.
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  Speaker 1: So they're writing about the contractor. Everything is Republican, Republican
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  Speaker 1: donor and contractor, Labriola con Republican donor and contract Well,
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  Speaker 1: if this guy's a big contractor in Long Island, like
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  Speaker 1: all of them, I guarantee he donates to Democrats and Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: They both donate to both parties. If you're a contractor
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  Speaker 1: looking for government work, of course you donate to both parties,
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  Speaker 1: but Newsday has to label it Republican donor. He's related
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  Speaker 1: to the Oyster Bay town councilman. But this is Newsday.
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  Speaker 1: He's related to Republican Oyster Bay. So be very careful
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  Speaker 1: if you're a Newsday reader, you're getting very very slanted coverage. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know that little worm, Michael wolf That sleazy little guy,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Wolfe. He writes these books attacking truck like crazy,
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  Speaker 1: vicious little guy, and half the stuff in his book
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  Speaker 1: is never true. So he was suing Milania Trump. She
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  Speaker 1: said she's finally going to sue him. He just prints
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  Speaker 1: stuff that's total crap in is false. One of the
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  Speaker 1: things was that it was Jeffrey Epstein that introduced Milania
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  Speaker 1: to Donald Trump. Well, it's absolutely not true, and she
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  Speaker 1: didn't know Jeffrey Epstein. So she was going to sue
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  Speaker 1: him for a billion dollars. So he filed the suit
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  Speaker 1: first to sue her. His lawsuit was just tossed out
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  Speaker 1: by the court. Yeah, he said, the judge said, it's ridiculous,
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  Speaker 1: tossed it out. He can refile it if he wants,
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  Speaker 1: but court just tossed it out. So hey, we always sad.
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  Speaker 1: Thank Andrew CMO for screwing up New York for creating
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  Speaker 1: the crime wave single handedly with his no bail, no jail.
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  Speaker 1: Could you imagine this guy pushed in, campaigned for his
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  Speaker 1: no bail, no jail. He closed the prisons, ragged about
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  Speaker 1: letting prisoners out. He changed the parole board, so they
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  Speaker 1: let everybody out. They let out forty three cop killers.
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  Speaker 1: So look at that. Here's a typical example. This wacko
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  Speaker 1: who shoved somebody into the subway tracks forty one prior arrests,
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  Speaker 1: forty one prior arrests. He's walking around in the streets.
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  Speaker 1: His last three arrests he was let out. He's also
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  Speaker 1: been arrested for theft of service, criminal test but forty
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  Speaker 1: one priors and he's out there walking around and absolutely ridiculous. Now,
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  Speaker 1: those speed cameras. If you live in the suburbs, they
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  Speaker 1: got him in the city, they got him on the
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  Speaker 1: certain major roads. If you're out in the suburbs, they're
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  Speaker 1: starting to put those speed cameras everywhere. Now they've gotten cheaper.
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  Speaker 1: Government doesn't do it. It's a private company. You hire them.
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  Speaker 1: They come in and put up the cameras, so it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't cost that much. But it's really annoying. It's driving
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  Speaker 1: people crazy. But here's Greenwich, Connecticut checking the So apparently
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  Speaker 1: in a school zone they had first. First they do
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  Speaker 1: a test with the cameras. They see how many people
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  Speaker 1: are speeding, thirty seven thousand people. Now, when they say speeding,
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  Speaker 1: it's a school zone. You know you're driving on a
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  Speaker 1: normal suburban road speed limit thirty thirty five forty school
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  Speaker 1: zone fifteen. Nobody can go fifteen. You can't do it.
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  Speaker 1: It's impossible. In a golf cart, you can't go fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's going to drive fifteen. So they count that as speeding.
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  Speaker 1: So they clock thirty seven thousand speeders. So now they
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  Speaker 1: turn on these cameras and mail out the tickets. The
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven thousand immediately decreased to fifteen thousand. They send
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  Speaker 1: out more tickets, it decreased to seven thousand. Now you
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  Speaker 1: got to remember if if you get out send out
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  Speaker 1: ten thousan let's say's ten thousand speeding tickets, and it's
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  Speaker 1: one hundred dollars a ticket. Well, let's say it's fifty
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  Speaker 1: dollars a ticket, that's like half a million bucks right there.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lot of revenue coming in. So that's that's
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  Speaker 1: why they keep doing it. Hey just want to warn people,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll talk about this on Monday. We'll get into
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  Speaker 1: this Monday in detail with the great Food Writer. When
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  Speaker 1: you go on Instagram, there's all next thing. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you're bombarded with Instagram stuff every day, the best burger
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  Speaker 1: in New York, the best pizza in New York. And
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  Speaker 1: then there's these Instagram unbelievable Instagram food fads. It's like
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  Speaker 1: that Golden Honey pancake that everybody had have, or Bubby's
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  Speaker 1: Downtown because the JFK Junior, the James Beard pancas. It's
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  Speaker 1: all over Insta. So now you got to run and
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  Speaker 1: wait in line for six hours to che None of
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  Speaker 1: these things on Instagram are as good as you think
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  Speaker 1: they're good, but they're not that phenomenal. Don't don't get
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  Speaker 1: crazy waiting in these lines. You know, when they show
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  Speaker 1: you this Hamburger and Red Hook and Brooklyn and this Hamburger,
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  Speaker 1: you got to go here for It's a hamburger. It's good,
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  Speaker 1: it's very good. But it's probably Look where I am
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  Speaker 1: right now, middle of Manhattan, fifty fifth Street, there's probably
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  Speaker 1: fifty hamburgers in this neighborhood that are better than anything.
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  Speaker 1: It's a hamburger, you just put it on a grill.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what do you think they have in that
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  Speaker 1: Instagram one? You think they went to Mars and got
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  Speaker 1: some special beef that nobody else can have. It's the same.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's different levels of quality, but it's pretty
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  Speaker 1: much the same. I mean, you could make a little
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  Speaker 1: difference at the right season, but it's not that much different.
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  Speaker 1: So the biggest Instagram trend in the world right now
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  Speaker 1: people are lining up for hours is dot cake. It's
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  Speaker 1: made by a company in Roslyn, New York, Dot Cake,
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  Speaker 1: and the only place you get in Manhattan is Butterfields,
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  Speaker 1: which is a great market. People line up for hours
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  Speaker 1: to wait for this dot cake. It's a it comes
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  Speaker 1: in a round cup. It's cake. There's an Ella cake,
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  Speaker 1: at chocolate cake, at Red Velvet, and then on the
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  Speaker 1: top of those dots the sprinkles. But they're packs so
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  Speaker 1: tight that they don't move. So people are waiting in
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  Speaker 1: line for hours for this. Not that good. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's okay, but it's not great. And the great food
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  Speaker 1: writer Steve Cuzo tried it. He'll be with us Monday,
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk about it. So that's a big one. The
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  Speaker 1: other thing is flo yo a fro yo. Everybody's fro yo.
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  Speaker 1: It's all over Instagram, waiting in line for hours for
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  Speaker 1: the special fro yo. Fro Yo is frozen yogurt. It's
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  Speaker 1: the same frozen yoga. Where do you think they get
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  Speaker 1: this frozen yogurt at this place? You think they're going
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  Speaker 1: to like some part of France to get it. It's
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  Speaker 1: the same mixture that everybody else uses. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: could change the flavor of it. But it's good, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not. Don't wait in line for many hours anyway,
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  Speaker 1: We'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three two one
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  Speaker 1: one zero seven ten.