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Hour 2: Future of the Pied-à-terre tax in NY. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: New York, Mark Simone, 710WOR.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's hour number two. That's right. If you still
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  Speaker 3: don't know, we now start at nine o'clock. This show's
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  Speaker 3: now three hours, nine to noon, every day on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 3: If you're a Democrat, cover your ears for a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Price of oil dropping again. It's down to $ 89 a barrel, 89.
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  Speaker 3: It's coming down. And we'll keep coming down because apparently
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  Speaker 3: we're getting more oil than we even thought coming through
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  Speaker 3: the Strait of Hormuz. We're up to about average about
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  Speaker 3: 10 million barrels a day. One day we hit 17
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  Speaker 3: million barrels. That's a lot of oil coming through every day.
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  Speaker 3: So the pied-a-terre tax, this ridiculous Mamdani tax, this pied-a-terre tax.
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  Speaker 3: So a bunch of people got Randy Mastro, Randy Mastro,
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  Speaker 3: a former deputy mayor and a great lawyer. And he
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  Speaker 3: put together this big lawsuit against Mamdani and the city
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  Speaker 3: to block the pied-a-terre tax. And they filed in Staten Island,
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  Speaker 3: which is smart because that's the Manhattan. You're going to
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  Speaker 3: get a crazy left-wing kook of a judge who loves Mamdani.
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  Speaker 3: And the judge ruled they were right, that the rollout
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  Speaker 3: had been done improperly, that they can't send out 17,000
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  Speaker 3: letters when there's not that many pied-a-terre taxes. They can't
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  Speaker 3: just send a letter demanding that people prove that they're
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  Speaker 3: innocent on this. You know, in America, you're guilty until
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  Speaker 3: proven innocent. It's up to the city to prove they
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  Speaker 3: owe it, not up to the homeowner to prove they don't.
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  Speaker 3: So on that basis, Mastro won, but all the judge
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  Speaker 3: ruled is that the rollout was done incorrectly, that you'll
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  Speaker 3: have to roll out this thing differently. But the idea
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  Speaker 3: is you got to stop this tax. Well, Wilbur Ross...
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  Speaker 3: Good old Wilbur Ross, former Commerce Secretary. Wilbur Ross has
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  Speaker 3: filed a lawsuit. And Steve Wynn, you know Steve Wynn,
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  Speaker 3: Las Vegas, the casinos, all that stuff. These are two billionaires.
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  Speaker 3: So now they've jumped into this fight. But the Wilbur
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  Speaker 3: Ross lawsuit is brilliant. They're filing this lawsuit. And they're
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  Speaker 3: filing in Southampton. They both live there. And they both have, well,
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  Speaker 3: they don't live there. They live in Florida. But they
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  Speaker 3: both have pied-a-terre is there, Southampton. Now, this lawsuit is
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  Speaker 3: the one that could overturn and completely destroy the pied-a-terre tax.
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  Speaker 3: A pied-a-terre tax means you live in another state, you
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  Speaker 3: live somewhere else, and this is just a part-time home
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  Speaker 3: you keep in New York. I don't know why they
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  Speaker 3: don't say that. They have to call it a pied-a-terre.
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  Speaker 3: But Wilbur Ross, this is brilliant. He's suing based on
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  Speaker 3: violation of the Constitution. First rule of America is no
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  Speaker 3: taxation without representation. That's what the Revolutionary War was about.
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  Speaker 3: No taxation without representation. Well, I don't know why we
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  Speaker 3: didn't think of this before, but that's exactly what's happening
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  Speaker 3: in this case. You're being taxed without representation. You live
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  Speaker 3: in Florida. You can't vote in New York. You have
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  Speaker 3: no say in New York. You can't vote. You can't
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  Speaker 3: vote for any of these laws or any of these politicians,
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  Speaker 3: but you're getting taxed. So you have no representation, but
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  Speaker 3: you're getting taxed. Now, just on that, he's probably going
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  Speaker 3: to win. So it's a great argument. Now, you may get,
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  Speaker 3: you know, have a hard time with some left-wing judges
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  Speaker 3: in New York, but this will end up going to
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  Speaker 3: the Supreme Court, and they're going to pretty much have
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  Speaker 3: to rule that it is taxation without representation. You can't
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  Speaker 3: do it. Now, the other part of the lawsuit is
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  Speaker 3: that it violates the Commerce Clause. And remember, this is
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  Speaker 3: the former Commerce Secretary suing. It violates the Commerce Clause
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  Speaker 3: because states can't tax people who live in other states.
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  Speaker 3: It's a very good point. How could you tax somebody
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  Speaker 3: that lives in another state? If that were allowed, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of states, California is in desperate trouble financially. They
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  Speaker 3: could just tax everybody in Nevada to collect money. You
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  Speaker 3: can't do it. You're saying, yeah, but they own property.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter. Some people come into this state all
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  Speaker 3: the time. Sometimes they drive in from New Jersey and
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  Speaker 3: go to stores and restaurants and spend a lot of money,
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  Speaker 3: and they buy a lot of stuff here. You can
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  Speaker 3: put a sales tax on it, but that's it. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if they buy.
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  Speaker 3: You can put a sales tax on it. You can
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  Speaker 3: put a property tax on it. But you can't just
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  Speaker 3: tax them personally with a pied-a-terre tax. I don't see
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  Speaker 3: how Wilbur Ross could lose this lawsuit. He might lose
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  Speaker 3: it with a left-wing judge in New York, but it
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  Speaker 3: will get appealed. It will end up in the Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 3: And it sounds like an absolute no-brainer. So I think
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  Speaker 3: he ends up winning this. Now, that's pretty interesting. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: we were talking before about Bruce Blakeman. Hochul has seen
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  Speaker 3: the real polls, not the public polls, but the real
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  Speaker 3: polls show them tied. And Hochul is in panic. She
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  Speaker 3: is running millions and millions and millions, and she's spending
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  Speaker 3: a ton of money on attack ads. But as I
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  Speaker 3: pointed out last time, they can't find anything to attack
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  Speaker 3: the guy on. They've done the opposition research over and over.
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  Speaker 3: They can't find anything bad about Blakeman, so they're just
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  Speaker 3: attacking him for being friends with Trump. But a lot
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  Speaker 3: of political consultants are pointing out they've noticed with her
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  Speaker 3: millions and millions and millions in ad buys, there's no
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  Speaker 3: positive ads. There's no ads where she runs on her record.
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  Speaker 3: That's a pretty interesting point. She cannot run on her record.
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  Speaker 3: She's got nothing to point to. That's going to be
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  Speaker 3: a problem. Their debate is coming up. I think it's
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  Speaker 3: next week. She's turned down all the major debates, Channel 2, 4, 7, 5.
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  Speaker 3: She will not do any of these debates. She's refused
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  Speaker 3: to debate. She's agreed to one debate on little New
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  Speaker 3: York One, which has 12 viewers. So she's agreed because
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  Speaker 3: very few people see New York One. And the other
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  Speaker 3: reason she's agreed, it's a very biased, very left-wing place.
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  Speaker 3: A very biased left-wing guy, Errol Lewis, will be the
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  Speaker 3: moderator of the debate. So all of this favors Hochul.
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  Speaker 3: That's why she's agreed to that one debate. One debate.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty sad. But, hey, the city council, big hearings coming up.
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  Speaker 3: on AI. Now there's a congressional hearings. There's the AI panel.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody's looking into AI. The city council wants in on
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  Speaker 3: this act. They know it's a hot political issue. They
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  Speaker 3: are not going to do anything about it. They don't
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  Speaker 3: have the power to do anything about it. They don't
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  Speaker 3: know anything about it, but it looks good for them
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  Speaker 3: to be having AI hearings. So they will pretend to
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  Speaker 3: be doing something about AI. You see these people on
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  Speaker 3: the city council, there's none of them can figure out
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  Speaker 3: anything about AI. They don't know. And you're not going
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  Speaker 3: to get any important, anybody of any importance to come testify,
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  Speaker 3: but they'll pretend that they're doing something about AI. You know,
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  Speaker 3: they like to make fun of president Trump. Look at it.
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  Speaker 3: He fell asleep. He's falling asleep. First of all, the
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  Speaker 3: guy works like 19 hours a day. Like most billionaires
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  Speaker 3: never sleeps at night. He's working all night. And I've
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  Speaker 3: seen it in a lot of billionaires. You're having dinner
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  Speaker 3: and they'll doze off for two minutes. They'll close their eyes.
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  Speaker 3: They all do that. It's just because they don't sleep
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  Speaker 3: at night. They work around the clock. But President Trump,
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  Speaker 3: working harder than any president ever worked, traveling more than
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  Speaker 3: any other president. You know, every day for the last
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  Speaker 3: few days, middle of the day, he flies to some state,
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  Speaker 3: does a big, massive rally, and flies home. Today, it's Nebraska.
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  Speaker 3: Every day, he's going to a different state. But you
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  Speaker 3: know what's amazing is President Xi of China, who's only 73...
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  Speaker 3: He came in for the big summit with President Trump. Apparently,
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  Speaker 3: President Xi's got a real problem. He really has to rest.
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  Speaker 3: And it's come out now that for the visit, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they schedule a whole series of events. This is a
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  Speaker 3: big two days, these two leaders together. It's a big summit.
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  Speaker 3: So all day long, they schedule all these things they're
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  Speaker 3: going to do. They're going to have a meeting with this.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to go to this luncheon. They're going to
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  Speaker 3: have another meeting. They're going to go to this. Apparently,
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  Speaker 3: Xi's people told the White House that he has to
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  Speaker 3: have breaks during the day. He not only has to
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  Speaker 3: have breaks for an hour, two hours. At one point,
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  Speaker 3: he needed a five-hour break, but they also have to
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  Speaker 3: set up a private room somewhere for this break where
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  Speaker 3: he can go into this private room and be alone,
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  Speaker 3: just him and his wife, and rest. Why would you
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  Speaker 3: need a private room, a special private room for you
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  Speaker 3: and your wife? Have you seen her? I don't think
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  Speaker 3: they're fooling around or anything. I think this is This
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  Speaker 3: is a nap. I don't think anything's going on with
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  Speaker 3: these two. But apparently he needs to take lots of naps.
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  Speaker 3: And can you imagine if he had a meeting with Biden? Boy,
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  Speaker 3: the whole day would be snoring. It'd be all naps
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  Speaker 3: with like a five-minute period to work, but that'd be
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  Speaker 3: about it. Justice Alito, Samuel Alito, probably the most conservative justice,
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  Speaker 3: confirms he is considering retirement. He's only 76. That's very
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  Speaker 3: young for a Supreme Court justice. He's talking about next year,
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  Speaker 3: but he said he is thinking about retirement. Now, that
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  Speaker 3: would mean President Trump gets a fourth Supreme Court pick.
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  Speaker 3: A fourth pick. Now, things will be different because the
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  Speaker 3: Democrats will go absolutely nuts. They don't like anybody's pick,
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  Speaker 3: although many of his picks have turned out to be
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  Speaker 3: a lot less conservative than anybody thought, and that's often
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  Speaker 3: the case with these Supreme Court justices. But he'll get
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  Speaker 3: a fourth pick. Democrats will go nuts trying to stop it,
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  Speaker 3: block it, all that stuff. They put out that list
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  Speaker 3: of the most powerful women in Washington. Melania's on it.
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  Speaker 3: Usha Vance is on it. Susie Wiles, White House Chief
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  Speaker 3: of Staff. But you know who's on it? Natalie Harp,
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  Speaker 3: who's an executive assistant to the president. Because they say
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  Speaker 3: she's always by his side. Well, that's what an executive
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  Speaker 3: assistant is. It's like your secretary. They're always there if
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  Speaker 3: you're the president. And she's not the only one. There's
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  Speaker 3: Margo Martin. There's three of them. There's Chamberlain, Harris. There's
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  Speaker 3: three of them. But for some reason, they just want
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  Speaker 3: to go. They pick a target, and then they go
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  Speaker 3: crazy trying to smear them. Here's a big article. Where
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  Speaker 3: to go pumpkin picking on Long Island? Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: Stop with the pumpkin picking. You know, just stop it. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: you go to Long Island, go to any great supermarket.
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  Speaker 3: Right in front, there's a whole rack of pumpkins. They
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  Speaker 3: got a million pumpkins in front. Any suburb, Connecticut, go
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  Speaker 3: to Balducci's. Right in front, there's 500 pumpkins there. That's
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  Speaker 3: where you pick a pumpkin. You don't have to drive.
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  Speaker 3: You drive to a pumpkin patch, you have to pick
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  Speaker 3: it off the, what do they grow, on a tree?
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  Speaker 3: Out of the ground? I have no idea. Pumpkin patch.
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  Speaker 3: Pumpkin picking. You really have to re-examine your life if
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  Speaker 3: this is your weekend high point. We're going pumpkin picking.
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  Speaker 3: Just go anywhere. Go anyplace. Walk into anything. They got
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  Speaker 3: pumpkin latte. Go over there, there's pumpkin frozen yogurt. Over here,
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  Speaker 3: there's pumpkin. Everything is pumpkin. The other thing is this
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  Speaker 3: apple picking. People actually drive two hours out to some
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  Speaker 3: orchard to pick at. Go to any supermarket. Go to
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  Speaker 3: Whole Foods. Go to Wegmans. Go to any place. Right
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  Speaker 3: in the front, there's an apple section where they have
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  Speaker 3: 42 different kinds of apples. You can pick your apples there.
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  Speaker 3: That's apple picking. Because when you get to, it used
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  Speaker 3: to be just go in and buy an apple. They
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  Speaker 3: had red apples. They got green apples. Now you go.
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  Speaker 3: You can't figure out what you want. They got the
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  Speaker 3: Gala Gala pink apples. They got Fuji apples. They have
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  Speaker 3: crisp this apples, honey crisp. It's impossible. And when did
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  Speaker 3: this happen with this 47 kinds of apples? So forget
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  Speaker 3: all this, forget all this. Michael Douglas confirms that when
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  Speaker 3: he was making the movie, romancing the stone, he did
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  Speaker 3: have an affair with Kathleen Turner. He said she was smart, funny, sexy,
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  Speaker 3: the deep, sultry voice. They did have an affair. Now,
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  Speaker 3: why is he confessing this in his new memoir? I
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  Speaker 3: have no idea. They went to Kathleen Turner and asked
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  Speaker 3: her about this, and she said, Good heavens, what a
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  Speaker 3: fuss about something 40 years ago. I love Michael. I
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  Speaker 3: look forward to seeing the book. That's a yes. But,
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  Speaker 3: you know, what he doesn't mention is, Just about every
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  Speaker 3: movie ever made, the leading man was sleeping with the
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  Speaker 3: co-star or somebody in the cast. I could name names.
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  Speaker 3: I could go down the list. It happens all the time.
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  Speaker 3: All the time. And very often, they're making the movie.
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  Speaker 3: It's at a studio in Hollywood. But then there's the
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  Speaker 3: month where they go on location somewhere and you got
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  Speaker 3: nothing else to do. It happens all the time. This
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  Speaker 3: goes on in every movie set. Not to mention that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the big stars all have a big trailer,
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  Speaker 3: a trailer that They decorate it like a beautiful living room.
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  Speaker 3: And when you're making a movie, you've got to shoot
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  Speaker 3: scenes for an hour. Then you've got like a two-hour
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  Speaker 3: wait while they set up for another scene and do
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  Speaker 3: all this stuff. So you've got to go sit in
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  Speaker 3: your trailer for two hours. It's very common on most
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  Speaker 3: movie sets that if you're the big star, they'll say,
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  Speaker 3: what do you want? Do you want a massage? I
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  Speaker 3: can't say the words. It's a certain sexual act. Do
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  Speaker 3: you want this? And if you want it, they'll send
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  Speaker 3: somebody in to do it. Uh, this goes on all
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  Speaker 3: the time. You're not supposed to know this, but it
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  Speaker 3: goes on all the time on every movie step. You
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  Speaker 3: could go back to those movies from the forties, you know, like, uh,
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  Speaker 3: any movie Humphrey Bogart, Clark, any, whoever it was, they
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  Speaker 3: were sleeping with the co-star. We could go into great
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  Speaker 3: detail here, but we won't. It happened all the time. Constantly.
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  Speaker 3: Classic example, Spencer Tracy ends up sleeping with Catherine Hepburn.
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  Speaker 3: It becomes like the love of his life. But, uh,
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  Speaker 3: Michael Douglas, I guess the reason he did this is
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  Speaker 3: to sell the memoir because he's a great actor, great guy,
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  Speaker 3: Michael Douglas. But right now, if somebody said, ooh, there's
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  Speaker 3: a book about Michael Douglas, who the hell is going
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  Speaker 3: to read it? But you got to put stuff like
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  Speaker 3: this in and leak it out to get people to
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  Speaker 3: buy the book. Hey, we'll take some calls next. 800-321-0710
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  Speaker 3: is the number. Give me a call, 800-321-0710. It's the
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  Speaker 3: Mark Simone Show.
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  Speaker 2: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios.
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  Speaker 3: Well, hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Richard
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  Speaker 3: in Bayshore. Richard, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 5: I'm well, Mark.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning.
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  Speaker 5: Two diverse points. One, allegedly, Xi is a heavy smoker
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  Speaker 5: and drinker.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he looks like a wild sort of party guy,
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  Speaker 3: don't you think?
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know, maybe there's not much else to do
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  Speaker 5: except that one, you know. Well, the other thing is
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  Speaker 5: on sales tax. If you're from out of state, you
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  Speaker 5: do not have to pay the state sales tax. Obviously,
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  Speaker 5: most people don't bother unless it's a.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you have to apply to have it lifted.
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  Speaker 3: It's a pain in the neck. It's better just.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know, years ago, if you buy a car,
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  Speaker 5: I bought a car in Jersey, right? And they did
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  Speaker 5: not charge me the tax there. I lived in New York.
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  Speaker 5: I had to pay the tax at Motor Vehicle. the
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  Speaker 5: New York State amount.
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  Speaker 3: All right, but you live in Bayshore. You went all
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  Speaker 3: the way to New Jersey?
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  Speaker 5: No, in those days, I lived in Bay Ridge in Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 5: It was an easy hop. And actually, I wanted a
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  Speaker 5: special car, so I got what I was looking for.
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  Speaker 3: Were you buying like a Batmobile? What do you mean
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  Speaker 3: a special car? What kind of special?
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  Speaker 5: No, no, I got an old, I got a 93
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  Speaker 5: Olds Cutlass convertible. I don't know if you remember the
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  Speaker 5: one with the roll bar across it.
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  Speaker 3: I would drive to another state Just not to get
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  Speaker 3: an old Cutlass convertible. Why would you want to drive
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  Speaker 3: them around? That's like a car from happy days.
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  Speaker 5: It was a 93. It was rare. I drove it
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  Speaker 5: like 178,000 miles.
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  Speaker 3: No, they were well-made, those cars. All right, Richard, thanks
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  Speaker 3: for calling. Those car collectors, they love the craziest kind
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  Speaker 3: of stuff. Let's go to Greg in Long Island. Greg,
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  Speaker 3: how are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Mark, good morning. I wanted to respectfully invite to your
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  Speaker 1: attention the mistakes you're making about pumpkin picking.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And the therapeutic value of getting away from supermarkets and
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  Speaker 1: running a car through parking lots.
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  Speaker 3: Pumpkin picking is great for a guy like you. I'm
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  Speaker 3: talking about normal people. Normal people. We don't have to drive.
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  Speaker 1: To a middle of nowhere.
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  Speaker 4: It's a blessing.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big part of the tourist industry. It's not
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  Speaker 1: only pumpkin picking. It's strawberry picking. And people who do
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  Speaker 1: that also find their way to the wine tasting at
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  Speaker 1: the vineyards. This is true not just of Long Island.
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  Speaker 1: I hate to break.
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  Speaker 3: It to you, but right on this block, there are
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  Speaker 3: two supermarkets. One over there, one over there. I can
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  Speaker 3: pick all the strawberries I want. There's 19 restaurants in Mars.
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  Speaker 1: But don't you do enough of that?
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  Speaker 3: I got all the wine I want right here without going.
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  Speaker 3: Why do I have to drive out three hours in
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: the middle of nowhere to have wine?
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Because it's God's. You get out into the open air.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: It's God's country. It's therapeutic value is remarkable for people.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: They should try it. And you're contributing to the tourist economy.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: All right, but listen, I do get out all the time.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: I went to Long Island the other day. I drove out.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: I was in Manhasset. I was in Americana. I was
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: in Garden City. No more beautiful place than Garden City.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: I was in Huntington. I was out in God's... I
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: don't have to drive another two hours out to a
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: vineyard somewhere at the end of Long Island.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Well, you take into consideration the fact that when you
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: have this regular visits that you go to, it's good.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: But try something different now and then. Try strawberry picking
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: in June.
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: It's beautiful.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: If you ever hear that I went strawberry picking, have
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: me committed. Strawberry picking? What are you, nuts?
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: It's great, I'm telling you.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: And it's only part of what you bring your family with.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: to enjoy, and it's not all you do. You get
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: to see the atmosphere. It sinks in. It becomes part
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: of your life. It makes you appreciate that there's more
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: than just cities. What is this guy in a cult?
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Hey, where do you live in Long Island?
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm out on the North Fork of the East End.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: You're 10 minutes away from the pumpkins. If it was
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: three hours away, you wouldn't be driving out there.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: Well, that's just it.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: You have a lot of people who yearn to get
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: away from places like Garden City. I share your cherished
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: view of Garden City and places like that.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Garden City is the most beautiful place in the world.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: You know, if you go, they got Ivorone Brothers there,
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: the great supermarket. Go in there. They got all kinds
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: of strawberries. They're really fresh.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: But when you visit eastern Long Island, you're seeing what
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: those places were like. ages ago, it's going back in time,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: it's magnificent, and there are very few places like that left.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: That fight is going on to preserve places like that
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: all over the country. And I urge those who are
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: engaged in that fight to stick with it. It's worth
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: saving your heritage. That's what Long Island is on.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: The East End. Well, you ever notice Long Island? You're
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: like exit 36, 38, 39, Manhasset Gardens. The traffic is unbelievable.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: You ever notice when you get out to the strawberry fields,
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: there's no traffic? That's because it's not that interesting to people.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Nobody wants to go there.
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: No, it is.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: The traffic is quite heavy at this time.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Of the year. Yeah, for two minutes on Sunday.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: We're the Unhamptons. We're the North Forks. The South Fork
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: is what you're talking about with the commercialization.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: You are the Unhamptons, but you notice the house in
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: the Hamptons is $ 25 million, and the house where you
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: are is like $ 1. 50 million? That's the reason.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: A little more than that.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: A little more.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: But anyway.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Good guy, Greg.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Pumpkin picking a chance.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: All right. We'll put you in the Chamber of Commerce.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Thanks for calling. Let's go to Elaine in Brooklyn. Elaine,
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: how you doing?
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Good morning. I just wanted to mention Kathy Hochul has
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: been on the board of directors at Cornell.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: You can tell me that she didn't know about this
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: girl being raped.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, I can tell you that she generally doesn't know
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: about anything going on. If there's somebody who. as clueless
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: as to what's going on, it'd be Kathy Hochul.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: What a pity. What a pity.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: All the more reason to vote for Blakeman.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Vote for Blakeman. Everybody should.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Thanks for calling. Help Bruce Blakeman. Go to BlakemanForNewYork.com. You
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: can contribute. You can do all that there. And we'll
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: get back to Kathy Hochul appoints Letitia James, a woman
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: who's never prosecuted a criminal case in her life. No
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: experience as a prosecutor. We've got time for one more. No,
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: not really. Well, let's do one more real fast. Jack
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: in Orange County. Jack, how you doing?
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: Hi, Mark.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: I have this idea that I hope President Trump catches on.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: What's that? He likes to rename things.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I would like to see the Republican Party change from
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: a red state to a gold state.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: A lot of confusion out there. Oh, please don't say
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: gold around this guy. This guy, we love President Trump,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: but they'll put gold on everything. Oh, my God. Everything
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: is gold with him. You know, you need sunglasses just
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: to go to his apartment. There's so much shiny stuff everywhere. Hey,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: when we come back, the greatest columnist in America. We'll
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: talk to Michael Goodwin next about all sorts of stuff.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Coming up on 710WOR. Marks among Mr. New York.
• 22:14
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• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Well, here's the best columnist in America, Michael Goodwin. You
• 22:25
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• 22:29
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• 22:30
  Speaker 3: on the New York Post website. Michael Goodwin, how are you?
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: Good morning, Mark.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Hey, there's some old political hands, longtime campaign guys that
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: say the Republicans are actually in a pretty good position.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: You want to be a little behind at this point
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: and surge at the end. You don't want to be
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: too far ahead too soon. President Trump running around the
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: country campaigning. What do you think the chances are for
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: the Republicans?
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Well, I agree with Karl Rove's analysis. That is, the
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: polls are probably overstating the Democrats' advantage. Nonetheless, I think
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: that is what most people believe. We can argue over
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: the extent of the advantage of Is it 4 points,
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: 6 points, 8 points on the generic vote? But combined
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: with President Trump's low approval rating consistently in all polls,
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: I do think this is now a race where Democrats
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: have the lead. It's not over yet, but time is short.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And Bruce Blakeman in New York, he was 20
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: points behind. Now it's pretty much... neck and neck in
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: the real polls. What do you, what do you think?
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Uh, I think Hochul is pulling out all the stops
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: to use the power of the office. For example, the
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: way she jumped on this, uh, Cornell case is very
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: much about, you know, me, me, me. It's not about
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: the case. It's about, look at me. I'm doing something
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: about it. And of course, in picking, uh, Letitia James,
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: I think she has tried to guarantee that there will
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: be convictions in a criminal case.
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: So I think it's huckle at her usual, which is.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: Not really taking chances, not really fighting for anything that
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: isn't already approved by the Democratic Party. I mean, she
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: is really more a representative of the party than than
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: she is a governor of the state.
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Has anybody pointed out that Letitia James has absolutely no
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: experience in prosecuting criminal cases and never done it in
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: her life? Wouldn't you think she's the wrong choice for this? Also,
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: she's too political.
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that point, Mark, is really a good one.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: She's very active on social media and a very active
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: press office.
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: And everything is partisan.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: It's almost, you know, I mean, I feel like every
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: day I get an email from her office telling me
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: we're suing the Trump administration. So this, this is what
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: she has turned the office into a 24 hour a
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: day campaign against the president. And therefore for her and
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: for the democratic left, it, it, doesn't give me any
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: confidence that she'll ever do anything fair if it's a controversy.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: She will always, her default position is political, to go
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: back to the outsider outrage at the politics of it.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: And so, yes, I think this is a mistake by
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: Hochul and one that obviously will not hurt her before
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: the campaign is over, but down the road, it could
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: turn out to have been a big mistake.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Hey, our crazy Mayor Mamdani, what is he up to?
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: A couple days ago, he puts out a video all
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: about fighting anti-Semitism. Yesterday, he puts out a bunch of
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: pictures of him. He went to see some Orthodox rabbis
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: and have dinner with them. What is he up to?
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: Well, look, I think He is preaching to his choir
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: in the sense that some of the Orthodox groups have
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: been supportive of him. He has been very generous to
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: them in government programs. And I think he's carving out
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: for himself not only some votes, but some testimony.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: That he's not an anti-Semite.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Look, I think that does not carry you in the
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: popular places of the city. Your policies, the whole thing
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: that you want to arrest Netanyahu, you still want to
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: arrest him. You want the United States to recognize the
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: International Criminal Court, which could then arrest and imprison American
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: soldiers anywhere around the world.
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: This is a huge mistake.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: I think he's trying to change his image, but I
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: don't believe for a minute he has changed his stripes.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Well, his other stripe is that he just talks. He
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: doesn't do anything. And why don't his supporters notice he's
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: yelling and screaming about arresting Netanyahu? Netanyahu is here for
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: two days. He doesn't do a damn thing about it.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Netanyahu leaves, and he's yelling and screaming about arresting him.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: He just talks. He never actually does anything. Don't his
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: supporters see that?
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, Mark, that He's always, in effect, trying
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: to draw a contrast between himself and every.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: Mayor who came before him. See, I'm different.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: Maybe I don't get it done, but I say things differently.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: I talk differently. You know my heart is different. And
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: so I think he's always speaking to the converted. He's
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: never speaking to people who don't already support him with ideas.
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: That that would transcend. I think it's a mistake.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: A mayor, a governor, a president, you always have to
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: enlarge your vision and your rhetoric to get those people
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: who don't support you. And I get the feeling at
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: this point, he's not even trying. He's comfortable. The election
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: was so close. He's still in his first year. So
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: I think at some point, he's going to have to
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: understand that it's not enough to carry you through four
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: years just preaching to the choir.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Well, didn't de Blasio get away with that and get reelected?
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: He did.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: And that is one of the problems of such a democratic,
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: believing city, that there's no real opposition.
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: Now, we'll see. Right now, there is no strong authors.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: To Mondani in a single person or institution. But I
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: am confident that if he continues down this road, he
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: will face increasing opposition and complaints. and he will have
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: to change his tune to keep his job.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, we'll see. Also, this pied-à-terre tax, the Wilbur
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Ross lawsuit looks brilliant. It's violating the Commerce Clause. It's
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: taxation without representation. You're taxing people who can't vote here.
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: I think that's going to win that lawsuit.
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: Well, look, I think the fact that another case has
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: led to it being sent back to the starting line
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: because the haphazard way they just threw as many apartments
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: and owners into it as they could just to get
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: the numbers up and really, I think, to harass people
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: and say, just pay.
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: Just pay us and we'll leave you alone. I mean,
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: it's like a mafia shakedown, right? But look, I.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: Do hope this thing fails and I hope it fails
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: And I hope it backfires on Kathy Hochul. She did this,
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: and she should be penalized as well as the mayor.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, good point. Well, Michael Goodwin, brilliant as always. Everybody
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: should read Michael Goodwin in the New York Post every
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: Sunday and every Wednesday. All of his columns are up
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: on the New York Post website. Go read them. Michael Goodwin,
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: thanks for being with us. My pleasure.
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: Thank you, Mark.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: Take care. Hey, let's not forget Andrew Cuomo. He deserves credit.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: He was the first guy I remember pushing this pied-a-terre tax.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: He was the first guy pushing all of that stuff. Remember,
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: he was the guy pushing no bail, no jail. Give
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: him credit for all the terrible things that have come out. Hey,
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: we got a lot to get to. And don't forget,
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: it's three hours every day now. Now I start at
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: nine o'clock. It's nine to noon, three hours every day.
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: Then.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: At noon, you got Buck and Clay. That's a very
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: interesting show every day, noon to three. Three o'clock, you
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: got the most listened to radio show in America, Sean Hannity.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: You got Jesse Kelly at six. And at nine o'clock,
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: Jimmy Fallon. Boy, these really make some great points. You
• 32:07
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• 32:09
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• 32:17
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• 32:22
  Speaker 2: r well hey it's definitely fall out there it's definitely
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: autumn uh and but it's going to be a beautiful
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: week it's going to be sunny all week now not
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: too warm.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: It's not going to be summer-like, but it is going
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: to be, let's see today, the high 71, tomorrow 61,
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: but then it gets about, it'll be about 70 degrees
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: from Wednesday on. And I'm looking at the forecast. There
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: is absolutely no rain in the forecast for two weeks.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: No rain for two weeks. That's good news. So you
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: want to go pumpkin picking, apple picking, or anything like that.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: You can do it. Hey, we got a lot to
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: get to coming up. We'll get back to Cornell. We'll
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: get to Megan and Harry, these two losers, these two
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: unemployed idiots apparently are coming back. Yeah, won't get rid
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: of them that easily. Oh, and the billionaire Ken Griffin,
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: you know, the guy that Mamdani targeted. Well, we'll get
• 33:26
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