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Hour 1: Consumer Prices rose less than expected. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now on the Voice of New York has the Mark
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  Speaker 1: Simone Show on seven tenor.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, there's a lot happening. We'll get to Cardinal
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  Speaker 2: Dolan is leaving. That's very bad news. We'll get to
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  Speaker 2: Brown University that president should be leaving. Just horrible job
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  Speaker 2: she's done. We'll get to President Trump. We'll get to
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  Speaker 2: the speech last night, a bit of a dud, but
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  Speaker 2: we'll get to something else he did yesterday that is
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  Speaker 2: going to upset everybody. It's not the right thing to do,
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  Speaker 2: you shouldn't do it, but it's good that it just
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  Speaker 2: drives these democrats in the media absolutely crazy. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: to that, We'll get to Nick Reiner, and we'll get
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  Speaker 2: to Jack Smith and a whole lot more. Hey, this
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  Speaker 2: just breaking this morning. The Oscars scene on ABC TV
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  Speaker 2: for decades decades. Oscars Sunday Night, ABC, Oscars Channel seven,
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  Speaker 2: ABC TV for decades and decades. And I think before that,
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  Speaker 2: in its first few years, was NBC. I think I
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  Speaker 2: think that's why Bob Hope was the host in Johnny Carson.
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  Speaker 2: But it moved to ABC where it's been for decades. Well,
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  Speaker 2: they lost the Oscars, They've got it for the next
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  Speaker 2: two years, but then it moves to YouTube. YouTube got
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  Speaker 2: the oscars. Now, YouTube is really taken over television. You know,
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  Speaker 2: as a network, TV completely dies and has fewer and
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  Speaker 2: fewer viewers every second. You think that Netflix and the
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  Speaker 2: streaming services are taken over, but it's really YouTube that's
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  Speaker 2: capturing the biggest share of the television audience. YouTube is
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  Speaker 2: going to be the biggest thing. Now, this is a
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  Speaker 2: big step getting the oscars. We always assumed Amazon or
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  Speaker 2: Netflix would get the NFL or Major League base Keep
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  Speaker 2: an eye on YouTube. Now, the Oscars on YouTube? Is
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  Speaker 2: it a good idea? Well, one thing it's gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna bring families together because when the Oscars are
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  Speaker 2: on YouTube, you're gonna get those frantic calls. You're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have to go to your mother's house. You're gonna have
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  Speaker 2: to go to your grandmother's house and show them how
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  Speaker 2: the hell to find YouTube. You know what, you might
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  Speaker 2: as well plan on watching the oscars with them, because
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  Speaker 2: no matter how much you show them, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: get that call right before the oscars, I can't find it.
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  Speaker 2: I lost it? How do you find it? So you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to show them what the hell YouTube?
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  Speaker 3: Is.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a big, big development. So the Trump's speech
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  Speaker 2: last night was not great. It was let me give
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  Speaker 2: you the inside story here. This was not his idea.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't want to do this. This was the staff
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  Speaker 2: pushing it, mostly Susie Wiles pushing this. You know a
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  Speaker 2: couple of reasons. One when fake news and the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: start coming up with a with a hoax, with a
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  Speaker 2: my and they start pounding it into people's heads. Twenty
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  Speaker 2: four to seven. Everywhere you turn, it's all you hear
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  Speaker 2: affordability crisis. Affordability crisis, affordability crisis. When you hear it
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  Speaker 2: day and night, you actually, this is how propaganda works.
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  Speaker 2: You actually start to think, oh my god, this is
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  Speaker 2: an affordability crisis. There isn't We had one two years ago,
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  Speaker 2: three years ago under Biden, you had a terrible crisis.
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  Speaker 2: Prices were crazy, gas prices, everything was going nuts. Now
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  Speaker 2: Trump has brought it down. He still got a ways
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  Speaker 2: to go, but in his first year he brought it
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  Speaker 2: down dramatically. Biden had inflation at nine percent one point
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  Speaker 2: the highest in fifty years. When he left, his average
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  Speaker 2: inflation was five percent. Trump has it down right now
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  Speaker 2: to two point seven percent and falling. So that was
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  Speaker 2: one reason for the speech, to try to fight back
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  Speaker 2: on this myth that has been created. And then you
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of great stuff that's going to happen
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  Speaker 2: in the economy. The big beautiful bill has big tax
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  Speaker 2: cuts for everybody, so your paycheck will be bigger every
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  Speaker 2: week because you'll be paying less tax. Now it hasn't
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  Speaker 2: kicked in yet, it starts in January, so everybody's going
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  Speaker 2: to get a huge race starting in January. So he's
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  Speaker 2: talking about how much you got done this year and
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  Speaker 2: what's going to happen next year. But it wasn't a
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  Speaker 2: great speech. It was a teleprompter speech. Trump is great
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  Speaker 2: with an audience, you know, he knows how to perform
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  Speaker 2: for an audience, but reading a teleprompter is not what
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  Speaker 2: he should be doing. And in an empty room, he's
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  Speaker 2: just in a big empty room. And it's that room
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  Speaker 2: where you know. They've been doing Christmas parties every night
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  Speaker 2: at the White House, sometimes two a night, sometimes three,
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  Speaker 2: and they have so many people. They invite like twenty
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  Speaker 2: five thousand people to these White House Christmas parties, so
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  Speaker 2: you have to do them every night for three weeks.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, there's another one tonight. They just keep doing
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  Speaker 2: these Christmas parties, and it's the same procedure every night.
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  Speaker 2: The guests all come whatever amount they can do a night,
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  Speaker 2: five hundred, and they all walk around the Red room,
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  Speaker 2: the Blue room, the Green room, the Yellow room, to
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  Speaker 2: this room, to that room, the map room, the treating room,
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  Speaker 2: and then they wander around and at some point they
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  Speaker 2: come and assemble in this one spot where there's a podium.
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  Speaker 2: The President comes down and makes a Christmas party speech.
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  Speaker 2: And he's made this speech every night for three weeks,
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  Speaker 2: the same speech, so you know, if you do it
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  Speaker 2: too much, it gets stale. And it had that kind
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  Speaker 2: of look last night. So basically the same situation, but
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  Speaker 2: without an audience, just alone reading a teleprompter. So he
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  Speaker 2: read it too loud, and he read it too fast,
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  Speaker 2: and he kept talking like this, and it was too
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  Speaker 2: fast and it was too loud. He was rushing through
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  Speaker 2: it like this. I think that's because he didn't want
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  Speaker 2: to do it. He was complaining off camera just before
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  Speaker 2: he went on that Susie Wilds and everybody else pushed
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  Speaker 2: him into doing this, so it's not what he wanted. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the good news is because it was a well written speech.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people will just see it in print.
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  Speaker 2: They'll read about it, and they'll see it in print.
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  Speaker 2: In print, it looks great. But his delivery was like this,
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  Speaker 2: and it was rushed and he was yelling, I'm just
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  Speaker 2: trying to get through it, so it was a bit
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  Speaker 2: of a dud. Here's someone.
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  Speaker 4: Taris my favorite word, tariffs, which for many decades have
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  Speaker 4: been used successfully by other countries against US, but not anymore.
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  Speaker 4: Companies know that if they build in America, there are
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  Speaker 4: no tariffs, and that's why they're coming home to the
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  Speaker 4: USA in record numbers.
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  Speaker 2: That it's a little too loud. You know, when you're
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  Speaker 2: alone in a room, you don't talk like this. Hear
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  Speaker 2: how I'm talking. I'm yelling a little. If I'm on TV,
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  Speaker 2: I can talk like this because on TV people are
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  Speaker 2: usually about twelve feet away from the TV set. They're
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  Speaker 2: over there on the couch. You can talk to them
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  Speaker 2: like this. But when you're on the radio, you're usually
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  Speaker 2: talking out of the speaker, which is like a foot away,
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  Speaker 2: so you can't yell at them. You got to talk
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  Speaker 2: like this. So if there's an audience, you can talk
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  Speaker 2: like this to them. But if you're in an empty
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  Speaker 2: room and you're just alone, you can you can talk
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  Speaker 2: more intimately to people. So and he knows this kind
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  Speaker 2: of stuff. I don't know why he didn't do that.
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  Speaker 2: I guess because his heart wasn't in this speech. He
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to do it. You know, when they do,
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  Speaker 2: there reporters in the room and start asking the questions.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't talk like this to them. You know, he
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  Speaker 2: talks in a real voice. So it was too much yelling.
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  Speaker 2: Now he's going to get criticism for blaming everything on Biden.
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  Speaker 4: This is what the Biden administration allowed to happen to
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  Speaker 4: our country, and it can never be allowed to happen again.
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  Speaker 2: We had men playing in women's.
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  Speaker 4: Sports, transgender for everybody, crime at record levels.
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  Speaker 2: Now everybody can So why does he keep playing Biden?
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  Speaker 2: Why does he have to keep enough with Biden? Biden's
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  Speaker 2: not president anymore. Why does he have to keep it?
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  Speaker 2: Because again, Democrats, media, fake news, you're creating this whole
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  Speaker 2: fake scenario that he's got an affordability crisis. It was
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  Speaker 2: an enormous affordability crisis under Biden, and under him it's
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  Speaker 2: been dropping steadily and quickly. You know, it got a
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  Speaker 2: ways to go, but it's been dropped like crazy. So
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  Speaker 2: that's why he keeps having a remind everybody because he's
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  Speaker 2: trying to contradict a lie that's been out there day
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  Speaker 2: and night for months. But somehow he's created an affordability cress.
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  Speaker 2: It has nothing to do with it. In fact, he's
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  Speaker 2: been lessening it every month. So now here's the other.
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  Speaker 2: This is going to be another Trump problem, but maybe
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  Speaker 2: it won't be. I don't know. This is so outrageous
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  Speaker 2: that it might be too much even for fake news.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when Rob Reiner died, he put out that
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  Speaker 2: tweet which I went back and read it. It's not
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  Speaker 2: as bad as they're making it out to be. The
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  Speaker 2: tweet starts off very nice, talking about Rob Reiner and
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  Speaker 2: Michelle Reiner and what a terrible tragedy this is and
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  Speaker 2: how awful, and he talks about that, and then if
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  Speaker 2: you'll go to the very end, he said, may they
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  Speaker 2: both rest in peace. So that's very nice. It's in
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  Speaker 2: the middle where he says, you know, Rob Reiner was
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  Speaker 2: a guy filled with rage and hate speech, which is true.
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  Speaker 2: True he was. He was, go check my twitter. We
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  Speaker 2: have documented all of this, the stuff Rob Briiner was saying,
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  Speaker 2: putting up online. It was just the ugliest, vile, crude
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  Speaker 2: hate speech against Donald Trump, raging. You know, And again
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  Speaker 2: I knew Rob Briner when you were with him. He
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  Speaker 2: was the warmest, sweetest, nicest guy. So when you read
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  Speaker 2: his tweeting and his things he was saying about Trump,
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  Speaker 2: you can't believe this same guy could get so ugly
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  Speaker 2: and vile and crude and cursing. And it's just very
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  Speaker 2: jeckyl in heights. It makes you wonder. So that upset
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people. Of course, you know, people said, well,
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  Speaker 2: you shouldn't do that. You're the president. You have to
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  Speaker 2: stay you know, graceful and dignified. And yeah, of course, okay,
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  Speaker 2: so now they have When you walk to the Oval Office,
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  Speaker 2: you walk along the colonnade there along that wall where
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  Speaker 2: he's put up all the portraits of the presidents, used
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  Speaker 2: to be just an empty white wall. And when you
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  Speaker 2: think about it, but he's right, that's where you greet
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  Speaker 2: the world leaders in one part of the White House.
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  Speaker 2: Then you go outside and you walk down this a
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  Speaker 2: long colonnade to get to the Oval Office, and it's
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  Speaker 2: just empty wall. You see. He just said, let's line
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  Speaker 2: this with pictures of all our presidents in beautiful gold frames.
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  Speaker 2: It was very very nice, great idea. And now when
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  Speaker 2: it came to Biden, he put instead of Biden's face,
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  Speaker 2: he put an auto pen in there. All right, it's
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  Speaker 2: a little joke. You shouldn't do that, but you can
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  Speaker 2: get away with it. All right, it's not you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's not that bad. But now he unveiled this yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: and again they're all gonna go nuts over this. They're
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  Speaker 2: all gonna go crazy. Although it hasn't exploded like I
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  Speaker 2: think it would. He now put it, unveiled it yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Under many of these presidents he put plaques underneath saying things,
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  Speaker 2: and they're very very insulting. So under Biden, and it's
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  Speaker 2: a beautiful, you know, gold, very very ornate plaque like
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  Speaker 2: you'd see on a building with the inscription on it.
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  Speaker 2: But the oneher Biden says, sleepy Joe. Biden was by
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  Speaker 2: far the worst president in America. And it goes on
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  Speaker 2: and on to talk about what a crook he is,
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  Speaker 2: how he opened the borders let twenty one million people
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  Speaker 2: in his Afghanistan disaster. I mean, it's the worst stuff
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  Speaker 2: about Biden. It's a long, but I'm skipping through the
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  Speaker 2: nickname both sleepy and crooked Joe Joe Biden was dominated
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  Speaker 2: by his radical left handler. It goes on and on,
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  Speaker 2: and you could write this, and you're not supposed to
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  Speaker 2: put it on the wall of the White House in
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  Speaker 2: a gold plaque. So now, of course any other president
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  Speaker 2: when they come in will take this down. Under Bill Clinton,
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  Speaker 2: it's not as bad yet. No, it's mostly good about
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  Speaker 2: he approved NAFTA. It's mostly good about Clinton. But at
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  Speaker 2: the end it said President Clinton's wife Hillary lost the
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  Speaker 2: presidency to Donald Trump. Now the one for Obama, the
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  Speaker 2: Reagan one is just high praise for Reagan, wonderful praise
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  Speaker 2: for Reagan. The one under Obama was the first black president,
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  Speaker 2: a community organizer, a one term senator from Illinois. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: you can get away with that. He created the ineffective
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  Speaker 2: Unaffordable Care Act. Well, that's true, but you're not supposed
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  Speaker 2: to put that on the wall. His party losing both
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  Speaker 2: Houses of Congress. Under Obama, it gets worse and worse.
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  Speaker 2: He crippled small business with crushing regulations and an environmental
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  Speaker 2: red tape. Well, this is actually true. You could make
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  Speaker 2: this case. He spied on the twenty sixteen presidential campaign
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  Speaker 2: of Donald Trump. It's all. You could go into court
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  Speaker 2: and prove this stuff true if you had to, but
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  Speaker 2: you're not supposed to put it on the wall of
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  Speaker 2: the White House. So but again, it hasn't exploded yet
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  Speaker 2: all over the news. But we'll see, we'll see if
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  Speaker 2: they demand he'd take it down. Maybe it's so over
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  Speaker 2: the top outrageous that they're afraid to go after for it.
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  Speaker 2: They know it's some kind of trap. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Howard Stern wouldn't have the nerve to put
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  Speaker 2: this stuff on the wall. So hey, the very bad news.
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  Speaker 2: Cardinal Dolan is leaving Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who everybody loved
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  Speaker 2: sixteen years here as the cardinal. It's nothing personal. The
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  Speaker 2: rule of the church is at seventy five you have
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  Speaker 2: to resign. You have to resign at seventy five. It's mandatory,
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  Speaker 2: and you put in your resignation. Now. For Cardinal Dolan,
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  Speaker 2: that was last year. But sometimes they'll delay accepting the resignation.
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  Speaker 2: And remember last year the pope died, so that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: put a holt on everything. Nothing happened, and then a
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  Speaker 2: new pope took over and he obviously needs many months
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  Speaker 2: to get settled and organized, so he's done that. Now
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  Speaker 2: he's decided to accept the resignation and pick a new
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  Speaker 2: cardinal for New York. And it's Ronald Hicks, who's from Chicago,
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  Speaker 2: has a lot of connection to the pope who's also
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  Speaker 2: from Chicago. Their careers overlapped a few times. Hicks, He's not,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Dolan is a big, larger than life, big
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  Speaker 2: life of the party personality. Hicks is more of a quiet,
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  Speaker 2: gentle sort of a guy. But he's a warm guy.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a good sense of humor. Here he is
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  Speaker 2: accepting I want to do the will of God.
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  Speaker 5: I asked him to tell the Holy Father that I
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  Speaker 5: say yes with great humility and that I accept this
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  Speaker 5: appointment with an open heart.
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  Speaker 2: So he's here in New York today with the cardinal
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  Speaker 2: being shown around.
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  Speaker 5: And my name is Ron Hicks, and I have now.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, he's got to call himself Ronald, this
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  Speaker 2: Ron Hicks. It doesn't sound like a cardinal when your
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  Speaker 2: name is Ron Hicks. Sounds like you work at William
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  Speaker 2: Morris Agency. Sounds like you're a car salesman. Here's my
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  Speaker 2: card Ron Hicks doesn't sound like a Cardinalnald Hicks will
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  Speaker 2: sound better, make more sense.
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  Speaker 5: Did New York about ten times in my life, and
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  Speaker 5: every time I have visited, I have said to myself,
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  Speaker 5: I love it. I love the culture, the food, the energy,
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  Speaker 5: the plays, the neighborhoods, but especially I love the people.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, sounding like a bit of a tourist, but listen,
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  Speaker 2: that's all the cardinals. Do you remember Dolan you think
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  Speaker 2: of him as such a New Yorker. I remember when
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  Speaker 2: he came here sixteen years ago from I think it
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  Speaker 2: was Saint Louis. Saint Louis. He was the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: He was new to New York, he didn't know his
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  Speaker 2: way around, and of course he became a big, big,
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  Speaker 2: big part of New York. So Ronald Hicks, Wilton.
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  Speaker 5: The people from all over the world who call this
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  Speaker 5: place home. And every time that I visited, I've always said,
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  Speaker 5: I look forward to returning. And this time I'm returning
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  Speaker 5: not only as a visitor, but I'm going to be
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  Speaker 5: returning to stay.
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  Speaker 2: So all right, now, he'll be good. He'll be good.
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  Speaker 2: One of the reasons Dolan stayed a little longer than
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  Speaker 2: he is supposed to. Catholic church with the you know,
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  Speaker 2: the sexual abuse and scandal and all that, they had
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  Speaker 2: to clean that up. There was nothing to do with Dolan,
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  Speaker 2: wasn't his fault, but you had to clean it up.
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  Speaker 2: He's the one that worked out at like a billion
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  Speaker 2: dollar settlement and they had to settle all these lawsuits
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  Speaker 2: and raise the money to settle it. And that's what
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  Speaker 2: he's been doing for the last year. It's mostly done now,
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  Speaker 2: he'll notice very quietly, the Catholic Church here in New
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  Speaker 2: York has been selling a lot of it's very valuable
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  Speaker 2: real estate. Just this week they finally sold over there
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  Speaker 2: at the Palace Hotel. They hon the whole ground lease.
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  Speaker 2: They just sold that for about four hundred and ninety
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  Speaker 2: million dollars. So they've raised all the money that's been settled.
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  Speaker 2: And Ronald Hicks, he made that joke. Every new cardinal
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  Speaker 2: makes the same joke. I already made that joke this morning,
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  Speaker 2: and he's going to speech and he says, but I
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  Speaker 2: do have something very controversial to say. I'm still a
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  Speaker 2: Cubs fan. So Dolan did that when he came here
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  Speaker 2: to I'm still a Cardinals fan. But now the only
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  Speaker 2: if there's a bad side to the Hicks can be
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  Speaker 2: a little left wing, a little woke, but all right,
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  Speaker 2: that can be cured. But we wish him very well
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  Speaker 2: and we got a lot to get to today. We'll
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  Speaker 2: take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three two one zero
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  Speaker 2: zero seven ten did Mark.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, let's take some calls. Eight hundred three to two
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  Speaker 2: one zero seven ten is the number. Let's go to
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  Speaker 2: Chris in Manhattan. Chris, how you doing.
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  Speaker 3: We'm good? Thanks Mark. First, let me just say I
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: wish you a very happy holiday season and they hope
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: you have a great vacation.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Nice.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Second, the about Trump, I.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Think what he's doing he's.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Wait, wait oh wait, can I talk to I think
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: he's hand.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: You're gonna you're gonna start whining. Why does he have
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: to do?
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: But I am whining. I think he's everything he's doing
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: that's good is going to be turned turned be undone
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: by the Democrats. I think he's handing the election to them.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean he's not running for election. He's not
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: what he's not running for anything.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: No, I know he's not, but they're going to vote
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: against his policies.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: The Demo, we don't know that because that's a year away.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: It's a year from now, so the landscape will change
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: many many times.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Well, do I know things are more expensive. I know
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: it's not his.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Fault, but you live in Manhattan. Gases now two dollars
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: a gallon, but if you're in New York it's still
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: four or five dollars.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: I know it's under three in some parts a long round,
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: I know, but but food is expensive.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: And again that's New York City. Mark talking a greatiflication.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I love the guy, but he's always Why does he
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: have to U Let's go to Mike in Ulster County.
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: Mike, how you doing, Hey, Mark, Merry Christmas?
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: First ball. I did watch the speech last night. He did.
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: The President did look uncomfortable because it's not his venue.
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: But it's a speech that had to be made because
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: the media and the Democrats are playing on the fact
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: that for the most.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Part, the American people.
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: Are very impatient. They want instant gratification.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: And well, don't blame them now. As I said earlier,
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: they've been had this fake narrative drilled into their head
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: that we are suddenly in an affordability crisis when the
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: economy has actually greatly improved unless year. So he needed
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: to make the speech. It was a bad setting. This
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: was all designed by Susie Wiles and the staff. And
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: she's great, but she, you know, as far as media skill,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: she's still in nineteen eighty three with Ronald Reagan, where
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: you get a podium and you read the teleprompter. It
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: doesn't work anymore. Uh and Trump, Uh, I think you'll
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: see it was a dud the speech last night. It
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: looks good on paper, It was well written, but the
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: delivery wasn't great. So he'll never allow that to happen again.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Next time, he'll get some modern day communications people to
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: come up with a better setting and a better way
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: to do that. Let's go to Don in New York City. Don,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: How you doing?
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: Yes? Mark, listen, Mark, are you familiar with the song Till.
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: After the Holidays?
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Tell what.
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: Till after the holidays? Oh?
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Till after the Holidays? Am I familiar with it? Yes?
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: Not?
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Really? Was this like Al Jolson in the twenties? Huh?
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Who said Garlands sang it? I? No, I don't remember
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: it what why?
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: Oh, because I heard it recently.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: On the radio.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: And who was playing at al Jasbo Collins. No, I'm kidding.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: I was on WABC. Oh, okay, Well it must be
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: good names. Well, you know she recorded some beautiful, beautiful
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: New Year's Christmas ballads. That's probably one of them from
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: the late fifties. Very sad.
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: It's something like whatever Happened to Christmas?
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, I'll check it out. You know, that's
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: one thing she was good. She would do these touching,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: sad ballads. She was brilliant at it. Being a great actress.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: She was one of the great singers of the late
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: fifties and early sixties. In fact, listen to her live
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: album at Carnegie Hall, one of the greatest albums ever.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Joe in the Bronx. Joe, how you doing?
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: I'm doing better than I deserve?
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: And I hope you I'd agree with that. You don't
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: deserve to do this? Well, knowing you no.
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: Because it's good this way, I'm not bitter.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Well that's good.
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: So anyway, I was thinking about a way to help
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: for the mid terms. Yes, and I came up with
• 21:49
  Speaker 8: something good. In one of my plays, character says, you know.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds good.
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: What's up Bad America?
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Well that's good.
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: They don't need the wooden Horse because they have the
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: Democratic Party.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: That's great. How'd you come up with that? That's pretty amazing, really,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Oh phenomenal. No, no, no, it's excellent. Yeah, no, anyway,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: thanks for coming up with that. Anyway. Hey, I forgot
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: to mention one great thing in that speech last night.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: You know, the tariffs. Some people love them, some people don't.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: But the tariffs have brought in zillions of dollars. Money
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: is just flowing in from the tariffs. So one thing
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: he announced was every he called them warriors, every military
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: man and woman will get a thousand dollars bonus this year,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: and he said they'll deliver it before Christmas. So all
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: of our great military soldiers one thousand dollars bonus from
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: the tariffs. Hey, when we come back, we're going to
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: talk to one of the greatest economists in the world.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: We got a real expert to talk about the economy, affordability, inflation.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: The speech last night. We'll get told of that next
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: on seven to ten wo R with Steve Moore, We hope.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: More Mark Mark Simon on seven tenor well.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Steve Moore, the great economist, one of the finest in
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: the world. You should get his latest book That Can
• 23:15
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• 23:18
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• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Steve Moore, how you doing.
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: Good Mary Christmas? And boy, we got a nice Christmas
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: present this morning with that low inflation number wave below expectations,
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: and we're now down to about two point six percent
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: inflation under Trump, which is, you know, half of what
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: it was under Biden five percent, So you know enough
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: about this affordability crisis. Prices of inflation has come down
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: a lot in just the last six months.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but it's an upsetting number if you're a Democrat.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: They were looking for three, weren't they not two points?
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly, that's a big, big error. And incidentally, you
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: know the most recent numbers, you know, for the last
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: couple of months were really low. That means that you know,
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: we're looking at an inflation rate that will stay low
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: now for the months to come. I'm extremely bullish on
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: twenty twenty six. I think we're going to see. I
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: liked what Trump had to say last night that the
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: best is yet to come. He's exactly right about that.
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: So feeling good about things, and you know, I can
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: even now go out nice for Christmas presents and with
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: what six days the shop left?
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Hey, but it's a great technique they've come up
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: with the left and the Democrats, the media combined. You
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: just drilled something into people's heads and thousand times a day,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: affordability crisis exactly, and they start to believe it.
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: So why didn't they use that? Why didn't they use
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: that term when Iden was president and inflation went up
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: to nine percent?
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Guess he was a Democrat.
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: Now it's unbelievable because you know, we've seen we're not
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: bringing inflation down as quickly as I'd like, but we're
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: seeing big improvement. And what about gas prices? Now? Look,
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: I know you're there in the New York area where
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: you still pay what three four dollars a gallon, but
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: in most places. The price of gas is now down
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: to about two seventy nine a gallon, which is really
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: you know, remember it hit five dollars.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Remember that Biden oil is fifty five dollars.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: Now amazing, Yeah it was. It was eighty dollars when
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: he came into office. Now it's fifty five. So that's
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: what about a thirty percent reduction in the price of oil.
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: And by the way, when the energy price goes down
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: like that, mark everything. It's sort of the lead indicator
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: where prices are headed because energy is a component of
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: everything way by, from toys to food to you know,
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: rent and housing. So look, it's a good economy. Trump
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: was right about that last night. Now, I know people
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: are hurting. I know people get angry when you say
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: that because they want to value ground b for a sake,
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: and they get angry because it's really expensive. And my
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: wife is among those people who complains every time she
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: comes back to the grocery store. But no, we're cooking.
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: We got a good, decent jobs report, we got a
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: really good inflation report, and so it's going to be
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: a good Christmas Christmas day for people. And twenty twenty six, Wow,
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: I just wait the mess is yet to come.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: You know, the price of beef went up because the
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Biden administration did everything they could to reduce the amount
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: of cattle we had. Remember they thought cows caused.
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we have a record number of cows. You know,
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: if you reduce the number of cows, what do you
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: think is gonna happen to beef prices?
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Simple economics, right, you know the President rattled off all
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: these things, inflation way down, wages up for construction, all
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: these different things. But if you watch like the NBC
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Nightly News, the way they phrased it is the President
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: claimed to the reduced inflation the present claim to How
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: did they get away with that kind of language.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: Well, one mistake Trump made, and a lot of us
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: make this mistake. Trump said, oh, I'm going to bring
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: prices down now, you know we in fact, you don't
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: want disinflation. Disinflation is even worse than inflation, and I
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: mean we had disinflation throughout the Great Depression in nineteen thirties.
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: What we want is price stability, and we want to
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: bring that inflation rate down to the FA target of
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: two percent. And we're well on the way. But that
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: means that you know, prices will still rise, but at
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: a much lower rate than they did Underbiden. So, you know,
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: I saw this poll the other day. This is a
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: perfect example of how the media the source thing. They
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: said eighty six percent of American people say prices are
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: everything's more expensive than ever. Well, that's true. I mean
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: prices are more expensive today than they were fifty years ago,
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: you know, and everything gets more expensive over time. The
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: point is that right now, the most important measurement is
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: our price is rising faster than people's wages and salaries.
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: And the answer to that is no. Right now, wages
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: and salaries are rising faster than inflation, which means we
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: have more after tax after inflation income, which means we
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: have more affordability. Now, look, I understand housing is really
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: expensive for young people. I understand Bee physics, somanthsome. Healthcare
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: is out of control. And that's a mystery because gee,
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: I thought we passed the Affordable Care Act. How could
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: help care prices be out of control?
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Now, Steve Moore, you're the expert economist. In one year,
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: President Trump cut inflation in half, took it from five percent? Yes,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: is there anything? Is there any way you could have
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: done more? Than that. I mean, you don't. You can't
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: bring it down any faster than that, can you.
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: We could have, I mean we could have. I mean, look,
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: there's no question that the terroriffs did cause some inflation. Uh,
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: and you know we thought perfect example of that is
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: coffee prices rose a lot because we put a big
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: tariff on you know, coffee beans coming in from from
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: Columbia and Brazil and so on. But it's been a
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: good it's been a good year for the US economy.
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: How about the fact that the economy has been growing
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: at three and a half to four percent for the
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: last nine months.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Now, yeah, Now, the Big Beautiful Bill.
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: That's a high growth number.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. The Big Beautiful Bill doesn't kick in for
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: taxpayers until January. And I'm told they'll get a reduction
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: in their taxes more in the Patriots. Yes, yeah, I'm
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: told the amount is going to shock people how much
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: of an increase they'll get.
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: That's exactly right. So the people come up to me
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: on the streets say, hey, well, you know you were
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: helped to pass that big beautiful bill. Where's my tax
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: And I said, just wait, it's coming in January. You know,
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: the no tax on tips the no tax on overtime
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: that you know, people will change the withholding. So most
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: Americans will get a boost in their paychecks starting in January.
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: And that's going to be equivalent of about two thousand
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: dollars for the average family. That ain't that ain't nothing.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: No. Now, the only mine land mine out there that
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: could go off this Affordable Care Act. Healthcare costs. What
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: are we going to do about that?
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: Well, with one good way to start is to make
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: sure that we don't pass more Obamacare subsidies, which keep
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: feeding the beast of the healthcare system. By the way,
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: most of that money if we pass the increase in
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: all those subsidies, you know who gets about sixty cents
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: of every dollar of the increased subsidies the health insurance companies.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: So but we have to extend. We have to give
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: an extension till we figure out a plan. I mean, right,
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: we're going.
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: To look, it's a disaster. The healthcare system is a disaster.
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: They've ruined it, they've ruined it, Mark and you know,
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: it's it's unbelievable because it's the one thing we never
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: have how much it's going to cost? Right, we never
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: ask when you know, when you go to the doctor
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: or the physician or the hospital. Then they say you
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: need to m ARI. Do you do you ask tee
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: how much that's going to cost?
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, nobody does.
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: That's like you know, going to the grocery store and saying, oh,
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: I'll take that and that and that and that, not
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: looking at the price. Take. So we got to get
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: the consumer back in the market here, so everybody becomes
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: and that way.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: You know, you need.
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: Insurance for your you know those rare really expensive things
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: like if you get canceled out forbid, or break your
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: leg or you have, you know, a chronic disease, you
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: want to be covered. But you know we've got to
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: put the patient back an equation and why not. How
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: about this? This is an idea Trump is paid for.
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: If you were to pay for some of these medical procedures,
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: but with cash, you would pay twenty five to thirty
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: percent less. Yes, there are some places, by the way,
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: an MRI literally in Washington, c One hospital charge you
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: eight hundred dollars for an MRI. The other one costs
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: you five charge you five thousand dollars. What yeah, I
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: mean it's the pricing is unbelievable. We need price transparency.
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: That's something Trump's been really good at. So anyway, I am,
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: I'm very optimistic.
• 31:55
  Speaker 8: Are we going to be on next week?
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Oh well, I have a merry, merry Christmas. I
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: have a happy, happy New Year. And we I'm not
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: going to get a pay raise for my weekly segment
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: with you. Next year.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: We're giving you a triple triple next year.
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: Triplet Wait, triple zero is still zero?
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: All right, quadruple what you are a great negotiator?
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: All right? Yeah, So anyway, Mark, have a great, great
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: Christmas and you can't wait to talk to the end
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: of new year, and good things are to come, folks,
• 32:28
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• 32:31
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• 32:34
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• 32:37
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• 32:40
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• 32:44
  Speaker 2: being with us. Talk to you next year.
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: Thanks Mary, Christmas by take care.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll be uh. Actually, today's my last day of
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: the year. Ken Rizzotto will be here tomorrow. But then
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: next week and the week after. For two weeks, Curtis
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Sliwa will be filling in every day. That'll be fascinating
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: to hear what he's got to say about the mayor race,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: the new mayor and everything else. And don't forget Buck
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: and Clay, they'll be here at noon today right after
• 33:11
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• 33:13
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• 33:16
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• 33:18
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• 33:22
  Speaker 1: It's the Mark Simone Show on sevent tenoray.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Well coming up in the next hour, Jimmy Fayla will
• 33:31
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• 33:33
  Speaker 2: the crazy New York Times in their fake investigations. We'll
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: get to Brown University, We'll get to the incoming mayor.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: There's some good signs of things that might happen. We'll
• 33:45
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• 33:48
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• 33:51
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