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Charles Gasparino | New York Post Columnist | 05-11-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 3: Here he is he very talented and brilliant. Charlie Gasparino, Charlie,
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  Speaker 3: welcome back, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know if there was a hip hop high school.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's a new invention, hasn't it.
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  Speaker 3: It's not open yet. I guess it opens in the fall.
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  Speaker 3: And again, like I said, don't complain that our kids
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  Speaker 3: are morons and not getting med than science scores when
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  Speaker 3: they're going to be learning about digital underground and you know, I.
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  Speaker 4: Mean, do you remember do you remember the Big Duke Rap?
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  Speaker 4: No was that it was a rap that mimicked John
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  Speaker 4: Wayne's voice. It was called the Big Duke.
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  Speaker 1: Rap, Big Duke Crop.
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  Speaker 4: Now you have to be talented to come up with that, that's.
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  Speaker 1: I guess and I listen.
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  Speaker 3: I like some rap songs, not much most of most
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  Speaker 3: of what I don't like because it's you know, they
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  Speaker 3: it's the only place where they actually they say the
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  Speaker 3: N word time and time again. It's okay, it's okay
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  Speaker 3: for them to say it, and it's in just about
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  Speaker 3: every song one hundred times. And they still still treat
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  Speaker 3: women like garbage and cops like garbage. Still that hasn't
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  Speaker 3: changed in twenty years. So I'm not a big fan
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  Speaker 3: of the whole genre. There's a couple of decent songs,
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  Speaker 3: but my god, that's that's a school coming to New York.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're excited about.
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  Speaker 3: In the meantime, all of our millionaires and billionaires want
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  Speaker 3: to get the hell out of here because the mayor
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  Speaker 3: is a moron, a complete moron, and what's going on
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  Speaker 3: with Ken Gripp and Charlie Gasperino. Is there any way
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  Speaker 3: to make a logical explanation for the mayor?
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  Speaker 4: No, I mean, it was a stupid stud. Listen, I
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  Speaker 4: want to say this said, I don't wake up in
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  Speaker 4: the morning, you know, saying I got to defend billionaires.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's just not my DNA as a son
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  Speaker 4: of a union, iron work.
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  Speaker 1: But hold on. But hold on at the same time.
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  Speaker 3: You don't wake up in the morning saying I need
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  Speaker 3: to find a way to thrash billionaires.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's the whole point, and that that's my point.
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  Speaker 4: My point is we need these people because they pay
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  Speaker 4: a lot of taxes. Believe it or not, Ted Griffin
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  Speaker 4: doesn't live in the city, right, so he owns a
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  Speaker 4: penthouse where he pays a lot of property tax, by
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  Speaker 4: the way, and doesn't use any services. So just think
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  Speaker 4: of the lot illogic of what he did. On top
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  Speaker 4: of that, we can't we should be demonizing them. I
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  Speaker 4: mean again, they keep the lights on in the city.
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  Speaker 4: That you know, if you listened to Zora Mandami, it
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  Speaker 4: just shows you how stupid he is and how stupid
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  Speaker 4: people are who voted for him. You would make it
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  Speaker 4: me makes it sound like this was like repecious capitalism
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  Speaker 4: before where he got into office. New York City has
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  Speaker 4: got the biggest welfare state out there. I mean it
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  Speaker 4: has for you. You have free healthcare to the end egens,
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  Speaker 4: you have obviously rent control, you have all these subsidies.
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  Speaker 4: If you're poor in this city, you do pretty well.
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  Speaker 4: You do okay, If you're if you're a migrant and
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  Speaker 4: you come to the city, if you're an illegal alien,
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  Speaker 4: you do okay till because you get it. You probably
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  Speaker 4: get a debit card on top of your free healthcare
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  Speaker 4: and everything. If you're working class, middle class, it's tough.
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  Speaker 4: I get it, but it's tough because of this system
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  Speaker 4: is so expensive to run this type of welfare state
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  Speaker 4: that transfers wealth to very poor people and including imported
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  Speaker 4: poor people. It costs a lot of money. The main
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  Speaker 4: people who pay that are the rich billionaires. They pay
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  Speaker 4: through you know, corporate taxes, they pay it through high
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  Speaker 4: property taxes, and it's to chase them out. Is the
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  Speaker 4: highest stupidity. It was also like horrendous, like just optically bad.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we live in a very six of society
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  Speaker 4: right now, particularly with left wing violence. I mean we
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  Speaker 4: have left wingers, you know, basically a set trying to
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  Speaker 4: is trying and trying to assassinate people like the President
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  Speaker 4: and assassinating people like the United Healthcare CEO. To put
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  Speaker 4: a target on Ken Griffin is just so so outrageous.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they just made me sick watching that thing,
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  Speaker 4: so I think he should be I can't believe he's
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  Speaker 4: not castigating more every day in the New York Times
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  Speaker 4: for that. I mean, you know, literally telling, I mean
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  Speaker 4: just just doing that stunt was just so reckless. It's
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  Speaker 4: beyond the pale.
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  Speaker 3: I think New York Times will never go against Mom Donnie.
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  Speaker 1: They never do.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, on top of this Ken Griffin debacle,
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  Speaker 3: would sit it down on the six billion dollar business
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  Speaker 3: venture he wants you to do. Right around the corner
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  Speaker 3: here on three P fifty Park Avenue is his second
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  Speaker 3: home tax. I don't pronounce it that French way. How
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  Speaker 3: do you say it? The Pierre that will care stupid?
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 3: I live in I'm from Brooklyn, I'm not from Power.
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  Speaker 3: So okay, it's a second home tax. For some reason,
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  Speaker 3: people who have succeeded in this country and they are
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  Speaker 3: they're able to afford a second home again, they're being punished.
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  Speaker 3: People said to me, Sid, you're a moron. You don't
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  Speaker 3: get it. It's not about punishing people who are successful. Well,
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  Speaker 3: what is it then, I don't get it. I've got
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  Speaker 3: a second home. I've worked, taught enough to get that,
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  Speaker 3: and if it's worth over five million dollars, I've done
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  Speaker 3: really really well. You're going to tax me more. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, Charlie. Sounds like a punishment to me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it's also stupid because apparently it's not
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  Speaker 4: gonna raise that much money. You're just gonna piss these
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  Speaker 4: guys off. The amount of money it raises. I saw
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  Speaker 4: the estimate's like four hundred million on a on a
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  Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty seven billion dollar budget. That's like
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  Speaker 4: a drop in the bucket, get considering the just all
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  Speaker 4: the stuff you have to you know, all the all
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  Speaker 4: the strife you're causing. And on top of that, you know,
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  Speaker 4: they can challenge that tax. I mean, I think they're
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  Speaker 4: doing it on the assessment value, and you know, not
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  Speaker 4: once you paid for it, so people could challenge it,
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  Speaker 4: you know, years before they get the money from this thing.
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  Speaker 4: So it's it's clearly a stunt. By the way, it's
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  Speaker 4: not just Mondami, it's that idiot in Albany that that proposes,
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  Speaker 4: and he's just taken it to another level. And it's
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  Speaker 4: a waste of money and it's a waste of time.
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  Speaker 4: Right now, we should be looking through ways to cut
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  Speaker 4: taxes in the city because business creation is so horrendous.
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  Speaker 4: People are not creating businesses in the city. And one
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  Speaker 4: other things that if you look at our population increases,
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  Speaker 4: most of it is from immigration, and that those are
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  Speaker 4: and you know, we're we're importing people labor at a
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  Speaker 4: time we just don't need labor. And some of these
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  Speaker 4: immigrants are coming here illegally as well. So we are
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  Speaker 4: literally important to the city the world's poor, while the
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  Speaker 4: middle class, the upper middle class, everybody that pays taxes
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  Speaker 4: are looking to leave. I mean that is, that is,
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  Speaker 4: that's not a recipe for disaster and bankruptcy in the future.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what is.
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  Speaker 3: So tell me this, and Charlie gas Bruno, because you're
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  Speaker 3: as good as, if not better than, anybody. There's got
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  Speaker 3: to be a reason why there are still wealthy people here.
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  Speaker 3: You know John Katsumatinez who joined me next hour, he's
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  Speaker 3: still here.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: The easy answer as well, my kids are here, my
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  Speaker 3: businesses are here, So I'm still here. You know, Bill
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  Speaker 3: O'Reilly to a lesser extent. Tell me what we do right,
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  Speaker 3: what we do right in the city or this state
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  Speaker 3: that would keep somebody of that ilk here.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, Wall Street is still here. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: JP Morgan has its headquarters. But you know, here's the problem.
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  Speaker 4: And you know we do have we do have good
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  Speaker 4: hospitals here. And why you land going is you know
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  Speaker 4: that's my hospital. But I know everybody at that hospital
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  Speaker 4: I had prosty cancer said I didn't have to pull
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  Speaker 4: one string to get great treatment. Yeah, that's how good
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  Speaker 4: answer I got.
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  Speaker 1: You're okay, and you're right.
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  Speaker 3: I use, I use, and while you lango as well
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  Speaker 3: and talk to Mark Siegel is a dear, dear friend
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  Speaker 3: of mine. But you know, by the way, just I
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  Speaker 3: want to get back to what's good here. But even
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  Speaker 3: if you die, God forbid you die. You know, in
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  Speaker 3: this state, they're making it so expensive you can't even
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  Speaker 3: die here.
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  Speaker 4: That's true now. But here's what people are doing. And
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  Speaker 4: people forget this. People or they're not taking this into account.
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  Speaker 4: They are keeping New Yorkers are moving to buying stuff
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  Speaker 4: in Florida, staying there like half the year plus one
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  Speaker 4: and keep their and they keep their place here because
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  Speaker 4: they don't want to totally move out. They still want
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  Speaker 4: to tap into the healthcare system. In particular. I know
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  Speaker 4: this for a fact because I know a lot of
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  Speaker 4: rich people who like the fact that their doctors here.
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  Speaker 4: We have good hospitals here. By the way hospitals are
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  Speaker 4: getting better throughout the country as well as you get.
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  Speaker 3: You know what's funny about you just said, I was
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  Speaker 3: talking to Sean Hottiday about this. So every time I
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  Speaker 3: talk to Sean, which is pretty often, and he's down there,
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  Speaker 3: and he's down there and he says to me, said,
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  Speaker 3: you're an idiot.
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  Speaker 1: I go. He actually says that. I go, what do
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  Speaker 1: you mean? He goes, You're still there?
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  Speaker 3: He goes, there, I guarantee you said, there's a radio
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  Speaker 3: station in Florida that would love to have you. I
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  Speaker 3: promise you that's the case. At the very least, have
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  Speaker 3: your boss set you up in Florida. Why are you
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  Speaker 3: still there? I said, Well, I'm considering doing what a
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  Speaker 3: lot of New Yorkers are doing, which is I lived
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  Speaker 3: in Boca for sixteen years. Let me go back and
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  Speaker 3: spend half plus one ego SID That doesn't work, he said,
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  Speaker 3: When you do that, they come after you for taxes
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  Speaker 3: like you wouldn't believe. So Hannity at least said to
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  Speaker 3: me more than once, more than once, if that's the
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  Speaker 3: route which you want to go, it is fraught with peril.
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  Speaker 4: Well it is. You have to really take you really
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  Speaker 4: have to he'll keep track of when you're down there.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you have to have documentary evidence. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: the law is the law. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: It's hard to and they are patents and the asses
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  Speaker 4: here and trust me, and you know what, they will
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  Speaker 4: focus on people like you and me, you know, because
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  Speaker 4: we are outspoken, right of center.
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  Speaker 1: You know, handsome, very handsome and good looking right there.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, of course Kathy Oakle hates us. But but uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know so, I mean when you put all that together,
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  Speaker 4: of course we got a target on our backs. But
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  Speaker 4: you know, the law of the law. It just keep
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  Speaker 4: good records. I know people that do this all the time,
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  Speaker 4: and they come up here for their healthcare and everything.
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  Speaker 4: And by the way, said you know there there are
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  Speaker 4: good things about New York. You know when I'm when
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  Speaker 4: I'm not here, I miss it. Trust me. However, when
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  Speaker 4: you make it this difficult, you have to it becomes
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  Speaker 4: a cost benefit analysis. When you can get good Italian
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  Speaker 4: food anywhere in the country.
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  Speaker 1: Aint you know you can't now, of course.
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  Speaker 4: You have to be up here for this stuff, you know, but.
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  Speaker 3: But you know it's got great Italian food. Kansas shitty
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  Speaker 3: forgot about.
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  Speaker 4: A long time. They've always had it. You know why,
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  Speaker 4: there was a big Italian neighbor I went to school
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  Speaker 4: in Missouri.
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  Speaker 1: That's where the mom was.
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  Speaker 3: That's you know when you see the movie Casino for example,
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  Speaker 3: when they used to count up all the the winnings
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  Speaker 3: from the Vegas casinos and all those meetings all took
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  Speaker 3: place in Kansas City.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there was a big crime family there. And then
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  Speaker 4: Saint Lewis has a huge Italian neighborhood. It's called the Hill.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, there's you can get if you'd be surprised
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  Speaker 4: what's in South Carolina. You know the great food that
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  Speaker 4: you obviously because you have a Charleston food scenes and
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  Speaker 4: that's taken off.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they announced that.
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  Speaker 3: They did announced last week that well, the biggest migration
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  Speaker 3: states for Republicans and the reason why Republicans can't win
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  Speaker 3: here even me because I'm considering running from mayor with
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty nine, I really am, and I think I
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  Speaker 3: think I'll do okay, But the problem is Republicans are
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  Speaker 3: all gone. But they did say outside of Florida and Texas,
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  Speaker 3: the number three state right now from New York migration
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, absolutely and you know, I was talking to Ron DeSantis.
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  Speaker 4: I was at the Milking conference last week. I interviewed
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  Speaker 4: Ron and I Governor DeSantis, and I interviewed Tim Scott
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  Speaker 4: to the South Carolina Senator, senior Senator from South Carolina.
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  Speaker 4: He's the head of the Panking Committee. They're both great guys,
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  Speaker 4: by the way, And you know, so Ron was saying,
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  Speaker 4: you know the problem you know, he said he told
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  Speaker 4: Lee Zelden one problem when he ran for governor. Want
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  Speaker 4: the problem that you have is so many people have
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  Speaker 4: moved down here. And I think that's the problem that
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  Speaker 4: Bruce is gonna Bruce Blukman's going to have because there's
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  Speaker 4: just so many, so many tax payers that people who
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  Speaker 4: care that are right of center, not even like far
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  Speaker 4: less liberal, but anybody in the middle is looked, is
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  Speaker 4: looking at Florida and other places to migrate because of
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  Speaker 4: just the dysfunctional government. And it's not just taxes. You know,
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  Speaker 4: one thing about these rich guys and I know this,
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  Speaker 4: and whether it's Ken Griffin or whoever, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: this is the point I made in my story in
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  Speaker 4: the post and saying they don't might pay more taxes.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the pendantier tax like they can't afford that.
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  Speaker 4: Of course they can. It's that it's going into a sinkhole,
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  Speaker 4: number one. Number two, it's being being attacked as villainous.
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  Speaker 4: That's number two, right. And you know the services that
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  Speaker 4: there it's paying for are non existent. There are the
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  Speaker 4: schools here are horrible. Okay, let's be real clear, garbage
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  Speaker 4: piles up. The policing. Not that the cops are bad,
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  Speaker 4: but they they're they're they're proverbially handcuffed to be aggressive police.
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  Speaker 4: We have homeless all over the place. You know, you
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  Speaker 4: don't get a lot for your money here, and that's
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  Speaker 4: one of the problems. You know, one some interesting So
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  Speaker 4: I'm out in LA and you know, I was staying
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  Speaker 4: in Beverly Hills because that's where the conference is. I
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  Speaker 4: barely saw a homeless person in Beverly Hills. Now you
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  Speaker 4: go into LA and it's a mess.
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  Speaker 1: It's on New York. La is ice on New York
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  Speaker 1: to be honest.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes it is. Because they haven't they actually having
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  Speaker 4: campus I mean they I'm sure we have ing campments here.
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  Speaker 4: I just don't see that many of them. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: if you go out to Brooklyn, you know, someone told
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  Speaker 4: me they were for a while there was an encampment
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  Speaker 4: underneath the B. K.
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  Speaker 1: Lee and Williams Bell Park too.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's like nuts, but I'm just saying that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, if you don't get much for your money here,
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  Speaker 4: and it's becoming a uh, it's becoming a cost benefit
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  Speaker 4: analysis that most people are saying, I'm gone. And by
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  Speaker 4: the way, when you're rich, you know, let's be real clear,
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  Speaker 4: it's easier to deal with this stuff. You have people
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  Speaker 4: driving you. You don't have to pick the subway. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it's just life is a lot easier. And even they're
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  Speaker 4: sick of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, sure not because they become the hunted. There's
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  Speaker 3: a bullseye on their back and there's no reason for that. Charlie,
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  Speaker 3: you're amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Is always. I love when you come on and some
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  Speaker 1: of my listeners. You get very high rates.
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  Speaker 3: So you do I SWI so Toli Gasbuino is always
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  Speaker 3: amazing job. We'll do it again very very soon, buddy,
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think I can get a teaching position that
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  Speaker 4: they hit pop school?
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  Speaker 1: Why not?
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