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Mark's 10am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: This is seven r Boy. The Mark Simoon Show starts now.
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  Speaker 1: Well Thursday already. Well, we had one last ninety degree day.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be like ninety to day, then back to
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  Speaker 1: normal temperatures after today. We got a lot to get to.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to Iran. We'll get to the war, we'll
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  Speaker 1: get to the Pope. We'll get to Mom. Donnie is
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  Speaker 1: doing some stuff that is so crazy dumb that people
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  Speaker 1: are starting to really wonder what the hell of this
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  Speaker 1: guy's all about. We'll get to crazy Kathy Hokeel. We'll
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  Speaker 1: get to live Nation ticket prices. We'll get to mel Brooks.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to a whole lot more that could be
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  Speaker 1: a Doorman strike. Lots to talk about today, we'll get
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  Speaker 1: to all of that coming up. So just the latest
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  Speaker 1: on Iran. The blockade is in progress. It's very very
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  Speaker 1: very successful. Twenty ships were allowed in through the blockade.
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  Speaker 1: The US turned away thirteen ships. Actually, that's how good
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  Speaker 1: the blockade is. They didn't have to even turn them away.
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  Speaker 1: They saw the blockade and turned around and got the
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  Speaker 1: hell out of there. The blockade is about a dozen
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  Speaker 1: major major ships and US Navy ships, many dozens of aircraft,
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  Speaker 1: about ten thousand people work on this blockade. US military
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  Speaker 1: Admiral Cooper, who is running Sentcom he was there in
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  Speaker 1: the Middle East, went to inspect everything personally, talked to
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  Speaker 1: the troops, said de morale is very high. Troops are
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  Speaker 1: doing really well. So the blockade is in effect. There
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  Speaker 1: will be talks resuming at some point. President Trump on
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  Speaker 1: the blockade.
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  Speaker 2: It's been pretty amazing. Actually, I thought that was going
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  Speaker 2: to happen. They reacted to this even I think was,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we've obliterated them, and this almost seems to
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  Speaker 2: be more of a reaction than we had before. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's close to Ovia. I view it is very
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  Speaker 2: close to over. You know what, if I pulled up
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  Speaker 2: stakes right now, it would take them twenty years to
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  Speaker 2: rebuild that country. And we're not finished. We'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: I think they want to make it deal very badly.
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  Speaker 1: You might be saying, what's wrong with this voice? He
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  Speaker 1: sounds worse. Yeah, he is. In fact, this is Maria
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  Speaker 1: Bartiromo interviewing him. She said, well, you're very horse what happened,
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  Speaker 1: and he actually said, yeah, it's my fault. He goes,
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  Speaker 1: I was yelling at people. I was yelling at some
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  Speaker 1: really stupid people. I was yelling at them and that's
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  Speaker 1: my voices worse. But things are going very well. The
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  Speaker 1: blockade will continue, Talks will resume. I ran through third
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  Speaker 1: parties is asking to get back to the bargaining table.
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  Speaker 1: Now this will be a whole different kind of bargaining.
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  Speaker 1: This negotiation will be a lot different. The Straits are closed.
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  Speaker 1: We closed them, and that changes everything. The only leverage
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  Speaker 1: they had was the Straits of Horror most now we've
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  Speaker 1: closed them and it's doing them damage and doing us
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  Speaker 1: no harm at all. In fact, we make money with
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  Speaker 1: the Straits closed because countries can't get any oil out
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  Speaker 1: of there, so they're forced to come to us to
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  Speaker 1: buy oil. But with the Straits closed, Iran loses four
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty million a day, four hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty million a day, that's something like fifteen billion a month.
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  Speaker 1: So with the Straits closed, we've basically cut off all
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  Speaker 1: of Iran's revenue. We've basically seized their assets, so they
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  Speaker 1: are in real, real trouble with the Straates closed. This
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  Speaker 1: will make bargaining entirely different this time. It was a
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  Speaker 1: very upsetting day yesterday for Democrats. Look at their Schumer
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  Speaker 1: on TV. He looks so miserable. Look at him. Just
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  Speaker 1: put him on suicide watch. Look how miserable he looks.
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  Speaker 1: No reason he's so miserable. It's the blockade is working.
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  Speaker 1: Iran is begging to come back to the bargaining table.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the one that really killed these democrats. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: yesterday the stock market hit an all time high record
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  Speaker 1: high the stock market the Tao, not the Tao, but
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  Speaker 1: the more important measure, the broader measure of the market,
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  Speaker 1: is the S and P five hundred. The Tao is
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  Speaker 1: a handful of stocks. The S and P five hundred
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  Speaker 1: is the whole thing. S and P five hundred yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day hit an all time high,
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  Speaker 1: highest number on the stock market ever in history. An
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  Speaker 1: incredible turnaround. Look at Schumer, he looks suicidal now. He
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  Speaker 1: just looks so upset about this. Even on the network news,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's quite a story. The stock market hits
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  Speaker 1: the highest level ever in history. They had to bury that,
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  Speaker 1: They had to make it story number like fourteen in
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  Speaker 1: the newscast. But you know, for weeks and weeks and
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  Speaker 1: weeks and weeks, we've had Democrats telling you that the
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  Speaker 1: Iran war has destroyed us. Look at the stock market,
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  Speaker 1: it's way down. Remember we went to the same thing
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  Speaker 1: with tariffs. There was a plunge in the stock market
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  Speaker 1: this time and with the tariffs, and it not only
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  Speaker 1: came back, it came back bigger and better than ever.
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  Speaker 1: And after the tariff it then set a new all
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  Speaker 1: time record. And after this plunge, it just set a
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  Speaker 1: new all time record again yesterday. So you know, all
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  Speaker 1: these things that democrats yell and scream about it they
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  Speaker 1: all go away in a couple of weeks. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, it's a fascinating These democrats aren't stupid, they're
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  Speaker 1: not stupid people, but they can't seem to figure out
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  Speaker 1: the pattern that every time this stuff happens, three weeks later,
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  Speaker 1: it's forgotten about. So stop making such an issue out
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  Speaker 1: of it. Same thing's going to happen with the pope.
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  Speaker 1: And look at these look at these stories. Oh, here's
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  Speaker 1: a story about how the fact that the president started
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  Speaker 1: a feud with the pope, the fact that he attacked
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  Speaker 1: the pope, the fact that he got into a war
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  Speaker 1: with the pope, this is going to kill him once
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  Speaker 1: and for all. This story is from twenty sixteen. It's
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  Speaker 1: ten years old. This is when he had to fight
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  Speaker 1: with Pope Francis. He wasn't elected yet, he was running.
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  Speaker 1: He was in the South Carolina primary. That said, this
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  Speaker 1: is it, he's finished. Remember, Pope Francis attacked him. This
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  Speaker 1: is when Trump was campaigning on building a wall and
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  Speaker 1: Pope Francis, these popes can be incredibly wrong when they
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  Speaker 1: discuss political stuff. The Pope said, any person who builds
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  Speaker 1: a wall, whoever they may be, is not a Christian.
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  Speaker 1: If you're building walls and nutbridges, you are not a Christian. Well,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, they have a huge wall around the Vatican.
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  Speaker 1: The Pope has, if you've been to the Vatican, is
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  Speaker 1: a big, huge wall. And the you know, we love
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  Speaker 1: the Pope, but he has no right to say something
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  Speaker 1: like that's crazy. And Trump fired back. At the time,
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  Speaker 1: this is in twenty sixteen, he said, for a religious leader,
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  Speaker 1: the question of person's faith is disgraceful. Well, he's right,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good comment. But then you know, all hell broke.
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  Speaker 1: Lucia can't attack the pope. You can't fight with the pope.
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  Speaker 1: And then Trump says, you know, if and when the
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  Speaker 1: Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which everyone knows is they're
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  Speaker 1: ultimate target. I can promise you the Pope would have
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  Speaker 1: hoped that Donald Trump is president to help defend things.
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  Speaker 1: So fake news went crazy. So that was twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: Not only did it not affect the election. The next
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  Speaker 1: day he won the South Carolina primary, a big Catholic state.
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  Speaker 1: But so again, twenty sixteen, big fight with the Pope.
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  Speaker 1: Three weeks later, everybody forgot about it. So now new
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  Speaker 1: fight with the Pope. Here's all the left wing, the
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  Speaker 1: real left wing fake news like New York Times. In
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  Speaker 1: this Pope Trump faces a different kind of opponent. This
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  Speaker 1: is a different kind of opponent. And then there's you
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  Speaker 1: ever read Vox Media. That's a real, real left wing publication.
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  Speaker 1: Vox says, this time Donald Trump messed with the wrong pope.
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  Speaker 1: He may have fought with Francis before, but Leo is
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  Speaker 1: a tougher foil New York Times. Leo has incredible support
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  Speaker 1: from a broad swathe of conservative Catholics. Now, I who
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  Speaker 1: said that a lot of Catholics not too thrilled that
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  Speaker 1: they got a left wing pope. In fact, remember when
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  Speaker 1: Leo became pope, he had to delete his Twitter. He
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  Speaker 1: had for a long time had a Twitter account which
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of left wing stuff, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: angry left wing stuff, a lot of Trump bashing was
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  Speaker 1: on his Twitter. When he became pope, he had to
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  Speaker 1: delete the whole account. So but you know it's not again,
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  Speaker 1: a pope should never ever be questioning anybody's faith like that. Now. JD.
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  Speaker 1: Vance was not for going after the pope, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: as he usually does, he quickly got on board. But
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  Speaker 1: here's JD. Vance on the Pope yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: How can you say that God is never on the
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  Speaker 3: side of those who willed the sword? Was God on
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  Speaker 3: the side of the Americans who liberated France from the Nazis?
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  Speaker 3: Was God on the side of the Americans who liberated
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  Speaker 3: Holocaust camps and liberated those those innocent people from you know,
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  Speaker 3: those who had survived the Holocaust.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a point. If you weren't allowed to ever
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  Speaker 1: do this stuff, then you'd have to let Hitler take
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  Speaker 1: over everything. You would have had to let Russia take Ukraine,
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  Speaker 1: if you're not allowed to stand up to evil. He's
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  Speaker 1: got a very very good point there. So again this
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  Speaker 1: will all be forgotten about come back in a month,
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  Speaker 1: nobody will remember anything about the Pope. Nobody will remember
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  Speaker 1: anything about a Jesus picture. It turns out that Trump
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  Speaker 1: was in Miami and the guy who's the head of
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  Speaker 1: Federal Housing Finance commit I forget his name is Bill Pluth.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently he showed him this Jesus meme of Trump. This
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  Speaker 1: was going all over the internet. Apparently he showed it
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  Speaker 1: to Trump. Trump thought it was funny, and basically that's
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  Speaker 1: one of the reasons he played. Just thought it was cute, funny,
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  Speaker 1: but all hell broke loose. Turns out even Mike Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: Speaker of the House, he called Trump personally and asked
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  Speaker 1: him to take down the Jesus thing. That probably had
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  Speaker 1: more influence on him than anything else. Hey, people are
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  Speaker 1: starting to worry about Mam Donnie's mental health. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he's a crazy socialist. Okay, that's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of left wing idiots. The fact that he's an
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  Speaker 1: anti Semite. I hate to say it, but that's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the left wing right now. Disgusting as it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's a terrible thing on the on the democratic side,
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  Speaker 1: but he's starting to look absolutely nuts. This supermarket thing,
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  Speaker 1: even people in the supermarket industry are stunned at how
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  Speaker 1: stupid this guy is. He's talking about building his first supermarket.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to do five, one in each borough. The
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  Speaker 1: first one is going to be an absolute dump. If
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  Speaker 1: you look at the pictures of where it is, it's
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  Speaker 1: in East Harlem, in this something called Lamarquette or something.
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  Speaker 1: It's a sort of a little court with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of shops, really dumpy looking. The city owns it. There's
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  Speaker 1: if you're going to put the supermarket there. If the
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  Speaker 1: city's gonna put a supermarket, it will have no rent,
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  Speaker 1: no taxes, no expense, simple thing to open. And I
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  Speaker 1: think about that. You have to pay no taxes, no rent, nothing,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about permits, you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to worry about any of that. It's going to cost
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  Speaker 1: thirty million dollars thirty million. Now, remember I was telling
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  Speaker 1: you yesterday. When you build a supermarket and put a
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  Speaker 1: supermarket in somewhere, you know, you buy a store or
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  Speaker 1: a big space and you put a super it costs
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  Speaker 1: one million, maybe two million. If you went all out
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  Speaker 1: and went crazy spending money, it would cost you three million.
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  Speaker 1: The supermarket chain, all the big supermarket chain in a market.
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  Speaker 1: They just came into Manhattan to build a supermarket and
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  Speaker 1: they built a really I mean fancy, way beyond, way
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  Speaker 1: beyond what Mam Donnie was talking about. They built a
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  Speaker 1: real serious, very very very high end supermarket. You know what,
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  Speaker 1: it costs three million? It's three million, and that's what
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  Speaker 1: paying taxes, paying rent and paying for permits, paying for lobbyists,
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  Speaker 1: paying for a three million So how on earth could
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  Speaker 1: this cost thirty million? And this is not going to
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  Speaker 1: look like this is not going to look like Wegmans,
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  Speaker 1: This is not gonna look like Morton Williams. This is
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  Speaker 1: going to be a real plain dump. How the hell
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  Speaker 1: could it be thirty million dollars? So it should be
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  Speaker 1: about one million. Really, actually it should be about seven
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand, since they'll pay no rent, no taxes, no
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  Speaker 1: any But let's say it costs a million, where's the
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  Speaker 1: other twenty nine million going? Now? It could be that
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  Speaker 1: this guy is just totally corrupt and he's a real
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  Speaker 1: sleevez ball politician. But he looks just like an awful,
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  Speaker 1: terrible guy. But he doesn't look corrupt. He's from a
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  Speaker 1: wealthy family. He's never been too interested in material things.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he's corrupt. It could just be contracts
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  Speaker 1: you're going to hand out to fellow Democrats. You know
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  Speaker 1: one reason that these two reasons the politicians hand out
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  Speaker 1: these contracts. If something you know, like that Kennedy Airport
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  Speaker 1: or the Guardi Airport terminal cost twenty billion one terminal,
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  Speaker 1: it should have cost one billion. It costs bill where'd
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  Speaker 1: the other nineteen billion go? Well, you hand out contracts
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  Speaker 1: to a lots of people, lots of Now there's two
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  Speaker 1: reasons you hand him out. Most of the time, it's
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  Speaker 1: to get donations. You give out these big contracts of
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  Speaker 1: these contractors and unions and all that, and in exchange,
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  Speaker 1: they donate massive amounts of money to your campaign or
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  Speaker 1: your political pack. Sometimes it's corruption you get a little
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  Speaker 1: kickback out of it, but usually it's just for So
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  Speaker 1: it could be that's what mom Donnie's doing. He wants
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  Speaker 1: to run again, wants to get reelected, and by handing
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  Speaker 1: out twenty nine million in contracts that you don't even
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  Speaker 1: need to hand out, he could put together an incredible
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  Speaker 1: war chest. So then they're talking about taxing the rich
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  Speaker 1: even more. Right now, the rich pays all the taxes
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  Speaker 1: not all, but they have what kind of all of it?
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  Speaker 1: The top one percent pays like a forty eight percent
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  Speaker 1: of the tax. The top ten percent pays ninety two
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  Speaker 1: percent of the tax. Right now, wealthy, the real rich,
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  Speaker 1: pay most of the taxes, most of the taxes. No,
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  Speaker 1: Mam Donni wants to charge him even more. He and
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  Speaker 1: Hokel have come up with this piea tear tax. That means,
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  Speaker 1: if you're very wealthy, you live somewhere else, but you
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  Speaker 1: decide I'll have an apartment in New York too, and
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  Speaker 1: you buy yourself a big, beautiful apartment just to use
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  Speaker 1: when you come into New York. They want to tax
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  Speaker 1: the hell out of you. It's absolutely insane. The problem is, Hochel,
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  Speaker 1: Mom Donnie, really stupid when it comes to anything to
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  Speaker 1: do with money, business management, finances. There's a simple rule,
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  Speaker 1: our greatest economist, Art Laugher simple rule. If you tax
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  Speaker 1: something more, you get less of it. So if you
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  Speaker 1: want less of something, just tax it more. So, if
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  Speaker 1: you tax the wealthy on buying New York apartments, they'll
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  Speaker 1: just stop buying New York apartments. You'll get less of it. Hochel,
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  Speaker 1: you know they got this budget gap because the budget
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  Speaker 1: is it's like ten million percent more than it should be.
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  Speaker 1: You just cut the budget in half. It's easy to do.
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  Speaker 1: But they can't figure that out, so they keep trying
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  Speaker 1: to raise money. She's got this dumb pieta tear at tax.
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  Speaker 4: It is not a tax on residence that is so important.
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  Speaker 4: We're talking about people who are ultra wealthy. I mean
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  Speaker 4: there are literally Russian oligarchs buying up properties, driving up
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  Speaker 4: the property values. As I've said, I'm clearly not entertaining
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  Speaker 4: income taxes or corporate taxes.
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  Speaker 5: Full stop.
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  Speaker 1: Yeh, full stop again, you'll get less of it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what happens? First of all, if these oligarchs come in
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  Speaker 1: here and buy these apartments, and when they say piet
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  Speaker 1: to tear, it's not a three hundred thousand dollars. Some
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  Speaker 1: of these like they're right over there, fifty seven Street
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  Speaker 1: billionaires roll. They'll buy a place there eighty million just
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  Speaker 1: for their New York apartment, just a pieta tear eighty million.
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  Speaker 1: So the property tax on that is probably two million
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  Speaker 1: a year. They're paying two million a year in property.
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  Speaker 1: And if they do come here every soft what do
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  Speaker 1: you think they do when they're here? What do you
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  Speaker 1: think the Russian oligarch does when he comes to his
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  Speaker 1: New York City apartment. I think he just sits in
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  Speaker 1: there and watches TV all day. Now he goes out
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  Speaker 1: and he spends a fortune. They spend a fortune in stores,
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  Speaker 1: in restaurants, or run around New York spending money like crazy.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want him to stop coming here, mom, Donnie.
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  Speaker 5: Our vision is that everyone stays in the city and
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  Speaker 5: that we have room for others to join us. What
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  Speaker 5: we often speak about is that the revenue that we
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  Speaker 5: would use from this increased taxation, it is to increase
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  Speaker 5: the quality of life of the same city that we
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  Speaker 5: all call home.
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  Speaker 1: Brilliant, It sounds brilliant. Everything he's saying is completely insane.
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  Speaker 1: But if you speak like he does, and you speak slowly,
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  Speaker 1: and he thinks things like what we speak about here,
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  Speaker 1: and if you talk like this, you see how much
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  Speaker 1: smarter I can sound if I talk like him, if
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  Speaker 1: you sound like you are being very thoughtful. Meantime, everything
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  Speaker 1: he said is complete crap. It doesn't make any sense,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't work. But when he talks like this, it
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  Speaker 1: certainly sounds like he is smart. Anyway, we'll take some
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  Speaker 1: calls in a minute. Eight hundred three two one zero
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  Speaker 1: seven ten is the number. Hey, we've got one of
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  Speaker 1: the greatest economists in the world come up in a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes. We'll ask him about this stupid tax and
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  Speaker 1: what it actually will do about. Give me a call.
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  Speaker 1: We'll take some calls next one to eight hundred three
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  Speaker 1: two one zero seven ten