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Mark interviews New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mister, you are Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 2: Um well with us right now. The greatest columnist in America,
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  Speaker 2: Michael Goodwin the New York Post. You can read his
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  Speaker 2: column every Sunday and every Wednesday, and all the columns
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  Speaker 2: are up on the New York Post website if you
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  Speaker 2: want to go read them. Michael Goodwin, How you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Mark, Thank you?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, oh, I loved your calm the other day about
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  Speaker 2: Kathy Hochel. You know, she's pandering to the mom Donnie crowd.
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  Speaker 2: But you're right, she's never gonna win them over, never
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  Speaker 2: gonna satisfy them, is she?
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  Speaker 1: No? On me? You hut, there's this Uh, this is
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  Speaker 1: not a menu where you select the things where you
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  Speaker 1: agree with them. Mom. Yeah, you either agree with him
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  Speaker 1: or you don't. It's one hundred percent. And thankfully she
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  Speaker 1: doesn't one hundred percent agree with him. But that's why
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  Speaker 1: compare it to seating the alligators. You know, give them
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  Speaker 1: a little bit and pretty soon you're on them. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what's happened to her. She thought she could get away,
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  Speaker 1: which is since throwing them a few scraps, a couple
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  Speaker 1: of billion dollars of state money. But of course that's
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  Speaker 1: not enough. They want everything, and that includes higher taxes
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  Speaker 1: and corporations and individuals and all kinds of other things.
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  Speaker 1: So she you know, also this issue of Israel, which
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  Speaker 1: is the main driving force of these new socialists, and
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  Speaker 1: you have to hate Israel, you have to hate Anton
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  Speaker 1: Yahu to be a real socialist these days. I thankfully
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Hoco qualifies on those counts. But she's
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  Speaker 1: done a lot of damage already.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so how bad is it? Obviously, Mom, Donnie's just
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  Speaker 2: terrible at this, But how bad is it going to be?
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  Speaker 2: It's been six months already and it's not that bad.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he makes things a little worse, but he
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  Speaker 2: hasn't done too much damage in six months. What do
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  Speaker 2: you think will happen the next year or two?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think some of these things take a while
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  Speaker 1: before they the evidence becomes clear. For example, this are
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  Speaker 1: rent freeze, if it's allowed to stand, I think what
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  Speaker 1: you're going to see are increasing dilapidation of you know,
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  Speaker 1: sort of marginal rental buildings. You're going to see more
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  Speaker 1: vacancies because one of the things that's already happening, Mark
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  Speaker 1: is that the city under the fore Mom Donnie clamp
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  Speaker 1: down on how much you could raise the rent if
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  Speaker 1: you renovated an empty apartment. And I've spoken the landlords
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  Speaker 1: who are sitting on empty apartments because they say they
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  Speaker 1: cannot afford to renovate it because their rent laws do
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  Speaker 1: not allow them to reap the money. And what happens is,
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  Speaker 1: let's say you have a tenant who's there for a
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  Speaker 1: very long time twenty thirty years even not unusual, and
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  Speaker 1: that tenant moves or dies, then you have to upgrade
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  Speaker 1: the entire apartment, probably need new kitchen equipment, bath, all
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  Speaker 1: pay jobs. All these things cost a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: Forty fifty thousand dollars to do a total rehab. Well,
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  Speaker 1: if it's going to take you fifteen years to recoup
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  Speaker 1: that money, you're not going to do it because you'll
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  Speaker 1: be losing money constantly. So that's what's happening kind of
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  Speaker 1: quietly across the city. So when you pile on top
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  Speaker 1: of that rent freezes for years, then you're going to
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  Speaker 1: create more of those situations where you have vacant departments
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  Speaker 1: that nobody can live in because nobody can afford upgrade them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Hey, so first it's Mom Downey. Then you last
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  Speaker 2: week we had a whole bunch of crazy socialists get elected,
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  Speaker 2: and people studying that vote real carefully say, even though
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  Speaker 2: the campaign on affordability, the real reason they won two things.
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  Speaker 2: It's deep anti semitism with these young voters, and also
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  Speaker 2: they want to stop Trump and they think the old politicians,
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  Speaker 2: the humors that Jeffreys, don't know how to stop Trump.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why they're voting these crazies. Is that really
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  Speaker 2: what it is?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think Trump is obviously you know, target number one,
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  Speaker 1: but I think it's also the more centrist oriented or
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  Speaker 1: center left Democrats. I mean, most of them are not
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  Speaker 1: notoriously crazy like the socialists, and so they stand in
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  Speaker 1: the way of the socialists. So you know, as I said,
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  Speaker 1: in these districts, there were the socialists one the Democratic primaries.
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  Speaker 1: There are no Republicans there. It's really a battle of
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  Speaker 1: the left versus the far left, and the fire left
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  Speaker 1: is a winning because the lefts is not radical enough
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  Speaker 1: for these new young voters in these districts. And I
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  Speaker 1: think the Democratic Party really at this point has more
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  Speaker 1: to worry about than the Republican Party.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but do they really they got these young crazy voters.
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  Speaker 2: They're all going to have kids and raise young, crazy
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  Speaker 2: voters for another general. Yeah, well, do they really have
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  Speaker 2: to worry They seem to be big enough in numbers
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  Speaker 2: to be winning elections.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the turnout was very very low, yeah, talking eight, ten,
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  Speaker 1: twelve percent. So that's what happens when you get an
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  Speaker 1: organized group, even though small, and it's really super organized,
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  Speaker 1: it could turn out, identify and turn out its voters.
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  Speaker 1: Whereas the sbats of the world don't do anything right.
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  Speaker 1: They sit there, they're elected year after year after year
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  Speaker 1: because they have no Republican opponents, so they can go
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  Speaker 1: to Washington and go to sleep and just vote with
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  Speaker 1: the party, and they really can end up the party
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  Speaker 1: is happy with them, so there are no challenges within
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  Speaker 1: the party. But now you had these far leftists. They're
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  Speaker 1: really not even Democrats, they're socialists, and they're running in
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  Speaker 1: the primaries and most of the time they're winning because
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  Speaker 1: the other half of the electorate is asleep. They are
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  Speaker 1: not seen this threat. And now suddenly they wake up
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  Speaker 1: and their new congressman or woman is a socialist who
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  Speaker 1: doesn't adhere to any of the the uh the ideas
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  Speaker 1: of and that's the out or someone like that. It's
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  Speaker 1: what AOC did a few years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Queen's yeah, so hey, Michael Goodwin, Bruce Blakeman. We really
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  Speaker 2: need him to win. He's a little behind right now,
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  Speaker 2: but he always comes from behind. If he wins, when
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  Speaker 2: we hope he does, is at the beginning and the
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  Speaker 2: end of all this crap with the Socialists.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that would be an earthquake politically, it would. It
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  Speaker 1: would really, I think, wake up both the Democrats and
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  Speaker 1: of course the Socialists. It would be a political earthquake
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  Speaker 1: because it's such as we haven't seen, you know, Mark,
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  Speaker 1: as you and I discussed. I'm a little concerned that
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  Speaker 1: I don't hear more from Blakeman. I don't see more
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  Speaker 1: about him. I think he's running out of time. The
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  Speaker 1: latest polls have him down by twenty and there's still
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people who's sill the say they don't
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  Speaker 1: know enough about him. It's getting like to fix that.
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  Speaker 1: That should not be an issue at this point in
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  Speaker 1: the campaign. He's ever got to make more noise.
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  Speaker 2: Well, but the guy is flying all over the state.
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  Speaker 2: You look at his schedule, He's running around everywhere. He's
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  Speaker 2: on every TV show that will have him. Is social
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  Speaker 2: media is very good. What more can he do. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: but also in the real polls that he's only down
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  Speaker 2: eight percent.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, look, I think what more can he do?
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  Speaker 1: I think the generic answer to the candidates who have
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  Speaker 1: to come from behind, you have to make more noise.
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  Speaker 1: You have to have ideas that can catch fire, and
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  Speaker 1: you have to be relentless in being on the attack.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you have to go you know, scortster the
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  Speaker 1: negative against the incumbent, and you have to do it
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  Speaker 1: every day, every occasion. It has to be something that
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  Speaker 1: you get local attention and therefore you get the media's attention.
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  Speaker 1: Now look into in New York, the media is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be for Hope by and large because they're all Democrats. Nonetheless,
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  Speaker 1: I think the key to a kind of revolutionary campaign
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  Speaker 1: is got to make a lot of noise you have
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  Speaker 1: to get you have to grab the attention so the
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  Speaker 1: keeople that can understand what your ideas are and what
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  Speaker 1: would change under a Blankman governorship.
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  Speaker 2: But again, check out a social media. He does do that,
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  Speaker 2: but you're right, the media just doesn't cover it. They
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  Speaker 2: ignore it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's a big that's a big problem. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, look, he's not the first scandidate to face
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  Speaker 1: that problem. Yeah, he's just gonna have to find a
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  Speaker 1: way to solve it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. Well, Michael Goodwin, brilliant as always. Will
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  Speaker 2: be looking for your column tomorrow in the New York Post,
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  Speaker 2: and you can go read all his columns. They're up
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  Speaker 2: on the New York Post website. Michael Goodwin, thanks for
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  Speaker 2: being with.
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  Speaker 1: Us always, Surprise re Mark, thanks you take care.
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