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Tuesday's With Howie Carr · Newsradio WGAN

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  Today at Route 22 servicecenter.com Howie Carr
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  Hope you had a good weekend. How are you?
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  Good, good. It's like I'm on Groundhog Day
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  here, though. We can.
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  We'd come back every Tuesday and talk about the same stuff.
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  Oh, there's going to be a ceasefire.
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  Oh, there. Oh, wait, no, the ceasefire was
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  broken. No, they're negotiating.
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  Oh, there's a hang up over the Strait of Hormuz and nuclear
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  dust and and ballistic missiles. It's the same thing every week.
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  It really is like Groundhog Day. Yeah.
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  Yeah, it really is. I mean, I actually sort of
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  allowed myself to dare to hope a little bit because it sounded
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  like this actually had a little bit of legs early on.
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  But I just, you know, in the last 24 hours, you know, now
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  they're, they're striking Iranian targets again.
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  And, and I'm not really hearing much movement on some of the
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  things that are the real sticking points there.
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  So it does indeed feel like it's much the same as it has been for
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  the last month, two months really, ever since the ceasefire
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  started. I think now that you know, that
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  the the Iranians aren't so much concerned about the midterms as
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  they figure that he's got to have a deal by the 4th of July.
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  I think that's the, I think that's what they, I think that's
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  the plan. They've got short term, you know
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  and I and you know what, I think they may be on to something
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  there. Yeah, it's possible.
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  He's going to want something. So does what does that mean for
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  us then? I mean, does that mean that
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  whatever deal comes out sucks and.
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  It, I mean, it does kind of seem that way.
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  I mean, it's, you know, I know they want to put the, the worst
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  spin possible on it, you know, mainstream media, but, you know,
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  I mean, is this, is this really what we want?
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  It looks like too, that the, the, the, the Gulf states like
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  Saudi Arabia that, that were pushing us to get into it.
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  Now they're worried. I, I just read today that
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  they're worried about the, you know, the desalting plants.
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  Apparently they, those are the that's very big in the Persian
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  Gulf. And they think that, you know,
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  there are any circumstances, despite whatever happens with
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  Iran, they could still hit those things and that would really
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  screw them up, you know, like they might have to, you know,
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  evacuate Riyadh, you know, because there's, there's just
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  not enough water. And that's what they count on.
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  And you know, they weren't I, I, I don't know if they were not
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  figuring on that or what, but I mean, it, it just seems like
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  we're just going to have to, to just destroy them.
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  I mean, that's the only way out for for for anybody, I think,
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  isn't it at this point. Yep, I think so.
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  You know, it's, you mentioned, you know, I'm not thinking
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  through things. It seems like.
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  And again, we're not in the room.
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  So I, I can't say what they did or didn't consider or what they
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  debated or what the strategy stuff is, but like, it seems
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  like there's a lot of things they didn't consider in this
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  thing. I mean, the Strait of Hormuz
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  alone, I can't imagine that the military brass weren't sitting
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  there saying, you know, this could be a potential problem for
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  us. But it's been the thing that's
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  tormented the American side of this for quite some time here.
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  And as we've been in this ceasefire for a while, right?
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  Like, it just seems like there's been no ability to gain any
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  leverage over the Iranians 'cause they just have a
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  stranglehold on it. We have our little embargo, you
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  know, obviously, which is definitely having an effect.
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  But you know, it just doesn't strike me as gaining enough
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  leverage to force them to the table because that's really what
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  they need, right? Like it's like you better get to
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  the table or else. And there's none of that
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  happening with a ceasefire while they control the Strait.
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  Right. And they and they think that,
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  you know, that he's that Trump is going to stop Netanyahu from
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  taking them all out again. And I think, I think the
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  Israelis are just chomping at the bed to just like, you know,
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  whack out the next generation of these jerks that is holding
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  things up. You know, I, I, I don't know
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  what the, I don't know what the other, what the solution is,
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  though, because I mean, you can't do business with these
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  with, with people who, who were insane, You know, I mean, he, he
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  doesn't seem to call them lunatics anymore.
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  I mean, but that's what they are.
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  And they they, they indicated more all the time.
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  Well, I hate to say it, but isn't really the the answer
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  right now is just like, stop or move on or go in and do
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  something about it. I mean, like, you know, the
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  ceasefire ends and you go actually start blowing stuff up
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  again. It's one or the other.
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  Wherever we're at right now, it just seems like an intolerable,
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  you know, sort of malaise, some sort of a waiting game where
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  nothing's changing, you know? This must be, you know, I wasn't
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  alive. No one, none of us were alive.
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  But this, this must be what it was like, you know, in 19, early
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  1940, you know, in, in, in France, you know, I mean, Poland
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  was gone. But, you know, you're just
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  waiting for, for what the Germans are going to do next.
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  I don't know. I don't know what the I don't
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  know what the solution is, but it's going to make kind of a
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  grim 250th birthday if it doesn't get resolved.
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  Yeah, seriously, Howie Carr joins us as he does every
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  Tuesday, and we always appreciate it.
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  To turn our attention more domestically here.
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  Howie, we have an election in Texas today.
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  I haven't really covered it too much on the program this
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  morning, but it looks like since the Trump endorsement, Ken
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  Paxton's chances of winning that race obviously have gone up
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  rather significantly. I've seen some polling that
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  shows that he's going to kind of walk with.
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  It anyway, yeah. Well, true, yeah, but it's
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  definitely it looks now like it's basically guaranteed.
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  I hate to even ask you for a prediction since it seems like
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  it's guaranteed, but I guess maybe my prediction would be
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  like, how much does he win by right?
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  I mean, it's just a formal. Conclusion.
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  It's just like they're all the they're taking, except for
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  Thune, they're taking out all the all the rhino Republicans,
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  right? Cassidy's gone, Tom, fellas,
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  tell us who, By the way, I've never seen him and anybody in
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  North Carolina, all the years I lived there after college, I
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  never saw anyone wearing a BOLO. But he's wearing a BOLO.
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  He's he's gone. McConnell's gone.
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  Cornyn's gone. And on the Democrat side,
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  Durbin, Durbin's gone. And you know, Schumer, that
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  Schumer may not know it yet. I think he suspects it, but he's
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  gone in 28. So like all the all the old
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  guard types in the Senate are departing, aren't they?
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  They are. But here's the question, Howie
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  Carr, is the new guard any better than the old Guard?
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  That's always my question with this kind of stuff because I,
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  you know, I've seen over the years, I remember back in the
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  Tea Party wave, right? He had this army of people that
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  were saying, you know, like dump the establishment.
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  These people are horrible and they weren't wrong, but then
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  they get elected and they kind of behave exactly the same way
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  and they become sort of like the new establishment and it's like
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  meet the new boss, same as the old boss kind of thing.
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  And I'm very disappointed in what I've seen.
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  The debts just continue to spiral out of control, etcetera.
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  So you know, you're dumping people like corn and sure, but
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  is it, is it going to be better? Is it going to be better?
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  That's my question. How cynical are you, Howie Carr?
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  I don't know. I, I don't know.
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  I think Paxton will be an improvement, assuming he gets
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  in, but I can't. I just can't see him losing to
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  Talarico. I, I just, I, I think these
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  Democrats, these are crazy. Democrats Talarico is insane.
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  I mean of all the people they could have put up in Texas,
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  that's the guy they did. They chose to put forward the
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  The ads will write themselves for him.
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  Yeah. Yeah, all they have to do is
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  start showing some of his, his, you know, from the pulpit
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  preachings and stuff. I mean, I've, they've already
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  started doing that. It's wild stuff, man.
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  It's wild stuff. Yeah, the thing about the
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  Internet is there's, I mean, it seems like it's unlimited.
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  It's not like you got, like, this one smoking gun.
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  Yeah, like you used to have her two smoking guns.
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  I thought they were going to run out of stuff on Platinum but
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  they never do, do they? Oh no, it's the gift that keeps
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  on giving. But he but nobody seems to care,
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  or at least not yet. It's not really having.
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  I mean, he's on the Time cover of Time magazine, which I don't,
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  you know, think I don't care about that either.
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  But it does, you know, you look at the polling here and he's
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  obviously, you know, already won the the Democratic primary.
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  But there was just one that came out last week that had him up on
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  Collins by 7 points, which I don't necessarily believe
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  because the polls have been wrong here pretty frequently.
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  But you know, you always you also can't discount it.
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  And it shows that he's at least strong enough that he's in the
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  he's in the conversation for maybe winning and.
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  How about the Janet Mills now as being he defeated an old line
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  Democrat like Janet Miller. She's old, but I don't know if
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  she's old line. I mean, come on.
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  I mean, get you know, I think it was David Runyon used to say
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  getting dead does a lot for your social standing.
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  And I mean, I think that's that's true for her politically.
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  You know, she's been kind of rehabilitated here now that
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  she's gone. But God, I I don't think anybody
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  in name's going to ever forget how bad a governor she was.
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  No, no. It's amazing to see the last two
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  years how bad she suffered. I mean, she was actually in a
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  pretty decent position a couple years ago when all the federal
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  money was still sloshing around. And, you know, everything kind
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  of appeared OK. But in man, the last two years,
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  everything is just falling off a Cliff.
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  And you look at that's the very same poll, right?
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  Her popularity is upside down big time.
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  You know, the right track, wrong track.
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  Stuff keeps getting worse. Nobody likes her, which is why
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  she lost that primary, right? I mean, Graham Plattner is
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  obviously, you know, not a perfect candidate, that's for
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  sure. But she was down by 30 points or
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  more to this guy, and it's because she's terrible.
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  That's the real reason. There is some justice in the
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  world as far as COVID goes. You know, maybe, maybe, but not
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  everybody has paid the price. Price for instance.
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  Yeah. But to my earlier point though,
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  Howie, would you not have imagined that Graham Plattner,
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  were he governor at the time, would not have been even more
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  enthusiastic about all the COVID masking and nonsense that you
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  saw back then? I bet you he would have been
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  worse than her. So yeah, we got rid of her.
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  But yeah. Yeah, he would have been worse.
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  He would have been worried. He has.
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  He has the courage of his ignorance and the arrogance of
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  his ignorance. Ali Carr joining us as he does
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  every single week, talking about what's going on nationally.
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  Did you see AOC is taking some steps to run for president?
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  By the way, the president. That's good news for Matt.
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  It's going to be the one that's going to get to take out
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  Schumer. Senator Mamdani.
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  But that's, I mean, you don't think Mamdani is going to want
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  to stick around? There.
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  Oh God no. This is, you know, being a
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  senator is, is not that different from being a rap
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  rapper, is it not? You know you.
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  Don't even have to be successful, just just hit.
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  Just hit your base, you know, Sell enough, you know, whatever.
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  The Oh, I think that, yeah, no, the grift is much better as a
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  senator. The grift is much better because
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  you don't have any response. Like at least as a mayor, you
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  know, when your, when your city goes bankrupt, you know, it's
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  like it kind of traces back to you and there's some
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  consequences for your dumb decisions.
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  But when you're a senator, you can just sit there and write
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  books and give speeches and make money.
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  For president and then launder the money through your wife like
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  Bernie Sanders test. Yes, that too.
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  Yeah, you can do that too. Isn't that fun?
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  Bernie Sanders has written the book How to Become a Multi
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  Millionaire as a US Senator while doing absolutely nothing.
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  By the way, do you have the? Do you have the sound of Platner
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  screwing up his name twice? I don't actually have it clipped
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  up, but yeah, no, I did see it and hear it and I got it saved.
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  I'm going to. Get that this afternoon for
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  laughs. I like I like playing stuff like
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  that. It really juices up the chump
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  line. Yeah, well, that was a fun
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  rally. You know, there's a lot, lots of
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  interesting things that. Came.
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  Is that the one in Nora now? Yes, that was the one.
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  In Nora. It's funny that he went to the
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  college town, isn't it? Rather than like a milltown.
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  Well, it's a working class party, you understand.
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  Howie Carr, always a pleasure. Hope you had a good Memorial Day
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  weekend. What's going on at
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  howiecarrshow.com as we get out the door here this morning?
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  Grace Curley, who's on from noon to two on WGAN.
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  She's got a birthday party coming up on the 29th.
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  It's like AVIP, it's on Friday. So if you if you can't come down
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  to one of my VI PS on Tuesday or Wednesday, we got a few tickets
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  left for her VIP party. We'll have a great spread for
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  the border bell ahead, the big, big cake from Montaglio's
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  Bakery, one of the best bakeries down here.
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  And people get a grab bag of goodies, including a mystery
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  prize, a mystery gift. OK, it's not a mystery.
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  It's a pen from the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach.
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  And you know, we'll, we'll have a good time.
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  four, just about or maybe even a little bit later with on the
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  the banner. Thanks.
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  Appreciate it as always, Howie, and make sure you visit the
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  website. We'll talk again next Tuesday.