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Hour 1: More good news about the economy. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: You just heard the news.
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Speaker 2: Now you'll find out what it all means.
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Speaker 3: Hey, smart simone on seven ten. Well, we'll get to
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump, Pam Bondy, We'll get to bad Bunny and
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Speaker 3: mom Donnie's in Albany asking for money. We'll get to hey,
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Speaker 3: developments in Minnesota. We'll get to that. We'll get to
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Speaker 3: the Guthrie kidnapping. We'll get to Valentine's Day, and a
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Speaker 3: whole lot more coming up. It's thirty six days until spring.
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Speaker 3: It's not bad today, it'll be a mid thirties maybe
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Speaker 3: upper thirty. Is gonna be in the forties over the weekends,
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Speaker 3: forties next week, and then once you get through next week,
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Speaker 3: you'll only have like four weeks till spring. So, hey,
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Speaker 3: problem to have. The latest on the Guthrie kidnapping. They
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Speaker 3: found the glove, as you know, on the side of
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Speaker 3: the road. But here's the part you might not realize.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's a huge area, it's a lot of desert.
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Speaker 3: It's an enormous area. Why would they pull up there
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Speaker 3: and find a glove there? Well, they're not saying much.
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Speaker 3: The feds are now running things, not the locals, and
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Speaker 3: the Feds keep everything very quiet. They don't talk, they
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Speaker 3: don't let on. But apparently they have gone to looking
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Speaker 3: at every car that was in the area around that time,
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Speaker 3: anywhere near that time that night. You can get the
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Speaker 3: GPS off cell phones. Your phone has a GPS in it,
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Speaker 3: and whether you want to, whether you use it or not,
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Speaker 3: that GPS is always working. Even if you have your
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Speaker 3: phone shut off, that GPS is working because as soon
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Speaker 3: as you turn it back on, it'll upload the GPS
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Speaker 3: information to somewhere. It's a place where only federal authorities
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Speaker 3: and really good you know, investigators can get to it.
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Speaker 3: But apparently they were tracking cars that were going on
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Speaker 3: certain routes, so that's why they happened to see that glove.
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Speaker 3: They were following the route of a car that they
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Speaker 3: had seen. They'd seen the GPS on that car going
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Speaker 3: that route, so they were driving that route, looking going slow,
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Speaker 3: looking out the window, and they saw the glove. It
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Speaker 3: appears to be the glove that the invader there, the kidnapper,
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Speaker 3: was wearing in that video. We've all seen. It's a big, puffy,
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Speaker 3: very winter ski glove kind of thing, so not something
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Speaker 3: anybody in Tucson would ever own or wear. Very unusual,
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Speaker 3: even that big puffy coat. Tucson doesn't get that cold.
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Speaker 3: So they've found the glove, and because it's such a warm,
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Speaker 3: warm glove in such a hot climate, it's assumed that
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Speaker 3: the person must have sweated a lot wearing all that stuff,
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Speaker 3: and that sweat left a lot of DNA inside the glove.
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Speaker 3: It's possible there could be a fingerprint, although highly unlikely,
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Speaker 3: but they're looking at the glove looking for DNA. All
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Speaker 3: that sweat inside the glove could create some DNA. The
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Speaker 3: other thing they're looking at is the outside of the glove,
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Speaker 3: looking for any traces of blood because as We know
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Speaker 3: Nancy Guthrie was bleeding as they took her out, and
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Speaker 3: it's possible the glove touched the touch the face or
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Speaker 3: wherever she was bleeding and got some blood on it,
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Speaker 3: so you'd have two sets of DNA on that glove.
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Speaker 3: So that's what they're looking at. Been somehow TMZ got
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Speaker 3: themselves a little too involved in this. If you have
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Speaker 3: anything to report, call the FBI. That's the best way
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Speaker 3: to do it. But a lot of people have been
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Speaker 3: going to TMZ, which they're very nice. Harvey Levin's a
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Speaker 3: great guy and TMZ's a lot of fun to read.
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Speaker 3: But it's like, I don't mean this in a bad way,
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Speaker 3: but it's today's version of the National Inquirer, and they
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Speaker 3: print all kinds of stuff. They got all kinds of sources,
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Speaker 3: and a lot of times the stuff is true, but
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Speaker 3: sometimes it's not so true. I like the National Inquirer,
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Speaker 3: which broke a lot of big stories, but a lot
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Speaker 3: of stuff they broke didn't turn out to be exactly true.
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Speaker 3: So you got the same problem with TMZ. People are
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Speaker 3: going there. FBI is getting tips.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 3: The tips are very important because somebody might recognize something
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Speaker 3: on that video. The way the guy's eyes looked, or
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Speaker 3: something about his shape. But they've gotten eighteen thousand tips. Now,
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Speaker 3: it takes incredible manpower because you got to run down
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Speaker 3: each one of them eighteen and tips have come in.
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Speaker 3: That's why they arrested that delivery guy the other day. Now,
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Speaker 3: if you look at that guy, his shape, his body,
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Speaker 3: his shoulders, the shape of his arms, his legs, he
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Speaker 3: looks exactly like the guy in the video, and his
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Speaker 3: eyes look like this guy's video. He has a mustache
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Speaker 3: just like the guy. The outline of him is exactly
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Speaker 3: the same as the guy in the video. They've determined
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Speaker 3: it's not him. I assume he could prove where he
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Speaker 3: was and it was nowhere near there that night. But
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Speaker 3: he was a delivery guy. And again they were checking
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Speaker 3: the GPS's of phones tracing the cars, and apparently his
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Speaker 3: delivery route that night took him somewhere near that house.
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Speaker 3: That's why they pulled this guy over. And once they
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Speaker 3: saw they were following me, I pulled over. They didn't
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Speaker 3: even have to put.
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Speaker 4: A traffic s operating and day I got off the
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Speaker 4: car and they arrested me as soon as I got
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Speaker 4: off the car.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he looked like the guy in the It's not
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Speaker 3: the guy in the video they've determined, but he looked
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Speaker 3: like it. And then the detective guy here was the
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Speaker 3: FBI agent in the Santa Cruz County and they told
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Speaker 3: me I was being detained for kidnapping. And I asked him,
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Speaker 3: I will kidnapping of who and told me just eighty.
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Speaker 1: I don't know her name and Nancy Guthrie, Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Sir, I told him I worked it two or something
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Speaker 5: for Glas.
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Speaker 3: I might have to deliver a backage your house, but
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Speaker 3: I cannot pay anybody.
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Speaker 1: They hold me from him from like four to right now.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but they were able to determine he's not the guy,
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Speaker 3: so we'll see what happens. I think something's gonna break.
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Speaker 3: They're getting eighteen thousand tips. Takes time to run him down,
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Speaker 3: but but something could happen. Also, you know this demanding
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Speaker 3: bitcoin we've saw the two days ago they made a
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Speaker 3: three hundred dollars deposit into that bitcoin account and yesterday
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Speaker 3: one hundred dollars deposit. Now what's that all about. Well,
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Speaker 3: you may not realize this, but bitcoin can be traced
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Speaker 3: if you're using crypto to hide from the authorities, if
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Speaker 3: you're a drug dealer, hedge fund guy, paying off people that,
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Speaker 3: you know, whoever uses crypto for nefarious purposes. It can
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Speaker 3: be traced. I hate to break it to you. So
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Speaker 3: the way you trace it, they'll send a little amount
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Speaker 3: in there, like three hundred bucks or yesterday these one
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Speaker 3: hundred dollars, and once you send it to a bitcoin address,
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Speaker 3: it goes through the chain. It goes through the blockchain,
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Speaker 3: and it leaves footprints all over the place. You can
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Speaker 3: you can't do it, but the most sophisticated federal investigators
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Speaker 3: can trace it through the blockchain and see exactly where
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Speaker 3: it lands. So it is traceable. It's been done before.
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Speaker 3: So they are tracing the bitcoin as we speak. So
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Speaker 3: we'll see what develops. Hey, Hey, Tom Holman has announced
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Speaker 3: ICE is leaving Minnesota. It's over. They say they've arrested
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Speaker 3: about five six thousand dangerous criminals and they're getting the
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Speaker 3: hell out of there. You know, they ought to just
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Speaker 3: to thank Minnesota for their horrifying, awful reception. They ought
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Speaker 3: to take the six thousand criminals and just dump them
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Speaker 3: right in the middle of Minneapolis. Here's your criminals back,
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Speaker 3: here's your dangerous criminals. You want them back? Here they are, no,
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Speaker 3: but they're not going to do that. But it's the
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Speaker 3: end of ICE in Minnesota. They're leaving. They are, of course,
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Speaker 3: operating in many other cities on a much bigger scale
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Speaker 3: with no problem at all because local authorities cooperate. We
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Speaker 3: had Bruce Blakeman on the show the other day, who
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Speaker 3: should be the governor in November. He'd be the perfect governor.
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Speaker 3: But I said, you know, they're all over NASA. Kenna said,
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Speaker 3: how come we have no problems? He said, we cooperate.
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Speaker 3: We have full cooperation. We coordinate with them, We lend
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Speaker 3: them local help, police detectives, we even lend them jail cells.
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Speaker 3: We cooperate, and it's very They do pick up dangerous criminals.
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Speaker 3: If we cooperate and coordinate with them, it's orderly, it's very,
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Speaker 3: very peaceful. Now that's Bruce Plakeman, who would be a
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Speaker 3: great governor. But you got that kookie new Jersey governor,
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Speaker 3: the new one, Mikey Cheryl, who sounds like she's a
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Speaker 3: fourteen years old, but she's not going to cooperate with ICE.
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Speaker 6: I'm signing an executive order to ban ICE from launching
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Speaker 6: actions from any state property. That means no ice stage as,
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Speaker 6: no processing locations, no operating basis, no federal civil immigration
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Speaker 6: actions run from any state grounds, not our parks, not
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Speaker 6: our roadways, not our buildings.
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Speaker 2: Here you go.
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Speaker 3: Perfect. You want to come in here and arrest dangerous criminals,
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Speaker 3: you are not coming in here. We're not going to
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Speaker 3: let you do that here. Hey, the bad Bunny stuff continues.
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Speaker 3: I'm actually enjoying this bad Bunny stuff because I listen.
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Speaker 3: The halftime show was pretty good. I don't know what
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Speaker 3: Delly was singing about. Who could tell what he was singing? Hey,
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Speaker 3: But half the music today I can't understand what they're
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Speaker 3: saying either. But and it looked good. It was colorful,
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Speaker 3: moving dancing of the sets. The scenery was very well done,
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Speaker 3: very well done. It was great. But I mean, it
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Speaker 3: wouldn't have been my first choice Bad Bunny, but it
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Speaker 3: was worth it. Just all these lefties, all these liberals,
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Speaker 3: all these Democrats now have to run around pretending that
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Speaker 3: they're bad Bunny fans. They never heard of the guy
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Speaker 3: two weeks ago, but they're all running around trying to
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Speaker 3: convince you they're bad Bunny fans. Oh, I love bad Bunny.
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Speaker 3: I love Bad Bunny. You do Oh, I love Bad Bunny.
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Speaker 3: Name one song by him, You're racist? They just go crazy.
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Speaker 3: Even Jimmy Kimmel admits it.
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Speaker 1: This week, almost every liberal I know suddenly really.
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Speaker 3: Into Bad Bunny.
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Speaker 2: I mean people I've never heard say the words bad
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Speaker 2: or Bunny in their lives, like I can't wait for
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Speaker 2: Bad Bunny. Oh, what's your.
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Speaker 1: What's your favorite Bad Bunny song?
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Speaker 3: I don't know, but I love them. I love that.
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Speaker 3: It's true. They never heard of this guy three weeks ago.
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Speaker 3: When was the last time you heard anybody, any Democrat,
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Speaker 3: any liberal friend of yours say, Hey, we're going to
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Speaker 3: the Bad Bunny concert. Though we're gonna see Bad Bunny
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Speaker 3: in two weeks. They've never heard of this guy ever, ever, ever,
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Speaker 3: So uh, Mom, Donnie went to Albany to ask for
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Speaker 3: more taxes. It's already the highest tax place in America.
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Speaker 3: Taxes are already out of control. He's asking for more taxes.
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Speaker 3: Nobody can figure out why. When asked, he gave some
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Speaker 3: ridiculous explanation about, well, we're already the most expensive place
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Speaker 3: and might as well. They can't figure out how to
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Speaker 3: run things. You know, we have the most out of
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Speaker 3: controlled budget in New York City and New York State.
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Speaker 3: You know, the New York State budget is double the
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Speaker 3: budget of Florida. Double. Florida is a bigger state, it
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Speaker 3: has more major cities. Our budget is double. Florida has
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Speaker 3: a bigger population. Our budget is twice the budget of Florida.
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Speaker 3: New York Studies budget is like one hundred and twenty billion.
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Speaker 3: It should be forty billion. It's all wiste fraud, bloat.
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Speaker 3: You could easily cut it now, he implied yesterday, he's
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Speaker 3: done some cutting. We had a twelve billion dollar deficit
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Speaker 3: coming up.
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Speaker 2: We've lowered that twelve billion dollar gap to seven billion
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Speaker 2: dollars over two fiscal years.
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Speaker 3: So that's a three billion dollar cut every year. But again,
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Speaker 3: you could cut half the budget out without affecting anything.
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Speaker 3: Just stop the waist, the fraud, the bloat. It'd be
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Speaker 3: very easy. Not for a guy like mom Donnie. I mean,
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Speaker 3: in his defense, he's thirty two years old, he never
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Speaker 3: had a job before, he's never worked, he's never run anything.
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Speaker 3: But if you've brought in a top ceo, you brought
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Speaker 3: the other thing. You know, in New York City you
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Speaker 3: probably have the two hundred greatest CEOs in America. They're
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Speaker 3: all happy to help. You know, if you call a
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Speaker 3: guy like Jamie Diamond, if you're in New York City,
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Speaker 3: we need your help. Could you come down to city.
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Speaker 3: Guys like that would come right down and help you,
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Speaker 3: be happy to help you. If you said, you know,
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Speaker 3: our budget's got all kinds of waist and fraud and bloat.
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Speaker 3: Could you take a look at it, one of these
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Speaker 3: CEOs would send in a team the next day of
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Speaker 3: twenty top guys in the world to go through your
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Speaker 3: budget and get rid of the waist the fraud. It'd
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Speaker 3: be easy to do, but they're politicians. They're not going
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Speaker 3: to They don't want any help. They kind of like
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Speaker 3: that wasst and fraud and bloat. You know, guys like
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Speaker 3: Schumer and Mom Donnie, all these politicians, and there are
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Speaker 3: Republicans too, they can be just as bad. The the waste,
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Speaker 3: fraud and bloat comes out comes from giving out contracts
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Speaker 3: everywhere and kind of winking and nodding. You know you're
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Speaker 3: gonna overcharge us by three thousand percent. Go ahead, when
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Speaker 3: you're fixing the road or whatever, you want to take
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Speaker 3: five years longer. Go ahead, you want to put three
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Speaker 3: times as many peopil as you need to go ahead.
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Speaker 3: A lot of winking and nodding. Contracts are handed out,
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Speaker 3: and in exchange, the politicians get massive donations when they
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Speaker 3: want to run for something or when they got those
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Speaker 3: political packs. So that's always the deal. We'll get to
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Speaker 3: Pam BONDI coming up. That was pretty good. Uh and
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Speaker 3: lots more just ahead, and uh oh, Jimmy Fayala will
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Speaker 3: be with us a little later. We'll get to the economy.
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Speaker 3: Just ahead. We'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three
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Speaker 3: two one zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred
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Speaker 3: three two one zero seven ten. Now back to Mark.
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Speaker 3: Some are on w o R. Well, let's take some calls.
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Speaker 3: Let's go to Rudy. Could this be Rudy Julian Rudy
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Speaker 3: from Wempy. I don't think that's Rudy from Long Island. Rudy,
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Speaker 3: how you doing?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm good.
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Speaker 5: I'm very good.
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Speaker 3: But do you wonder it sounds like you're inside a sofa?
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Speaker 3: You sound very muffled. Yeah, all right, I'll sound muffled too.
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Speaker 3: How's that?
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Speaker 5: I'm spanning my life and Long Island and Long Island,
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Speaker 5: Long Island.
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Speaker 2: New York.
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Speaker 3: Where do you live in Long Island Brainwood.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I used to be a Democrat all my life.
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Speaker 5: When I've come in here to be yours from Dominican Republic,
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Speaker 5: I used to be Democrat, but I find out they
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Speaker 5: don't have no nothing, nothing for the community or the people.
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Speaker 4: If they just w.
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Speaker 3: That's not fair. They have crime, they bring you crime,
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Speaker 3: they bring your eye taxes they have to for you.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so that was my say. You know, I changed
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Speaker 5: to Independent because I don't I don't like the way
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Speaker 5: they moved.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, now whatever, Rudy, what about your family, your friends,
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Speaker 3: they find the same thing. They're switching away from Democrats.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I sweech to Independent because I don't see
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Speaker 5: they weren't even different than what I'm thinking. You know,
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Speaker 5: when I used to coming here, everything was good with
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Speaker 5: the Democrat, but now they only.
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Speaker 3: Changed to that good point. Good call, Rudy, thanks for calling.
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Speaker 3: Yet now I see there there were Bill Clinton Democrats,
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Speaker 3: common sense and good Democrats, and they don't know what
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Speaker 3: to do now because their party went way, way, way way,
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Speaker 3: not just to the left, but like to the Psycho Awards.
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Speaker 3: So let's go to Stuart in South Carolina. Stuart, how you.
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Speaker 1: Doing, Hey, Mark, how you doing?
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Speaker 3: Stuart Million?
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Speaker 2: Years.
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Speaker 3: You've been in law enforcement forever. You ever ever have
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Speaker 3: a kidnapping?
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Speaker 1: No, it's very very rare. You know, I've done this
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Speaker 1: sum with fifty years, and that's what I want to
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Speaker 1: talk about. You know, every day the human body sheds
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Speaker 1: about five hundred million to a billion skin cells up
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Speaker 1: to five billion, and every crime scene there is always evidence, always,
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Speaker 1: and you just have to find it. And I cannot
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Speaker 1: believe this guy who wrapped himself up would be dumb
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Speaker 1: enough to throw a glove out, you know, close to
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Speaker 1: the crime scene.
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Speaker 3: That just was well it wasn't that close. It was
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Speaker 3: a ways away. And you know he was probably sweating
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Speaker 3: to death in that suit in the hot Tucson weather
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Speaker 3: might out.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I understand that. But it's we had a
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Speaker 1: murder here. In fact, my friend of mine was killed.
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Speaker 1: We believe her husband did it. He was wrapped up
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Speaker 1: the same way. They never solved that case. I mean,
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Speaker 1: we know who killed her, but they didn't have the evidence.
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Speaker 1: So but you know, the FBI forensics is very very good.
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Speaker 1: I have a friend that's uh, in fact, she's she's
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Speaker 1: probably going to the FBI. She's a forensic scientist and
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Speaker 1: she just got a binguprint off a potato, which was
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Speaker 1: absolutely amazing. But yeah, you know, and you know what
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Speaker 1: my what my feelings are about this woman right now,
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Speaker 1: And you know, I hate to say that, but it's
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Speaker 1: been a good while. And as far as the bitcoin,
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Speaker 1: that makes no sense whatsoever. Like everything you said is correct.
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Speaker 1: You can trace that and FBI has has measures to
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Speaker 1: trace anything. It just say, a lot of this just
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Speaker 1: seemed stupid to me. It doesn't make any sense.
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Speaker 3: Hey. Well, you've been in law enforcement, you said, many years.
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Speaker 3: Have you seen many of the criminals you deal with
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Speaker 3: are incredibly stupid at being criminals?
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Speaker 1: Oh? Absolutely, they rob a bank, Mark, and they have
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Speaker 1: tail lights out, or they're speeding, or they run a
18:34
Speaker 1: red light. They may as well put up a sign
18:36
Speaker 1: saying I just robbed the bank, Please arrest me. They
18:38
Speaker 1: are the dumbest people I've ever seen in my life.
18:41
Speaker 3: Just so stupid. All right, Stuart, great call, thanks for calling.
18:44
Speaker 3: Let's go to Rich in Myrtle Beach.
18:46
Speaker 2: Rich How you doing, Hey, thanks, Mark, you're sitting around
18:49
Speaker 2: watching women's curling in the Olympics, one of my favorite sports.
18:52
Speaker 3: Well you're listen, where are you? You're in the Myrtle beach.
18:55
Speaker 3: What else, Yeah, I get it. Nothing else to do there?
18:57
Speaker 2: What else are you going to do? You know? He
19:00
Speaker 2: still Tom Holman this morning and he was great. He says,
19:02
Speaker 2: you know, we're pulling out, but the Ice office is
19:04
Speaker 2: still going to be there, The fraud investigation is still
19:07
Speaker 2: going to be there. We find illegal was still going
19:09
Speaker 2: to take them. And I guess you heard about the
19:11
Speaker 2: winning quarterback on this Seahawks has to pay seventy eight
19:15
Speaker 2: thousand dollars for playing seven days in California. Why would
19:18
Speaker 2: the NFL ever play super Bowl in California?
19:20
Speaker 3: Well, but apparently there's like nine cities now, major cities
19:23
Speaker 3: that have that stupid tax. They tax you to death.
19:25
Speaker 3: Ye tax jock tax. So he made like what it
19:29
Speaker 3: makes like one hundred and seventy thousand, but the taxes
19:32
Speaker 3: like two hundred and ninety thousand. He actually loses it.
19:34
Speaker 3: Yeah right, Well, only Democrats could come up with a
19:37
Speaker 3: tax system where you pay one hundred and eighty percent
19:39
Speaker 3: of the money for taxes. It's absolutely ridiculous. One more call,
19:45
Speaker 3: Let's go to Pat in Scarsdale.
19:46
Speaker 4: Pat, how you doing, Hey, Mark, how are you good?
19:50
Speaker 4: You know rama Manuel when he was Barack Obama's right
19:54
Speaker 4: hand man. He orders you to say, a crisis is
19:56
Speaker 4: a terrible thing to waste. Yeah, and now Walls, he
20:00
Speaker 4: ran out of one crisis. Now Holman's going to be
20:02
Speaker 4: leaving there. So now he's going to be faced up
20:04
Speaker 4: to the fraud crisis there and he's gonna I really
20:07
Speaker 4: think he's gonna be in a hot seat along with
20:09
Speaker 4: a lot of the other politicians.
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Speaker 3: Very good, Well, thanks for it. We like Scarsdale a
20:13
Speaker 3: lot of great restaurants there. You got Martinez Bakery, which
20:16
Speaker 3: is very good.
20:16
Speaker 4: Oh the best.
20:17
Speaker 3: That's the best. I take every ounce of strength to
20:21
Speaker 3: keep walking by there. All right, thanks for calling. Yeah, Hey, Minnesota,
20:26
Speaker 3: I know you're cheering. You got rid of Tom Holman.
20:28
Speaker 3: He said, Ice is leaving. I know you're celebrating. I
20:31
Speaker 3: hate to break it to you. If the ICE operations
20:33
Speaker 3: are now over, that means that concentrate full time now
20:37
Speaker 3: on the fraud investigation, looking into the fraud. There may
20:41
Speaker 3: be a reason why Tim Waltz announced he's not going
20:43
Speaker 3: to run for reelection and that he's leaving politics. But remember,
20:47
Speaker 3: you got rid of Ice. Now it's one hundred percent
20:50
Speaker 3: fraud investigation in Minnesota. Hey, when we come back the
20:54
Speaker 3: hunt for Steve Moore. Actually, no, he's been pretty good.
20:57
Speaker 3: He's been here. Steve Moore is one of the most
20:59
Speaker 3: brill guys in the world, great economists, and he'll be
21:02
Speaker 3: with us next on seven to ten. Wo aren't they.
21:07
Speaker 4: Dogged into everything?
21:08
Speaker 1: New York?
21:09
Speaker 6: Mark Simone on sevent ten.
21:11
Speaker 3: Woor Well, I like to bring you the smartest people
21:14
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21:17
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21:21
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21:37
Speaker 3: doing well?
21:39
Speaker 2: Feeling good about things? Given the what happened with the
21:42
Speaker 2: job support yesterday, Really good numbers on the economy. Economy
21:46
Speaker 2: continues to expand, businesses are hiring again. And what I
21:51
Speaker 2: love about the story, Mark, is that you know what
21:53
Speaker 2: sector of the economy is shrinking?
21:57
Speaker 3: Government?
21:58
Speaker 2: Government? Oh goodment? Yeah, so private jobs are booming and
22:05
Speaker 2: the and the and the government jobs are shrinking, so
22:09
Speaker 2: we're draining the swamp in Washington. Federal employment continues to fall,
22:13
Speaker 2: thank god, but the private sector numbers for hiring were
22:17
Speaker 2: really good. So and by the way, wages were up
22:20
Speaker 2: and the unemployment was down.
22:24
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know. I got the MSNBC on here.
22:26
Speaker 3: It says we're in a big affordability crisis at Yeah.
22:31
Speaker 2: Do you know that the last year, the average median
22:35
Speaker 2: family income people in the exact metal they saw about
22:37
Speaker 2: a twenty five hundred dollars increase in their above inflation incomes.
22:43
Speaker 2: So what I mean, Look, I get it. People are
22:46
Speaker 2: angry about the price of beef, and they're angry about
22:49
Speaker 2: you know, the price of coffee, and they're angry about
22:51
Speaker 2: you know, price of healthcare and housing. But if you
22:54
Speaker 2: look overall, people have more money in their paychecks. And
22:58
Speaker 2: by the way, that's partly because the big full bill,
23:01
Speaker 2: as you know, I mean, people are starting to really
23:04
Speaker 2: feel it now because they're withholding is starting an earnest
23:08
Speaker 2: and so that means you're going to have less money
23:11
Speaker 2: with help from your paycheck by the irs, which means
23:14
Speaker 2: more money in your paycheck.
23:16
Speaker 3: Yeah. Hey, now would you confirm Steve More that in
23:18
Speaker 3: the Biden years, during the Biden administration, when they head
23:20
Speaker 3: oh a good job number, it was because the government
23:23
Speaker 3: would go out and hire people exactly.
23:25
Speaker 2: Yes, And so I used to, you know, as you know, mark,
23:29
Speaker 2: every first Friday of every month for the last ten years,
23:34
Speaker 2: I've been doing this. You know, the jobs report comes
23:38
Speaker 2: out on the first bride of the arounth although it
23:39
Speaker 2: didn't this time. It came out on Wednesday because of
23:41
Speaker 2: the government shutdown and they've been delayed.
23:43
Speaker 3: Late in getting the data out.
23:44
Speaker 2: But nonetheless, the during the Biden years, you know, we
23:49
Speaker 2: get these jobs numbers, one hundred and fifty thousand jobs created, yay, hooray.
23:53
Speaker 2: And then you look at the numbers and it's like
23:54
Speaker 2: one hundred thousand more government shops. So we were increasing
23:57
Speaker 2: government jobs and we were not seeing much grain gain
24:00
Speaker 2: at all on five efector. And what we've done, we've
24:03
Speaker 2: seen now is a rest where we're now shrinking the
24:05
Speaker 2: government jobs and increasing fivate sector jobs, which is exactly
24:09
Speaker 2: what we want unless you're a government employee.
24:11
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's a much healthier way to run the economy.
24:14
Speaker 2: Yes.
24:15
Speaker 3: Hey, the CEO of Ford yesterday puts out all these
24:19
Speaker 3: numbers electric car. Electric vehicle sales were so bad it
24:23
Speaker 3: brought down the whole bottom line of the company. And
24:26
Speaker 3: he said, the customer has spoken. So what do we
24:31
Speaker 3: conclude from that.
24:33
Speaker 2: Well, that's an interesting thing because you know one of
24:36
Speaker 2: the reasons that you know, basically under the Biden years,
24:39
Speaker 2: they were trying to force feed people to buy to
24:42
Speaker 2: buy electric vehicles with mandates saying you had to buy them,
24:45
Speaker 2: and then all the subsidies to build them, et cetera,
24:47
Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera, and a lot of the big
24:50
Speaker 2: auto manufacturers they brought into it, Oh yeah, let's build
24:52
Speaker 2: all these these electric vehicles. And by the way, I'm
24:56
Speaker 2: not against electric vehicles. I was just against by enforcing
24:59
Speaker 2: people buy electric vehicles. And so what's happened now is
25:03
Speaker 2: there's been you know, people have kind of revolted against that,
25:07
Speaker 2: and for many reasons, people say, you know, we don't
25:11
Speaker 2: want electricical By the way, I have a hybrid and
25:13
Speaker 2: I love it, so you know, I'm not against the batteries,
25:16
Speaker 2: but I but I also want to Yeah, I want
25:18
Speaker 2: to make sure I don't run out of you know,
25:20
Speaker 2: get a mountain and then don't have any juice left
25:24
Speaker 2: in my in my battery. So the point is that
25:26
Speaker 2: I always have said this that you know, people when
25:29
Speaker 2: it comes to their cars, people want to choose themselves.
25:32
Speaker 2: They don't want the government to choose the car for
25:34
Speaker 2: them because we have a love affair with our cars
25:35
Speaker 2: in America. And Trump, i mean Biden didn't seem to
25:38
Speaker 2: understand that. And the more he tried to force people
25:41
Speaker 2: to buy electric vehicles, the more people have revolted against
25:44
Speaker 2: buying them. And so now you've got this huge surf
25:46
Speaker 2: plus of electric vehicles that nobody wants to buy.
25:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, we just had a weekend here where
25:51
Speaker 3: it was like ten below zero. Your electric car doesn't
25:53
Speaker 3: work when.
25:53
Speaker 2: It's the exactly that's exactly right. So this is a
25:57
Speaker 2: problem with evs is that they they're not going to
26:01
Speaker 2: start when the temperature gets, you know, below ten degrees.
26:05
Speaker 2: And by the way, in Washington, d C. A southern city,
26:07
Speaker 2: we you know, the temperature for the last twenty days
26:09
Speaker 2: has been below ten degrees. So you know, then you
26:13
Speaker 2: can't get out of your driveway.
26:14
Speaker 3: Yeah. Hey, we're talking earlier about the budgets. You know,
26:17
Speaker 3: the budget in New York is ridiculous. It's like one
26:20
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty billion. New York State's budget is double
26:22
Speaker 3: that of Florida, even though we have less people. This
26:25
Speaker 3: is all from contracts they hand out where we overpay
26:29
Speaker 3: by ten million percent for everything we do in the government.
26:32
Speaker 3: Politicians like handing out those contracts. Is there anything we
26:35
Speaker 3: could ever do to fix this?
26:38
Speaker 2: Well, what's going on the big story of America is
26:42
Speaker 2: that these blue cities and blue states are just dying.
26:45
Speaker 2: They're dying. And you know it's because I was in
26:48
Speaker 2: New York earlier this week and talking a lot of
26:51
Speaker 2: people in New York City, and they were frustrated because Mundonnie,
26:56
Speaker 2: you know, hadn't even cleared away the snow, the garbage
26:59
Speaker 2: wasn't being collected it. And I don't care what your ideology.
27:02
Speaker 2: I don't care if you're left right, center, whatever you are, libertarian, socialist.
27:06
Speaker 2: Everybody wants the public services to work. And yet Mandamie
27:10
Speaker 2: has proven in just this first one thirty five days
27:13
Speaker 2: in office he has no idea what he's doing. You
27:15
Speaker 2: think it's it's not even ideology, it's incompetence.
27:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's unbelievable. Hey, we told you this before, too,
27:23
Speaker 3: you know, they have this jock tax if you play football,
27:26
Speaker 3: even if it's the super Bowl. Yeah, the guy made
27:29
Speaker 3: one hundred and seventy thousand for playing the super Bowl
27:31
Speaker 3: and his taxes were like two hundred and eighty thousand.
27:34
Speaker 5: How is that?
27:34
Speaker 3: How is that even legal?
27:36
Speaker 2: The taxi more than a well, you know, and that
27:39
Speaker 2: these are the jock taxes. You have to pay an
27:41
Speaker 2: income tax if you play you know, a game in
27:45
Speaker 2: a in a state that has eye income tax and so, uh,
27:50
Speaker 2: the you're right. So now they're saying, well, we're gonna move.
27:53
Speaker 2: We're not going to play the world the super Bowl
27:56
Speaker 2: in these places with high tax anymore because the players
27:58
Speaker 2: can't afford it. And by the way, a lot of
28:00
Speaker 2: the players don't want to even play on teams you
28:03
Speaker 2: know that are located in blue station cities like you know,
28:06
Speaker 2: so that's a big tax on getting a winning team
28:09
Speaker 2: back in New York.
28:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, but you're right. You know, we pay the
28:12
Speaker 3: highest taxes in the world in New York City and
28:14
Speaker 3: they can't even shovel snow, but shouldn't there.
28:17
Speaker 2: Be a and they can't collect the garbage. I saw
28:21
Speaker 2: that that everybody, I think you've probably seen it. It
28:24
Speaker 2: went viral on the Internet of the rabbi out there
28:26
Speaker 2: helping thee put the garbage in the truck because too,
28:34
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, he's supposed to be this brilliant,
28:36
Speaker 2: big thinker. He can't even get the garverage collected off
28:39
Speaker 2: the street. I mean, I laugh at that, but it
28:41
Speaker 2: just shows, you know, I would think Mondommie would say, look,
28:44
Speaker 2: let me go around the city and you give these
28:47
Speaker 2: speeches and about how great socialism, but put somebody in
28:50
Speaker 2: charge who knows what they're doing and how to run something.
28:53
Speaker 3: Yeah. Hey, in the next month or two, everybody will
28:55
Speaker 3: start paying their taxes, doing their taxes for the year.
28:58
Speaker 3: What's going to be the difference now with the big
29:00
Speaker 3: beautiful bill.
29:02
Speaker 2: Uh, well, people are gonna save a lot in terms
29:04
Speaker 2: of the the withhold. They're going to pay a smaller
29:09
Speaker 2: tax bill than they did last year. And I don't
29:11
Speaker 2: know the exact numbers, but on average it's about one
29:14
Speaker 2: thousand dollars saving. And it was just so ironic because
29:17
Speaker 2: all the Democrats talk about is affordability, affordability, yet every
29:21
Speaker 2: one of them voted against the tax cut.
29:25
Speaker 3: And inflation. We're doing well, and what do you think
29:28
Speaker 3: give us a growth forecast, a growth number for the
29:31
Speaker 3: rest of the.
29:31
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm going to give you the number that Donald
29:32
Speaker 2: Trump gave. We're going to grow by fifteen percent this year.
29:37
Speaker 2: By the way. I love that about Trump, don't you. Mark?
29:39
Speaker 2: And I know you're close to Trump, and I talked
29:41
Speaker 2: him about but uh, you know, he shoots for the move.
29:44
Speaker 2: He told Larry Cutlow, you know we're gonna g fifteen
29:46
Speaker 2: percent growth, because Larry said, do you think we can
29:48
Speaker 2: get five percent growth? And he said fifteen percent? Well,
29:51
Speaker 2: which would be like but but you know what, he
29:54
Speaker 2: also said the same thing when you know when the
29:55
Speaker 2: Dow Jones hit fifty thousand a couple of days ago,
29:58
Speaker 2: by the way, when I first came to Washington forty
30:00
Speaker 2: years ago, but that was at one thousand. Now it's
30:01
Speaker 2: at fifty thousand.
30:02
Speaker 3: Wow.
30:03
Speaker 2: But the Trump said, you know, by the time I
30:07
Speaker 2: leave office, and we don't know when that's going to be.
30:10
Speaker 2: The time I leave office, we're gonna have now one
30:12
Speaker 2: hundred thousand.
30:14
Speaker 3: So I love it.
30:15
Speaker 2: I love his optimism. I love that he shoots for
30:17
Speaker 2: the moon.
30:17
Speaker 3: Yeah. It's a great, great philosophy, great way to live too, well,
30:20
Speaker 3: Steve Moore, great stuff and thanks for He's got an
30:23
Speaker 3: excellent book called the Trump Economic Miracle. You should get
30:26
Speaker 3: the book.
30:26
Speaker 2: It is a miracle. It is America.
30:29
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30:43
Speaker 3: earlier in the morning.
30:45
Speaker 2: It didn't get you know what, that's been the problem
30:46
Speaker 2: we've been running. It's because we can't haven't removed the
30:49
Speaker 2: snow yet in Washington show.
30:50
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30:52
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31:00
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