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Hour 1: Cuba and the USA. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Now the Mark Simone Show on seven tenor filling in
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Speaker 1: for Mark, here's Ken Rosato.
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Speaker 2: Well, finally, the end of the week is here. Mark
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Speaker 2: is off on a long holiday weekend. Former New York
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Speaker 2: City TV news anchor Ken Rosanna reporting for duty. Are
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Speaker 2: y'all set for a Memorial Day? And by the way,
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Speaker 2: quick lesson on Memorial Day. It was nice to hear
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Speaker 2: folks talking about it with Larry Menty now a few
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Speaker 2: minutes ago. Memorial Day has the word memory in it, Okay,
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Speaker 2: So it is not Veterans Day, although we could still
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Speaker 2: say thank you to a veteran. Of course, you could
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Speaker 2: say thank you to a veteran every day. But Memorial
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Speaker 2: Day is the time that we remember the people who
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Speaker 2: died fighting to protect our country. So I'm glad we
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Speaker 2: had callers a few minutes ago saying you shouldn't say
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Speaker 2: happy Memorial Day. Yeah. For young people who want to
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Speaker 2: enjoy the beach or whatever, and the fact that you
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Speaker 2: might be getting together with family, that's good, that's happy.
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Speaker 2: But it's not a day that's about happy. It's a
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Speaker 2: day that it's about memorializing. We're supposed to remember those
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Speaker 2: give a moment, just a moment, of your day to
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Speaker 2: think about those people who made the ultimate sacrifice and
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Speaker 2: how significant that is, how many of us would be
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Speaker 2: willing to step up and say, you know what, take
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Speaker 2: my life so that those one hundred thousand people over
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Speaker 2: there can live. That's a tough one, right, but people
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Speaker 2: did that by the hundreds of thousands through our history.
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Speaker 2: So all we ask, right as Americans, fellow Americans, no
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Speaker 2: matter what your politics, no matter what your religion, no
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Speaker 2: matter what your heritage, originally you're an American, just take
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Speaker 2: a moment this Monday and over the weekend and technically
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Speaker 2: every day we should, but this one day specifically, and
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Speaker 2: just remember the good folks who sacrificed ultimately their lives,
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Speaker 2: the families left behind who lost their loved when their father,
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Speaker 2: their brother, their sister, their mother, so that our America
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Speaker 2: could be free. And again, like I said, always think
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Speaker 2: of that the living vet is the person who survives
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Speaker 2: in place of that person who passed, whom we remember
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Speaker 2: Memorial Day four. But I just think that it's so
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Speaker 2: important that we take that time, and that's why I'm
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Speaker 2: glad we have at least one day. We should have
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Speaker 2: many more, but that one day to remember those good folks,
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Speaker 2: who made the ultimate sacrifice for us. We got so
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Speaker 2: much to talk about today. To wrap up the busy
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Speaker 2: news week. The phone lines are open. We would love
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Speaker 2: for you to give us a call and take part
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Speaker 2: in the conversation. The numbers eight hundred three two one
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Speaker 2: zero seven ten, eight hundred three to two one zero
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Speaker 2: seven ten. Again it's Ken Rosatto and from Mark Simone today.
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Speaker 2: By the way, the great Jim Kerr yesterday, Good lord?
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Speaker 2: Is that man. I always used to say when I
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Speaker 2: grow up, I want to sound like Jim Kerr or
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Speaker 2: like the great Mark Simone, two of the greatest voices
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Speaker 2: in the business. And to hear that booming voice come
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Speaker 2: through the very microphone I'm sitting in front of right now,
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Speaker 2: I feel like saying I'm not worthy. I'm not worthy.
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Speaker 2: And one of the people that Jim Kerr said especially
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Speaker 2: hello to is the man sitting opposite me right now.
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Speaker 2: Is he who handles the board and the technicals on
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Speaker 2: the show. We just want to say yes, special, thank you,
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Speaker 2: and good morning to is he. It's good to be
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Speaker 2: with you today, is and good to be with you, folks.
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Speaker 2: The best audience for any talk show in America right
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Speaker 2: here at seven ten wr Well, I don't know if
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Speaker 2: you heard this morning the news. US Secretary of State
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Speaker 2: Marco Rubio says there's been a little bit of progress
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Speaker 2: in talks with Iran to end the war, adding that
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Speaker 2: he did not wish to exaggerate how much progress. But
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Speaker 2: apparently this is the few days where it's going to
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Speaker 2: be do or die, so to say, for Iran. I
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Speaker 2: know we've heard that before, but apparently there's a lot
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Speaker 2: of internal data that says that, yeah, this really is
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Speaker 2: it right now. So Iran either has to get it
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Speaker 2: together or there's going to be some action in the
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Speaker 2: next few days. So we'll keep our eyes on that,
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Speaker 2: and of course we'll keep your breast and see what
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Speaker 2: happens with that. Other news. Check this out. This is
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Speaker 2: from the scratch your head and say what on earth?
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Speaker 2: A Maryland teenager is facing child neglect charges for allegedly
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Speaker 2: leaving her six month old baby home alone so she
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Speaker 2: could go out and party with her friends at McDonald's. Okay,
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Speaker 2: now it gets worse. The report says, nineteen year old
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Speaker 2: Kira Faust is a daycare worker. Uh huh, so she
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Speaker 2: watches your kids by day. She left her own six
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Speaker 2: month old baby home alone so she could go out
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Speaker 2: and hang out with her friends at McDonald's. So it's
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Speaker 2: not that she doesn't know how to take care of kids,
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Speaker 2: apparently because she takes care of other people's kids for money,
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Speaker 2: I guess, but when it comes to taking care of
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Speaker 2: her own child, that doesn't matter. Yeah, yes, she will
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Speaker 2: be charged. There was this think old Daria Albinger, the
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Speaker 2: wonderful By the way, I have been admiring the wonderful
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Speaker 2: Daria Albinger's fantastic news voice from Afar for years and
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Speaker 2: even though our pat's kind across we never got to
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Speaker 2: meet each other face to face. Today we finally did.
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Speaker 2: So it's great to hear on the grade seven to
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Speaker 2: ten WR doing the news here. She is fantastic. But
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Speaker 2: she just talked about this sinkhole that is on the
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Speaker 2: runway at LaGuardia Airport. Now, LaGuardia has a tough airport
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Speaker 2: to deal with because it's so small. There's no place
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Speaker 2: to stack up planes, so planes come in land, pick
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Speaker 2: up more passengers leave. You can't park anywhere, so when
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Speaker 2: there is a hole a pothole, it's not a pothole,
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Speaker 2: it's a sinkhole on the runway, there's nowhere to keep planes.
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Speaker 2: So when you only have one runway to work with
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Speaker 2: and you can't just, oh, so land on the other runway,
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Speaker 2: well they can't just do that. If the winds are
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Speaker 2: coming from a different direction, you have to use a
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Speaker 2: different airport. So that is a problem. And now the
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Speaker 2: word is it might be tomorrow at the earliest before
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Speaker 2: they'll get that sinkhole repaired. So if you were going
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Speaker 2: to fly out of LaGuardia or pick somebody up at LaGuardia,
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Speaker 2: a double check with the carrier to make sure that
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Speaker 2: the plane is still on time. There was an out
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Speaker 2: of control caught on camera brawl that broke out between
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Speaker 2: families over seating at a Catholic school's kindergarten graduation in
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Speaker 2: Ohio yesterday. Now, I used to be a priest, so
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Speaker 2: I want to put that out there so people don't
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Speaker 2: think I've tried to soften this or whatever. But so
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Speaker 2: what had happened was this was a kindergarten graduation, which,
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Speaker 2: by the way, when did we start having kidd I
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Speaker 2: know it sounds cute, the parents say, come on, we
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Speaker 2: have like, oh, second grade graduation. It kind of takes
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Speaker 2: away from what you know, eighth grade or high school
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Speaker 2: or college, but whatever you want, the parents to get
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Speaker 2: together and take the pictures, I get it. So a
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Speaker 2: bunch of parents got together for this graduation of a
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Speaker 2: kindergarten and a Catholic school. Underlying that, and apparently this
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Speaker 2: one parent decided to take her extended family to this graduation.
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Speaker 2: And when they showed up at the Queen of Apostles
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Speaker 2: School in Toledo, Ohio, yesterday morning, they brought literally twenty
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Speaker 2: members of the family and they took up all the
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Speaker 2: front row seats. So, of course, everybody wants a picture
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Speaker 2: of their kid, their little kid. That's why they're having this.
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Speaker 2: You're supposed to come in with maybe two three people,
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Speaker 2: not like thirty people for your kindergartener's graduation. Well, twenty
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Speaker 2: eight year old Jessica Anderson allegedly started cursing out parents
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Speaker 2: who tried to take back some of those front seats
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Speaker 2: that she was accused of hogging up. Oh that's another thing.
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Speaker 2: She put bags and whatnot on the seats to prevent
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Speaker 2: people from taking them until like Uncle Gino and Aunt
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Speaker 2: Francis could show up from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, who were driving
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Speaker 2: four hours for a kindergarten graduation. For God's sake, sorry
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Speaker 2: to scream. Didn't mean to scare you, but it is
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Speaker 2: mind boggling. So what ends up happening a brawl? This
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Speaker 2: is a Catholic school, this is a kindergarten graduation, and
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Speaker 2: these parents acted like animals and literally started slugging each other.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, there were a bunch of arrest made. Just unbelievable. Folks,
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Speaker 2: grow up. Not a great example for your kindergarteners to see.
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Speaker 2: Seven ten wr the Voice of New York. We'd love
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Speaker 2: to hear what you have to say. Comment on any
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Speaker 2: of this, Tell me about your Memorial Day plans, and
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Speaker 2: more importantly, tell me about your plans to remember those
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Speaker 2: who fought and died for a country. Eight hundred three
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Speaker 2: two one zero seven ten. Eight hundred three two one
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Speaker 2: zero seven ten. How many of you have friends who
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Speaker 2: say that you know President Trump his time is up,
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Speaker 2: that he no longer has the influence he once had.
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Speaker 2: M sure we know those people, right, Maybe it's time
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Speaker 2: you get new friends. I'm kidding. But in a single night,
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Speaker 2: think about the significance of this president. Trump accomplished something
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Speaker 2: in one night that no other president in the forty
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Speaker 2: seven presidents we've had other than him, He's number forty seven.
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Speaker 2: No other president in history has accomplished. He literally went
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Speaker 2: thirty seven for thirty seven. In terms of winning endorsements,
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Speaker 2: Trump endorsed thirty seven individuals in Republican primaries nationwide, in
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Speaker 2: some cases against very popular incumbent Republican Rhinos who had
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Speaker 2: a track record of winning term after term. And in
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Speaker 2: every single case, the individual whom President Trump endorsed beat
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Speaker 2: their primary competitors. Now, that has never been done in history,
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Speaker 2: certainly not to that extent. In fact, CNN data analyst
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Speaker 2: Harry Enton broke it down to the horror of the
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Speaker 2: commies standing around him on set at.
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Speaker 3: CNN when in fact, you go against President Trump, you
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Speaker 3: go on the grinder and you could just see this
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Speaker 3: times Trump endorsees.
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Speaker 4: Have won in GOP primaries.
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Speaker 3: It's about ninety five percent each of the last four cycles. Now,
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Speaker 3: I will know, you know, sometimes he endorsed this and
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Speaker 3: there's no real challenger. But even in those cases, the
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Speaker 3: challengers to the combent have won a majority of the
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Speaker 3: time as well. And one of the key reasons why
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Speaker 3: that is right is you look at Trump's approval rating
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Speaker 3: within the Gopach twenty first century own party approval At
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Speaker 3: this point in term two, he's eighty three percent. That's
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Speaker 3: more popular than Obama was with Democrats, way more popular
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Speaker 3: than George W. Bush was with Republicans back in two
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Speaker 3: thousand and six. So the power of a Trump endorsement
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Speaker 3: is still sky high.
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Speaker 2: So when people say, oh, Obama was the most popular president,
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Speaker 2: he had the most support, No, No, I mean he was. Look,
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Speaker 2: whether you like Obama or hate, I mean he was
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Speaker 2: great in a number of ways. He was a fabulous orator,
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Speaker 2: very persuasive. He brought a lot of independence over to
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Speaker 2: his side who never thought that they would vote to
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Speaker 2: the left. So he was a very powerful man. Yet
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Speaker 2: President Trump has more power right now, especially among Republicans,
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Speaker 2: not quote unquote magat Street, Missy, Republicans, the party overall,
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Speaker 2: it's about eighty seven percent support. That is higher than
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Speaker 2: Obama had among Democrats, higher than George H. I'm sorry,
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Speaker 2: George W. Bush had among Republicans in his time, I believe,
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Speaker 2: even higher than Reagan had at this point. It's significant.
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Speaker 2: The only way Trump could pull off thirty seven out
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Speaker 2: of thirty seven successful endorsements is with popularity and influence. Now,
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Speaker 2: one guy, think about that single handedly dismantled a political
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Speaker 2: machine built one hundred and sixty five years ago and
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Speaker 2: rebuilt it from scratch. It is now the Party of
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Speaker 2: Trump and the old trimudgeonly machined Rhino Republicans are so
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Speaker 2: angry and so bitter as they watched the party in
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Speaker 2: which they subsisted for years blown to bits. You see,
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Speaker 2: the Rhino Republicans, they were happy being the crappy number
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Speaker 2: two party behind the Democrats because they just wanted to
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Speaker 2: live and let live. They were okay being the second
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Speaker 2: best party as long as they got invited to all
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Speaker 2: the fancy schmancy Washington dinners and they kept their fat
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Speaker 2: jobs and got their palms greased by powerful DC lobbyists
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Speaker 2: in exchange for votes. And yes, it happens. They just
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Speaker 2: wanted to be left alone to live their fat and
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Speaker 2: sassy life, keep their seat election after election, having a
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Speaker 2: career until they died. Like Mitch McConnell, for example. I mean,
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Speaker 2: the man doesn't even know what day it is. And
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Speaker 2: for all the people who were complaining that President Biden
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Speaker 2: needed to leave office because he didn't know where he was,
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Speaker 2: I say those same people need to be saying the
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Speaker 2: same thing about Mitch McConnell, who, if you've seen him lately,
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Speaker 2: he has no idea that he is breathing air yet.
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Speaker 2: I think he's waiting for somebody to tell him he's
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Speaker 2: moved on. And I don't just mean in office. I
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Speaker 2: wish the best for him, Don't get me wrong. I
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Speaker 2: don't wish any ill will. God bless him. He's served
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Speaker 2: a lot of years, but it's time to go on.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 2: This is his last year, but I don't see him
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Speaker 2: still serving this term. How he's effective at this point
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Speaker 2: as a senator. Now, the days of the old Rhino Republicans,
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Speaker 2: those days are over. Probably the Canaries and the coal
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Speaker 2: Mine were the incumbent Rhino Thomas Massey and Kentucky who
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Speaker 2: lost in the fourth Congressional district to a relatively unknown
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Speaker 2: ed Gull Ryan, a former Navy seal who had no
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Speaker 2: name recognition before President Trump said I endorse him. And
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Speaker 2: when President Trump endorsed Gaul Ryan, every know it all
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Speaker 2: political analyst said, he's nuts. Why is he doing that?
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Speaker 2: Gall Ryan doesn't stand a chance. Nobody knew who he was.
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Speaker 2: In fact, in early polls, people said Massey ninety nine
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Speaker 2: point two percent said that they would support Massey in
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Speaker 2: the primary, ninety nine point two. And guess who won
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Speaker 2: the primary, gall Ryan by ten points, the guy endorsed
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Speaker 2: by President Trump. Unheard of. That's not a political powerhouse.
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Speaker 2: That's a political gargantuan that has probably never existed in
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Speaker 2: our history of this country before. Eight hundred three to
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Speaker 2: two one zero seven ten, eight hundred three two one
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Speaker 2: zero seven ten. We want to hear from you, so
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Speaker 2: give us call, let you know what you let us
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Speaker 2: know what you think. And then there is George's anti Trump,
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Speaker 2: Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger, who was the darling
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Speaker 2: of the left. He was the guy who defended the
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Speaker 2: election mess in Fulton County, Georgia, and he promised voters
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Speaker 2: that he would continue his anti Trump's stance if elected governor.
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Speaker 2: He's running for governor now, well, guess what Trump endorsed
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Speaker 2: his opposition, A different Republican and incumbent Georgia secretary of
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Speaker 2: state currently running for governor, received just fourteen percent of
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Speaker 2: the primary vote, So Raffensberger, who thought he was a
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Speaker 2: showing to be governor, lost. He came in third in
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Speaker 2: the primaries because Trump endorsed somebody else, once again showing
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Speaker 2: the power of Trump unbelievable. So again we want to
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Speaker 2: know what you have to say about this, what's your opinion,
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Speaker 2: what you're feeling. Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
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Speaker 2: We're going to take calls in just a few minutes.
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Speaker 2: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten seven ten WR.
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Speaker 1: This is the Mark Simone Show on seven ten wr
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Speaker 1: INN from Mark Today. Here's Ken Rosatto.
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Speaker 2: I'd great to have you with us on your Friday
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Speaker 2: of Memorial Day weekend. Again, remember the good folks who
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Speaker 2: fought and die for us. That's what days about. And
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Speaker 2: remember kind of resisting happy Memorial Day instead. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's fine to say have a good Memorial Day, but
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Speaker 2: happy is not what it's about. It's about remembering those
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Speaker 2: people who died for us. It should be a solemn time.
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Speaker 2: So just remember that. Don't want to bring everybody down,
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Speaker 2: but just kind of remember that because of them we
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Speaker 2: have the freedom and the joy and the abilities that
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Speaker 2: we have today. Eight hundred three to two one zero
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Speaker 2: seven ten. Eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten.
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Speaker 2: Time to go to our busy phones. We go to
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Speaker 2: rob in Franklin Square. Good morning, Rob, Good morning to you.
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Speaker 5: Ken. It's nice to hear you. If we're filling it
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Speaker 5: from walking in the problem I have. I always remember
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Speaker 5: Memorial Day was always on May thirtieth, right now. I
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Speaker 5: understand with the thing with the three day holidays, but
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Speaker 5: they push it up Monday morning. Why couldn't they Why
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Speaker 5: couldn't Memorial Day be May twenty night, next Friday. You
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Speaker 5: could give people Friday, Saturday, Sunday. If that's what's so important.
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Speaker 5: Now everybody's worried about it's going to be rainy for
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Speaker 5: this weekend. Too bad, right, you know, it's not the
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Speaker 5: Memorial Days, not for hot dogs, and you know, I mean,
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Speaker 5: it's nice to have family to get togethers. But that's
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Speaker 5: the thing I remember. I think it was about nineteen
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Speaker 5: seventy nine. I was a big Dave Kingman fan. I
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Speaker 5: went down to the VET to see the Cubs and
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Speaker 5: the Phillies play was on a Thursday, a beautiful day,
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Speaker 5: May thirtieth. So that's why people today. The person that
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Speaker 5: was on the show before you that she interviewed the
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Speaker 5: people there was one mile It looked like a mom
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Speaker 5: in the thirties, and she asked, well, what do you
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Speaker 5: think about? She says, yeah, well, I know, I'm not
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Speaker 5: sure whether it's about I think it's something about the veterans.
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Speaker 5: That's what's the people all are early interested in. Is
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Speaker 5: the three day on holidays?
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Speaker 2: Well, and you know what, if I could jump around,
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Speaker 2: let me jump in if I may, Rob, please, And
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Speaker 2: that is I think part of it is also on
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Speaker 2: those of us who are broadcasting. You know, all the
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Speaker 2: years I was a Channel seven and this is not
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Speaker 2: to knock Channel seven. This was every broadcast news outlet.
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Speaker 2: You really need to have a kind of revision, not revision,
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Speaker 2: it's what's the word I'm looking for? A reminder. Course
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Speaker 2: it should be incumbent upon the broadcasters to remind people
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Speaker 2: what it's about. That's what it is. We're supposed to
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Speaker 2: be in the public interest, right, We're supposed to be
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Speaker 2: here serving the public. That's part of it. Just remember
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Speaker 2: that this day is for this reason because younger people
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Speaker 2: coming up don't know, and new people who moved here
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Speaker 2: from other countries don't know. And it doesn't hurt to
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Speaker 2: take a segment a second to remind people. But you
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Speaker 2: know what, Rob is one hundred percent right, and yes
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Speaker 2: I do remember when it was the same day every year.
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Speaker 2: Now it feels like sometimes, oh it's a memorial day,
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Speaker 2: it's the second of May. No stop, stop, I get it.
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Speaker 2: But the main job is we should remember those who
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Speaker 2: fought and died. That's the most important thing. Let's go
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Speaker 2: to Joe in Elmwood Park.
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Speaker 6: Good morning, Joe, Good morning, Ken, Good mornings. Always taking
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Speaker 6: morning fits. You said we could talk about anything. Where
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Speaker 6: is Jack Tibbarelli. How come he's not. We have this
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Speaker 6: clown here, this McKey, whatever her name is. I can't
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Speaker 6: get over. And I don't understand.
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Speaker 2: I know. Look, you know I do a daily show
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Speaker 2: in New Jersey every day and I covered Jack up
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Speaker 2: and down. Jack's a wonderful, wonderful guy. Love Jack to death. Uh,
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Speaker 2: it's just New Jersey's a tough state right now. And
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Speaker 2: if there's any state that that shows the blue underbelly's
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Speaker 2: when there's an election and there's something they don't like
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Speaker 2: from the right, it's New Jersey, unfortunately. And and that's
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Speaker 2: the deal. We haven't seen much of Jack, but I
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Speaker 2: think because right now he's probably he's he's feeling it.
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Speaker 5: Uh.
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Speaker 2: He spent a lot of time and money, and I
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Speaker 2: think there were polls that showed he could have pulled
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Speaker 2: it off. But I don't know if I I don't
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Speaker 2: want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but yeah.
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Speaker 6: You know what I mean, anybody with three brain cells
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Speaker 6: knew that last time Murphy stole it from him. That
18:46
Speaker 6: was obvious. And now we got this clown and people
18:49
Speaker 6: are leaving.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, people say that's just anecdotal. I know
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Speaker 2: four different families who've left New Jersey in the last
18:56
Speaker 2: few months. And by the way, the funniest part, Joe,
18:58
Speaker 2: not all of them are are republic I have some
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Speaker 2: Democrat friends to say they can't afford it anymore, and
19:02
Speaker 2: they went and retired down in Florida too. They can't
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Speaker 2: take it.
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Speaker 6: And what about all the corporations Standard oil?
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Speaker 2: Standard is shell or Standard I'm sorry, is Mobile? So
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Speaker 2: Exon Mobil. Remember Exon Mobile started out. Remember they started
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Speaker 2: out as s O Standard Oil, and then it became
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Speaker 2: E S s O s O and then it became
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Speaker 2: Exon and then Mobile, et cetera. So, for those of
19:26
Speaker 2: you that don't realize the history of it, but that
19:28
Speaker 2: was headquartered in New Jersey since its inception. It's gone.
19:31
Speaker 2: But that's what you get when you get liberals in
19:34
Speaker 2: charge who really don't care about the corporations they claim
19:36
Speaker 2: to love because they get all the money from them.
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Speaker 2: That's it dropping like flies, all right, Joe, thank you
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Speaker 2: so much. Enjoy enjoy family gathering. But let's remember the
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Speaker 2: good folks who fought in that. Thank you, Joe. And
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Speaker 7: Good morning to you. I want to tell you before
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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, well, thank you. My question is about John
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Speaker 7: who I don't understand why this is rigging out. Did
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Speaker 2: Power over like this? Yeah, it's you know the thing.
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Speaker 2: And John Thune, who is the he's the head of
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Speaker 2: doing this? And why aren't they doing that? And apparently
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Speaker 2: so much of it is because it's all about wheeling
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Speaker 2: and dealing, and if you don't have enough senators backing
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Speaker 2: what you want, you can't put your neck out and
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Speaker 2: that's that's really what it comes down to, Maria. But
21:43
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21:50
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Speaker 2: Mark was a nice long weekend. Well. He is a
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Speaker 2: twenty five year Navy veteran who's now running for congress
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Speaker 2: in Southern California's forty ninth congressional district. We say good
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Speaker 2: morning to armand Curty and good to have you on.
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Speaker 4: Good morning, Chris, how y'all doing today?
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Speaker 2: Good is Ken Rosotto here and Arman you you are
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Speaker 2: a twenty five year veteran. You are a Navy captain,
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Speaker 2: So thank you, sir for your service. Before I even
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Speaker 2: get into the other questions I was going to ask you.
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Speaker 2: I wanted to see what it was, what Memorial Day
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Speaker 2: means for you having served so many years.
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Speaker 4: Thanks so much for that. You know, did we lose
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Speaker 4: all naval aviators, some dimontored, some that I've worked in
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Speaker 4: other air wings, and several of them gave their lives
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Speaker 4: to their country, and you know in training accidents when
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Speaker 4: they were working hard to better their skills and keep
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Speaker 4: their keep their skills sharp. It's a very dangerous profession.
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Speaker 4: One of them was my assistant operations officer I after
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Speaker 4: OPT my squadron was he was involved in a in
24:13
Speaker 4: a training accident. So I always go back and think
24:17
Speaker 4: to those individuals that I personally lost. You know, some
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Speaker 4: good friends, good good folks that I know, had beers
24:24
Speaker 4: with and everything, and this it's sad and it's unfortunate.
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Speaker 4: Even one of them going all the way back to
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Speaker 4: my time in r OTC, so one of the upperclassmen
24:33
Speaker 4: to help train me and become a better officer. So
24:36
Speaker 4: that's that's what I hold in my heart on Memorial Day.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad you pointed that out, Armor because we
24:41
Speaker 2: tend to say for those who fought and died. I've
24:42
Speaker 2: been saying that, but you're right. Look, if you die
24:45
Speaker 2: in training, you're still giving your life for your country,
24:48
Speaker 2: and your family still has that devastating loss of their
24:51
Speaker 2: loved one. You still died serving the country. So I'm
24:55
Speaker 2: glad you pointed that out. It's very very important if
24:58
Speaker 2: you if you decide to sign up, and it's all voluntary,
25:02
Speaker 2: of course, if you decide to sign up and serve
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Speaker 2: the country, you deserve all the honor and thanks of
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Speaker 2: Americans for what you've done. Well. Now, just to shift
25:11
Speaker 2: gears a little bit, we wanted to talk to you
25:12
Speaker 2: about how ninety four year old former Cuban dictator Raul
25:16
Speaker 2: Castro is charged with conspiracy to kill US nationals, four
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Speaker 2: council murder, destruction of aircraft from a nineteen ninety six
25:22
Speaker 2: shootdown of two unarmed civilian Cessant planes operated by the
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Speaker 2: Miami based exile group Brothers to the Rescue, and of course,
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Speaker 2: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the charges on Wednesday
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Speaker 2: as a major step toward accountability. Do you think that
25:37
Speaker 2: that was done in order to let the ninety four
25:40
Speaker 2: year old Raul Castro know that he is next to
25:43
Speaker 2: be brought back to the US like they did to
25:45
Speaker 2: Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.
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Speaker 4: Now this is really really interesting. I mean, I think
25:50
Speaker 4: you just said that the guy's ninety four years old.
25:53
Speaker 4: He's a you know, I guess he's kind of a symbol,
25:55
Speaker 4: the last living symbol of the Cuban revolution of sixty
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Speaker 4: years ago. The question is is the president really thinking
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Speaker 4: about going and physically extracting him if they don't turn
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Speaker 4: him over. And that's a very good question. You know,
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Speaker 4: the Cuban military is not as capable as the Venezuelan
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Speaker 4: military is, but Cuba is also ninety miles from from
26:15
Speaker 4: our coast, so you know, if they go, if the
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Speaker 4: President goes in and takes him, is Cuba going to retaliate?
26:20
Speaker 4: Are they going to strike back at us? Knowing that
26:22
Speaker 4: we could go right back at them really hard, but
26:26
Speaker 4: perhaps risking the political damage of you know, a few
26:28
Speaker 4: drones striking targets in southern Florida. Who knows this is
26:33
Speaker 4: this is a very interesting situation. He's done. The president
26:37
Speaker 4: has a very different calculus, obviously, as we've seen to
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Speaker 4: foreign policy, he breaks all the norms. And I will
26:45
Speaker 4: say that all the time, but you know, a majority
26:47
Speaker 4: of the time he tends to come out on top
26:51
Speaker 4: with with what he does, So I think a lot
26:54
Speaker 4: remains to be seen as to whether the value of
26:57
Speaker 4: actually doing that is beneficial. Remember, he's not the president
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Speaker 4: of the country. Maduro was a president of Venezuela. This
27:02
Speaker 4: guy's just sort of a figurehead. If you look at
27:04
Speaker 4: the Cuban government, a lot of them are still very
27:07
Speaker 4: very much aligned. I don't know that necessarily moving it
27:09
Speaker 4: was going to change qs behavior, which I think what
27:11
Speaker 4: the president really ultimately wants to see.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I worked in Miami. I worked for
27:17
Speaker 2: the CBS station there for five years as an anchor,
27:20
Speaker 2: and one of my co anchors was her family's all
27:23
Speaker 2: from Cuba. She was from Cuba. She was born in Cuba.
27:25
Speaker 2: Ileana Varilla, her name is. She was an anchor there
27:27
Speaker 2: for years in Miami, and she said that the biggest
27:30
Speaker 2: enemy of the Cuban people, of the Cuban people, that
27:33
Speaker 2: the Cuban people who come to South Florida send back
27:36
Speaker 2: so much American cash to help their relatives back home
27:40
Speaker 2: that it doesn't allow communism to collapse because without the
27:44
Speaker 2: cash influx from South Florida Cuba would have folded thirty
27:49
Speaker 2: forty years ago for lack of money. They don't produce anything,
27:52
Speaker 2: but because the Miami Cubans sends so much over it,
27:56
Speaker 2: because they don't want their loved ones to starve, they
27:58
Speaker 2: send so much money over that has propped up the
28:01
Speaker 2: government and as a result, it still survives and the
28:04
Speaker 2: people have not encountered.
28:05
Speaker 4: Though.
28:06
Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong, it's not like they live high
28:07
Speaker 2: on the hog, so to say. They struggle soup lines
28:10
Speaker 2: and everything else. I have breadlines, I should say. But
28:14
Speaker 2: they would have probably toppled their government many decades ago
28:18
Speaker 2: if not for South Florida helping them out.
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Speaker 4: You bring up a very interesting point, which is what
28:25
Speaker 4: Trump the same type of leverage he was using in Iran.
28:30
Speaker 4: When when you squeeze somebody, find it really squeezed someone financially,
28:33
Speaker 4: it causes major, in serious damage, you know, not just
28:36
Speaker 4: regular general sanctions. You know, back in the twenty sixteen
28:40
Speaker 4: twenty seventeen when he when the president puts those kinds
28:42
Speaker 4: of chantions on Iran, they were unable to fund their
28:44
Speaker 4: proxies to the locals they actually wanted. And that was
28:47
Speaker 4: changed under the Biden administration. In the sense of a Cuba.
28:50
Speaker 4: You're you're absolutely right. They don't produce anything precise recides sugarcane.
28:55
Speaker 4: They you know, they're they're exceptionally isolated from most of
28:58
Speaker 4: the US in the world. They got us allowed a
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Speaker 4: Russian tanker to provide them some oil for humanitarian reasons.
29:05
Speaker 4: Then the president has said, you know, we're going to
29:07
Speaker 4: continue to allow this to happen, just for humanitarian but otherwise,
29:11
Speaker 4: you know, just enough so that the population doesn't suffer
29:16
Speaker 4: some massive humanitarian crisis.
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Speaker 2: So because then it would be on us, right if
29:20
Speaker 2: the sort to step on you, because then it would
29:22
Speaker 2: be for us to step up and save them. So
29:24
Speaker 2: it's like it actually helps us out by just letting
29:26
Speaker 2: the Russian tanker be there to help them.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely, And you don't want to create, you don't
29:33
Speaker 4: want to hurt the people that you're trying to liberate,
29:35
Speaker 4: because then then they'll unite against their government, what despotic
29:38
Speaker 4: or tyrannicalism may be. They'll they'll see them as the
29:41
Speaker 4: protector against someone who's trying to actually change the behavior
29:45
Speaker 4: of the human people. It's going to require a lot
29:47
Speaker 4: more than that. It's going to require a lot more
29:49
Speaker 4: psychological operations, information operations. You know, you know, a Voice
29:54
Speaker 4: of America. You know, let's let's bring that back. Let's
29:58
Speaker 4: these are the kinds of things that you that they
30:00
Speaker 4: it's the idea that's not just a financial aspect, that
30:03
Speaker 4: we really need there in the island.
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Speaker 2: It's funny you say that because the AM radio stations
30:07
Speaker 2: in Cuba broadcast at five hundred thousand watts. Now in
30:12
Speaker 2: the United States, the maximum wattage for an AM is
30:15
Speaker 2: fifty thousand watts, like seven to ten war. We're a
30:17
Speaker 2: fifty thousand watts station, which is powerful for a region,
30:21
Speaker 2: for a little It's not a little island. It's a
30:23
Speaker 2: long island, but it's not that wide. Five hundred thousand
30:25
Speaker 2: watts spreads out for about five hundred miles in all directions.
30:29
Speaker 2: At night in South Florida, you can hear the Cuban
30:31
Speaker 2: radio stations on AM better than you can hear the
30:33
Speaker 2: local stations, and that is to keep our signals out
30:35
Speaker 2: of their country on purpose. So it's interesting you talk
30:38
Speaker 2: about Voice of America. Before I let you go, though,
30:40
Speaker 2: I want to ask you really quickly about the situation
30:43
Speaker 2: of Congress in California. You're running as a Republican in
30:46
Speaker 2: California's forty ninth congressional district. How's that looking? Because it
30:51
Speaker 2: pardoned me with redistricting and whatnot, what are the chances
30:53
Speaker 2: of having any Republicans elected to Congress in California?
30:56
Speaker 4: Now? It's always hard?
31:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, did we lose armon?
31:03
Speaker 4: What they did? They they can you hear me?
31:06
Speaker 2: Yeah? Now we got you back. You dropped out for
31:07
Speaker 2: a second, We got you back.
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Speaker 4: Sorry. Yeah. What they did they drew out a couple
31:11
Speaker 4: of candidates just they just curved them just right out
31:13
Speaker 4: of their district that they were actually running for. They
31:15
Speaker 4: put two other very popular Republicans in the same district.
31:18
Speaker 4: So it was a very very deliberate or malicious effort
31:21
Speaker 4: on their parts. But it is it's certainly not impossible.
31:25
Speaker 4: With the right messaging and on the right type of
31:27
Speaker 4: campaign strategy, you can go. I've always thought that Republicans
31:30
Speaker 4: tend to waste a lot of money in their campaigns
31:33
Speaker 4: and stuff that's not effective. I've been very, very focused
31:35
Speaker 4: on direct voter contact and the kind of messaging that
31:39
Speaker 4: connects with photos. You know, it's cost of living, it's education,
31:41
Speaker 4: it's jobs. You have the highest employment of any state
31:43
Speaker 4: in the country and one and a half billion people
31:45
Speaker 4: who fled the state. That's tangible. Even the labor unions
31:48
Speaker 4: understand that. So it's it's it's all about that that
31:52
Speaker 4: that that kind of work, and also cooperating with down
31:55
Speaker 4: ballid candidates to help help them, help you, you help
31:58
Speaker 4: them kind of going forward. It's it's kind of an
32:00
Speaker 4: all hands on deck effort. California is not beyond saving.
32:03
Speaker 4: What is reflected in you've see the national media is
32:06
Speaker 4: the people aren't that crazy. We got some crazy people
32:09
Speaker 4: here certainly, but it's not as crazy on mass as
32:13
Speaker 4: it might seem. And you know, if you work hard
32:15
Speaker 4: every now and then you pull.
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Speaker 2: Off on let's let's keep our fingers crossed. Twenty five
32:19
Speaker 2: year Navy veteran former Navy captain now running for Congress
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Speaker 2: in Southern California's forty ninth congressional district, Arman Curdion, best
32:27
Speaker 2: of luck on the race. Thank you for coming on
32:28
Speaker 2: this morning and a thoughtful Memorial Day for.
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Speaker 4: You, absolutely, thank you.
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Speaker 6: Michael Francis?
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Speaker 2: All right, it's so there must be a Michael in
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Speaker 2: France's good to have you. Sena Ma Riches, I know it. Well.
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Speaker 2: The Maricheses are almost the Hamptons. Well we're close. I
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Speaker 2: used to live out well at home, I lived in
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Speaker 2: I lived in what would I live What was the
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Speaker 2: name of the town for guys, sixers right next to Patchack,
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Speaker 2: Medrick whatever, it'll come to, Koram. I used to live
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Speaker 2: in Corum. It's like fifty years ago. There we go. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: good morning. What would you like to talk about?
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Speaker 7: I just was, you know, we're trying to promote.
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Speaker 2: The real reason for a Memorial.
33:40
Speaker 7: Day, and I just thought if we asked people to
33:43
Speaker 7: perhaps fly their flags at half staff, that that might
33:46
Speaker 7: be a reminder.
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Speaker 3: People service.
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Speaker 2: I think that's a great idea because it is meant
33:52
Speaker 2: when you fly the flags at half staff, it's meant to,
33:55
Speaker 2: of course, remember somebody who died, somebody significant in our community.
33:58
Speaker 2: And if you volunteer to serve, and everybody in our
34:01
Speaker 2: military volunteered, if you volunteer to serve and you died
34:05
Speaker 2: in the action of protecting our country, even if it
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Speaker 2: was in training, then you deserve that honor. I appreciate that.
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Speaker 2: That's very nice that you said that. What are your
34:14
Speaker 2: plans for the weekend?
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Speaker 4: Oh, just hanging around the house with your kids.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good thing. But I will be thinking
34:22
Speaker 2: about my dad, who was a bed amen. Is dad
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Speaker 2: with us?
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Speaker 3: Nope, not any longer.
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Speaker 2: Well rest his soul, and thank you to you and
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Speaker 2: your family and dad for his service. We appreciate you,
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Speaker 2: and we thank you so much for calling. Thank you, Francis.
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Speaker 2: Have a good day, you too. Eighty seven to ten
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34:43
Speaker 2: in for Marc Simon. We're going to have clouds today,
34:46
Speaker 2: then rain tomorrow through Memorial Day Monday. But as we
34:49
Speaker 2: had a caller earlier say, it's not about sunshine and
34:53
Speaker 2: enjoying the beach. This is supposed to be about remembering
34:56
Speaker 2: those who sacrifice for our country at tempts today in
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Speaker 2: the sixties, the fifth East Tomorrow, back to the low sixties. Sunday.
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