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Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show on sevento.

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Speaker 2: Well, hey, rob As Doino, you know he does a

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Speaker 2: great weekend show here at w o R. You can

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Speaker 2: hear him every Saturday at four o'clock on w R

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Speaker 2: Saturdays at four o'clock, and or if you're somewhere else

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Speaker 2: you can listen on iHeart. Also he's on Newsmax TV,

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Speaker 2: does a great show every Saturday. Two better ask I

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Speaker 2: think it's two o'clock Newsmax, rob As Doino? How you doing?

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Speaker 2: It's two o'clock, right, two to three?

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Speaker 3: What wonder three?

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Speaker 1: Three?

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Speaker 2: It's one to three, it's three o'clock. That is two o'clock.

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Speaker 2: Now it's one o'clock. Pretty soon you're gonna be out

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Speaker 2: all day one o'clock to three o'clock. How are you? Mark?

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Speaker 2: I don't get up before two o'clock on Saturday, So

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Speaker 2: that's why confuse.

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Speaker 3: That must mean you have a great Friday night.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the idea. So hey, let me ask you something.

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Speaker 2: You are your politician who's now doing a radio show.

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Speaker 2: Of course you for years before that had a big

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Speaker 2: radio career. But there's another politician who doing a radio

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Speaker 2: show on the weekends. Your old buddy Andrew Cuoma. Have

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Speaker 2: you heard this show?

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Speaker 3: I try not to. Oh my god, you got the

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Speaker 3: most irritating voice. Who would put that voice on a

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Speaker 3: talk radio show? Oh my god?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's he's an ex governor. But you're right, it's

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Speaker 2: it's like a ponderous lecture. He's like everybody's a student

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Speaker 2: and he's got to lecture you. You debated this guy.

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Speaker 2: What did you think when you were debating him about

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Speaker 2: that style?

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Speaker 1: God, you know, it's I honestly, I just want to

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Speaker 1: take a sharp object and shove it in my ears

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Speaker 1: so I don't have to listen to him. It's just

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Speaker 1: so brutal, and that cadence and that I don't even

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Speaker 1: know what kind of accent is it. It's not I

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Speaker 1: know it's from Queen's but I don't even know what

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Speaker 1: kind of accent he has.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, the only guy born in America, grew

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Speaker 2: up in New York. It has a foreign accent. What

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Speaker 2: the And then he does that thing where he asked

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Speaker 2: himself questions, now, no, no, why do I say that? Well?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he's a philosopher. Yeah he's he's Socrates Andrew.

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Speaker 2: And then he talked to you like you're a moron,

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Speaker 2: he said, And we don't. It's a violation. Now, what

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Speaker 2: do we mean when we say violation.

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Speaker 3: He's like a professor. Could you imagine having him paying

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Speaker 3: for him to go tell you about the world?

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Speaker 2: And uh so, but uh like during his years, three

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Speaker 2: people ran against him. Didn't you come closer than anybody?

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Speaker 2: I think you did, right, I did?

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Speaker 3: Other than Lee? Well, yeah, yeah, that's true. I mean

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Speaker 3: Lee didn't run against him, but yes I did. But

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Speaker 3: you know it wasn't enough. But we we've been proven

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Speaker 3: right on just about every issue we talked about.

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Speaker 1: Then he looked at everybody lie to us and looked,

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Speaker 1: you know, talk down to us. And in that time,

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Speaker 1: you know, everyone has gotten the hell out of there.

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Speaker 1: I'm actually I'm talking to you right now from Dallas.

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Speaker 1: I'm in Texas, have been for six days now. I

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Speaker 1: was covering this Texas Republican primary, which is pretty interesting.

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Speaker 1: But it's such a different way of life now. I

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Speaker 1: know you, Mark, You're like, I hate Florida.

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Speaker 3: Bye, I love you. The thing about it. I feel like,

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Speaker 3: for six days I shouldn't have to pay income taxes

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Speaker 3: in New York because there's no taxes where I am.

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Speaker 3: Right now, everything is like, you know, normally priced. The

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Speaker 3: people are nice.

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Speaker 1: I was driving the other day, literally the speed limit

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Speaker 1: is eighty and I'm driving ninety and I'm like, everyone's

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Speaker 1: passing me.

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Speaker 2: I love it. Okay, Okay, there's no taxes. You't gonna

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Speaker 2: drive ninety. That's great, but you're missing five hundred thousand

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Speaker 2: things that are in New York that aren't there.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was walking around yesterday. Now I'm literally in

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Speaker 1: Was like five o'clock at night, rush hour, and I

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Speaker 1: could have just walked across each eat with my eyes

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Speaker 3: Been in danger of being hit by a car. And

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Speaker 3: I was just thinking about that.

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Speaker 1: Like, in New York, no matter what time, you better

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Speaker 1: look all over the place because either a scooter's gonna

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Speaker 1: hit you, a Cabby's gonna hit you, an uber is

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Speaker 3: But here, it's such a different world. It really and

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Speaker 3: truly is. It's they they do have everything here.

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Speaker 2: But it's not good for you. It's not good for you.

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Speaker 2: You know, you want to Hey, you're gonna get older

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Speaker 2: down there, you know. You cross the street and everything's

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Speaker 2: coming at you and you got a duck and dodge.

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Speaker 2: It keeps you young, it keeps you active, It keeps.

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Speaker 3: You quick on your feet.

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Speaker 2: You're right. You ever see those old people the way

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Speaker 2: they walk in Florida?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 2: Here in New York the old guy will knock you

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Speaker 2: over in New Yorker.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, No, I don't do the shuffle thing. But

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Speaker 3: you got to learn that when you get to Florida,

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Speaker 3: and you got to learn.

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Speaker 1: How to basically have your head just to bolt just

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Speaker 1: below the steering wheel and drives thirty in the left fo.

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Speaker 3: On ninety five. Yes, that's what you got to do

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Speaker 3: when you get to Florida.

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Speaker 2: Hey, speaking of Texas, so why is it why the

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Speaker 2: Republicans having a tough time in Texas in these races.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's a three way primary. Cornyon, who's the incumbent

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Speaker 1: senator here is going for a fifth term, and Ken Paxton,

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Speaker 1: who's the Attorney general really loved by Maga. It's a

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Speaker 1: three way race. But it looks like Paxson's gonna win it.

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Speaker 1: But you got to get over fifty percent. So now

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Speaker 1: if he doesn't, which you probably won't, there'll be a

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Speaker 1: primary runoff. They've already spent one hundred million dollars wasted,

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Speaker 1: and then they're gonna have to do it again one

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Speaker 1: hundred million probably, you know, in the next two months.

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Speaker 1: And all this money could have been spent around the

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Speaker 1: country for other Republicans. But Crockett, you know, the lunatic

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Speaker 1: on the left. She's running in the Democratic primary here,

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Speaker 1: and it's an open primary, so people can vote in

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Speaker 1: either party. You have Republicans who are crossing over and

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Speaker 1: voting for Crockett because they want her. They want her

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Speaker 1: to be the Democratic nominee because that'll basically lock it

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Speaker 1: up in November.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you've been through this process. The primary is still

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Speaker 2: a good idea, right, It's better than the the boss

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Speaker 2: is picking a candidate, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. No, Look, it would be very hypocritical of me

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Speaker 1: because the bosses picked somebody, you know, the Zelden in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, and I and Andrew Giuliani and Harry

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Speaker 1: Wilson ran a primary, you know, And I'm totally fine

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Speaker 1: with that. That's the process, and I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: the party, the party people, actually the voters should be

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Speaker 1: able to pick their candidates.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Rob Baster and let me just ask you a

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Speaker 2: county executive question. It's it's pothole season. I start to

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Speaker 2: see these potholes opening up. Now, what is That's because

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Speaker 2: the at the end of winter, the ice, the freezing,

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Speaker 2: the salt, everything ruined. The roads creates these potholes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it expands, it contracts. It's just you know, the

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Speaker 3: plows just destroy everything. The curbs get all ripped up.

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Speaker 1: So yeah that.

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Speaker 3: Oh but wait a minute, if you're in Texas, they

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Speaker 3: don't do that the roads. Let me just look at

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Speaker 3: the oh the roads look okay, actually.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's because there's no traffic. But hey,

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Speaker 2: if there was a pothole in the driveway at mar

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Speaker 2: A Lago an hour later, it would be filled and fixed.

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Speaker 2: So why can't governments do that?

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Speaker 1: Because government is supposed to be on a good day,

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Speaker 1: just below average, on a normal day, just completely an addition.

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Speaker 3: That's the way it's based.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you can't it be like a pothole

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Speaker 2: truck just going around filling them wherever they it is.

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Speaker 3: In fact, the other night when I was driving, I

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Speaker 3: was in Houston. I had to drive up to Fort Worth, right,

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Speaker 3: so it's like a three and a half.

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Speaker 1: Hour drive, and I'm on I forty five going up

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, I look and there are

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Speaker 1: there's a caravan of construction trucks ahead of me. And

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Speaker 1: I stayed in this caravan for about ten miles or

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Speaker 1: almost forty five minutes going eight miles an hour, and

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Speaker 1: then some rock hit me and I have a like

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Speaker 1: a seven inch you.

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Speaker 3: Know, boom right in my windshield. It's a crack. That'll

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Speaker 3: be fun when I go to rent a car.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, hey, we're almost out of time. So

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Speaker 2: you were the Republican candidate for government that came very close,

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Speaker 2: leez Eldon came very close. What about Bruce Blakeman, Well,

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Speaker 2: he'd be the greatest governor. Does he have a good shot.

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Speaker 3: He's got a shot, there's no question.

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Speaker 1: And you know what the biggest sleeper issue it's not crime, okay,

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Speaker 1: because there's a lot of people in the suburbs.

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Speaker 3: They don't feel unsafe, Okay.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The big issue, the sleeper issue that affects everybody is energy.

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Speaker 3: High costs. High electricity costs. They're going crazy, They're going

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Speaker 3: to get higher. I think it's a really big crossover

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Speaker 3: issue for him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and most of that was caused by Cuomo and Hokel.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely yeah, yep.

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Speaker 3: And there's the Green New Deal in New York closing

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Speaker 3: Indian point.

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Speaker 2: All right, well, rob Astrino, great stuff, and everybody can

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Speaker 2: listen to you on w R Saturday at four o'clock

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Speaker 2: Saturday at four o'clock here. Also watch them on Newsma's

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Speaker 2: TV Saturdays from one to three. You do a two

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Speaker 2: hour show. That's a lot of show there, one to three.

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Speaker 3: As my wife says, I get paid doing air.

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Speaker 2: All right, well watch rob Estrino news maas one o'clock Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Listen to him here four o'clock on Saturday. Rob Estrino,

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Speaker 2: thanks for being with us.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Mark, all right.

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Speaker 2: Take care, Hey, don't forget Buck and Clay Noon today.

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Speaker 2: the most listen to radio show in America, Sean Hannity,

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Speaker 2: Jesse Kelly at six and the great Jimmy Taylor. What

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Speaker 2: a funny show every night nine o'clock on seven to ten.

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