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Speaker 1: Here's more Mark Simone on seven ken w o R.

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Speaker 2: Well. Rob Astonarino a longtime broadcaster. It was also a

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Speaker 2: Westchester County executive. You can hear him. He does a

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Speaker 2: TV show Newsmax every Saturday at two o'clock. He goes

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Speaker 2: to hear him on w o R here Saturday afternoons

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Speaker 2: at four o'clock. Rob Astonarino, How you doing good?

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Speaker 1: Mark? How are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm good? Now? Hey, you ran for governor? Tell us

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Speaker 2: how tough is it for a Republican to run as

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Speaker 2: a Republican in New York State?

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm not governor, so that should tell you how

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Speaker 1: hard it is. The biggest problem we face now, Mark,

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Speaker 1: is so many of our voters have left, They've died

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Speaker 1: or there where. I just was last week in Florida,

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Speaker 1: and Florida's gotten a lot more red. You know, New

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Speaker 1: York has gotten bluer. Then you have the suburbs like

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Speaker 1: where I am, Westchester, which has gotten deeper blue and

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Speaker 1: the city is completely insane. And you know, other than

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Speaker 1: Long Island, which has been trending right, unfortunately, the northern

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Speaker 1: suburbs have been, you know, drifting left, and upstate New

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Speaker 1: York is kind of hollowed out. So the problem is

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Speaker 1: there's not enough of ours to win outright, so you

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Speaker 1: have to pull over so many independents and Democrats and

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Speaker 1: Democrats right now are just not listening to anything that

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Speaker 1: a Republican has to say. We're you know, we're the

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Speaker 1: horns where the devil and and that's tough. And so

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Speaker 1: you get incompetence like Hocel, you get people like Mamdami

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Speaker 1: get elected, and this state just gets worse and worse.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but when you get north of Western, when you

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Speaker 2: get up to Rockland and north of the I would

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Speaker 2: think there's a lot of Republicans. No, not anymore.

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Speaker 1: They're they're well, they're a lot less. I mean, Duchess

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Speaker 1: used to be very red. Orange used to be very red,

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Speaker 1: Rockland was kind of red. I mean they're all they're

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Speaker 1: all basically blue now, and Westchester has gotten deeper blue.

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Speaker 1: Putnam is even you know, Putnam's a holdout still read,

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Speaker 1: but it's kind of directing a little bit. You know.

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Speaker 1: You got the people from New York City move up there,

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Speaker 1: they buy their properties and then they start voting, you know, crazy.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, look, it's not impossible for Bruce Blakeman

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, the TDS is a lot less

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Speaker 1: this time than it was in Trump, you know, in

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Speaker 1: Trump's first term. But you just see how hardened the

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Speaker 1: left has become in states like New York, where you know,

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Speaker 1: there's no rhyme or reason to anything they do anymore.

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Speaker 1: It's just got to be crazy, woke leftist nonsense socialists now,

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Speaker 1: and that's what they go for. So it makes it

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Speaker 1: a lot harder. And I think Bruce has to talk

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Speaker 1: about other things other than just crime because you know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of places, like in the suburbs, people don't

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Speaker 1: necessarily feel unsafe. Crime is an issue, but you know

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Speaker 1: they're ready to walk out at nighttime and take a

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Speaker 1: walk around their neighborhood. They don't feel the fear that

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Speaker 1: you might in New York City. But economics, things like

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Speaker 1: energy costs, you know, all those things are really important

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Speaker 1: to a lot of different people where you can get

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Speaker 1: crossover votes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Blakeman is great on energy costs. He's great on

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Speaker 2: keeping taxes down. He's great on that stuff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So hey, our old buddy Andrew Cuomo, he's doing a

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Speaker 2: radio show now. It's God, it's a bad show.

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Speaker 1: But oh it's unlistenable. Oh my god, you want to

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Speaker 1: you want to stick your fingers in your ear and

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Speaker 1: just pull your ear drum out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just awful. But where did he he I

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Speaker 2: don't know where he got the nerve to run for mayor.

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Speaker 2: He just left his governor. H he left in disgrace.

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Speaker 2: He left all but he being chased by the police

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Speaker 2: out of there. Uh does he have any political future?

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Speaker 1: Uh? Well, I don't know. I think the Democratic Party

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Speaker 1: has moved on for him and that's his only future, right,

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Speaker 1: And he's become a dinosaur with a terrible record, and

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Speaker 1: he again, you know, like the Chuck Schumer's duck is

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Speaker 1: only there I think because he still has time left

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Speaker 1: in his term. Yeah, but I don't know if he's

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Speaker 1: going to get re elected. I think honestly, he again

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Speaker 1: he's looked over and he's like nobody's around him anymore

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Speaker 1: because they're so far over with AOC and ma'am DOMI

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Speaker 1: people that let's be honest, I mean Schumer, that's not

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Speaker 1: really who he is. He's played the role and he's

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Speaker 1: appeased them because he wants to stay just you know,

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Speaker 1: basically stay in power, so sacred to do anything that's

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Speaker 1: not necessarily who he really has been. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: his party's left him, and so he's kind of still

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Speaker 1: standing only because he has, you know, a couple of

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Speaker 1: years left in his term. I'm not so sure he's

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Speaker 1: going to run for re election, by the way. I

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Speaker 1: don't think at that age he's got the fight in

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Speaker 1: him for what's going to be grueling primary and you know,

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Speaker 1: and traveling around the state left and right. I'm just

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Speaker 1: not so sure that's that's left in him.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, give him credit. You've got new glasses.

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Speaker 2: I know he's said been a coin optical a lot,

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Speaker 2: but hey, you were a county executive. What happens when

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Speaker 2: you get a snowfall like we had like ten twelve

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Speaker 2: inches and it stays freezing for weeks and there's everybody

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Speaker 2: yelling at you, that's streets not clean, pick up the snow.

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Speaker 2: Is it a big headache for a governor, a county executive.

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Speaker 1: So the funny part Mark, and this is just between us,

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Speaker 1: so do not tell anybody. So people would always ask me,

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Speaker 1: like during a major snowstorm, you know, or big weather incident,

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Speaker 1: you know, what does the county executive do? And I

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Speaker 1: tell them, you know what I do. I kind of

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Speaker 1: do what everyone else does. I watch it because I'm

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Speaker 1: not on the plows. I just got to make sure

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Speaker 1: that they're doing their job, and they basically do. I

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Speaker 1: get my little weather jacket, you know, in my little

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Speaker 1: executive jacket, and go do the media stuff and just

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Speaker 1: tell people what they already know, like, you know, stay inside,

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Speaker 1: it's bad out, don't drive. But other than that, you know,

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Speaker 1: you just want to make sure everyone's doing their job,

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Speaker 1: which they are. I think, you know, look, the roads

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Speaker 1: have to be clear. That's the biggest issue. And man

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Speaker 1: Dommy found that out. Not only the garbage, but it

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Speaker 1: was an absolute utter mess. The horrible part is when

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Speaker 1: all those crap melts, You're going to see nothing but blah,

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Speaker 1: and then you have to clean it. Oh it's awful, awful.

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Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, let me ask you this Cardinal Dolan. Good

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Speaker 2: news is he's staying in New York. He's going to

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Speaker 2: live here in the in Murray Hill. Actually, and I'm

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Speaker 2: not crazy about this new archbishop. I don't know. Little

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Speaker 2: he's a little woke, isn't he.

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Speaker 1: I would give him a shot, you know. I think

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Speaker 1: he's definitely got the lineage of Chicago there's no question

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Speaker 1: about it. Cardinal Souppitch, who is pretty to the left,

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Speaker 1: he's the cardinal Archbishop of Chicago, very close to the pope.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: But Archbishop Hicks, I mean, it's not fair to say

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Speaker 1: that this guy had no training or whatsoever. He came

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Speaker 1: from a small, little podunk place. He didn't. Joliet is

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Speaker 1: like the suburbs of New York City, right, it's a

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Speaker 1: big enough dioceseid of its own. But he was also

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Speaker 1: in Chicago. I mean he was. He was an auxiliary bishop,

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Speaker 1: so he ran a lot of the day to day

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Speaker 1: of the Chicago Archdiocese. So, I mean he's been in

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Speaker 1: a big city. I would just give the guy, you know,

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Speaker 1: some slack. Let's see where he goes first. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's so hard to replace Cardinal Nolan. So he's just

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Speaker 1: so affable and so really good at what he did.

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Speaker 1: But you know, we gotta change.

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, you're being very diplomatic. Well, anyway, you can listen

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Speaker 2: to Rob est Reno Saturday, Saturday afternoon at four o'clock.

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Speaker 2: He's on WOR four o'clock on Saturday afternoon and news

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Speaker 2: Max you're on two o'clock on Saturdays.

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Speaker 1: Right, one o'clock, three.

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Speaker 2: One to three, one to three on News Max on Saturdays,

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Speaker 2: and four o'clock on seven to ten wor Rob Astarino,

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Speaker 2: thanks for being with us.

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Speaker 1: Good to talk to you. Mark.

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Speaker 2: Take care. Hey, don't forget Buck and Clay will be

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Speaker 2: here at noon today. Don't forget it's it's not Monday,

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Speaker 2: it's Tuesday. Everything is Monday. It's Tuesday, Buck and Clay

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Speaker 2: at noon. You got the most listened to radio show

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Speaker 2: in America. Sean Hannity at three, Jesse Kelly at six,

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Speaker 2: and Jimmy Fayla. I love listening to him every night.

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