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Speaker 1: Set up, pre said on the iHeartRadio app to do

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Speaker 1: wo R to hear Mark live? Is that another for

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Speaker 1: Mark's podcast?

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Speaker 2: To hear him any time? Now?

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Speaker 1: Back to Mark Simone on wor Hey, let's take some calls.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave, how you doing?

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Mark. I'm doing very well, thank you, and

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Speaker 3: I'm speaking to you with my brand new iPhone seventeen Promax. Yes,

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Speaker 3: and it's wonderful.

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Speaker 1: It can barely hear you.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm kidding.

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Speaker 3: I'm kiding.

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Speaker 1: I'm kidding. It works fine, it sounds great.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, thank god, I'm terribly sorry.

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Speaker 1: No, it sounds good.

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Speaker 3: Listen, Mark. President Biden tried to lower gas prices at

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Speaker 3: one point in his administration by tapping into the Strategic

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Speaker 3: Oil Reserve.

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Speaker 1: It was a gimmick.

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Speaker 3: We all know it. Has that inventory been replaced, I

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Speaker 3: don't think so.

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Speaker 1: Not yet. It's replaced a little on a regular basis.

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Speaker 1: But what President Trump does, now, maybe he did do

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Speaker 1: this when the prices get really low, he goes and

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Speaker 1: buys a ton of it and fills up the reserve.

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Speaker 1: So he'll do that soon. Now It's not a big

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Speaker 1: problem for us because we produce our own oil. Now

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Speaker 1: we are totally energy independent. In fact, we export oil.

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Speaker 1: Now that's how much we have. But good question. Let's

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Speaker 1: go to John and Long Island. John, how you doing fine?

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Speaker 1: I love your shows.

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Speaker 4: I just want to know if could you hear me?

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Speaker 1: Yes, I just want to hate people. Call what the

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Speaker 1: TV on? And you can hear it in the background.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that a radio? It's great to have the radio,

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Speaker 1: but it seemed to be on another station. But okay,

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Speaker 1: go ahead.

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Speaker 4: Anyway.

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Speaker 3: Uh, I just want to know if you could alert

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Speaker 3: your people about us.

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Speaker 1: I will, okay, thank you for calling. I'll alert them.

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Speaker 1: He's got the radio background. Anyway. Let's go to Rich

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Speaker 1: in Myrtle Beach. Rich how you doing?

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Speaker 2: I don't know how to follow that one. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: It's uh unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: Alert my people? Which people is he talking about? Who

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Speaker 1: supposed to alert?

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Speaker 2: I maybe putting the back signal up or something. I

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Speaker 2: don't know, but uh, you know, I called both Lindsay

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Speaker 2: Graham and Tim Scott's office this weekend and left messages,

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Speaker 2: and I spoke to him again this morning. You know,

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Speaker 2: you talk to the flunkeys in your office. Nobody has

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Speaker 2: no idea what WTI oil is. Nobody has any idea

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Speaker 2: why the price of oil has gone up, even though

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Speaker 2: we're totally oil independent in this country. But getting to

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Speaker 2: the thing about the singles. You know, I play in

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Speaker 2: a band and a lot of people here in Myrtle

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Speaker 2: Beach is a tourist town. The amount of singles we

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Speaker 2: get as tips in a night. I can walk out

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Speaker 2: of the fifty to sixty singles and I bring them

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Speaker 2: down to the ice cream parl because they're always begging

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Speaker 2: for small building. But this wt oil thing is just

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Speaker 2: a money grab. And up the road, I know what's going.

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Speaker 1: On where Myrtle Beach. Yet they still use Myrtle Beaches.

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Speaker 1: You people still use singles down there. Up here, everybody

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Speaker 1: uses their phone to pay for everything. You know what

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Speaker 1: the problem is when you call a senator's office, the

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Speaker 1: people that work there, you don't realize this. They're all

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Speaker 1: twenty five years old. They're all in there twice, everybody

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Speaker 1: that works there. In fact, the senator never does anything.

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Speaker 1: It's these twenty sumthings.

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Speaker 2: They write the bills, his messages.

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Speaker 1: Well, first, they're not going to give him a message

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Speaker 1: when you called. Do you think they can care at

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Speaker 1: all do you think they give a When you care,

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Speaker 1: you call and say listen, I like to make a donation.

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Speaker 1: Twelve people will jump right on the phone. If you

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Speaker 1: track you call, I have a complaint. Nobody's listening. Nobody.

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Speaker 1: He's looking at his phone while you're talking. But thanks

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Speaker 1: for calling. Everybody works in every office, Congressional office, Senate

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Speaker 1: office house. They're all in their twenties and they do

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Speaker 1: all the work. They write the bills, they do all

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Speaker 1: the stuff while the Senator is tied up all day

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Speaker 1: and night fundraising. They do everything else. Let's go to

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Speaker 1: Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing?

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Speaker 4: Good morning? Mock bom Okay, Rich, I hope you're doing

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Speaker 4: at it which you'll let uh. Mark. I did that

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Speaker 4: with Nicole malea taxas office when she voted against Trump

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Speaker 4: a couple of years ago. I called up her office

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Speaker 4: and said, I want to make a contribution. You watch

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Speaker 4: how fast I spoke to somebody higher up and then

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Speaker 4: I lit into them. Hey, Mark, what do you mean?

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Speaker 4: Nobody uses cash, Nobody uses dollars.

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Speaker 1: Normal people talking about normal that's all I use. We're

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Speaker 1: talking about normal people, not you. We're talking about normal people.

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Speaker 1: Some people have to use cash order. They're up too,

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Speaker 1: But Mark, you use cash.

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Speaker 4: You got one of those my name.

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Speaker 1: But you got a lot of cash. One of those

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Speaker 1: big broccoli rubber bands around it.

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Speaker 4: It's all I, It's all I carry Mark Mark. I

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Speaker 4: thought it was the absolute master stroke. Cause Donald Trump

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Speaker 4: yesterday when he said he's going to find the money

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Speaker 4: to fund the TSA, He's going to sign an executive

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Speaker 4: order and he'll get the money from one of the

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Speaker 4: other He'll get it from one of the other places.

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Speaker 4: I want to see. The Democrats, of course, are going

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Speaker 4: to go to court. It's going to take a couple

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Speaker 4: of weeks before that happens. Their heads are gonna explode.

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Speaker 4: They're gonna go on TV. They're gonna call him every

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Speaker 4: name under the sun. They're gonna make commercials that Meanwhile,

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Speaker 4: while their head's exploding, the Republicans, Trump is gonna have commercials,

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Speaker 4: campaign commercials, Madia of them exploding and being against the

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Speaker 4: TSA workers. And then next year during the campaign season,

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Speaker 4: during this fall, he's gonna add the ads and they're

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Speaker 4: gonna look like complete fools that they are. When I

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Speaker 4: heard it last night, I said, this guy's a genius.

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Speaker 4: I can't believe this masterstroke. You go to President Trump,

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Speaker 4: you go, you're the man.

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Speaker 1: All right, Vincent, thanks for calling. Hey, we've got a

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Speaker 1: lot to get to.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Oh, we'll talk to Steve Forbes next, always brilliant. Then

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Speaker 1: we'll talk to him, and we got a lot coming up.