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

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Speaker 1: Let's go to UH Dominic, North Carolina Dominic. How you doing?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, good morning, Mark, Happy Easter. Listen.

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Speaker 3: I love your show, and.

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Speaker 2: I usually all love Ed Rollins, but he always comes

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Speaker 2: to things from a political perspective. I would say there's

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Speaker 2: more important things than just a mid term election. It

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Speaker 2: would stink to lose it, but we got to finish

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Speaker 2: this thing in Iran. There's two important principles at stake.

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Speaker 2: Number one, we cannot let them have nuclear weapons.

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Speaker 1: And number two, well, I think we're kind of working

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Speaker 1: on that now as we speak. I think as we

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Speaker 1: speak we're trying to do it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but I mean, I mean, I don't. It doesn't help,

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Speaker 4: all right.

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Speaker 3: You got to calm down.

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Speaker 1: You get yourself a little riled up there, Calm down,

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Speaker 1: Calm down. We're working on Iran. We're doing everything we

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Speaker 1: can do right now.

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Speaker 4: And it may even take a little bit of sacrifice.

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Speaker 1: People like to get mad, they like to be a

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Speaker 1: great like them. Well no, no, just take it easy.

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Speaker 1: Calm down. We're working on Iran as we speak. Let's

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Speaker 1: go to Dave in Chicago. Dave, how you doing.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Mark.

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Speaker 5: I'm doing very well, Thank you. Mark. In regard to

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Speaker 5: restaurants outside of the major holidays, I'm wondering where is

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Speaker 5: their main revenue center. I'd have to guess there would

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Speaker 5: be two things, the side dishes because everything's ala carte,

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Speaker 5: and probably alcohol.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it. Used to be alcohol. The profit margin

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Speaker 1: was much higher on alcohol than food, but that was

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Speaker 1: years ago. That was years ago. Once once the alcohol changed,

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Speaker 1: you know, once there were like twenty seven fancy vodkas

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Speaker 1: and nine thousand different fancy drinks, the cost went up.

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Speaker 1: So the profit margin is pretty similar in food or alcohol.

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Speaker 1: So you can make just as much money on food.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing when you when you go to it

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Speaker 1: like a steakhast today, because of the inflation and all

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Speaker 1: that stuff, a steak is a ridiculous price. You go

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Speaker 1: to a steakhost, the steak could be eighty dollars, eighty

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Speaker 1: five dollars. It's unbelievable, and you think the restaurant's greedy.

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Speaker 1: They're really not. That's how much they're paying for steak.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: One of the reason it's not just inflation. One of

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Speaker 1: the reasons is there's a cattle shortage. So the restaurant,

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Speaker 1: if you order an eighty five dollars steak, the restaurant

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Speaker 1: is probably not making any money, believe it or not.

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Speaker 1: The cost on that steak is so high they're not

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Speaker 1: making any money. But if you order a side dish,

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Speaker 1: if you order broccoli or spinach or mashed potatoes, that's

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Speaker 1: where they make a fortune because they'll charge you fifteen

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Speaker 1: dollars and the cost is like forty cents. So if

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Speaker 1: you go order the biggest steak on the menu, they're

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Speaker 1: not too thrilled with you. But if the person with

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Speaker 1: you doesn't order a main course and orders four side dishes,

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Speaker 1: they're thrilled with that person because that's now nowadays where

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Speaker 1: all the profit is. Let's go to Paul in Rosalind,

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Speaker 1: Long Island. Paul, how you doing good?

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Speaker 6: Mark? How are you today?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 1: I'm good. You got a great steak. There, you got

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Speaker 1: Hendrick's tavern.

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Speaker 6: There, you're right. Just a question about a different subject.

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Speaker 6: Have you watched the JFK Junior Carolyn Bissett series on

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Speaker 6: thats recently?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 6: And what do you think about it?

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Speaker 1: Well, I knew the guy, I didn't know her. I

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Speaker 1: knew him pretty well. It's not entirely accurate. It's very

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Speaker 1: well done, very well done. This were the locations. Everything

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Speaker 1: is very accurate, The acting is phenomenal, but they're leaving

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Speaker 1: out a lot of stuff. He was an incredible womanizer.

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Speaker 1: He was, as people used to say, a hit it

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Speaker 1: and quit it kind of a guy. If he went

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Speaker 1: guy they portray. They left out that part of it. Also.

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Speaker 1: He was ridiculously reckless and careless with his own life

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Speaker 1: in other people's life. So did that come across to

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Speaker 6: Absolutely? And the other thing I noticed is that the

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Speaker 6: amount of smoking that she did was incredible. She's basically

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Speaker 6: has a cigarette in her mouth in every scene.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that was a lot of people back then.

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Speaker 1: You know, you're back then. Everybody smoked everywhere he went

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Speaker 1: in every restaurant, everybody's smoking. Go watch the Tonight Show

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Speaker 1: from nineteen seventy three. Johnny's smoking. Everybody's smoking. But that JFK.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you look back at that plane crash

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Speaker 1: was the most reckless thing in the world. Again, he

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Speaker 1: was a daredevil and reckless that plane, that flight. He

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Speaker 1: wasn't qualified to fly that flight. He wasn't certified to

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Speaker 1: fly in low visibility. He had a broken foot that day,

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Speaker 1: which meant he couldn't work the pedals on the plane properly.

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Speaker 1: No business making that flight. He was so bad as

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Speaker 1: a he'd been a pilot for about twelve minutes and

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Speaker 1: he's trying to fly through fog over the ocean. He

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Speaker 1: almost hit an American Airlines jet and when he took off,

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Speaker 1: he just didn't know what he was doing. He flew

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Speaker 1: into the air corridor of an American Airlines plane. Luckily

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Speaker 1: they were professional pilots and were able to evade him,

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Speaker 1: but otherwise he was just ridiculously reckless. Killed his wife,

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Speaker 1: killed her sister. Just awful. Let's go to Chris and Bethpage, Chris,

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Speaker 1: how you doing, hey?

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Speaker 3: Good?

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Speaker 1: Mark? Just about JFK.

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Speaker 4: They said it was so bad.

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Speaker 3: He thought he was.

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Speaker 6: Flying parallel to the water when he was actually flying

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Speaker 6: straight down into it.

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Speaker 1: That's what they crashed proof. So that was just insane. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was a horrible horrible, reckless guy. And the National

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Speaker 1: Transportation Safety Board report came out totally blamed all of

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Speaker 1: this him for everything. The family of the wife used

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Speaker 1: that report to sue the Kennedy's and they did get

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Speaker 1: I think twenty million in a settlement over it. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, thanks for Colin. Let's go to Let's go

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Speaker 1: to Nolan in New Jersey. Nolan, how you're doing.

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Speaker 6: I'm good, mall.

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Speaker 3: Thanks.

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Speaker 4: I saw that Democratic governors like Mikey Sheryl they're gonna

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Speaker 4: fight Trump on a new executive voter or mail in

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Speaker 4: ballots that would require post Office to only send ballots

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Speaker 4: to eligible citizens. What could their argument be against Trump

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Speaker 4: on this?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Well, they will fight Trump on anything and everything.

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Speaker 1: If he says it's Friday, they will fight him on that.

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Speaker 1: They just fight Trump on anything. Listen to the words

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Speaker 1: of John Fetterman, who do you.

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Speaker 4: Think leads the Democratic Party today?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 3: We don't.

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Speaker 7: We don't have one. I think the TDS. I think

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Speaker 7: that's the leader right now. You know, right now our

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Speaker 7: party is governed by the TDS.

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Speaker 1: Trump derangement syndrome. That's all they got. That's what consumes them,

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Speaker 1: obsesses them. Twenty four to seven. Let's go to Vincent

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

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Malcolm, Okay, good morning, Mara. I have to

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Speaker 3: respectfully disagree with Ed Rollins what he said about Trump's speech.

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Speaker 3: I thought it was one of Trump's better speeches. It

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Speaker 3: was very concise, he hit all the bullet points. And

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Speaker 3: also because of the time difference between New York and

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Speaker 3: in the middle of the country, people were just sitting

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Speaker 3: and all the reasons why we're there, mainly to save

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Speaker 3: our children and grandchildren from those maniacs flying intercontinental missiles

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Speaker 3: into our cities and everything. And I think Trump is

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Speaker 3: going to win on this whole ballroom issue because, as

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Speaker 3: you pointed out a number of years ago, about twenty

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Speaker 3: people had money and everything. They weren't cheesy. I went

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Speaker 3: to an outdoor wedding out in Long Island. They had

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Speaker 3: those tents and canopies, and when the sun came went down,

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Speaker 3: the flies came out, the mosquitoes they were eating people alive.

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Speaker 3: They were everywhere. I mean, it was horrible. I mean,

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Speaker 3: you want to compare that with in Europe and especially

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Speaker 3: in Italy and France when they have these state dinners there,

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Speaker 3: you were huge, huge ballrooms, you mongish beautiful palaces and everything.

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Speaker 3: And you're gonna have people the stupid judge in Washington,

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Speaker 3: You're gonna have people going and porter sands on the

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Speaker 3: lawn where women wearing full length gowns and heels and

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Speaker 3: people dressed to the nine. What's the matter with this

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Speaker 3: judge just because he looks like some pig from uh M,

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Speaker 3: PR and PR and PBS with that both eye on

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Speaker 3: and it's all, can't Donald Trump just ignore that ortum up?

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Speaker 1: Well, we'll see he's gonna appeal. It'll go to another

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Speaker 1: corn Vincent, great call, thanks for calling Hill the Hill appeal. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's another Vincent makes a great point there. When you

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Speaker 1: the White House doing these massive dinners out on the

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Speaker 1: lawn in a tent, you're right in the summer. It's

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Speaker 1: too hot, it's too windy, it's raining, there's flies everywhere.

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Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. Hey, Steve Cuzo, the great New York Post commist,

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Speaker 1: writes about restaurants and real estate. How's New York doing?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 1: How's the real estate situation? How's the restaurant. We'll get

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Speaker 1: told of that coming up next on seven ten WR