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Speaker 1: The Mark Simon Show on seven w R.

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Speaker 2: Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike,

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Speaker 2: how you doing? Good morning, Mark, Hey down there in Florida.

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Speaker 2: Is is it cold now?

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Speaker 1: I keep hearing, Well, it was the last couple of days.

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Speaker 1: Right now it's seventy three, But the last couple of

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Speaker 1: days was cold. And I've fallen into that ex New

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Speaker 1: Yorker thing where if it goes blow seventy, I'm chilly.

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Speaker 2: Now. Yeah, when you guys say cold, what are you

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Speaker 2: talking about? Sixty?

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Speaker 1: It was forty yesterday morning when I woke up forty

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Speaker 1: five ish, and uh it, you know, warms up pretty well, but.

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Speaker 2: Once I get that chill, Yeah, that's terrible, sir. You're right, yeah, anyway,

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Speaker 2: you know, uh, what do you want to what do

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Speaker 2: you want to?

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Speaker 1: No, you were mentioning about how the Democrats, you know, constantly,

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Speaker 1: you know, change their positions, and it's absolutely right, you know,

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Speaker 1: because they're interested in winning whatever victory it is, whether

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Speaker 1: it's a little one or a big one, they'll take it.

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Speaker 1: The Republicans can't be bothered, you know. And to illustrate that,

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Speaker 1: for the last two days now, you said you know

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Speaker 1: Trump had a ninety minute press conference yesterday. You spoke

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Speaker 1: for an hour at Davos, he said, taking questions, he

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Speaker 1: talks about yes, presses on Air Force one, and Republican

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Speaker 1: pundits and calmnists will say he doesn't get the message out.

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Speaker 1: He just doesn't get the message out. I'm going, I

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Speaker 1: don't understand. What are they hearing that I'm hearing twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours a day virtually.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, for most Americans, they're not following this

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Speaker 2: all day and night. They were just watching the evening

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Speaker 2: news or whatever, and the message is never put there.

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Speaker 2: But you're right, but they they got to figure out

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Speaker 2: a way around it. That's why I like the idea

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Speaker 2: of the super Bowl commercial with Obama talking about how

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Speaker 2: we have to send ice into the cities and round

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Speaker 2: people up. And I have appointed Tom Holman to run this.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Ron in Pittsburgh. Ron, how you doing, am?

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Speaker 3: I'm sure I know it's Mourner.

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Speaker 2: Good.

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Speaker 3: Hey, I did call you yesterday and I forgot to

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Speaker 3: give you the name of my band for the President.

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Speaker 2: Very nice guy, but he's got one of these garage

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Speaker 2: bands he's trying to promote.

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Speaker 3: No, I don't for Gliver with veterans. The names Honkey

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Speaker 3: Talk Heroes were on Facebook.

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Speaker 4: Wait, what's the name the Honkey Talk heroes? Or go

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Speaker 4: the Honky Talk heroes? Yes, sir god, I like to

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Speaker 4: know the names you rejected. That's the one you choose.

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Speaker 4: What names? What came in second place? For a name?

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Speaker 3: Love comes in spurts?

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Speaker 4: I don't know? Hey, sorry, who can play better than

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Speaker 4: your name?

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Speaker 3: Hey, cauld I we do.

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Speaker 4: Hey?

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Speaker 3: Could I ask you a nice question?

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Speaker 2: Hey?

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Speaker 3: Don't you believe they're all these democrats are all just sellouts?

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Speaker 3: I think I think, I think I just sold our

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Speaker 3: country out for the for the cash. Hey, but one

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Speaker 3: other questions? One of the questions, Okay, can you ask

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Speaker 3: his Trump's upper President Trump's upper flat? Around? Is the

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Speaker 3: world flat?

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 2: Think that day drinking is not a good thing?

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Speaker 3: I'm not drinking?

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Speaker 2: What is that happy hour there at ten in the

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Speaker 2: morning in Pittsburgh? Anyway? Thanks for calling. Let's go to

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Speaker 2: uh Andrew and Queen's Andrew? How you doing? Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 2: we didn't wake you.

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Speaker 5: What about that there was a black hole there?

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Speaker 2: Oh? All right, let's go Andrew.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I wanted to ask you. I'd recall I

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Speaker 5: thought decades ago during protests they used water cannons. Is

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Speaker 5: their problem using water cannons nowadays?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you mean on those left wing wacos in Minnesota, Yeah, or.

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Speaker 5: Wherever, you know, the pro Hamas demonstrations and.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, they used to use those water cannons

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Speaker 2: on protesters. Now, those were good protesters back then. This

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Speaker 2: is in the South, in the early sixties, the canon

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Speaker 2: the days they were racist, protesting against black students and

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Speaker 2: all that. So, but it's still it looked, it looked

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Speaker 2: kind of it didn't look good on TV. It looked

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Speaker 2: kind of cruel. Though it was like a big fire hose,

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Speaker 2: water cannons on it. It was effective. But now they

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Speaker 2: use that pepper spray and mace. You've seen that on

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Speaker 2: a lot of videos of protesters screaming and yelling and

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Speaker 2: getting really really really bad with ice agents, and the

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Speaker 2: ice agent finally, after trying to put up with a

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Speaker 2: free minutes, just take out this mace thing and just

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Speaker 2: spray them in the face. One more call. Let's go

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Speaker 2: to Mike and Hawthorne. Mike, how you doing?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Mark, I just want to know when the New

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Speaker 5: York City employee's going to strike, is Donnie going to

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Speaker 5: be walking the picket line with them.

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. We'll get to that in the

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Speaker 2: next hour. This nursing strike, Mom Donnie is out there

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Speaker 2: on the picket line. He's out there with the nurses.

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Speaker 2: You're not supposed to do that if you're the mayor

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Speaker 2: the reason this strike is dragging on. Usually it's the mayor, governor,

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Speaker 2: you know, somebody like that will get everybody in the

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Speaker 2: room and be the moderator and work out a settlement.

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Speaker 2: The problem is Mom Donnie, immediately, being a novice, not

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Speaker 2: knowing how to do a management job, went right out

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Speaker 2: and started picketing with the nurses, which kind of makes

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Speaker 2: him unfit to be the honest broker in the middle.

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Speaker 2: He's supposed to remain in the middle and try to negotiate,

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Speaker 2: not supposed to take a side that early. And then

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Speaker 2: he brought in Bernie Sanders of old people. Well, we'll

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Speaker 2: get to that in the next hour. We've got a

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Speaker 2: lot to get to. Hey, we'll talk to the Dean himself,

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Speaker 2: the best political analyst, Ed Rollins, about all of this

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Speaker 2: stuff and what's going to happen in the midterms and more.

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Speaker 2: Coming up on seven to ten. Wor