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Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show continues.

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Speaker 2: Well. Brilliant columns Lizpeak now you can read her at

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Speaker 3: I'm very well. How are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm good. How do you think we'll be at eight

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Speaker 2: pm tonight?

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Speaker 1: You well, yeah, I mean the whole world wonders the same.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm torn.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I spend some time this morning thinking that

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Speaker 1: all of this was a great distraction after learning that

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Speaker 1: we bombed various sites on the Kurrk Island last night,

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Speaker 1: thinking that this, this whole build up of attacking bridges

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Speaker 1: and power stations with kind of a just distraction from

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Speaker 1: what we're really going to do, which was going to

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Speaker 1: do something about taking control of carg Island, which you know, Mark,

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Speaker 1: is a real different step here because it would engage

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Speaker 1: boots in the ground. It would be a very different

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Speaker 1: kind of war effort than we have engaged in right now.

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Speaker 3: So or up till now, so I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think Trump doesn't want to have a

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Speaker 1: further escalation of this conflict. I think he really wants

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Speaker 1: to have a deal. It's really difficult because right now,

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Speaker 1: I think he was completely serious yesterday and the press

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Speaker 1: conference talking about how, you know, it's very hard to

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Speaker 1: communicate with the people we don't even know really who's

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Speaker 1: leading the conversation. He implied that there was someone on

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Speaker 1: the other side who was ready to do a deal,

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Speaker 1: but who is that we don't know. And you know,

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Speaker 1: my gosh, the cast who characters changes practically every day.

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Speaker 1: So I think the betting in the markets today started

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Speaker 1: out like, you know, we'll get a deal, and then

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Speaker 1: Iran was so clearly rebuffing US overtures and US proposals

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Speaker 1: that now the market's kind of down because you know,

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Speaker 1: there's a chance that he follows through and we bomb

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Speaker 1: a lot of infrastructure in Iran, and I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think the world doesn't want to.

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Speaker 3: See that happen. Frankly, I think they want a deal.

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Speaker 3: We should have a deal.

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Speaker 1: It is incredible to me that this terror regime in

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Speaker 1: Iran can hold the entire world hostage by closing the

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Speaker 1: Strait of Hormuz, and that most of our allies are

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Speaker 1: unwilling to help.

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Speaker 3: Us do anything about it. The whole thing is kind

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Speaker 3: of crazy.

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Speaker 2: Well, some people think Donald Trump has for the last

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Speaker 2: few days been trying the mad men theory. You know

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Speaker 2: that Nixon used to act like you're crazy and it'll

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Speaker 2: scare the enemy. Yeah, these people in Iran, whoever's running it,

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Speaker 2: this little group, you got to admit, they are the

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Speaker 2: most resilient resistant. What do you think would ever get

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Speaker 2: through to them? Would they ever surrender under any circumstance.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's the question, right. I think the problem is

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Speaker 3: they want.

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Speaker 1: To hold onto power, and they know there is no

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Speaker 1: kind of truce, cease fire agreement end of the war

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Speaker 1: that's going to allow that. I mean, I think that

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Speaker 1: you know, best case, they kind of go down fighting,

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Speaker 1: and that the United States gets tired of the political

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Speaker 1: pushback and.

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Speaker 3: So forth we walk away.

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Speaker 1: It would be absolutely a catastrophe if we don't finish

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Speaker 1: this thing, and by finish it, I mean making sure

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Speaker 1: there is no capacity in Iran for making a nuclear weapon. Secondly,

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Speaker 1: that we really destroy their production of missiles. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't think anyone knew what the stores of ballistic

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Speaker 3: Like in Iran.

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Speaker 1: And also, by the way, people didn't know how advanced

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Speaker 1: they were, how far they could travel, et cetera. So

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Speaker 1: that was kind of a big heads up that this

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Speaker 3: Much better armed than anybody fogged.

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Speaker 1: But to me, the third leg of that stool is

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Speaker 1: we must never, we must not allow Iran to control

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Speaker 3: It is the thing that they have.

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Speaker 1: That can threaten the entire world, not just not just

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Speaker 1: the region. It's it's China after all, in Japan who

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Speaker 1: are really struggling with a cutoff of oil. And how

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Speaker 1: can we collectively, we the developed world collectively allow this

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Speaker 3: It's conscionable. So something has to happen.

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Speaker 1: To Cark Island or two munitions capabilities of Iran, something

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Speaker 1: the world's economy just can't happen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would think somewhere in the Pentagon they've got

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Speaker 2: when they need to.

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Speaker 3: I agree, But having it closed.

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Speaker 2: Only hurts a ran that's their source of income, explorting.

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Speaker 1: Oil well right now though it's really hurting pretty much

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Speaker 1: everybody around the world.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the United States is in a pretty good position.

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Speaker 1: We are not looking at long gas lines and shortages,

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Speaker 1: but that's happening elsewhere. And you know, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: do look at these NATO countries that are supposed to

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Speaker 1: after all, and for whom we have been footing the

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Speaker 1: global military readiness budget for decades, and the fact that

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Speaker 1: they won't allow us to fly use flyover space in

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Speaker 1: I think it is absolutely appalling. And I think there's

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Speaker 1: a good part of the United States right now they're saying,

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Speaker 1: why are we so when to this alliance which right

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Speaker 1: now really doesn't look quite much of an alliance.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, let's peak. Let's just change the subject for

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Speaker 2: a minute to get to New York City, crazy mayor Mom,

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Speaker 2: Donnie and his tax everybody tax there is. Now you've

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Speaker 2: got actually Jamie Diamond, who usually tries to stay out

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Speaker 2: of the line of fire, now standing up to him

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Speaker 2: saying we'll leave. Everybody else will leave, businesses will pull out. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 2: what do.

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Speaker 1: You think, you know, Mark, I just think these are ideologues.

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Speaker 1: There is no shortage of people willing to tell mayor

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Speaker 1: Mom Donnie that he's on the wrong track. There's no

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Speaker 1: shortage of data showing that people are leaving New York

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Speaker 1: because of high taxes and because spending is out of control,

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Speaker 1: which is driving those high taxes.

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Speaker 3: It's clearly happening.

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Speaker 1: Jamie Diamond, after all, last year told everybody that he

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Speaker 1: had more bankers in Texas now than he does in

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Speaker 1: New York. If the finance and we've already seen the

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Speaker 1: financial community need to disciplines lead country blead companies and

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Speaker 3: That are also low tax This is a death spiral.

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Speaker 1: You can't continue this without eventually really running this city

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Speaker 1: into the ground. And I say this city because this

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Speaker 1: is still my home. I mean, I you know, this

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Speaker 1: I think it's just an appalling blindness on the part

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Speaker 1: of Mamdani and his colleagues. They really are socialists. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think Jamie last year called them Marxists. I think

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Speaker 1: they are, I mean and as ideologues. They don't really

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Speaker 1: care about the future. They don't really care about what

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Speaker 3: They just want to punish the rich.

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Speaker 1: Punish the people who make the trains run in New

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Speaker 1: York City, and by the way, fund all the program

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Speaker 1: that they're so excited about. I don't know that anything

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Speaker 1: look at California right now, you know there are sort

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Speaker 1: of little bit of green shoots. I mean, San Francisco

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Speaker 1: that city because finally the people in charge said, you

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Speaker 1: know what, and the citizens said, this isn't working. We

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Speaker 1: got to change something. The quality of life stinks and

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Speaker 1: the city is going downhill. In Los Angeles, we had

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Speaker 1: on Maria Barbaroma show this morning a guy who's running

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Speaker 1: it is such an overwhelming as a Republican, an overwhelmingly

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Speaker 1: they've made some bad choices. And the other thing on

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Speaker 1: the news today is the new governor of Virginia, Spamberger,

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Speaker 1: in decades. Well, you know, she came in, she ran

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Speaker 3: Most people don't like. She's raising taxes.

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Speaker 1: You know, it would be really nice to see a

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Speaker 1: little bit of pushback to all the craziness, because for

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Speaker 1: makes no sense. He's alienating people left and right. But

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Speaker 1: again I don't know that he cares. He's very smug,

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Speaker 3: He thinks he's right.

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Speaker 2: What did George Will said? George Will said something like,

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Speaker 2: we have to do this every twenty years with one

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: Charlie Gasprino said something like that months and months ago,

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Speaker 1: when when the election was still going on. He said,

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Speaker 1: thing to say. But you know what, maybe he's right.

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe young people have to realize that you can't

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Speaker 1: want to do. It really is the oldest story on record.

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Speaker 1: But if you, for example, institute wealth taxes, even in

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Speaker 1: in Washington State. They propose it in California, and guess what,

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Speaker 1: people run away. I mean, they don't have to stay there.

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Speaker 1: And if you're successful, if you've built a great business,

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Speaker 1: who are they to say that they deserve a piece

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Speaker 3: They are not.

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Speaker 1: Now, I got to tell you, Mark, my nightmare, My nightmare,

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Speaker 1: and your nightmare should be that they're going to have

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Speaker 1: an exit tax on these various states like Illinois, New Jersey, California,

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Speaker 1: New York that are losing so many people. I don't

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Speaker 1: think that's constitutional, but I have no idea, and I

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Speaker 1: know there's going to be talk about it because there's

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Speaker 1: just too many people walking out the door.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they've talked about that exit tax. Good luck trying

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Speaker 2: to enforce that.

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Speaker 3: I hope.

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Speaker 2: noon today. They do a great show every day noon

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Speaker 2: Fayla every night nine to midnight on seven ten WR