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Speaker 1: It's the Mark Simone Show on seventeen wor well, hey

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Speaker 1: it's Friday the thirteenth. We got a three day weekend

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Speaker 1: coming up. He got five weeks until spring, that's all,

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Speaker 1: just five weeks. Spring training is already underway right now

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Speaker 1: as we speak. You know, we have a US Attorney

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Speaker 1: of the Southern District. That's the big one, the Southern District.

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Speaker 1: That's Jay Clayton, doing an excellent job. But there's a

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Speaker 1: Northern District which goes, you know from here upstate. The

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Speaker 1: US Attorney for the Northern District had been a great

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Speaker 1: guy who everybody. Everybody loved this guy doing a great job.

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Speaker 1: John Sarcone. He's the US Attorney for the Northern District.

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Speaker 1: He was not confirmed, he was appointed, but Sarcone is

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Speaker 1: considered a great US attorney. Everybody's happy when they think

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Speaker 1: he's doing a great job. Well, you got these crazy

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Speaker 1: left wing judges here in New York. So they ruled

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Speaker 1: that he can't be the US attorney because he hasn't

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Speaker 1: been confirmed yet, and there's a temporary The judges decided

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Speaker 1: to all appoint their own US attorney for the Northern District,

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Speaker 1: and they chose somebody and made him the US Attorney

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Speaker 1: for the Northern District, and day one President Trump fired

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Speaker 1: him and said, judges don't pick US attorneys. The President does.

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Speaker 1: So I think what Sarcone did was he made himself

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Speaker 1: the number two guy just to make sure he's still there,

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Speaker 1: because everybody thinks he's doing a great job. So hopefully

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Speaker 1: the President will reappoint him as the US attorney. Hey,

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Speaker 1: you know the beautiful Waldorf Astoria, the Waldorf Hotel, one

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Speaker 1: of the great landmarks in New York. Members closed for

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Speaker 1: like ten years while they were rebuilding it and took forever,

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Speaker 1: and then it reopened about six months ago, and it's spectacular.

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Speaker 1: I don't like some of the changes, but it's spectacular inside.

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Speaker 1: It's up for sale now. I don't know why they

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Speaker 1: spend all these years rebuilding it just to sell it.

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Speaker 1: But half the building is now apartments condos. You can

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Speaker 1: buy a condo, but you could also buy the whole

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Speaker 1: building if you want. It's for sale one billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: It'd be interesting to see who buys it. New York

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Speaker 1: is as hot as ever, despite despite Mom, Donnie and

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Speaker 1: Hokeel and all of that. It's despite them, it's doing well.

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Speaker 1: Apartment sales high end through the roof apartment rentals is

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Speaker 1: as big as ever. In fact, there's no inventory left,

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Speaker 1: so people are buying stuff here. The Waldorf may easily sell,

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Speaker 1: we'll see. So we got this crazy Mom Donnie running things,

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Speaker 1: and you got crazy Kathy Hokele, who really is becoming

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Speaker 1: just as bad as as Mom Donnie. That's why you

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Speaker 1: need Bruce Blakeman to be governor. He'll be with us

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Speaker 1: later this hour. We'll talk to me about that. But

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Speaker 1: you got to get rid of Hokee. You can't get

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Speaker 1: rid of Mom Donnie for three and a half more years,

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Speaker 1: but you can get rid of Hokele and get a

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Speaker 1: real governor in there, a good, common sense, Bruce Blakeman

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Speaker 1: type of governor. But Mom Donnie's up there in Albany

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Speaker 1: wants to raise taxes. There's no reason at all for

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Speaker 1: raising taxes. We got a budget gap twelve billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: The budget is double what it's supposed to be. It's

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Speaker 1: all waste, fraud, bloat, it's double. You can cut the

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Speaker 1: budget in half, just like that half twelve billion dollar gap.

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Speaker 1: Cut it in half, and then we got a sixty

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Speaker 1: five billion dollar surplus just like that, cut it in half.

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Speaker 1: Florida's budget is half of ours New York States, but

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Speaker 1: just cut it in half. So there's Mom Donnie testifying

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Speaker 1: about the rich, the rich, the rich rich.

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Speaker 2: Well, you're going to continue to advocate for a variety

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Speaker 2: of options. We believe the two of them that are

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Speaker 2: the most straightforward and critically important are increased taxes on

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Speaker 2: the wealthiest New Yorkers and the most profitable corporations.

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Speaker 1: Once the tax of corporations. Do you remember the tariffs?

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Speaker 1: Remember how crazy the Democrats got about the tariffs. They

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Speaker 1: were yelling the scream and how bad tariffs are. They're

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Speaker 1: putting tariffs on themselves. These are tariffs. That's a tariff

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Speaker 1: when you tax the corporate tax is already the highest

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Speaker 1: in the world. American corporate tax is higher than any

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Speaker 1: That's a tariff on a business. You know, when you

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Speaker 1: put a ten percent tariff on a business, the business

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Speaker 1: doesn't pay the ten percent. You know, some of it's

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Speaker 1: paid by the exporter overseas, some of it's paid by

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Speaker 1: the middleman. Maybe the business has to pay two percent

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Speaker 1: of the ten percent. But when you put a ten

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Speaker 1: So when he talks about taxing these corporations, it just

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Speaker 1: means a tariff. It just means the price of every

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Speaker 1: product goes up. And when he talks about taxing the rich,

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Speaker 1: some of them leave. And they're the ones that pay

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Speaker 1: all the taxes here, the top one percent pays like

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Speaker 3: I'm asking for a two percent raise in personal income

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Speaker 3: taxes on the most affluent New Yorkers, someone earning a

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Speaker 1: Maybe, but they don't want to contribute twenty thousand more

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Speaker 1: because you just waste it. You know, for every dollar

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Speaker 1: it is totally wasted on bloat, fraud, waste. They just

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Speaker 1: don't want to waste their money. So he keeps fighting

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Speaker 1: for it. In Albany, they keep arguing with him, keep

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Speaker 4: Well, we can't keep raising taxes and have people fleeing.

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Speaker 4: You're talking about free busting, free childcare, you know, so

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Speaker 4: that's pretty ambitious, and state is in serious fiscal trouble

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Speaker 4: as well.

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Speaker 1: I have a big consort because of your philosophy, So

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Speaker 1: do you have any consort about that.

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Speaker 2: I am confident that people will continue to stay in

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Speaker 2: the city. There's no doubt in my mind that what

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, when he's socialists, when they start in with all

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Speaker 1: their stuff, the end result is always the working people suffer.

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Speaker 1: The rich will never suffer. They can move, they can

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Speaker 1: do whatever they want, they can pay the tax if

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Speaker 1: they want. It's always the working people whenever you do

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Speaker 1: this Soviet style suff whenever you do this socialist of

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Speaker 1: the lower and middle income classes that get hit the

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Speaker 1: hardest by it. So you'll see that. You'll see that

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Speaker 1: happen mom. Donnie announced he's going to try out his

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Speaker 1: the first one. One route will become free. He's going

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Speaker 1: to do his free buses on one route trial run

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Speaker 1: fine print, it's a cost of the program will be

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Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy eight million dollars. Well, how's that freeze?

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Speaker 1: The rest of us have to pay one hundred and

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Speaker 1: seventy eight million. It's not free. There's no free bus.

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Speaker 1: It just means taxpayers pay for it. It means ninety

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Speaker 4: Increasing taxes risks alienating and driving away businesses that create

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Speaker 4: We need to be competitive. That's why we should hold

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Speaker 1: There you go, good, But like talking to a tree

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Speaker 1: stump there, he's not listening. But the good news is

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Speaker 1: he does not have the power to raise taxes. Governor

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Speaker 1: has more power up there. That's why you got to

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Speaker 1: get rid of a hkal. She's just as bad as

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Speaker 1: Mom Donnie.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if she really was deep down in

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Speaker 1: her heart, but she's decided to become a left wing wacko.

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Speaker 1: She needs Mom Donnie's support. Bruce Blakeman is a tough

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Speaker 1: candidate against her. She knows she's got a tough race.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna need the mom Donnie Army at voting time.

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Speaker 1: That's why she started so left wing. Look at her

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Speaker 1: on ICE. She's just making up all this nonsense, yelling

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Speaker 1: we have a bloated agency dedicated to taking people off

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Speaker 1: our streets without any cause. Just an out and out lie.

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Speaker 1: She's just out and out lying. Now, No, there's no

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Speaker 1: ICE agents taking people out without cause. You know, they've

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Speaker 1: rounded up four hundred and seventy five thousand people. Okay,

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Speaker 1: maybe there were two mistakes in there they had to

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Speaker 1: an absolute nut job. We'll talk about the governor's race

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Speaker 1: later this hour. Bruce Blakeman will be with us. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I got to ask him about this because so Hochel

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Speaker 1: Blakeman is obviously very popular on Long Island. It's the

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Speaker 1: best run county in America, Nassau County. So she goes

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Speaker 1: out there to campaign and then she mentions it later.

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Speaker 1: She says, I was in Long Island campaigning all week,

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Speaker 1: so people get all upset. She's supposed to say on

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Speaker 1: Long Island. Not I was in Long Island. But sometimes

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Speaker 1: I say in Long Island. Well, we'll ask he's the

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Speaker 1: leader of Long Island. We'll ask him later this hour.

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Speaker 1: I think it's okay to say in Long Island. Janine Piro,

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Speaker 1: you know, she lives in Rye, New York. She was

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Speaker 1: in her hometown or Rye, beautiful suburb in Westchester, a

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Speaker 1: while back. It was last summer, and she fell. She

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Speaker 1: Was laid up for a while. This is last August,

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Speaker 1: So she is suing con Edison. There was a large

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Speaker 1: good lawsuit. And if you're gonna get sued, I would

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Speaker 1: say the worst person to get sued by is the

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Speaker 1: former District Attorney of West Cheshire, the current District Attorney

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Speaker 1: of Washington, DC. A great judge, great attorney, Probably the

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Speaker 1: worst person you can get sued by. Hey, CBS News,

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Speaker 1: more layoffs are coming. Yeah, they just did a big

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Speaker 1: round of layoffs. Now they're look like they're gonna do

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Speaker 1: and they don't want to go middle of the road

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Speaker 1: balance news. They don't want to do that. One of them,

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Speaker 1: when leaving, put out this letter to everybody about how

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Speaker 1: horrible what's happening is. She said, I don't even know

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Speaker 1: what the hell she's saying. This is another reason they

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Speaker 1: should have gotten rid of her. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: the else she's saying in this letter. She said, they're

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Speaker 1: prioritizing a break from traditional broadcast norms to embrace what

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Speaker 1: has been described as heterodox journalism. What the hell does

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Speaker 1: that mean? I gotta have a dictionary just to read

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Speaker 1: this letter. What the hell's a heterodox I don't know.

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Speaker 1: So very excellence we seek to sustain is hindered by

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Speaker 1: fear and uncertainty. They they just want to stop the

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Speaker 1: fake news. They want to stop the bias, the slanted stuff.

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Speaker 1: She quotes Walter Cronkite, who once said to critics, if

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Speaker 1: this is what makes us liberals, so be it? Huh.

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Speaker 1: I knew Walter Kronkite was a wonderful guy, and he

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.

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Speaker 1: Hey, let's take some calls. Eight hundred three two one

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Speaker 7: Love your show? Mark two comments One, I did try

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Speaker 7: She is the only Republican congress per in New York City.

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Speaker 1: All right, uh yeah, too far. Pizza are not the same.

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Speaker 1: You can't you know, like raos, they mass produce the sauce.

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Speaker 1: It's not bad. You're the only ones really good as

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Speaker 7: Yes I am. I'm Italian, So all right.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for calling. Let's go to Jerry in Greenwich, Connecticut. Jerry,

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Speaker 1: good morning, Paul.

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Speaker 5: II man, gratulations on being number one?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Barrett Media, that's like the Oscar for best picture

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Speaker 8: I'm can you actually taking sauce like the rendazos in

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Speaker 1: No cap on what.

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Speaker 8: Something about the FCC is going to be doing something

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Speaker 1: to Robert in Westchester. Robert, how you doing all right? Mark?

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Speaker 8: What was that, Mark?

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Speaker 8: Conservatively speaking, they estimate maybe fifteen million people came into

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Speaker 6: Good morning, Mark, Good morning Marret. Mark. You're right on

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Speaker 6: the money. Patsy's sauce in the jaw is great. I

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Speaker 6: President Trump and Lee Zeldon rescinded the stupid and dangerous

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Speaker 6: The biggest things in fifty years the EPA has done

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Speaker 8: Yeah. Well, I mean visa.

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Speaker 1: We gotta go. We gotta do the news. But great stuff.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us when we come back. Bruce

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Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman. Uh, don't write the voicemail. All right, we'll

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Speaker 1: you remember him, he's her chief of staff. Well, it

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Speaker 1: was always said that they were having an affair for years,

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Speaker 1: and it's believe that's still continuing. People believe that. So

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Speaker 1: President not happy about that whole situation. And then there's

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Speaker 1: other stuff coming out apparently as they travel around. She's

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Speaker 1: been firing too many people. You know, there's all kinds

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Speaker 1: of pilots that Department of Homeland Security has for their planes.

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Speaker 1: She fired one pilot because he forgot to bring her blanket.

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Speaker 1: She has some kind of special blanket that she has

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Speaker 1: to have like a child, almost But the guy got

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Speaker 1: fired for not bringing the blanket. They then realized he's

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Speaker 1: the pilot. They can't really go anywhere without him. I

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Speaker 1: forget where they were, but they needed him to get back,

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Speaker 1: so they had to rehire him to fly the plane back. Now,

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Speaker 1: the other thing that's coming out is apparently Department of

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Speaker 1: Homeland Security under her, they went out and bought themselves

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Speaker 1: a big enormous jet, a business jet, a Boeing seven

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Speaker 1: eighty seven. It's a big, huge business shit. You remember

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Speaker 1: the plane Donald Trump had his Trump Force one. That's

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Speaker 1: a Boeing seven eighty seven. So she bought one. It's

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Speaker 1: quite a plane. It has a bedroom, it has everything.

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Speaker 1: Now Corey Lewandowski her flying around on this big plane

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Speaker 1: with a bedroom, well you do the math there. At

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Speaker 1: the time, she claimed the reason they were purchasing this

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Speaker 1: plane was to use it for deportation. They would be

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Speaker 1: using it to transport the illegals to back to their countries.

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Speaker 1: But nobody can find any evidence of them even attempting

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Speaker 1: to reconfigure the plane. Obviously, if you're going to use

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Speaker 1: it for that you get rid of the stateroom, the

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Speaker 1: living room, the bedroom, and they didn't do that, and

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Speaker 1: apparently they've been using it to fly all over the place.

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Speaker 1: So this kind of stuff is coming out. It's not

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Speaker 1: going to look good for her, and he may leave

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Speaker 1: her there through the midterms, but don't be surprised if

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Speaker 1: after the midterms she goes slowly, but surely he's removing

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Speaker 1: her from all sorts of of power in that job.

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Speaker 1: Tim Waltz, the crazy Minnesota governor, is now claiming that

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Speaker 1: Minnesota should be reimbursed. They should get a ton of

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Speaker 1: money from the federal government because they've suffered so much damage,

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Speaker 1: psychological damage. They were traumatized by ice, and there's so

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Speaker 1: much trauma. They need money for this guy. You think

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Speaker 1: he made enough money off the nineteen billion dollars in

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Speaker 1: Somali fraud but nothing. No, he apparently still wants more money.

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Speaker 1: But waltzs's announced he'll never seek reelection. In fact, he's

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Speaker 1: not running for governor again. But he also announced he'll

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Speaker 1: leave politics and not so. I don't know why he's

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Speaker 1: asking for money from the federal government unless he's just

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Speaker 1: looking for attention. Hey, do we find Bruce Blakeman. Yep,

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Speaker 1: keep trying him. I texted him. We'll see, We'll see

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Speaker 1: if we can find him. Hey, a great idea from

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Speaker 1: the Trump administration. If you own a home. This is

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Speaker 1: a great idea going to save you a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: If you own a home, you'll be able to claim

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Speaker 1: a depreciation tax break every year. You know, every business

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Speaker 1: is allowed to do this. When a business opens, a

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Speaker 1: factory opens, an office, opens, a headquarters. As soon as

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Speaker 1: they open it, you know, you know, over the years

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Speaker 1: it gets you know, things deteriorate and you got to

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Speaker 1: you can depreciate it. You can take a depreciation on

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Speaker 1: your business. Every corporation does that. Trump making a great point.

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Speaker 1: Why shouldn't a homeowner be able to do that? Now

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Speaker 1: he didn't elaborate on exactly how they would get this through,

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Speaker 1: but it's a great idea. You'll be able to claim

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Speaker 1: a depreciation every year. Great tax break if you're a homeowner.

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Speaker 1: Excellent idea from the president. New study out if you're

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Speaker 1: worried about exercise and all sorts of stuff. I didn't

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Speaker 1: go to the gym. I didn't do this. I didn't

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Speaker 1: New studies, especially if you're older, If you're older, this

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Speaker 1: one physical activity can do more good for you than

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Speaker 1: anything else. And I know people try to walk a

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Speaker 1: lot of but you need a five minute, very brisk walk.

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Speaker 1: You got a fast walk for five minutes. If you

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Speaker 1: do that every day, apparently it causes a ten percent

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Speaker 1: reduction in deaths, in heart disease, in all sorts of stuff.

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Speaker 1: So you may be walking every day, but for five

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Speaker 1: minutes at least do a very fast paced walk for

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Speaker 1: five full minutes without stopping.

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Speaker 8: Uh.

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Speaker 1: It really really really can do more for you than

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Speaker 1: a trip to the gym or anything else. For an

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Speaker 1: older person, it's a great thing to do every day. Hey,

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Speaker 1: we'll take a break. We'll see if we can find

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Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman. We'll look for him. Well, see, I don't

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Speaker 1: know what happened to him, but we'll see if we

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Speaker 1: get him in a moment, don't forget Buck and Clay

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Speaker 1: Noon Today, excellent show coming up on seven to ten.

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Speaker 1: Wr P is mister New York Mark Simone on He Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what happened to Bruce Blakeman. We'll find

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Speaker 1: a little go get him on Monday. Oh wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: I'm not here. Monday Curtis will be here Monday. Curtis

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Speaker 1: will be filling it on Monday. That's right, it's a

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Speaker 1: three day weekend. That's good news. So well, we'll get

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Speaker 1: him on next week. Bruce Blakeman, I want to ask

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Speaker 1: him about there's important issues. So Kathy Hokeel visits Long Island.

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Speaker 1: She's campaigning there, and then later she says I was

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Speaker 1: in Long Island today, and she gets all kinds of

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Speaker 1: flak for saying in Long Island. You're supposed to say

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Speaker 1: on Long Island. Although you people in Long Island have

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Speaker 1: got to stop with this. On Long Island, I say

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Speaker 1: in Long Island sometimes. I know it's an island, you're

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Speaker 1: on Long Island, but we don't say that for other islands.

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Speaker 1: Manhattan's an island. Nobody says I was on Manhattan. Somebody

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Speaker 1: would say, yeah, I was in Manhattan today. You wouldn't

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Speaker 1: say I'm on Manhattan. Hawaii is an island. You wouldn't

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Speaker 1: say it was on Hawaii. Hey, it was in Hawaii

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Speaker 1: last week. It's okay to say in Long Island. It

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Speaker 1: sounds good online. Long Island doesn't sound right. It's in

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Speaker 1: Long Island is fine. Speaking of Kathy okle, she is

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Speaker 1: so crazy now, she's going so far to the left

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Speaker 1: and she is pandering everywhere. She started bragging about one

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Speaker 1: hundred and nine million she's given to the Nassau University

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Speaker 1: Medical Center. But then the critics pointed out, wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: the money was already there. You're not giving it to her.

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Speaker 1: It's already in the budget for them. You're not giving

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Speaker 1: it to them. Hey, you know, the Second Avenue subway

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Speaker 1: goes uptown and goes all the way up, and the

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Speaker 1: new plan was to extend it even more up to

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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty fifth Street. The Q train. She's

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Speaker 1: decided to reroute it through Harlem. It's going to make

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Speaker 1: a detour, pandering to somebody. But you know what that

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Speaker 1: cost to detour a subway. It's like some ridiculous like

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Speaker 1: twelve million a mile, and then you're taken away from

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Speaker 1: where it's supposed to go. Detouring subway is absolutely ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: But you know, in the Central Park they got the

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Speaker 1: horse and carriage. You know, people ride around in this,

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Speaker 1: which is fine. In Central Park. You see the horse

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Speaker 1: drawn carriage. It could be very beautiful, it could be

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Speaker 1: very romantic. I mean, when you're looking at it from

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Speaker 1: a distance. Once you get in it, you're in this smelly,

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Speaker 1: disgusting thing with the most disgusting blanket on you and

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Speaker 1: some of illegal alien in the in the front. It's

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Speaker 1: but it looks good from a distance. So and they

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Speaker 1: should not allow those horse and carriages to ever go

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Speaker 1: into the streets outside of the park because all they

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Speaker 1: do is screw up traffic. But the new proposal now

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Speaker 1: is to bring back horseback riding into Central Park. This

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Speaker 1: is why the activists are trying to get the horse

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Speaker 1: and carriages banned. But they used to have I remember

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Speaker 1: not that long, maybe twenty twenty five years ago, people

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Speaker 1: would be riding horses. There was a stable in there's

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Speaker 1: a stable there in Central Park. You know where the

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Speaker 1: reservoir track is, the jogging track down below was the

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Speaker 1: bridle path, and there was always horseback riding there. But

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Speaker 1: they want to bring it back. There's a company that's

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Speaker 1: been pushing this through the legislature, through the city council.

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Speaker 1: They think it'll help with tourism. I don't think any

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Speaker 1: tourist wants to come to New York and ride a

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Speaker 1: horse through Central Park because, first of all, wherever you're from,

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Speaker 1: you can ride a horse there, but it would be

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Speaker 1: a major return Claremont Racing Academy. It closed in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and seven. That was the last one. They've been

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Speaker 1: doing horseback riding in Central Park for one hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifteen years. It stopped in two thousand and seven. They

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Speaker 1: want to bring it back. There's a bunch of companies,

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Speaker 1: Miller's Horse Company, Manhattan Saddlery that have all kinds of

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Speaker 1: plans to do this. The horses will be trailered in

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Speaker 1: an unspecified private barn in an outer borough, brought in

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Speaker 1: every day. It's not clear which Big Apple stable will

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Speaker 1: supply those horses, but there's one in the Bronx they

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Speaker 1: think they'll use. I don't know.

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Speaker 8: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Do we really need it. It's really not going to

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Speaker 1: bring in a lot of money. It's not going to

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Speaker 1: do much of anything for anybody. And you know, when

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Speaker 1: you have those horses run and around, you know what

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Speaker 1: they leave all over the place. I don't think we

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Speaker 1: really need this. Coming back to New York, New York

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Speaker 1: taxpayers now that you remember, we're talking about the budget

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Speaker 1: twelve billion dollar budget gap and I said, there's so

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Speaker 1: much waste and fraud and bloat in there. There's a

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Speaker 1: million things we overpay for. But there's also these dumb programs.

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Speaker 1: You could just simply cut them. You don't need them.

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Speaker 1: Here's do you know that we're spending two hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars for some woke group to study reparations for slavery?

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Speaker 1: Do you ever hear anything more ridiculous? What the hell

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Speaker 1: is there to study? We know what happened. You want

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Speaker 1: to argue about reparations, that's fine, but two hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars to study it? The select organization I see here?

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Speaker 1: It is it's certain groups that they count on for votes.

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Speaker 1: They'll get the money. This is why you have all

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Speaker 1: this waste and fraud in government. Why would they waste money,

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Speaker 1: Why would they spend money on useless things? Because you're

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Speaker 1: giving it to certain groups, unions, businesses that bring you

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Speaker 1: votes and bring you massive, massive donations. That's why they

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Speaker 1: like to hand out these stupid contracts. Hey, we're out

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Speaker 1: of time. We'll get Bruce Blakeman next week. Curtis will

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Speaker 1: be here Monday. It's a holiday on Monday. I won't

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Speaker 1: be here, but Curtis will be filling in. Remember you

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Speaker 1: can listen to the If you can't hear the show live,

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Speaker 1: see you Tuesday. Listen to Curtis on Monday. Have a

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