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Speaker 2: kick off. This show normally gets results. Vina Prosad is

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, I really I credit this show.

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Speaker 2: I mean I think we did it.

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Speaker 1: So direct line, Yeah, direct line at us on the

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I want to take another little credit. Harry Enton

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Speaker 2: It's also it's Trump's world. We just live in it.

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Speaker 2: Right. Matthew Foldy had a post on x that I

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Speaker 2: That is quite a story. How is that not the

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Speaker 2: Doesn't sound that normy.

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Speaker 4: Way or the other, you believe minors in Virginia should

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Speaker 5: I think it is important that we have a constitutional

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Speaker 1: Love yeah, blah blah blah. You could just say yes

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Speaker 2: If we had a functional media who covered it like that,

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Speaker 1: But the fact that she can't moderate a little bit

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and you know, you guys, can you pull off

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I will be out there making the case. And

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Speaker 2: We are back on normally. And I don't know about you,

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Speaker 2: We talked about it on this show. It wasn't so much.

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Speaker 2: He's doing some interesting stuff that I think is actually

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Speaker 2: his popularity which potentially can maybe lead to a win

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Speaker 2: against the Communist I don't know. I think I would

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Speaker 2: resign myself to Zarma'm donnie being the next mayor of

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Speaker 2: New York City, and I am I'd be surprised if

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Speaker 2: anything doesn't go that way. But let's maybe Andrew Como maybe. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's interesting because he's, you know, just watching

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Speaker 1: from the outside. I do George Wilsaid on Bill marsh

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Speaker 1: Show that we need a good, like confined dose of

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Speaker 1: socialism every couple of decades to like show everybody that

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Speaker 1: this doesn't work. And I actually I understand what he's saying,

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Speaker 1: and also, I don't want New York to end up there,

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Speaker 1: so I'm rooting for something else. Andrew Cromo's a really

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Speaker 1: hard pulls swallow, but he has said some stuff and

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Speaker 1: made some lines of attack that are interesting and seem

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Speaker 1: to be kind of hurting Mom Donnie a little bit,

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Speaker 1: at least spiritually in his New York Times coverage and whatnot.

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Speaker 1: Which is he's saying he's going to be proposing Zorn's law,

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Speaker 1: a law that will keep the rich out of New

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Speaker 1: York's affordable housing. New York, of course dealing with a

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Speaker 1: housing shortage because they won't let people build stuff, and

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Speaker 1: they won't people let people price stuff where it should

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Speaker 1: be priced. He says, zoron Mndoni, you say freeze the rent,

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Speaker 1: but for who? Rich people like you, hard working, working

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Speaker 1: class New Yorkers are being pushed from their neighborhoods. He

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Speaker 1: notes that Zorn lives in a rent controlled apartment that

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Speaker 1: does not cost him very much money, and he says,

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Speaker 1: you are a rich person stealing affordable housing from the poor,

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Speaker 1: and you're not the only one. It's time we address

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Speaker 1: this injustice. Let's build a new New York city that

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Speaker 1: works for the people who need it, and I enjoy

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Speaker 1: the h I enjoy the shot at the Champagne Socialist.

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Speaker 3: I do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: He had a previous tweet where he said to ma'm donnie,

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Speaker 2: you grew up rich and married an even wealthier woman.

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Speaker 2: You've had weddings on three continents. You own property in

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Speaker 2: lgtbq I A plus murderous Uganda. You make one hundred

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Speaker 2: and forty two thousand dollars a year plus stipends, and

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Speaker 2: your wife works two meaning you together likely make well

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Speaker 2: over two hundred thousand. No matter which way you cut

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Speaker 2: it or are, m'm donnie is a rich person. You're actually

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Speaker 2: very rich. The question is are his voters going to

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Speaker 2: care about this, because there's plenty of rich communists. That's

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Speaker 2: actually part of the thing. The higher you get in

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Speaker 2: the communist order, the richer you are. It's just you know,

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Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders having three homes and nobody even questions that,

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Speaker 2: and every time it gets brought up to him, he

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Speaker 2: shrugs it off, like, oh, I'd have three little homes.

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Speaker 1: You know, No says My favorite is like, well I

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Speaker 1: earned those homes right, royalties? Really? What did the book

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Speaker 1: royalties work? Because I didn't get my cut, and according

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Speaker 1: to my need right, your book earnings.

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Speaker 2: Exactly right, right, And it's like, what do you think

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Speaker 2: the other people did, the other people who have multiple

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Speaker 2: homes all stole their money, just you are the only

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Speaker 2: one who earned it honestly. So yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I think it's clever of Cuomo to say, you know, today,

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Speaker 2: I'm calling on you to move out immediately and give

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Speaker 2: your affordable housing back to an unhoused family who needs it.

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Speaker 2: Not entirely sure, flanking him to the left is going

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Speaker 2: to work, but pointing out that he's a hypocrite and

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Speaker 2: this is how socialism always goes would be an interesting tactic.

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Speaker 2: He's also clearly somebody good is on his x account,

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Speaker 2: and there's like so many little, you know kind of comments,

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Speaker 2: like somebody wrote unbelievable that rent Control Department was really

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Speaker 2: available for the elite to snatch away past this law.

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Speaker 2: And Andrew Cuomo's account writes back, make it make sense.

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Speaker 2: That's a cool twenty two year old who is responding,

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Speaker 2: you know, crazy if true? Somebody writes doing great, bro.

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Speaker 2: He responds, thanks bro, like just.

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Speaker 1: So also, I love calling it Zorn's law. That is

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Speaker 1: that's such a great it's a quality troll. And I

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Speaker 1: think the thing that's interesting about this particular attack. You're

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Speaker 1: right that all socialists, if they are up at the

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Speaker 1: top of the chain, end up getting all the money

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Speaker 1: that none of us get by design. But what's interesting

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Speaker 1: is he's talking about affordability, which is the thing that

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Speaker 1: people are turning to Zoron for and he's hitting him

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Speaker 1: on that. And it's a class critique, which so Ram

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Speaker 1: Mamdani has been making. Now he's a hypocrite in his

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Speaker 1: class critique, but Andrew Cromo probably not the best guy

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Speaker 1: to make the other argument, but it is on something

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Speaker 1: people care about in this election.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely all right, I'm gonna have to root for a

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Speaker 2: Mayor Cuomo.

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Speaker 1: What I wrote a piece like four years ago that

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Speaker 1: was like, no one's asking for a Cuomo comeback, And

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Speaker 1: here we are, having been presented with something so much worse.

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Speaker 1: Why does this keep happening? You know?

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Speaker 2: I still hope Mayor Adams pulls it out, but she

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Speaker 2: pulls out like eight percent, So maybe not.

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Speaker 1: I know, I do. I actually find it a little

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Speaker 1: mystifying why people find him in particular so off putting.

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Speaker 1: I don't and it does seem like New York has

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Speaker 1: made progress over the past too much, sort of like DC,

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Speaker 1: where it's like, Okay, well things are improving off of

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Speaker 1: a low bar, but there is progress being made.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I guess he was indicted. They probably didn't help.

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Speaker 2: Probably. Thanks for joining us on Normally. Normally airs Tuesdays

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