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Hour 1: NYC's housing crisis. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten woor filling
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Speaker 1: in for Mark, here's Kenrosatto.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, the end of the week is here.
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Speaker 2: Mark has the day off, and it's good to be here.
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Speaker 2: Former New York City TV news anchor Guy Ken Rosato
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Speaker 2: in and you probably best remember me for the twenty
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Speaker 2: years I spent anchoring the morning show at Channel seven.
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Speaker 2: I was a Channel five before that. Nowadays I get
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Speaker 2: you to pick up the phone and call one eight
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Speaker 2: hundred and three to two one zero seven ten. Hey,
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Speaker 2: we got some sad breaking news out of San Antonio, Texas.
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Speaker 2: Police there are saying that there was a twenty one
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Speaker 2: year old illegal alien who fatally shot three people just
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Speaker 2: over an hour ago at what may be his place
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Speaker 2: of work. Now he and his family, According to police
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Speaker 2: illegally entered the US back in twenty nineteen, and they
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Speaker 2: were supposed to appear at a court hearing in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty two, but authorities say they failed to show up.
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Speaker 2: Now three Americans are dead thanks to the Biden administration
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Speaker 2: doing nothing about this guy in twenty twenty two when
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Speaker 2: he was supposed to be removed from our country. But
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Speaker 2: these things have consequences. Okay, it doesn't mean that everybody
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Speaker 2: who came here illegally is going to be a murderer, clearly,
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Speaker 2: most or not. But the thing is, when you lose
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Speaker 2: track of people, you don't know who they are, what
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Speaker 2: their background is, why they're here, and then you lose
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Speaker 2: track of them, things like this happen and you have
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Speaker 2: three tax paying, hard working, good US citizens dead because
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Speaker 2: the Biden administration let this guy in, lost track of him,
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Speaker 2: and now he ended up according to authorities, they say
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Speaker 2: that he killed three people. What they belie leave was
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Speaker 2: his place of work in Texas, San Antonio, seven ten wy.
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Speaker 2: And you know, we keep saying the nation is so polarized.
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Speaker 2: Now we may know for fact that it may be
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Speaker 2: because according to NBC News, they just conducted a poll
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Speaker 2: and check this out. The NBC News poll shows eighty
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Speaker 2: two percent of Republicans say they have friends who are Democrats.
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Speaker 2: When you ask democrats, do you have any friends who
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Speaker 2: are Republicans, only sixty four percent of Democrats say they
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Speaker 2: have a friend who's a Republican. And if you recall,
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Speaker 2: I've said this before Dan Bongino, before he became the
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Speaker 2: deputy director of the FBI, when he was a talk
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Speaker 2: show host, he used to say, Republicans think Democrats are
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Speaker 2: good people with bad ideas, while Democrats think Republicans are
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Speaker 2: bad people, and that's why there's no dialogue. That's why
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Speaker 2: they're so dialogue. Republicans, my Republican friends are always willing
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Speaker 2: to sit down and talk, and they don't get animated,
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Speaker 2: and they don't scream, and they don't go out with
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Speaker 2: green hair and nose rings, protesting, screaming, burning police cards. No,
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Speaker 2: that is a feature of the left. The right doesn't
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Speaker 2: do that. It's just not part of them. Of the right,
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Speaker 2: if you have a disagreement, we'll sit down and talk.
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Speaker 2: I want to know what you have to say. But
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Speaker 2: unfortunately the left doesn't have that same opinion. Their object
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Speaker 2: is to shut you down because they need to convince
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Speaker 2: you of their way of life, of their thought process,
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Speaker 2: and as long as that's the case, there will be
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Speaker 2: no dialect. They don't want dialogue, they don't want die like.
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Speaker 2: They want to shut you down, dispatch you if necessary,
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Speaker 2: in order to make their way of life the way
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Speaker 2: of life. And that's that. So what did you think
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Speaker 2: about this lunatic? On the Upper East Side? If you
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Speaker 2: haven't heard, there was a guy with a gun who
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Speaker 2: was killed in a shootout with police after he apparently
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Speaker 2: pointed his gun at a guy in a building elevator. First,
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Speaker 2: then he later ran into a deli and he threatened
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Speaker 2: to shoot up the deli. Then he threaten to shoot
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Speaker 2: a hospital. Now cops ended up shooting the man. He
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Speaker 2: was pronounced dead at a hospital. No word at this
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Speaker 2: point what was going on if he was mentally challenged.
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Speaker 2: But this brings up Zorn, Yes, mayor to be Zoran.
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Speaker 2: You know all he'll tell you back when you ask
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Speaker 2: him questions about things like this is gobbledegook.
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Speaker 3: Police have a critical role to play in creating public safety,
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Speaker 3: and I speak to those officers on the beat. I
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Speaker 3: hear a frustration from them that we're asking them to
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Speaker 3: do more than just focus on serious crimes. We're asking
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Speaker 3: them to do the work of mental health professionals and
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Speaker 3: so are nds, and that reliance on having them deal
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Speaker 3: with almost every failure of the social safety net is
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Speaker 3: making it impossible for them to tackle those crimes.
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Speaker 2: No, just arrest them. I don't need, you know what.
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Speaker 2: I don't need the police officer to sit there and
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Speaker 2: do a question and answer therapy period where he says, so,
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Speaker 2: how are you feeling right now? If a guy's breaking
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Speaker 2: the law?
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Speaker 4: All right?
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Speaker 2: Granted, you can't treat every situation the same. I get it.
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Speaker 2: My dad was a cop. There's a gentleman who calls
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Speaker 2: from the Carolinas who's a cop. I know, Listen. I
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Speaker 2: was raised with cops, raised with law enforcement, raised with
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Speaker 2: lawyers in the family and among friends. I get it.
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Speaker 2: Every circumstance is different. But a police officer, they have
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Speaker 2: a hard enough job and they don't get paid anywhere
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Speaker 2: near what they should. And as far as I'm concerned,
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Speaker 2: give them the tools and let them arrest and then
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Speaker 2: we'll deal with them later. If the individual being arrested
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Speaker 2: needs mental health, I don't need the cop to do that,
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Speaker 2: and I don't need to send a dime store psychologist
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Speaker 2: out to every crime and let them diagnose in ten
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Speaker 2: seconds somebody who has a knifeeness threatening to kill their
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Speaker 2: families or on. That's not the way it works, okay,
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Speaker 2: but that's the way this this socialist wants it to
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Speaker 2: be in this city. It's unbelievable. He wants to deploy
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Speaker 2: social workers instead of police to respond to nine to
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Speaker 2: one one calls like this. What would have happened if
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Speaker 2: a therapist showed up and this guy had a gone
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Speaker 2: and he's going threatening to shoot up a hospital with
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Speaker 2: a therapist have said, why don't we sit down and discuss.
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Speaker 2: I want to know what you're feeling. Yeah, let's see
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Speaker 2: that works. Actually, we find out that this has been
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Speaker 2: actually tested since earlier in the year and very quietly
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Speaker 2: tested in fact, and published reports say that early results
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Speaker 2: of this program it's called be Heard. Yes, okay, we
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Speaker 2: know you have a gun and you're frustrated, but I
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Speaker 2: want you to be heard. It shows that it is not
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Speaker 2: a good plan. So Mamdani has proposed shifting one point
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Speaker 2: one billion dollars toward the Department of Community Safety for
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Speaker 2: this plan. Apparently, an audit was conducted in May by
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Speaker 2: the city Controller and it was determined this thing is
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Speaker 2: an utter failure. I mean, Mamdannie hasn't even taken office
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Speaker 2: yet to put it into play, but we know it
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Speaker 2: doesn't work. Apparently, sixty percent of the calls that came
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Speaker 2: in for what would have been mental health responses, they
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Speaker 2: were deemed ineligible. And there are a bunch of reasons
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Speaker 2: why we can get into and more than thirty five
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Speaker 2: percent of the so called eligible calls from mental health
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Speaker 2: professionals never got a response. And for this, mom, Donnie
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Speaker 2: wants to spend over a billion dollars of your tax
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Speaker 2: payer money. Remember when de Blasio's wife got this a
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Speaker 2: billion dollars that Blasio had allocated to deal with people
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Speaker 2: who are homeless. And after a couple of years we
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Speaker 2: asked where did that money go? And she couldn't account
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Speaker 2: for it. They had no idea and nothing was done.
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Speaker 2: Just a billion dollars. I mean, come on, what do
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Speaker 2: you think can is this a bill? What's a billion
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Speaker 2: dollars these days? Please? Unbelievable. Certain people get a pass. Sadly,
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Speaker 2: I think people will get hurt or worse. You will
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Speaker 2: see crime rising all over the city. And now Zorin
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Speaker 2: is insisting on pushing to raise taxes for those free
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Speaker 2: buses and childcare.
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Speaker 3: You know, I've said time and again that I believe
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Speaker 3: these are the most straightforward ways that we can actually
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Speaker 3: fund universal childcare, making buses fast and free. And I've
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Speaker 3: said that the two clear ways to do so raising
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Speaker 3: personal income taxes on the top one percent by two percent,
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Speaker 3: and raising the corporate tax to match that of New
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Speaker 3: Jersey's corporate tax of eleven point five percent. Now, if
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Speaker 3: there are other ways to raise this money to fund
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Speaker 3: this agenda, the most important thing is that we fund
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Speaker 3: the agenda.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the most important thing, funding the agenda. You
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Speaker 2: know what the translation of that is, let's get money
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Speaker 2: out of people's pockets and into my agenda. That's what
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Speaker 2: it is. So some bad news for you, Zorim Governor Hokol,
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Speaker 2: who controls the purse strings with the state legislature. By
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Speaker 2: the way, not you already said there is no money
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Speaker 2: to provide free buses.
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Speaker 5: I cannot set forth a plan right now that takes
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Speaker 5: money out of a system that relies on the fares
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Speaker 5: of the buses and the subways.
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Speaker 2: Oh and as for that universal healthcare that you wanted
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Speaker 2: to provide for free hokl also said there's no money
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Speaker 2: for that. Zoron, Sorry, and she's repeatedly pledged there would
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Speaker 2: be no increase in taxes full stop. But mister Mumdannie
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Speaker 2: is unrelenting.
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Speaker 3: The most important thing is not how we fund it,
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Speaker 3: but that we fund it. I think these are the
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Speaker 3: most direct ways to do so. But any funding stream
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Speaker 3: that would fund these programs, that is one that we
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Speaker 3: would welcome.
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Speaker 2: Hmm, well, it ain't happening. There's no money, can't pull
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Speaker 2: what do they say, you can't get bud from a stone.
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Speaker 2: And if you heard Larry MENTI I listened to Larry
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Speaker 2: every day, just heard him a little while ago saying this.
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Speaker 2: He said, if you can't get money for the buses,
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Speaker 2: and you can't get money for the universal health care,
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Speaker 2: we're gonna get the mouddy for the free supermarkets there, Zoron,
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Speaker 2: it's not America. This is not a communist state. And yes,
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Speaker 2: when it gets down to free, just walk in and
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Speaker 2: grab stuff like it's a CVS. And you will only
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Speaker 2: arrest people who steal more than one thousand dollars worth
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Speaker 2: of stuff at a time. This is no longer America.
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Speaker 2: This is no longer America. It's a system that cannot work.
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Speaker 2: I love how the left loves to use terms like sustainable.
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Speaker 2: How is it sustainable if people just walk in and
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Speaker 2: take stuff for free, and walk out to a bus
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Speaker 2: and get on the bus for free and drop off
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Speaker 2: your kid. You're going to trust someplace to take care
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Speaker 2: of your child for free and you have no say
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Speaker 2: in what goes on there when you're gone. Yeah, good
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Speaker 2: luck with that, Zoron. What happens the first time there's
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Speaker 2: a lawsuit with one of these free universal healthcare is
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Speaker 2: because somebody's child accidentally falls and gets her hurt or
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Speaker 2: gets there's an accusation of abuse, physical or sexual. What's
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Speaker 2: going to happen then with this free universal healthcare? Z
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Speaker 2: are On? I'm just curious about that. Seven ten wo
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Speaker 2: r The Voice of New York one eight hundred three
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Speaker 2: two one zero seven ten one eight hundred three two
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Speaker 2: one zero seven ten Mark has the day off. This
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Speaker 2: is Ken Rozzatto in for him and what looks like
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Speaker 2: the ultimate middle finger to incoming anti Israel mayor Mamdani.
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Speaker 2: The current mayor, Eric Adams is off two Israel right now.
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Speaker 2: It's a final trip there as mayor of New York.
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Speaker 2: But of course, of all the places he could have gone,
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Speaker 2: he chose Israel. Remember the highest concentration of Jews in
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Speaker 2: the entire world outside of Tel Aviv, he's right here
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Speaker 2: in New York. They are part of the backbone of
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Speaker 2: this city. That's why it is so shocking that a
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Speaker 2: man who has such anti Israel policies and beliefs is
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Speaker 2: now the mayor of this city. And remember, Mamdani has
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Speaker 2: threatened to have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Hehina who arrested
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Speaker 2: should he set foot in New York. Remember, though Zoron
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Speaker 2: that the Prime Minister would have diplomatic immunity and if
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Speaker 2: you touch him, there would be an international scene like
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Speaker 2: nobody's business, and you would have to deal with our
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Speaker 2: federal government coming in guns of blason if you touch
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Speaker 2: the Prime Minister of Israel. So I'd almost like to
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Speaker 2: see Mayor Mamdani try it. I would love to see
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Speaker 2: him try it, because he would probably get arrested as
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Speaker 2: a result. Seven ten w r The Voice of New York.
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Speaker 2: So another leftist lunatic has made headlines this week. This
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Speaker 2: Tama guy showed up at the Newark office of acting
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Speaker 2: US Attorney Alena Habba. This happened Wednesday evening. The FBI
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Speaker 2: says the guy originally he walks up to the building
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Speaker 2: it say secure building. He walks up to the building
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Speaker 2: with a big old bat, goes, you know, up to
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Speaker 2: the metal detector. Yeah, I want to come in. First
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Speaker 2: of all, it's after hours. Secondly, as a bat, all
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Speaker 2: right it's and third it's downtown Newark. Good luck with
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Speaker 2: all three of those things. So apparently security said, ah me,
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Speaker 2: thinks youd better walk outside, dude, and he left, comes
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Speaker 2: back five minutes later like he was never there the
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Speaker 2: first time. This time he left the bat on the sidewalk.
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Speaker 2: And here's what's even more amazing, Security let him in. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Good idea. So the guy then went to the floor
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Speaker 2: where Miss Habba's office is and began yelling incoherently and
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Speaker 2: smashing property. It is unclear whether he made specific threats
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Speaker 2: against Miss Habba, but why else would he go to
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Speaker 2: her floor after hours and go to her office. So
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Speaker 2: the cops are now trying to find the guy. Shouldn't
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Speaker 2: be hard. Just look for the guy with the bat.
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Speaker 2: H Have you heard this sixth story wealthy so called
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Speaker 2: sniper tourists. Yeah, listen up. Sniper tourists allegedly paid ninety
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Speaker 2: thousand dollars apiece to shoot human beings during human safari
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Speaker 2: trips to Sarajevo in the nineteen nineties, and they paid
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Speaker 2: an extra fee if they wanted to shoot children. To
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Speaker 2: this insane this is according to some crazy claims being
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Speaker 2: looked into now by Italian prosecutors. This is actually being
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Speaker 2: thought of as really happening because there are a number
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Speaker 2: of people who claim it did not just one. The
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Speaker 2: investigation began after an Italian writer reported that he uncovered
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Speaker 2: evidence that wealthy gun enthusiasts I guess had too much
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Speaker 2: to do with their money. They were dubbed sniper tourists.
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Speaker 2: They paid Bosnian Serb forces for the chance to gun
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Speaker 2: down residents at random. During the four year siege of
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Speaker 2: the city. More than ten thousand people were killed not
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Speaker 2: by the sniper tourists, but in Sarajevo by overall snipers
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Speaker 2: and shelling from ninety two to ninety six because they
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Speaker 2: had the Balkan Wars. It's not known if those numbers, though,
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Speaker 2: include anyone who may have been part of this alleged
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Speaker 2: human safari story. But you know they're going to be
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Speaker 2: looking more into this, and that is sick if it
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Speaker 2: is in fact true. Seven ten War The Voice of
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Speaker 2: New York Friday Morning, Ken Rozatto in for Mark, and
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Speaker 2: did you hear that lawmakers in DC were making twenty
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Speaker 2: grand each at the expense of American taxpayers while the
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Speaker 2: government was shut down over the forty three days of
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Speaker 2: Democrats wouldn't even consider advancing the continuing resolution. Okay, it
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Speaker 2: cost the economy fifteen billion dollars a week, and by
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Speaker 2: federal law, they had to be paid. The constitution actually
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Speaker 2: demands it. Although a number of elected officials did say
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Speaker 2: they would forego collecting their salary, but most collected. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: think about that during that time. That's why they had
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Speaker 2: no problem letting it keep going on and on while
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Speaker 2: TSA agents and air traffic controllers and people trying to
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Speaker 2: collect their snap to feed their kids didn't get their money.
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Speaker 2: Pretty disgusting. And the likes of CHUCKI Chuck Schumer were
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Speaker 2: behind keeping the government shut and by the way, the
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Speaker 2: Democrats gained nothing from it during that period. I just
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Speaker 2: don't want to hear one. If you want to set
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Speaker 2: me off, tell me it was the Republicans that kept
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Speaker 2: the government shut. That's when I lose my relatively cool
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Speaker 2: demeanor and lose it at that point in a big way.
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Speaker 2: And we should mention Lady Gaga. She did a story
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Speaker 2: in Rolling Stone. She says she is lucky to be alive.
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Speaker 2: There's a story in Rolling Stone that says that while
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Speaker 2: she was filming A Star Is Born back in twenty seventeen,
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Speaker 2: she ended up suffering a psychotic break. She says she
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Speaker 2: had to do the movie on lithium. Lady Gaga says
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Speaker 2: that she had to cancel Joanne World Tour, which was
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Speaker 2: scheduled right after the filming. No word on what her
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Speaker 2: situation is right now. I have met her parents in
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Speaker 2: the past. They're lovely people. I only met her once,
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Speaker 2: very briefly. Very cool person, whether whatever you think of
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Speaker 2: her life or whatever. One of the most talented human
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Speaker 2: beings you'll ever meet, and comes from a very nice family.
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Speaker 2: By the way, New Yorker's tried and true, all right,
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Speaker 2: seven ten wo r the Voice of New York. We
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Speaker 2: want to hear what you have to say, so definitely
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Speaker 2: give us a call. It's eight hundred three two one
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Speaker 2: zero seven ten And Mark took a nice long weekend
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Speaker 2: starting today. We have partly cloudy skies today, Tomorrow highs
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Speaker 2: low fifties, maybe some clouds and showers tomorrow night, than
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Speaker 2: partly cloudy's Sunday a little milder tempts in the upper fifties.
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Speaker 2: The stock market took a big hit yesterday and while
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Speaker 2: the economy is looking strong in some sectors, it may
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Speaker 2: not be translating to the average hard working folks. Now.
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Speaker 2: Consumer sentiment for November is down, and we will speak
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Speaker 2: with financial strategist Steve Cotton about it. It is ten
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Speaker 2: twenty one, seven ten. War will be right back.
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Speaker 1: Now more of the Marximone Show on seven to ten
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Speaker 1: wor filling.
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Speaker 6: In for Mark.
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Speaker 1: Here again is Ken Roseatto.
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Speaker 2: Hey, good to be with you. Let's go straight to
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Speaker 2: the phones. Peter in the Harlem, good morning. You're on
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Speaker 2: the Marximone show.
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Speaker 4: Yes, good morning. It's a pleasure to listen to you.
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Speaker 4: I have a comment. New York is dead. The fact
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Speaker 4: is that the stores are all run by people that
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Speaker 4: are unfortunately from other countries. So when the developments come in,
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Speaker 4: TA can kick them out right away. The East Village,
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Speaker 4: it's tinne of town. Harlem is another. I mean, what's
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Speaker 4: going on and they want to blame it on crime,
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Speaker 4: but it's not crime, it's greed. Do you have any comments, sir?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I don't think you're wrong at all.
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Speaker 7: Sir.
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Speaker 2: Look I here, I've lived in or around New York
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Speaker 2: City my entire life, with maybe a three four year exception.
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Speaker 2: I was in Miami. I'm fifty eight. I went to
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Speaker 2: grammar school, high school, college here, so I know what
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Speaker 2: to talk about. I've seen it go through all the
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Speaker 2: different iterations and it's almost unrecognizable right now. The thing is,
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Speaker 2: you need somebody who is a leader who will take
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Speaker 2: charge of the city and change things. We've seen it
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Speaker 2: go bad and then go good, and unfortunately, I think
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Speaker 2: we chose the wrong guy to change that. But I
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Speaker 2: appreciate the call and I don't disagree with you. We
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Speaker 2: go to David and Queen's Good Morning.
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Speaker 6: Hey Ken, I've been listening to radio for over forty years,
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Speaker 6: and there was a caller up to forty years ago
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Speaker 6: who predicted everything that's going on, and he's largely been
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Speaker 6: blocked now. But I think it's high time to get
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Speaker 6: some credit to Jimney from Brooklyn, Oh.
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Speaker 2: I remember listening to him. I mean he was on
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Speaker 2: Bob Grat years ago. I think that was like one
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Speaker 2: hundred years ago. He was, yeah, oh, there we go.
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Speaker 2: He gets a shout out there, let's go down to
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Speaker 2: North Carolina. Kathy, good morning.
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Speaker 6: Hi.
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Speaker 5: Can we really appreciate when you fill in from Mark.
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Speaker 6: Thank you for telling guy.
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Speaker 5: I haven't heard anybody talking about this. I'm going to
18:06
Speaker 5: bring it up. Jimmy Kimmel lost his best friend who
18:09
Speaker 5: is his bandmate a couple of days ago, and he
18:12
Speaker 5: was on a show with a beautiful tribute for him,
18:15
Speaker 5: and it was very moving, But I just wanted to
18:18
Speaker 5: throw in there, what would Jimmy, what would you feel
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Speaker 5: like if people went on the air and started mocking
18:25
Speaker 5: your friend's death or mocking the wife of your friend,
18:30
Speaker 5: or his children, or his mother and his father who
18:34
Speaker 5: were there with you in the studio. Like, he just
18:37
Speaker 5: needs to get a clue of how irresponsible that was
18:41
Speaker 5: and how rude. And now that it's happened to him,
18:43
Speaker 5: somebody close to him has died tragically, maybe he should,
18:48
Speaker 5: you know, think a little bit about what he did
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Speaker 5: to Charlie Kirk's family.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, that's a very good point. Go ahead, I'm sorry,
18:57
Speaker 2: let me finish your I'm sorry.
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Speaker 5: Well, no, I'm so. I just want to but I'm
19:01
Speaker 5: going to take a high road and I'm going to
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Speaker 5: show some grace to Jimmy Kimmel, and I'm going to
19:06
Speaker 5: give him my condolences and my thoughts and prayers, which
19:10
Speaker 5: he never wants, of course, but I just hope. I
19:14
Speaker 5: know this isn't going to get to him. But I
19:16
Speaker 5: just want everybody to collectively think, if you're in those shoes,
19:21
Speaker 5: you know, to be a little more careful. And it's
19:23
Speaker 5: pretty obvious he should have never done that, Like ki
19:25
Speaker 5: Almus lost his job over it, which would have been great.
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Speaker 2: And it wasn't only Kimmel, a lot of people who've
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Speaker 2: done that. And again it comes down to a dichotomy
19:32
Speaker 2: of the left versus the right. There's just a whole
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Speaker 2: different Yes, I'm going to paint with a very broad brush,
19:37
Speaker 2: but the left tends not to be into the religious stuff.
19:40
Speaker 2: The right does tend to be a little bit more
19:42
Speaker 2: into religion. We're talking about gradations of color here in
19:46
Speaker 2: terms of religion non religion. The left tends to be
19:50
Speaker 2: less empathetic. The right tends to be more empathetic. The
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Speaker 2: You know, the left is all about a show and
19:55
Speaker 2: about being able to say they feel good about somebody,
19:58
Speaker 2: but the right actually practic it. So yeah, there is
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Speaker 2: a difference there, and I'm I think you're spot on
20:04
Speaker 2: with that, Kathy. In fact, that harkens back to the
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Speaker 2: old you know, saying that that we heard from. I'm
20:11
Speaker 2: saying I'm forgetting names down. Hello, former FBI or the
20:15
Speaker 2: current FBI Deputy director Dan Bongino. My gosh, it's what
20:18
Speaker 2: happens when I'm my coffee. Dan Bongino again saying that
20:21
Speaker 2: Republicans think Democrats are good people with bad ideas, and
20:24
Speaker 2: Democrats think Republicans are bad people. There the Jimmy Kimmel
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Speaker 2: example is that right there, the idea that you can
20:31
Speaker 2: make fun of Republicans dying because you don't consider them
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Speaker 2: good people, whereas we would never do the same to
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Speaker 2: them because we consider all people's lives precious. Start in
20:43
Speaker 2: South Carolina, Good morning, You're on seven to ten w R.
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Speaker 8: Hey, Jan, how are you? We've spoken several times, you know,
20:49
Speaker 8: in an officer forty eight years, what ma'am Donnie does
20:52
Speaker 8: not know could fill an encyclopedia. This man is an
20:56
Speaker 8: idiot to think that social workers can go to a seat.
20:59
Speaker 8: We have lost I think four or five officers in
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Speaker 8: the last six months going to domestics and they were
21:04
Speaker 8: ambushed and killed even before they got to the front door.
21:07
Speaker 8: This guy is out of his ever loving mind, and him,
21:11
Speaker 8: coupled with Alvin Bragg, is going to be the seventh
21:14
Speaker 8: circle of Hell in New York City. I cannot believe
21:17
Speaker 8: for the life of me, can people put these two
21:20
Speaker 8: people in office?
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Speaker 2: And you know, Stuart, what's crazy. What's crazy is people say, well,
21:24
Speaker 2: new York will learn. No, they won't learn. And here's
21:26
Speaker 2: why New York is such a turnover of humans. I
21:29
Speaker 2: think three quarters of the people currently living in New
21:31
Speaker 2: York did not live here ten years ago. So that's
21:34
Speaker 2: my huge junk of people. So as a result, it's
21:37
Speaker 2: not like people could say, oh, remember back when we
21:39
Speaker 2: elected that person, because I think a lot of those
21:41
Speaker 2: people aren't here, so they don't understand. You know the
21:43
Speaker 2: old adage about those who failed to learn history are
21:46
Speaker 2: doomed to repeat it.
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Speaker 8: We're repeating it right now.
21:50
Speaker 2: Sure.
21:50
Speaker 8: Yeah, real quick story. We had a mental patient and
21:54
Speaker 8: I had a rapport with him, and any time they
21:56
Speaker 8: dealt with him, and if I was on duty, they
21:58
Speaker 8: would call me officer Stewart. How are you you know?
22:02
Speaker 8: That was nine times. The tenth time he tried to
22:04
Speaker 8: kill me and kick the windows out in my patrol car.
22:07
Speaker 8: This is a ticking time bomb dealing with these people
22:11
Speaker 8: and you do not They want an officer to go
22:14
Speaker 8: with them, which defeats the entire purpose what they claim.
22:18
Speaker 8: It's just insane.
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Speaker 2: It's like when they tell an officer, don't aim at
22:22
Speaker 2: the chest, aim at their foot. No, when you shoot,
22:24
Speaker 2: you shoot right. They don't understand. Then you'll miss. And
22:27
Speaker 2: if you're trying to protect yourself, that's it. So what
22:30
Speaker 2: I hate to cut us off. We got to get
22:31
Speaker 2: to the news, but I always appreciate your call, my friend,
22:33
Speaker 2: Thank you very very much, and thank you for your
22:35
Speaker 2: service as an officer. We appreciate that. Seven ten wor
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Speaker 2: the time is ten thirty three, And right after the news,
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Speaker 2: we'll speak with financial strategy Steve Cotton about how the
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Speaker 2: economy is looking now and what you can be doing
22:47
Speaker 2: to safeguard your money.
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Speaker 1: This is the Mark Simone Show on seven to ten.
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Speaker 1: Wi Jim from Mark Today, Here's Ken Rosatto.
22:56
Speaker 2: Really good to be with you on a Friday morning,
22:58
Speaker 2: and the stock market took quite a hit yesterday. It
23:01
Speaker 2: was down about seven hundred points. And while there are
23:04
Speaker 2: some sectors of the economy that appear to be doing
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Speaker 2: better everyday, items like groceries are not really coming down
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Speaker 2: like we thought they might at this point. I mean
23:12
Speaker 2: it's still fairly early on, but with the tariffs and whatnot,
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Speaker 2: things are still somewhat expensive. Eggs are down, yes, butters down,
23:19
Speaker 2: but everything else is pretty much up. So a lot
23:22
Speaker 2: of people are stretching their dollars to make ends meet.
23:24
Speaker 2: Steve Cotton is a financial strategist. He's here to talk
23:27
Speaker 2: about how consumer sentiment appears to be dropping for the
23:31
Speaker 2: month of November and what we can do to safeguard
23:34
Speaker 2: our dollars. Good morning you, Steve, Thanks for coming on.
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Speaker 9: Good morning Ken, Thanks for having me.
23:39
Speaker 2: You bet So, what is looking up in our economy?
23:42
Speaker 2: What is looking down?
23:45
Speaker 9: Well? Energy prices have come down significantly. A matter of fact,
23:48
Speaker 9: I heard this morning that there are twenty eight states
23:52
Speaker 9: where the price of gas is already down to about
23:55
Speaker 9: two dollars eighty cents a gallon. Wow, that's outstanding. When
23:59
Speaker 9: you get energy prices down due to expanded production, which
24:03
Speaker 9: is what the Trump administration has been trying to do.
24:06
Speaker 9: That has a ripple effect all throughout every product that
24:10
Speaker 9: is made with petroleum products. We still have high housing costs,
24:16
Speaker 9: but housing is largely a regional and a local phenomena.
24:21
Speaker 9: It's due to shortage of supply, excess demand, persistently high
24:26
Speaker 9: interest rates in terms of long term mortgage rates, which
24:29
Speaker 9: the administration does not control. It's due to lots of factors,
24:34
Speaker 9: population shifts, those kinds of things. So there are some
24:38
Speaker 9: things the administration has had some success in addressing, and
24:43
Speaker 9: some things that are just beyond their control.
24:45
Speaker 2: And Seeve, I'm glad you brought up housing because here
24:47
Speaker 2: in New York City where we are, we have something
24:49
Speaker 2: called rent control. And for those unfamiliar, you know, there
24:53
Speaker 2: is a board, a rent control board, and you know,
24:55
Speaker 2: while the state and the city tell the landlords you
24:58
Speaker 2: must do this to your property. Put in fire extinguishers,
25:01
Speaker 2: you must have this, you must you must maintain the
25:03
Speaker 2: plumbing you might and there are all these millions of
25:06
Speaker 2: dollars a year of expenses that the landlords have to do.
25:08
Speaker 2: They're not allowed to just raise the rent to pay
25:10
Speaker 2: for it. So I don't know where the money's supposed
25:12
Speaker 2: to come from. But the rent Control Board determines how
25:15
Speaker 2: much or if the rent can go up or down
25:17
Speaker 2: every I guess it's every other year or whatever. I'm
25:20
Speaker 2: not living in New York City anymore, so if I
25:22
Speaker 2: got the exact time that this happens. But the point is,
25:26
Speaker 2: when you have rent control and people are locked in
25:29
Speaker 2: at a good rate, they tend not to move. And
25:32
Speaker 2: so when you have people not moving, you have no availability.
25:36
Speaker 2: And when there's no availability of real estate, what happens
25:38
Speaker 2: to the price of real estate?
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Speaker 9: I mean, well, that's that's true, right, when when availability
25:45
Speaker 9: is limited, prices are higher, right, and they remain higher.
25:49
Speaker 9: The problem of housing in this country is one of supply.
25:53
Speaker 9: We have underinvested in building new housing stock for twenty years.
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Speaker 9: Communities that are trying to catch up. But there is
26:03
Speaker 9: nothing wrong with requiring landlords and property owners to maintain
26:10
Speaker 9: proper cleanliness, security, fire controls, you know, decent, decent you know, water, decent, plumbing,
26:18
Speaker 9: and you know there there are a lot of cases
26:21
Speaker 9: where we've seen slumlords. Oh yes, do those things. And
26:26
Speaker 9: government should has an obligation to help support consumers and
26:31
Speaker 9: provide minimal living standards. However, you've got to be careful
26:34
Speaker 9: with rent controls because if you if you force rents
26:40
Speaker 9: below a certain level where it's economic for those landlords
26:43
Speaker 9: to make those improvements, you end up with a housing shortage.
26:48
Speaker 9: And this is just economics. We've seen it not only
26:51
Speaker 9: in New York, We've seen it in other places around
26:53
Speaker 9: the country and around the world. So it's a balancing act. Always.
26:58
Speaker 9: We have to hold land lords and property owners to decent,
27:02
Speaker 9: minimal standards. There's nothing wrong with that. But when you
27:06
Speaker 9: go overboard and you mandate expenses, but you limit their
27:11
Speaker 9: ability to recoup those costs, then you get a shortage.
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Speaker 2: I'm with you just so that we remind everybody. This
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Speaker 2: is seven to ten wo R The Voice of New York,
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Speaker 2: The Mark Simone Show on a Friday. Ken Rosotto in
27:22
Speaker 2: for Mark and we are speaking with financial strategist Steve Cotton.
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Speaker 2: We appreciate you coming in, Steven. You know, we have
27:28
Speaker 2: something else here in New York City that's sort of
27:30
Speaker 2: unique to us. We have these giant eleven hundred twelve
27:34
Speaker 2: hundred foot tall skinny skyscrapers that they've been building in
27:37
Speaker 2: the last five to ten years. They're dotting the entire
27:40
Speaker 2: landscape of Manhattan, parts of Queens and Brooklyn as well.
27:43
Speaker 2: And the problem is many of those units are empty
27:47
Speaker 2: because people from foreign countries, millionaires, billionaires from other countries
27:50
Speaker 2: buy those units as investments. They don't even go there,
27:54
Speaker 2: they don't even live there. The buildings are literally empty,
27:56
Speaker 2: while there are thousands upon thousands of people all over
27:59
Speaker 2: the city who desperately could use a place to live.
28:03
Speaker 2: What could we possibly do to change that? The city
28:05
Speaker 2: has tried to artificially affect change by saying, Okay, if
28:08
Speaker 2: you're going to build that building, you have to do
28:10
Speaker 2: twenty percent of the apartments for moderate income housing or
28:13
Speaker 2: low income housing. But that can only help so much.
28:17
Speaker 9: Well, that's a problem, and it's a little bit unique
28:20
Speaker 9: to New York. There are other communities where that kind
28:23
Speaker 9: of thing structurally has happened. You can't you can't fence
28:29
Speaker 9: out foreign investment or make it unattractive to foreign investors. However,
28:33
Speaker 9: we do have an obligation to our own citizens first,
28:37
Speaker 9: and we've got to really address the housing crisis through
28:41
Speaker 9: expanded supply. That means incentivizing builders to build, lowering interest rates,
28:48
Speaker 9: lowering the cost of construction, it's a combination of things,
28:52
Speaker 9: but we really need a more creative approach to it
28:55
Speaker 9: than we've seen in the past.
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Speaker 2: Well, financial strategist Steve Cotton, that is great advice and
29:00
Speaker 2: always good to have somebody who has the bigger view
29:03
Speaker 2: of the overall picture. We appreciate you coming on the
29:06
Speaker 2: Mark Simone Show today.
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Speaker 9: Well, thank you, Ken, the pleasure to be with you
29:10
Speaker 9: as always go New York Baby.
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Speaker 2: Amen. All right, you got it, Steve. Have a good day, sir.
29:15
Speaker 2: Partley cloudy today and tomorrow high's low fifties, maybe maybe
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Speaker 2: some showers tomorrow night, and partly cloudy Sunday, temps getting
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Speaker 2: a little warmer into the upper fifties. We're gonna take
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Speaker 2: your calls next eight hundred three to two one zero
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Speaker 2: It's Ken rosottowin from Mark on your Friday seven to
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Speaker 2: ten WR. We're coming right back now.
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Speaker 1: More of the Mark Simone Show on seven ten WR.
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Speaker 4: Filling in for.
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Speaker 1: Mark here again is Ken Rosatto.
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Speaker 2: Ten fifty six is out time seven ten WR. The
29:48
Speaker 2: Voice of New York straight to our phones. We say
29:51
Speaker 2: hi to Shanna on Long Island.
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Speaker 10: Good morning, Shauna, good morning, Ken, you really carry the
29:55
Speaker 10: show well. I wanted to find out about Moundani's foreign donations.
30:03
Speaker 10: Do you know anything about that investigation? Has it led
30:06
Speaker 10: any anywhere.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to take a while before they get
30:09
Speaker 2: to the bottom of it. Obviously, there's a lot going
30:11
Speaker 2: on behind the scenes. Once they announced an investigation is underway,
30:14
Speaker 2: it could take months because they don't let you know
30:16
Speaker 2: little dribs and drabs. It's all kept locked and quiet
30:21
Speaker 2: until they find out enough information. And if you don't
30:24
Speaker 2: hear anything, that means they didn't find anything. So but
30:27
Speaker 2: I'm sure people are looking. There are a lot of
30:28
Speaker 2: people who have Mamdani on the mind right now and
30:32
Speaker 2: they are looking for anything that might discredit him in
30:35
Speaker 2: any way, shape or forms or Trust me, if there
30:37
Speaker 2: is something, they will get to the bottom of it.
30:39
Speaker 2: Apparently there were some foreign based donations that were made
30:43
Speaker 2: to his election campaign. He either returned them or it
30:45
Speaker 2: turns out they were US citizens. So far that we
30:48
Speaker 2: know who were living in foreign places. So that's what
30:50
Speaker 2: we know at this point. Shanna, I appreciate the phone. Thanks,
30:53
Speaker 2: thank you, thank you so much for calling you. Bet
30:55
Speaker 2: all right seven to ten w R The voice of
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Speaker 2: New York. We got somebody else lining up right now,
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Speaker 2: do we have line two? Okay, all right, so here's
31:04
Speaker 2: a quick story I wanted to share with everybody. We
31:07
Speaker 2: got a cut, cute story here. Have you ever heard
31:09
Speaker 2: you've heard of a dog bites man? How about man
31:12
Speaker 2: shoots I'm sorry, dog shoots man? How about that story?
31:16
Speaker 2: This happened in Pennsylvania. A Pennsylvania man told the cops,
31:21
Speaker 2: my dog shot me dead. Serious, This really happened. Apparently
31:25
Speaker 2: a guy put his shotgun down on the bed and
31:28
Speaker 2: it was loaded, and then he sat down on the
31:30
Speaker 2: bed next to the shotgun. His dog got all excited,
31:32
Speaker 2: jumped up on the bed for hugs and kisses. When
31:35
Speaker 2: he jumped up on the bed, the shotgun went off.
31:37
Speaker 2: I'm laughing because the guy's okay. The shotgun apparently caught
31:41
Speaker 2: the guy in the back. The sun was downstairs, heard
31:44
Speaker 2: the shotgun go off. Got dad to the hospital. He'll
31:46
Speaker 2: be okay. But the cops this is the funniest part.
31:49
Speaker 2: At the end, when the cops talked to the press,
31:52
Speaker 2: they said, we're investigating the shooting, but we believe the
31:54
Speaker 2: dog shooting the man was accidental. Ah, I just thought
31:58
Speaker 2: that was funny. I'm sorry, wore the Voice of New York. Paul,
32:03
Speaker 2: you are on the air. Good morning, How you doing.
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Speaker 7: I heard you talking about Mamdani and his idiot idea
32:10
Speaker 7: about the social workers. I was in New York City
32:12
Speaker 7: cop for five years. I switched over. I became a fireman.
32:16
Speaker 7: But a couple of years ago he and Tiffany Caban,
32:21
Speaker 7: a New York City council woman, Tiffany Caban, issued a
32:24
Speaker 7: document saying that if you're dealing with a psycho with
32:27
Speaker 7: an DP, don't call the police. Instead, you can knock
32:31
Speaker 7: a soda over and distract them. I swear to god.
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Speaker 7: They put this in print, they put this in writing.
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Speaker 2: And that's why you know they've been quietly checking this out, Paul.
32:41
Speaker 2: In over the last seven eight months, they have been
32:45
Speaker 2: quietly testing this, and it has proven itself to be
32:48
Speaker 2: an utter failure. It doesn't work. So clearly, this is
32:52
Speaker 2: not something they just they've just tested once. As you
32:54
Speaker 2: pointed out, it's been tested before multiple times. Sounds great,
32:58
Speaker 2: but this is all about socialism.
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Speaker 9: Hey.
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Speaker 2: It sounds great to have everything free, too, doesn't work
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Speaker 2: that way, Paul. I appreciate the call. We got to
33:04
Speaker 2: take a break for news here, but definitely keep tuning
33:07
Speaker 2: in and keep calling. Partly cloudy today and tomorrow, highs
33:10
Speaker 2: in the low fifties, maybe some clouds and showers tomorrow night,
33:13
Speaker 2: and then partly cloudy Sunday temps in the upper fifties.
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Speaker 2: This is ken ra zottowin from Mark on your Friday.
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Speaker 2: Coming up later, we'll speak with brand and digital specialist
33:21
Speaker 2: Fisher about digital ID, how iPhone users can add a
33:24
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