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- 0:00Speaker 1: Now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten woor filling
- 0:05Speaker 1: in for Mark, here's Ken Rosatto.
- 0:09Speaker 2: And a very good Happy Independence Day to you today.
- 0:12Speaker 2: Of course it's being observed nationally, as we just said
- 0:14Speaker 2: Daria talking about, and you know, celebrate the whole it's
- 0:17Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty, Celebrate the whole weekend the whole
- 0:20Speaker 2: week This is America. I don't care where you stand politically,
- 0:25Speaker 2: you should not hate the country. We're all part of America, right,
- 0:30Speaker 2: so for all part of America. That means that you should.
- 0:33Speaker 2: If you hate America, you hate yourself. You should love
- 0:36Speaker 2: whatever it is about America that you love and acknowledge
- 0:39Speaker 2: that there are warts and there are problems. Everyone and
- 0:42Speaker 2: everything has warts and problems, but look at the positives
- 0:45Speaker 2: and celebrate that. You don't have to accept everything that
- 0:49Speaker 2: the other guy accepts about America and is celebrating. Celebrate
- 0:52Speaker 2: the things that you like and you enjoy and you're
- 0:54Speaker 2: proud of in America. And everybody, if they have any
- 0:57Speaker 2: kind of logical brain cell, can find something about this country.
- 1:02Speaker 2: And there's a lot about this country to be proud
- 1:04Speaker 2: of and happy of. So celebrate on this Independence Day.
- 1:07Speaker 2: A very good Friday to you. I'm Ken Rozotto, former
- 1:10Speaker 2: New York City TV News Zachar I was on Channel
- 1:12Speaker 2: seven for twenty years. I was on Channel five on
- 1:14Speaker 2: Good Day New York before that, and it's just so
- 1:17Speaker 2: good to be with you here. Now. I do a
- 1:19Speaker 2: morning show over on on New Jersey, which is a
- 1:22Speaker 2: New Jersey TV channel ONNJ dot com. You could stream
- 1:25Speaker 2: it anywhere in America, and when I'm not here, I
- 1:28Speaker 2: do that. That's what I do to buy my coffee
- 1:31Speaker 2: and donuts on New JERSEYNNJ dot com. Stream it sometime,
- 1:37Speaker 2: especially if you're a New Jersey person, check it out
- 1:39Speaker 2: when I'm over there. We'd love for you to do that.
- 1:41Speaker 2: But otherwise, I listen to WOOR and have been a
- 1:46Speaker 2: huge fan of wires. Anyone here will tell you I
- 1:49Speaker 2: geek out when I see Curtis and when I see Lowry,
- 1:52Speaker 2: and even when I see my good friends Crash and
- 1:56Speaker 2: Izzy and Chris, and when I walk in the hallways here,
- 1:58Speaker 2: I get all excited because I hear all these names
- 2:00Speaker 2: on the ERA all the time, and finally I get
- 2:02Speaker 2: to see them in person. And I love coming in
- 2:04Speaker 2: and doing that. And what a perfect day to commute
- 2:07Speaker 2: into Manhattan from my lovely garden state of New Jersey.
- 2:10Speaker 2: It was like, is he how long did it take
- 2:12Speaker 2: you to get in today? Is he comes in from
- 2:13Speaker 2: New Jersey too? He's telling me forty five? All right,
- 2:17Speaker 2: it took me thirty nine. I couldn't believe it normally
- 2:19Speaker 2: takes me an hour and five hour. Intent it took
- 2:21Speaker 2: me thirty nine minutes. Because nobody's in today. And for
- 2:25Speaker 2: those who don't realize, the meter rules are not in
- 2:29Speaker 2: effect today. The meters are free, so you could park
- 2:31Speaker 2: wherever there's a parking meter. So I don't think a
- 2:33Speaker 2: lot of people know that. I literally pulled up in
- 2:35Speaker 2: front of the iHeart Tower, pulled right up, perfect space
- 2:39Speaker 2: right there in front, got in. I felt like a VIP,
- 2:42Speaker 2: very important person today. So anyway, it's good to be
- 2:45Speaker 2: with you, Mark, enjoying the weekend. I hear rumors that
- 2:48Speaker 2: Mark is hanging out with Taylor Swift right now, helping
- 2:52Speaker 2: her get her dress ready and everything. That's you know,
- 2:54Speaker 2: Mark Simon, and he hangs out with the important people.
- 2:57Speaker 2: Me I just come and I fill in when he's
- 2:59Speaker 2: not here. R Kang's that with the important people. It
- 3:01Speaker 2: would not surprise me if we saw some some pictures
- 3:06Speaker 2: posted of Mark at Taylor Swift's weating. I'm just saying,
- 3:10Speaker 2: I don't know that. That's not a confirmation. It's just
- 3:13Speaker 2: my gut telling me that that would be the case.
- 3:15Speaker 2: I could hear him right now saying, hey, Risotto, stop
- 3:18Speaker 2: it all right, wor the Voice of New York. Our
- 3:21Speaker 2: phone lines are open. We want you to call and
- 3:24Speaker 2: take part in the conversation today numbers eight hundred three
- 3:27Speaker 2: two one zero seven ten. Others may be closed for business.
- 3:32Speaker 2: We are live in person and open for business eight
- 3:35Speaker 2: hundred three two one zero seven ten. Well, you heard
- 3:39Speaker 2: very stagic talking about it. You heard Kurtis talking about it.
- 3:42Speaker 2: Larry's on VAK today. Good for him. The heat, of course,
- 3:46Speaker 2: we're in the middle of a heat wave. Could hit
- 3:48Speaker 2: one oh two in New York today. Crazy heat. It's
- 3:52Speaker 2: so oppressive. When you get to bed, like ninety two
- 3:54Speaker 2: ninety three, you can't even tell the difference. At that point.
- 3:56Speaker 2: Your body just says, oh, too much, too much heat.
- 4:00Speaker 2: I love the heat. I'll take warmth over cold at anytime,
- 4:04Speaker 2: but even I don't like it when it's this way stagnant, hot, humid.
- 4:09Speaker 2: It's just nasty. And I know a lot of people
- 4:12Speaker 2: were getting on Mayor Mom Donni for saying keep your
- 4:14Speaker 2: thermostats at seventy eight. But you know, I think the
- 4:18Speaker 2: Republicans who were bashing Mom Donnie about that should actually
- 4:21Speaker 2: rewind the tape. And look, did you know that President
- 4:24Speaker 2: Trump in twenty fifteen, during a heat wave, said keep
- 4:26Speaker 2: your thermostats at seventy eight. Yeah? Also President Bush said
- 4:30Speaker 2: keep your thermostats at seventy eight. So and I believe
- 4:33Speaker 2: Mayor Mayor Juliani said keep your thermostats at seventy eight
- 4:36Speaker 2: during a heat wave back then too. It's actually standard
- 4:40Speaker 2: to say that. And I'll tell you why. Can you
- 4:41Speaker 2: figure out? Why is he? Do you know why they
- 4:44Speaker 2: say seventy eight? He's nodding, but he's not telling me.
- 4:50Speaker 2: Get yes, is he nailed it? You nailed it, man.
- 4:55Speaker 2: It's because it's twenty degrees cooler. But why is that significant?
- 4:59Speaker 2: It's significant because even if you set your thermostat to sixty,
- 5:04Speaker 2: your AC unit really can only get you between fifteen
- 5:08Speaker 2: and at most thirty degrees. Most of them are ten
- 5:10Speaker 2: to twenty degrees. That's the best your air conditioning unit
- 5:13Speaker 2: will get you. So if it's one hundred degrees out,
- 5:16Speaker 2: you're probably not going to get Even if you put
- 5:19Speaker 2: your thermostat down to sixty, you're not going to get
- 5:21Speaker 2: below seventy five. So set your thermostat at seventy five
- 5:25Speaker 2: or seventy six because it's not going to make a difference. Actually,
- 5:27Speaker 2: you could burn out the motor if it just keeps
- 5:29Speaker 2: going and going and going trying to get down to sixty.
- 5:31Speaker 2: You'll freeze the coils, et cetera. You're better off just
- 5:34Speaker 2: setting it at seventy six or seventy eight. So they're
- 5:37Speaker 2: not entirely wrong. You ask any HVAC person, they will
- 5:40Speaker 2: tell you that you're the best. Air conditioning units with
- 5:43Speaker 2: the exception of major big industrial office buildings will only
- 5:48Speaker 2: get you about fifteen at most thirty degrees fifteen to
- 5:52Speaker 2: twenty typical. So if it's one hundred one hundred and
- 5:55Speaker 2: two out, you're not going to get below like upper seventies,
- 5:59Speaker 2: even if you got the best big ole Oh we
- 6:01Speaker 2: got two zone air conditioning ken, Yeah, that's all you're
- 6:04Speaker 2: gonna get, especially your upper units. If you have like
- 6:06Speaker 2: a two or three story house, the upstairs is going
- 6:09Speaker 2: to be about ten to fifteen degrees hotter than downstairs
- 6:12Speaker 2: because the heat is going to be baking your roof.
- 6:14Speaker 2: Anyone will tell you that. So that's why, as much
- 6:17Speaker 2: as there are a thousand things to get them, Mayor
- 6:19Speaker 2: Mamdani for that isn't one of them. But here's where
- 6:22Speaker 2: I will. You knew it wasn't gonna be all good
- 6:25Speaker 2: about the kami, right, So Mayor mom, donnie what he
- 6:30Speaker 2: fails to mention because he's talking about the power grid
- 6:33Speaker 2: and the strain on the power grid, but he fails
- 6:35Speaker 2: to mention why the power grid is so strained. Yeah,
- 6:38Speaker 2: you could say it's everybody using the air conditioning ken. Yeah,
- 6:41Speaker 2: but you know what, in the last twenty years, we've
- 6:43Speaker 2: switched to air conditioning units that are way more energy efficient.
- 6:47Speaker 2: We've switched to light bulbs that only use ten watts
- 6:50Speaker 2: or five watts instead of one hundred watts to give
- 6:53Speaker 2: us the same power. Right, We've switched to refrigeration units
- 6:57Speaker 2: that use half the power that the old ones used
- 6:59Speaker 2: to use. On and on and on it goes. So
- 7:02Speaker 2: when you consider all that, we should have tons of
- 7:05Speaker 2: leftover energy, but we don't. Why. There are a couple
- 7:09Speaker 2: of reasons. Number one, the good Democrats with their intention
- 7:14Speaker 2: of saving energy and helping save Mother Earth with the environment,
- 7:19Speaker 2: they have shut down fossil fuel generating plants, which are
- 7:22Speaker 2: the most efficient and reliable energy generators we've ever had.
- 7:26Speaker 2: They have fought to shut down fossil fuel plants and
- 7:29Speaker 2: New Jersey, New York, Connecticut every opportunity they could. And
- 7:33Speaker 2: then the most efficient and renewable resource we've ever created
- 7:38Speaker 2: for making electricity, nuclear power plants, any nuclear plant they could.
- 7:43Speaker 2: Southern New Jersey got shut down about seven years ago.
- 7:47Speaker 2: Indian Point under Andrew Cuomo couldn't wait to shut that
- 7:50Speaker 2: thing down, even though it was perfectly fine, it was
- 7:54Speaker 2: working great. Shut that thing down. That was like twenty
- 7:57Speaker 2: to twenty five percent of the power for the tri state.
- 7:59Speaker 2: For god, they came out of Indian Point shut it down.
- 8:03Speaker 2: And what does that do? That just put more of
- 8:05Speaker 2: a strain on the existing energy plants. So now every
- 8:09Speaker 2: time we have a heat situation like this, they tell
- 8:12Speaker 2: us to use less air conditioning. Now, how about we
- 8:14Speaker 2: authorize more power plants. How about we build another smaller efficient,
- 8:20Speaker 2: AI run nuclear power plant. You know you can't. You
- 8:24Speaker 2: can't wind mill and solar panel yourself out of an
- 8:27Speaker 2: energy crisis. Florida tried. Florida's the sunshine state. They got
- 8:31Speaker 2: more sun down there than just about any other state
- 8:33Speaker 2: in the whole Union except maybe California, New Mexico, and
- 8:36Speaker 2: Florida realized they had to have a combination of power
- 8:39Speaker 2: generating plants. They do have solar plants, lots of them,
- 8:43Speaker 2: But one solar plant takes a footprint that is ten
- 8:46Speaker 2: times the size of the equivalent fossil fuel plant to
- 8:50Speaker 2: generate the same electricity ten times the size, and that
- 8:53Speaker 2: is relying upon a full day of sun. If you
- 8:57Speaker 2: don't have a full day of sun, forget it, and
- 8:59Speaker 2: at night and generate anything. You have to store in
- 9:02Speaker 2: batteries that after a certain number of years have to
- 9:04Speaker 2: be stored in a landfill because they're no longer rechargeable.
- 9:08Speaker 2: So this becomes an issue. That's why solar is not
- 9:11Speaker 2: the end all be all, and windmills are not the
- 9:13Speaker 2: end all be all. The Republicanism is saying we'll do
- 9:16Speaker 2: an above you know, select all way of looking at power.
- 9:20Speaker 2: Democrats don't want to hear it. They would rather shut
- 9:23Speaker 2: down the fossil fuel and the nuclear plants and just
- 9:26Speaker 2: live in a cave just live in a cave, rock
- 9:29Speaker 2: back and forth eating bugs until we die, as opposed
- 9:32Speaker 2: to doing something practical. In New Jersey, Governor Murphy, I
- 9:37Speaker 2: used to love to call him, Governor Murphy, the man
- 9:40Speaker 2: worth seven billion dollars who needs a dentist to fix
- 9:43Speaker 2: those god awful teeth. Governor Murphy, right is, he's looking
- 9:47Speaker 2: at me and laughing. Have you ever seen go online here?
- 9:50Speaker 2: I defy you google Governor Murphy's teeth. Just google that
- 9:56Speaker 2: will they will pop there a thousand memes. It's a
- 10:00Speaker 2: I'll stop. It's not just crooked, it's like, eh, like
- 10:02Speaker 2: you never mind. Having met the man, very nice man,
- 10:05Speaker 2: he's actually extremely nice. I'm sorry to be so mean,
- 10:08Speaker 2: sorry to be so mean. Forgive me, forgive me, forgive me,
- 10:10Speaker 2: Father Ryefsen. I just made fun of Governor Murphy's teeth. Okay,
- 10:14Speaker 2: I just had my confession. But Governor Murphy made sure
- 10:19Speaker 2: he and his Democrats, who control all of the state
- 10:21Speaker 2: of New Jersey, they shut down six power plants. Okay,
- 10:26Speaker 2: six power plants without us without a replacement. Five were
- 10:31Speaker 2: were a fossil fuel plants and one was a nuclear plant. Now,
- 10:35Speaker 2: in the case of two of the fossil plants. They
- 10:37Speaker 2: needed some good rehab. And the question is do you
- 10:39Speaker 2: spend money fixing them up and making them more efficient
- 10:42Speaker 2: or just shut them down. Okay, I give them that,
- 10:45Speaker 2: that's fifty to fifty, but before you shut them down,
- 10:48Speaker 2: you needed to see that there was a replacement. No,
- 10:50Speaker 2: instead shut them all down, because that's the Democrat solution.
- 10:54Speaker 2: If it's fossil fuel, if it's nuclear, shut it down
- 10:58Speaker 2: and we'll deal with it later. What did they do
- 11:00Speaker 2: to deal with it? They ended up buying power from
- 11:03Speaker 2: other states, which is why New Jersey's energy rate per
- 11:07Speaker 2: kilowatt hour is one of the most expensive in the
- 11:10Speaker 2: entire country. So what was the solution from all the
- 11:14Speaker 2: semi braindead Democrat voters in New Jersey. Let's vote in
- 11:18Speaker 2: another Democrat, this time more liberal in Mikey Cheryl who.
- 11:21Speaker 2: I get a kick out of the fact that there
- 11:23Speaker 2: isn't a consultant on any of the big networks Fox, MS, NOW, CNN.
- 11:28Speaker 2: There isn't a consultant who knows what her name is pronounced,
- 11:31Speaker 2: as they call her Mickey Scherill. I've heard every name
- 11:34Speaker 2: in the world, including by her own Democrats. They don't
- 11:37Speaker 2: know the woman's name is Mikey Cheryl. Mikey Cheryl, who
- 11:39Speaker 2: is terrified to come on the air with me no
- 11:41Speaker 2: matter where I go, terrified, and her pr person or
- 11:45Speaker 2: press person loves he has some clip of me, either
- 11:48Speaker 2: here or on New Jersey making fun of her. Well,
- 11:52Speaker 2: tough luck. Put on your big girl pants, Mikey, you're
- 11:54Speaker 2: now the governor, you were a congresswoman. Put on your
- 11:57Speaker 2: big girl pants. Talk show hosts will make fun of
- 12:00Speaker 2: you like I made fun of Governor Murphy. I make
- 12:03Speaker 2: fun of Republicans too. Plenty of things to make fun
- 12:06Speaker 2: of with Republicans. Dot stop being so sensitive. Put on
- 12:09Speaker 2: your big girl pants and come on and take some questions.
- 12:11Speaker 2: I'm not going to rip you apart. I'm not going
- 12:13Speaker 2: to yell at you. I will be very respectful to you. Governor,
- 12:16Speaker 2: but Governor Cheryl, who doesn't speak like that. Governor Cheryl,
- 12:22Speaker 2: you know the idea that she would sit here and say,
- 12:25Speaker 2: we will have a solution on day one for the
- 12:27Speaker 2: energy crisis. What was the solution? Typical Democrat solution. Let's
- 12:31Speaker 2: empower a panel so this way she could say she's
- 12:35Speaker 2: doing something and all it is is to do nothing.
- 12:37Speaker 2: Speak group who gets together. It will take them two
- 12:39Speaker 2: years to come up with a report that's going to
- 12:41Speaker 2: cost us thirty million dollars and it's not going to
- 12:43Speaker 2: do a damn thing. The only thing she did allow
- 12:46Speaker 2: was to research, research what it would be to open
- 12:51Speaker 2: a small, efficient nuclear power plant. Didn't mean we're going
- 12:54Speaker 2: to do it. It's so that she could shut her opponents
- 12:57Speaker 2: up and say, look, we're researching it right now. Yeah, okay,
- 13:02Speaker 2: so by the time you and I are both dead,
- 13:04Speaker 2: we'll get a report from Governor Cheryl telling us what
- 13:07Speaker 2: the research showed about having a small nuclear power plant
- 13:10Speaker 2: in New Jersey. We had a big one. We know
- 13:12Speaker 2: what the research tells us the idea. Now we have
- 13:15Speaker 2: companies telling us that using AI, you can have much smaller,
- 13:18Speaker 2: much more efficient, much better built and run nuclear power
- 13:21Speaker 2: facilities that you don't have to worry about.
- 13:24Speaker 3: You know.
- 13:25Speaker 2: The reason why we had the problem with three Mile Island. Literally,
- 13:28Speaker 2: the guys at the switch at two o'clock in the
- 13:30Speaker 2: morning fell asleep. That's why. Look it up. Go online,
- 13:34Speaker 2: go take a look at their videos. You could see
- 13:36Speaker 2: on YouTube about what happened at three Mile Island. They
- 13:38Speaker 2: fell asleep and they didn't notice the big dials behind
- 13:42Speaker 2: them going. The temperature of the core was rising. These
- 13:46Speaker 2: guys were sound asleep. That's what happened. If you have
- 13:49Speaker 2: AI monitoring those things twenty four to seven, that thing
- 13:52Speaker 2: goes up a tenth of a degree, you'll know about it.
- 13:55Speaker 2: Everybody will know about it. That's the difference. A nuclear
- 13:59Speaker 2: power facility to would not be run like it was
- 14:02Speaker 2: fifty years ago. And that's what Three Mile Islands technology
- 14:05Speaker 2: was fifty years ago. That's why running up. Instead of
- 14:08Speaker 2: having one giant nuclear facility, we're talking about proposing a
- 14:12Speaker 2: number of smaller facilities that are much easier to maintain,
- 14:16Speaker 2: much easier to build. Instead of taking ten years to
- 14:18Speaker 2: build and ten years to get online, these things could
- 14:20Speaker 2: be built in a year or two and would be
- 14:22Speaker 2: online a year or two after that. But you have
- 14:25Speaker 2: to have the forethought, You have to have the open
- 14:27Speaker 2: mindedness that a Republican administration has when it comes to energy,
- 14:31Speaker 2: as opposed to Democrats who literally just want us to
- 14:33Speaker 2: go back to the Stone Age or crawl in a
- 14:35Speaker 2: cave and die, because in their view, every life form
- 14:38Speaker 2: on the planet deserves the rule of survival of the fittest,
- 14:41Speaker 2: except for humans. Humans we're not entitled to that. We
- 14:44Speaker 2: don't deserve to be here. It's all about guilt and
- 14:47Speaker 2: self flagellation. With Democrats, we're the evil, bad people, especially
- 14:51Speaker 2: white males. Among all of the group, white males the worst,
- 14:54Speaker 2: and everybody else kind of falls in line after that.
- 14:57Speaker 2: That's the way the modern Democrat Party looks at things,
- 15:00Speaker 2: wore the Voice of New York. We are wide open
- 15:03Speaker 2: to take your calls eight hundred three to two one
- 15:06Speaker 2: zero seven ten eight hundred three two one zero seven
- 15:09Speaker 2: ten case you didn't hear Ray Stagic earlier, sunny, hot, humid. Today,
- 15:14Speaker 2: the heat wave continues. Highs today one hundred to one
- 15:17Speaker 2: hundred and two degrees humidity, making it feel even hotter
- 15:20Speaker 2: than that. Maybe a late day thunderstorm today and tomorrow,
- 15:25Speaker 2: we hope not tomorrow. Tomorrow's the big fireworks show. Remember
- 15:28Speaker 2: the fireworks are going to be both at the East
- 15:30Speaker 2: River and the Hudson River. Did you know that is
- 15:32Speaker 2: he It's gonna be in both. Uh huh. So you
- 15:34Speaker 2: know some years they pick East River, some years they
- 15:36Speaker 2: pick Hudson River. This is the two fiftieth of America.
- 15:38Speaker 2: They said, heck, Macy's said, let's do both, so they're
- 15:42Speaker 2: gonna have the fireworks going off both the East River
- 15:44Speaker 2: and the Hudson River and off of the Brooklyn Bridge
- 15:47Speaker 2: and a laser show. It's gonna be amazing. We just
- 15:51Speaker 2: hope the weather cooperates. Keep your fingers crossed and come
- 15:54Speaker 2: out up a little bit later we'll speak with the
- 15:56Speaker 2: great Roger Friedman from Showbiz four to one one talk
- 15:59Speaker 2: about all the latest entertainment news, including the Swift wedding.
- 16:03Speaker 2: I bet he knows everything about it. Your calls oo
- 16:05Speaker 2: coming up next, just a couple of minutes from now,
- 16:06Speaker 2: eight hundred and three to two one zero seven ten.
- 16:09Speaker 2: It's ten twenty one seven ten. Wor coming right back.
- 16:12Speaker 1: This is the Mark Simone Show on seven ten wor
- 16:16Speaker 1: Ken from Mark Today.
- 16:18Speaker 2: Here's Ken, Roseauda and Ice to be with you on
- 16:21Speaker 2: this very hot observance of the fourth of July. Here
- 16:25Speaker 2: on the third, let's go to our busy phones. Bob
- 16:26Speaker 2: in mont Valley, Jersey, right by the Rockland border. Good
- 16:29Speaker 2: morning Bob to you.
- 16:32Speaker 4: Oh, good morning. Yes, I can see Rockland from my
- 16:35Speaker 4: kitchen window.
- 16:36Speaker 2: Here people remember the reference. That's the question. I can
- 16:39Speaker 2: see what is that? I can see Russia from my House.
- 16:43Speaker 4: That's yes, soul Sarah Pellin. But two quick things, if
- 16:48Speaker 4: I may. You know you mentioned about the helicopter pilot governor.
- 16:52Speaker 4: She did the same thing with New Jersey Transit. You
- 16:55Speaker 4: said she's gonna fix it, and in day one she
- 16:58Speaker 4: puts out a question neared of people. And you know
- 17:01Speaker 4: how it ended up is the fares went up yesterday
- 17:04Speaker 4: and the service went.
- 17:05Speaker 2: Down three percent. And by the way, you do know,
- 17:07Speaker 2: I don't need to step on your bob. They built
- 17:09Speaker 2: in this is the Democrat's cute little trick. They built
- 17:13Speaker 2: in an automatic three percent annual fare hike, no matter what,
- 17:18Speaker 2: and there's no end in sight. It goes on and
- 17:20Speaker 2: on and on, and the governor has the right to
- 17:23Speaker 2: hike the fair even more, but there is a minimum
- 17:26Speaker 2: three Basically, they call it like an inflation correction every
- 17:31Speaker 2: year three percent. Well what if inflation is only two percent?
- 17:33Speaker 2: This is this is the way they play the game.
- 17:37Speaker 3: No, I know, and you know, And I'm glad you
- 17:40Speaker 3: bring that up because I am aware of that.
- 17:42Speaker 4: Unfortunately, I don't think anybody else is. But if I
- 17:46Speaker 4: can bring up the point about these data centers and stuff,
- 17:49Speaker 4: especially in New York, people are so onto it. You know,
- 17:52Speaker 4: in New York they gave.
- 17:54Speaker 3: Farm is a lot of like regulations and a harm
- 17:57Speaker 3: time to farm and to like get from from dairy
- 18:01Speaker 3: to beef to agriculture. And now they're turning farms in
- 18:05Speaker 3: upstate New York into solar farms and people are clueless
- 18:09Speaker 3: about that.
- 18:10Speaker 4: Now what's worse a data center or now scoffing up
- 18:14Speaker 4: land that is like growing food. People don't realize New
- 18:18Speaker 4: York is a great resource of food agriculture, and now
- 18:23Speaker 4: it's being turned into acres and acres of solar farms.
- 18:27Speaker 4: And all we hear, like Curtis and Larry talk about,
- 18:32Speaker 4: is oh data centered, data cateed data center. But they they're.
- 18:37Speaker 3: Ruining paradise upstate New York with solar panels, folks, and
- 18:42Speaker 3: people are just clueless.
- 18:44Speaker 2: Bob, those are excellent points. And in fact, yesterday I
- 18:47Speaker 2: don't know if you heard, we had On Fisher, who's
- 18:50Speaker 2: a tech guy that I have on my show in
- 18:53Speaker 2: New Jersey all the time at o NNJ dot com.
- 18:55Speaker 2: By the way, you live in New Jersey, sermon, I
- 18:56Speaker 2: want to check it out o NNJ dot com every day.
- 18:59Speaker 2: Do the show, Thank you, sir, so as do I
- 19:03Speaker 2: so Fisher was on yesterday talking about the fact that
- 19:07Speaker 2: there is a proposal by mister Musk to have a
- 19:12Speaker 2: million satellites called AI one satellites that would be data centers.
- 19:18Speaker 2: Now here's the way it would work. Because space is
- 19:21Speaker 2: ice coal, there's zero degrees unless you're pointing at a star,
- 19:24Speaker 2: then it's a zillion degrees. It doesn't need to be
- 19:27Speaker 2: cooled by water like we would need on Earth, and
- 19:30Speaker 2: the solar panels would be out taking free electricity twenty
- 19:34Speaker 2: four to seven from the star, from the sun or
- 19:36Speaker 2: whatever starts pointed at and then it would just beam
- 19:39Speaker 2: the data back and forth from the satellite. Now you
- 19:42Speaker 2: could say, what if it gets intercepted, Well, you know
- 19:44Speaker 2: everything can get intercepted. So whatever the thing is, if
- 19:47Speaker 2: you have a million of these satellites all doing a
- 19:49Speaker 2: little bit of the data processing at the same time,
- 19:51Speaker 2: you'd solve the problems of the data centers and you
- 19:54Speaker 2: wouldn't have to have any here on Earth. So it
- 19:56Speaker 2: depends on what you want to do. I think that's
- 19:58Speaker 2: the direction that everybody wants to go in this point.
- 20:00Speaker 2: Would you have any objection to that? Now there you go,
- 20:03Speaker 2: and you wouldn't be taking up all the land. Excellent. Hey,
- 20:06Speaker 2: I love Montville, by the way, the way you ever
- 20:08Speaker 2: go to Wegman's there in Montvale.
- 20:11Speaker 3: All the time? I can walk to it, actually. And
- 20:14Speaker 3: that's another area you know that used to be such
- 20:16Speaker 3: a great farm, real farms, and now it's like a
- 20:21Speaker 3: Wegman's and it's it's good.
- 20:22Speaker 2: I like Wegmans. We like Wegmans. It's not a problem. Fortunately,
- 20:25Speaker 2: there's still a lot of New Jersey that's farm landed
- 20:28Speaker 2: is still the garden state. You just have to drive
- 20:29Speaker 2: a little farther, Bob. We love when you call No,
- 20:33Speaker 2: that's true. Got to drive about an hour and a
- 20:35Speaker 2: half south, go down to like Sussex and the Middlesex.
- 20:38Speaker 2: Then you'll find some farms. Bob. We appreciate you, my friend.
- 20:41Speaker 4: Happy fourth, Happy for to you all too, Thank you.
- 20:45Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. All right, let's go over to our
- 20:46Speaker 2: friend Joe in Elmwood Park. Hello, Joe, Oh, jo favorite.
- 20:50Speaker 5: Could we be talking about our favorite governor? Governor lamb
- 20:53Speaker 5: chop shot puppet. Now, I'm going to give you a
- 20:59Speaker 5: Patterson for sake saying, and I'll try to keep it clean.
- 21:03Speaker 5: I will kiss your behind and Macy's window if you
- 21:06Speaker 5: could prove to me that that election was on the money.
- 21:09Speaker 2: Uh Okay, well, you know, as a broadcaster, I have
- 21:13Speaker 2: to say, well, there's no evidence that it wasn't on
- 21:15Speaker 2: the money. Excuse me as I choke. Yeah, No, it's
- 21:20Speaker 2: it's uh. When you think about the fact that in
- 21:22Speaker 2: that last election she got more votes than any governor ever,
- 21:26Speaker 2: just amazing, isn't it just amazing? Everybody turned out and
- 21:29Speaker 2: voted for her.
- 21:30Speaker 5: I wish he'd come Downwood Park. I would ask her
- 21:32Speaker 5: how many dead people and how many illegal aliens voted
- 21:35Speaker 5: for her? What she wanted about illegal aliens for it?
- 21:38Speaker 5: Because they're the ones that got her elected. That's why
- 21:40Speaker 5: she next day she ran down to Nowork.
- 21:42Speaker 2: Yeah. You know the thing. We're gonna talk more about
- 21:45Speaker 2: that too, Joe. When we talk about all the traffic
- 21:47Speaker 2: in New York City, we talk about the strain on
- 21:50Speaker 2: the power grid, we talk about the strain on water,
- 21:53Speaker 2: We talk about the schools being overpopulated. Well, but you
- 21:57Speaker 2: know where that comes from. If you add two million
- 22:00Speaker 2: people to New York City and nine hundred thousand people
- 22:02Speaker 2: to the state of New Jersey who are here illegally,
- 22:04Speaker 2: so that the infrastructure never accounted for them. What the
- 22:08Speaker 2: heck do you think is gonna happen? You know, we
- 22:10Speaker 2: think that I think we have a misconception that all
- 22:13Speaker 2: illegal aliens are poor little people who stay in slums,
- 22:17Speaker 2: who are in these like twenty two an apartment type situation.
- 22:21Speaker 6: No.
- 22:21Speaker 2: I personally know people that I didn't realize were illegal
- 22:24Speaker 2: till later, who are wealthy, who come from Canada, they
- 22:28Speaker 2: come from Costa Rica. I know people from Europe. They
- 22:31Speaker 2: overstayed their visas and they drive expensive cars, and they're
- 22:34Speaker 2: the ones congesting the roadways. And that's why you and
- 22:37Speaker 2: I are paying congestion pricing, because they shouldn't be here.
- 22:40Speaker 5: On are dying over a million?
- 22:42Speaker 2: You gotta know them that they know of If we
- 22:44Speaker 2: know of a million, god knows how many there actually are.
- 22:46Speaker 5: And when is Nick Shirley coming here for the fraud?
- 22:50Speaker 5: Three hundred billion fraud in New Jersey guaranteed.
- 22:53Speaker 2: Yeah, three hundred billion. That's that's chump change. It's way
- 22:56Speaker 2: more than that, Joe, way more than that. Hey, happy independence,
- 23:00Speaker 2: my friend. We got to do the news. We appreciate you, Joe,
- 23:02Speaker 2: thank you very much.
- 23:04Speaker 4: All right.
- 23:04Speaker 2: Seven to ten wore the Voice of New York sunny,
- 23:07Speaker 2: hot human. Hi's about one hundred and two maybe a
- 23:10Speaker 2: late day thunderstorm. Phone lines are open eight hundred three
- 23:12Speaker 2: to two one zero seven ten.
- 23:15Speaker 1: Live from the doubr Life Back Studios. No Mark Simone
- 23:19Speaker 1: show guest hosting from Mark Today, Ken Rosato and so good.
- 23:24Speaker 2: To be with you. Happy Independence Day weekend, Mark Simone
- 23:28Speaker 2: enjoying a nice long weekend. I think Mark Simone is
- 23:31Speaker 2: actually with Taylor Swift right now, telling her, no, you
- 23:36Speaker 2: know what you want is that dressed to be off
- 23:37Speaker 2: the shoulder a little. I think he's right now helping
- 23:39Speaker 2: her with the wedding. That's what I think. I don't
- 23:42Speaker 2: know that, but I'm just saying, well, I hear the laughter.
- 23:45Speaker 2: I love it. He runs the Hottest entertainment website on
- 23:48Speaker 2: the interwebs, Showbiz four one one. Rumor has it that
- 23:51Speaker 2: he helped Travis pick out Taylor's engagement ring the incomparable
- 23:55Speaker 2: Roger Friedman. Ladies and gentlemen, Good morning Roger.
- 23:59Speaker 7: No, you know, I say I'm officiating actually tonight.
- 24:02Speaker 2: Ah you could.
- 24:04Speaker 7: They're gonna wind up getting a Jewish wedding even if
- 24:06Speaker 7: they don't want one.
- 24:07Speaker 2: Hully, you know, I used to be a priest, Right,
- 24:09Speaker 2: you do know that?
- 24:09Speaker 7: Or no, I didn't know that.
- 24:11Speaker 8: There you go.
- 24:12Speaker 2: So I've done a couple of celeb weddings in the past.
- 24:14Speaker 2: Now I would have to do it like I could
- 24:16Speaker 2: do whatever. I'm sure I'm gonna get in trouble now
- 24:18Speaker 2: for announcing that publicly anyway. So Taylor Swift, So what's
- 24:22Speaker 2: the deal issue already married? Dish the dirt, what's the deal.
- 24:26Speaker 7: I don't think she's I think that the I think
- 24:28Speaker 7: the wedding is tonight. I think that this people don't
- 24:32Speaker 7: know anything. So this amount of speculation is in overdrive
- 24:37Speaker 7: and people are making stuff up. Nothing's ever going to
- 24:40Speaker 7: be confirmed or denied, so you can say anything you want.
- 24:43Speaker 7: But I think they had their rehearsal dinner last night
- 24:46Speaker 7: and they're having their wedding tonight at the garden. It'll
- 24:49Speaker 7: be about one hundred and fifty degrees outside at the
- 24:52Speaker 7: moment that they're going in. It's maybe we'll have thunderstorms.
- 24:57Speaker 7: It should be fun. I just put up a pit.
- 25:00Speaker 7: Sure from the NYPD news twitter feed of Chief Bodette,
- 25:05Speaker 7: who's the head of Manhattan South Cops, standing outside of
- 25:10Speaker 7: the garden right now with the megaphone calling out Taylor
- 25:14Speaker 7: Swift lyrics.
- 25:15Speaker 2: I'm looking at it right now. I see it right
- 25:17Speaker 2: now on your site. That's great.
- 25:18Speaker 7: This is the craziest thing I've ever You know, the
- 25:23Speaker 7: police have paid very handsomely to take care of this wedding,
- 25:28Speaker 7: and of course Taylor Swifts and Travis Kelsey gave away
- 25:31Speaker 7: twenty six million dollars in donations to various charities and
- 25:36Speaker 7: funds yesterday, which was their way of saying, you know,
- 25:40Speaker 7: we know this looks terrible. The wedding looks terrible, but
- 25:42Speaker 7: we're very nice people and.
- 25:44Speaker 2: They don't look look for the When you think of
- 25:47Speaker 2: the amount of charity she's done over the years and
- 25:49Speaker 2: the amount of people who she gives just from the
- 25:51Speaker 2: idea that she gives joy to so many millions of people.
- 25:54Speaker 2: Life kind of sucks for a lot of people. And
- 25:57Speaker 2: if she could bring joy to a lot of people,
- 25:59Speaker 2: and this is what they like, there could be a
- 26:02Speaker 2: lot worse that they're doing than cheering, unless.
- 26:05Speaker 7: Exactly absolutely it's absolutely harmless. And uh, they're going to
- 26:10Speaker 7: be people. They're not going to get close tonight, but
- 26:13Speaker 7: there's going to be a huge crowds probably behind the
- 26:16Speaker 7: barriers waiting to see what's happening, and it's sort of
- 26:19Speaker 7: like it's they've turned it into like a royal wedding.
- 26:22Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's the closest we up to royalty
- 26:25Speaker 2: in America. This is this is our royalty. Yeah.
- 26:28Speaker 7: Well I thought the Kardashians were actually the royalty. But
- 26:33Speaker 7: this is the whole, all of these things. The coals,
- 26:37Speaker 7: the department store of royalty, the.
- 26:39Speaker 2: Coals department stopped. Cols is good. I love my coals.
- 26:42Speaker 2: Don't don't knock gold. Hey, listen, let's shift from enough.
- 26:46Speaker 2: People are saying enough with the tailor. Okay. So mel Brooks,
- 26:49Speaker 2: one of my favorite human beings ever on the planet,
- 26:52Speaker 2: just turned one hundred. God bless him. Happy birthday. I
- 26:54Speaker 2: hope he lives to be two hundred. That man. I
- 26:57Speaker 2: could watch every one of his movies a thousand times.
- 27:02Speaker 7: Well, we love mel Brooks. I Over the years, I've
- 27:05Speaker 7: had a lot of opportunities to interview him and talk
- 27:08Speaker 7: to him. And when he was when he and his
- 27:12Speaker 7: late writing partner Tom me and were writing the Young
- 27:18Speaker 7: Frankenstein musical, they they used to go to a restaurant
- 27:26Speaker 7: around sixtieth and Lexington. That was I was called Madame
- 27:30Speaker 7: Romain de Leon, and it was this place that only
- 27:33Speaker 7: made omelets. They were very expensive. They had like, you know,
- 27:38Speaker 7: truffles in them and that.
- 27:39Speaker 9: Kind of thing.
- 27:40Speaker 7: And eventually the place was padlocked because the people who
- 27:42Speaker 7: were running it never paid their taxes. And there weren't
- 27:46Speaker 7: that many people in the restaurant ever, but I knew
- 27:49Speaker 7: that they were up there, so I used to go
- 27:50Speaker 7: up there and have lunch when they were in the
- 27:53Speaker 7: back writing, and they were so much fun. And I
- 27:57Speaker 7: really liked the Young Frankenstein musical. But after The Ducers
- 28:01Speaker 7: was such a hit on Broadway, nothing could live up
- 28:04Speaker 7: to it. You know, it was pointless. But Mel is great,
- 28:10Speaker 7: and of course The Producers was a gigantic hit on
- 28:15Speaker 7: Broadway after being a cult movie for years, and all
- 28:19Speaker 7: those other movies were just terrific. Spaceballs it was one
- 28:24Speaker 7: of my favorites. And now the sequel will be out
- 28:27Speaker 7: next spring. So Spaceball's two comes out in April, I
- 28:32Speaker 7: think of twenty twenty seven, and hopefully Mel will be
- 28:35Speaker 7: at the premiere. I'm sure he will, and you know
- 28:39Speaker 7: it's going to be a riot.
- 28:40Speaker 2: The whole pace.
- 28:43Speaker 7: I used to get into trouble on Christmas Day, we
- 28:48Speaker 7: used to be. My friends had dinner and they say,
- 28:51Speaker 7: bring a movie with you, so I always brought Spaceballs
- 28:54Speaker 7: for the kids who are there, and then I get
- 28:56Speaker 7: into trouble with the parents.
- 29:00Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but my all time favorite still has happens
- 29:02Speaker 2: to me. And I know it's politically incorrect totally, but
- 29:05Speaker 2: Blazing Saddles, Yeah, Blazing. I just there is not a
- 29:09Speaker 2: scene that isn't a classic scene in Blazing Saddles. You
- 29:12Speaker 2: could quote every single scene in the movie.
- 29:15Speaker 7: And it's more politically incorrect than almost any movie you've heard.
- 29:19Speaker 7: Recept absolutely, and mel came and showed it a few
- 29:23Speaker 7: just a few years ago. He came and showed it
- 29:27Speaker 7: and entered a Q and A afterwards, and it was absolutely.
- 29:30Speaker 7: The whole thing was hilarious. So it held up beautifully
- 29:34Speaker 7: after whatever forty years or fifty years, and all of
- 29:38Speaker 7: his stuff pretty much holds up him. Of course, my
- 29:41Speaker 7: our favorite things get smart of course, which you know. Yeah,
- 29:47Speaker 7: And they came up with the Cone of Silence and
- 29:49Speaker 7: a shoe fountain.
- 29:51Speaker 2: Before we had cell phones. That came up with the
- 29:53Speaker 2: shoe phone. It was great, that's right.
- 29:55Speaker 7: And the Cone of Silence I refer anytime you go
- 29:58Speaker 7: into a noisy New York restaurant, I say, get the
- 30:01Speaker 7: conor silence.
- 30:03Speaker 2: For those who don't remember, it was this dome like
- 30:05Speaker 2: an upside down Martini glass that would come down from
- 30:08Speaker 2: the ceiling and that way these secret agents could talk inside.
- 30:11Speaker 2: You could hear it echoing through the room, but supposedly
- 30:13Speaker 2: the right exactly.
- 30:16Speaker 7: I couldn't hear anything. And finally that how the chief
- 30:20Speaker 7: would say, get rid of this thing so we can
- 30:22Speaker 7: hear each other.
- 30:23Speaker 2: Only Melbrook, and of course Melbrook's best friend on the
- 30:26Speaker 2: planet was Carl Reiner, who was a friend of my grandfather's.
- 30:30Speaker 2: I'm from you Rochelle and Carl Reiner used to live
- 30:33Speaker 2: on Bonnie Meadow Drive, but in uh or Bonnie Meadow Crest.
- 30:37Speaker 2: But I think in the Dick Van Dyke Show they
- 30:39Speaker 2: actually gave the address that he lived on. They called
- 30:42Speaker 2: it Bonnie Meadow Drive instead, but it was the actual
- 30:45Speaker 2: address that melt that Carl Reiner lived at, which was hysterical.
- 30:48Speaker 2: My grandfather used to say, my grandfather was a contractor.
- 30:51Speaker 2: I used to do work there at that address, and
- 30:53Speaker 2: he used to say it on the Dick Van Dykes Show,
- 30:55Speaker 2: which was hysterical.
- 30:57Speaker 7: That's where Robin Laura lived exactly.
- 31:00Speaker 2: But that was when you could do that.
- 31:01Speaker 7: There are real people living in West Point, living in
- 31:04Speaker 7: Orchelle and being and living in New York. When the
- 31:08Speaker 7: show was on, we thought they were real people.
- 31:10Speaker 2: Absolutely. Hey, listen, we're chatting up a storm on him.
- 31:13Speaker 2: He is just a god. Bless him. May he be
- 31:15Speaker 2: another hundred. He's just wonderful, made so many people happy.
- 31:18Speaker 2: So we got about a minute left. What is coming
- 31:21Speaker 2: up on the box office this weekend?
- 31:24Speaker 7: The box office is pretty quiet. Toy Story five has
- 31:27Speaker 7: been the big movie. We're waiting right now for The
- 31:31Speaker 7: Odyssey on July seventeenth. And this is going to be
- 31:36Speaker 7: like This is from the director of Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan,
- 31:39Speaker 7: and it's a three hour epic. I haven't seen it yet.
- 31:43Speaker 2: I'm going to.
- 31:44Speaker 7: I'm going to the premiere a few days before the opening.
- 31:48Speaker 7: A few critics saw it the other day because they
- 31:50Speaker 7: were doing it long interviews, and apparently it's fantastic. It's
- 31:55Speaker 7: going to be a big a stunner. So and this
- 31:58Speaker 7: is you know, you know Homer, remember how not Homer.
- 32:01Speaker 9: Simpson is the poet, yes and and and putting this
- 32:07Speaker 9: together with the you know, uh, Helen of Troy and
- 32:11Speaker 9: the Trojan Horse and all of that.
- 32:13Speaker 7: It's gonna be it's gonna be stunning.
- 32:16Speaker 2: Uh.
- 32:16Speaker 7: And it's all live. There's no CGI, there's no uh
- 32:20Speaker 7: computer graphics or artificial intelligence. It's a it's a live movie.
- 32:25Speaker 7: So it's gonna be it's going to be completely.
- 32:27Speaker 2: Wild, very cool.
- 32:29Speaker 7: Everyone's really looking everyone's looking forward to that. And uh
- 32:33Speaker 7: and there's lots of great stuff playing on Broadway and
- 32:36Speaker 7: hopefully Broadway.
- 32:37Speaker 2: I will have a good summer and hopefully Broadway has
- 32:39Speaker 2: good air conditioning.
- 32:41Speaker 7: Well, Broadway, it's a good reason to go to a
- 32:43Speaker 7: museum or a Broadway show is to get out.
- 32:45Speaker 2: Of the heat exactly, you know, to do Roger, we're
- 32:48Speaker 2: at a time here, my friend. Don't forget everybody. It
- 32:51Speaker 2: is showbiz for one one. Check out everything and anything
- 32:55Speaker 2: in entertainment. I know. Roger has to get back to
- 32:58Speaker 2: the wedding right now. The tailor's waiting saying where is Roger?
- 33:01Speaker 7: And we're just working, just working on the ows right now.
- 33:05Speaker 2: Roger, happy fourth, my friend, Thank you for coming on
- 33:07Speaker 2: as old Yes, happy too, thank you. Roger. All right,
- 33:10Speaker 2: I have a great day, Sauday Hot humid today, HI
- 33:13Speaker 2: is about one hundred and two maybe a late day thunderstorm.
- 33:17Speaker 2: Taking your calls next, so the phone line's wide open,
- 33:19Speaker 2: give us a call. Eight hundred three to two one
- 33:21Speaker 2: zero seven ten eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
- 33:26Speaker 2: Ken Rosato went for the great Mark Simone on your
- 33:28Speaker 2: Friday w o R. We're coming right.
- 33:30Speaker 1: Back seven ten WR filling in for Mark. Here again
- 33:34Speaker 1: is Can Rosado.
- 33:35Speaker 5: Yea.
- 33:35Speaker 2: And just because we went a little along with Roger there,
- 33:38Speaker 2: we don't really have time for a phone call. Just
- 33:40Speaker 2: to remind everybody, Macy's fiftieth Fourth of July Fireworks Show.
- 33:43Speaker 2: It's scheduled to take place tomorrow night, starting at nine
- 33:46Speaker 2: to twenty five, weather permitting. We're hoping the storms hold out.
- 33:49Speaker 2: They're going to be blasting those fireworks both on the
- 33:51Speaker 2: East River and the Hudson River, eighty five thousand shells
- 33:55Speaker 2: and from the Brooklyn Bridge. It's going to be amazing.
- 33:57Speaker 2: Keep your fingers crossed to the weatherholes up. It is
- 33:59Speaker 2: now eleven o'clock WR, the Voice of New York Back
- 34:03Speaker 2: after the news.
- 34:04Speaker 1: Now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten WR. Filling
- 34:09Speaker 1: in for Mark, here's Ken rosattoed.
- 34:12Speaker 2: So nice to be with your happy Independence Day weekend.
- 34:15Speaker 2: Former New York City to New Zach you guy, Ken
- 34:18Speaker 2: Rosato reporting for duty. I used to be on Channel
- 34:20Speaker 2: seven for twenty years. I did the morning and the
- 34:23Speaker 2: noon show there, had a great time, good friends there,
- 34:26Speaker 2: and I worked for a year prior to that at
- 34:29Speaker 2: Fox five Good Day in New York. A lot of
- 34:30Speaker 2: people don't remember that because it was so long ago,
- 34:32Speaker 2: from twenty twenty, two thousand and two to two thousand
- 34:35Speaker 2: and three. That's right. I worked at Good Day and
- 34:38Speaker 2: I was with Lynn Brown back then, and Dave Price
- 34:42Speaker 2: was on back then, and who else, and then we
- 34:44Speaker 2: got Mike Woods he joined us, So it was a
- 34:46Speaker 2: good time. That was a lot of years ago. I
- 34:48Speaker 2: have people coming up to me on the streets that
- 34:50Speaker 2: go when I was growing up, when I was five
- 34:53Speaker 2: years old, and I look at them as they shut up.
- 34:58Speaker 2: I just it's hard to fab about. I'm not that
- 35:00Speaker 2: old now, but yes, and I got to meet I
- 35:03Speaker 2: got to meet Sarah Lee Kessler here at the wonderful
- 35:07Speaker 2: iHeart Studios yesterday, whom I used to watch on Channel
- 35:11Speaker 2: nine when I was younger. Not that Sarah's that much
- 35:14Speaker 2: older than me, but what an honor to meet Sarah
- 35:17Speaker 2: le Kesler. She is just a delightful, wonderful person and
- 35:21Speaker 2: what a total pro all the years as she served
- 35:25Speaker 2: New York City. Just great to meet her. Seven ten
- 35:28Speaker 2: w R the Voice of New York. Our phone lines
- 35:31Speaker 2: are open. Give us a call eight hundred and three
- 35:33Speaker 2: to two one zero seven ten the Great Mark Simone
- 35:37Speaker 2: taking a day or two off enjoying the lyng nice
- 35:40Speaker 2: long weekend again. Rumor has it, I don't know that
- 35:43Speaker 2: it's true, but rumor has it. He is working closely
- 35:46Speaker 2: with Taylor, Swift and Kelsey right now. They are kind
- 35:50Speaker 2: of working on finals of the wedding plans. That's what
- 35:52Speaker 2: I hear he's doing. I'm sure if that's the case,
- 35:55Speaker 2: that Mark will post it on his Instagram at some
- 35:58Speaker 2: point today see what happens. I'm just kidding. I don't know.
- 36:02Speaker 2: People are saying, is he really? I don't know. He
- 36:04Speaker 2: who knows? It's Mark who knows. In the middle of
- 36:07Speaker 2: a heat wave right now, we've been talking about this.
- 36:09Speaker 2: Of course, most of the tri State could see up
- 36:12Speaker 2: to one hundred to one hundred and two degrees today.
- 36:16Speaker 2: As Daria was Daria Algingerber was saying that the record
- 36:20Speaker 2: today is one hundred and three. I think the all
- 36:23Speaker 2: time record for New York City is either one hundred
- 36:25Speaker 2: and five or one hundred and six. Like ever in
- 36:28Speaker 2: the history since we've been keeping records, it's either one
- 36:32Speaker 2: oh five or one oh six that the high temperature was.
- 36:35Speaker 2: But for this day in history, it was one hundred
- 36:37Speaker 2: and three, and we could hit one hundred and two.
- 36:40Speaker 2: So you know, what does that mean? When you get
- 36:43Speaker 2: above like ninety ninety five, your body just really can't
- 36:46Speaker 2: even sense a difference. It's just hot. Uh. And here's
- 36:50Speaker 2: the advice that a friend of mine who is a
- 36:51Speaker 2: medical doctor constantly gives. Even if you absolutely positively don't
- 36:58Speaker 2: feel like you want a sip of water right now
- 37:00Speaker 2: before you do anything, before you walk out of the house,
- 37:03Speaker 2: have a full glass of water, number one, and then
- 37:07Speaker 2: if you are outside doing anything within the hour, have
- 37:11Speaker 2: another full glass of water. You do not realize how
- 37:15Speaker 2: much you dehydrate just from breathing, from moving around, and
- 37:18Speaker 2: the amount of sweat that just evaporates off your body
- 37:21Speaker 2: as you're walking around in this heat. You want to
- 37:24Speaker 2: kind of preempt any possibility of getting sick, so drink
- 37:27Speaker 2: extra water. And spend you know, if you didn't have
- 37:30Speaker 2: to go to the market. But yeah, maybe I should
- 37:32Speaker 2: pick up those carrots and those bananas. Go now, and
- 37:35Speaker 2: instead of spending fifteen minutes, spend about an hour. Soupermarket's
- 37:39Speaker 2: a great, nice, cool place, especially in the produce aisle.
- 37:42Speaker 2: All the refrigeration open. You know, I walked in yesterday
- 37:45Speaker 2: to mine, and man, it was ice cold, and I
- 37:48Speaker 2: loved every second of it. It's a great place to
- 37:50Speaker 2: just walk nice and slowly, take your time. We heard
- 37:54Speaker 2: Roger Friedman saying, before go to the museum, go to
- 37:57Speaker 2: a theater, enjoy the air conditioning. And it's there already,
- 38:00Speaker 2: And this way you don't have to deal with the
- 38:03Speaker 2: electric bills yourself. And it's a good way to spend
- 38:06Speaker 2: a couple hours until the sun comes down. Remember ten
- 38:09Speaker 2: a to two p worst time of the day to
- 38:11Speaker 2: be out. That's when it's absolutely the hottest. And then
- 38:15Speaker 2: two to four second worst time. After four pm, as
- 38:18Speaker 2: the sun starts to come down, it gets a little better.
- 38:21Speaker 2: But again, this is not just hot. This is dangerously hot.
- 38:25Speaker 2: So don't tax it if you don't have to, don't
- 38:29Speaker 2: stretch it, Okay, especially if you're older or if you
- 38:32Speaker 2: have a baby or a pet, don't push it today.
- 38:36Speaker 2: Drink the water, stay cool. Seven to ten, wore the
- 38:39Speaker 2: Voice of New York. This is Ken Risotto in for
- 38:42Speaker 2: Mark Simone. Yeah, yeah, I know. I wish Mark. We're
- 38:44Speaker 2: into I love Mark. I listen every single day. I
- 38:48Speaker 2: know most of you callers because I listen to you
- 38:50Speaker 2: when you call. So when I see on the collar roster,
- 38:53Speaker 2: we have a little list of all the people calling in.
- 38:55Speaker 2: I know when you called because I heard you during
- 38:57Speaker 2: the week. I listened to the show every single day.
- 39:00Speaker 2: I don't miss Mark Simone ever. If I can't hear
- 39:02Speaker 2: him live, I listened to the playback on the iHeartRadio
- 39:05Speaker 2: app because I am absolutely addicted to Mark Simone. Love
- 39:08Speaker 2: Marx Simone, have for years. And I briefly touched on
- 39:11Speaker 2: this yesterday. I got to fill in for Mark yesterday.
- 39:14Speaker 2: But it bears repeating. I don't know if you're aware
- 39:16Speaker 2: of this, but because June thirtieth is the deadline for
- 39:21Speaker 2: much of many businesses and municipalities to get their budgets
- 39:26Speaker 2: in for the following year. New Jersey, where I live,
- 39:30Speaker 2: and New York City both finalized their budgets and I'm
- 39:33Speaker 2: not sure if you heard, but in New Jersey the
- 39:36Speaker 2: new spending plan is roughly sixty one billion dollars. Now,
- 39:42Speaker 2: mind you, the population of the state of New Jersey
- 39:44Speaker 2: is just over nine million people. Nine million people with
- 39:47Speaker 2: a sixty one billion dollar budget. In New York City,
- 39:51Speaker 2: the twenty twenty seven spending plan is one hundred and
- 39:55Speaker 2: twenty six billion, Okay, and that's for eight and a
- 39:59Speaker 2: half many people. Meanwhile, the budget for the entire state
- 40:03Speaker 2: of Florida for twenty twenty seven, and Florida, by the way,
- 40:07Speaker 2: has twenty four million people. Florida's budget is one hundred
- 40:12Speaker 2: and eighteen billion. So I know I threw out a
- 40:13Speaker 2: lot of numbers at you, But think about the contrast here.
- 40:17Speaker 2: New York City is eight point five million people and
- 40:21Speaker 2: their budget is one hundred and twenty six billion. The
- 40:24Speaker 2: state of Florida is twenty six million people and their
- 40:29Speaker 2: budget is one hundred and eighteen billion. So for three
- 40:32Speaker 2: times the population, they have a lower budget than the
- 40:35Speaker 2: City of New York. I asked you to think about that.
- 40:39Speaker 2: Why does that make sense? I'm waiting somebody tell me, ding, ding,
- 40:45Speaker 2: it doesn't. It doesn't except for the fact that Florida
- 40:50Speaker 2: is run by Republicans and New York City is run
- 40:53Speaker 2: by socialists. Okay, and they're not just democratics thousands. These
- 40:56Speaker 2: are socialists slash communists. Okay. They don't think the same
- 41:01Speaker 2: way Republicans. Don't think government is the answer to everything.
- 41:07Speaker 2: Let charity do charity stuff, Let individuals work and pay taxes,
- 41:11Speaker 2: and let the government do the government stuff. Okay. Socialists
- 41:15Speaker 2: want the government to own, run and control everything. But remember, ultimately,
- 41:21Speaker 2: the only person under socialism who benefits is the socialist.
- 41:26Speaker 2: You look at any socialist society the first couple of years, wonderful,
- 41:31Speaker 2: It's panacea. It is just glorious. Why because they seize
- 41:36Speaker 2: everybody's wealth and they redistribute it, and then when there's
- 41:40Speaker 2: no wealth left to redistribute, you wallow in your poop.
- 41:43Speaker 2: That's socialism. I bring you Cuba, okay, under Castor in
- 41:48Speaker 2: nineteen fifty nine came in literally confiscated everybody's wealth. My
- 41:52Speaker 2: dear friend Ileana Varella, I anchored with her at Channel
- 41:56Speaker 2: four in Miami back in mo was at nineteen ninety
- 41:59Speaker 2: eight to two thousand and two. Right. She is born
- 42:01Speaker 2: and raised in Cuba. Her dad was a doctor, always
- 42:06Speaker 2: tells this story. She was about fourteen years old. Middle
- 42:08Speaker 2: of the night, knock at the door and they opened
- 42:12Speaker 2: the door. Father, mother, her and her brother. They opened
- 42:15Speaker 2: the door because they kind of sensed this might be coming.
- 42:18Speaker 2: Castro's thugs with weapons, kidnapped the father, take him from Havana,
- 42:24Speaker 2: send them to Santiago de Cuba, which is the other
- 42:26Speaker 2: side of the island. Why because the Communist government decided
- 42:29Speaker 2: that's where he was more needed. Then they took Iliana,
- 42:33Speaker 2: her brother, and her mother out of the house and
- 42:35Speaker 2: took over the house that the father had worked very
- 42:39Speaker 2: hard for, took over that house and created a communist
- 42:42Speaker 2: headquarters from the house, and Iliana, her brother, and mother
- 42:47Speaker 2: were forced to share an apartment in a crappy part
- 42:50Speaker 2: of town with two other families who was a three
- 42:53Speaker 2: bedroom apartment and each family got a bedroom that was
- 42:57Speaker 2: their sub their sub living space within the common apartment,
- 43:00Speaker 2: one bathroom for all three families, and a kitchen they
- 43:04Speaker 2: all had to share because that's what the communist government
- 43:07Speaker 2: felt they need it. Okay, So no matter how hard
- 43:11Speaker 2: you work, no matter what you achieved, crap, we take
- 43:14Speaker 2: it from you and you live in what we give you.
- 43:18Speaker 2: That's the way socialism works. It's not that everybody does better.
- 43:21Speaker 2: It's that everybody gets a lower bar and has to
- 43:25Speaker 2: deal with it. Whereas capitalism sets the bar high. Everybody
- 43:29Speaker 2: works hard to achieve it. Will everyone achieve it? No,
- 43:32Speaker 2: But at least you have the freedom and the opportunity
- 43:35Speaker 2: to achieve it. And when you have a country where
- 43:37Speaker 2: you have people who are of every race, creed, and
- 43:40Speaker 2: color having become millionaires and billionaires, that tells you that
- 43:45Speaker 2: everyone has a shot. Now that doesn't mean that everyone's
- 43:48Speaker 2: going to be a millionaire a billionaire, but everyone starts
- 43:50Speaker 2: with the same freedoms and opportunities. Free public school, free
- 43:55Speaker 2: high school. In many cases, you can get free college
- 43:58Speaker 2: through scholarship. You have the opportunity. Oh, Ken, you make
- 44:02Speaker 2: it sound so easy. It's not easy. And if I'm
- 44:05Speaker 2: making it sound easy, then you're either mishearing me or
- 44:08Speaker 2: I'm misspeaking. I'm not saying it's easy. I'm saying everyone
- 44:13Speaker 2: born here, everyone who becomes a citizen here, you all have.
- 44:17Speaker 2: We all have the same opportunity. All right. I'm from
- 44:21Speaker 2: a lower middle class family in New Rochelle and I
- 44:25Speaker 2: ended up a news anchor at ABC's headquarters a TV
- 44:29Speaker 2: station in America. I would have never thunk it growing up.
- 44:32Speaker 2: There's nothing special about me. I just happened to have
- 44:35Speaker 2: a love for broadcasting and a love for journalism. And
- 44:38Speaker 2: I got into NYU on a scholarship, and I was
- 44:41Speaker 2: able to by working hard and you know, get out
- 44:43Speaker 2: of that school with a lot under my belt, and
- 44:45Speaker 2: I got eventually hired at Channel seven. It wasn't easy.
- 44:49Speaker 2: I had to work at nine, eight or nine different
- 44:51Speaker 2: radio and TV stations before I got hired there. Today
- 44:54Speaker 2: it's different. The TV industry is contracting at shrinking. There
- 44:58Speaker 2: are no little stations in Oshkosh, Hire. You you now
- 45:01Speaker 2: started a news twelve or you know, they had FiOS
- 45:04Speaker 2: they went out of business FiOS TV. But that's where
- 45:07Speaker 2: you kind of start out. You cut your teeth, you
- 45:09Speaker 2: work at. There aren't even a lot of radio stations
- 45:12Speaker 2: to work at now. A lot of them are automated.
- 45:13Speaker 2: This is live, but a lot of them are automated.
- 45:16Speaker 2: But that's the way you did it years ago, and
- 45:18Speaker 2: then you've achieved. Now did everyone achieve? No, there are
- 45:22Speaker 2: a lot of people who tried and didn't. But the
- 45:24Speaker 2: point is I had the same shot everyone else had.
- 45:26Speaker 2: I had a lot of luck and a lot of
- 45:28Speaker 2: people who gave me a shot, and that's the way
- 45:31Speaker 2: it worked out for me. You know. So I was blessed.
- 45:34Speaker 2: I acknowledge that. But the point is everyone has an
- 45:37Speaker 2: equal shot. It's not that I had family in the business,
- 45:40Speaker 2: somebody pulled a string for me, somebody made a call. No,
- 45:43Speaker 2: I didn't have any of that. I didn't have any
- 45:45Speaker 2: of that worked hard, was able. I was the guy
- 45:48Speaker 2: that got there two hours early and stayed two hours late.
- 45:50Speaker 2: And I guess they made an impression and they hired me.
- 45:53Speaker 2: And now I'm blessed to be on the radio station
- 45:55Speaker 2: that I listened to all the time, to the point
- 45:57Speaker 2: that I text Tom Cutty or programmed and his assistant.
- 46:02Speaker 2: I text them all the time. If I hear something
- 46:04Speaker 2: weird or something gets cut off because of the because
- 46:06Speaker 2: of the commercials and whatever. I text them. They're like,
- 46:08Speaker 2: oh my god, Ken Risotto, you stop listening. You're like,
- 46:11Speaker 2: you're like a stalker. I listen to the station day
- 46:13Speaker 2: and night. I love it, but as a fan, that's
- 46:15Speaker 2: why it's especially exciting for me to come on on
- 46:18Speaker 2: the air at seven to ten wor anyway, enough we
- 46:21Speaker 2: keep moving on. Give us a call at eight hundred
- 46:23Speaker 2: three to two to one zero seven ten, eight hundred
- 46:26Speaker 2: three to two one zero seven ten for the big
- 46:28Speaker 2: fireworks show that is tomorrow night. Don't forget it's at
- 46:31Speaker 2: nine to fifteen schedule to happen that or nine to
- 46:33Speaker 2: twenty five. Excuse me. It's going to be happening both
- 46:37Speaker 2: on the East River and on the Hudson River because
- 46:41Speaker 2: of the this is the fiftieth anniversary of the Macy's
- 46:44Speaker 2: Firework Show, and it's the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
- 46:47Speaker 2: of America, so it's a very special event. There's going
- 46:50Speaker 2: to be a laser show as well. Uh, they're also
- 46:52Speaker 2: going to be broad broadcasting. Listen to me shooting off
- 46:56Speaker 2: shells from the Brooklyn Bridge. So if there were ever
- 47:00Speaker 2: a time that you had relatives in town from out
- 47:02Speaker 2: of town you wanted to show off New York City
- 47:04Speaker 2: and the beautiful Macy's firework show, Tomorrow night is the night.
- 47:09Speaker 2: This is probably going to be the biggest and the
- 47:11Speaker 2: best firework show you will have ever seen. And let's
- 47:15Speaker 2: just keep our fingers cross so that we don't get
- 47:17Speaker 2: a thunderstorm. There's a chance of a passing thunderstorm. It's
- 47:20Speaker 2: only about twenty percent right now, not very high. So
- 47:23Speaker 2: keep our fingers cross it doesn't happen, and it's going
- 47:25Speaker 2: to be the best show ever. They expect three million
- 47:29Speaker 2: people to line all the different routes. The good news is, though,
- 47:33Speaker 2: it's not going to be three minion all like the
- 47:36Speaker 2: Queen's Brooklyn shoreline. It's now spread out from New Jersey
- 47:41Speaker 2: to Long Island, Queens Brooklyn area. I call that Long Island.
- 47:45Speaker 2: I know people in Queens and Brooklyn would differ, but
- 47:47Speaker 2: geographically it's Long Island. Think about it, and they and
- 47:51Speaker 2: of course everybody in Manhattan will be able to see it.
- 47:54Speaker 2: Just look left or right and you'll be able to see.
- 47:56Speaker 2: It's going to be a spectacular show. Happy Birthday, America,
- 47:59Speaker 2: Happy Independence Day everybody. Again, we're taking our calls. Eight
- 48:03Speaker 2: hundred three to two one zero seven ten. I don't
- 48:05Speaker 2: know where that accent just came from. We're taking your calls.
- 48:07Speaker 2: I have no idea. I'm born in Euroschelle. I have
- 48:10Speaker 2: no idea where that came from. But nonetheless, eight hundred
- 48:13Speaker 2: three to two one zero seven ten. Sunny, hot, humid
- 48:16Speaker 2: heat wave continuing highs one hundred to one hundred and
- 48:18Speaker 2: two humidity making it feel hotter than that. So make
- 48:21Speaker 2: sure you stay cool, get out of the sun when
- 48:24Speaker 2: you can, and again we'll take your call. So at
- 48:25Speaker 2: eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten WR,
- 48:28Speaker 2: we're coming right back.
- 48:30Speaker 1: This is the Mark Simone Show on seven ten WR
- 48:34Speaker 1: inn from Mark Today, here's Ken Rosatto.
- 48:37Speaker 2: The Happy Independence Say weekend. I'm it for Mark and
- 48:40Speaker 2: enjoying the seat. I promise, though, Mark, I will dust
- 48:43Speaker 2: it off for you so that you can come back
- 48:45Speaker 2: on Monday and entertain A Soulis show was through seven
- 48:48Speaker 2: to ten WR, the Voice of New York straight to
- 48:50Speaker 2: our busy phones. We say, good morning, Vincent, happy for it,
- 48:53Speaker 2: my friend Ah.
- 48:54Speaker 10: Happy Independence Day, Ken, everybody plug. Young kids talk about
- 48:59Speaker 10: the glory of socialized medicine and socialism in general. That's
- 49:03Speaker 10: because they haven't lived it on their backs. Ken. Last year,
- 49:07Speaker 10: I was in Italy and I met up with some
- 49:11Speaker 10: friends and this friend told me that he had a
- 49:14Speaker 10: minor hernia that needed repair. He went to the doctor
- 49:18Speaker 10: and the doctor they score it. They said, wow, this
- 49:21Speaker 10: is not so bad. A year after the fact, he's
- 49:25Speaker 10: still waiting to have this hernia surgery right, and the
- 49:29Speaker 10: national healthcare system in Italy is hemorrhaging because the care
- 49:36Speaker 10: is so poor. It's better in the north that in
- 49:39Speaker 10: the south. A lot of people are buying private policies
- 49:44Speaker 10: even though the dudes are taken out of their salary
- 49:48Speaker 10: every month, and a lot of doctors and nurses are
- 49:53Speaker 10: leaving the system because depending on where you live, the
- 49:57Speaker 10: government negotiates your contract. They tell the doctor how much
- 50:01Speaker 10: you're gonna make, They tell the tech how much you're
- 50:03Speaker 10: gonna make. They tell the nurse how much you're gonna make.
- 50:06Speaker 10: And a lot of these professionals they're saying, I went
- 50:09Speaker 10: to medical school for ten years and I'm gonna make
- 50:13Speaker 10: a garbage man salary.
- 50:15Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty two bucks, twenty five dollars a visit. That's socialism.
- 50:19Speaker 2: There is no incentive to socialism. That's why it fails
- 50:22Speaker 2: every time it's been tried. And I love the democratic
- 50:26Speaker 2: socialists love to think that, well, it just hasn't been
- 50:29Speaker 2: done right. We're gonna do it differently. They're not doing
- 50:31Speaker 2: it differently. This is the way they get in through
- 50:33Speaker 2: the back door. They convince you they know what they're doing,
- 50:36Speaker 2: and then once they have power, they turn it into
- 50:39Speaker 2: crap like they did every place out What do you
- 50:41Speaker 2: think all the other twenty people who've tried socialism, all
- 50:44Speaker 2: the other twenty times, that they all just missed something.
- 50:47Speaker 2: But you mail the solution. It's the same. Socialism is
- 50:50Speaker 2: only good for the socialist as.
- 50:52Speaker 10: You exactly, exactly can all the party leaders in Italy,
- 50:56Speaker 10: they drive around and what they call these blue CAUs
- 50:59Speaker 10: they're blue sades bends. Meanwhile the people are driving around
- 51:03Speaker 10: in free Cylin the fiach and this same friend of mine,
- 51:07Speaker 10: he needed dental work like major crowns and stuff in
- 51:10Speaker 10: the front. The healthcare doesn't pay for it. They'll pay
- 51:14Speaker 10: for two cavities cleaning and some bite wing X rays
- 51:20Speaker 10: once every two years. That's about the extent of it.
- 51:23Speaker 10: If you want restorative dental work, dig deep into your
- 51:27Speaker 10: pocket spout, because that's what it's going to cost you.
- 51:30Speaker 10: And I had a tenant years ago, a young couple
- 51:33Speaker 10: in their twenties talking about they were from Kansas, talking
- 51:36Speaker 10: about the glories of socialized medicine up in Canada. Well,
- 51:41Speaker 10: go up there and see how many people are dying
- 51:44Speaker 10: to come over to the border clinics right across our
- 51:47Speaker 10: border to get freeded.
- 51:49Speaker 2: That's what they do. If they need an MRI. They
- 51:51Speaker 2: can't wait nine months. If you got forbid to have
- 51:53Speaker 2: a tumor or something, you don't wait nine months for
- 51:55Speaker 2: am MRI. And that's what they do. They come across
- 51:57Speaker 2: the border and they spend out of pocket. You could
- 51:59Speaker 2: get a lot. People think MRIs are ten thousand dollars.
- 52:02Speaker 2: That's what they try to try to charge the insurance companies.
- 52:04Speaker 2: You can get an MRI for a few hundred bucks.
- 52:05Speaker 2: I mean, you know. And that's what people from Canada do.
- 52:08Speaker 2: They come over and do that.
- 52:09Speaker 10: There's all this medical tourism right over the borders, Wyoming,
- 52:14Speaker 10: North Dakota, all over the place right over there. They
- 52:18Speaker 10: just go over to the people who can afford it.
- 52:21Speaker 10: And in spite of the fact that unfortunately, yeah.
- 52:24Speaker 2: It can't afford it, right and in spite of the
- 52:26Speaker 2: fact that that helps relieve the socialized system. And even
- 52:30Speaker 2: with that, the socialized system doesn't work. It just doesn't work. Vincent,
- 52:34Speaker 2: Happy Happy Independence Day, my friend. Love when you call
- 52:37Speaker 2: it all the time and family you as well, my
- 52:40Speaker 2: friend always makes my day. I love you, visit take
- 52:42Speaker 2: it Eric, take care, but thank you you bet seven
- 52:44Speaker 2: to ten wo r the Voice of New York Arnold.
- 52:47Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning.
- 52:50Speaker 3: You know, I just wanted to add to one thing.
- 52:52Speaker 3: There's three hundred people a month in the UK, they said,
- 52:55Speaker 3: are dying waiting for help. Kare, But I wanted to
- 52:58Speaker 3: talk about the budget. You were recently talking about the
- 53:01Speaker 3: New York budgets in Florida. The one thing I'm from
- 53:04Speaker 3: originally New York and then New Jersey, and then the
- 53:07Speaker 3: progression is to move to here, Florida.
- 53:09Speaker 4: Right, which is weird.
- 53:10Speaker 2: Now we're in Florida, I have to ask what city, Pierce, Oh, nice, Yeah,
- 53:14Speaker 2: I'm down in Lauderdale.
- 53:15Speaker 3: Yes, okay, but anyways, the uh, you know, the one
- 53:19Speaker 3: thing that people forget is Florida doesn't have an income tax, doesn't.
- 53:23Speaker 2: And they're about to get rid of it's about to
- 53:25Speaker 2: get rid of property tax.
- 53:26Speaker 3: Yeah, the property tax. But you know, you look at
- 53:29Speaker 3: all these budgets, and you look at New Yorks and.
- 53:31Speaker 4: They hate anybody that that works.
- 53:35Speaker 3: And you say to yourself, look, they're going to confiscate homes.
- 53:37Speaker 3: Who's going to do it for them? They hate the cops.
- 53:40Speaker 3: They're going to do away with police, do away with
- 53:42Speaker 3: the military. They want to get all these people out
- 53:45Speaker 3: of the city and hit their budgets. One hundred and
- 53:46Speaker 3: twenty five billion. Who's going to pay for this? And
- 53:49Speaker 3: then who's going to confiscate people's homes? They don't have anybody,
- 53:53Speaker 3: you know, they keep talking big while we're gonna do this,
- 53:56Speaker 3: and we're going to do that. The other communists in
- 53:58Speaker 3: Colorado's going to.
- 54:00Speaker 4: Gay people's homes.
- 54:01Speaker 3: Who who is going to go out there and take
- 54:04Speaker 3: somebody's home, Arnold?
- 54:05Speaker 2: Remember remember Margaret Thatcher's line, socialism is great until you
- 54:09Speaker 2: run out of other people's money, right.
- 54:11Speaker 3: Well, they ran out already, and you know, the city
- 54:14Speaker 3: of New York just got the money from the state.
- 54:16Speaker 2: You wonder why ten thousand people, ten thousand people every
- 54:19Speaker 2: day moved to the Sunshine State of Florida For a reason,
- 54:23Speaker 2: it's because they are fleeing this nonset.
- 54:25Speaker 3: I wish they would I wish they would stop. I
- 54:27Speaker 3: don't want too many of them.
- 54:28Speaker 2: Yeah, the problem is too many bring the crazy left
- 54:31Speaker 2: wing politics to Florida. That's the problem. You know, they
- 54:34Speaker 2: don't realize that. Part of the problem is is in
- 54:36Speaker 2: New York is the political mindset. You have to change, change,
- 54:41Speaker 2: and we could have it better in New York. Well,
- 54:42Speaker 2: we're gonna do is vote differently. It really comes down
- 54:44Speaker 2: to that, Arnold. Thank you so much, sir. Happy Independence Day,
- 54:48Speaker 2: Happy Independence Day. Thank you. And Mario we got about
- 54:51Speaker 2: thirty seconds. How are you ser Hi, Mary or you're
- 54:56Speaker 2: on Marie. Don't listen to the radio, it's on delay.
- 55:00Speaker 2: Listen to the phoney.
- 55:03Speaker 6: I mean you were talking to Vince about the medical
- 55:05Speaker 6: problems in Canada. I think you should add another thing.
- 55:07Speaker 6: And it's something made maid Medical Assistance and Dying and
- 55:13Speaker 6: it goes into effect with August. And what it means,
- 55:16Speaker 6: pretty much the black and white of it is that
- 55:19Speaker 6: a nurse can come into your room in the middle
- 55:21Speaker 6: of the night and shoot you up with some drugs
- 55:24Speaker 6: and take you out and kill you. This is allowed.
- 55:27Speaker 6: It's called MAID made.
- 55:30Speaker 2: It's something they've had in Canada for years, and it's
- 55:32Speaker 2: something that's now being passed in a lot of different states,
- 55:35Speaker 2: and it's really scary. Yeah, I'm with you. I think
- 55:38Speaker 2: people should look that up and think about it because
- 55:40Speaker 2: Canada they when they started, they figured just a few
- 55:43Speaker 2: people would get it. As it turns out, thousands upon
- 55:46Speaker 2: thousands of young, healthy people are committing suicide legally in
- 55:51Speaker 2: the state or in the Nation of Canada because of
- 55:54Speaker 2: little because they have depression. Rather than treating the depression,
- 55:57Speaker 2: there are now doctors willing to end their lives. It's awful.
- 56:01Speaker 2: I appreciate the phone call, sir. You're right, it's something
- 56:03Speaker 2: people need to read about.
- 56:05Speaker 7: Mario.
- 56:05Speaker 2: Happy Independence Day, sir. Love having you on. Thank you
- 56:08Speaker 2: seven ten WR. It is eleven thirty four. Ken Rosatto
- 56:11Speaker 2: win from Mark on your.
- 56:12Speaker 1: Friday, The Mark Simone Show, Live from the WR Life
- 56:17Speaker 1: Back Studios. Guest hosting from Mark Today.
- 56:20Speaker 2: Here's Ken Rosato and a happy Independence Say weekend to you.
- 56:25Speaker 2: Seven ten WR, the Voice of New York. This is
- 56:28Speaker 2: not only Independence Day weekend, it is the two hundred
- 56:31Speaker 2: and fiftieth celebration of our country. What a special commemoration.
- 56:35Speaker 2: And to talk about the history of the Declaration of Independence,
- 56:38Speaker 2: one of the most powerful declarations ever made by humans.
- 56:43Speaker 2: We welcome David Bob He's the president of the Bill
- 56:46Speaker 2: of Rights Institute. Good morning and welcome to the Mark
- 56:48Speaker 2: Simone Show. David. It's Ken Rosatto. M though sorry to
- 56:51Speaker 2: disappoint great to be with you, Dan. Good to be
- 56:55Speaker 2: with you. And David is saying again only because we
- 56:57Speaker 2: had We were blessed to have David on my TV
- 56:59Speaker 2: show in New Jersey this week, so we talked to
- 57:02Speaker 2: David about the Declaration and about all the great founding
- 57:05Speaker 2: documents of this country. So let's talk about the prompting
- 57:09Speaker 2: of the writing of the Declaration of Independence. Was it
- 57:12Speaker 2: caused specifically by colonial anger over British taxation without representation?
- 57:18Speaker 2: And I know they had the Continental Congress for it.
- 57:20Speaker 2: What prompted the declaration?
- 57:24Speaker 8: The Declaration was prompted by a series of things that
- 57:29Speaker 8: mounted over many years. You know, it's a tribute to
- 57:34Speaker 8: the patients of those who endured those challenges that they
- 57:40Speaker 8: didn't take action sooner. You know, they really didn't want
- 57:43Speaker 8: to end the relationship with the with this island that
- 57:50Speaker 8: had meant so much, that had birthed the colonies. They
- 57:55Speaker 8: went into this with a certain reluctance. But after a while,
- 57:58Speaker 8: as they stated in the document, in the Declaration of
- 58:00Speaker 8: Independence itself, they couldn't wait and they had to take
- 58:03Speaker 8: those twenty seven complaints, which really said, hey, the King
- 58:06Speaker 8: has abused his authority. He's become both the legislature, he's
- 58:11Speaker 8: taken those executive powers and abused them, and he's assumed
- 58:14Speaker 8: the powers of the judiciary, and they said, a prince
- 58:17Speaker 8: has become a tyrant.
- 58:19Speaker 2: That's fascinating. And just looking at the Continental Congress, there
- 58:23Speaker 2: were five people appointed right to draft the declaration was
- 58:26Speaker 2: Thomas Jefferson, it was what John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman,
- 58:32Speaker 2: and Robert Livingston. Right, those were the five who were
- 58:36Speaker 2: They were the Continental Congress appointees to do this. But
- 58:39Speaker 2: what's amazing is the difference in their backgrounds and ages.
- 58:43Speaker 2: That's what I love. I mean, you had the young
- 58:45Speaker 2: guy was Robert Livingston. He was only twenty nine, right,
- 58:48Speaker 2: Thomas Jefferson. We think of the old guy with the whig.
- 58:51Speaker 2: We think of him as Tom. He was only thirty
- 58:53Speaker 2: three years old. He was a kid. And then you
- 58:56Speaker 2: had the old man, of course, was Benjamin Franklin. He
- 58:58Speaker 2: was seventy. A lot of people didn't even live to
- 59:00Speaker 2: be seventy. Sherman was fifty five. So you had this
- 59:03Speaker 2: array of people of different ages. Was that done intentionally?
- 59:09Speaker 3: You know?
- 59:09Speaker 8: The group as a whole, the eventual signers, I think
- 59:13Speaker 8: their average age was right around forty two. So Benjamin
- 59:17Speaker 8: Franklin was an outlier. He was a statesman of extraordinary standing,
- 59:22Speaker 8: and there was a respect accorded those, you know. At
- 59:25Speaker 8: first it seemed to Jefferson that the task of drafting
- 59:28Speaker 8: the Declaration would go to John Adams. But John had
- 59:32Speaker 8: enough humility. He was not known for that virtue. But
- 59:34Speaker 8: he did say, in this case, Jefferson has the more
- 59:37Speaker 8: able pen. Let's give it to him. So think of
- 59:40Speaker 8: that assignment. Though you really got I mean everybody's done
- 59:43Speaker 8: stuff on deadline. Can you imagine you got to write
- 59:45Speaker 8: this document? You got seventeen days go?
- 59:47Speaker 2: Right?
- 59:47Speaker 8: And so he holed up in his house which is
- 59:52Speaker 8: now called Declaration House in Philadelphia, and he went to work,
- 59:57Speaker 8: and he did so without a bunch of books at hand.
- 1:00:00Speaker 8: He had a lifetime of learning that in those young years.
- 1:00:04Speaker 8: And if I can just really quickly, there's a moment
- 1:00:07Speaker 8: that I think is remarkable as we think about this legacy.
- 1:00:11Speaker 8: You know how if you write something and you really
- 1:00:13Speaker 8: don't want anybody else to read it, you'll scratch it out,
- 1:00:17Speaker 8: scratched over the ink. Well, he did that with something
- 1:00:19Speaker 8: he'd written down on the parchment. And the word that
- 1:00:22Speaker 8: he wrote down to describe Americans, we did not know
- 1:00:25Speaker 8: until twenty ten. That word was subjects. The word he
- 1:00:29Speaker 8: wrote above it on top of it was citizens. That's
- 1:00:33Speaker 8: the movement, right, that's the change, that's the transformation. We
- 1:00:36Speaker 8: are no longer subjects, we are citizens.
- 1:00:40Speaker 2: Fascinating and there's our history right there that is absolutely amazing.
- 1:00:45Speaker 2: And having been born and raised in New Rochelle proudly
- 1:00:49Speaker 2: I am Thomas Paine and his patholic common sense had
- 1:00:54Speaker 2: quite a power about shifting public opinion, didn't it.
- 1:00:59Speaker 8: Common Sense was an absolute blockbuster. We have virality today
- 1:01:03Speaker 8: online and this would be like super virality. Pamphlets and
- 1:01:08Speaker 8: and you know, kind of booklets like this were the
- 1:01:11Speaker 8: where the stock in trade for carrying ideas. And it's
- 1:01:14Speaker 8: not like people sat around in taverns and you know,
- 1:01:17Speaker 8: pulled out their their their Warren copy of Locke's Second Treatise.
- 1:01:20Speaker 8: But these ideas were in the air, they were in
- 1:01:23Speaker 8: houses of worship. And what Pain kind of channeled was
- 1:01:27Speaker 8: this sense that no more, we've had it. And he
- 1:01:31Speaker 8: really did not like monarchy at all, so he was
- 1:01:34Speaker 8: ready to do away with all monarchs, all kings, all
- 1:01:38Speaker 8: royal authority. But what he I think really channeled was
- 1:01:40Speaker 8: that that that sense that hey We've given them enough time,
- 1:01:45Speaker 8: let's move on. Patients will no longer be a virtue.
- 1:01:48Speaker 8: And sure enough, that's the kind of momentum that carried
- 1:01:50Speaker 8: it forward.
- 1:01:51Speaker 2: I love it. And of course, the the incredible influence
- 1:01:54Speaker 2: that the Declaration of Independence had on the writing of
- 1:01:56Speaker 2: the Constitution and specifically the Bill of Rights, right, I mean,
- 1:01:59Speaker 2: it was all that was the pull, the big explosion.
- 1:02:02Speaker 2: Of course, the Treaty of Paris later after the war
- 1:02:07Speaker 2: kind of was what would be the official birth point
- 1:02:09Speaker 2: that when England accepted the fact that we were an
- 1:02:13Speaker 2: independent country? Or would you say that the declaration is
- 1:02:17Speaker 2: or is it just somewhere in between.
- 1:02:20Speaker 8: Yeah, it's interesting. There's all these kind of debates that
- 1:02:23Speaker 8: we really could have. I think it's fair to peg
- 1:02:26Speaker 8: it right to the July fourth date. You know, the
- 1:02:29Speaker 8: declaration of what we did telling the world is a
- 1:02:36Speaker 8: really big deal. But we did have to win the war.
- 1:02:39Speaker 8: We had been at war for more than a year
- 1:02:42Speaker 8: at that point, and so it's a remarkable series of events.
- 1:02:46Speaker 8: It does take another you know, full seven years before
- 1:02:50Speaker 8: we get to the treaty, and then you have another
- 1:02:53Speaker 8: lengthy period of time. Really it's a full arc of
- 1:02:56Speaker 8: fifteen years between the Declaration and the Bill of Rights.
- 1:03:00Speaker 8: So think of it between now and twenty forty one,
- 1:03:02Speaker 8: we're going to have fifteen years of two hundred and fifties,
- 1:03:05Speaker 8: which is really exciting. But you're right, can that there's
- 1:03:08Speaker 8: a relationship, and scholars sometimes don't want to acknowledge this.
- 1:03:11Speaker 8: They want to say something like the men of seventeen
- 1:03:13Speaker 8: seventy six were not the men who drafted the Constitution.
- 1:03:16Speaker 8: But to know, my co author Tony Williams and I
- 1:03:20Speaker 8: in this book that we've just written, Divided over the Declaration,
- 1:03:23Speaker 8: we really make the case that the Declaration and Constitution
- 1:03:26Speaker 8: go together. They are written with a common argument that
- 1:03:30Speaker 8: says we need this vision where all human beings are
- 1:03:33Speaker 8: created equal government exists to secure their rights. That's the
- 1:03:37Speaker 8: vision laid out by the Declaration. The Constitution puts that
- 1:03:40Speaker 8: into effect.
- 1:03:41Speaker 2: And before we go, we just said about a minute left,
- 1:03:44Speaker 2: I just want to ask you what for people who
- 1:03:46Speaker 2: have the opinion that America was flawed from its founding
- 1:03:49Speaker 2: and not a special a great country, what would you
- 1:03:51Speaker 2: respond with? What would you tail them?
- 1:03:54Speaker 8: Human beings are imperfect? The founders recognize this. Think of
- 1:03:58Speaker 8: what it took too thirds of them who signed the
- 1:04:01Speaker 8: Declaration of Independence did own slaves, they owned other human beings.
- 1:04:07Speaker 8: All of them knew that it was wrong, even Thomas Jefferson,
- 1:04:11Speaker 8: and I think what's remarkable is that is a contradiction
- 1:04:14Speaker 8: to that principle. But by putting down the principle, there's
- 1:04:17Speaker 8: a judgment rendered. We need to do better, and were
- 1:04:21Speaker 8: they quick enough to change.
- 1:04:23Speaker 6: No.
- 1:04:24Speaker 8: Many of them lamented the speed with which they went
- 1:04:27Speaker 8: to bring these rights to everybody. But here's something beautiful.
- 1:04:30Speaker 8: Right after the declaration was articulated, enslaved people claimed it
- 1:04:33Speaker 8: for their own. They mounted what came to be known
- 1:04:36Speaker 8: as freedom suits, and they brought these two judges and said,
- 1:04:40Speaker 8: look here in your official document, we have freedom. So
- 1:04:45Speaker 8: what I would say is this corrective mechanism that was
- 1:04:47Speaker 8: in the declaration. It stood for generations and stands still
- 1:04:51Speaker 8: to today, and I hope for another two hundred and
- 1:04:53Speaker 8: fifty years to be a standard that we can live
- 1:04:56Speaker 8: up to as Americans.
- 1:04:57Speaker 2: In order to form a more perfect union, right, that's
- 1:05:02Speaker 2: what it was about to form. We knew it wasn't
- 1:05:04Speaker 2: perfect yet, and it's still not perfect, but it's to
- 1:05:07Speaker 2: form a more perfect union. That's why we come together.
- 1:05:11Speaker 2: With ideas, and we don't have a monarch shutting us
- 1:05:14Speaker 2: down and putting us in jail for talking about it.
- 1:05:17Speaker 2: I could talk to you forever about this, David Bob.
- 1:05:19Speaker 2: I am just a history buff and I love talking
- 1:05:21Speaker 2: about it. David Bob is the President of the Bill
- 1:05:24Speaker 2: of Rights Institute on this special two hundred and fiftieth
- 1:05:27Speaker 2: anniversary of the founding of the United States of America.
- 1:05:31Speaker 2: David Bob, thank you so much for coming on today.
- 1:05:34Speaker 8: You're welcome, Thank you so much.
- 1:05:35Speaker 2: And Happy Independence Day, sir to you two. Thank you.
- 1:05:39Speaker 2: All right. It's Ken Brazatowen for Mark. On your Friday.
- 1:05:41Speaker 2: We observe Independence Day today. On the third tomorrow, of course,
- 1:05:45Speaker 2: is the actual day. When we come back. We'll take
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- 1:05:57Speaker 1: More of the Mark Simone Show on seven ten. Filling
- 1:06:01Speaker 1: in for Mark. Here again is Ken Rosado and.
- 1:06:04Speaker 2: Nice to be with you. Is who wrap up this
- 1:06:06Speaker 2: last hour. Let's go to the phones. Good morning, you're
- 1:06:09Speaker 2: on the Mark Simone Show. Hello, Hello, Ken.
- 1:06:14Speaker 11: Yes hi, Hey Ken, It's Chris from Mohan very quickly.
- 1:06:19Speaker 11: I'm very happy what's going on with all the socialist movement.
- 1:06:23Speaker 11: It is a gift from these people. The Democrat Party
- 1:06:26Speaker 11: is ruined. If you ever watched Bill Martin, he's a Democrat.
- 1:06:29Speaker 11: He had Jade Vance on.
- 1:06:30Speaker 2: The other day.
- 1:06:31Speaker 11: He was saying, look, my vote is up for grabs now,
- 1:06:33Speaker 11: like I'm done, just immediately voting for this. And I
- 1:06:37Speaker 11: got a lot of friends that are Democrats too. They're saying,
- 1:06:40Speaker 11: we're not voting for these people. It's a blessing for
- 1:06:42Speaker 11: the Republican Party. They should just take it and run
- 1:06:45Speaker 11: with it and praise the Lord every time one of
- 1:06:48Speaker 11: these crazy socialists because they're never going to win on
- 1:06:51Speaker 11: a national level. Can you imagine AOC going up against
- 1:06:54Speaker 11: Marco Rubio on a debate. Can you just imagine that.
- 1:06:56Speaker 2: But here's here's the problem, Chris. We said, we would
- 1:06:59Speaker 2: have said ten years they'll never win any public office,
- 1:07:02Speaker 2: and then they win in New York. Then we would say, oh,
- 1:07:04Speaker 2: they'll never win beyond New York City, and then they
- 1:07:06Speaker 2: win in New York State. Then we said they'll never
- 1:07:08Speaker 2: went outside New York State, and then they just won
- 1:07:10Speaker 2: in New Jersey. The problem is, it's like cancer. They
- 1:07:14Speaker 2: creep a little out of time and before you know it,
- 1:07:17Speaker 2: you blink your eyes and they're in national office. That's
- 1:07:20Speaker 2: what scares me about them. I understand your point, Chris,
- 1:07:22Speaker 2: I don't disagree with what your point is. In other words,
- 1:07:25Speaker 2: once they're exposed, people will say, oh, they're nuts. The
- 1:07:29Speaker 2: sad part is there are enough people who say I
- 1:07:31Speaker 2: like that idea because, as many have said, as President
- 1:07:34Speaker 2: Trump said, it's easy to sell communism and socialism because
- 1:07:38Speaker 2: you just give away free stuff. Chris from Long Island,
- 1:07:40Speaker 2: thank you so much for the call, sir, and that'll
- 1:07:42Speaker 2: do it. Mark will be back in the seat on Monday.
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