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Mark's 11am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Now, the Mark Simone Show on 710WOR. Filling in for Mark,
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Speaker 1: here's Ken Rosado. So nice to be with you. Happy
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Speaker 1: Labor Day weekend, if you're taking it early. A lot
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Speaker 1: of folks are doing that. We looked at a AAA
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Speaker 1: study earlier. We talked about it in the 9 o'clock hour. Apparently,
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Speaker 1: a good chunk of people who are heading out of
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Speaker 1: town have either already left or they're in the process
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Speaker 1: of leaving right now. So that was the suggestion was
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Speaker 1: that you leave by 11 AM. Now it's 1106. So,
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Speaker 1: so it's a little late. If you haven't left yet,
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Speaker 1: you should probably wait until about two or three in
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Speaker 1: the afternoon, depending on where you're headed. Uh, and if
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Speaker 1: you haven't left by then, uh, by like five o'clock,
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Speaker 1: it's going to be a nightmare. I think a lot
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Speaker 1: of folks head out when I worked at channel seven, uh,
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Speaker 1: for 20 years there, for those who may remember, I
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Speaker 1: did the morning show and the noon show, uh, we
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Speaker 1: used to have our traffic people on and we would
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Speaker 1: talk about how year after year Labor Day getaway started
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Speaker 1: earlier and earlier. So it started with Fridays at 5 p.m.,
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Speaker 1: then Fridays at noon, then Thursdays at 5 p.m. Now
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Speaker 1: it's Thursday midday when it kind of starts. So this
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Speaker 1: is kind of the rush is on right now. I
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Speaker 1: know that when last year when I left, I was
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Speaker 1: in this day last year. And when I left to
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Speaker 1: head back to New Jersey, I want to say it
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Speaker 1: took me two hours to get off of Manhattan Island.
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Speaker 1: Like every New Jersey escape at 1230 in the afternoon
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Speaker 1: was just bumper to bumper. You couldn't get out. It was,
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Speaker 1: I think the approach to the Lincoln tunnel was backed
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Speaker 1: up for seven or eight blocks. Kind of like the
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Speaker 1: worst of the holiday time, afternoon drive escape that that's
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Speaker 1: what it looked like at 12 o'clock or 1230 in
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Speaker 1: the afternoon. Anyway, we'd love to know what you have
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Speaker 1: to say about it. 800-321-0710, 800-321-0710. 0710. If you're just
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Speaker 1: hearing the voice, you're saying, who is that? Ken Rosato
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Speaker 1: used to be with Channel 7 for 20 years. I
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Speaker 1: was with Channel 5 before that and even Channel 55
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Speaker 1: before that. These days, I host a show on On
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Speaker 1: New Jersey. That's a New Jersey statewide streaming TV channel, onnj.com.
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Speaker 1: You can watch it anywhere in the world, onnj.com. And
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Speaker 1: believe it or not, we get calls from expats who've
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Speaker 1: left New Jersey and live overseas, and they call us
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Speaker 1: in the morning so they could keep up with New
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Speaker 1: Jersey news. But I have a lot of fun. I
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Speaker 1: get to do the show from my home in a
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Speaker 1: studio in the house. And that's always great. The commute
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Speaker 1: being going down a flight of stairs after 25 years
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Speaker 1: of schlepping into Manhattan every day from Jersey. It is
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Speaker 1: certainly nice having that alternate commute. But we'd love to
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Speaker 1: know from you what you have to say about some
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Speaker 1: of the topics we've talked about. Did you hear that
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Speaker 1: Mayor Mamdani may be using taxpayer dollars to finance a
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Speaker 1: team of social media influencers. So apparently, Mamdani has a
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Speaker 1: team of 200 young people who are targeting mainly Gen
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Speaker 1: Z types, Gen Z and Gen Alpha, using social media.
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Speaker 1: So many of the people are allegedly getting paid some
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Speaker 1: big salaries with your tax dollars. Many, they say, are
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Speaker 1: just influencers that are just doing it because they love
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Speaker 1: the guy. But there are some, at least, who are
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Speaker 1: being paid a salary. Now, is this the right thing?
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Speaker 1: And what exactly are they influencing with or whom are
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Speaker 1: they influencing and for what reason? Are you convincing people
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Speaker 1: to go with the democratic socialist mindset or are you
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Speaker 1: just telling people what's going on in the city? If
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Speaker 1: you are getting paid by the city, you are not
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Speaker 1: supposed to be political. You're only supposed to talk about
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Speaker 1: official city things. So it'd be interesting to see if
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Speaker 1: they could track anything down about this. But this team
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Speaker 1: is big. No other mayor in history has had a
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Speaker 1: social media team that large. You've traditionally had a press secretary,
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Speaker 1: and the press secretary had a team of maybe five
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Speaker 1: or ten people that they dealt with, usually about five people.
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Speaker 1: And they answered calls from all the main media, you know,
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Speaker 1: channels 245, 7911, etc., and the radio stations and newspapers.
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Speaker 1: And that was it. And then they would post a
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Speaker 1: couple of things on social media. What Mamdani has done
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Speaker 1: is he enlisted this team to speak in different languages
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Speaker 1: and go to the different websites that these different language
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Speaker 1: groups of people use. Spanish, Hindi, Urdu, Bangla, using platforms
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Speaker 1: like WhatsApp and TikTok. So you got to think about that.
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Speaker 1: And what is the purpose behind it? You have any ideas?
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Speaker 1: Let me know. 800-321-0710. 800-321-0710. Hey, President Trump, just to
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Speaker 1: tweet the libs some more, his face is now on
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Speaker 1: the new $ 1 coin. It's a gold-colored coin, although it's
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Speaker 1: not actual gold. It's made with an amalgam of copper
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Speaker 1: and nickel and some other metals, but it looks gold.
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Speaker 1: And there were 250,000 of these coins minted. You cannot
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Speaker 1: put them in circulation yet. Even though they are valid
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Speaker 1: legal tender, they cannot be used until after Trump leaves office.
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Speaker 1: That's under the law. So federal law says no living
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Speaker 1: or a president who's currently holding office can have money
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Speaker 1: printed with their face, their likeness on it. So they
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Speaker 1: could leave office and then put it into circulation, have
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Speaker 1: it put in circulation, but not while they're in office.
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Speaker 1: So right now, these... Trump dollars are being distributed in
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Speaker 1: sealed cases. So you could keep it on your mantle
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Speaker 1: and show everybody and piss off your liberal relatives when
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Speaker 1: they come for Thanksgiving. Say, look what I got. And
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Speaker 1: just hear like Aunt Joan from Massapequa. Say, you suck,
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Speaker 1: you stupid conservative. That's the way she would speak in
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Speaker 1: my mind, at least. That's the aunt I'm thinking of.
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Speaker 1: But they are the $ 250, 000 that they put on sale
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Speaker 1: at the U.S. Mint. went in seconds. Literally seconds. They
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Speaker 1: had bags of, let me see this, 25 coin rolls
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Speaker 1: and 100 coin bags of were priced between $ 61 and $ 154. 50,
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Speaker 1: according to the Mint, and they were gone instantly. So
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Speaker 1: that's interesting. So either you have somebody who bought up
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Speaker 1: as many as possible to probably resell them for more money,
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Speaker 1: which is, I'm thinking, happened, or a lot of people
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Speaker 1: got wind of it and, you know, really like the guy.
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Speaker 1: According to a current poll that is out, and this
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Speaker 1: is a poll, of course, now I'm going to lose
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Speaker 1: where it is. It's the Harvard, what is it called?
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Speaker 1: The Caps Harvard Harris Poll. That's what it is. It
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Speaker 1: is Mark Penn. I'm sure you've seen the pollster Mark Penn,
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Speaker 1: the white hair. Very good pollster, very accurate pollster. He
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Speaker 1: shows that for the last few days of August, Trump's
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Speaker 1: numbers are actually up. Overall support of 48%, which is good.
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Speaker 1: It's up two points from a month earlier. So, you know,
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Speaker 1: say what you want about the man. He's very polarizing,
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Speaker 1: that's for sure. But his popularity is not as low
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Speaker 1: as many people in mainstream media are making it out
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Speaker 1: to be. Some of the more, the cheesier polls, Mark
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Speaker 1: talks about the college polls and stuff that are not
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Speaker 1: financed by serious groups. Those polls show them in the mid-30s.
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Speaker 1: But the more serious polls have them in the mid
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Speaker 1: to upper 40s, especially among Republicans. He's into the 60s
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Speaker 1: and 70s and supports some cases higher. And, you know,
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Speaker 1: I think it's all going to depend on what happens
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Speaker 1: with the economy. For everybody, their day-to-day stresses, based on
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Speaker 1: the money they have in their pockets, And how you
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Speaker 1: treat your family and your friends, all the mood that
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Speaker 1: you're in really comes down to can you get the
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Speaker 1: bills paid and how hard are you working and do
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Speaker 1: you have to work that second or third job to
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Speaker 1: make ends meet? Or if you're on Social Security at
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Speaker 1: this point, are you able to stretch that check for
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Speaker 1: the month or are you now finding that by the
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Speaker 1: third week you're having to tap into savings? And those
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Speaker 1: are real-life problems. And that's where people will either love
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Speaker 1: or hate you as an elected official. Because what you
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Speaker 1: do and your influence in office has a direct impact
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Speaker 1: on real people's real lives. What do you think about that? 800-321-0710. 800-321-0710.
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Speaker 1: This is Ken Rosato, formerly from Channel 7 and Channel 5,
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Speaker 1: in for Mark Simone. On your Thursday, Mark is off
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Speaker 1: for a nice long weekend. We'd love to hear what
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Speaker 1: you have to say. By the way, Homeland Security Secretary
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Speaker 1: Mark Wayne Mullen, he announced on Tuesday that the White
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Speaker 1: House is now exploring legal ways to withhold federal funding
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Speaker 1: from sanctuary cities and states that that refuse to cooperate
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Speaker 1: with immigration enforcement. You've got to scratch your head and say,
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Speaker 1: where were these people doing this two years ago? They
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Speaker 1: should have been doing it from day one. He was
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Speaker 1: on the Ingram angle on Tuesday night with Laura Ingram,
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Speaker 1: and he said there have been more than 2,100 illegal
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Speaker 1: migrants arrested in New York City alone of late, and
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Speaker 1: that Immigration and Customs Enforcement will continue deportations despite all
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Speaker 1: the sanctuary restrictions. And people like Kathy Hochul, the governor,
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Speaker 1: making it all but impossible for ICE agents to do
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Speaker 1: their jobs in a blue state like New York. You know,
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Speaker 1: the blue state governors and blue city mayors are kind
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Speaker 1: of crossing the line into impeding the actions of federal agents.
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Speaker 1: And I think they're getting pretty close to a point
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Speaker 1: where Mark Wayne Mullen can issue orders of arrest. Because
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Speaker 1: when you get to a point where you're telling local
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Speaker 1: police that, okay, you're holding a person who committed a
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Speaker 1: federal crime, You're holding them for something else, but you
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Speaker 1: can't let ICE agents near them. I'm sorry. The ICE
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Speaker 1: agents are police just like you are, and if this
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Speaker 1: person is guilty of a crime, they have a right
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Speaker 1: to arrest them. Get out of the way, Kathy, and
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Speaker 1: don't order your police to do something illegal. Remember, there
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Speaker 1: is something called the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, which
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Speaker 1: superimposes its authority over local authority. And so once you
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Speaker 1: cross that line, that's when you open yourself up to
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Speaker 1: potential arrest, Kathy Hochul. Don't forget that. I would love
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Speaker 1: to see a person like, I'm not saying Kathy herself,
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Speaker 1: but a person like Kathy Hochul who pushes ICE just
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Speaker 1: a little too far to see them in an orange
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Speaker 1: jumpsuit handcuffed for breaking federal law. You do that one time,
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Speaker 1: you have one person like that under arrest, you'll never
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Speaker 1: see a local official or a state official doing it again. Guaranteed.
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Speaker 1: Because they all talk a great game when they think
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Speaker 1: they're insulated by the state police and protected until they
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Speaker 1: get hauled off in cuffs. And believe me, the state
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Speaker 1: police are not going to do anything to protect you
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Speaker 1: from the federal police. Trust me on that one. 800-321-0710. 800-321-0710.
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Speaker 1: The number to call. I don't know if you heard
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Speaker 1: about this Congressman Brandon Gill. Love this guy. He's a
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Speaker 1: guy who looks a little like Superman. Very young congressman
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Speaker 1: from Texas. His hair, he has this little flip of
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Speaker 1: hair in the front. Looks very much like Christopher Reeves
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Speaker 1: did in the original Superman. He just unveiled a bill Thursday. Oh,
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Speaker 1: this morning. I thought it was last Thursday. No, it
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Speaker 1: was this morning. That would end snap use of money
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Speaker 1: in restaurants. Let me explain that. So if you're on
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Speaker 1: food stamps. in many states you can take your ebt
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Speaker 1: card which is basically what you know years ago you
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Speaker 1: actually got a physical food stamp today you get a
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Speaker 1: what looks like a debit card and basically is a
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Speaker 1: debit card but it's the money that would be on
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Speaker 1: food stamps years ago loaded onto the card well you're
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Speaker 1: supposed to use that for food for yourself and your
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Speaker 1: kids right and it's meant it's not meant to feed
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Speaker 1: an entire family every meal every day it's meant to
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Speaker 1: bridge the gap uh you know, a lot of people say, Oh,
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Speaker 1: you only get this on food stamps. Well, yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: not supposed to be three, three meals, seven days a week,
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Speaker 1: 365 days a year. It's supposed to, you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: 50 bucks short. I can't afford, uh, you know, vegetables
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Speaker 1: or fruit, or I have zero meat in, you know, okay. That's,
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Speaker 1: and that's what it's for. And there are a lot
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Speaker 1: of good people who genuinely need that. And this is
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Speaker 1: why it breaks my heart when I see people abusing
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Speaker 1: it because the people who need it then get the
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Speaker 1: bad rap for the people who are abusing it. Um,
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Speaker 1: You have people in California, mostly 90% of these people
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Speaker 1: are in California using their EBD cards in formal restaurants.
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Speaker 1: You heard me. So they're going out to cafe du
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Speaker 1: monde and they're sitting down and they're ordering a nice meal.
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Speaker 1: And then they put down what looks like a, just
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Speaker 1: a credit card. And that credit card is their food
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Speaker 1: stamp card. And they're paying for their expensive meal with
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Speaker 1: your tax dollars. That's where you cross the line. I'm sorry.
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Speaker 1: So now Brandon Gill is trying to pass a law
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Speaker 1: that makes it illegal to use. And I guess it
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Speaker 1: would block the use of your EBT card anywhere outside
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Speaker 1: of a store that is selling food. Now, the problem
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Speaker 1: with that is there are some moms who for a
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Speaker 1: quick meal, they'll go to McDonald's and use the EBT card.
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Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with that every now and then,
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Speaker 1: as long as you're feeding your kids nutritious food the
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Speaker 1: rest of the time. You're working hard. You're trying to
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Speaker 1: take care of the kids. You need a quick solution.
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Speaker 1: You go to McDonald's with the EBT card. I get it.
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Speaker 1: That's fine. But people who use that card the wrong
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Speaker 1: way really upsets me. I don't know how you feel
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Speaker 1: about that. Apparently, again, 90% of the abuse is happening
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Speaker 1: in the state of abuse, California. I think of the
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Speaker 1: $ 575 million of EBT card use in restaurants, 475 or
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Speaker 1: more million. I read in the statistic, is in the
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Speaker 1: state of California. In New York State, it's only about three,
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Speaker 1: three and a half million. And again, by restaurant, we
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Speaker 1: don't mean necessarily a formal place. It could be just
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Speaker 1: a fast food place. So they're not spending $ 1, 000 at
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Speaker 1: Mickey D's. They're going for 20 bucks for a quick
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Speaker 1: meal for the kid. But in California, they apparently are
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Speaker 1: doing something a little more nefarious. But we'd love to
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Speaker 1: know what you have to say about it. 800-321- 800-321-0710. 800-321-0710.
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Speaker 1: The number to call. And you are listening to The
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Speaker 1: Mark Simone Show. Ken Rosato in for Mark. Thunderstorms possible today,
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Speaker 1: but otherwise, the next few days, right through Monday, gorgeous,
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Speaker 1: beautiful sunshine, temps in the 80s. Hour three of the
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Speaker 1: all-new three-hour Mark Simone Show. And we will take your
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