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Hour 2: Alternative to European vacation, listener call and brand specialist Fischer · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten Woor filling
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Speaker 2: And nice to be with you on Memorial Day. Mark
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Speaker 2: off today hopefully enjoying his day, spending time with family
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Speaker 2: and friends, enjoying the freedoms that somebody fought and died for.
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Speaker 2: We hope the same two that you are enjoying time
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Speaker 2: did so so that we don't have to worry about
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Speaker 2: eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten, eight
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Speaker 2: hundred three to two to one zero seven ten. For
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Speaker 2: those who are thinking about a summer vacation and you
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Speaker 2: were thinking about jet setting off to Europe, well you
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Speaker 2: might want to keep those fingers crossed because of what
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Speaker 2: is going on in terms of fuel right now around
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Speaker 2: the world. Yes, we have tons of fuel here in
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Speaker 2: the United States. We're producing more than enough. In fact,
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Speaker 2: we are a net exporter of oil and fuel because
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Speaker 2: President Trump has taken off the the what's the word
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Speaker 2: I'm looking for, He's basically gotten rid of a lot
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Speaker 2: of the environmental restrictions. If you will that, yes, thank you,
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Speaker 2: crash Our ear said, you mean take the gloves off.
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Speaker 2: Can Yes, thank you crash crash at is coffee. I didn't.
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Speaker 2: And so as a result, we have an abundance of fuel,
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Speaker 2: which is kept oil prices in check here. But I
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Speaker 2: know because of what's going out of the Strait of
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Speaker 2: Horn moves with Iran, prices have come up, but they've
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Speaker 2: come up a lot more. I don't mean to juggle
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Speaker 2: like we have nothing. We're paying nothing compared to what
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Speaker 2: that paying in Europe right now because the cost of
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Speaker 2: oil there is so high. Remember Russia, China, and much
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Speaker 2: of Europe gets a lot of its oil from the
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Speaker 2: area that is the straight of horror moves. And right
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Speaker 2: now fuel prices are very high. Well for jets, they
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Speaker 2: require that jet fuel, and right now there is a
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Speaker 2: major shortage in Europe of jet fuel. So you can
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Speaker 2: get jet fuel here, tons of it. We have an
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Speaker 2: ample supply. Problem is once the jet flies to Europe,
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Speaker 2: it has to fly back right so it doesn't have
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Speaker 2: an available supply. So there are many airlines, many of
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Speaker 2: the biggies have canceled flights coming from Europe back to
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Speaker 2: the United States. So if you are looking to fly
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Speaker 2: around trip, might be able to get there and can't
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Speaker 2: get back. If you're looking to fly around trip, just
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Speaker 2: check with your carrier. They started in the past week
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Speaker 2: or so canceling a lot of European flights or not
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Speaker 2: flying to certain destinations. You might win tozz check ahead,
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Speaker 2: or have a contingency plan, or hopefully you have flight
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Speaker 2: insurance or travel insurance and you make sure that you're
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Speaker 2: backed up. Although now I'm reading that many of the
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Speaker 2: travel insurance companies do not account for something that is
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Speaker 2: out of their control, like a shortage of jet fuel,
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Speaker 2: so they may or may not cover you for that.
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Speaker 2: So even then, if you're going to buy flight insurance
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Speaker 2: or travel insurance, make sure that something like a flight
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Speaker 2: being canceled due to jet fuel shortages that is covered.
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Speaker 2: But we hope you enjoy your summer one way or
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Speaker 2: the other. Remember there are plenty of good places right
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Speaker 2: here in the US. Think back five years during the pandemic.
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Speaker 2: I remember we were supposed to fly to Portugal and
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Speaker 2: we couldn't because we would have been quarantined in Portugal
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Speaker 2: for two weeks. And that was my vacation time was
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Speaker 2: two weeks. So what would the point of bit You
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Speaker 2: fly for two weeks in quarantine, you come back. So
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Speaker 2: we decided to do a bunch of regional trips and
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Speaker 2: I'm glad we did. We went to Newport, Rhode Island.
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Speaker 2: I have never been. It was phenomenal, just a beautiful
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Speaker 2: place to go to, and it's driving distance. You can
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Speaker 2: go to so many places in Pennsylvania that are just gorgeous.
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Speaker 2: The Lakes, go upstate New York. There are beautiful places
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Speaker 2: go to, like George is If you've never been, it's gorgeous.
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Speaker 2: Go out to Montauk. There are some wonderful places all
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Speaker 2: within driving distance of here. Go down the Jersey Shore,
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Speaker 2: go to the mountains, the mountains northwestern New Jersey. You think, well,
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Speaker 2: that's great for the winter, ken it's wonderful. In the summer,
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Speaker 2: it's terrific. There are amusement parks there and everything. So
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Speaker 2: there are plenty of places you could drive to within
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Speaker 2: a couple of hours and have a wonderful time. In
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Speaker 2: the event that your jet to Europe, your flight to
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Speaker 2: Europe is canceled because of fuel situations. Right now presenting themselves,
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Speaker 2: the fingers crossed that President Trump is hoping maybe in
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Speaker 2: the next few days we will have some kind of
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Speaker 2: resolution in Iran. But one thing that is good about
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Speaker 2: this president is he is not just going to settle
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Speaker 2: for something. He wants the right deal, or else there
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Speaker 2: will be no deal. He's made that amply clear. Seven
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Speaker 2: ten w R the Voice of New York. If you
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Speaker 2: want to give us a call, the numbers eight hundred
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Speaker 2: and three to two one zero seven ten. Well, we
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Speaker 2: have the funniest butt kisser of a politician whoever existed.
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Speaker 2: It seems in the state of New York. Kathy hokel
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Speaker 2: O katihokol As reluctant say, I know, I'm sorry. I
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Speaker 2: shouldn't making fun of those awful caps that she has,
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Speaker 2: but I can't help myself because I'm a I'm a
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Speaker 2: very bad Catholic when it comes to that. Sorry, Kathy,
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Speaker 2: it's like she had a twofer two for one. I
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Speaker 2: get both front teeth of the same fifty dollars from
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Speaker 2: the dentist on the corner in Buffalo. The good Governors
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Speaker 2: decided that she would codify that which already unofficially exists
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Speaker 2: throughout the state and has for years, and that is
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Speaker 2: that New York is now officially and publicly a sanctuary state.
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Speaker 2: Before they said, oh, we're not a sanctuary state, even
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Speaker 2: though we followed all the sanctuary policies, and that law
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Speaker 2: enforcement couldn't reach out to federal law enforcement because of
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Speaker 2: people who are here illegally. Now, I ask you, O,
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Speaker 2: fellow taxpayer New Yorker, and yes, I am a fellow
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Speaker 2: taxpayer New Yorker, even though I live in New Jersey.
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Speaker 2: Because when you work in New York City, you have
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Speaker 2: to pay city taxes and state taxes even if you
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Speaker 2: don't live here. What benefit to you and the state
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Speaker 2: of New York is there by officially mandating that New
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Speaker 2: York be a sanctuary state. When you elect somebody governor,
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Speaker 2: they're supposed to be the person you elect to benefit
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Speaker 2: you and your family. All Right, You work hard, you
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Speaker 2: pay taxes, and then they take your money, your tax money,
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Speaker 2: and they give it to people who shouldn't even be
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Speaker 2: here legally. They're not here legally. That is so, why
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Speaker 2: why would you keep voting for these people? What is
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Speaker 2: the point and again to what benefit? How does it
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Speaker 2: benefit the state that you would elect somebody who would
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Speaker 2: create a sanctuary state status in New York. I want
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Speaker 2: you to think about what it means to have millions
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Speaker 2: of illegal migrants in the state of New York. And
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Speaker 2: by the way, I am not against people who come
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Speaker 2: from another country. That is perfect. That is fine. There
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Speaker 2: is a legal process to do it. But ken the
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Speaker 2: migration system is broken. No, it is not. It's only
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Speaker 2: broken for those of you who want people to come
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Speaker 2: in illegally and vote Democrat. Then it's broken because you
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Speaker 2: want twenty thirty million more like you got under the
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Speaker 2: Biden administration. For those of us who want it done,
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Speaker 2: fairly where you come in in limited numbers, so you
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Speaker 2: can properly incorporate into society, or be incorporated in our
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Speaker 2: society and become a successful and happy American for those
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Speaker 2: of us who want it the way it is legal,
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Speaker 2: So we could do so to the tune of one,
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Speaker 2: two or three million a year, which is what we allow.
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Speaker 2: You know that we allow more people to become citizens
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Speaker 2: of the United States every year than every other single
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Speaker 2: country on the planet combined. So when I hear oh,
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Speaker 2: it's a broken immigration system, there is nothing broken. We
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Speaker 2: are extremely generous, more generous than anyone and everyone else combined.
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Speaker 2: So we allow millions in through the legal process in
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Speaker 2: this country every year, and you just have to follow
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Speaker 2: the process. Can we allow everybody on the planet who
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Speaker 2: wants to come in? Seven billion people? Know as the
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Speaker 2: people on the left looff to say, it's unsustainable, and
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Speaker 2: it is unsustainable. We only have a limited amount of space,
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Speaker 2: and our economy would collapse if we let everyone wants
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Speaker 2: to be here to come in. Makes me a laugh
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Speaker 2: of all the people protesting who hate this country so much,
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Speaker 2: and yet somehow millions of people are breaking down the
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Speaker 2: doors to come in every year. Why don't we swap.
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Speaker 2: Why don't you go to Lithuania or Italy or Botswana
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Speaker 2: or wherever else these people are coming in from, And
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Speaker 2: why don't you go there, swap because you don't want
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Speaker 2: to be here. Go ahead, go over and see how
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Speaker 2: you like you know whatever, Southern googuz yeah, wherever, go
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Speaker 2: see how you like it. And then come back after
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Speaker 2: a year and write a little report on what it's
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Speaker 2: like not to be able to earn a living or
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Speaker 2: be able to speak publicly or post something on social
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Speaker 2: media and getting arrested and having somebody knock down your
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Speaker 2: door because you're gay or bisexual or lives with somebody
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Speaker 2: unmarried or whatever. You got to do that, then come
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Speaker 2: back and let us know how you like it. Seven
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Speaker 2: ten w R. The Voice of New York. Something that
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Speaker 2: was brought up to me that I didn't even realize.
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Speaker 2: Think about this state of New Jersey as nine million residents,
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Speaker 2: nearly a million additional people are there illegally. So think
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Speaker 2: about that number, Like twelve percent of the state right
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Speaker 2: now is there illegally, which is just obscene, an obscene number. Okay,
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Speaker 2: here's what it does to the environment when you have
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Speaker 2: twelve percent of the people just piled in who shouldn't
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Speaker 2: be there, who were unaccounted four in the beginning, So
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Speaker 2: we did not build an infrastructure for them. We didn't
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Speaker 2: create the extra classroom spaces for them. So all the
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Speaker 2: liberals in the nineties and the year the early two thousands,
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Speaker 2: of the late eighties, all we heard from the school unions,
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Speaker 2: et cetera, the teachers' unions, is in order to have
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Speaker 2: an effective classroom size, you need you need no more
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Speaker 2: than twelve to fifteen students per teacher. Then we can
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Speaker 2: have an effective classroom size. But it's okay. Those same
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Speaker 2: liberals don't mind when fifteen other kids come in who
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Speaker 2: were here illegally. That's okay. Then they don't complain. So
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Speaker 2: suddenly the classroom is back up to thirty kids because
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Speaker 2: fifteen unaccounted for illegal kids have come in and by law,
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Speaker 2: we have to educate them. And I'm fine with that.
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Speaker 2: But all of a sudden, you have thirty kids in
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Speaker 2: a classroom. We're back to where we were before. So
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Speaker 2: now we don't have the ability to have the attention
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Speaker 2: focused on twelve to fifteen kids. Not only do we
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Speaker 2: now have thirty kids jammed in a classroom but now
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Speaker 2: they're multi lingual, so the teacher can't focus on just
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Speaker 2: teaching things in English. Now we have to have teachers
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Speaker 2: who speak different languages, who cost these schools, the school
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Speaker 2: system way more money because they have to speak other
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Speaker 2: languages to kids who come here. This is how it
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Speaker 2: impacts society. What do we end up doing when we
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Speaker 2: have millions of extra people jamming the streets of New York. Oh,
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Speaker 2: let's just charge congestion pricing to everybody else. So now
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Speaker 2: I have to pay extra money because you lawmakers have
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Speaker 2: turned a blind eye and allowed all these people who
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Speaker 2: are here illegally to continue being here crimes being committed. Oh,
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Speaker 2: by the way, that's one of my other favorites. My
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Speaker 2: Democrat lawmaker friends say, Ken, it is a fact. It
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Speaker 2: is a fact that illegal migrants as you like to
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Speaker 2: call them, and nobody is illegal. Ken, illegal migrants cause
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Speaker 2: fewer crimes than citizens. Bull. And here's why it's bull.
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Speaker 2: Do you know, in the city of New York, it
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Speaker 2: is against the law for law enforcement to inquire as
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Speaker 2: to somebody's citizenship status. So if you can't even ask
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Speaker 2: if they're here illegally, and somebody commits a crime, how
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Speaker 2: do you know if they're here illegally or not. You don't, right,
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Speaker 2: so police arrest you for committing a crime. You are
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Speaker 2: forbidden by law from asking what is your citizenship status.
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Speaker 2: So when you file a report on that individual who
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Speaker 2: committed the crime, there's no way of knowing if they're
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Speaker 2: a citizen or not. So these statistics are skewed because
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Speaker 2: they love to say, then, hey, all these people who
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Speaker 2: committed crimes, they're all Americans because we don't know that
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Speaker 2: they're illegal. We don't know that they're illegal because the
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Speaker 2: people on the left on purpose do not ask and
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Speaker 2: do not permit us to ask if they're here illegally
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Speaker 2: or not, because then their cover would be blown. That's
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Speaker 2: the game being played by the left right now, and
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Speaker 2: this has been played for years. They play with these statistics.
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Speaker 2: Just like Alvin Bragg comes into office and says he
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Speaker 2: refuses to prosecute these two hundred crimes that are on
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Speaker 2: the books that are passed by lawmakers as illegal. Well,
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Speaker 2: he's not going to prosecute it because he feels that
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Speaker 2: people in the black and brown community were unfairly targeted
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Speaker 2: in those laws. But what ends up happening is the
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Speaker 2: next year he says crime is down. No, crime isn't down.
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Speaker 2: You just refuse to prosecute these two hundred crimes air go.
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Speaker 2: Crime looks down on paper, but crime is up in
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Speaker 2: many cases, especially serious crime and crime involving injuring other
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Speaker 2: people are killing other people. That's actually gone up, but
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Speaker 2: it gets reported differently. And so we end up having
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Speaker 2: these liberal politicians saying, look at us, you're liket Democrats,
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Speaker 2: and look, crime is down. It's a nice game, guys,
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Speaker 2: but we're on to you now, all right, we're on
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Speaker 2: to you. So you may have fooled some people at
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Speaker 2: this point, but you're not fooling all people. Come out
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Speaker 2: with the real statistics. Talk to the rank and file
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Speaker 2: police officers on the street. You know that crime is
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Speaker 2: knocked down in the city of New York, but it's
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Speaker 2: just funny that in the sanctuary cities and states it
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Speaker 2: always appears on paper crime is down. Then do a
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Speaker 2: little analyzing, you'll find out that the very people who
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Speaker 2: say the crime is down are the people who are
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Speaker 2: covering for the people here Illegally. You cannot increase the
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Speaker 2: population by twelve percent overnight like they have in the
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Speaker 2: state of New Jersey and have everything go smoothly. Buildings
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Speaker 2: that were meant to have two people per apartments suddenly
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Speaker 2: having twelve people per apartment, and the plumbing and the
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Speaker 2: electrical and everything else. The water supply was not meant
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Speaker 2: to handle that huge influx of population. So it's not
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Speaker 2: just about not being nice to the immigrants. Ken, you're
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Speaker 2: not nice to the immigrants. Everything collapses if you don't
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Speaker 2: do it right, If you don't allow people in the
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Speaker 2: right and legal way, everything will collapse. So you can
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Speaker 2: have legal migration in this country, but you got to
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Speaker 2: do it the right way. Seven ten war the voice
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Speaker 1: This is the Mark Simone Show on seven ten wr
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Speaker 1: Ken from Mark Today. Here's Ken Rosatto.
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Speaker 2: Good to be with you at seven ten wo r.
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Speaker 2: Let's go straight to the busy phones. I got two
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Speaker 2: mics at the very top, one from Nutley, one from
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Speaker 2: Puerto Rico. So I'll tell you what. Just Mike and
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Speaker 2: Nutley hang on there. Let's go to Puerto Rico first.
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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Mike and Puerto Rico.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, another beautiful day here. Of course, I.
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Speaker 2: Love it, love it. How long ago are you from
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Speaker 2: Puerto Rico or did you move there?
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Speaker 3: I moved here about thirty years ago. I've been coming
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Speaker 3: down here since nineteen seventy when I used to work
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Speaker 3: for the government.
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Speaker 2: Ah nice, Well, I'm jealous. I hope you enjoy your day.
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Speaker 3: I believe me. It's spectactuar. But I just wanted to
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Speaker 3: make a statement. People don't understand us. They really had
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Speaker 3: no concept of what Puerto Rico is. We just passed
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Speaker 3: a law that says life begins to concept and the
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Speaker 3: person in the womb is a person, and as we're
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Speaker 3: all the rights of person, each Democrats have no concept
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Speaker 3: to what we're like. You know, we close the stores
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Speaker 3: on Easter Sunday and Good Friday. What do they think
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Speaker 3: we're gonna do? Vote for these wackos up north. I
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Speaker 3: personally don't want to be a state. I love it
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Speaker 3: the way it is. But they don't understand us at all.
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Speaker 3: I swear they don't.
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Speaker 2: They just assume they want you. They want the votes,
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Speaker 2: they want the two Senate seats, they want the congressional
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Speaker 2: seat that votes. Now there I guess there is a
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Speaker 2: There is a non voting representative that comes from Puerto Rico,
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Speaker 2: correct for the House.
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Speaker 3: That's so, that's correct, we have a which quarter commissioner. However,
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Speaker 3: what makes them think we're going to vote with Democrat?
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Speaker 3: What makes them they assume?
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Speaker 2: You know what it is because many of the Puerto
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Speaker 2: Rican folks, and by the way, are married to somebody
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Speaker 2: who's have Puerto Rican many of the Puerto Rican folks
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Speaker 2: who come to the mainland of the United States. And yes,
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Speaker 2: for those who don't realize, Puerto Rico is part of
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Speaker 2: the United States, but it is not a state. It's
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Speaker 2: a terry. But am I right? Is it a territory technically?
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Speaker 3: Well, it's a territory. It's a territory, but we have
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Speaker 3: special status. I mean, if you come from the Virgin Island,
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Speaker 3: you need a passport to come in other states, but
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Speaker 3: Puerto Rico we get on, we get off in any
18:14
Speaker 3: other state. Interesting now, it's it's not where we don't
18:19
Speaker 3: have the vote in the national elections. That's true, and personally,
18:23
Speaker 3: I don't mix it. I don't miss it at all.
18:25
Speaker 3: We vote locally. I vote locally. I don't know whether
18:29
Speaker 3: my party is considered a Republican a Democrat, have no idea.
18:33
Speaker 3: It's more issue warranted were.
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Speaker 2: You but you were born on the mainland though, right,
18:36
Speaker 2: So when you moved to Puerto Rico from the mainland,
18:40
Speaker 2: do you lose the ability to vote for the presidential election?
18:43
Speaker 2: I guess because you're no longer a citizen or not.
18:45
Speaker 2: You're that you're not a citizen, but you're not a
18:47
Speaker 2: resident of the mainland. Once you go to Puerto Rico,
18:50
Speaker 2: you lose that About when I was on.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I voted when I was on the mainland. I'm
18:53
Speaker 3: a disabled that from Vietnam a long long time ago.
18:56
Speaker 3: So the the I don't miss voting in the States.
19:01
Speaker 3: It's too crazy now anyway. I mean, I would probably
19:03
Speaker 3: vote for President Trump. He seems like an American, good guy,
19:06
Speaker 3: stand up guy. But these these Democrats that assume, oh, well,
19:11
Speaker 3: everybody in Puerto Rico has got brown skin, the Democrats.
19:14
Speaker 3: It's not true.
19:15
Speaker 2: This is true.
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Speaker 3: I don't even know if they would be Democrat senators
19:19
Speaker 3: from Puerto Rico. It's hard to tell. I mean, most
19:22
Speaker 3: of my friends would probably vote Republican, be honest, if
19:25
Speaker 3: they were voting in a federal election.
19:27
Speaker 2: And even if they would have voted Democrat at one
19:29
Speaker 2: point in times. They are a change and a lot
19:31
Speaker 2: of people have their eyes wide open and they're taking
19:33
Speaker 2: a look at everything. Mike in Puerto Rico, enjoy your
19:36
Speaker 2: the sunshine, but we remember our vets and thank you
19:39
Speaker 2: for serving our country.
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Speaker 4: Sir.
19:40
Speaker 2: I appreciate you for being on with us. Let's go
19:42
Speaker 2: to Mike in Nutley, New Jersey. I used to live
19:44
Speaker 2: right next door in Belleville. Mike, how are you, sir, Mike.
19:51
Speaker 2: Let's go, let's hit it again. Here we go Mike
19:53
Speaker 2: and Nutley. I'm sorry I didn't press the button properly.
19:55
Speaker 2: How are you, sir?
19:57
Speaker 4: Hi Ken, I'm doing okay. This is my I haven't
19:59
Speaker 4: necessary President Trump and the d O Jane. This is
20:02
Speaker 4: my message. Since you're going after Hassan Piker for being
20:06
Speaker 4: a trader and popping up Cuba, you should also go
20:10
Speaker 4: after these women of the View, because on our own
20:13
Speaker 4: soil you have you have on Sunny Halston publicly saying
20:18
Speaker 4: many times on the show, publicly saying that the ward
20:22
Speaker 4: that we're having with Iran on the President Trump is unconstitutional.
20:27
Speaker 4: What she's actually doing is encouraging the soldiers in the
20:31
Speaker 4: Iranian regime to hurt our military forces.
20:34
Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna paure. I'm gonna pasture one second right there,
20:37
Speaker 2: only because we're tired on time, Mike. They're actually doing
20:39
Speaker 2: something right now about it, and that is they have
20:41
Speaker 2: the FCC investigating the broadcast licenses of all the ABC
20:47
Speaker 2: owned TV stations and it's based primarily on what the
20:51
Speaker 2: women of the View have said. And the reason why
20:54
Speaker 2: they did that is because on the View they ABC
20:59
Speaker 2: at one point. Remember I used to work for the company.
21:01
Speaker 2: I don't work for them anymore, but they used to
21:04
Speaker 2: have the View under their entertainment division, then they had
21:07
Speaker 2: it under their news division, and I believe, and I
21:10
Speaker 2: don't know for sure, but I believe it is back
21:11
Speaker 2: under their entertainment division. If it's under the entertainment division,
21:15
Speaker 2: then it must allow equal time when they're talking candidates,
21:20
Speaker 2: and apparently they had on one candidate not another, and
21:23
Speaker 2: so that's something that will be brought up. However, the
21:26
Speaker 2: way the FCC works, the FCC can't proactively come after
21:29
Speaker 2: a TV station. It has to be as the result
21:32
Speaker 2: of complaints. So if people don't complain in mass the
21:35
Speaker 2: FCC doesn't just can't really take it upon itself. All
21:38
Speaker 2: they can do is what they've done now, and that's
21:40
Speaker 2: asked for an early review of the broadcast licenses, and
21:43
Speaker 2: that's something that they're doing right now. Vincent and Brooklyn,
21:46
Speaker 2: we got about a minute left, and I can't let
21:48
Speaker 2: a day go by without having you on my friend.
21:49
Speaker 2: How are you good?
21:50
Speaker 5: I'm okay, Ken, Good morning, Ken. You were talking about
21:54
Speaker 5: classroom size. Back in the fifties, I attended parochial school
21:59
Speaker 5: and in the classrooms we had fifty kids in the classroom.
22:04
Speaker 5: The boys were on one side of the room, the
22:07
Speaker 5: girls were on the other side of the room, and
22:09
Speaker 5: the nun or the brothers had no problem with discipline
22:14
Speaker 5: in the classroom. Nobody spoke out, nobody wild anything like that.
22:20
Speaker 5: So these New York City school teachers are full of bologne.
22:23
Speaker 5: It's just a union money grab can. A number of
22:28
Speaker 5: years ago, an investigative journalists in Italy asked an Albanian criminal.
22:33
Speaker 5: They dispixelated out the guy's face. They said, why do
22:37
Speaker 5: you come all the way from Albania and or from
22:42
Speaker 5: Romania to commit crimes in Italy? And the guy said,
22:46
Speaker 5: if I rob a chicken in Romania, I get five
22:50
Speaker 5: years in the joint he says, if I rob a
22:53
Speaker 5: chicken in Italy, he said, the judge will probably ask me, oh,
22:58
Speaker 5: you forgot to take the side? Is Darren life the difference?
23:04
Speaker 2: That's it. We are. We are empathetic to an extreme,
23:07
Speaker 2: and that is part of the problem. Vincent, I know
23:10
Speaker 2: that you will spend this day remembering those who fought
23:12
Speaker 2: and died for us. I got a cut only because
23:14
Speaker 2: it's the news time.
23:15
Speaker 5: I certainly will, But.
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Speaker 2: My friend, God bless you, and I always appreciate your call. Vincent.
23:19
Speaker 2: Vincent from Brooklyn, We appreciate you, and a very good
23:21
Speaker 2: Memorial Day to you. And I can say good Memorial
23:24
Speaker 2: Day because you were You will spend a good time
23:27
Speaker 2: thanking people, whether in your heart those who passed on,
23:31
Speaker 2: or even a living vet. Yes, it is good to
23:34
Speaker 2: always thank a living vet for all those people who
23:37
Speaker 2: fought and of course sadly those who died for us.
23:40
Speaker 2: So remember on this Memorial Day, take a moment kind
23:43
Speaker 2: of hoist a toast to those who died for us,
23:46
Speaker 2: or say a prayer, moment of silence, just some recognition,
23:49
Speaker 2: put out the flag to say thank you for the
23:52
Speaker 2: ultimate sacrifice that you made for us. And then yes
23:54
Speaker 2: it's okay to enjoy a hot dog, and then you
23:56
Speaker 2: can say happy Memorial Day. In that case, it's a
24:00
Speaker 2: ok to be happy once you first said thank you.
24:02
Speaker 2: I think that's very important. Seven to ten WR the
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Speaker 2: Voice of New York. It's Ken Rosotto and from Mark
24:08
Speaker 2: on Memorial Day, Monday, Mark, we'll be back tomorrow. But
24:10
Speaker 2: you know, in the meantime, you spend good money on
24:12
Speaker 2: a fancy schmancy computer router and it reaches every inch
24:15
Speaker 2: of your home. Now you find out that Russians could
24:19
Speaker 2: be hacking into it, reading every keystroke to tap and
24:23
Speaker 2: seeing every website you serve too. Well, it sounds crazy,
24:26
Speaker 2: but it's not joining us now with this topic and
24:28
Speaker 2: Morris brand and digital strategist Fisher, who could be found
24:32
Speaker 2: on x and threads with user name at Fisher and
24:34
Speaker 2: through his website Fisher dot media. Good morning Fisher, Good
24:38
Speaker 2: morning to you, sir. Good to have you want. So,
24:40
Speaker 2: what is this about home routers potentially being hacked by Russia.
24:45
Speaker 6: Yeah, they discovered the Russian hackers compromised thousands of mainly
24:49
Speaker 6: small office and home office routers across twenty three states
24:53
Speaker 6: since at least twenty twenty four. The FBI and the
24:56
Speaker 6: NSA issued a warning after they remotely resetted affected devices.
25:02
Speaker 6: They got the permission via a court order, but they
25:05
Speaker 6: reset the administration passwords on these routers, and they also
25:09
Speaker 6: obviously urged owners to take immediate action to prevent ongoing,
25:14
Speaker 6: you know, targeting of primarily military, government and critical infrastructure.
25:18
Speaker 6: So if you had an in with that, if you
25:20
Speaker 6: worked for the government, you were probably or you were
25:23
Speaker 6: a subsidiary, you know, things like that, you were probably
25:26
Speaker 6: a target. The attack hit mainly older routers from TP link.
25:31
Speaker 6: Many are past what they call end of life, so
25:33
Speaker 6: they no longer receive security updates. But you know, there
25:36
Speaker 6: are important things that you could do. If you have
25:39
Speaker 6: a router at home, which is mainly all of us,
25:43
Speaker 6: and you know, step one, update your router firmware regularly.
25:48
Speaker 6: Automatic updates are pretty standard. If you have Nest, Wi
25:51
Speaker 6: Fi or EUO, it's pretty standard. It'll you know, pop
25:55
Speaker 6: up an update saying it's time to update, and then
25:57
Speaker 6: they'll eventually just push it for you. If you have
26:00
Speaker 6: you know, a more advanced router like Netgear, a TP
26:03
Speaker 6: link in this case, check the router's firmware, just log in.
26:06
Speaker 6: Reboot your router weekly. You and I talked about this,
26:08
Speaker 6: and you do it more often because you do a
26:10
Speaker 6: lot of TV obviously from the house, and so it's
26:14
Speaker 6: always good to reboot your router at least monthly or
26:18
Speaker 6: at some regular interval. It helps clear potential malware and
26:23
Speaker 6: it helps maintain security. Also, change the default username and passwords.
26:26
Speaker 6: We've talked about this a lot. And this isn't just
26:28
Speaker 6: the Wi Fi password. I'm talking about the back end
26:33
Speaker 6: of your Wi Fi. Typically it's the username's admin and
26:36
Speaker 6: the passwords one, two, three, four five, So change that.
26:39
Speaker 6: And if you have remote management, and again this is
26:43
Speaker 6: if you're kind of like a you know, tech pro,
26:46
Speaker 6: a tech know it all. Remote management allows you to
26:49
Speaker 6: do things remotely, right, so outside of your house, turn
26:52
Speaker 6: it off and then that way that's not a you know,
26:55
Speaker 6: an endpoint for hackers. And then if you can use
26:57
Speaker 6: a VPN, if you work from home to a company,
27:00
Speaker 6: typically your work laptop has a VPN, but you can
27:03
Speaker 6: get it for your house and for your your router.
27:06
Speaker 6: It doesn't just have to be for for work or
27:09
Speaker 6: for travel, So look into that as well, and keep
27:12
Speaker 6: in mind, you know, your router is a high value
27:14
Speaker 6: target because all your network traffic passes through it, whether
27:17
Speaker 6: it's the lights turning on and off in your house automatically,
27:20
Speaker 6: or your web traffic or your TV. So you know
27:23
Speaker 6: you want to secure that. It's kind of like locking
27:25
Speaker 6: your doors.
27:26
Speaker 2: Well I understand that Minnesota for real now because you
27:29
Speaker 2: and I get around a lot on the show we
27:31
Speaker 2: do in New Jersey, But for real, Minnesota is now
27:33
Speaker 2: making it basically illegal to use a VPN. Have you
27:36
Speaker 2: heard about this. I'm catching you off guard here, So yeah,
27:39
Speaker 2: they just passed legislation and it's it's basically to prevent
27:44
Speaker 2: gambling using like call she those Okay, so what people
27:49
Speaker 2: were doing to get around that? So they could use
27:51
Speaker 2: call she as they were using a VPN, so you
27:52
Speaker 2: couldn't locate where they were, and they could say that
27:55
Speaker 2: they were in a different state. So now the legislation
27:58
Speaker 2: has been supplemented with something that said, you can't use
28:01
Speaker 2: software that says you're in a place that you're not. Well,
28:03
Speaker 2: that's what VPNs do. They kind of disguise where you are.
28:07
Speaker 2: Isn't that what they do?
28:07
Speaker 3: Yeah?
28:08
Speaker 6: Yeah, they well, yeah, they log you in from someplace else. Yeah,
28:12
Speaker 6: or you completely offic scate your Is it the word
28:15
Speaker 6: I'm looking for? Yes, yes, your location, So no matter,
28:19
Speaker 6: it's not even saying you're from someplace else. I would
28:21
Speaker 6: say that, And I don't know how far along that is.
28:24
Speaker 6: I can't say that that's going to pass because these services,
28:28
Speaker 6: and I may or may not know from personal living
28:32
Speaker 6: in Georgia and having to go to North Carolina or
28:34
Speaker 6: Tennessee in order to do any type of sports betting
28:38
Speaker 6: that you can't vps. I can tell you you can't play.
28:41
Speaker 2: The lottery that way.
28:42
Speaker 6: I've been in another state and wanted to play Mega Millions,
28:45
Speaker 6: and I can only do it from Georgia on the app.
28:47
Speaker 6: And so I would say that that's not going to
28:49
Speaker 6: get very far. But yeah, that's yeah.
28:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, because and you're right, I use I use one
28:55
Speaker 2: of the apps when I'm in New Jersey to buy lottery,
28:59
Speaker 2: and when I try to our place in Florida where
29:02
Speaker 2: they don't have that online lottery purchasing, you still have
29:06
Speaker 2: to go to a store in Florida. I've tried to
29:08
Speaker 2: use the VPN from there and it does not permit
29:10
Speaker 2: you to use it. But apparently there are some apps
29:13
Speaker 2: or that claim to be able to disguise where you're
29:15
Speaker 2: from and whatnot, and I don't know whatever. I'm not
29:18
Speaker 2: one of those nefarious individuals, but we listen the less
29:21
Speaker 2: go ahead.
29:21
Speaker 6: Yeah, nonetheless, I still think you know, in our listening area,
29:24
Speaker 6: VPNs are okay, right, So if you can lock you
29:28
Speaker 6: router down in the ways mentioned and use a VPN
29:30
Speaker 6: if you can, and then it's just extra secure for.
29:33
Speaker 2: I only bring it up because with the iHeartRadio app,
29:35
Speaker 2: we just had a call from Puerto Rico, so we're
29:36
Speaker 2: getting calls all over the world for us, and that's
29:39
Speaker 2: why we want to let folks know that I get
29:41
Speaker 2: a caller every day on the show we do in
29:43
Speaker 2: Jersey from Minnesota. So that's kind of interesting. All right,
29:46
Speaker 2: we have about a minute and a half left. Reddit
29:48
Speaker 2: investors got a rude surprise after Meta made a direct
29:52
Speaker 2: challenge to the popular social platform. Talk about how that
29:55
Speaker 2: impacted shares of Reddit dropping because of their app called Forum.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, so Reddit sharre stropped almost six percent on Friday
30:04
Speaker 6: because Facebook. Meta rolled out a new app called Forum,
30:08
Speaker 6: and it's for their Facebook groups.
30:10
Speaker 2: Now Reddit, and I'll try to be quick.
30:12
Speaker 6: Reddit is a great place to go to if you
30:15
Speaker 6: have a question and you can ask regular people. It's
30:17
Speaker 6: whether you know, whether should I change the transmission fluid
30:21
Speaker 6: on my two thousand forward you know, explorer whatever, and
30:24
Speaker 6: they're you know, they're just experts. There are people. It's
30:26
Speaker 6: also a cesspool, right, so so Facebook basically rolled out
30:30
Speaker 6: a new one that's based on the back of Facebook Groups.
30:34
Speaker 6: It's attached to your Facebook account, so it's clean. It
30:37
Speaker 6: probably you know, is less cesspooly and you know, well,
30:41
Speaker 6: time will tell, but it is attached to you compared
30:44
Speaker 6: to Reddit. You can create a fake email, or you
30:47
Speaker 6: could just create an email that's not you know, tied
30:49
Speaker 6: to yours. Apple and Google both allow you to hide
30:52
Speaker 6: your email, and you can create a persona and then
30:55
Speaker 6: ask questions or whatever. Facebook won't allow that because it's
30:59
Speaker 6: going to tie it to your So whether or not
31:00
Speaker 6: this catches on as well as Reddit don't know, but
31:04
Speaker 6: at least it's an alternative if you're not into the
31:07
Speaker 6: reddit and the subreddits and the cesspool stuff. They can
31:10
Speaker 6: because it could be pretty brutal.
31:12
Speaker 2: There's a lot of hate on Reddit. There's a lot
31:15
Speaker 2: of hate. People just they attack to attack. It's like
31:18
Speaker 2: you're going say, hey, it's a nice day. No it isn't,
31:20
Speaker 2: You're an idiot.
31:20
Speaker 3: Die.
31:21
Speaker 2: It's like what I just said, it's a nice day
31:23
Speaker 2: by post unbelievable. Really, it's crazy, and that, by the way,
31:27
Speaker 2: I'm the one who is doing the attacking. No, I'm kidding.
31:30
Speaker 3: It is.
31:30
Speaker 6: But you could get the app if you want to
31:32
Speaker 6: try it. It's on iOS right now, that's where they're
31:34
Speaker 6: testing it. It's called Forum by Facebook, and you can
31:38
Speaker 6: download the app.
31:38
Speaker 2: Because what Meta needs is yet another addition to its
31:42
Speaker 2: social media platforms.
31:44
Speaker 6: Tied to your name and your persona, so they can
31:46
Speaker 6: track you with everything that you absolutely.
31:49
Speaker 2: Mark is at home right now saying ha ha, I
31:52
Speaker 2: know everything about you. Yes, I just go buy a
31:54
Speaker 2: first day basis with mister Zuckerberg. All right, Brandon digital
31:57
Speaker 2: strategist Fisher who can be found on and threads with
32:01
Speaker 2: user name at fisher and through his website Fisher dot Media.
32:04
Speaker 2: It was a pleasure. Thanks for coming on the Mark
32:06
Speaker 2: Sramone Show today. Thanks Ken, you bet and kenbraz Otowan
32:10
Speaker 2: from Mark for your Memorial Day. When we come back,
32:12
Speaker 2: we'll take call. We squeeze in one or two before
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Speaker 2: the end of the hour. The number is eight hundred
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Speaker 2: three two one zero seven ten. Eight hundred three two
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Speaker 2: one zero seven ten for seven ten WR. WR is
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Speaker 2: the Voice of New York. We made it to the
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Speaker 2: end of the broadcast here before we have our top
32:32
Speaker 2: of the our news, but we have time for one
32:34
Speaker 2: more phone call. Let's go to Bob in Florida. Good
32:37
Speaker 2: morning to you, Bob, Good morning Ken.
32:40
Speaker 3: I just wanted to thank you Ken for mentioning the
32:43
Speaker 3: fact that we acknowledge the loss of all our military
32:47
Speaker 3: people in all wars, but you added the factor of
32:51
Speaker 3: the people also lost during training and if you look
32:54
Speaker 3: at the numbers, they're astounding. Between World War Two, career,
32:58
Speaker 3: Vietnam and now with we lost four people last year
33:02
Speaker 3: and training for the one sixty especially Avi Asia operations
33:06
Speaker 3: and my friend was their commander for years, and we
33:11
Speaker 3: need to acknowledge that the training is very dangerous as
33:15
Speaker 3: all the missions.
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Speaker 2: Sure, look at people if I mad me to step
33:19
Speaker 2: on your bob on because we're a little short, but
33:21
Speaker 2: look at how many people trained to be seals there.
33:23
Speaker 2: There have been people who drowned training because that's grueling training,
33:27
Speaker 2: right it is.
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Speaker 5: It is well.
33:30
Speaker 3: We did night operations with helicopters that to this day
33:34
Speaker 3: when I think about some of them with the low
33:36
Speaker 3: life visibility and no night vision goggles at the time,
33:40
Speaker 3: I get a chill from it because it was very,
33:44
Speaker 3: very dangerous and difficult stuff to do well. And you
33:46
Speaker 3: saw what happened with the with the Venezuela and operation
33:51
Speaker 3: there too, the people level which was wounded.
33:54
Speaker 2: Bye, I got Bob. I got to cut you only
33:56
Speaker 2: because we're up at heartbreak against the news on the top.
33:59
Speaker 2: But my my friend, thank you to all the people
34:01
Speaker 2: who served our country and specifically those who died, whether
34:04
Speaker 2: in training, during service or afterward, people who got cancer,
34:08
Speaker 2: who came back from the burn pits, etc. God bless
34:11
Speaker 2: them all. Thank you so much. Bob seven ten wor
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Speaker 2: the voice of New York hen ristto and thank you
34:16
Speaker 2: so much to Mark Nwr for letting me be here.
34:19
Speaker 2: Don't forget that we have Clay and Buck. They're coming
34:21
Speaker 2: up after the news. Enjoy the Memorial Day. Just remember
34:24
Speaker 2: the people who sacrifice their lives for us.