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

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  Speaker 1: Now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten or filling
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  Speaker 1: in for Mark, here's Ken Rosatto. It's so nice to
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  Speaker 1: be with your happy Independence Day weekend. Former New York
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  Speaker 1: City Too new Zacher guy Ken Rosatto reporting for duty.
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  Speaker 1: I used to be on Channel seven for twenty years.
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  Speaker 1: I did the morning and the noon show there, had
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  Speaker 1: a great time, good friends there, and I worked for
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  Speaker 1: a year prior to that at Fox five Good Day
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  Speaker 1: in New York. A lot of people don't remember that
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  Speaker 1: because it was so long ago, from twenty twenty, two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and two to two thousand and three. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: I worked at good Day and I was with Lynn
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  Speaker 1: Brown back then, and Dave Price was on back then,
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  Speaker 1: and who else, and then we got Mike Woods he
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  Speaker 1: joined us, So it was a good time. That was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of years ago. I have people coming up
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  Speaker 1: to me on the streets that go when I was
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  Speaker 1: growing up, when I was five years old, and I
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  Speaker 1: look at them as they shut up. I just it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to fathom that I'm not that old now, but yes,
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  Speaker 1: and I got to meet to meet Sarah Lee Kessler
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  Speaker 1: here at the wonderful iHeart Studios yesterday, whom I used
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  Speaker 1: to watch on Channel nine when I was younger. Not
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  Speaker 1: that Sarah's that much older than me, but what an
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  Speaker 1: honor to meet Sara Lee Kesler. She is just a delightful,
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  Speaker 1: wonderful person and what a total pro all the years
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  Speaker 1: that she served New York City. Just great to meet her.
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  Speaker 1: Seven ten WR the Voice of New York. Our phone
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  Speaker 1: lines are open. Give us a call eight hundred and
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  Speaker 1: three to two one zero seven ten. The Great Mark
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  Speaker 1: Simone taking a day or two off enjoying the lyng
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  Speaker 1: nice long weekend again. Rumor has it, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that it's true, but rumor has it he is working
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  Speaker 1: closely with Taylor, Swift and Kelsey right now. They are
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  Speaker 1: kind of working on finals of the wedding plans. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I hear he's doing. I'm sure if that's the case,
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  Speaker 1: that Mark will post it on his Instagram at some
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  Speaker 1: point today. We'll see what happens. I'm just kidding. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. People are saying, is he really that? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Who knows? It's Mark, who knows. In the
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  Speaker 1: middle of a heat wave right now, we've been talking
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  Speaker 1: about this. Of course, most of the tri State could
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  Speaker 1: see up to one hundred to one hundred and two
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  Speaker 1: degrees today as Daria was Daria Algingerb was saying that
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  Speaker 1: the record today is one hundred and three. I think
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  Speaker 1: the all time record for New York City is either
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and five or hundred and six. Like ever
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  Speaker 1: in the history since we've been keeping records, it's either
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  Speaker 1: one oh five or one oh six that the high
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  Speaker 1: temperature was. But for this day in history, it was
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and three and we could hit one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and two. So you know, what does that mean? When
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  Speaker 1: you get above like ninety ninety five, your body just
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  Speaker 1: really can't even sense the difference. It's just hot. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the advice that a friend of mine who
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  Speaker 1: is a medical doctor constantly gives. Even if you absolutely
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  Speaker 1: positively don't feel like you want a sip of water
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  Speaker 1: right now before you do anything, before you walk out
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  Speaker 1: of the house, have a full glass of water, number one,
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  Speaker 1: And then if you are outside doing anything within the hour,
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  Speaker 1: have another full glass of water. You do not realize
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  Speaker 1: how much you dehydrate just from breathing, from moving around,
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  Speaker 1: and the amount of sweat that just evaporates off your
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  Speaker 1: body as you're walking around in this heat. You want
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  Speaker 1: to kind of preempt any possibility of getting sick, so
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  Speaker 1: drink extra water and spend you know, if you didn't
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  Speaker 1: have to go to the market. But yeah, maybe I
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  Speaker 1: should pick up those carrots and those bananas. Go now,
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  Speaker 1: and instead of spending fifteen minutes, spend about an hour.
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  Speaker 1: Soupermarket's a great, nice, cool place, especially in the produce aisle.
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  Speaker 1: All the refrigeration open. You know, I walked in yesterday
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  Speaker 1: to mine, and man, it was ice cold, and I
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  Speaker 1: loved every second of it. It's a great place to
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  Speaker 1: just walk nice and slowly, take your time. We heard
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  Speaker 1: Roger Friedman saying, before go to the museum, go to
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  Speaker 1: a theater. Enjoy the air conditioning that's there already. And
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  Speaker 1: this way you don't have to deal with the electric
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  Speaker 1: build yourself, and it's a good way to spend a
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  Speaker 1: couple hours until the sun comes down. Remember ten a
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  Speaker 1: to two p worst time of the day to be out.
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  Speaker 1: That's when it's absolutely the hottest. And then two to
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  Speaker 1: four second worst time. After four PM, as the sun
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  Speaker 1: starts to come down, it gets a little better. But again,
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  Speaker 1: this is not just hot, this is dangerously hot, so
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  Speaker 1: don't tax it. If you don't have to, don't stretch it, okay,
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  Speaker 1: especially if you're older or if you have a baby
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  Speaker 1: or a pet. Don't push it today. Drink the water,
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  Speaker 1: stay cool. Seven to ten wore the Voice of New York.
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  Speaker 1: This is Ken Risotto in from Mark Simone. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know. I wish Mark. We're into I love Mark.
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  Speaker 1: I listen every single day. I know most of you
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  Speaker 1: callers because I listen to you when you call. So
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  Speaker 1: when I see on the collar roster, we have a
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  Speaker 1: little list of all the people calling in. I know
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  Speaker 1: when you called because I heard you during the week.
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  Speaker 1: I listened to the show every single day. I don't
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  Speaker 1: miss Mark Simone ever. If I can't hear him live,
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  Speaker 1: I listened to the play back on the iHeartRadio app
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  Speaker 1: because I am absolutely addicted to Mark Simon. Love Mark Simone,
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  Speaker 1: have for years. And I briefly touched on this yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I got to fill in for Mark yesterday. But it
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  Speaker 1: bears repeating. I don't know if you're aware of this,
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  Speaker 1: but because June thirtieth is the deadline for much of
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  Speaker 1: many businesses and municipalities to get their budgets in for
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  Speaker 1: the following year, New Jersey where I live, and New
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  Speaker 1: York City both finalized their budgets. And I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: if you heard, but in New Jersey the new spending
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  Speaker 1: plan is roughly sixty one billion dollars. Now, mind you,
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  Speaker 1: the population of the state of New Jersey is just
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  Speaker 1: over nine million people. Nine million people with a sixty
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  Speaker 1: one billion dollar budget. In New York City, the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven spending plan is one hundred and twenty six billion, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: and that's for eight and a half million people. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the budget for the entire state of Florida for twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven, and Florida, by the way, has twenty four
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  Speaker 1: million people, Florida's budget is one hundred and eighteen billion.
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  Speaker 1: So I know I threw out a lot of numbers
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  Speaker 1: at you, But think about the contrast here. New York
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  Speaker 1: City is eight point five million people and their budget
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  Speaker 1: is one hundred and twenty six billion. The state of
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  Speaker 1: Florida is twenty six million people and their budget is
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and eighteen billion. So for three times the population,
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  Speaker 1: they have a lower budget than the city of New York.
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  Speaker 1: I asked you to think about that. Why does that
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  Speaker 1: make sense? I'm waiting somebody tell me, ding, ding, it doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't except for the fact that Florida is run
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  Speaker 1: by Republicans and New York City is run by socialists. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: and they're not just democratics thousands. These are socialists slash communists. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: They don't think the same way Republicans. Don't think government
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  Speaker 1: is the answer to everything. Let charity do charity stuff,
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  Speaker 1: Let individuals work and pay taxes, and let the government
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  Speaker 1: do the government stuff. Okay. Socialists want the government to own,
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  Speaker 1: run and control everything. But remember, ultimately, the only person
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  Speaker 1: under socialism who benefits is the socialist. You look at
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  Speaker 1: any socialist society the first couple of years, wonderful, It's panacea.
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  Speaker 1: It is just glorious. Why because they seize everybody's wealth
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  Speaker 1: and they redistribute it. And then when there's no wealth
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  Speaker 1: left to redistribute, you wallow in your poop. That's socialism.
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  Speaker 1: I bring you Cuba, Okay. Under Castor in nineteen fifty
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  Speaker 1: nine came in literally confiscated everybody's wealth. My dear friend
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  Speaker 1: Ileana Varella, I anchored with her at Channel four in Miami.
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  Speaker 1: Back in mo was at nineteen ninety eight to two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and two. Right. She is born and raised in Cuba.
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  Speaker 1: Her dad was a doctor. Always tells this story. She
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  Speaker 1: was about fourteen years old, middle of the night, knock
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  Speaker 1: at the door and they opened the door. Father, mother,
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  Speaker 1: her and her brother. They opened the door because they
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  Speaker 1: kind of sensed this might be coming. Castro's thugs with weapons,
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  Speaker 1: kidnapped the father, take him from Havana, send them to
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  Speaker 1: Santiago de Cuba, which is the other side of the island. Why,
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  Speaker 1: because the communist government decided that's where he was more needed.
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  Speaker 1: Then they took Iliana, her brother, and her mother out
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  Speaker 1: of the house and took over the house that the
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  Speaker 1: father had worked very hard for, took over that house
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  Speaker 1: and created a communist headquarters from the house, and Iliana,
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  Speaker 1: her brother, and mother were forced to share an apartment
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  Speaker 1: in a crappy part of town with two other families
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  Speaker 1: who was a three bedroom apartment, and each family got
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  Speaker 1: a bedroom that was their sub their sub living space
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  Speaker 1: within the common apartment, one bathroom for all three families,
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  Speaker 1: and a kiss they all had to share because that's
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  Speaker 1: what the communist government felt they need it. Okay, So
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  Speaker 1: no matter how hard you work, no matter what you
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  Speaker 1: achieved crap. We take it from you, and you live
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  Speaker 1: in what we give you. That's the way socialism works.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that everybody does better. It's that everybody gets
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  Speaker 1: a lower bar and has to deal with it. Whereas
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  Speaker 1: capitalism sets the bar high. Everybody works hard to achieve it.
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  Speaker 1: Will everyone achieve it? No, but at least you have
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  Speaker 1: the freedom and the opportunity to achieve it. And when
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  Speaker 1: you have a country where you have people who are
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  Speaker 1: of every race, creed, and color having become millionaires and billionaires,
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  Speaker 1: that tells you that everyone has a shot. Now, that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean that everyone's going to be a millionaire a billionaire,
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  Speaker 1: but everyone starts with the same freedoms and opportunities. Free
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  Speaker 1: public school, free high school. In many cases, you can
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  Speaker 1: get free college, through scholarship. Whatever, you have the opportunity. Oh, ken,
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  Speaker 1: you make it sound so easy. It's not easy. And
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  Speaker 1: if I'm making it sound easy, then you're either mishearing
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  Speaker 1: me or I'm miss speaking. I'm not saying it's easy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying everyone born here, everyone who becomes a citizen here,
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  Speaker 1: you all have. We all have the same opportunity. All right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm from a lower middle class family in New Rochelle,
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  Speaker 1: and I ended up a news anchor at ABC's headquarters,
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  Speaker 1: a TV station in America. I would have never thunk
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  Speaker 1: it growing up. There's nothing special about me. I just
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  Speaker 1: happened to have a love for broadcasting and a love
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  Speaker 1: for journalism. And I got into NYU on a scholarship
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  Speaker 1: and I was able to by working hard and you know,
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  Speaker 1: get out of that school with a lot under my belt,
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  Speaker 1: and I got eventually hired at Channel seven. It wasn't easy.
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  Speaker 1: I had to work at nine, eight or nine different
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  Speaker 1: radio and TV stations before I got hired there. Today
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  Speaker 1: it's different. The TV industry is contracting at shrinking. There
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  Speaker 1: are no little stations in Oshkosh that hire you. You
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  Speaker 1: now started a news twelve or you know, they had
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  Speaker 1: FiOS they went out of business FiOS TV. But that's
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  Speaker 1: where you kind of start out and you cut your teeth.
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  Speaker 1: You work at. There aren't even a lot of radio
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  Speaker 1: stations to work at now. A lot of them are automated.
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  Speaker 1: This is live, but a lot of them are automated.
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  Speaker 1: But that's the way you did it years ago, and
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  Speaker 1: then you've achieved. Now did everyone achieve? No? There are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people who tried and didn't. But the
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  Speaker 1: point is I had the same shot everyone else had.
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  Speaker 1: I had a lot of luck and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people who gave me a shot, and that's the way
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  Speaker 1: it worked out for me. You know. So I was blessed.
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  Speaker 1: I acknowledge that. But the point is everyone has an
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  Speaker 1: equal shot. It's not that I had family in the business,
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  Speaker 1: somebody pulled a string for me, somebody made a call. No,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have any of that. I didn't have any
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  Speaker 1: of that worked hard, was able. I was the guy
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  Speaker 1: that got there two hours early and stayed two hours late.
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  Speaker 1: And I guess they made an impression and they hired me.
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  Speaker 1: And now I'm blessed to be on the radio station
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  Speaker 1: that I listened to all the time, to the point
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  Speaker 1: that I text Tom Cutty, our program director, and his assistant.
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  Speaker 1: I text them all the time. If I hear something
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  Speaker 1: weird or something gets cut off because of the because
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  Speaker 1: of the commercials and whatever. I text them. They're like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, Ken Risotto, you stop listening. You're like,
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  Speaker 1: you're like a stalker. I listened to the station day
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  Speaker 1: and night. I love it, But as a fan, that's
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  Speaker 1: why it's especially exciting for me to come on on
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  Speaker 1: the air at seven to ten wor anyway, enough we
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  Speaker 1: keep moving on, give us a call at eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: three to two to one zero seven ten, eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: three to two one zero seven ten for the big
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  Speaker 1: fireworks show that is tomorrow night. Don't forget it's at
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  Speaker 1: nine to fifteen. Schedule to happen that or nine to
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. Excuse me. It's going to be happening both
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  Speaker 1: on the East River and on the Hudson River because
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  Speaker 1: of the This is the fiftieth anniversary of the Macy's
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  Speaker 1: Firework Show, and it's the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
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  Speaker 1: of America, so it's a very special event. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a laser show as well. Uh, they're also
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  Speaker 1: going to be broad broadcasting. Listen to be shooting off
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  Speaker 1: shells from the Brooklyn Bridge. So if there were ever
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  Speaker 1: a time that you had relatives in town from out
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  Speaker 1: of town, you want to show off New York City
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  Speaker 1: and the beautiful Macy's fireworks show, Tomorrow night is the night.
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  Speaker 1: This is probably going to be the biggest and the
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  Speaker 1: best firework show you will have ever seen. And let's
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  Speaker 1: just keep our fingers cross so that we don't get
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  Speaker 1: a thunderstorm. Is a chance of a passing thunderstorm, it's
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  Speaker 1: only about twenty percent right now, not very high, So
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  Speaker 1: keep our fingers cross it doesn't happen, and it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be the best show ever. They expect three million
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  Speaker 1: people to line all the different routes. The good news is, though,
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  Speaker 1: it's not going to be three million all like the
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  Speaker 1: Queen's Brooklyn you know shoreline, it's now spread out from
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey to Long Island, Queens Brooklyn area. I call
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  Speaker 1: that Long Island. I know people in Queens and Brooklyn
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  Speaker 1: would differ, but geographically it's Long Island. Think about it
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  Speaker 1: and they and of course everybody in Manhattan will be
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  Speaker 1: able to see it. Just look left or right and
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  Speaker 1: you'll be able to see. It's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: spectacular show. Happy Birthday, America, Happy Independence to everybody. Again.
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  Speaker 1: We're taking your calls at eight two one zero seven ten.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know where that accent just came from. We're
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  Speaker 1: taking our calls. I have no idea. I'm born in Eurochelle.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea where that came from. But nonetheless,
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten sunny, hot,
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  Speaker 1: humid heat wave continuing highs one hundred to one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and two humidity making it feel hotter than that, so
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  Speaker 1: make sure you stay cool, get out of the sun
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  Speaker 1: when you can, and again we'll take your call. So
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  Speaker 1: at eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten WR,
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  Speaker 1: we're coming right back.