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Mark's 10am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now the Mark Simone Show on seven tenor filling in
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  Speaker 1: for Mark. Here's Ken Rosato. Very good to be with
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  Speaker 1: you on a Thursday. We like to call it Friday Eve. Yes, enjoy.
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  Speaker 1: I feel a holiday vibe going on. It is so
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  Speaker 1: beautiful out if you are looking out from an air
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  Speaker 1: conditioned window. If you have to be outside, I feel
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  Speaker 1: for you. Trust me. We have to hope that our
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  Speaker 1: police and fire and all our rescue people and the
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  Speaker 1: construction workers and everybody who has to work outside please
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  Speaker 1: give them bottles of ice cold water. And if you
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  Speaker 1: are working outside, remember to shade yourself a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: get a couple of breaks an hour if you can,
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  Speaker 1: because this is dangerously oppressively hot heat. Also, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know about you if you have elderly in your lives.
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  Speaker 1: My parents are eighty eight and ninety five. God bless them,
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  Speaker 1: very lucky to have them. But I noticed it like
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  Speaker 1: elderly people never feel like it's hot. It could be
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty degrees out in the go. Oh
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  Speaker 1: it's comfortable. No, it's not. The thing is not only
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  Speaker 1: do they not feel hot, but the heat can be
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  Speaker 1: working on them and making them ill, and they don't
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  Speaker 1: know it until it's too late, So make sure to
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  Speaker 1: check in on elderly, make sure that they have air
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  Speaker 1: conditioning or at least they have a cool place to go,
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  Speaker 1: and that they are hydrating. The elderly ten not to
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  Speaker 1: drink water. So sorry to go off on a tangent
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  Speaker 1: like this, but it's just so important. This is when
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  Speaker 1: people get sick and die in this kind of oppressive heat.
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  Speaker 1: More people die from the extreme heath than from the
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  Speaker 1: extreme cold, so it's really important to take care of them,
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  Speaker 1: all right, all right, that done? Ken Rozatto in for
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  Speaker 1: the great Mark Simone. Mark has a couple of days
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  Speaker 1: off and it's an honor and a pleasure to be
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  Speaker 1: here for him. You may remember me from twenty years
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  Speaker 1: anchoring the morning and noon show over at Channel seven
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  Speaker 1: here in New York. I was on Channel five good
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  Speaker 1: day before that, and these days I'm on on New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: That's a New Jersey TV channel. Anywhere in the country.
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  Speaker 1: You could stream it ATNNJ dot COMNENJ dot com you could.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the older folk are saying, what do you
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  Speaker 1: mean stream? What channel is it on? Unfortunately, folks, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: today it's moving toward towards streaming everything is streaming, so
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  Speaker 1: ask your kids, they'll tell you what streaming is. But
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  Speaker 1: good to be here with you. A lot to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: Phone lines are open. We'd love for you to give
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  Speaker 1: us a call and take part in the conversation. It's
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. Eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: three two one zero seven ten. Well, as we mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: we are in the middle of a heat wave. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of the tri State's going to see about ninety
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  Speaker 1: eight degrees today, A few spots will break one hundred.
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  Speaker 1: Race Stagic was talking about this earlier with Larry and
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  Speaker 1: I Curtis, excuse me, and I just heard him say
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  Speaker 1: when he was talking about areas feeling like one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and ten, I cringed. And when I think of that
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  Speaker 1: with the high humidity, and again people who don't have
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  Speaker 1: a cold, air conditioned home to escape to, it makes
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  Speaker 1: me kind of sick inside. By the way, when we
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  Speaker 1: have days like this, I want to be able to
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  Speaker 1: look at my friends who like to say, how could
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  Speaker 1: you live part time in Florida? It's so hot and
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  Speaker 1: humid down there, all right? Just to give you a
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  Speaker 1: little contrast, in Fort Lauderdale today, you know what the
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  Speaker 1: high temperature is going to be eighty six Miami Beach,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, the high temperature is going to be
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  Speaker 1: eighty five, all right, and the humidity levels there are
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  Speaker 1: actually going to be lower than in the New York
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  Speaker 1: tri state. So yes, do they have more days per
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  Speaker 1: year in the eighties and nineties in South Florida than
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  Speaker 1: we do in the northeast, certainly, But it actually gets
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  Speaker 1: hotter in New York than it does in South Florida
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  Speaker 1: because in South Florida when it gets to be ninety
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  Speaker 1: five ninety six, they get thunderstorms to cool things down.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what the hottest temperature? I'll ask, is
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  Speaker 1: he our producer? He is? He is? He's our engineer. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Chris is our producer? Is he? What is
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  Speaker 1: the hottest temperature that we've ever had in South Florida?
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  Speaker 1: Do you do you know what the hottest temperature is?
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  Speaker 1: He says one point fifteen? All right. That's what a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people will think, because you have a team
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  Speaker 1: called the Miami Heat right, No. Ninety nine, And yet
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  Speaker 1: the hottest temperature in New York City is one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and six and in Newark is one hundred and eight.
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  Speaker 1: So it's actually been hotter here than in South Florida
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  Speaker 1: or even Orlando, where the high was one hundred and three.
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  Speaker 1: So once again to all my friends who say, ah,
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  Speaker 1: I could never live in Florida. It's so hot and
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  Speaker 1: humid in the summer. How could you deal with it? Well,
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  Speaker 1: go outside right now, you see what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Right here we get hotter days, although not as many
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  Speaker 1: of them, but we get hotter days in New York,
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  Speaker 1: in New Jersey and Connecticut than they do in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: Seven ten w R the Voice of New York. It's
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  Speaker 1: Ken Rosatto and for Mark on your Thursday World Cup
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  Speaker 1: Soccer action. In the round of thirty two, Team USA
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  Speaker 1: yay beat Bossia Herzegovina two nothing last night. So for
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  Speaker 1: the first time since the nineties, Team USA will advance
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  Speaker 1: to the round of sixteen, and then they go to
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  Speaker 1: the round of eight. In the round four and then
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  Speaker 1: then it's the finals. So keep your fingers crossed, say
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  Speaker 1: a prayer. I mean, I know sobody people who said
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  Speaker 1: they would never make it to the round of thirty two,
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  Speaker 1: and now they're saying, well, don't get your hopes up, Ken.
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  Speaker 1: They made it to the round of thirty two. But
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  Speaker 1: there's no way after or rather, they made it to
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  Speaker 1: the round of sixteen, there's no way they're gonna make
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  Speaker 1: it beyond that. We'll see, you know, always keep hope,
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  Speaker 1: keep hope alive, as the late great Jesse Jackson used
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  Speaker 1: to say, keep hope alive, and hope for Team USA,
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  Speaker 1: and hope that a miracle happens. One of the promos
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  Speaker 1: for Soccer World Cup Soccer has one of the hockey
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  Speaker 1: players from the Olympics in nineteen eight, Remember the big
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  Speaker 1: Olympic hockey team that everyone said could not possibly win
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  Speaker 1: the Olympics. He's standing there with a was it dream
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  Speaker 1: or something like that on his T shirt talking about
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  Speaker 1: the soccer team. So you never know, we'll see what
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  Speaker 1: happens again. Seven to ten WR the Voice of New York.
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  Speaker 1: How about that crazy couple that got engaged on top
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  Speaker 1: of the Empire State Building yesterday? So we heard Daria
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  Speaker 1: albing you're talking about it, and again Larry and Curtis
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  Speaker 1: were talking about it this morning. Apparently it's not the
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  Speaker 1: first time that they have scaled buildings. And these folks
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  Speaker 1: are Russian, but they live in East Orange, New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I never associate East Orange with a
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  Speaker 1: big Russian community somehow maybe who knows whatever. But their
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  Speaker 1: names are Angela Nikolau and Ivan Birkis. Kud's nets kud.
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  Speaker 1: Let me get this right, Kud's nets off. And by
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  Speaker 1: the way, they're good looking couple. I mean, he's very
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  Speaker 1: handsome and she is hot. But what drove me in, said, right,
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  Speaker 1: is he's going, yeah, she's hot. What was crazy is
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  Speaker 1: that not only were they not harnessed, do you realize
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  Speaker 1: that that they were on top of fifteen hundred feet
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  Speaker 1: of Empire State Building with no harness, no tether, nothing.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't have suction cups, they didn't have anything to
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  Speaker 1: grip except I think they had gloves that they took
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  Speaker 1: off at one point. How on earth do you do that?
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  Speaker 1: The building temperature alone must have been one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty degrees in that baking heat that sun, and then
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  Speaker 1: to climb to the top. And I heard Kurtist talking
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  Speaker 1: about this a little earlier, and I was in my
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  Speaker 1: car coming in applauding him. He was talking about the
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  Speaker 1: RF radiation and let me explain what that is off
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  Speaker 1: of the big Master FM antenna on the spire of
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  Speaker 1: the Empire State Building. So AM antennas are mostly New
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  Speaker 1: Jersey and in the Bronx that's where all the AM
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  Speaker 1: radio antennas are located. The FM radio antennas and the
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  Speaker 1: TV antennas are for the most part on top of
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  Speaker 1: the Empire State Building. There are a few TV stations
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  Speaker 1: down at the New World Trade Center, but the all
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  Speaker 1: the fms and the TVs are on top of the Empire. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's about two hundred to two hundred and fifty thousand
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  Speaker 1: watts of radiation. And they'll say, you know, engineers will
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  Speaker 1: say it's non ionizing radiation. No, Well, even non ionizing
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  Speaker 1: means it doesn't cause a permanent change to your cell structure.
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  Speaker 1: But it's dangerous. It's like basically sitting in a microwave
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  Speaker 1: oven when you're within a few feet of it for
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  Speaker 1: a while. Okay, and these folks were up there thirty
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  Speaker 1: forty five minutes. They could have fallen. The heat could
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  Speaker 1: have gotten them the just you know, up at that height,
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  Speaker 1: the building actually sways a few feet in each direction.
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  Speaker 1: They could have lost their balance, and then of course
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  Speaker 1: the radiation. If they are not sick today, and I
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  Speaker 1: hope they never get sick, but my gut tells me
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  Speaker 1: in the next few weeks, they're going to get sick,
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  Speaker 1: because there's no way you could be Any radio engineer
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  Speaker 1: will tell you there is no way you could be
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  Speaker 1: next to all that radiation for that amount of time
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  Speaker 1: and not have some kind of permanent damage to your
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  Speaker 1: organs or whatever. If nothing happens, I will be shocked.
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  Speaker 1: They'll have to analyze this as a case study in
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  Speaker 1: the future. But I hope for the best for them.
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  Speaker 1: But that's nothing you want to do. If you know
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  Speaker 1: where there's a radio tower, stay away, all right. The
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  Speaker 1: only time engineers who do this for a living go
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  Speaker 1: near them is when they turn the transmitter off and
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  Speaker 1: they turn on the backup transmitter somewhere else. They won't.
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  Speaker 1: They're not crazy. They're not going to touch the those
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  Speaker 1: towers are going near those master in tennis. It's just
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  Speaker 1: nothing you should be doing, all right. Seven to ten
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  Speaker 1: WR The Voice of New York Carozatto in for Mark
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  Speaker 1: the Great Mark Simone taking a nice long weekend. New
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  Speaker 1: York and New Jersey finally have budgets for both states
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  Speaker 1: and cities. The city of New York at least, so
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  Speaker 1: get this in New Jersey, the new Spending plan is
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  Speaker 1: sixty one billion dollars for nine point five million people
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  Speaker 1: New York City. The twenty twenty seven spending plan is
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty six I'm sorry, sorry, the twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven spending plans on one hundred twenty six billion. I
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  Speaker 1: got it right. Meanwhile, the entire state of Florida, which
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  Speaker 1: has nearly three times the population of the City of
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  Speaker 1: New York listen to this. You know what, the spending
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  Speaker 1: plan for the state of Florida is one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: eighteen billion. So how does the state of Florida, which
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  Speaker 1: has all new infrastructure, schools that have been totally revapped
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  Speaker 1: top to bottom, and an influx of people to the
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  Speaker 1: tune of ten thousand a day. They have almost what,
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  Speaker 1: twenty four million residents right now and it's growing every day.
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  Speaker 1: New York City has eight point five million, and with
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  Speaker 1: twenty four million people in the state of Florida, their
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  Speaker 1: budget is one hundred and eighteen billion. In New York
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  Speaker 1: Cities is one hundred and twenty six billion. Somebody tell
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  Speaker 1: me why. Somebody tell me how the state of Florida,
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  Speaker 1: and believe me, it used to be the joke was
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  Speaker 1: they pay you in sunshine in Florida. They paid a
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  Speaker 1: lot less. Today police get paid very well in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: That's why they're losing a lot of NYPD to Florida
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  Speaker 1: police departments. You have the infrastructure, for sure, better roads,
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  Speaker 1: and the schools used to be weak. Now the schools
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  Speaker 1: are really good in Florida. So how is it possible
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  Speaker 1: if not for fiscal mismanagement and leftism? The only real difference.
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  Speaker 1: State of Florida is entirely Republican run top to bottom,
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  Speaker 1: and the state of New York is entirely Democrat run
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  Speaker 1: top to bottom. There is no other difference, So you
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  Speaker 1: tell me, Okay, how does it happen? Wr the Voice
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  Speaker 1: of a New York Give us a call eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: three two one zero seven ten. Eight hundred three to
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  Speaker 1: two one zero seven ten. We want to know what
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  Speaker 1: you have to say about it. And then, have you
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  Speaker 1: heard about Senator Mitch McConnell. We find out yesterday that
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  Speaker 1: he was discovered unconscious inside his home, and we wish
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  Speaker 1: him well, we hope he's doing okay. But he was
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  Speaker 1: found two and a half weeks ago. After some speculator
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  Speaker 1: he may have had a heart attack. Now, why are
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  Speaker 1: we only finding out now that he was unconscious in
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  Speaker 1: his home two and a half weeks ago. I think
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  Speaker 1: I have an idea I'll share with you in a moment.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a little unnerving to think that a United
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  Speaker 1: States Senator could have that happen, and we don't hear
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  Speaker 1: a word for eighteen days. Now, his current term doesn't
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  Speaker 1: end until January of twenty seven. Why doesn't he just retire? Well,
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  Speaker 1: part of the problem is the current governor of Kentucky,
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  Speaker 1: where Mitch McConnell is a Senator. The current governor of
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky is Andy Basheer. He is a Democrat. Now, under
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  Speaker 1: the constitution, the governor of the state can appoint a
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  Speaker 1: replacement senator if the senator leaves office early. So that
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  Speaker 1: means that Governor Basheer could technically replace McConnell if McConnell
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  Speaker 1: were to step down with a Democrat. And so there's
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  Speaker 1: probably a lot of pressure coming from the Senate, the
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  Speaker 1: Senate Republicans to just keep keep things under wraps. We
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  Speaker 1: don't want folks to know how sick he might be. Again,
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  Speaker 1: we hope he is well, and if he's recovering, we
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  Speaker 1: hope he recovers quickly. Mitch McConnell. But with the margin
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  Speaker 1: being fifty three forty seven Republican a Democrat in the Senate,
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  Speaker 1: they can't really afford to lose one or two people.
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  Speaker 1: So until we hear otherwise, it is sort of a
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  Speaker 1: weekend at Bernie's with Senator McConnell in Kentucky. But we
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  Speaker 1: just hope he gets back and gets better soon. But
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  Speaker 1: the man has had those episodes in public where he
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  Speaker 1: just stares off into the wilderness and doesn't know what's
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  Speaker 1: going on. And I think, you know, there may just
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  Speaker 1: be time for the man to retire with dignity, think
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  Speaker 1: about his health and his family. He did a lot
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  Speaker 1: of great things over his years. I know there are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things he's for those who love Trump.
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  Speaker 1: He is very anti Trump, but there are a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the old school Republicans who are so Again, we
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  Speaker 1: just wish him well and hope he does well. All right,
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  Speaker 1: and gas prices in the US continue to drop. The
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  Speaker 1: national average price for gallon of gases already down to
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  Speaker 1: three eighty five a gallon, with things appearing to cool
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  Speaker 1: down in the straight of horror moves. It's still up
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  Speaker 1: from three eighteen a year ago, but the price is
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  Speaker 1: falling each week at the rate that it's currently falling,
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  Speaker 1: by the end of August beginning September, we should be
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  Speaker 1: down to where we were a year ago, just in
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  Speaker 1: time for the midterm elections. Imagine spending three eighteen gallon
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  Speaker 1: for gas, and remember the impact that we'll have. Every
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  Speaker 1: item that you buy is transported by vehicle that uses gas.
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  Speaker 1: So all the groceries you buy, the clothing you buy,
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  Speaker 1: everything will go down in price. You know, the half
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  Speaker 1: the clothes you win are made from polyestered. You know
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  Speaker 1: that polyester is made from fossil fuel. It's made from oil.
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  Speaker 1: So as oil prices continue to drop, that means polyester
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  Speaker 1: prices go down, et cetera. So everything goes down in price.
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  Speaker 1: And then of course the gust of gas, which is
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  Speaker 1: one of the biggest week to week expenses you have
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  Speaker 1: outside of groceries, is gasoline for your vehicle. So that'll
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  Speaker 1: all go down. That's a good thing. And hopefully eventually
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  Speaker 1: flight prices will come down to airline prices. Now that
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  Speaker 1: Spirit used to be a big supplier of low cost
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  Speaker 1: tickets to the tri State. Now that Spirit is out
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  Speaker 1: of the picture, I noticed a lot of the airline
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  Speaker 1: prices have shot up, and that's going to be the
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  Speaker 1: case for quite some time, especially while fuel prices are
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  Speaker 1: still high. So we'll keep our fingers crossed and hope
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  Speaker 1: that that comes down to all right, seven to ten,
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  Speaker 1: WO are the Voice of New York. It's Ken Risotto
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  Speaker 1: in for Mark. We'll take those calls at eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: three two one zero seven ten. Eight hundred three two
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  Speaker 1: one zero seven ten. Those calls are coming up next. Sunny, hot,
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  Speaker 1: humid today as the heat wave continues. Highs upper nineties
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  Speaker 1: humidities making you feel a lot hotter than that. And
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  Speaker 1: a little later we'll speak with a woman from the
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  Speaker 1: Independent Council on Women's Sports regarding the Supreme Court decision
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  Speaker 1: this week to allow states to ban biological males from
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  Speaker 1: competing in female sports. But again, your calls are next
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. It is
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  Speaker 1: ten twenty one seven ten WR. We're coming right back.