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

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  Speaker 1: Now, the Mark Simone Show on 710WOR. Filling in for Mark,
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  Speaker 1: here's Ken Rosado. So nice to be you. Be you?
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  Speaker 1: So nice to be you. Yes, it is nice to
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  Speaker 1: be you. How do you like to be me? Nice
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  Speaker 1: to be with you on a Friday. Mark is off today. And, boy, it's, man,
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  Speaker 1: what a night of storms we had. The pouring rain.
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  Speaker 1: Parts of New Jersey, especially underwater, I guess in the Brunswick's.
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  Speaker 1: They had a lot of water up the northeastern part
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  Speaker 1: of the state, had tons of water, just a lot
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  Speaker 1: of flooding rains, cars getting stuck. Just remember, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's an old saying that people just blow off all
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  Speaker 1: the time. Turn around, don't drown. And we say it
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  Speaker 1: all the time when there's heavy rain, but you just
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  Speaker 1: never know. If you don't know exactly how deep the
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  Speaker 1: water is, stop. If people are beeping behind you, let
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  Speaker 1: them beep, let them beep, pull over when you can
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  Speaker 1: safely turn around, get off that street, get away from
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  Speaker 1: the water. You don't know how deep it is. You
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  Speaker 1: don't know if a manhole cover is floated up. And
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  Speaker 1: then if you go forward, you're going to get stuck.
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  Speaker 1: You could have their car float. All you need is
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  Speaker 1: I think six inches. Is it four or six inches?
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  Speaker 1: The meteorologists all know of water for certain vehicles to
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  Speaker 1: make them start to float or at least lose traction.
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  Speaker 1: So don't take the risk. And a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: did get stuck. Fortunately, no serious injuries, no deaths, but
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  Speaker 1: another bad night today. Not so bad. Partly cloudy today
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  Speaker 1: through Monday with temps in the basically the mid 80s.
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  Speaker 1: So it's going to be a decent weekend, maybe a
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  Speaker 1: passing storm today, but nothing like we had. That's the
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  Speaker 1: good news. Hey, did you hear about what just happened
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  Speaker 1: in terms of bots? We had an open AI hack
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  Speaker 1: apparently that just happened in the last few days. apparently
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  Speaker 1: a bot, there's a bot farm. Okay, get that? A
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  Speaker 1: bot farm. So what are bots? Bots are, it's AI.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to explain this. I barely understand it. But
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  Speaker 1: AI with its own little set of brains, these bots
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  Speaker 1: go out and kind of act like individual people. And
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  Speaker 1: this bot farm network with 200,000 accounts on its platform
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  Speaker 1: as part of a safety team investigation team into suspected
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  Speaker 1: inauthentic Chinese accounts. Apparently the company found that 200 accounts
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  Speaker 1: out of 200,000 were posting things like comic strips, images,
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  Speaker 1: and texts about AI data centers in a way that
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  Speaker 1: could manipulate the legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy.
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  Speaker 1: So now what does this mean? This means that all
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  Speaker 1: those data centers that we hear people talking against, they
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  Speaker 1: have been influenced. We've been saying this. It makes sense
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  Speaker 1: that China would be getting involved in the American debate
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  Speaker 1: about data centers and people screaming they don't want data centers.
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  Speaker 1: Not in my backyard. It uses all the water and electricity, Ken,
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  Speaker 1: don't you understand? And that forces up electrical costs. You
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  Speaker 1: know what forces up electrical costs? In the state of
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey, where I live, when the former governor shuts
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  Speaker 1: down six major power plants all at once without first
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  Speaker 1: building new plants, even green plants, to satisfy the demand
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  Speaker 1: for electricity at a time when you're demanding that people
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  Speaker 1: switch over to electric vehicles and you have AI centers
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  Speaker 1: coming in. Now, all of a sudden, the cost of
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  Speaker 1: electricity skyrockets because in order to make up for all
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  Speaker 1: the lost electricity, you have to buy it from regional
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  Speaker 1: states and they could charge higher amounts. It's all supply
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  Speaker 1: and demand. That's the rule of supply and demand. When
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  Speaker 1: demand goes up and supply goes down, you pay more.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why the electric rates in New Jersey are
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  Speaker 1: so high. There was no reason on God's green earth
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  Speaker 1: that Governor Murphy, as I used to love to call him,
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  Speaker 1: even though he doesn't talk like that, but Governor Murphy,
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  Speaker 1: he of the bad teeth, Governor Murphy, created this problem
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  Speaker 1: by shutting down six power plants, including one that was
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  Speaker 1: a nuclear power plant that had been in existence for decades.
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  Speaker 1: It was running fine. Only one of the plants, I think,
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  Speaker 1: was a fossil fuel plant that really needed... The choice
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  Speaker 1: was shut it down or spend hundreds of millions overhauling it,
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  Speaker 1: and they decided to shut it down. Okay, maybe you
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  Speaker 1: could make the argument there that that should have been
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  Speaker 1: shut down. But you don't shut down six plants because
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  Speaker 1: of your environmental cause in your mind to satisfy the
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  Speaker 1: far left and then leave people without electricity. And that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what happened. So here you have The argument coming
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  Speaker 1: in for AI and data centers, every time you pick
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  Speaker 1: up your damn phone, you're using data. In fact, I
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  Speaker 1: heard Mark say yesterday, we did fine without data centers. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: we had data centers all along. They were just much smaller.
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  Speaker 1: My brother works for one of the huge computer companies.
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  Speaker 1: I won't say which. And he talks about the fact
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  Speaker 1: that they've had data centers for decades. They've always existed.
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  Speaker 1: It's just that they were fewer. They were maybe one
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  Speaker 1: or two per state. Now they're going to be 20
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  Speaker 1: or 30 per state because you need them. The demand
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  Speaker 1: is up. Once you can shout to your phone to
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  Speaker 1: look up information and you have a whole different way
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  Speaker 1: of approaching data in that the artificial intelligence is coming
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  Speaker 1: up with different ways of explaining things and doing things.
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  Speaker 1: You now need more data centers. So the very same
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  Speaker 1: leftists who love to use their phones for everything are
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  Speaker 1: the people screaming they don't want data centers. But now
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  Speaker 1: it is bled over to the right. The right is
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  Speaker 1: now saying we don't want data centers either because of
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  Speaker 1: the cost, the cost of electricity, the cost of water.
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  Speaker 1: I get that. But it didn't have to be that
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  Speaker 1: way if you didn't have liberals in charge shutting down
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  Speaker 1: electric plants, etc., And now that you have data centers,
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  Speaker 1: as Mark has also been talking about, that are suggesting
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  Speaker 1: coming online using very small, what they call micro nuclear plants,
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  Speaker 1: much safer, smaller nuclear reactors that would be controlled by
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  Speaker 1: AI so they could be monitored in the minutia of
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  Speaker 1: their outputs 24-7 without ever having a worker there who
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  Speaker 1: might not be paying attention, etc. The computers would always
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  Speaker 1: be paying attention. and these would be much smaller they
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't impact two hundred miles around they would impact maybe
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  Speaker 1: ten or twenty miles around of god forbid there was
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  Speaker 1: an issue so this is what you have and these uh...
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  Speaker 1: micro nuclear reactors with power the data centers you have
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  Speaker 1: that now you have a solution but nobody wants to
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  Speaker 1: talk about it that's the big the big no no
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  Speaker 1: but apparently now we know that there is propaganda coming
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  Speaker 1: from china We know it. Now, it's not a thought.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a theory. It is a fact. X discovered
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  Speaker 1: a bot farm network with 200,000 accounts, and of them,
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  Speaker 1: 200 were carefully planted in there from China. And they
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  Speaker 1: are feeding propaganda to make people think that just AI centers,
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  Speaker 1: data centers are the worst thing in the world, and
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  Speaker 1: you can't have them. So this is something that we
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  Speaker 1: need to be aware of. China does interfere, and that's
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  Speaker 1: how they interfere with America. And then there was just
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  Speaker 1: a story the other day, fascinating, that a swarm of
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  Speaker 1: 1,200 AI bots went rogue. Apparently had this unexpected attack
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  Speaker 1: on the open source platform called Hugging Face. And apparently
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  Speaker 1: what happened was one of the bots broke out and
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  Speaker 1: decided to hack the account. even though it was told
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  Speaker 1: it can't do that. So that's, this is scary because
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  Speaker 1: we need, and yes, 30 seconds ago, I just said,
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  Speaker 1: we'll let AI run the nuclear power plant. Okay, maybe
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  Speaker 1: we have to have very careful rules and regs that
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  Speaker 1: we put in place because when these AI bots are
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  Speaker 1: able to bypass the rules set up by their programmers
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  Speaker 1: and get out and hack into an account, that's a
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  Speaker 1: dangerous thing. Before we get to the point where AI
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  Speaker 1: is running everything in society. And we may be there already.
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  Speaker 1: We really need to have the AI programmers sit down
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  Speaker 1: and figure out a foolproof way to keep control. Because
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  Speaker 1: I just keep seeing, uh, Odyssey space, a space Odyssey 2000.
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  Speaker 1: I keep hearing Roger. I keep hearing, uh, the robot
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  Speaker 1: in control, uh, of everything and, and us not able
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  Speaker 1: to shut it down. And I think we need to
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  Speaker 1: have total control over, uh, I said 2000, didn't I? 2001,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me. I could hear all my classmates from Regis
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  Speaker 1: right now saying, you idiot! It's 2001, a space odyssey.
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  Speaker 1: And I think we need to really get a grip
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  Speaker 1: on where we're going with this because AI obviously has
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  Speaker 1: access to the entire internet, which is more than any
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  Speaker 1: one human can have access to. And it's scary that
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  Speaker 1: AI might be able to outmaneuver us. It is Ken
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  Speaker 1: Rosano and on the Mark Simone show, 800-321-0710, 800-321-0710. Those
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  Speaker 1: and that's why it's just a joy to sit in here.
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  Speaker 1: So how about this horrible story coming out of the
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  Speaker 1: deadly runway collision that happened in March at LaGuardia between
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  Speaker 1: the fire truck and that Air Canada Express jet coming
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  Speaker 1: in for a landing? Now, we don't know. that this
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  Speaker 1: had anything to do with the collision. It turns out,
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  Speaker 1: and what am I talking about? It turns out there
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  Speaker 1: were supposed to be four air traffic controllers on board.
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  Speaker 1: There were only two on. The other two who were
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  Speaker 1: clocked in apparently left early. And it may be the
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  Speaker 1: case that that happens a lot. You know, you only
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  Speaker 1: have a couple more flights coming in. You say, all right,
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  Speaker 1: Joe and Frank, you guys can leave early tonight. We'll
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  Speaker 1: stick around. No worries. Now, before you rush to blame them,
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  Speaker 1: these guys and women, they're short-staffed. They're working super long shifts.
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  Speaker 1: I get it. They are exhausted. And for years, they've
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  Speaker 1: been understaffed and working these excruciating shifts. And it makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: Most towers, apparently, throughout the Northeast, especially, on a late weeknight,
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  Speaker 1: once you get the midnight shift, they only have two
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  Speaker 1: controllers in there. They don't have five, ten. They have two.
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  Speaker 1: LaGuardia normally has four, but they apparently, on slow nights,
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  Speaker 1: they'll say to two of them, all right, you guys
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  Speaker 1: can go home. We're not talking hours early. Half an
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  Speaker 1: hour early, you can go home. You know, get your
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  Speaker 1: train or whatever. Well, of course, these two guys happened
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  Speaker 1: to leave on the night. I don't know. I'm saying guys.
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  Speaker 1: It could be two women. It could be a guy
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  Speaker 1: and a woman. I don't know. But they left early
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  Speaker 1: that night. And now the FAA is trying to make
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  Speaker 1: a big deal of it, saying, you know, that's theft
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  Speaker 1: of service or whatever. That's time card fraud. You can't
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  Speaker 1: have your buddy clock you out when you've gone. And
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  Speaker 1: I get that. If you were in a private company
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  Speaker 1: and you did that and you got caught, you could
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  Speaker 1: be fired instantly. And it is illegal. That's fraud. You're
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  Speaker 1: telling the company you were there working and somebody else
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  Speaker 1: clocked you out. Does it happen? Yes. The question is,
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  Speaker 1: in the FAA, among the air traffic controllers, how common
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  Speaker 1: is this? Is this systemic? And is this something that
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  Speaker 1: needs to be dealt with? Are we paying them enough?
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  Speaker 1: Some people will tell you they pay them a lot, Ken.
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  Speaker 1: But you're dealing with controllers who work 12-hour shifts in
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  Speaker 1: many cases, who are dealing with people's lives, lives on planes.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want your loved one coming in on a
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  Speaker 1: plane at the discretion, if you will, of a controller
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  Speaker 1: who's been there in front of the console 11 and
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  Speaker 1: a half hours, is exhausted, et cetera? There's just a
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  Speaker 1: lot here. And I know that they're training thousands more
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  Speaker 1: air traffic controllers. It takes years to train them. This
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  Speaker 1: is not something that you can get it. a two-week course. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you're an air traffic controller. It takes years. And many
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  Speaker 1: of the people who enter the program don't even graduate.
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  Speaker 1: So they're working very hard. I know that Secretary Duffy,
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  Speaker 1: Transportation Secretary, who's from New Jersey now, living in Jersey,
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  Speaker 1: right near Newark, where he lives, in fact, working very
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  Speaker 1: hard to get these new air traffic controllers in. Many
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  Speaker 1: of them probably won't even be in until after he's
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  Speaker 1: out of office. But he will leave behind the legacy
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  Speaker 1: of fixing a broken system But this system has been rotting, breaking,
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  Speaker 1: old computers, not enough air traffic controllers now for decades.
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  Speaker 1: And president after president, Republican and Democrat alike, have been
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  Speaker 1: ignoring it. And now we have this. So again, we
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  Speaker 1: don't know that there was any connection between the two
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  Speaker 1: air traffic controllers who left early and that crash of
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  Speaker 1: the plane into the fire truck. Two died. Dozens had
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  Speaker 1: to go to the hospital. But it doesn't look good. Right.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't look good when you were supposed to have people,
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  Speaker 1: people who were paid, who then left early. So the
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  Speaker 1: NTSB is saying it's not uncommon to staff a tower
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  Speaker 1: with just two air traffic controllers. So that's not something outlandish,
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  Speaker 1: but it's something that is being investigated. 710WOR, the voice
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  Speaker 1: of New York, is Ken Rosato in for Mark. Poor
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  Speaker 1: Shelley Fabre. We now know her cause of death. She
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  Speaker 1: apparently had pneumonia. Remember, she was the lady who died
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend. She starred in the Donna Reed show.
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  Speaker 1: She was a superstar singer. For those who are saying,
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  Speaker 1: why do I know that name? I didn't hear about this. She,
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  Speaker 1: in 1962, if I say this and you're of my
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  Speaker 1: age or older, you'll know. She had the 1962 single,
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Angel. Yes, I love you. Remember that song, Johnny Angel?
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  Speaker 1: She starred opposite Elvis Presley in Girl Happy and in
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  Speaker 1: Spin Out. She was in Clambake. And then later, took
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  Speaker 1: a little respite. And then later, she was in the
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  Speaker 1: sitcoms One Day at a Time. And then in Coach. Well,
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  Speaker 1: she died at 82, and we now know that she
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  Speaker 1: died of pneumonia. So poor thing. She was also related
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  Speaker 1: to Nanette Fabre. I think that was her aunt, if
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  Speaker 1: I'm correct. But a beautiful woman and a very good actress,
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  Speaker 1: a great singer, and may she rest in peace. And
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  Speaker 1: how about this? There's a new study that shows that
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  Speaker 1: people who had the Shingrix shingles vaccine, I have to
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  Speaker 1: say that very slowly because I keep tripping over it.
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  Speaker 1: The Shingrix shingles vaccine. I've had that vaccine. I had
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  Speaker 1: it about eight years ago. If you had that vaccine,
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  Speaker 1: you have a significantly lower chance, lower chance of developing dementia,
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  Speaker 1: heart disease, or stroke. Talk to your doctor before you
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  Speaker 1: run out and get something like this. But the study
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  Speaker 1: is pretty impressive. It's in nature medicine. It shows that
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  Speaker 1: if you have the Shingrix vaccine, You lower your chance
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  Speaker 1: in the long term of getting dementia, heart attack, stroke,
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  Speaker 1: or heart failure. You lower the chance of dementia by 20%
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  Speaker 1: versus if you don't have it. And 25% reduced risk
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  Speaker 1: of stroke, heart attack, blood clots, heart failure, even AFib
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  Speaker 1: over several years after you've gotten the vaccine. So check
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  Speaker 1: it out. You got to get two doses, six months apart.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't hurt. You can walk into a CVS and schedule
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  Speaker 1: it or talk to your doctor. They could probably give
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  Speaker 1: it to you. It's easy. And most insurances, I believe,
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  Speaker 1: cover it. But again, don't just do it without talking
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  Speaker 1: to your doctor. Please talk to your doctor first. But
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  Speaker 1: have them check out the study in Nature Medicine. They
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  Speaker 1: apparently checked out a lot of people over years to
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  Speaker 1: get that study. They think it has to do with inflammation.
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  Speaker 1: All right. 710WOR, the voice of New York. Ken Rosato
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  Speaker 1: in on the Mark Simone Show. So good to be
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  Speaker 1: cloudy skies right through Monday. Highs low to mid-80s. And
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  Speaker 1: coming up, Mayor Mamdani's rent guidelines board has frozen the rent,
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  Speaker 1: and that's causing major problems for New York's housing market.
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  Speaker 1: In the meantime, we're going to take your call, see
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  Speaker 1: what you have to say about it. And coming up,
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