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FULL SHOW: Trump won't be attending the 9-11 ceremony; Lake America. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, the Mark Simone Show on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Filling in for Mark, here's Ken Rosato.
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  Speaker 3: It almost makes me scratch my head and say, did
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  Speaker 3: So nice to be with you. Mark is off again today.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the way to go. If I could do
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  Speaker 3: that every year, I would do it too. Mark knows
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  Speaker 3: the great Mark Simone. I am the not-as-great Ken Rosato,
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  Speaker 3: but so nice to be here. For those saying, who
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  Speaker 3: is he? Former TV news anchor, used to be on
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  Speaker 3: lot to talk about today, and our phone lines are open.
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  Speaker 3: Give us a call. We want you to take part
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  Speaker 3: in the conversation. The number to call is always 800-321-0710, 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 3: Listening to Curtis and Larry this morning coming in, I
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  Speaker 3: love their show whenever they I am off from my show.
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  Speaker 3: I always listen to their morning show, and I love
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  Speaker 3: them in the morning. And just hearing them talk about
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  Speaker 3: President Trump not attending the 25th anniversary ceremony at Ground
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  Speaker 3: Zero next month. I don't know about you. Did security
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  Speaker 3: pop into anybody's mind? Right away, I'm thinking, what if
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  Speaker 3: they got... Now, I don't know anything here. I'm just...
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  Speaker 3: I'm talking... With you, I'm just a fellow listener because
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  Speaker 3: I listen to the Mark Simone Show every single day.
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  Speaker 3: So the first thing that came to my mind is,
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  Speaker 3: is the president not coming because maybe there was a
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  Speaker 3: security issue? Again, I don't know. I'm throwing it out there.
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  Speaker 3: Or at the very least, you have a million, two
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  Speaker 3: million people packing into New York City. And it would,
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  Speaker 3: at the very least, raise security issues, especially on the
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  Speaker 3: 25th anniversary of of this awful, awful event that is
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  Speaker 3: a permanent mark on our history in the United States.
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  Speaker 3: The worst attack on this country in its history, 9-11-01.
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  Speaker 3: And also, I think the president probably wants not to
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  Speaker 3: be politically polarizing when so many family members are going
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  Speaker 3: to be here. You'll have the vice president there. And
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  Speaker 3: you know that the presidents traditionally, well, traditionally, the rule
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  Speaker 3: is no politician speaks at this gathering at 9-11 in
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  Speaker 3: New York. So he would just stand there, and you
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  Speaker 3: don't really know President Trump to show up someplace and
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  Speaker 3: not speak, right? That's just not his style. So it
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  Speaker 3: makes sense. He's been here before on 9-11, obviously, and
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  Speaker 3: presidents do rotate to the different locations. There's the Pentagon also,
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  Speaker 3: and there's Pennsylvania. So this year he will be at
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  Speaker 3: the Pentagon also. and honor those who lost their lives
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  Speaker 3: at the Pentagon, while the vice president, Vice President Vance,
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  Speaker 3: will be in the lineup of politicians on 9-11 here
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  Speaker 3: in New York City. But of course, it raised a
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  Speaker 3: lot of eyebrows, and the people on the left are
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  Speaker 3: trying to make something of it that isn't necessarily there.
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  Speaker 3: And the president, I think, you know, he's doing what
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  Speaker 3: is best. There's got to be a reason, and we
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  Speaker 3: certainly don't know about it. We may never know about
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  Speaker 3: why the decision was made. I did read that he's
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  Speaker 3: going to be headed off to Ireland afterward. Maybe it's
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  Speaker 3: just an easier thing to do, you know, in his
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  Speaker 3: next step, leaving or from Washington to get to Ireland.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. But that is something that I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: will come out at maybe sometime down the line in
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  Speaker 3: the next few years. But for now, we just don't know.
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  Speaker 4: 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think about it?
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  Speaker 5: 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 3: It's Ken Rosato in for the Mark Simone Show on
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  Speaker 3: a Friday. There's a journalist I follow on ex-formerly Twitter. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I got to watch out saying that. Did
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  Speaker 3: you hear? By the way, digression, there is another company
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  Speaker 3: that just bought the name Twitter, and they're going to
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  Speaker 3: be starting a social media site called Twitter, that it
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  Speaker 3: will have no connection at all to Elon Musk's ex.
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  Speaker 3: So now all the members of the media... use this
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  Speaker 3: the term and all of us who use the term
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  Speaker 3: tweet and Twitter and we say yeah I'm gonna tweet
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  Speaker 3: or should I say X yeah now you got to
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  Speaker 3: say X because when you say Twitter or tweet you
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  Speaker 3: will be referring to a different company so that's a
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  Speaker 3: whole different thing now we have to it's taken a
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  Speaker 3: few years right to gradually learn X in the vernacular
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  Speaker 3: now we just have to say X have we ever
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  Speaker 3: decided let me ask Izzy we used to say we
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  Speaker 3: tweeted somebody and But did we ever come up with
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  Speaker 3: a corresponding verb when you send an X? No, right?
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  Speaker 3: We still say tweet. Yeah, so I guess now we'd
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  Speaker 3: say we X'd somebody. That almost sounds dirty. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I X'd her. Really?
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  Speaker 6: What is that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I sent her a message on social media. What
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  Speaker 3: are you thinking, dirty-minded individual? But yeah, so that's the deal.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know when it takes place, but I thought
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  Speaker 3: that was kind of interesting that another company, and why not?
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  Speaker 3: But you would think that somebody like an Elon Musk,
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  Speaker 3: who's worth more than anyone else on Earth, would have
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  Speaker 3: spent the extra.
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  Speaker 7: $ 200 to own the term Twitter or the URL for Twitter, whatever, forever,
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  Speaker 7: just to prevent somebody else from coming up like this
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  Speaker 7: and coming up with a new site.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Just me. It's just the way I think. Getting back
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  Speaker 3: to the story, I actually digress there for two minutes.
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  Speaker 3: There is a journalist whom I follow on Instagram. I
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  Speaker 3: won't say formally, whatever, on X. His name is Paul Sperry.
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  Speaker 3: If you don't follow him and you're into politics that
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  Speaker 3: are slightly right of center, he's a good guy to follow.
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  Speaker 3: He posted that the investigative site Real Clear Investigations, which
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  Speaker 3: is a very accurate investigatory group of journalists, they had
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  Speaker 3: analysis that found that Islamic activists now hold at least
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  Speaker 3: 10 high-ranking positions at New York City Hall, including several
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  Speaker 3: alum of the Terror Tide Council on American Islamic Relations, CARE,
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  Speaker 3: which has always been at the forefront of whatever federal investigation,
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  Speaker 3: depending on who was in office at the time. Anytime
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  Speaker 3: we have a right-leaning politician in office, they keep an
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  Speaker 3: eye on CARE. The FBI says CARE, C-A-I-R, is a
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  Speaker 3: front for Hamas. Now, this report, again, this is a
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  Speaker 3: report by Real Clear Investigations. The report goes on to
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  Speaker 3: say that some of the new Muslim officials at City
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  Speaker 3: Hall in New York are in a position to influence
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  Speaker 3: the city's anti-terror policies and the selection of judges. So
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  Speaker 3: that makes you scratch your head. I mean, look, if
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  Speaker 3: you are an Italian-American, go back 50 years. Every time
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  Speaker 3: an Italian-American got elected into office, everybody assumed they were
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  Speaker 3: connected to the mob. Oh, they must be connected to
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  Speaker 3: the mob. Oh, he's Italian. Sinatra, you must know the mob.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody must be the mob. This is the mob that.
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  Speaker 3: So I get it from that perspective. I have an
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  Speaker 3: O at the end of my name. And a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people, I'm sure, thought, oh, I wonder if he
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  Speaker 3: knows anyone on the mob. For the record, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Never have met anyone that I know of who is connected.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure there have been some. I just don't know.
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  Speaker 3: And they were good enough not to share that with me.
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  Speaker 3: But the point is, You know, other groups have gotten that. OK,
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  Speaker 3: if you're Italian, you must be connected to the mob.
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  Speaker 3: If the mayor is Muslim, he must be connected to
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  Speaker 3: care or Hamas. Clearly, that's not the case. Right. We
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  Speaker 3: don't want to paint with that broad a brush. I'm
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  Speaker 3: telling you what this investigatory agency that is pretty accurate
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  Speaker 3: with its investigations. They have an analysis, again, that says 10,
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  Speaker 3: at least 10 high ranking positions at New York City Hall.
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  Speaker 3: are now held by Islamic activists, including several alums, people
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  Speaker 3: who used to actually work with CARE, which the FBI
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  Speaker 3: says is a MAS front. And you could say, okay,
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  Speaker 3: so they used to work with CARE. They don't work
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  Speaker 3: with them anymore. You're right. So maybe there's absolutely nothing
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  Speaker 3: to it. But do we want to look into this,
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  Speaker 3: especially when these individuals are in a position to influence
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  Speaker 3: the city's anti-terror policies and the selection of judges? I
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  Speaker 3: think it's worth looking into. And if I were them,
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  Speaker 3: I would want them to look into me. Clear my name.
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  Speaker 3: Let me prove to you that I have nothing to
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  Speaker 3: do with anything nefarious. I work for City Hall. Leave
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  Speaker 3: me alone. So that's what I'm saying. What do you
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  Speaker 3: have to say about it?
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  Speaker 9: 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 3: And how about this latest information about Mayor Mamdani's brilliant
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  Speaker 3: city-owned supermarket idea? Well, first, the mayor said the markets
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  Speaker 3: were going to cost about 20 million bucks, right? Then
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  Speaker 3: it was going to be about 70 million dollars. Well,
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  Speaker 3: now the Republican candidate for New York State Comptroller says,
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  Speaker 3: nice try, Zoran. Break out the calculator. This individual says
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  Speaker 3: the supermarket plan will actually cost the city closer to
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  Speaker 3: $ 300 million in the first few years, a third of
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  Speaker 3: a billion dollars. He breaks it down as about $ 700
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  Speaker 3: million for construction costs, $ 106 million in operating, $ 30 million
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  Speaker 3: in lost revenue from nearby bodegas and grocery stores all
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  Speaker 3: over the next few years. The mayor is saying that
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  Speaker 3: each market is going to cost roughly $ 30 million to build. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I've heard Mark talk about this over and over again.
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  Speaker 3: Mark knows several people who are very big in the
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  Speaker 3: supermarket industry. Many of you probably know to whom I
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  Speaker 3: am referring. He has a Greek name in New York City.
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  Speaker 3: And that individual has talked about, Izzy is smiling at
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  Speaker 3: me right now. You used to work for that individual,
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  Speaker 3: didn't you, Izzy? And many people know who I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 3: But this individual is the biggest supermarket owner in New
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  Speaker 3: York City. And he has said that you could build
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  Speaker 3: your own supermarket for between $ 150, 000 and $ 750, 000. If you
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  Speaker 3: bought an existing supermarket with a cash flow, it would cost,
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  Speaker 3: depending on the cash flow, depending on how much profit
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  Speaker 3: it's generating, usually anywhere from $ 1. 5 to $ 3 million. So
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  Speaker 3: why is the mayor saying, well, we need $ 30 million
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  Speaker 3: or $ 20 million? He's saying $ 20 million to open a supermarket.
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  Speaker 3: When the biggest supermarket moguls in New York City are
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  Speaker 3: saying no, even if you bought a supermarket that was
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  Speaker 3: in a prime location generating money, cash flow minus the
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  Speaker 3: stock of course i'm talking about the building in a
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  Speaker 3: great location that that has a name you know you're
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  Speaker 3: talking about one and a half to three million dollars
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  Speaker 3: so where does the mayor come up with 20 million
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  Speaker 3: i'll tell you when the mayor comes up with 20
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  Speaker 3: million he's never owned anything in his whole life he's
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  Speaker 3: never been a business person his whole life mommy and
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  Speaker 3: daddy were worth hundreds of millions of dollars and and
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  Speaker 3: kind of gave him whatever he wanted He doesn't have
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  Speaker 3: a clue. He talks with his college-educated, far-left-wing friends, and
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  Speaker 3: this is what they come up with. They're like, well,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to need $ 20 million. Nice when you're dealing
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  Speaker 3: with other people's money. Nice when you talk about people
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  Speaker 3: who have a pied-à-terre and you want to charge them
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  Speaker 3: a fortune in taxes. Nice if you want to charge
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  Speaker 3: every millionaire in New York City. There are thousands and
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  Speaker 3: thousands of them, by the way, because your properties probably
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  Speaker 3: were purchased at $ 100, 000 and 20 years later are worth
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  Speaker 3: a million. That's just the way it goes. And then
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  Speaker 3: everybody's going to be paying these taxes and the mayor's
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  Speaker 3: going to take your money and spend way more than
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  Speaker 3: necessary to build a supermarket in order to give things
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  Speaker 3: away or charge pennies on the dollar for them, which
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  Speaker 3: really isn't the case because, again, it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: your tax dollars that he's going to be using to
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  Speaker 3: give away things at 30 cents on the dollar. That's
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  Speaker 3: the way it works with socialists. They win over votes
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  Speaker 3: that way, make people happy, get the great unwashed tax.
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  Speaker 3: To say, oh, look at the mayor. He cares about us.
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  Speaker 3: So he's going to take money. It's like Robin Hood.
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  Speaker 3: Rob from the rich and give to the poor, right?
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  Speaker 3: Only the rich aren't that rich. The rich are like
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  Speaker 3: middle class in New York. A million dollar, if you
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  Speaker 3: own a million dollar apartment in New York, I know
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  Speaker 3: anywhere else on the planet, you would be super uber wealthy.
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  Speaker 3: In New York City, you're like, yeah, middle upper middle.
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  Speaker 3: That's the reality. I don't have a place in New
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  Speaker 3: York City because I can't afford it. I live in Jersey.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, I even just moved further South in Jersey
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  Speaker 3: to get more place. Cause if you want more place,
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  Speaker 3: you got to move further out of the cities. You
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  Speaker 3: got to move further away from Philadelphia or farther away.
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  Speaker 3: Excuse me. Thinking back to my English class in high school, further, farther,
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  Speaker 3: farther is distance. Further is like on paper.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: Sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Digress. Um, I had to move farther away from New
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  Speaker 3: York city to get more of a place, right? For
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  Speaker 3: the money. I did get a nice place, but it's
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  Speaker 3: an hour and a half away. But that's the reality.
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  Speaker 3: That's what you got to do. If you want to
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  Speaker 3: live in New York City, you got to pay. So
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  Speaker 3: the question is, at what point are we charging too much?
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  Speaker 3: People like Sean Hannity have questioned socialist types on his
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  Speaker 3: show and both radio and TV and asked, how much
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  Speaker 3: is too much? When you keep saying the rich aren't
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  Speaker 3: paying their fair share, how much is their fair share? 70%?
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  Speaker 3: Is 90% their fair share? At what point? Well, Ken,
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  Speaker 3: who needs a billion dollars? Who the hell are you
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  Speaker 3: to say they don't? You don't know what they have
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  Speaker 3: in mind. They could take that billion and they could
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  Speaker 3: build a company that has 500 locations that employs 50,000 people.
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  Speaker 3: You don't know. And it's none of your freaking business
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  Speaker 3: what they do with their billion dollars, quite honestly. I
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  Speaker 3: don't have that kind of money. But I applaud somebody
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  Speaker 3: who figures out a way to honestly earn that. And yes,
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  Speaker 3: you can honestly earn that based on the way the
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  Speaker 3: system is set up legally and legitimately. So please stop
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  Speaker 3: the jealousy because that's what socialists do. They use jealousy
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  Speaker 3: in order to make you despise somebody who has earned
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  Speaker 3: their lot in life and make it look like they
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  Speaker 3: got it with ill-gotten goods, that they shouldn't have that money.
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  Speaker 3: It was passed on from their daddy and mommy and
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  Speaker 3: that's not fair. Or they stole it in business and they,
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  Speaker 3: you know, kissed somebody's butt and got some kind of
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  Speaker 3: a backdoor deal. You know, does that happen?
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  Speaker 6: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: Does it happen all the time? Every time? No, it doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: It does happen sometimes. So you know what? Build a
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  Speaker 3: better birdhouse or a doghouse. Come up with something better.
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  Speaker 3: Come up with a better idea. Look at how many
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  Speaker 3: millionaires and billionaires today did exactly that. It can be done.
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  Speaker 3: So here's a big question. Why is Mamdani wanting to
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  Speaker 3: build this network of one, two, three, four, five, you know,
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  Speaker 3: one per borough supermarkets when there are already 5,700 supermarkets
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  Speaker 3: throughout New York City? Why not give people, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you could go online and create an app using AI
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  Speaker 3: right now. It would take about a minute. I've done it.
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  Speaker 3: You literally go to these sites. There are about 20
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  Speaker 3: sites now. That have AI. And you could literally type
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  Speaker 3: in the details of what you want in an app.
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  Speaker 3: I want an app that takes somebody's picture. And gives
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  Speaker 3: them blonde hair and blue eyes. Full lips and a
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  Speaker 3: sexy body. Whatever. I'm just making that up. And you
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  Speaker 3: give the AI 10 pictures. And it will create 10
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  Speaker 3: versions of those images. You could do anything like that
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  Speaker 3: with AI today. And it does it within seconds.
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  Speaker 2: So why not?
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  Speaker 3: Create a city app that would cost you nothing to create.
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  Speaker 3: Make it downloadable to people who qualify financially or to anyone.
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  Speaker 3: The mayor is saying he doesn't want to make it
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  Speaker 3: just for people who can't afford certain groceries. Let anyone
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  Speaker 3: who wants these groceries have them. And by the way,
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  Speaker 3: the mayor has changed his tune like that because he
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  Speaker 3: wants to put grocers out of business. He's now saying
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  Speaker 3: that he wants anyone to be able to afford 30%
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  Speaker 3: off this and 30% off that. Anyone. Well, that sounds
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  Speaker 3: really good. Again, what's the difference between 30% off and free?
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  Speaker 3: It's just one notch away. Somebody's paying. You're taking city
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  Speaker 3: tax dollars that you're taking from people. You're stealing from people.
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  Speaker 3: You're ordering at the end of a gun because otherwise
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  Speaker 3: you'll confiscate their properties, their goods, their money in their
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  Speaker 3: bank account, etc. So you say you must pay this money.
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  Speaker 3: And then you take that money and you give it
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  Speaker 3: to somebody else. For what purpose? And the other person
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  Speaker 3: you're giving it to, you're saying doesn't have to qualify financially.
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  Speaker 3: So you're just taking it from person A and giving
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  Speaker 3: it to person B willy-nilly whom you decide to give
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  Speaker 3: it to. Well, that's called theft. If we did that
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: in real life outside of City Hall, you'd go to jail.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: But I digress again. If the mayor wants to do this,
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: why not create an app and on the app, create
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: a coupon, a little barcode. And anybody who wants to
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: get the 30% off milk, eggs, butter, bread, all the
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: basic staples, they have that app, right, with the barcode.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: You go to any supermarket in the city or any bodega,
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: you buy your eggs, bread, cheese, whatever. You come up
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  Speaker 3: to the counter, and then when you're checking out, you
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: just scan it like you would scan any other coupon.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: The guy behind you in line doesn't know that that's
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: not a regular coupon. You're not embarrassed that way. You
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: get your 30% off or whatever, however much you want
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: to give. And boom, you're on your way. Now, somebody
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: who's poor doesn't have to take three subways to get
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: to the Mamdani market and wait in a two-hour line
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: like you're in a bread line in the former Soviet Union.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: You can go to any market. The local market owner
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: still has you coming in and shopping, making money. Izzy,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: am I the only one who's thought of this? And
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: he's saying, maybe. Everybody's happy. But no, you know what
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: the mayor says? He doesn't want to do this because
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: he wants to create the competition. He wants to put
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: an artificially propped up market in an area where there
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: are other markets to force the other markets to lower
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: their profits. Well, guess what? They're only making 3% profit already.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: You can't lower it 30%. They'd go out of business.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: The only reason the city can afford to lower it
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: that much is they're doing it with your tax dollars.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: So he's using your tax dollars to put legitimate taxpaying
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: business owners out of business. That's the craziness. But then
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: on the other side, he says he needs to build
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: the markets because of food deserts. He needs to build
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: the markets because there aren't supermarkets in certain areas. Well,
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: which is it, Mayor? Is it that there are food
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: deserts and that's why you need to build these markets?
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Or there are plenty of markets and you want to
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: force them to lower their costs? Can't have it both ways.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: We're going to be talking with somebody, by the way,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: later on in the broadcast who's going to be talking
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: about what this does to business and also what rent
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: control does to the housing market in New York. That's
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: coming up in our next hour.
• 19:43
  Speaker 10: 800-321-0710.
• 19:44
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• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Rosato in for Mark Simone on a Friday. And we're
• 19:52
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• 19:54
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• 19:57
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• 20:01
  Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show, now nine till noon weekdays on 710WOR.
• 20:06
  Speaker 11: Guest hosting for Mark today, here's Ken Rosato.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: It's so nice to be with you on a Friday.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Staying on the topic of Zoran Mamdani for a few moments,
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: the mayor posted on X once again that he was
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: deeply saddened by the in-custody death of 41-year-old inmate Clarence Woodward.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: He was an ex-con and now a con, or was
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: a con until he died. With nearly 30 arrests under
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: his belt, and he was found dead in his Rikers
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: jail cell Tuesday while he was awaiting trial for the
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: 2024 murder of Jose Miranda at a Bronx laundromat. Now,
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: this was the seventh death of an inmate at Rikers
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: this year. Mamdani posted, quote, my thoughts are with his
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: family and loved ones as they grieve this loss. So
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: what did Mamdani say to the family of Woodward's alleged victim?
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Exactly nothing. Disgusting. 45-year-old Jose Miranda was a father of two.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: He worked as a barber. He was literally hacked to
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: death on surveillance video, allegedly by the career criminal Woodward.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: It appears to be Woodward. Of course, a trial would
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: have determined if that were in fact the case. But nonetheless,
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: this was a 45-year-old hardworking dad, husband, father of two,
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: and he was stabbed to death viciously. on video but
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: this is what liberals do they always run to the
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: aid criminals and wrongdoers repainting them sympathetically as victims when
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: they are in fact the victimizers throughout history socialist communists
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: have done that just like calling up men who are
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: trans women and want to give birth or should say
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: it's the I was confused that women who become men
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: but we retain their female parts birthing parents because they
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: look like men but could still have babies. You know,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: this kind of confusion. No, they're not birthing parents. You're
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: either a mother or father, right? No matter what your
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: physical appearance, you're the mother or the father. But liberals
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: always try to rewrite the definitions to confuse us. And
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: then they look at us like we're the weirdos when
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: we say, who's the birthing parent? What do you mean,
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: who's the birthing parent? This is what they do. Or
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: somebody who, because of their choice of pronouns. If you
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: accidentally mispronounce somebody with a deeper voice than me and
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: a big Adam's apple and manhook hands, but wearing a
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: dress and makeup and a blonde wig, and you accidentally
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: say he instead of she or they, suddenly you're the
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: bad person when you had no ill intent. This is
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: what liberals do, and they've done it for decades. It's
• 22:44
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• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Rosato in for Mark.
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  Speaker 2: Now nine till noon weekdays.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show on 710WOR. Guest hosting for Mark today.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Here's Ken Rosato.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: You know, the funny thing about this 9 a.m. hour
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: for Marc Simone is it still has that new hour smell,
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: doesn't it, Izzy? It sort of smells like, you know,
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: when you get a new car, the leather seat smell.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: That's sort of what the 9 a.m. hour for the
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Marc Simone Show smells. It'll smell that way for about
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: six months, and then after that, you'll say, oh, we
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: need to buy one of those little... Those little tree
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: air fresheners to hang by the microphone. I'm sure Simone
• 23:34
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• 23:37
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• 23:40
  Speaker 3: comes back. 710WOR, the voice of New York. This is
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Ken Rosato, the former Channel 7 News guy. Very happily
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: filling in for the best in the business, Mark Simone.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: We go to our busy phones right now. Joe in
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Elmwood Park, Bergen County, along the beautiful Passaic River. Good
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: morning to.
• 23:58
  Speaker 9: You, Joe.
• 23:59
  Speaker 12: Good morning, Ken.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Two points.
• 24:01
  Speaker 12: Liberalism is a mental disorder, and it's right out of
• 24:04
  Speaker 12: the commie handbook. It's class warfare. They want to make
• 24:08
  Speaker 12: class warfare.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, to call it a mental disorder,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: I think you're being unfair to people with mental disorders. Secondly,
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: you're absolutely right. It is out of the playbook. And
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: people who think, oh, you're exaggerating. You're just a conspiracy theorist.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: It is absolutely 100% right out of the little red book.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: This is how you get people. Yep, that's it. Saul Alinsky.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: This is the way they've done it. How are things
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: in beautiful New Jersey this morning? I miss New Jersey
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: since I left.
• 24:39
  Speaker 12: The liberals like to spend everybody else's tax money.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: You know how it is. The wonderful governor. I'm guessing
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: you did not vote for Mikey.
• 24:49
  Speaker 12: No, and I don't know. To this day, I don't
• 24:51
  Speaker 12: know why Jack Chiarelli's not contesting this election. I don't
• 24:56
  Speaker 12: know why.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because unfortunately, every single position in the state of
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: New Jersey is controlled by Democrats. That's why he would
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: be cut off at every point. And you know what?
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Jack's worked very hard to make a lot of money.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: I think at this point he should just go and
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: enjoy every penny that he's worked very hard to earn.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Joe in Elmwood Park, my friend, thank you. It's always
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: a pleasure to talk to you. I appreciate the call.
• 25:16
  Speaker 10: Thank you, Ken.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Thank you, man. Have a good weekend. You bet. We
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: go to my home county where I was born and raised, Westchester. Robert,
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: good morning.
• 25:25
  Speaker 10: Morning, Ken. Buongiorno.
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: How are you?
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: Buongiorno.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Good, my friend.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 25:30
  Speaker 10: I got two questions for you. Hopefully you can answer
• 25:32
  Speaker 10: them for me. The first is, I thought the Supreme
• 25:35
  Speaker 10: Court said with this mail-in ballot that's done, let the
• 25:40
  Speaker 10: president proceed, and then you can take it up another time. Now,
• 25:43
  Speaker 10: all of a sudden, another federal judge comes in and says, no,
• 25:47
  Speaker 10: put a hold on it. But doesn't that slap in
• 25:49
  Speaker 10: the face of the Supreme Court?
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Yes and no. So the thing is, it's the way
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: it was written. And literally, unless they write things in
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: great specificity, and they didn't on purpose, unless they write
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: things in great specificity, people can challenge aspects, just like abortion.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: You know, Roe versus Wade. Remember, R.V. Wade originally said
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: very specifically that legalized abortion, basically, at the time, okay?
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: But then later, each state had its own little imposition of, well,
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: you can only do it the first three months, the
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: first trimester, the second trimester, only if the mother's life
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: is in danger, etc., So there are ways around it,
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: depending on the specificity of the Supreme Court finding.
• 26:34
  Speaker 10: But whoever is soliciting for the government on behalf of
• 26:38
  Speaker 10: the president and his executive order, I would hope this
• 26:41
  Speaker 10: person would have the know-it-all to say, okay, let's make
• 26:45
  Speaker 10: this lock tight. Unless the onus now falls on the
• 26:48
  Speaker 10: Supreme Court that they left a little... gap in there
• 26:51
  Speaker 10: for them to contest it because this is ridiculous now
• 26:54
  Speaker 10: it's going to go a week before that they have
• 26:56
  Speaker 10: to go out we know this this is all about
• 26:58
  Speaker 10: which brings me to my second question whoever out there
• 27:01
  Speaker 10: who can hear this why would you vote left why
• 27:05
  Speaker 10: would you even think of it they what they've done
• 27:08
  Speaker 10: for the past four years under biden between the border
• 27:12
  Speaker 10: between the uh the what is that the auto peg
• 27:15
  Speaker 10: where people are getting okay yeah they gave someone who
• 27:18
  Speaker 10: committed treason of get out of jail. That's horrifying. And
• 27:23
  Speaker 10: then now with everything else that's going on with the fixing,
• 27:26
  Speaker 10: who doesn't want this? Even 70, what did they say? 78%
• 27:29
  Speaker 10: of Democrats say yes. We should have voter ID, and
• 27:33
  Speaker 10: it should be... Everybody talks about Canada with health care.
• 27:36
  Speaker 10: Do you know what they do in Canada? You first
• 27:39
  Speaker 10: have to be on their voter rolls. Then they're going
• 27:41
  Speaker 10: to send you a card to make sure to verify
• 27:45
  Speaker 10: you still live at that address. Then, after they receive
• 27:48
  Speaker 10: it back, then they give you permission to vote. here
• 27:51
  Speaker 10: no no to send out the ballot sister this is
• 27:53
  Speaker 10: what I mean this is this what's exhausting and and
• 27:55
  Speaker 10: just aggravating look at people.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Listen Robert I'm sure you've heard of this and I
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: happen to know people who used to live in California
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: who moved to other states they're still getting ballots forwarded
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: to them because if they're mail forwarding they're getting ballots
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: forwarded to them and they've been in other states for
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: years and the funny thing is members of their families
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: who are registered Democrats are sometimes getting two or three
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: ballots in the mail, and those who are registered Republicans
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: are getting none or one. Find that a little curious, too, eh, Robert?
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I love the way that works. But
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: that's the game they play. That's why until they have
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: a total overhaul, and until wusses like John Thune get
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: off their butts and do their jobs in the U.S. Senate,
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: codifying what the president wants in terms of the Fair
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Voting Act and protecting voting in America, we're going to
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: have this problem.
• 28:47
  Speaker 10: Yeah, and he and there is the rhinos in the...
• 28:51
  Speaker 10: I don't care if you can't stand President Trump. You
• 28:54
  Speaker 10: have to look toward our country. If you don't vote,
• 28:58
  Speaker 10: I can't understand, especially what's her name? Murkowski, the one
• 29:01
  Speaker 10: from the left? Oh, people live so far away. Well,
• 29:03
  Speaker 10: look at the shenanigans that Democrats are pulling there. They're
• 29:06
  Speaker 10: pulling the same thing Joe Kennedy did for John Kennedy
• 29:10
  Speaker 10: when he was running for Congress. You heard about that story?
• 29:12
  Speaker 10: The guy he was running against was in a paisan.
• 29:15
  Speaker 10: And then he got a guy who was a plumber
• 29:16
  Speaker 10: with the same name to go on the rolls. They
• 29:19
  Speaker 10: split the vote. Don't you people see? They can't win
• 29:23
  Speaker 10: unless they cheat.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: They look at it as you come up with the
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: same tricks that we come up with then. Part of
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: the problem is we don't do that on the right.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: We just don't do that. And I've even had this
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: debate with my brother, whom I love forever. My brother,
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: six years older, always says, no, it's not right to
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: do this. My brother's very, very honest and down the line.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: He believes that you don't combat the problem by compounding it.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: But I believe in order to in order to get
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: to a point where we could make it fair, sometimes
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: you may have to play by their rules in order
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: to gain the upper hand and then make it blanket
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: policy that nobody violates those rules again. You know, I'm sorry.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
• 30:06
  Speaker 10: No, I just wanted to say I don't want to
• 30:07
  Speaker 10: give them a what about ism. I believe we should
• 30:09
  Speaker 10: stand on our principles that the way of founders gave
• 30:12
  Speaker 10: it to us, but we should expose us and then
• 30:14
  Speaker 10: we should stick together and say, this has to be
• 30:17
  Speaker 10: legal and it has to be pure because if we
• 30:20
  Speaker 10: take this away, it's no good anymore.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Robert exposing it, exposing it is with what, with the
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: left wing media that won't because they look at everything
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: we talk about from the right as being baloney. That's
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: part of the problem. I sat in those newsrooms, Robert,
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: you know how many times I used to eat bottles
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: of Tums in the morning? because I would sit there
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: and look at nine anti-Trump stories at the various stations
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: I worked at, and there would be one story that
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: was sort of in the middle, and they would call
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: that balance. And I would look at them and say,
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: are you out of your mind? But this is what
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: you get in the newsrooms, because all the members of
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: the media come out of the same journalism schools with
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: the same mentality. They all live on the Upper West Side,
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: and they're all liberals. It is what it is.
• 30:59
  Speaker 10: No argument, but the last thing I want to say is,
• 31:03
  Speaker 10: guys like you, guys like Mark, and other people on
• 31:07
  Speaker 10: the right who have this voice, you are the answer.
• 31:10
  Speaker 10: I don't believe we should sink down to their level,
• 31:12
  Speaker 10: because then we become them. And that's just the way
• 31:15
  Speaker 10: I feel. God bless you, my friend. I wish you
• 31:17
  Speaker 10: all the best.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: And you as well. I appreciate it, and thank you
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: for the blessing. I'll take that, too. Thank you. I
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: appreciate it, Robert. Have a nice weekend. And we go
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: to our friend Bonnie on Long Island. Good morning, Bonnie.
• 31:26
  Speaker 13: Good morning to you. I have two quotes about socialism by...
• 31:31
  Speaker 13: Two of the longstanding, brilliant prime ministers of England, I'm
• 31:35
  Speaker 13: quoting directly, Winston Churchill said, socialism is the equal sharing
• 31:41
  Speaker 13: of misery. And Margaret Thatcher said, socialism works differently. until
• 31:47
  Speaker 13: you run out of other people's money. Do I need
• 31:50
  Speaker 13: to say anything else?
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: It's 100% correct. Both are right. And the reason why
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: we smile is because of the correctness in both statements.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: And all you have to do is look at history,
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: and you can understand that that is exactly the case
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: in both incidents. But the problem is you have a
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: society now where we have indoctrinated kids in school since
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: the 50s and 60s. That's where it really started. where
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: you had far-left wingers take over our education system. So
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: when you have kids coming out of school, some who
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: still have close relationships with their families come out of
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: those schools and still think like their families think and
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: have at least an open mind. And they say, well,
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: I can understand why liberals think this, and this is
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: why I still think that. However, you have the kids
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: who come out of families that didn't talk politics, who
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: don't have a knowledge of politics. They go to those schools,
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: get indoctrinated. come out and have one side in mind.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: And that's it. And then they move forward in society
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: as ardent liberals. And these are the kids, the girls
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: who color their hair green and get the septum piercings.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: And they're all overweight and rather unattractive, if I may add. Ken,
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: what does that have to do with it? It says
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: something about the psychological state, I think. Remember, I used
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: to weigh 400 pounds at one point in my life.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: And I know where I was psychologically then, too. So
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: I'm just speaking from experience. But I think that that
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: is part of the problem. And until we get a
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: grasp of our education system and get it back, Bonnie,
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: I think the problem is going to continue. But we
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: appreciate the call. 800-321-0710.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: 800-321-0710.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: We're going to come right back. We'll take more of
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: your calls in just a moment at 710WOR.
• 33:32
  Speaker 11: It's the Mark Simone Show.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Live from the WOR LifeVac Studios. Guest hosting for Mark today.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Here's Ken Rosato.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: Good to be with you on your Friday. We go
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: back to our busy phones. Let's go to Jacob in Denver, Colorado. Hello, Jacob.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: How are the wildfires out there?
• 33:51
  Speaker 14: They've calmed down, I think.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Thankfully.
• 33:53
  Speaker 14: I just wanted to say the ballots are precinct-specific, meaning
• 33:57
  Speaker 14: that if a ballot is forwarded from one address to
• 34:01
  Speaker 14: the other and the other address doesn't reside in that precinct,
• 34:04
  Speaker 14: that in itself is mail fraud. Even in every rule
• 34:07
  Speaker 14: of every Secretary of.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: State's, Yes, but you can change on the voter registration app. Listen,
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: I know people who live in Florida 51% of the year, legitimately,
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: and they can vote. They get their ballot mailed to
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: them in states all over the country, and all they
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: have to do is go on the app and change
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: the address to which they want the ballot mailed. But
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: how do you really know, unless the state investigates each individual, right?
• 34:37
  Speaker 10: That's the.
• 34:39
  Speaker 14: That's if the residence is temporary. But if somebody literally
• 34:43
  Speaker 14: picks up and moves and tells the post office, forward
• 34:46
  Speaker 14: my mail to another address because that's my permanent address,
• 34:49
  Speaker 14: then that ballot that is precinct-specific can have to be
• 34:55
  Speaker 14: used in the new precinct. Right.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: Two things, though. Once again, if somebody is from California
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: and they move to Missouri and they have the– they
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: could claim– that they still have a California address, but
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: that they want their ballot. They could have a cousin
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: in California and they want their ballot mail to Missouri.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: So they list the cousin Joe's address in California and
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: they get their ballot mail to Missouri. We don't know
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: how many people are doing that. And I think that's
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: why you really have to have a thorough review.
• 35:27
  Speaker 14: They do know because when they change the address on
• 35:29
  Speaker 14: your driver's license, it goes through a national database.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: That's, Right. And again, let me let me repeat. I'll
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: do one one last time. If you you can have
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Uncle Joe's address listed in California as your as your address,
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: that's the problem. And then still be in Missouri and voting.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: The thing is, you're only supposed to vote in one election,
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: one state and all too many people. Vote in both. Jacob,
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: we've got to go because we're up against the 10
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: o'clock news. But thanks so much for calling. Lots more
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: ahead on The Mark Simone Show. Ken Rosato on WOR.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Now, The Mark Simone Show on 710WOR.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Filling in for Mark, here's Ken Rosato.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: So nice to be you. Be you? So nice to
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: be you. Yes, it is nice to be you. How
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: do you like to be me? Nice to be with
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: you on a Friday. Mark is off today. And, boy, it's... Man,
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: what a night of storms we had. The pouring rain.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: Parts of New Jersey, especially underwater, I guess in the Brunswick's,
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: they had a lot of water. Up the northeastern part
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: of the state had tons of water. Just a lot
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: of flooding rains. Cars getting stuck. Just remember, you know,
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: there's an old saying that people just blow off all
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: the time. Turn around, don't drown. And we say it
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: all the time when there's heavy rain, but you just
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: never know. If you don't know exactly how deep the
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: water is, stop. If people are beeping behind you, let
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: them beep, let them beep, pull over when you can
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: safely turn around, get off that street, get away from
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: the water. You don't know how deep it is. You
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: don't know if a manhole cover is floated up. And
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: then if you go forward, you're going to get stuck.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: You could have their car float. All you need is
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: I think six inches. Is it four or six inches?
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: The meteorologists all know of water for certain vehicles to
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: make them start to float or at least lose traction.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: So don't take the risk. And a lot of people
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: did get stuck. Fortunately, no serious injuries, no deaths, but
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: another bad night today. Not so bad. Partly cloudy today
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: through Monday with temps in the basically the mid 80s.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: So it's going to be a decent weekend, maybe a
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: passing storm today, but nothing like we had. That's the
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: good news. Hey, did you hear about what just happened
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: in terms of bots? We had an open AI hack
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: apparently that just happened in the last few days. apparently
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: a bot, there's a bot farm. Okay, get that? A
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: bot farm. So what are bots? Bots are, it's AI.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to explain this. I barely understand it. But
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: AI with its own little set of brains, these bots
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: go out and kind of act like individual people. And
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: this bot farm network with 200,000 accounts on its platform
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: as part of a safety team investigation team into suspected
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: inauthentic Chinese accounts. Apparently the company found that 200 accounts
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: out of 200,000 were posting things like comic strips, images,
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: and texts about AI data centers in a way that
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: could manipulate the legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: So now what does this mean? This means that all
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: those data centers that we hear people talking against, they
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: have been influenced. We've been saying this. It makes sense
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: that China would be getting involved in the American debate
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: about data centers and people screaming they don't want data centers.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: Not in my backyard. It uses all the water and electricity. Ken,
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: don't you understand? And that forces up electrical costs. You
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: know what forces up electrical costs? In the state of
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: New Jersey, where I live, when the former governor shuts
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: down six major power plants all at once without first
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: building new plants, even green plants, to satisfy the demand
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: for electricity at a time when you're demanding that people
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: switch over to electric vehicles and you have AI centers
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: coming in. Now, all of a sudden, the cost of
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: electricity skyrockets. because in order to make up for all
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: the lost electricity, you have to buy it from regional
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: states and they could charge higher amounts. It's all supply
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: and demand. That's the rule of supply and demand. When
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: demand goes up and supply goes down, you pay more.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: And that's why the electric rates in New Jersey are
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: so high. There was no reason on God's green earth
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: that Governor Murphy, as I used to love to call him,
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: even though he doesn't talk like that, but Governor Murphy,
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: he of the bad teeth, Governor Murphy, created this problem
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: by shutting down six power plants, including one that was
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: a nuclear power plant that had been in existence for decades.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: It was running fine. Only one of the plants, I think,
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: was a fossil fuel plant that really needed... The choice
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: was shut it down or spend hundreds of millions overhauling it,
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: and they decided to shut it down. Okay, maybe you
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: could make the argument there that that should have been
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: shut down. But you don't shut down six plants because
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: of your environmental cause in your mind to satisfy the
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: far left and then leave people without electricity. And that's
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: exactly what happened. So here you have The argument coming
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: in for AI and data centers, every time you pick
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: up your damn phone, you're using data. In fact, I
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: heard Mark say yesterday, we did fine without data centers. Actually,
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: we had data centers all along. They were just much smaller.
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: My brother works for one of the huge computer companies.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: I won't say which. And he talks about the fact
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: that they've had data centers for decades. They've always existed.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: It's just that they were fewer. They were maybe one
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: or two per state. Now they're going to be 20
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: or 30 per state because you need them. The demand
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: is up. Once you can shout to your phone to
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: look up information and you have a whole different way
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: of approaching data in that the artificial intelligence is coming
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: up with different ways of explaining things and doing things.
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: You now need more data centers. So the very same
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: leftists who love to use their phones for everything are
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: the people screaming they don't want data centers. But now
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: it is bled over to the right. The right is
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: now saying we don't want data centers either because of
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: the cost, the cost of electricity, the cost of water.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: I get that. But it didn't have to be that
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: way if you didn't have liberals in charge shutting down
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: electric plants, etc. And now that you have data centers,
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: as Mark has also been talking about, that are suggesting
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: coming online using very small, what they call micro nuclear plants,
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: much safer, smaller nuclear reactors that would be controlled by
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: AI so they could be monitored in the minutia of
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: their outputs 24 seven without ever having, you know, a
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: worker there who might not be paying attention, et cetera.
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: The computers would always be paying attention and these would
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: be much smaller. They wouldn't impact $ 200 miles around they
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: would impact maybe 10 or 20 miles around if god
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: forbid there was an issue so this is what you
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: have and these uh micro nuclear reactors would power the
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: data centers you have that now you have a solution
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: but nobody wants to talk about it that's the big
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: the big no-no but apparently now we know that there
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: is propaganda coming from china We know it. Now, it's
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: not a thought. It's not a theory. It is a fact.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: X discovered a bot farm network with 200,000 accounts, and
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: of them, 200 were carefully planted in there from China.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: And they are feeding propaganda to make people think that
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: just AI centers, data centers are the worst thing in
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: the world, and you can't have them. So this is
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: something that we need to be aware of. China does interfere,
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: and that's how they interfere with America. And then there
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: was just a story the other day, fascinating that a
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: swarm of 1200 AI bots went rogue. Apparently had this
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: unexpected attack on the open source platform called Hugging Face.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: And apparently what happened was one of the bots broke
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: out and decided to hack the account, even though it
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: was told they can't do that. So that's, this is
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: scary because we need, And yes, 30 seconds ago, I
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: just said, we'll let AI run the nuclear power plant. Okay,
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: maybe we have to have very careful rules and regs
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: that we put in place because when these AI bots
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: are able to bypass the rules set up by their
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: programmers and get out and hack into an account, that's
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: a dangerous thing. Before we get to the point where
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: AI is running everything in society, and we may be
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: there already, We really need to have the AI programmers
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: sit down and figure out a foolproof way to keep control.
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: Because I just keep seeing Space Odyssey 2000. I keep hearing, Roger,
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: I keep hearing the robot in control of everything and
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: us not able to shut it down. And I think
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: we need to have total control over, I said 2000,
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: didn't I? 2001, excuse me. I could hear all my
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: classmates from Regis right now saying, you idiot. It's 2001,
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: a space odyssey. And I think we need to really
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: get a grip on where we're going with this because
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: AI obviously has access to the entire internet, which is
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: more than any one human can have access to. And
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: it's scary that AI might be able to outmaneuver us.
• 45:08
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• 45:15
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• 45:17
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• 45:30
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• 45:34
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• 45:42
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• 45:47
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• 45:50
  Speaker 3: So how about this horrible story coming out of the
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: deadly runway collision that happened in March at LaGuardia between
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: the fire truck and that Air Canada Express jet coming
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: in for a landing? Now, we don't know that this
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: had anything to do with the collision. It turns out,
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: and what am I talking about? It turns out there
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: were supposed to be Four air traffic controllers on. There
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: were only two on. The other two who were clocked
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: in apparently left early. And it may be the case
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: that that happens a lot. You know, you only have
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: a couple more flights coming in. You say, all right,
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: Joe and Frank, you guys can leave early tonight. We'll
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: stick around. No worries. Now, before you rush to blame them,
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: these guys and women, they're working. They're short-staffed. They're working
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: super long shifts. I get it. They are exhausted. And
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: for years, they've been understaffed and working these excruciating shifts.
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: And it makes sense. Most towers, apparently, throughout the Northeast, especially,
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: on a late weeknight, once you get the midnight shift,
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: they only have two controllers in there. They don't have five, ten.
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: They have two. LaGuardia normally has four, but they apparently
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: on slow nights, they'll say to two of them, all right,
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: you guys can go home. And we're not talking hours early,
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: a half an hour early, you can go home, you know,
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: get your train or whatever. Well, of course, these two
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: guys happened to leave on the night. I don't know.
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: I'm saying guys, it could be two women, could be
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: a guy and a woman. I don't know. But they
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: left early that night. And now the FAA is trying
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: to make a big deal of it saying, you know,
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: that's theft of service or whatever. That's time card fraud.
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: You can't have your buddy clock you out when you've gone.
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: And I get that. If you were in a private
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: company and you did that and you got caught, you
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: could be fired instantly. And it is illegal. That's fraud.
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: You're telling the company you were there working and somebody
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: else clocked you out. Does it happen? Yes. The question
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: is in the FAA, among the air traffic controllers, how
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: common is this? Is this systemic? And is this something
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: that needs to be dealt with? Are we paying them enough?
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: Some people will tell you they pay them a lot, Ken,
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: but you're dealing with controllers who work 12-hour shifts in
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: many cases, who are dealing with people's lives, lives on planes.
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: Do you want your loved one coming in on a
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: plane at the discretion, if you will, of a controller
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: who's been there in front of the Console, 11 and
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: a half hours is exhausted, et cetera. You know, there's
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: just a lot here. And I think, I know that
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: they're training thousands more air traffic controllers. It takes years
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: to train them. This is not something that you can
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: get a two-week course. Okay, you're an air traffic controller.
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: It takes years. And many of the people who enter
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: the program don't even graduate. So they're working very hard.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: I know that Secretary Duffy, Transportation Secretary, who's from New
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: Jersey now, living in Jersey, right near Newark, he lives
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: in fact. working very hard to get these new air
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: traffic controllers in. Many of them probably won't even be
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: in until after he's out of office. But he will
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: leave behind the legacy of fixing a broken system. But
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: this system has been rotting, breaking, old computers, not enough
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: air traffic controllers now for decades. And president after president,
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: Republican and Democrat alike, have been ignoring it. And now
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: we have this. So, again, we... don't know that there
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: was any connection between the two air traffic controllers who
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: left early and that crash of the plane into the
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: fire truck. Two died. Dozens had to go to the hospital.
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: But it doesn't look good. It doesn't look good when
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: you were supposed to have people, people who were paid,
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: who then left early. So the NTSB is saying it's
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: not uncommon to staff a tower with just two air
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: traffic controllers. So that's not something outlandish, but it's something
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: that is being investigated. 710WOR, the voice of New York,
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: is Ken Rosato in for Mark. Poor Shelly Fabre. We
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: now know her cause of death. She apparently had pneumonia. Remember,
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: she was the lady who died over the weekend. She
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: starred in the Donna Reed show. She was a superstar singer.
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: For those who are saying, why do I know that name?
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: I didn't hear about this. She, in 1962, if I
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: say this and you're of my age or older, you'll know.
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: She had the 1962 single, Johnny Angel. Yes, I love you.
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: Remember that song, Johnny Angel? She starred opposite Elvis Presley
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: in Girl Happy and in Spin Out. She was in Clambake.
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: And then later, took a little respite. And then later,
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: she was in the sitcoms One Day at a Time.
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: And then in Coach. Well, she died at 82 and
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: we now know that she died of pneumonia. So poor thing.
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: She was also related to Nanette Fabre. I think that
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: was her aunt, if I'm correct. But a beautiful woman
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: and a very good actress, a great singer. And may
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: she rest in peace. And how about this? There's a
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: new study that shows that people who had the Shingrix
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: shingles vaccine, I have to say that very slowly because
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: I keep tripping over it, the Shingrix shingles vaccine. I've
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: had that vaccine. I had it about eight years ago.
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: If you had that vaccine, you have a significantly lower chance,
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: lower chance of developing dementia, heart disease, or stroke. Talk
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: to your doctor before you run out and get something
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: like this. But the study is pretty impressive. It's in
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: nature medicine. It shows that if you have the Shingrix vaccine,
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: You lower your chance in the long term of getting dementia,
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: heart attack, stroke, or heart failure. You lower the chance
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: of dementia by 20% versus if you don't have it.
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: And 25% reduced risk of stroke, heart attack, blood clots,
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: heart failure, even AFib over several years after you've gotten
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: the vaccine. So check it out. You got to get
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: two doses six months apart. Doesn't hurt. You can walk
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: into a CVS and schedule it or talk to your doctor.
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: They could probably give it to you. It's easy. And
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: most insurances, I believe, cover it. But again, don't just
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: do it without talking to your doctor. Please talk to
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: your doctor first. But have them check out the study
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: in Nature Medicine. They apparently checked out a lot of
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: people over years to get that study. They think it
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: has to do with inflammation. All right. 710WOR, the voice
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: of New York. Ken Rosato in on the Mark Simone Show.
• 52:17
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• 52:19
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• 52:31
  Speaker 3: guidelines board has frozen the rent and that's causing major
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  Speaker 3: problems for New York's housing market. In the meantime, we're
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  Speaker 3: going to take your call, see what you have to
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  Speaker 3: about the rent freeze that was just passed a few
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  Speaker 1: Mark today. Here's Ken Rosato.
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  Speaker 3: And to our busy phones, we go to Gary in Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning. You're on the Mark Simone Show, Gary.
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  Speaker 8: This is Gary from Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I said that.
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  Speaker 8: I love your radio show.
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  Speaker 3: I said that first.
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  Speaker 8: My grandfather... My grandfather got letters from Russia in the
• 53:13
  Speaker 8: 1930s where they were begging him to send money because
• 53:18
  Speaker 8: they were starving. So he sent money to his sister
• 53:23
  Speaker 8: in Russia. My cousin verified the story to me. The
• 53:27
  Speaker 8: neighbor found out they were getting money from America, went
• 53:31
  Speaker 8: to the police, and they raided the house and found
• 53:36
  Speaker 8: nothing and still threw her in jail for a while.
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  Speaker 8: My other cousin would go to Russia with old clothes
• 53:45
  Speaker 8: she bought in the Bowery and go to Russia, visit
• 53:49
  Speaker 8: my relatives there, leave the clothes because nobody had new
• 53:54
  Speaker 8: clothes in Russia.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And this is what you're saying, this is what communism
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  Speaker 3: led to, right?
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  Speaker 9: Of course.
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  Speaker 8: There's a famous Orthodox Jewish rabbi who got stuck in
• 54:06
  Speaker 8: Russia during World War II. And he wrote a big book,
• 54:11
  Speaker 8: his travels. He has about 30 pages on communism in
• 54:15
  Speaker 8: that book where he describes what kind of living hell
• 54:20
  Speaker 8: it was and how everybody's equal. They're all poor and starving.
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  Speaker 10: Right.
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  Speaker 3: That's what communism does. Communism does not raise everybody. It
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: lowers everybody to the least common denominator.
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  Speaker 8: Well, it's very simple. You have people who run businesses
• 54:37
  Speaker 8: that work very hard to make money. Now, when you've
• 54:40
  Speaker 8: got to share everything with everybody, you have people who
• 54:45
  Speaker 8: never work. So all these good workers have to share
• 54:49
  Speaker 8: with the bad workers so they work. Stop working so
• 54:54
  Speaker 8: nobody works.
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  Speaker 3: Because there's no incentive. You're absolutely right. This is why
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: communism works. You know when communism works, and I'll put
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: it in quotes, the first year or two. Because it
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: looks good. You could promise everything and then eventually you
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: run out of stuff. Or as Margaret Thatcher said, you
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: run out of other people's money. And at that point,
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: you're screwed. But that's when socialists become communists, because you
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: take over at the end of a gun. And you
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: tell people at the end of a gun, you must
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: follow the rules this way. Gary, you're 100% right. I
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: agree with you totally. And that's the problem. Unfortunately, people
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: once again fail to recognize history, and they're doomed to
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  Speaker 3: repeat it. Rob on Long Island, good morning. You're on
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  Speaker 3: the Mark Simone Show.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, good morning.
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  Speaker 15: I wanted to bring to attention there was a case
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  Speaker 15: in East Palestine where the train derailment occurred in which
• 55:38
  Speaker 15: the plaintiff's attorney's according to this article, withheld critical information
• 55:44
  Speaker 15: that showed that the toxic levels of studies of the
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  Speaker 15: soil were much higher than what the class action participants
• 55:54
  Speaker 15: were led to believe. And it was only after the
• 55:56
  Speaker 15: settlement was played out that they found out that the
• 56:00
  Speaker 15: toxic levels were far higher. And the crazy thing is
• 56:05
  Speaker 15: the attorneys withheld that information, I guess, because they felt, hey,
• 56:09
  Speaker 15: They can get a $ 600 million fee, and I guess
• 56:11
  Speaker 15: they're making $ 180, $ 200 million on the fees, and then
• 56:14
  Speaker 15: all the individuals got $ 25, 000. I think it's so wrong.
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  Speaker 15: I think the Justice Department should go in there and
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  Speaker 15: reopen that case.
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  Speaker 3: It's disgusting. It is disgusting, and how it wasn't even
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  Speaker 3: talked about under the previous administration. The people in Palestine,
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  Speaker 3: East Palestine, these are American citizens, and they were literally
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: left to die. Rob, you're 100% right. It's disgusting. Hopefully
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: under this administration, more will be done, but it's one
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: of those things where these four poor people were just
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: literally screwed over our fellow Americans. We go to Ralph
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  Speaker 3: in Manhattan. Good morning, Ralph.
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  Speaker 6: Ken, do you realize when you mentioned about that vaccination,
• 56:54
  Speaker 6: the shingles vax, how many people ran out as you're
• 56:57
  Speaker 6: speaking to try to try to get that, that vaccination,
• 57:01
  Speaker 6: if it can put a, um, a dent in heart
• 57:03
  Speaker 6: disease and, uh, and Alzheimer's, dementia. I mean, you're talking
• 57:08
  Speaker 6: about something groundbreaking right there. But we are so jaded
• 57:12
  Speaker 6: about the vaccinations, Ken, with the COVID situation, people having
• 57:17
  Speaker 6: ramifications from those vaccines. We don't know which vaccine that
• 57:22
  Speaker 6: we can count on as legitimate and which we should
• 57:25
  Speaker 6: just forget about. You know, it's very difficult.
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Rob, the good news is these are not mRNA vaccines.
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: As you know, the Shingrix has been out for over
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: a decade now. I've had it. And apparently the way
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: it works, according to this study, is it has an
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: effect on inflammation. Inflammation seems to be the, you know,
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: inflammation is good when you first get hurt because inflammation
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: allows blood cells to rush to an infection and prevent
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: the infection from spreading and to heal up a cut, etc.
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: That's when inflammation is good. When it goes beyond the
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: first hour or so, then it's bad. because it leads
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: to all sorts of changes in our body. And that's
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: what leads to all sorts of diseases.
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  Speaker 6: They say, Ken, that inflammation is at the center of
• 58:07
  Speaker 6: just about every disorder, every malady. You know, you're talking
• 58:11
  Speaker 6: about something that they're just unfolding right now that they
• 58:14
  Speaker 6: should have known. Maybe I think I'm being, you know,
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  Speaker 6: a little bit, I guess, presumptuous, but I think they
• 58:19
  Speaker 6: should have known this far before they actually found this out.
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  Speaker 6: Inflammation is everything with every illness. It's the crux of
• 58:28
  Speaker 6: every illness, just about.
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: You know, and a lot of it, Ralph, is in
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: our lymph system. And doctors will tell you they don't
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: know a whole hell of a lot about our lymph system.
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: Every time you have a cut, when you have a surgery,
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: you know, that impacts your whole lymph draining system. And
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: they don't really know what happens at that point. I mean,
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: doctors will say, well, it just routes around. There are
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: all sorts of studies saying once you screw up your
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: lymphatic system, it's hard to fix it and people get
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: certain massages.
• 58:53
  Speaker 6: You know what I think about surgery? Surgery is a
• 58:55
  Speaker 6: strange thing because you need it, but yet every time
• 59:00
  Speaker 6: you get cut open, pardon me for being so blunt,
• 59:03
  Speaker 6: but every time you get cut open, you're taking a chance.
• 59:06
  Speaker 6: That guy's not God. That guy doesn't know everything. I
• 59:10
  Speaker 6: would stay out of the surgical room if you possibly could,
• 59:13
  Speaker 6: but sometimes we need it.
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got you. Ralph in Manhattan, I appreciate the call.
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• 59:28
  Speaker 2: Here's Ken Rosato.
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: It's so good to be with you on a Friday.
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: You know, many liberals love to throw around the word affordability. Affordability,
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: especially when it comes to home affordability, probably the single
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: most common. high, if you will, the highest cost that
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: we have. Well, their solution, have the government order landlords
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: to charge a fixed amount for rent. We call it
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: New York rent control, right? And Mayor Mamdani's own rent
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: guidelines board voted seven to one recently to freeze the
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: rent for a million rent stabilized apartments, lofts, and hotels. Now,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: if you're the renter, you think, all right, that's pretty
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: darn good. But the reality is, That makes housing availability
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: practically non-existent because nobody's going to leave their rent-controlled apartment
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: for a unit that will continue to escalate in price.
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  Speaker 3: It also forces up the price of other units throughout
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  Speaker 3: the city. Well, to talk more about this is somebody
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: who knows a lot more about it than me, economist
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: and Manhattan Institute senior fellow, Alison Schrager, to help us
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  Speaker 3: better understand. Good morning, Alison.
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  Speaker 12: Morning.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you for coming back on. We were supposed
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: to have Allison on a couple of weeks ago, and
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: then this little thing called the Mangione trial happened, and
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: that blew up, and we had to ask Allison to
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: come back another day. I appreciate your patience, so thank
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  Speaker 3: you for that. Why doesn't rent control actually help keep
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: prices for rent low? Because doesn't it actually impact availability
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  Speaker 3: for everybody else?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's part of the problem. If you live
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 5: in a rent-stabilized apartment, obviously you do end up with
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 5: lower rent because your landlord can't increase the rent despite
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 5: the fact we're in a rising cost environment. The problem
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 5: is it increases price for everyone else. Part of it is,
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  Speaker 5: as you said, people are less likely to move, and
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  Speaker 5: you end up with this sort of disconnect of maybe
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  Speaker 5: you're an older couple. At one point, you got a
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 5: three-bedroom apartment that was rent-stabilized. You raised your kids there.
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  Speaker 5: And now it's cheaper to stay there than to maybe
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 5: be moved to a one bedroom apartment now that your
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 5: kids are out of the house. So you end up
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 5: with this like couple and like a large apartment. In
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 5: the meantime, you have families who can't find a new apartment.
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  Speaker 5: So that ends up increasing costs for everyone. It also
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 5: discourages new developers with any incentive to build. I was
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 5: just talking to a real estate developer last night who
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 5: has been trying to get new projects and he can't
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  Speaker 5: get any financing because everyone feels like this is an
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  Speaker 5: environment that's just not going to be friendly to developers.
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  Speaker 5: You're asking landlords to lose money on all of these units,
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  Speaker 5: which also means if they do have a market rate unit,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 5: they have to increase costs on that to cover the others.
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  Speaker 5: It's really just a big mess, and it's not like
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 5: there's any mystery. You know, politicians have been trying this
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  Speaker 5: for years. It's been in a lot of cities, and
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  Speaker 5: it consistently increases in higher prices and less availability.
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  Speaker 3: Well, to reinforce what you're saying, Allison, the average monthly
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  Speaker 3: rent in Manhattan just skyrocketed to nearly $ 6, 700 a month.
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  Speaker 3: That's up 10% from last year. Inventory dropped down over 20%
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: in Manhattan compared to the same time last year. That's
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: a massive amount when you have increases in numbers of people.
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  Speaker 3: And the rental vacancy rate is now at near historic lows.
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  Speaker 3: And that, of course, creates fierce competition and bidding wars.
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  Speaker 3: So when a free market economy isn't allowed to be
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: a free market economy, it doesn't work at all, right?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I can only assume like these people knew
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  Speaker 5: what they were getting. I think the important thing with
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 5: that statistic is that's the rent for new units for
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 5: people coming in. Average New Yorkers actually pay as much
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  Speaker 5: lower because you end up with all these have and
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 5: have nots. You know, I said there's a million rent
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 5: stabilized units. Those people are paying much less. But if
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  Speaker 5: you want to enter the New York housing market, you're
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 5: going to pay a huge premium. So, I mean, I
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  Speaker 5: think it's like there's not a lot economists agree on.
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  Speaker 5: I was actually in Aspen with a bunch of very
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 5: left wing economists when the rent when it was announced
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 5: that the rent freeze was going to happen. And we
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 5: were all horrified because this is something that happens again
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 5: and again. And that doesn't work and it doesn't help people.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 5: And like a lot of these policies, they tend to
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 5: often sort of penalize lower income people more because a
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 5: lot of people who have unstabilized units are actually middle
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 5: or high income people.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't the best way to do this is supply and demand.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: Lower the restrictions on landlords. Give the incentive to build
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 3: more units. Make it more affordable for developers to come
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  Speaker 3: in and give them incentives, maybe tax breaks, etc. Am
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 3: I just a naive moron? Or by doing that, wouldn't
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: that increase the availability of units in the market and
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: therefore bring down the price?
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  Speaker 5: No, it really is that simple. You know, this isn't
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 5: like a complex economic problem here. It really is that
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 5: simple in that rents are high in large part because
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 5: there's not enough supply. And also the other part is
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 5: all these regulations and, you know, distortions from all these
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 5: sort of price controls. So if you just got rid
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 5: of a lot of these distortions and then made it
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 5: more economical to build more housing, that would be how
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 5: prices fall. I mean, this is what we're seeing in
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 5: cities like Austin or Houston, you know, where it is
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 5: much cheaper to rent. because there are these arcane restrictions
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 5: on supply.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: 710WOR, the voice of New York. Ken Rosato in on
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: the Mark Simone Show with economist and Manhattan Institute senior
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: fellow Alison Schrager with just a... minute or so left
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 3: here i just wanted to quickly tap into the mom
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: donnie market concept wouldn't it be more uh... beneficial to
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: say lower-income new yorkers if the mayor came up with
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: an apt and gave lower-income new yorkers and apt that
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 3: had coupons that you could stand at say the cash
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 3: register of existing supermarkets so you wouldn't have to create
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: a one or two or three hundred million dollar infrastructure
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: of city on markets If you truly wanted to distribute
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 3: food at a lower price to New Yorkers who can't
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: afford it, wouldn't that make more sense?
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  Speaker 5: It would make so much more sense. I mean, we
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 5: already have a food stamp program, and if the city
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 5: feels that's inadequate and they're having cuts to it, they
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 5: can further subsidize it. I think he's also concerned about
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 5: the fact that some grocery stores don't sell enough healthy food.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 5: The evidence is that that's what people want to buy,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 5: and that's why that store is stuck. So there's also
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 5: programs to try to encourage people to buy healthier food.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 5: There's all sorts of things we could do that are
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 5: a lot less expensive and better targeted to the people
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 5: who need help.
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  Speaker 3: That just makes sense. I know on the one side,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 3: he's saying there are food deserts, areas that don't have
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 3: available markets. Then on the other side, he's saying he
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 3: needs to build the markets where there are markets to
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 3: force the other markets to lower their prices. But when
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 3: markets are working on a margin of 3%, how much
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: can they lower their prices realistically when the city is
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: only able to lower its prices by stealing tax dollars
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 3: and subsidizing?
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 5: Well, now he's saying he's going to give those stores
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 5: extra money. I mean, it is just madness. And there
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 5: aren't food deserts in New York. I mean, like, New
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 5: York's a very dense city with a lot of commercial.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 5: I mean, there are food deserts in America, but they're
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 5: not here.
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  Speaker 3: You might have to walk two blocks, damn it. Alison Schrager, economist,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 3: Manhattan Institute senior fellow. We've got to have you on again.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: You were fantastic. We appreciate you taking the time. Thank
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: you for having me. Thank you. 710WOR, the voice of
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  Speaker 1: Guest hosting for Mark today, Ken Rosato.
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  Speaker 3: So good to be with you. And we go to
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  Speaker 3: our busy phones. Bruce in Kings Park. Good morning to you, Bruce. Hello, Bruce. Hi.
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  Speaker 16: Quick question.
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  Speaker 14: Good, sure.
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  Speaker 16: It's a political question. If the Dems take the Senate
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 16: and kill a filibuster, and then they want to expand
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 16: the Supreme Court and make Puerto Rico and Washington D.C.,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 16: they want to make them states, is that a law
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 16: that would have to go to the president's desk?
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
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  Speaker 16: And if not, would the current Supreme Court have any
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 16: sway in that decision process?
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: Only if it violated the Constitution. But yeah, no, it
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: would still have to go to the president's desk for signing.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: But that's a very, very good question. But yes, remember,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: the Senate only acts in a standalone capacity when approving
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: justices that the president selects. So the executive branch selects them,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: and then the Senate approves them. But other than that,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: to expand the Supreme Court, that's something that has to
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: be done collectively. And so yes, the president would have
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: to sign it. And if the president doesn't, well, then
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: you'd have to go through the whole process. You'd have
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: to have the House and all. It would be difficult
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 3: for them, or impossible for them, to do it on
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: their own. But don't put it past Democrats to try
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: to figure out a sneaky way, Bruce. Anything else, my friend?
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 9: No, that's it.
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  Speaker 5: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 10: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: No, I appreciate you. Thank you so much for calling. 800-321-0710. 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 3: It's Ken Rosano in on your Friday for the great
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 3: Mark Simone, enjoying his long weekend. And by the way,
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  Speaker 3: did you hear what happened in Jerusalem Some Italian explorers,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 3: some people who are doing investigating under the Church of
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  Speaker 3: the Holy Sepulchre, for those who aren't Christian and don't
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 3: know what that is, that's the site that is traditionally
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 3: believed to be where Jesus, basically in the general area
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: where he was crucified, died, buried, and then we as
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: Christians believe he rose again on the third day. Okay,
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: so apparently digging under the church, you know, we think...
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: maybe it was just tradition that said that this is
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 3: where it happened. Well, under the church, they have just
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 3: found a whole bunch of amazing stuff, including what looks
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: like a garden. And it basically matches everything biblical that
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: talked about the Holy Sepulchre location and the actual tomb. etc.,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: where Jesus was laid and then three days later rose.
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  Speaker 3: So there are all sorts of stories online. You could
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: read about it. We're kind of running out of time.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: But I just wanted to share that for anybody who's
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 3: interested in things like that. It is absolutely fascinating. And
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: it's one thing to think that traditionally it's been accepted
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: as the place where Jesus was crucified, died, buried. But
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, the site
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: was detailed, basically. And now these excavators who went down
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 3: under the church found what looks like everything that matches
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 3: the biblical accounts is actually under the Church of the
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: Holy Sepulchre. This is Ken Rosato in for Mark Simone
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  Speaker 3: on your Friday. Coming up on News Time, it's 11 o'clock.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: Now, the Mark Simone Show on 710WOR.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: Filling in for Mark, here's Ken Rosato.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 3: And just because Daria just said, I would love to
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: see someday there's going to be a Hurricane Daria, I
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 3: did the Google. I went on the Google and looked.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 3: There was a Hurricane Daria in 1990 known as Cyclone Daria.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 3: Cyclone is a hurricane, just another name. They call it
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 3: that on the other side of the world, but it
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 3: is the same type of storm. It was a European
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: windstorm that struck northwestern Europe. That's a rarity. January 25th
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: and 26th of 1990. So you see, Daria was not
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  Speaker 3: left out of the hurricane naming business there. So Hurricane Daria.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 3: No one is as good as our Hurricane Daria right
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 3: here in the newsroom, though. 710WOR, the voice of New York.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: It's Ken Rosato in for Mark on your... I was
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 3: almost going to say Monday. On your Friday. Don't take
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 3: away our Friday, Ken Rosato. And it is good to
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 3: be with you. We'll take your calls, too, at 800-321-0710. 800-321-0710.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: I used to work at Channel 7. For those that
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 3: probably remember me, I was there for 20 years as
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 3: a news anchor. And nowadays I'm on a channel called
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: On New Jersey. ONNJ.com. You could stream it anywhere. ONNJ.com.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 3: I'm sure you've seen the video by this point of
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 3: the awful glacier collapse that happened on the Nepal-China border.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 3: It just happened the other day. To look at it,
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 3: you think, my gosh, how could anything be that powerful?
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 3: How could anyone survive something like that? And so many people,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: as it turns out, did not. The newest numbers are
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: 579 confirmed dead. 90 of, well, let me say 1900
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 3: plus are missing. 90 of the people missing. are American citizens.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 3: So we're still keeping our fingers crossed and hoping that
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 3: they are just somewhere and alive. But their families, as
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: you can imagine, just awfully, awfully worried just to see this.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 3: It reminds you, the flashback to 9-11, when people's names
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 3: are being put up everywhere, their names and pictures are
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 3: being put up all over Kathmandu, which is a big
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 3: city right near there in Nepal, right by the Chinese border.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 3: But what had happened was apparently a glacier collapsed and
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: it just sent thousands of tons of debris and water
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 3: just cascading down and flattened, flattened chunks of the city
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 3: and all the people and bridges just like they were
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 3: toys and just wiped out so many people in an instant. Again,
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  Speaker 3: 579 confirmed dead, 1,900 plus missing people. And 90 Americans
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 3: are among those 1,900 missing. So prayers for those people
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 3: and the horror that that was. 710WOR, the voice of
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 3: New York. It's Ken Rosato and for Mark. And for
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 3: those people who say, why did they build something near
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 3: a glacier like that? And yeah, part of me immediately
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 3: thought that too. And then I thought, oh, wait a second.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 3: We built these cities called Los Angeles and San Francisco
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 3: on this, and San Diego for that matter, on this
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 3: fault line, the biggest fault line. on the planet Earth
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 3: called the San Andreas Fault, and they're the world's biggest
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 3: earthquakes that happen there, right? And we built, in Italy,
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 3: in Sicily, we built the city of Catania right by
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 3: Mount Etna, just north of there, and we built Naples
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 3: right by Mount Vesuvius. Those are both active volcanoes that
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 3: still rattle and ooze lava. Look at Hawaii. We still have,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 3: we have populations on Hawaii right by active volcanoes, Kilauea.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 3: So we do this as humans. It's kind of hard
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: to find any place on Earth that isn't a certain
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 3: proximity to something dangerous. But we just hope that we
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 3: could live as long as possible without having to see disaster. 710WOR,
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  Speaker 3: The Voice of New York. We'd love to hear what
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 3: you have to say about that and maybe prayers and
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: wishes for the people who have gone through that devastation there.
• 1:13:59
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• 1:14:06
  Speaker 3: So President Trump loves to tweak the libs. Once again,
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 3: he signed that executive order that renames Lake Ontario, Lake America.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 3: And for those who think he can't do that, the
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 3: president is the head of the executive branch. The Department
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 3: of the Interior falls under the jurisdiction of the executive branch.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 3: So he names the head of the Department of the Interior,
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 3: who gets... certified by the Senate, gets approved by the Senate,
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 3: and that person is. And so he is, in essence,
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 3: the boss of the Department of the Interior, and that
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 3: person accepted the executive order. So yes, the president has
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: the authority to rename things like the Gulf of America
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 3: and Lake America. Now, you could say, well, that's arrogant
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 3: of us to do that. How obnoxious. Why is it
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 3: only obnoxious when America does it? How come it wasn't
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 3: obnoxious when Canada Did it? You know, yes, it may
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 3: have been a couple of hundred years ago, but why
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 3: wasn't it obnoxious? Lake Huron, for instance, which was named
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 3: after French Canadian, French Canadian explorers on their side. And
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 3: more of Lake Huron is on the American side than
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 3: on their side. But yet it's called Lake Huron. Why
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 3: was that not obnoxious?
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 3: Lake Superior, which was actually named Lac Superior in French,
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 3: which means the upper lake area. named by the canadian
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 3: side why is that not obnoxious why is it not
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 3: obnoxious when the majority of the gulf of mexico what
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 3: we used to call the gulf of mexico falls under
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 3: or surrounded by american territory why is it called why
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 3: was it called the gulf of mexico why is it
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 3: wrong to call it after america why is it that
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 3: we seem to be always embarrassed to accept the fact
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 3: that this country is pretty great at what it's done. It's,
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: it's lifted more people out of poverty and starvation on
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 3: the planet than any other. Is it perfect? Absolutely not.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 3: But does it have remedies to fix its faults? Yes,
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 3: it does more so than just about any other country
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 3: on the planet. And I would rather be nowhere else,
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 3: but the United States, you know, my, my ancestors come
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 3: from Europe and beautiful places, but I am proud to
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 3: be an American. I would never leave this country. And
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 3: that's why people die leaving other places to come here.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 3: And yet you have liberals in this country just doing
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 3: nothing but besmirching the United States and calling it names
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 3: and saying how much it sucks and burning flags. These
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 3: are people who just have never experienced life elsewhere, who
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 3: just don't get it. They just don't understand that others
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 3: who have fled communism and oppression and tyranny to come
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 3: here know that the other side isn't better. The grass
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 3: is not always greener. And that you should be very
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 3: happy to be an American instead of criticizing the country
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 3: and bashing it and saying it stinks and it's not special.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 3: If you think there are problems, work to fix the problems.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 3: But you don't stand there and just bash your country
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 3: and burn the flag and say everybody here sucks. That
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 3: is childish. That's like being at a playground and losing
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 3: at a game and taking your ball and your bat
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 3: and going home like a spoiled little impetuous child instead
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 3: of finding the issues and trying to make them better. 800-321-0710, 800-321-0710.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 3: I'm sure many of you feel the same way. Unfortunately,
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 3: too many people have been indoctrinated in our schools these days,
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 3: the last few generations, and that's what they're thinking. By
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 3: the way, we've heard a lot about the flock cameras.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 3: You know what we're talking about with the flock cameras?
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 3: These are those video cameras from a company called Flock Safety.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 3: They're set up in municipalities all over the country. In
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 3: many cases, They're set up to track down license plates
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 3: on cars so they could track down criminals. They can
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 3: focus in on things like dents on a car or
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 3: a license plate, as I mentioned, or a bumper sticker.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 3: So if they're looking for a car that has some specific,
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 3: whether it be a dent or a color variation or whatever,
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 3: these flock cameras can spot that. Well, flock cameras are
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 3: also used in other security means throughout municipalities throughout the country.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 3: It started out that Democrats were, or I should say,
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Republicans, conservatives were very, very much against them
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 3: because it was very big brother to have these cameras everywhere.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 3: We didn't want them spying on us. Yes, they do
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 3: good in terms of finding criminals, but in the process,
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 3: many times they end up causing police to get notified
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 3: to pull over a car that just resembles a car
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 3: that might belong to a criminal. So you end up
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 3: inconveniencing a person who is totally innocent because they happen
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 3: to be driving in a car that resembles one that
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 3: they're looking for. So conservatives have been saying that's a
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 3: violation of our rights. We've been saying it for years.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 3: Now Democrats are starting to say the same thing. They
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 3: don't like it. They don't like it. The flock cameras
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 3: should go away. So that's become a big issue. It's
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 3: been a lot of debate, the subject of a lot
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 3: of debate. Well, Curtis and Larry were talking about it.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 3: I heard it this morning. And I've heard it in
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 3: recent mornings about the flock cameras. You know, my thought,
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 3: why don't the liberals who are against the flock cameras,
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 3: why aren't those same liberals against all the cameras in
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 3: New York City?
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 6: Huh?
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 3: Think about it. All the speed cams we have every
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 3: couple of blocks that if you happen to be doing
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 3: 31 in a 25 to get around a car or
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 3: to because a truck cut you off, you don't want
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 3: to get into an accident. So you do 31. Then
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden you get sent a hundred dollar
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 3: ticket in the mail and And it violates the Constitution
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 3: because you can't go to court and face-to-face see your accuser, right?
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 3: Because your accuser is a camera. And you don't know
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 3: somebody could have used your car. So why are you
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 3: the one whose license could be threatened if the ticket
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 3: isn't paid, etc.? Well, this is a problem. And of course,
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 3: you know, I don't like the idea. I'm a conservative libertarian.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 3: I don't like the idea of these flock cameras. I
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 3: do understand that criminals have been caught. I get it.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 3: But Ken, kidnappers have been caught. I get it. But
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 3: they've been caught because of how great our police officers
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 3: are and our detectives are, not because of a couple
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 3: of cameras. They were able to catch these crooks before
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 3: the cameras. They could catch them after the cameras. And unfortunately,
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 3: the cameras have been abused. So I say this, you
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 3: liberals who are finally coming around to the conservative side
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 3: or the libertarian side saying that we don't like flock cameras,
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 3: and that's F-L-O-C-K, not the other word you might be thinking.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 3: We don't like flock cameras. Think about it in terms
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 3: of all cameras that are spying on you, like speed cams,
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 3: like they have the school zone cams. They have all
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 3: sorts of cams up and down Manhattan and around the boroughs.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 3: that are trying to check you out. So think about that. Oh,
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 3: even at the tolls, you have cameras now that check
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 3: your license plate, right? I just feel it's a big invasion.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 3: Those cameras can be used to detect where you are
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 3: at any given time. And that's not what America is
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 3: supposed to be about. What do you think about it?
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 4: 800-321-0710, 800-321-0710.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 3: Of course, we have the passing of our iconic Dolly Parton,
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 3: So sad. Dolly, one of the few human beings who
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 3: stayed the heck out of politics. I heard Mark talking
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 3: about this this week. And that's what kept her a
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 3: popular person, if you will, on both sides of the aisle.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 3: Because people did not have that sense of animosity toward
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 3: her because they didn't feel that she was politically one
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 3: side or the other. And that's the way it should be.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 3: I don't care to know about my entertainer's political views. persuasions.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 3: I want to know that they could perform great. And
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 3: Dolly was an amazing performer. Not only could she sing,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 3: she could dance. She played the fiddle. So she could
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 3: play violin. She played guitar and banjo. She also played keyboards.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 3: And she had, as I mentioned, the incredible voice. She,
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 3: more importantly, wrote her own music and her own words,
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 3: her own lyrics. There aren't that many people who did
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 3: all of that. And she wrote hundreds and hundreds of songs,
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 3: including some of the biggest hits in America's music book.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 3: She is responsible. Of course, it's amazing how many young
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 3: people didn't realize she recorded I Will Always Love You
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 3: that Whitney Houston re-recorded, if you will, because she fell
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 3: in love with the song and Whitney did such a
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 3: beautiful job with it. I think one of the greatest
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 3: American voices there as well. But hopefully Whitney and Dolly
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 3: are singing that song together in heaven because that is
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 3: a great tune that I think we should remember them
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 3: both by. But I Will Always Love You, written by
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 3: Dolly Parton, one of the greatest selling of all times.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 3: You know that that song, you think, oh, Dolly must
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 3: have made a fortune on the royalties. She actually only
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 3: made $ 10 million. And you say, well, that's a lot
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 3: of money. But when you consider how many copies of
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 3: that recording sold by Whitney Houston, 10 million, I would
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 3: have thought it would have been a lot more, but
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 3: that's how much she made royalties. But Dolly Parton, born
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 3: in absolute destitute poverty in the Appalachians, dies. Her net
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 3: worth was 450 million. Her gross worth, her total estate
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 3: was worth about $ 800 million. That includes her 50% share
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 3: in Dollywood and all her other investments. That is a
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 3: shrewd woman. And I love how she talks about the
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 3: fact that people had called her a dumb blonde. And
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 3: her response to that was, I'm not offended because I'm
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 3: not dumb and I'm not blonde. She's a brunette. She,
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 3: she wore blonde wigs. So I love that response. Well,
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 3: I know I'm not dumb and I know I'm not
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 3: a real blonde. So therefore I'm not offended. And then
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 3: of course, when, uh, Barbara Walters interviewed her in the
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 3: late seventies, uh, and said, would I refer to you
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 3: as a hillbilly? And, uh, Just an obnoxious question to ask.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 3: And Barbara Walters, I'm sorry, was an obnoxious person. My
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 3: few encounters, I could get into this on another show.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 3: My few encounters when I was over at ABC News
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 3: and when I was at WABC TV, Channel 7 for
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 3: 20 years, I had encountered Barbara a number of times.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 3: Never once was she nice to me. Never once. Literally,
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 3: I remember the first time I saw her storming down
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 3: the hallway with her entourage and I had just gotten
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 3: off the 12 o'clock news. And I stepped out of
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 3: their way. They were coming down like a presidential entourage.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 3: And I got out of the way and she said,
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 3: she looked at me, she pointed, she said, out of
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 3: my way. Like I was going to say something to her.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 3: I was already out of her way. But that was
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 3: her way of saying hello. And literally every other opportunity
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 3: I had to come into her path, it was the
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 3: same thing. Move or she would wave her arm at
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 3: me like you're in my way. Just a disgusting way
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 3: to be with people. And I haven't heard, with the
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  Speaker 3: exception of someone like Oprah Winfrey, who said that she
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 3: paved the way for us women. That's the biggest compliment
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 3: that I've heard the woman have. Even Hugh Jackman had
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 3: comments like, well, she helped us in the entertainment industry.
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  Speaker 3: But you never hear people say she was a nice person.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 3: She just wasn't that nice to a lot of people.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 3: I'm sure there are a few people who say, oh,
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 3: come on, Ken, you just didn't know her like I
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 3: knew her.
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  Speaker 6: You're right.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't. But unfortunately, the only encounters I had were
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 3: nasty ones. And, you know, this is what do they
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 3: say when somebody does something nice? Only a few people
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 3: talk about it when somebody does something nasty. Everybody talks
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 3: about it. Well, there you go. Don't leave that legacy
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 3: like Barbara Walters did. But a person who never left
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 3: a nasty legacy was Dolly Parton. And we will be
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 3: talking with a friend of mine who is an Emmy
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 3: Award winning entertainment journalist named John Bathke. You've probably seen
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 3: him on TV before. He's going to be joining us
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 3: about 20 minutes from now. So don't miss out. 710WOR,
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 3: the voice of New York. Ken Rosato in for Mark, 800-321-0710.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 11: 800-321-0710.
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 3: We'll take your calls next at WOR.
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 11: The Mark Simone Show.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: Now nine till noon weekdays.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 11: On 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: Guest hosting for Mark today. Here's Ken Rosato.
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  Speaker 3: And so nice to be with you. We go to
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 3: our busy phones. Vincent in Brooklyn. Good morning. Happy Friday,
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 3: my friend.
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  Speaker 9: Happy Friday, Ken. Ken, most people don't know the reason
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 9: and the origins of rent control in New York City.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 9: My family haven't been in real estate, me included, for
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 9: almost 100 years. My grandfather bought his first large apartment
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 9: building two weeks before the Great Depression. And my mother
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 9: told me that during World War II, because so many
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 9: young brides, their husbands were called up for service, they
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 9: went back to live with their parents. My grandfather owned
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 9: very big apartment buildings at the time. And mom told
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 9: me half the building would be empty because.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 9: The women went back to live with their folks, and
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 9: the men went off to war. So all these goody-two-shoes
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 9: in the New York City government after the war said, oh,
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 9: there's going to be price gouging when the G.I.s come back,
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 9: so they passed this bill. The problem is, is that
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 9: World War II was over, what, 75, 80 years? And
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 9: this hot potato law, this political law, still exists. Ken,
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 9: I own some of the toniest real estate in New York,
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 9: and I get sometimes offers to an hour. The reason why?
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 9: I never bought anything with rent control, and I never
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 9: bought anything with rent-stabilized tenants. I get offers. People call me, Vince,
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 9: I got this. Vince, I got that. And you know
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 9: what my answer is? Why do I want to be
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 9: a partner with the city of New York? So what
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 9: happens then is, as you pointed out, the city tells
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 9: these builders, you have to have a certain number of
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 9: apartments below market value. So what happens is the real estate,
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 9: the builder and the landlord raise the rent on the
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 9: other units.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 3: And it's the same thing. Same thing. If I could
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 3: just jump in really fast, even look at how many buildings,
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 3: very special, expensive buildings that they build. And there are
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 3: units in that building, right? That have to be lower income.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 3: So you have somebody who's going to spend $ 5 million
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 3: on a unit and then somebody downstairs who's in a
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 3: rental because that's what the city imposes. So I work
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 3: my whole life. to afford an expensive apartment and to
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 3: move from one neighborhood to that and all of a
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 3: sudden I'm back in the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 9: Exactly, Ken. And a lot of these people who live
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 9: in these subsidized, these low-rent apartments in these tony buildings,
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 9: they're on welfare. They're not the best of people in
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 9: my neighborhood from this real tony building that they put up.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 9: that you pay an arm and a leg to live there.
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 9: You see a lot of the people there who are
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 9: degenerates going outside of the supermarket, begging for money, begging
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 9: for this or that, or for some sucker to take
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 9: them inside and buy them a bag of groceries. And
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 9: then what they do is, after they suck at you,
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 9: they go shoot up or whatever. This is the... If
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 9: the city wanted more apartments for people in this... Get
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 9: rid of the rent control law. Here's another ridiculous thing
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 9: that the city recently did. And the jerks who passed it,
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 9: like this so-called Julie Menon, who says she's a common-sense Democrat.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 9: She's a socialist like the rest of them, with better
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 9: hairdo and better clothes.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 9: What now that they did was, in the past, the
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 9: renter had to pay the real estate fee. So he
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 9: passed this law that now I have to pay the
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 9: real estate fee as the landlord. And this stupid... That
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 9: councilman who promulgated this law said, oh, so that's so
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 9: that people who are on rent-stabilized apartments and rent-controlled apartments,
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 9: when they move, they won't have to pay a fee.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 9: People who live in rent-controlled and rent-stabilized apartments are not moving.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 3: That's right. We all know that person who's been living
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 3: in a rent-controlled apartment way beyond the time they should
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 3: have been. I know several people who actually live there part-time,
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 3: but they tell the folks at the front desk, well,
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 3: if anyone asks, I'm here every day. It happens, and
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 3: they're paying $ 700 a month in an apartment that should
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 3: be $ 10, 000 a month. That's not what the purpose was.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 9: You're right on the money. And you see all these,
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 9: especially downtown Brooklyn, you see all these high-rise buildings going up.
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 9: And one tenant is subsidizing the lifestyle of the other.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 9: And another thing, the city tells you, oh, you've got
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 9: to put bicycle storage in the building. Don't tell me
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 9: what I have to put in my building. Stay out
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 9: of my way. You're not an architect. Stop with the
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 9: social engineering.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 3: Well, that's what socialists are about. That's the first part
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 3: of social engineering is social, right? They want to control
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 3: every aspect of your life. because they believe they could
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 3: do it better, even though they've never held a real
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 3: job in their lives and never owned a business, and
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 3: they don't know what being part of this United States
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 3: is about. It's unbelievable, Vincent, but I love you, buddy.
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 3: I appreciate you calling. You have a great weekend.
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 9: You have a great weekend, Ken. You have a great weekend.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 3: Thank you, sir. All right, we're going to take, we've
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 3: got one minute left. Let's go to Chris in Manhattan.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 6: Chris.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, good morning.
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  Speaker 17: About this Lake Ontario renaming. It's just such a childish
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 17: thing to do. It's like him threatening to tear down
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 17: the Kennedy Center.
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 9: So what?
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  Speaker 3: Why is it childish for him to do it? It's
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 3: not childish for Canada to have named it that initially, Chris. Listen,
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 3: I don't have a problem with it. Every president could
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 3: put their mark. Chris, only one of us could talk
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 3: at a time. Every president could put their mark. on
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 3: whatever they want that so it's a i'd guarantee if
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 3: it was named the barack obama whatever nobody would say
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 3: a freaking word all the schools that were named barack
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 3: obama nobody said a word he wants to do it
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 3: so what listen it's only for within the united states
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 3: he has every legal right to do in canada can
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 3: keep calling it they can call it the the joe
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 3: jones lake if they want go ahead and say he's.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 17: Doing it to try to with the tariff the tariff
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 17: war That's just hurting the Canadian citizens and the United
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 17: States citizens at a time when we should be trying
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 17: to make the prices go down for the people. Carney's
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 17: an idiot, and he's fighting with them, but it's not
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 17: hurting him, it's hurting the people.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 3: Remember, we can outlast them because there are a lot
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 3: more things they need from us than we need from them.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 17: We went to Venezuela to save them. We should save
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 17: the damn Canadians. I mean, people have no idea how
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 17: bad things are in Canada.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing, Chris, this is the problem. Listen, I've
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 3: been to Canada. I was just in Canada not long ago.
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 3: I understand. The problem is Canada has been screwing us
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 3: over truthfully and a lot they still don't have our
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 3: liquor on their shelves for two years it's like a lot.
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 17: Of government is not the people of.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 3: All but this is the problem how else you get
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 3: the government's attention but to do stuff like this it's
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 3: about tweaking them let let uh... the the prime minister
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 3: come to the microphone more often and i have a
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 3: little conversation the problem is they've always counted on us
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 3: always being there for them it's about time we may
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 3: be kicked them in the back side to wake him
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 3: up chris i appreciate the phone.
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: Call The Mark Simone Show, live from the WOR LifeVac studios.
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  Speaker 1: Guest hosting for Mark today, here's Ken Rosato.
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  Speaker 3: And so nice to be with you. And it is great.
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 3: It's great that it just stopped storming. That's one thing
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 3: for sure. But it's nice to be here, Ken Rosato,
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 3: and on your Friday. Mark Simone enjoying his nice long weekend,
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 3: and rightfully so. You know, we all, of course, lost
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 3: a great, great megastar and icon this week, the great
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 3: Dolly Parton. everybody feeling it, because Dolly kind of stayed
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 3: out of politics, and that's a good thing, right? When
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 3: you stay out of politics, you kind of don't upset anybody.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 3: The question is, what's going to happen now? What's going
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 3: to happen to her estate? What's going to happen in
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 3: terms of funerals? With us on the phone is Emmy
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 3: Award-winning entertainment journalist John Bathke. He's going to talk to
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 3: us about the Dolly Parton passing and the plans for
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 3: the upcoming funeral. Good morning to you, my friend, John.
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  Speaker 10: Good morning, Ken. Good to be with you.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 3: It's great to have you on. John has been on
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 3: our show on On New Jersey in the past, and thankfully,
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 3: I think, what did we do? We put you out
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 3: to suffer in the last snowstorm we had. I think
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 3: you helped us out with that, right?
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 10: Well, suffer is right, but actually, it was very near home,
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 10: so I could actually just walk out the door and
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 10: get there. So it It wasn't a bad commute that day,
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 10: but it was good to be on with you that
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 10: day as well.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 3: Well, that's a good thing. You know, here he is.
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 3: The man wins Emmy Awards doing entertainment journalism, and we
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 3: throw him out in a snowstorm. But that just says
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 3: everything about us, right? So let's talk about Dolly Parton.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 3: This woman was just beloved by all Americans. She's probably
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 3: one of the few, maybe the only person who was
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 3: non-polarizing in an era when everybody's polarizing. And when she died,
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 3: I think she just impacted everyone in some way, right?
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 3: Everybody can think of where they were when one of
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 3: her hits came on and think about things like even
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 3: younger people not realizing that Whitney Houston's I Will Always
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 3: Love You was her song. So why do you think
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 3: America was so impacted by Dolly Parton?
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 10: I think it's several things. She had this ability, Ken,
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 10: to crystallize what everybody has felt or experienced or gone
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 10: through in life and put it in a song and
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 10: then attach a really catchy melody to it and drive
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 10: that thing home and make it a hit. Think of
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 10: 9 to 5. Everybody at some point has had a boss, right?
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 10: Who was on their back or they didn't feel they
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 10: were getting the fair shot. And that song just crystallized
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 10: not only for women in the workplace at the time,
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 10: but for everybody. And she did that again and again
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 10: and again with her music. So I think people related
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 10: to her in that way. And then there was this,
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 10: you know, even though she obviously had a very glamorous
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 10: life and worked with the biggest stars, she kept her
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 10: salt of the earth persona and her way with words
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 10: about her all through her life. And I think that
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 10: authenticity just, held people so dear to her.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 3: Entertainment reporter John Bathke on with us today. This is
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 3: Ken Rosato on The Mark Simone Show, and we're talking
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 3: about Dolly Parton and her passing. She composed nearly 5,000
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 3: songs that she started writing when she was a child.
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 3: She recorded 1,000 to 1,100 of them, and she had
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 3: 25 number one singles on the Billboard country chart, 113
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 3: entries on the Hot Country Songs list. I don't know
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 3: that we'll ever see somebody with that much success.
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 9: No.
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 10: And the fact that her success was so, as a songwriter,
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 10: but as a performer and as an entrepreneur and as
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 10: a philanthropist, it was so multifaceted. There are so many
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 10: tent poles to her legacy in show business and in business.
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 10: And I believe, I have to believe, that there will
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 10: be songs of hers that are released for years and
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 10: years and decades to come. I have to believe that
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 10: she had in the bank things that she had recorded
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 10: and never released, certainly songs that she had written and
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 10: were never recorded and someone would love to record. I
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 10: just think she may have left this earth, but her
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 10: music is going to live on, and I think there
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 10: will even be new music I mean, there's going to
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 10: be a Broadway show about her life, you know, opening
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 10: early next year. So with songs, new songs that she wrote.
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 10: So she is a gift in a way to culture
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 10: that is going to keep on giving, I believe.
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 3: So I just read that in 2015 in Dollywood, at
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 3: Dollywood's Dream More Resort in Pigeon Forge, Dolly recorded and
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 3: buried a song called My Place in History that nobody
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 3: has ever heard. It is an unreleased secret song. It
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 3: will be released in 2045. So we all have to
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 3: stick around until 2045 to hear it. But that's amazing.
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 3: I'm curious now what's in it, because maybe she finally
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 3: unleashes on people. Who knows? I just don't see her
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 3: unleashing on anyone.
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 10: I have heard her speak about that. And she actually
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 10: said after she buried it, she wanted to dig it
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 10: back up because she thought it really was going to
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 10: be a big hit.
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 3: Well, it'll benefit her estate.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 3: That's amazing. Yeah. So she was worth a net of
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 3: $ 450 million. Her total value was $ 800 million. This is
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 3: a girl born in a big family in the Appalachian area, Tennessee,
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 3: total poverty, but they had love. And as she said,
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 3: We had class. It was country class, but it was class.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 3: And you could see she had a certain dignity and
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 3: class that only comes with being raised right. The respect
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 3: that she had for other people, the love that she
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 3: had for other people just came across anytime she was interviewed.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 3: hearing the way she spoke with Johnny Carson, just the fun.
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 3: And even the way she handled Barbara Walters, who couldn't,
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 3: there were many times Barbara could be a not too
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 3: nice person. And when Barbara asked Sarah, would I call
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 3: you where I'm from? Would I refer to you as
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 3: a hillbilly? And you could see Dolly was offended by it.
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 3: But instead of saying, you know, shut your mouth, Dolly
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 3: said with a smile and a giggle on intelligence, she said, well,
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 3: if you said something like that to me, I'd probably
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 3: come around and kick your shins and then laughed. But
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 3: that was her way of saying, shut your mouth, lady.
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 3: And it was a respectful way of doing it.
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 10: And also, you know, she was born into those things
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 10: and had a sense of respect in her growing up.
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 10: She was also, I believe, certainly born with just an
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 10: amazing drive, a drive to work, a drive to succeed,
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 10: a drive to lift up not only her family, but
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 10: then the entire county where she was born. I mean,
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 10: years ago, she started a scholarship program in her county
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 10: that she was born in, where everybody who graduated from
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 10: high school, she gave them $ 500. I believe it continues
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 10: to this day.
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 3: That's amazing.
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 10: There are people in public office. I heard the mayor,
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 10: the former mayor of that town, say that he was
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 10: one of those high school graduates who got a $ 500
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 10: bonus for graduating from Dolly Parton. And, you know, that
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 10: is just such a a great legacy to leave. And
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 10: her literacy campaign that she has been so dedicated to
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 10: for many, many years has provided millions of books to people.
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  Speaker 10: You talked about her net worth. I have to believe
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  Speaker 10: her net worth would have been twice what you're talking
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  Speaker 10: about if she had not been as philanthropic as she
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  Speaker 10: was and simply she gave away money to causes that
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  Speaker 10: she supported.
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  Speaker 3: Hundreds of millions. She gave away hundreds. They don't say
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  Speaker 3: how many hundreds of millions. She gave away How many
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  Speaker 3: people could say that? Hundreds of billions of dollars.
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  Speaker 9: Amazing.
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  Speaker 3: We don't know a lot about a funeral. Apparently, it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be a small private memorial service. But I
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  Speaker 3: would think that America is begging and dying for a
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  Speaker 3: big memorial service that could be organized outside of her
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  Speaker 3: rightfully deserved family memorial. I mean, they deserve a private
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  Speaker 3: small ceremony. But I would think that there would be
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  Speaker 3: something large organized for all the rest of us to
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  Speaker 3: celebrate her life. Don't you?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, absolutely. And I think there will be more than one.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, I'm sure that once she is laid to
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  Speaker 10: rest and the family has had a minute, I'm sure
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  Speaker 10: the Country Music Academy, I am sure the Ryman Auditorium
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  Speaker 10: in Nashville would be a beautiful place to host a
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  Speaker 10: very star-studded tribute concert to her. And I'm sure, you know,
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  Speaker 10: the Emmys are coming up. She was an Emmy winner.
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  Speaker 10: I'm sure there will be a tribute to her there.
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  Speaker 10: She was a two-time Oscar winner. I'm sure, you know,
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  Speaker 10: next year at the Oscars, there will be a tribute
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  Speaker 10: to her. I think I said Oscar winner. She was
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  Speaker 10: a two-time Oscar nominee, rather, for songs that she wrote
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  Speaker 10: for films and certainly the Grammys. I think she has
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  Speaker 10: about 10 Grammy awards. There'll be tributes to her along
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  Speaker 10: the way. And then I think when the Broadway show
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  Speaker 10: about her life, which she has been heavily involved in
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  Speaker 10: the writing of the music for, I think that will
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  Speaker 10: be another big moment in this sort of collective grief
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  Speaker 10: that people are experiencing in this want to celebrate this
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  Speaker 10: remarkable human being.
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  Speaker 3: John, I knew that she was from a big family.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't realize she was one of 12. Wow. Can
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  Speaker 3: you imagine in the poverty of the Appalachians? to have
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  Speaker 3: 12 kids. So she had six brothers. There were six
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  Speaker 3: brothers and six sisters in total. She was the fourth
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  Speaker 3: oldest of them. And six of the siblings are still alive.
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  Speaker 3: So amazing. Well, Emmy award-winning entertainment journalist, John Bathke, we've
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  Speaker 3: seen you on TV a billion times. I love that
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  Speaker 3: you came on this morning. We appreciate you. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure as we get more info about any upcoming Memorial
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  Speaker 3: of Life for the great Dolly Parton, we will have
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  Speaker 3: you want to talk about it.
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  Speaker 9: I would love it.
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  Speaker 10: Thank you, Ken.
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  Speaker 3: All right, John, have a great day. Thanks so much
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  Speaker 4: Ken, I'll be quick about two things. Number one, I've
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  Speaker 4: had a lot of injuries. I'm 63 years old. I
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  Speaker 4: fractured my neck, vertebrae in a car, everything. By far,
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  Speaker 4: the worst thing I had was four years ago. I
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  Speaker 4: had shingles for about five weeks. It was beyond brutal.
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  Speaker 4: So I told all my friends, you've got to go
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  Speaker 4: out and get this shingle shot. It always comes if
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 4: you've had chicken pox earlier, which most of us have had.
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  Speaker 4: So it can come back in this form. I'm just
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  Speaker 4: telling you and all the listeners, please get the shingles shot.
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  Speaker 4: You never want to have shingles.
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  Speaker 5: It's brutal.
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  Speaker 3: I'm with you. I had, I just, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: I'll let you talk some more. We got another minute here.
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  Speaker 3: I had my brother's father-in-law, if you could follow that.
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  Speaker 3: He had the old, the Zost, was it Zostavax or something?
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  Speaker 3: The original shingles shot. And that was only about 55, 60% effective.
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  Speaker 3: He still got shingles. Now, they told him had he
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 3: not gotten the shot, he would have been in agony,
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 3: but he was still hospitalized. It is painful. You get
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 3: open sores and it's awful, right? So you need that
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 3: shot and you can get it. It's a series of two,
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 3: six months apart, just a quick shot. It doesn't hurt.
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  Speaker 3: You go right and just talk to your doctor. But
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  Speaker 3: go ahead, continue, Chris. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: All right. And number two is the way I feel
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 4: about socialism and all these young people who want free
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  Speaker 4: stuff and Mindami and all these people, you know what
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  Speaker 4: it all boils down to me, Ken? It's jealousy. They
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 4: weren't able to do what Elon Musk.
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  Speaker 6: Can do, right?
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  Speaker 4: Elon Musk, and they're just jealous. And what happens is
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 4: jealousy is a very powerful emotion and it manifests itself
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  Speaker 4: in this hatred towards people who are successful. They're not
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  Speaker 4: mad at, you know, they're not mad at bad people
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  Speaker 4: or evil people. No, no, they're mad at people who've
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  Speaker 4: achieved and uh... that's what it comes down to a
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  Speaker 4: little bit about the pure jealous i.
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  Speaker 3: Think i think that jealousy it's jealousy that's being used
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  Speaker 3: and propagandized by the socialist they're not the ones jealous
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  Speaker 3: they're taking advantage of it and using that emotion to
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  Speaker 3: get young people to be suckers basically to be useful
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  Speaker 3: idiots and to uh... help push socialism they don't even
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  Speaker 3: realize it at the time that they're being useful idiots
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  Speaker 3: chris we're out of time here i appreciate the phone
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  Speaker 3: call my friend have a great weekend And I thank
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