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Hour 2: Mikie Sherrill's reasoning. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 2: gorgeous weekend. If you didn't make any plans this weekend,
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Speaker 2: now's the time to do it. I think a lot
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Speaker 2: of people have gotten out of Dodge already because driving
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Speaker 2: in today from New Jersey and I'm in the middle
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Speaker 2: of moving from northern New Jersey to central New Jersey.
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Speaker 2: I drove in for the first time from middle, the
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Speaker 2: middle part of the state of New Jersey, thinking, oh,
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Speaker 2: it's going to take me at least an hour forty hour,
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Speaker 2: whole other story. But it's just such a beautiful morning
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Speaker 2: In And yes, I was the news anchor Channel seven
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Speaker 2: for a full twenty years. I anchored the morning news
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Speaker 2: chunk of those years it was great, a lot of
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Speaker 2: good times here Channel seven. It's a TV in general
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Speaker 2: is different today. It's not what it was when I
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Speaker 2: what it was during the days of Roger Grimsby and
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Speaker 2: Bill but Teil. That was a whole other era that
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Speaker 2: walk out of the building without one hundred people mobbing you.
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Speaker 2: When I started, I guess anchoring, there was still there
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Speaker 2: was still you know, you came out, you walk down
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Speaker 2: the street, people recognize you. Today, people just aren't watching anymore.
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Speaker 2: They're looking at their phones. They get their news, they
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Speaker 2: just don't watch what we call linear broadcast television, where
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Speaker 2: you know that a newscast comes on at noon, Let
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Speaker 2: me rush to the TV and watch that newscast. You
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Speaker 2: ask one hundred people, you might find one or two
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Speaker 2: say yes, I have it on, probably because they're home
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Speaker 2: recovering from surgery or something and they happen to have
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Speaker 2: the TV and at that time, otherwise it just isn't happening.
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Speaker 2: And what we're hearing and reading is layoffs at the
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Speaker 2: different stations and networks, one after another. I know a
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Speaker 2: lot of people say, ah, I don't feel bad for them,
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Speaker 2: they make a lot of money. Well, you'd be surprised.
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Speaker 2: TV people don't make what they used to make. Not
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Speaker 2: that they're making terrible money, but you know, back in
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Speaker 2: the day they used to make you had the anchors,
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Speaker 2: the big time anchors, not me wasn't the big time anchor,
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Speaker 2: but the big time achers used to pull into the
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Speaker 2: two to three million dollar range. You don't You will
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Speaker 2: not find a local news anchor in America with that
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Speaker 2: kind of income. Today they don't make anywhere near that,
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Speaker 2: and it's going down and down as advertising revenues for
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Speaker 2: TV continues to shrink. We could talk about that if
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Speaker 2: you want to ask, I could. I could tell what
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Speaker 2: give us a call at eight hundred three to two
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Speaker 2: one zero seven ten. But yeah, people love to They
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Speaker 2: at five, I was there thirteen months. Just I wish
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Speaker 2: everyone in their lifetime can get a run with such
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Speaker 2: joy as I had during that time.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 2: But yet I'm enjoying my life very much. Now. What
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Speaker 2: am I doing these days, aside from getting the luxury
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Speaker 2: twenty six seconds. I've timed it, and I'm wearing shorts
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Speaker 2: But someday you check us out there. Otherwise, we want
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Speaker 2: you to stay glued right here seven ten w R Again,
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Speaker 2: the number is eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. Well,
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Speaker 2: if you listen to Curtis and Larry this morning, they
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Speaker 2: talked about what happened yesterday on the Upper west Side.
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Speaker 2: If you weren't privy to it, Madison, actually I'm now
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Speaker 2: mixing two stories. What happened on the Upper west Side
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Speaker 2: was the stabbing. A guy goes on a stabbing spree,
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Speaker 2: and this happened yesterday midday. Apparently a fifty one year
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Speaker 2: old security guard. According to the NYPD, his name was
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Speaker 2: Raoul Morales. He lives on the Upper West and police
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Speaker 2: say he stabbed to men, first of fifty seven year
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Speaker 2: old Asian man, then a fifty year old Jewish man
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Speaker 2: who was wearing a yamica. And that's important. These are
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Speaker 2: two separate, unprovoked attacks. Why was it important that I
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Speaker 2: mentioned this? Well, if you are going to perpetrate a
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Speaker 2: hate crime, an Asian man would be evidently Asian, Hey
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Speaker 2: I'm mixing up my words here, Asian by virtue of
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Speaker 2: their looks. And a Jewish man, you would assume, is
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Speaker 2: evidently Jewish virtue of the yamaica. And based on those facts,
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Speaker 2: police say they will be charging this man with a
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Speaker 2: hate crime. He allegedly approached the two of them unprovoked,
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Speaker 2: stabbed each and screamed in each case Allahu akbar. Now
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Speaker 2: does that mean he's Muzzlim? Maybe not. We don't know.
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Speaker 2: We have no idea. He could be mentally unstable, and
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Speaker 2: that's what is apparently the case. So right now there,
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Speaker 2: if he's not muzzled. They're Muslim saying, see, you blame us,
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Speaker 2: and this guy's nothing to do with us. He's just
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Speaker 2: a nut shouting out Allahu Akbar. We don't know. He
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Speaker 2: may be muszling, he may not be. We're just telling
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Speaker 2: you that that's what he shouted out based on what
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Speaker 2: witnesses say. But he may be mentally unstable, and that's
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Speaker 2: what's being investigated. But he then went and barricaded himself
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Speaker 2: in his apartment. NYPD says they went and arrested him
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Speaker 2: and made charge him with hate crimes. But now you
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Speaker 2: have Jewish leaders in New York, and I believe rightfully
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Speaker 2: so blasting Mayor Mom Donnie after the stabbings, demanding hate
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Speaker 2: crime charges. Don't just look into it, do it. And
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Speaker 2: they're saying, stop fanning the flames of hatred and division.
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Speaker 2: So when you hear Mom Donnie speaking anti Netan, Yahoo,
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Speaker 2: anti Israel, pro pro Islam and pro Gaza, etc. Pro Palestine,
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Speaker 2: over and over again and from the river to the
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Speaker 2: sea and all of that, you know this is only
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Speaker 2: going to foster, especially people right on the edge who
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Speaker 2: are mentally unstable or ride at the pivot point. You're
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Speaker 2: gonna push him over and we again, we don't know
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Speaker 2: if that's the case here, but it sure sec looks
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Speaker 2: like it could be. So we'd like to know what
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Speaker 2: you have to say about that. Eight hundred three two
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Speaker 2: one zero seven ten. Eight hundred three two one zero
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Speaker 2: seven ten. Another big story that happened, of course, Madison,
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Speaker 2: Wisconsin cop or rather Madison, Wisconsin, have stopped a man
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Speaker 2: named Corey Durell Ruiz who stabbed a cop break into
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Speaker 2: cars while trying to get away. He was shot dead
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Speaker 2: by police. The video that they are showing is from
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Speaker 2: people standing around at different angles, so it doesn't show
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Speaker 2: the whole picture, if you will. Police shot him dead
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Speaker 2: after he allegedly stabbed a cop. So now the question
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Speaker 2: is this should be this should be opening shot, right,
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Speaker 2: you stab a cop, you get shot dead. All right,
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Speaker 2: case closed. But you have people screaming that the police
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Speaker 2: are hunting down people of color and that if you
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Speaker 2: are a black person, you are going to get killed
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Speaker 2: by police. Well, going over a little statistic here, do
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Speaker 2: you know how many black people versus white people were
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Speaker 2: killed by police last year? I'm waiting, come on, somebody
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Speaker 2: tell me. Okay, two hundred and fifty black people were
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Speaker 2: killed by police last year. Do you know how many
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Speaker 2: white people were killed by police last year? Six hundred eighty.
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Speaker 2: So two hundred and fifty black people were killed by police,
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Speaker 2: six hundred eighty white people were killed by police. Does
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Speaker 2: that tell you that the police go out there in
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Speaker 2: the morning, they wake up, Hey, honey, yeah, I'm going
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Speaker 2: out to shoot somebody who is black, or I'm going
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Speaker 2: out to shoot somebody who is white. Maybe they don't
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Speaker 2: want to shoot anybody. Maybe they're getting up in the
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Speaker 2: morning and they just want to do their job and
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Speaker 2: come home to their families at the end of the day.
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Speaker 2: Here's the deal. If you stab a cop, he's gonna
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Speaker 2: shoot you. And if you think he's not going to
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Speaker 2: shoot you, then somebody has not taught you correctly, all right,
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Speaker 2: and a cop? Why should anybody stand there and allow
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Speaker 2: themselves to become victimized by you. It doesn't matter what
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Speaker 2: color you are, it doesn't matter where you live or
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Speaker 2: where you are socioeconomically. You don't stab a person, and
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Speaker 2: you certainly don't stab a cop. And if you do
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Speaker 2: and you get shot, well, you know what whose fault
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Speaker 2: is that. I'm sorry, but you have to scratch your
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Speaker 2: head and think, what are we doing in society? What
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Speaker 2: are we doing in schools? How are we raising people
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Speaker 2: to think that that's acceptable and that what a cop,
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Speaker 2: usually not making a whole hell of a lot of money,
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Speaker 2: should stand there and stabbed and not respond? What's wrong
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Speaker 2: with anybody? How crazy is society that there are now
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Speaker 2: people supporting the deceased in this case, this young man
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Speaker 2: or I say young man because I'm almost sixty, this
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Speaker 2: Corey Durell Ruiz, who is thirty eight, who, by the way,
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Speaker 2: has a record of forty arrests. Hey, whatever happened to
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Speaker 2: three strikes? You're out, you know. But this is in
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Speaker 2: liberal Madison, Wisconsin, one of the most liberal progressive cities
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Speaker 2: in America, all right, And this is in a state
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Speaker 2: where you have a guy who you know, mister happy pants,
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Speaker 2: who ran for vice president and thankfully lost. But this
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Speaker 2: is craziness. How on earth did the Tim Walls I'm
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Speaker 2: referring to for those who are saying, who's he talking about?
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Speaker 2: Happy pats? How on earth do you have a society
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Speaker 2: where anyone thinks it's okay to stab a cop and
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Speaker 2: thinks a cop shouldn't respond. They not only respond as
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Speaker 2: a human being but as a police officer, and they
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Speaker 2: need to neutralize that threat from injuring anybody else. And
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Speaker 2: the fact that anyone is rushing to the defense of this,
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Speaker 2: you know this is this is the wrong hill to
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Speaker 2: die on, folks, because you're not going to get the
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Speaker 2: sympathy of a lot of Americans, and people are not
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Speaker 2: going to tolerate another BLM summer from like six years ago.
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Speaker 2: Ain't gonna happen. So you want to go ahead and
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Speaker 2: protest and threaten to burn down cities. Al Sharpton, you
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Speaker 2: want to go out there and do that, go right ahead.
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Speaker 2: Methinks you're not going to get the sympathy of a
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Speaker 2: lot of Americans in this case, especially when you have
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Speaker 2: a guy with an arrest record like he does who
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Speaker 2: stabbed a cop. You're not going to get a lot
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Speaker 2: of sympathy if the cops shot him. So you go
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Speaker 2: ahead and try it. It'll last about a day or two,
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Speaker 2: but I think it's going to end after that. What
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Speaker 2: do you have to say about it? At eight hundred
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Speaker 2: and three to two one zero seven ten, The problem
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Speaker 2: is today you have the PAI bought and paid for
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Speaker 2: left wing agitator professional protester class paid for by groups
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Speaker 2: like you know, Soros backed groups. And I know it
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Speaker 2: sounds like we always cite the boogeyman when we talk
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Speaker 2: about George Soros, but it's true. The man is one
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Speaker 2: of several liberal groups responsible for paying these protesters. These
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Speaker 2: people come out, they're the same people you could go online.
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Speaker 2: There are a couple of people on YouTube who make
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Speaker 2: it a point showing video from different protests around the country,
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Speaker 2: all different causes they're protesting for and against, and you
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Speaker 2: will see the same faces time and time and time again.
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Speaker 2: I mean literally, this guy has he'll show a montage
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Speaker 2: of twenty different I don't want to promote a specific
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Speaker 2: YouTube channel. That's why I'm not saying his name. He's
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Speaker 2: a young man, probably in his twenties, and he shows
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Speaker 2: montages of like ten, fifteen, twenty different protests, same couple
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Speaker 2: of people in every protest, and usually they're the leaders,
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Speaker 2: the head of agitators. And if he pulls people aside
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Speaker 2: and ask have you been paid for this? And they
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Speaker 2: start to answer, then right away the organizers pull them
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Speaker 2: away and don't let them answer the question, try to
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Speaker 2: force out the interviewer. It's a joke, you know, But
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Speaker 2: the problem is mainstream media doesn't want to take that
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Speaker 2: extra step to confirming that these are legitimate protesters, and
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Speaker 2: it just is good television to show a bunch of people,
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Speaker 2: show a tight shots to make it look like there's
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Speaker 2: tens of thousands of people when it might be fifty
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Speaker 2: or one hundred protesting. I mean, hey, I had on
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Speaker 2: this show when I was filling in for Mark Simon.
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Speaker 2: I had one of the rent to protester people on
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Speaker 2: the show, a guy who makes his living hiring people
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Speaker 2: to go out and show up at protests. He pays
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Speaker 2: them hundreds of dollars a day. That's not a bad idea.
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Speaker 2: Actually he pays them hundreds of Now, one thing he
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Speaker 2: always says is I don't hire people who don't agree
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Speaker 2: with the protest just to go protest and make the money.
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Speaker 2: They have to agree with it, and then they want
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Speaker 2: to protest and then I'll pay them. They don't get
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Speaker 2: their money until they actually complete the protests. He shows
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Speaker 2: up any videotapes. But the fact is this is paid
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Speaker 2: it is not organic. And the mass mass media sadly
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Speaker 2: does not do their jobs. They are negligent in their
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Speaker 2: duties when they don't show you and tell you that
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Speaker 2: the vast majority of the people protesting are not organic.
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Speaker 2: They didn't just join because they were upset, They were
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Speaker 2: paid and it was organized. All right, there you go.
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Speaker 4: Here again is Ken Rosato.
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Speaker 2: So nice to be with you on a beautiful Friday,
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Speaker 2: and a guy I'm sure has great weekend plans. I
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Speaker 2: saked to him. Now, Vincent and Brooklyn, good morning.
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Speaker 5: Sir, Good morning Ken. Could you hear me?
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Speaker 2: I can hear you? Agree?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna probably go down to the show, Kevin.
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Speaker 5: What I wanted to talk about is in Bologna, Italy
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Speaker 5: right now, these past two nights, they're going through their
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Speaker 5: same George Floyd's. Apparently what happened is this Arabian man
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Speaker 5: who lived in this housing complex was having a psychotic
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Speaker 5: episode at going around to all the people's doors in
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Speaker 5: the banging on their doors, garagers, screaming stuff, yelling just nonsense,
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Speaker 5: then laying on the floor spitting around geb The guy
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Speaker 5: was obviously either on drugs or psychotic, so they called
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Speaker 5: the police, and one of the cops was smart. Even
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Speaker 5: though in Italy they don't require the cops to wear
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Speaker 5: body cameras, this guy bought one from the police supplies
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Speaker 5: in the United States, and this is what's vindicating him.
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Speaker 5: So it shows the police getting out of the car
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Speaker 5: going over to the guy trying to talk to him.
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Speaker 5: The guy's going off, So then they went to put
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Speaker 5: the plastic cancuffs behind the guy just to take him
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Speaker 5: to the hospital. The guy's going crazy. It took three
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Speaker 5: people to get him down. The guy starts going into arrest. Immediately,
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Speaker 5: the ambulance comes with the mess personnel and they're working
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Speaker 5: on the guy. The guy try and revive him. And
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Speaker 5: even though the guy was crazy and he was on something,
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Speaker 5: the people over there are tearing up the place.
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Speaker 2: They're right and in fairness.
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Speaker 5: Mother who lives Morocco, says, the police executed my son.
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Speaker 5: She's trolled gasoline on the fire. And meanwhile all the
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Speaker 5: citizenry who live in the housing complex who took videos
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Speaker 5: with their cell phones are saying that's not the case
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Speaker 5: at all. The guy was going crazy, bringing down, vesting
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Speaker 5: off people's daughters and everything in vincent.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, it's right, just in fairness because my family,
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Speaker 2: my mother's side, comes from Amilia Romania. Bologna is communist.
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Speaker 2: It always has been. They are crazy. I mean they
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't set for it's a beautiful city, but they
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Speaker 2: are crazy comedies and they have been for over one
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Speaker 2: hundred years. I'm sorry, I just wanted to set that.
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Speaker 5: My friends who live in Milan, they called that the
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Speaker 5: red zone. Yeah, it is the red zone.
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Speaker 2: One of the reasons why my mother's family fled. They
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Speaker 2: wanted to get away from the gomutis they.
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Speaker 5: The versus Eeva till this day, the Communist party, it's
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Speaker 5: not no longer an official party in Italy, but in
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Speaker 5: all the bars and everything, you see the hammer and sickle,
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Speaker 5: the flags and everything. It's sick. I only went there once.
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Speaker 5: I went to the garden piazza majority to go to
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Speaker 5: the museums and do that, and then I got the
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Speaker 5: hell out of there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, otherwise they they they'll they'll start talking, they'll pick
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Speaker 2: your brain. I made the mistake once of answering a question.
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Speaker 2: Somebody said, so you know politically in the US, who
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Speaker 2: you support, and I stupidly talked about it, and that
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Speaker 2: was it. I gotta tak my god.
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Speaker 5: Try to put poison in your food.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, although the food is good, if they don't poison wonderful.
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Speaker 5: You go there, you look in the windows of the shops,
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Speaker 5: you see the old ladies rolling out the dough to
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Speaker 5: make the tortolini and everything it's fantastic. The food is great.
18:50
Speaker 2: Just make sure they don't have a knife in their happens.
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Speaker 2: That's it, Vincent, You're awesome. Enjoy down the shore this weekend.
18:57
Speaker 2: It's perfect weather, buddy, I have a great we have.
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Speaker 5: A great good you did.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. Good bye bye, John and Norwalk.
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Speaker 3: Good morning to you, Good morning, Good morning, Ken.
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Speaker 2: How are you, sir?
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Speaker 6: I am I am well. And by the way, I
19:13
Speaker 6: think that you're doing a great job taking Mark's place
19:17
Speaker 6: while he's enjoying himself for the weekend.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. Nobody could take Mark's place.
19:22
Speaker 2: I'm just sitting in the seat to keep it warm,
19:24
Speaker 2: but I appreciate that.
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Speaker 6: Well, you're doing a great job. Anyway, I have I
19:29
Speaker 6: have one question, simple question, and if you have time,
19:32
Speaker 6: I have a great Knitt and Yahoo story. I'm just
19:36
Speaker 6: wondering with Mandami announcing that people should get out in
19:43
Speaker 6: the streets. If Net and Yahoo comes to New York
19:46
Speaker 6: City and demonstrate if something happens to him, if something
19:51
Speaker 6: happens to people, if buildings start getting burned, cars start
19:55
Speaker 6: getting overturned, that kind of thing, wouldn't he be responsible
19:59
Speaker 6: for this?
20:00
Speaker 7: I mean, they try to pin.
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Speaker 6: The insurrection on Trump falsely, wouldn't that be about basically
20:10
Speaker 6: the same thing?
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Speaker 2: Well, you would think, but it can't be. Elected officials
20:13
Speaker 2: are immune from that. But yeah, you would think if
20:16
Speaker 2: the person is out there egging it on, I mean,
20:19
Speaker 2: isn't that inciting a riot potentially? I mean he could
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Speaker 2: always say no, I was just advising people to go
20:24
Speaker 2: out and exercise their freedom of speech. That would be
20:27
Speaker 2: his defense. But yes, you and I know differently that
20:33
Speaker 2: literally is pouring gas on a fire and he wants,
20:37
Speaker 2: I think, in the back of his mind he wants
20:38
Speaker 2: to recreate the summer of twenty twenty and see it
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Speaker 2: all over again, and God forbid, we don't want.
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Speaker 5: To see that.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you're absolutely right. And I just think
20:48
Speaker 6: he's really just a horrible person. Thank God. I don't
20:52
Speaker 6: live in New York, but I do live in Connecticut unfortunately,
20:55
Speaker 6: So it's you know which one is worse? Would you
20:59
Speaker 6: like to hear my quick?
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Speaker 2: Can you do it in like thirty seconds? Because then
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Speaker 2: we had to go to commercial Jan sure.
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Speaker 6: I can A long long time ago, Netta, who was
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Speaker 6: I believe it was the Defense Minister? And Wolf Blitzer
21:13
Speaker 6: from CNN was doing an interview with him, and at
21:17
Speaker 6: that time, while he was doing the interview, they started
21:21
Speaker 6: getting rocket attacks or mortar attacks, whatever it was. And Netta,
21:27
Speaker 6: who stood there, he wasn't really moving, and wolf Blitzer
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Speaker 6: jumped underneath the table. I mean he was really scared.
21:34
Speaker 6: And Netta, who had that grin on his face, and
21:37
Speaker 6: he said, mister Blitzer, you have to understand, in Israel,
21:41
Speaker 6: diplomacy is a contact sport. And I loved Netta who
21:46
Speaker 6: ever since, ever since I heard him say that, I
21:48
Speaker 6: thought it was wonderful.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he put his money where his mouth is.
21:51
Speaker 2: They all served in the military. They know what it's like.
21:54
Speaker 2: Maybe there's something to that that we should all think about.
21:56
Speaker 2: Remember when every president at some point served in the military.
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Speaker 6: That's it, that's right. I served in the Middle I
22:03
Speaker 6: was in there for a smitic and I didn't you
22:05
Speaker 6: know my year in Vietnam.
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Speaker 2: God. Well, thank you for your service, sir. I appreciate it,
22:11
Speaker 2: and we appreciate the phone call. Thank you John and Norwalk,
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Speaker 2: Thank you Ken. I have a good weekend. We're gonna
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Speaker 2: take we got a few seconds here, Let's go to
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Speaker 2: Edin Huntington.
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Speaker 4: Hello, Ed, Hey, good morning.
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Speaker 7: Just wanted to touch on the shooting you were just
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Speaker 7: talking about. I was a New York City police sergeant
22:28
Speaker 7: thirty six years wow. And someone one said to me,
22:30
Speaker 7: why don't you I don't understand why you guys don't
22:32
Speaker 7: shoot at people's legs. I said, you're right, you don't understand.
22:36
Speaker 7: I said, the thread is a gun, a knight, but
22:38
Speaker 7: that I'm looking at the thread and I'm going to
22:40
Speaker 7: miss his legs. The nice place to shoot is set
22:43
Speaker 7: a mask. That's how you stop them play.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, my dad was a cop. My dad was he
22:46
Speaker 2: was Westchester County Police, so they didn't see the action
22:49
Speaker 2: you would have seen. But yeah, he said, that's what
22:52
Speaker 2: you shoot at the biggest target. So that if that's
22:54
Speaker 2: their stomach, their chest, that's what you're going on. You
22:56
Speaker 2: don't you don't hope you'll hit their left toe, because
22:59
Speaker 2: then you're gonna this uh yeah.
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Speaker 7: Right, you know what you can't. I'm gonna tell you,
23:03
Speaker 7: gotta look at the gun. Night. Whatever you do with you,
23:06
Speaker 7: you gotta look at the bread. Joe.
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Speaker 2: Your job is to stop the force. Your job is
23:10
Speaker 2: to stop what's happening right then, it's not to let's
23:13
Speaker 2: inflict the least amount of harm. If you're gonna pull
23:15
Speaker 2: your gun and shoot, there's a reason for it. And
23:17
Speaker 2: it's not about uh, well, let's hope he'll get scared
23:19
Speaker 2: by it. That's not the point. It's to neutralize the yeah,
23:23
Speaker 2: the actor in case. So thank you very much, Ed,
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Speaker 2: and thank you for your service as a sergeant. We
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Speaker 2: appreciate you.
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Speaker 7: Thank you. Have a great weekend.
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Speaker 2: You two all right. Seventy ten wo r the Voice
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Speaker 2: of New York A beautiful Friday, and this is Ken
23:37
Speaker 2: Rossotto in for Mark. Coming up next, we're going to
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Speaker 2: talk with Brent Johnson, the politics reporter for NJ Advanced Media,
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Speaker 2: about New Jersey Governor Mikey Cheryl's recent admission that at
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Speaker 2: least sixty six hundred illegal aliens were registered to vote.
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Speaker 2: At least four hundred actually did.
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Speaker 4: It's The Mark Simone Show.
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Speaker 1: Live from the woor Life Bax Studios, guest hosting for
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Speaker 1: Mark today.
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Speaker 4: Here's Ken Rosatto and so nice.
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Speaker 2: To be with you on a beautiful Friday. You know,
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Speaker 2: Brent Johnson is the politics reporter for Njadvanced Media. That's
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Speaker 2: NJ dot Com and the New York Star Alledger and
24:12
Speaker 2: they have a Trenton newspaper Jersey City. They're a monster
24:16
Speaker 2: in a good way for New Jersey. And he's here
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Speaker 2: to talk about New Jersey Governor Mikey Cheryl's recent admission
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Speaker 2: that at least sixty six hundred illegal aliens or illegal
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Speaker 2: migrants were in fact registered to vote in that at
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Speaker 2: least four hundred actually voted in local and federal elections
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four. First off,
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Speaker 2: let's say good morning to Brent.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, thanks for having me.
24:40
Speaker 4: So nice to have you on and all the.
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Speaker 2: Years that I've been a New Jersey resident and an
24:45
Speaker 2: anchor reporter in New York City and now back in
24:47
Speaker 2: New Jersey. I feel terrible that we've never crossed paths.
24:50
Speaker 2: But it's nice to actually get to speak to you.
24:52
Speaker 3: On the air.
24:52
Speaker 2: Here our mutual friend. We have a very good friend,
24:56
Speaker 2: Tom bergeron who said, no, I got the guy you
24:58
Speaker 2: got to talk to. I want to Tom. I was like, no, no, no, no, no,
25:01
Speaker 2: you said I got I got the right guy here.
25:03
Speaker 2: But so Brent, first of all, why do you think
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Speaker 2: Governor Cheryl released this information?
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Speaker 8: Now, that's a great question, that's that's one of the
25:12
Speaker 8: many questions that are surrounding this whole thing.
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Speaker 3: Basically, people who I spoke to who know.
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Speaker 8: Her say that she learned of this and instead of
25:20
Speaker 8: keeping it silent, which might have been more politically expedient,
25:23
Speaker 8: she you know, wanted to She had military training until
25:26
Speaker 8: you have to be Transparentcy goes along to her campaign
25:28
Speaker 8: promises of being upfront and that, you know, especially all
25:31
Speaker 8: that's going on in the national debate over election integrity,
25:34
Speaker 8: that it was the right thing to do to come forward.
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Speaker 3: That's what people around her say.
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Speaker 8: But yeah, there are even some who go that she
25:41
Speaker 8: she even if this didn't happen under her attenure, now
25:43
Speaker 8: she owns this issue and that that's going forward.
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Speaker 3: That's going to be interesting to see how she walks
25:48
Speaker 3: this tightrope.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, yes, it makes sense. It's to get
25:51
Speaker 2: ahead maybe of the US government and then the Save
25:54
Speaker 2: America Act. But now doesn't that kind of give the
25:57
Speaker 2: Republicans in the Save America Act exactly what they were
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Speaker 2: looking for? Now they could say, hey, look, don't take
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Speaker 2: our word for it. Governor Cheryl in New Jersey said
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Speaker 2: sixty six hundred people were registered. So for all the
26:08
Speaker 2: people who say no illegal migrants don't get to register.
26:11
Speaker 2: Well they did.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, and Democrats are privately lamenting this even publicly, that
26:18
Speaker 8: this gives fuel to the Republican arguments and that for
26:21
Speaker 8: years the discussion has been that, you know, statistics show
26:24
Speaker 8: voter fraud is very widespread, voter fraud is very rare,
26:28
Speaker 8: and that this, you know, gives a little bit of
26:30
Speaker 8: credence to their argument. Whether now you also hear democrats
26:34
Speaker 8: say that they're exploiting this, that this is a small
26:37
Speaker 8: set of numbers that she released. But yeah, this definitely
26:40
Speaker 8: intensifies the debate, and it makes it harder for Democrats
26:43
Speaker 8: to push back.
26:44
Speaker 2: And just everybody might make sure everybody knows because this
26:47
Speaker 2: is radio. I always forget for my TV days, Brent,
26:50
Speaker 2: where people could see whom I'm talking to. I want
26:52
Speaker 2: to remind everyone. This is Brent Johnson, the politics reporter
26:55
Speaker 2: for NJ Advanced Media, and we're talking about New Jersey
26:57
Speaker 2: Governor Mikey Cheryl's recent admission that at least sixty six
27:01
Speaker 2: hundred illegal migrants were in fact registered to vote. And
27:05
Speaker 2: by the way, I'm Ken Roztto went for the great
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Speaker 2: Mark Simon on this wonderful Friday. So the other question is,
27:10
Speaker 2: and this is something I'm sure is being looked into.
27:13
Speaker 2: The individuals who registered to vote. Were they the actual
27:18
Speaker 2: people who voted, or did somebody with more nefarious intentions
27:23
Speaker 2: have them register and took those names and cast the
27:26
Speaker 2: ballots themselves. That's something we don't really know yet, do
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Speaker 2: we no.
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Speaker 8: And there's a lot of open ended questions here about
27:33
Speaker 8: things we don't know. And the state is conducting an
27:35
Speaker 8: internal investigation, and Republicans are calling for a independent probe,
27:40
Speaker 8: and the US Justice Department is also conducting investigation. So
27:43
Speaker 8: there's a lot of people looking into this and there's
27:45
Speaker 8: many things we probably will learn a slow drip of
27:47
Speaker 8: news as this comes out. Yeah, I mean, basically, what
27:50
Speaker 8: they said was that six hundred people non citizens were
27:54
Speaker 8: registered and four hundred of those went on to cast ballots.
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Speaker 8: Cheryl said that it's Democrats, Republicans and affiliated voters and
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Speaker 8: it stretches all across New Jersey, but that four hundred
28:04
Speaker 8: took this case, but we don't know who this four
28:05
Speaker 8: hundred are. They have not released those identities. Cheryl said
28:08
Speaker 8: she's not going to give the Department of Justice those
28:10
Speaker 8: identities either, because the thought is now that someone might
28:13
Speaker 8: get prosecuted, and Cheryl said that would be hypocrisy if
28:16
Speaker 8: they did so. But the Trump administration is saying, you know,
28:19
Speaker 8: they broke the law and we have to go after them.
28:21
Speaker 8: So yeah, we're gonna keep learning more about this. This
28:24
Speaker 8: is one of those things where there's we know a little,
28:26
Speaker 8: but there's probably more we don't know, and we'll find
28:29
Speaker 8: out when it happens.
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Speaker 2: And you know, there are over thirty states and or
28:33
Speaker 2: there are thirty states and the District of Columbia not
28:36
Speaker 2: willing to share their voter roles with the Department of Justice,
28:39
Speaker 2: and included among those thirty states Republican states too, So
28:43
Speaker 2: it's not strictly a Democrat state thing in terms of
28:47
Speaker 2: refusing to submit that information. What do you think that is?
28:49
Speaker 2: What is what is there to lose for a state
28:53
Speaker 2: to share their voter roles with the federal government.
28:55
Speaker 3: That's a good that's a good question.
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Speaker 8: This is this is a touchy topic and always has been,
29:00
Speaker 8: you know, election integrity. You know, you have all the
29:02
Speaker 8: questions about voter ID and it's you know, it's it's
29:06
Speaker 8: one thing where it's a it's considered a right in
29:08
Speaker 8: the Constitution that people have a right to vote, and
29:10
Speaker 8: you want to make sure as many people can partician
29:13
Speaker 8: as possible, and you don't want to suppress any of
29:15
Speaker 8: those votes. So I believe there are probably some states
29:18
Speaker 8: who believe that the integrity elections mean they should hold
29:21
Speaker 8: onto the roles. This is a state's rights issue. So
29:24
Speaker 8: it's not a cut and dry thing. It's you know,
29:26
Speaker 8: it's one of those things where there are strong opinions
29:29
Speaker 8: on either side, and it seems to be that's the
29:31
Speaker 8: case in politics to lot these days, is that there
29:34
Speaker 8: is no middle ground. That people stand to their stands,
29:38
Speaker 8: to their own side, and this is one of those
29:39
Speaker 8: topics that's just a heavy debate.
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Speaker 2: Seven to ten w O are the Voice of New
29:43
Speaker 2: York Can Rosatto in for the Great Mark Simone on
29:46
Speaker 2: a Friday, And there are numbers that range from one
29:51
Speaker 2: hundred to one hundred and fifty thousand possible illegal migrants
29:54
Speaker 2: throughout the country who may be improperly registered to vote,
29:58
Speaker 2: and is high in one case, and this I think
30:01
Speaker 2: is a little extreme on the high end, but of
30:03
Speaker 2: up to four million, and that was from one organization
30:07
Speaker 2: that is admittedly more right wing, and they've set as
30:10
Speaker 2: many as four million, basing it on the numbers of
30:13
Speaker 2: states where illegal migrants tend to settle, and those states
30:17
Speaker 2: almost entirely are states where it doesn't matter what your
30:21
Speaker 2: legal status is. You can get a driver's license, and
30:23
Speaker 2: those states automatically allow you to register to vote when
30:28
Speaker 2: you get your driver's license. So now, of course, the
30:30
Speaker 2: big argument is do we now make it illegal or
30:33
Speaker 2: at least change the rules so that you're not automatically
30:37
Speaker 2: or do you don't have the automatic opportunity to register
30:41
Speaker 2: to vote when you get your driver's license.
30:43
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, this goes back, this issue goes back that
30:46
Speaker 8: six or seven years. This is under former Governor Phil Murphy.
30:50
Speaker 8: He signed two laws around the same time that Republicans
30:53
Speaker 8: warned about. One allows undocumented immigrants to get driver's license,
30:58
Speaker 8: which supporters say for the safety of everyone's driving, to
31:01
Speaker 8: make sure that everyone's license on the road. And to
31:05
Speaker 8: the law that automatically registers people to vote once they
31:09
Speaker 8: apply for a driver's license, which is supporters say, you know,
31:12
Speaker 8: opens up democracy and makes it easier to register and
31:16
Speaker 8: takes one of those hurdles away. But Republicans said that
31:18
Speaker 8: this is a this is a gonna be open season
31:21
Speaker 8: for the possibility of fraud. Here and they said they've
31:24
Speaker 8: been vindicated now that that basically their fears have been confirmed.
31:28
Speaker 8: So they say they want to automatically or immediately suspend
31:32
Speaker 8: automatic voter registration install.
31:35
Speaker 3: Voter ID laws.
31:36
Speaker 8: And the problem is that Republicans or their lowest number
31:38
Speaker 8: they've ever been in Trenton and that Democrats are in control.
31:41
Speaker 8: Democrats had basically said, the ones who control the legislature
31:44
Speaker 8: that they're waiting for any investigation to play out before
31:46
Speaker 8: they take out their steps.
31:48
Speaker 3: So right now it's just a lot of talk.
31:50
Speaker 8: But you know, again, this lends fuel to the argument
31:54
Speaker 8: you're going to hear Republicans continue to use this as
31:57
Speaker 8: a cudgel.
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Speaker 5: Man.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure this is not going away any time soon,
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Speaker 2: but we could talk about it on and on. He's
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Speaker 2: the politics reporter for NJ Advance Media. Brent Johnson, I
32:06
Speaker 2: appreciate you coming on the Mark Simone Show this morning.
32:08
Speaker 2: Thanks so much, my pleasure. Thank you for having me
32:11
Speaker 2: you bet, Brent, have a great day. This is Ken
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Speaker 2: Rosotto Infra. Mark on your Friday. When we come back,
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Speaker 4: What's your name, sir, Well, my name is Kenny.
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Speaker 5: You're Ken.
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Speaker 6: That's why I said that.
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Speaker 5: But you're great.
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Speaker 9: You're a great villain, You're great personal. They love it.
33:00
Speaker 9: But listen, I know you're not going to agree with me,
33:02
Speaker 9: but folks, legal immigration has got to come to an end.
33:05
Speaker 9: Millions of Third worlds have come in and turn this
33:08
Speaker 9: country upside down. They rearrange the furniture, legally coming in
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Speaker 9: every single day. And also listen, let's face the facts
33:15
Speaker 9: about this invasion. It's not going to stop unless the
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Speaker 9: people demand that it comes to an end.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So now the question really becomes, why do some
33:25
Speaker 2: people agree with it, and why not, so legal immigration.
33:29
Speaker 2: You can't not have legal immigration. We always have had
33:32
Speaker 2: some legal immigration right in the city or in the country.
33:36
Speaker 2: I should say. There was a number of years from
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Speaker 2: the thirties to the sixties or twenties to the sixties
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Speaker 2: where we were only allowing fifty thousand people a year
33:44
Speaker 2: to come in from Europe, and the purpose of that
33:47
Speaker 2: was to limit the immigration, so the immigration so that
33:50
Speaker 2: it wasn't an all europe West country, and so we
33:55
Speaker 2: started allowing people from South America in as opposed to Europe.
33:58
Speaker 2: So what a lot of Europeans would was they were
34:01
Speaker 2: migrating from European countries to South American countries in order
34:05
Speaker 2: to eventually come to the United States. Had a lot
34:08
Speaker 2: of relatives myself, and they came that way. And that's
34:11
Speaker 2: why if you go to Argentina, there's so many Italians there,
34:14
Speaker 2: and Uruguay and Paraguay. You have Germans there and Spaniards,
34:18
Speaker 2: and many of them went there not to settle there,
34:20
Speaker 2: but with the intention of eventually coming to the US
34:23
Speaker 2: and found out those were very nice countries and they
34:25
Speaker 2: stayed there. But if you go down to Argentina today
34:28
Speaker 2: and you'll see every restaurant. Every other restaurant is an
34:32
Speaker 2: Italian restaurant. Everyone's name is like Panuzzi and Vallacci and whatnot.
34:36
Speaker 2: Yet they're speaking Spanish, but they all have Italian names.
34:41
Speaker 2: Between fifty and seventy percent. I believe of Argentinians draw
34:45
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