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Hour 2: Crime in New York. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Now nine till noon weekdays. The Mark Simone Show on 710WOR.
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Speaker 2: Guest hosting for Mark today.
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Speaker 1: Here's Ken Rosato. And it's good to be with you.
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Speaker 1: Love listening to Mark myself. I was listening to him yesterday, yesterday,
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Speaker 1: the day before, and I was trying to text him.
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Speaker 1: It's funny. I hate to text him when he's on
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Speaker 1: the air because I don't like getting texted when I'm
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Speaker 1: on the air. But I heard him talking about somebody
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Speaker 1: had called in talking about Phil Collins. Izzy, you remember
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Speaker 1: the phone call, right? Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: So they had said there was a news anchor and
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Speaker 1: the person suggested it was Sue Simmons. Sue Simmons would
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Speaker 1: not be dating Phil Collins for about 100 different reasons.
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Speaker 1: But it was Dana Tyler, I believe, who went. And
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Speaker 1: Dana Tyler, by the way, is one of the nicest
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Speaker 1: human beings. I know I say that about a lot
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Speaker 1: of people. Dana Tyler is truly one of the nicest
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Speaker 1: people you could ever meet. But I know when they
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Speaker 1: broke up, that was tough. She took some time off
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Speaker 1: from Channel 2 because it impacted her so much. And
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Speaker 1: she used to fly to Switzerland, I believe. He had
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Speaker 1: a chalet in Switzerland. She would fly back and forth
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Speaker 1: on her dime to spend time with him. And it
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Speaker 1: turns out, I believe the story goes, the woman whom
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Speaker 1: he divorced and then started dating Dana Tyler afterwards, He
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Speaker 1: then broke up with Dana and went back to the
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Speaker 1: woman whom he had divorced and they got married again,
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Speaker 1: I believe. And then I think they got divorced again,
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Speaker 1: if I'm right. But everybody has their own story, so
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Speaker 1: I'm not judging. But I know that Dana went through
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Speaker 1: a lot. Dana is one of the loveliest people you
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Speaker 1: will ever meet in the business. Anybody who knows her,
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Speaker 1: you won't have a person arguing with me on that. Just, well,
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Speaker 1: she went through a lot. Anyway, that's just That's just
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Speaker 1: from my end of it, having known Dana for years.
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Speaker 1: She's just a great person. 800-321-0710 is the number to
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Speaker 1: call if you'd like to take part in our conversation today.
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Speaker 1: We talked about... I know the NYPD is pushing the
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Speaker 1: fact that they had the safest summer for shooting incidents,
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Speaker 1: shooting victims, and murders in recorded history. They talked about
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Speaker 1: the one little thing. And by the way, I'm a
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Speaker 1: big fan of Commissioner Tisch. I'm a big fan.
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Speaker 3: I remember.
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Speaker 1: The first day Commissioner Tisch appeared on a news conference,
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Speaker 1: at a news conference on TV. I was at Channel 7.
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Speaker 1: I was anchoring the morning show. This was going back.
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Speaker 1: For those who don't realize, I was the morning anchor,
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Speaker 1: morning and midday, for 20 years at Channel 7. I'm
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Speaker 1: no longer with them, but I had great years there.
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Speaker 1: I was anchoring the morning show, and Commissioner Tisch was
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Speaker 1: at the time the commissioner of the Department of Sanitation.
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Speaker 1: And it was a snow day, and I looked, and
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Speaker 1: right away, I must confess, I judged, oh, it's a tish.
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Speaker 1: It's one of the millionaires. All right, she probably got
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Speaker 1: her job through nepotism or connections and whatever. And right away,
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Speaker 1: I was ready to judge her in my mind. Of course,
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Speaker 1: I didn't say it on the air. And then she
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Speaker 1: comes up to the microphone, and I was instantly impressed
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Speaker 1: by how sharp this person was and realized, no, shut up, Rosado.
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Speaker 1: This woman knows exactly what she's doing. And I know
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Speaker 1: not everybody in the NYPD is a big fan, but
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Speaker 1: there are a lot who are. And I could see why.
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Speaker 1: I mean, she has gone to bat. Look, she is
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Speaker 1: as much pro-cop as you're going to get, especially under
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Speaker 1: this administration. And she, from an administrative point of view
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Speaker 1: and just a New Yorker point of view, I think
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Speaker 1: Commissioner Tisch is pretty darn good. So I'm not criticizing
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Speaker 1: her when I talk about this. But you can't deny...
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Speaker 1: when you talk about the fact that major crime fell 6.6%
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Speaker 1: citywide in August down more than 5,000 reported crimes a
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Speaker 1: year to date. Okay. What is the connection to something
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Speaker 1: greater that we're not talking about here? Because New York
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Speaker 1: city and New York state refused to talk about it.
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Speaker 1: The fact that 6,200 illegal migrants were arrested in New
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Speaker 1: York city in the last year. And in fact, between 12,
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Speaker 1: depending on the statistic you look at, because the NYPD
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Speaker 1: doesn't want to give these statistics, the federal government says
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Speaker 1: between 12 and 40% of those people who were arrested
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Speaker 1: by ICE in New York City were responsible for aggravated
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Speaker 1: felonies or multiple felony convictions. So if it is 6,200
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Speaker 1: people and it's 40%, that's 2,400 or so, 2,400 and change.
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Speaker 1: who had aggravated felonies or multiple felony convictions. Well, you
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Speaker 1: pull 2,400 people out of the mix. Mark talks about
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Speaker 1: it all the time, that his connections at the NYPD
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Speaker 1: say about 3,000 or 4,000 people are responsible for the
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Speaker 1: vast majority of severe crimes in New York. You get
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Speaker 1: rid of those people, you lock them up, which people
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Speaker 1: like Alvin Bragg don't want to do. You lock those
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Speaker 1: people up, crime will be almost non-existent because the majority
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Speaker 1: of the 9 million or 8.5 million people living in
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Speaker 1: New York Just want to get up in the morning,
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Speaker 1: go to work, take care of their kids, come home,
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Speaker 1: have their dinner, go to bed.
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Speaker 3: That's it.
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Speaker 1: They just want to enjoy life. They don't want to be,
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Speaker 1: or maybe they're having a tough time and they've thought
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Speaker 1: of crime, but they have an edit button that prevents it.
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Speaker 1: But you have a handful of people to whom crime
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Speaker 1: is good. And these are the people that have to
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Speaker 1: be dealt with. And I'm not saying that everybody who
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Speaker 1: is an illegal migrant is a criminal. Clearly not. There
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Speaker 1: are tens of millions of illegal migrants here and only
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Speaker 1: a few thousand in New York who were arrested with felonies.
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Speaker 1: So it's just a small percentage of people. But nonetheless,
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Speaker 1: when you allow 20 million people into the United States
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Speaker 1: without vetting them and say, oh, in seven years, come
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Speaker 1: back to a court hearing. We'll talk about it then.
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Speaker 1: And just let them into the general population without knowing
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Speaker 1: anything about them. You don't know if they've had their shots.
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Speaker 1: Here you require Americans to have 72 vaccinations. You don't
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Speaker 1: even know if they had whooping cough vaccination. You know
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Speaker 1: nothing about them. But just let them in.
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Speaker 3: That's it.
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Speaker 1: And that's what happens. You then have people who mix
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Speaker 1: into various communities. And now you don't know which person
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Speaker 1: who is speaking Lithuanian. I'm just picking out a name,
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Speaker 1: a nationality and a language at random. Which person who's
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Speaker 1: speaking Lithuanian is a U.S. citizen and which person is not?
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Speaker 1: Because now you've let in X amount of Lithuanians across
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Speaker 1: the border who you never vetted. So they just mix
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Speaker 1: into a Lithuanian community. You don't know who's a citizen,
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Speaker 1: who isn't. And so that's the problem. And this was
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Speaker 1: done intentionally by the Democrats and by the Biden administration.
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Speaker 1: Biden was brain dead. Sorry, he was brain dead. He
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Speaker 1: just let the liberals who were around him do this.
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Speaker 1: And you had the people like Mayorkas lying to Congress
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Speaker 1: over and over again. I remember Fox News having a
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Speaker 1: split screen showing on one side Bill Malujan down at
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Speaker 1: the border in Texas with hundreds and hundreds at a
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Speaker 1: time of people, migrants coming across the border, just unchecked.
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Speaker 1: And then you had Mayorkas on the left side of
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Speaker 1: the screen testifying, saying the border is closed now. We
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Speaker 1: have not allowed anybody in. The border is closed. Nobody
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Speaker 1: is coming. And I'm like, who are you going to believe,
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Speaker 1: me or your own lion eyes? That's literally what it
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Speaker 1: came down to. You had thousands upon thousands of people
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Speaker 1: just streaming across every day, unchecked. And by the way,
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Speaker 1: we're not just talking Latinos here. Remember, there were Chinese
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Speaker 1: people who were coming across the border at San Diego.
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Speaker 3: Thousands.
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Speaker 1: Now, why would, let's see, I don't think we share
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Speaker 1: a border with China. So think about this. If you
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Speaker 1: could afford, and in communist China, they don't make a
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Speaker 1: whole hell of a lot of money a year. The
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Speaker 1: average person makes about $ 9, 000 a year, equivalent to American dollars.
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Speaker 1: So to get on a plane and fly, and I
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Speaker 1: think they need all sorts of government permission as communists
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Speaker 1: to fly out of the country. If you are a
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Speaker 1: military-aged male getting on a plane in China and you
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Speaker 1: want to come to the U.S., why don't you just
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Speaker 1: fly to the U.S.? Why are they flying to Mexico alone?
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Speaker 1: and then sneaking across the border from Mexico into the U.S.
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Speaker 1: For what purpose? Just because of better life? I highly
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Speaker 1: doubt that. If you're going to spend that money and
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Speaker 1: take that time and go through the motions of flying
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Speaker 1: into Mexico and then pay a mule to take you
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Speaker 1: up across the border and then they come across the
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Speaker 1: border at San Diego and then walk into the U.S.,
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Speaker 1: there's got to be some, I would think, nefarious reason
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Speaker 1: for that. But the Biden administration, do-do-do-do-do, look the other way,
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Speaker 1: just let them in. We don't know how many thousands
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Speaker 1: have come across or millions have come across. Again, we're
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Speaker 1: not talking just people who speak Spanish. And by the way,
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Speaker 1: before you think right away, I'm anti-Latino. I speak fluent Spanish.
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Speaker 1: I love the Spanish-speaking peoples of the world, of the
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Speaker 1: several dozen countries where they speak Spanish. I lived in
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Speaker 1: South Florida for years. I have relatives who live, we
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Speaker 1: have cousins in Argentina and Brazil. Brazil, of course, is
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Speaker 1: Portuguese speaking. But so don't get on my case about
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Speaker 1: Spanish speaking. I love Spanish, but I'm talking about people
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Speaker 1: coming here legally and people not legal. All right. And
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Speaker 1: the vast majority of people who speak Spanish in this
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Speaker 1: country are here legally and they work very, very hard.
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Speaker 1: And the ones that I know are pissed off at
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Speaker 1: the fact that you have others who came across illegally
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Speaker 1: and they're being given all the fruits of our labor
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Speaker 1: and allowed to come into this country and live life.
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Speaker 1: And we don't know what they bring with them, what baggage,
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Speaker 1: what criminality. We don't know. They could be perfectly great,
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Speaker 1: but they may not be. 800-321-0710, 800-321-0710. So getting back to, again,
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Speaker 1: the New York City statistics showing crime being down this
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Speaker 1: summer so much. Crime is down. First off, the summer's
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Speaker 1: not over yet. Secondly, and I hope it stays the
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Speaker 1: lowest in history. That's great. But look what just happened
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Speaker 1: in the last few days. You know, you have crazies
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Speaker 1: on the street in this city because the city, everything is,
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Speaker 1: everybody's full of empathy. Why would you want to put
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Speaker 1: these people in jail? Maybe because they have mental illness. Cisneros,
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Speaker 1: the woman who committed the crime, we're not going to
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Speaker 1: say allegedly, she's seen on multiple angles of video stabbing
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Speaker 1: or trying to stab the police. And the police say
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Speaker 1: that she stabbed the other two individuals, the one man
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Speaker 1: in his 60s who is still in the hospital and
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Speaker 1: the woman in her 30s, the bank exec. Just a
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Speaker 1: new mom, beautiful woman with a whole career and a
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Speaker 1: whole life and a family ahead of her. Married her
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Speaker 1: law school love. And they went to Fordham right here
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Speaker 1: in the city. And all she is guilty of doing
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Speaker 1: is coming out of the subway and walking on the
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Speaker 1: streets in Times Square. And she got stabbed. Why? And
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Speaker 1: where is the city? And where are the Alvin Braggs
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Speaker 1: of the world arresting, prosecuting, doing your damn job, you individual?
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Speaker 1: I was going to say, comment on his weight. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to stop because I used to be obese. But
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Speaker 1: Alvin Bragg, you need to do something, sir. Instead of
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Speaker 1: just putting out a manifesto saying that you're not going
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Speaker 1: to prosecute these 800 crimes, which crimes are you going
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Speaker 1: to prosecute, Al? Huh? When you got people who clearly
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Speaker 1: are mentally unstable, you don't have the asylums open up
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Speaker 1: and let them all out. There's got to be an answer.
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Speaker 1: Her own sibling, I think it's her brother, Cisneros' brother,
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Speaker 1: said that she's mentally unstable and oftentimes wouldn't take her meds. Well,
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Speaker 1: why didn't we know about that? And her mother said,
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Speaker 1: why didn't the police just try to grab her?
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Speaker 4: Really?
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Speaker 5: Really?
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Speaker 1: Because maybe she had two 12-inch kitchen knives and she
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Speaker 1: just murdered one person and stabbed another. Why should a
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Speaker 1: cop get stabbed as well? And somebody I heard say,
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Speaker 1: why didn't they shoot a pepper spray gun? I won't
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Speaker 1: say the brand on the air. pepper spray gun at
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Speaker 1: her and debilitate her and then grab her because if
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Speaker 1: a cop hits her with pepper spray then she's full
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Speaker 1: of pepper spray and and if it doesn't debilitate her
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Speaker 1: by the way she'll still come at the cop but
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Speaker 1: the cop then has a difficult time arresting her because
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Speaker 1: she'll be full of pepper spray the cop inhales that
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Speaker 1: too they don't you know i mean it works just
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Speaker 1: for a second but pepper spray is really meant for
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Speaker 1: the individual to get away from a bad situation So
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Speaker 1: that's why they tase you, not use pepper spray when
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Speaker 1: they try to arrest you, because then it makes it
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Speaker 1: difficult for the cop to come and cuff you because
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Speaker 1: you're full of pepper spray. Think about it. 800-321-0710, 800-321-0710.
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Speaker 1: So on Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed House Resolution 1490,
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Speaker 1: a non-binding resolution introduced by Congressman Jeff Crank of Colorado
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Speaker 1: in order to get on the record those individuals who
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Speaker 1: who support and those who denounce socialism in all its forms.
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Speaker 1: And the measure passed, thankfully, in a 220 to 192 vote.
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Speaker 1: Every single voting Republican supported it. Even eight Democrats supported it.
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Speaker 1: Two of the Democrats voted present. The resolution specifically targeted
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Speaker 1: the Democratic Socialists of America, and it opposed socialist policies
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Speaker 1: and included a call for the passage of the Save
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Speaker 1: America Act. But like clockwork, not only did the vast
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Speaker 1: majority of Democrats not vote to condemn socialism, but they
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Speaker 1: decided to condemn the small handful of Democrats who voted
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Speaker 1: along with Republicans in condemning socialism, specifically going after those
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Speaker 1: two Democrats, Congressman Jared Golden and Congresswoman Marie Glusenkamp-Perez, because
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Speaker 1: those two Democrats voted with Republicans on a procedural vote
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Speaker 1: that allowed the Republican leadership to then overall advance that
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Speaker 1: huge package. that went after socialism. So think about it.
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Speaker 1: A few years ago, all but a few people in
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Speaker 1: the House would have voted to condemn socialism. But this
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Speaker 1: is where we are, and the Democratic Party is today.
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Speaker 1: The Democrats know that their only chance at power is
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Speaker 1: jumping onto the Democrat-Socialist bandwagon. They know that their ideas
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Speaker 1: are old and tired, they don't work, and that the
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Speaker 1: only segment of their party getting any traction is the D.S.A.,
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Speaker 1: Because the DSA has been able to motivate young people
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Speaker 1: and excite them because young people apparently are too busy
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Speaker 1: on TikTok to learn history and see what socialism has done,
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Speaker 1: resulting in tens of millions of deaths around the world
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Speaker 1: through history. It has never worked. It has always, always
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Speaker 1: resulted in the destruction of a country. It has never worked.
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Speaker 1: It works great for the first year or two until
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Speaker 1: you run out of money. And then at that point,
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Speaker 1: everything collapses. If I were a Democrat, I would either
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Speaker 1: not vote at all or vote Republican. I don't know
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Speaker 1: how you vote for the Democratic Socialists at this point,
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Speaker 1: especially if you're Jewish. If you're a Jewish New Yorker
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Speaker 1: or Jewish American, how do you support the DSA with
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Speaker 1: their platform and their anti-Jewish and anti-Israel stance? Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: not just an anti-Israel stance. In many cases, it's an
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Speaker 1: anti-Jewish stance. I have many relatives who are Jewish, and
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Speaker 1: they tend to be Democrats in my family, those who
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Speaker 1: are Jewish and married into. But they are kind of
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Speaker 1: keeping quiet about whom they're going to vote for. And
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Speaker 1: my gut tells me they're either not going to vote
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Speaker 1: or they're going to vote Republican. But at this point,
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Speaker 1: we'd love to know what you have to say about it.
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Speaker 4: 800-321-0710.
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Speaker 3: 800-321-0710.
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Speaker 1: Ken Rosato in for Mark on your Thursday of Labor
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Speaker 1: Day weekend at 710WOR. This is the Mark Simone Show
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Speaker 1: on 710WOR. In for Mark today, here's Ken Rosato.
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Speaker 2: It's so nice to be with you on this Thursday
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Speaker 2: before Labor Day. My dear friend Bill Evans, our meteorologist
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Speaker 2: when I was at Channel 7.
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Speaker 1: 20 years. Every year at Labor Day, he would say,
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Speaker 1: and don't forget this, Labor Day. I don't know why
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Speaker 1: he used to pronounce it that way, but it is
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Speaker 1: now ingrained that whenever I hear the words Labor Day together,
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Speaker 1: I have to think of Bill Evans saying Labor Day.
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Speaker 1: So there you go. Shout out to Bill Evans. And
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Speaker 1: he's still around. He lives on the east end of
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Speaker 1: Long Island now, part-time and part-time in Manhattan still. Good guy.
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Speaker 4: 800-321-0710. 800-321-0710.
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Speaker 1: Let's get our busy phones. Joel in Connecticut. Hello, sir.
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Speaker 1: You are on the air.
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Speaker 6: Hello, Ken. I'm good to talk to you. I'm a
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Speaker 6: regular listener.
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Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 6: And I enjoy your show very much. I have to say,
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Speaker 6: as a regular listener, I was really shocked to hear
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Speaker 6: you agree with a 70-year-old male caller who matter-of-factly claimed
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Speaker 6: that the Jews killed Jesus. he stated that you kind
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Speaker 6: of passively agreed with him.
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Speaker 1: I must have missed that part of it. I didn't
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Speaker 1: hear that part.
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Speaker 6: Oh, yes, it made me hear in the back of
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Speaker 6: my neck stand up.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sorry. I'm going to go back and play
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Speaker 1: it back. I honestly did not hear that part.
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Speaker 6: I tell you, that's the oldest.
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Speaker 1: Of course. Joel, I was a Catholic priest. Believe me,
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Speaker 1: that is not something that we teach. So I apologize
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Speaker 1: for letting that pass. Had I heard that, I would
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Speaker 1: have jumped on that because I would not have let
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Speaker 1: that go. Let me just publicly say right now that
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Speaker 1: I apologize if you all heard that. Whether you heard
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Speaker 1: it or not, if that is in fact what was stated,
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Speaker 1: I apologize because that was not something.
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Speaker 3: That I heard.
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Speaker 6: I was so upset.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, I.
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Speaker 6: Welcome your apology, and I welcome your validation of the
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Speaker 6: fact that it was the biggest lie ever concocted. And
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Speaker 6: from that lie springs forth all the anti-Semitism.
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Speaker 1: Out of the world.
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Speaker 3: Of course. Of course it does.
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Speaker 5: Of course.
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Speaker 1: That's why I would have never let it happen, Joel. Please.
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Speaker 1: I married into a family. Both sides of my family.
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Speaker 1: We have Jews in my family.
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Speaker 3: We're all mixed.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, we're all mixed. We're all the same thing, for
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Speaker 6: heaven's sake. It's all politics other than that.
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Speaker 1: God made the Jews first, so the Christians can only
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Speaker 1: lay claim to our religion based on that.
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Speaker 6: First, you know, don't forget, the first shall be last,
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Speaker 6: and the meat shall inherit the earth, kid.
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Speaker 1: Joe, I hope you have the best Labor Day weekend,
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Speaker 1: my friend. I appreciate you listening and calling.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 1: And again, I'm sorry for upsetting you.
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Speaker 6: Jewish New Year as well.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: Amen. And thank you, sir. Happy New Year.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Joe.
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Speaker 1: Bye-bye.
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Speaker 4: 800-321-0710.
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Speaker 1: Robert in Westchester. Good morning, sir.
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Speaker 3: Good morning. Buongiorno. Come stai?
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Speaker 1: Molto bene.
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Speaker 3: Grazie.
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Speaker 5: Lei?
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Speaker 3: Bene, bene. So my discussion today is with the immigrants
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Speaker 3: or the illegal aliens that are coming into the country
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Speaker 3: and the left that constantly protects them. If you remember
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Speaker 3: when we had COVID and they kept on pushing us
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Speaker 3: to get the COVID shot because they said it's a
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Speaker 3: disease of the non-vaccinated and you're killing us and all
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Speaker 3: that other stuff. Yet just recently they were talking about
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Speaker 3: the the shot for or the vaccine for the measles
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Speaker 3: right and where do you think the measles come from
19:11
Speaker 3: they don't just spring forth from a river all of
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Speaker 3: a sudden all these diseases that we eradicated decades ago
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Speaker 3: are now starting to reappear robert.
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Speaker 1: You know how many times i've made this argument and
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Speaker 1: and i'm with you and and especially you know where
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Speaker 1: the measles uh occur more in than in any state
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Speaker 1: in the country in texas and you'd say ah it's
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Speaker 1: because of this that the anti-vaxxers No, because you have
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Speaker 1: more illegal migrants in Texas than any other state because
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Speaker 1: it's the first place they come over to across the river.
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Speaker 1: But if you bring that up to the medical community
19:42
Speaker 1: that tends to be a little more left of center,
19:44
Speaker 1: they will pounce on you and say, no, it's the
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Speaker 1: individual like the religious groups that refuse to be vaccinated.
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Speaker 1: Just all you have to do is step back and
19:54
Speaker 1: look at the timeline. When we started getting 10, 20
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Speaker 1: million illegal migrants, suddenly we had an increase in measles
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Speaker 1: cases because we don't know if these people had their shots.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, all these diseases. How did this all start? I said, well,
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Speaker 3: what do you think? All these people coming over the
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Speaker 3: border from all over the world, and they don't have
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Speaker 3: vaccinations like we do. But the point I'm bringing this
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Speaker 3: up is the Democrats will do anything to pounce on
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Speaker 3: the right, whether it's Trump, whether it's Bush, whether it
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Speaker 3: doesn't make a difference. They will find anything to throw
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Speaker 3: dirt at us. And now what they're doing to Robert Kennedy,
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Speaker 3: because they're saying, listen, just You know, use common sense
20:35
Speaker 3: or use some logic when administering vaccinations to your kids. Oh,
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Speaker 3: you're anti-vaccine. He's not saying that. He never said that.
20:43
Speaker 3: Just like this thing now, Ken, with the data centers.
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Speaker 3: Data centers have been in our country for years. Now
20:49
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, to me, it's a ploy. It's
20:52
Speaker 3: just another way for them to help the left win
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Speaker 3: around the world, like China, Russia. It's just another way,
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Speaker 3: an obstacle for them to stop our nation from staying
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Speaker 3: on the top. but but did democrats used are environmentalist
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Speaker 3: they use everything to throw garbage at us to stop
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Speaker 3: us from doing this that the other things like let's
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Speaker 3: take the whale figure well doesn't.
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Speaker 2: Will have a tree straight away right robert you forgot
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Speaker 2: about the trees remember they used to spike trees so
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Speaker 2: that if you want to cut down a tree if
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Speaker 2: you're a logger you would get killed the liberals and
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Speaker 2: radical environmentalists and and communists around the world throughout the
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Speaker 2: decades They're just nuts, and their only job is to
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Speaker 2: try to take down mainstream society.
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Speaker 1: Most people, whether they call themselves conservative or not, tend
21:38
Speaker 1: to be conservative. They want to raise their kids in
21:41
Speaker 1: a safe environment, work hard, earn the money, put food
21:44
Speaker 1: on the table, and just call it a day at
21:45
Speaker 1: the end of life. It's basically it. But people tend
21:49
Speaker 1: to think, look, if somebody confronts you, it's easier to
21:53
Speaker 1: talk liberal than it is to talk conservative. Because talking
21:57
Speaker 1: conservative involves an explanation. Talking liberal is a bumper sticker.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about?
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Speaker 3: I absolutely do. Ken, can I ask one last question?
22:06
Speaker 3: Thank you for letting me have a say. When you speak,
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Speaker 3: and you don't have to name names, but when you
22:11
Speaker 3: speak to the people who you used to work with, wherever,
22:14
Speaker 3: that were leftist broadcasters, and you say, let me ask
22:18
Speaker 3: you something, Joe Schmo, if they destroy the capitalist engine,
22:22
Speaker 3: the capitalist system, They start throwing monkey wrenches, and you
22:25
Speaker 3: start seeing deterioration in capital, in wealth. Does that make
22:30
Speaker 3: you happy? Does that reinforce your beliefs? I believe in
22:34
Speaker 3: the capitalist system. I'm not rich, never been, probably never
22:37
Speaker 3: will be. I don't hate Musk. I don't hate any
22:39
Speaker 3: of these people. To me, I'm happy they're around because
22:43
Speaker 3: it's because of them that we have a good quality
22:45
Speaker 3: of life.
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Speaker 1: And it gives me something to shoot for. It gives
22:48
Speaker 1: me something to shoot for. It gives me a dream.
22:51
Speaker 1: It's like, you know what? I may never be Santa Claus,
22:54
Speaker 1: but I don't hate Santa Claus. And I look at
22:56
Speaker 1: Santa Claus as the guy that might give me a gift.
22:58
Speaker 1: How about that? Is that a good analogy? I'm sorry?
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Speaker 3: You have children, do you not?
23:04
Speaker 1: I do not, but I have lots of nieces and nephews.
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Speaker 3: Okay, then I'll use that because the same with me.
23:11
Speaker 3: We were never blessed. But now you want them to
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Speaker 3: be successes. You want them to be like another Elon
23:16
Speaker 3: Musk or another J.P. Morgan or another, you know, whoever
23:19
Speaker 3: this this fella that they ran out of the city
23:21
Speaker 3: in New York because and they did that stupid Pierre
23:24
Speaker 3: Duterte tax to expose him. Expose what? Because he's successful.
23:28
Speaker 3: And that's what I that's what the people who are
23:31
Speaker 3: moderate and the independents. Please look at this. These people
23:34
Speaker 3: are are really wolves in sheep's clothing. They want to do.
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Speaker 1: All you got to do is look at the fact
23:40
Speaker 1: that since 9-11, 100 million people have been born. And
23:41
Speaker 1: those people don't have.
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Speaker 1: A grasp of history. They're young and they're easily, they're malleable.
23:53
Speaker 1: They're easily manipulated by the left. And we have given
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Speaker 1: away our education system to mold these young individuals. And
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Speaker 1: this is how you get a Mamdani elected in the
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Speaker 1: city of New York. Robert, I appreciate the phone call
24:05
Speaker 1: from my home county of Westchester, born and raised in
24:07
Speaker 1: New Rochelle. I appreciate you, my friend. Have a great
24:09
Speaker 1: Labor Day weekend.
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Speaker 3: You too.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Live from the WOR Life Facts Studios, The Mark Simone Show.
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Speaker 1: Guest hosting for Mark today, Ken Rosato.
24:22
Speaker 2: And so nice to be with you on a Thursday,
24:24
Speaker 2: the Thursday of Labor Day weekend.
24:26
Speaker 1: You are listening to The Mark Simone Show. We like
24:28
Speaker 1: to call it Friday Eve. How about that? Friday Eve.
24:32
Speaker 1: Ken Rosato filling in for Mark. And, you know, the
24:33
Speaker 1: economy seemed to be humming along pretty well a few
24:36
Speaker 1: months ago. Then came the conflict with Iran. It seemed
24:40
Speaker 1: to stall things. Job creation slowed. Gas prices increased. Grocery
24:44
Speaker 1: prices did not decrease, at least not to the extent
24:47
Speaker 1: that we were promised or expected. All this as the
24:51
Speaker 1: midterms are creeping up faster and faster. Yesterday, there was
24:54
Speaker 1: a big sell-off of the bonds. So where is the
24:57
Speaker 1: economy headed? Well, one of the best economists in all
25:01
Speaker 1: of America, co-founder of of the Club for Growth Distinguished
25:04
Speaker 1: Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, former Wall Street Journal Editorial
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Speaker 1: Board member, who served as Senior Economic Advisor to President
25:11
Speaker 1: Trump's 2016 campaign. And I do believe he's a friend
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Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ himself. We say good morning to Steve Moore.
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Speaker 3: Good morning thanks so much for the very nice introduction
25:23
Speaker 3: and uh by the way you call it friday i
25:25
Speaker 3: call it thursdays a practice friday oh no.
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Speaker 1: I i'm gonna borrow that i like that i like
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Speaker 1: that a lot so now you know better than anyone
25:34
Speaker 1: i mean i'm a novice at this but there was
25:36
Speaker 1: that big market sell-off uh bond market sell-off yesterday and
25:39
Speaker 1: that usually what suggests that investors expect higher interest rates
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Speaker 1: or inflation right.
25:43
Speaker 3: Yes that's exactly what not a good thing.
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Speaker 5: And No, but we have something in our hotline today.
25:49
Speaker 5: By the way, I hope everyone's getting that newsletter. Just
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25:54
Speaker 1: I hope you're getting that every morning. Yes, I do.
25:57
Speaker 3: I get it. But anyway, we have something you may
25:59
Speaker 3: not have gotten yet because it just got sent out
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Speaker 3: this morning just about an hour ago. But what I
26:04
Speaker 3: looked at was the current bond rate, the yield on
26:07
Speaker 3: the 10-year treasury over the last year, and it's up
26:11
Speaker 3: a lot. It's gone up from– Let's see, what are
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Speaker 3: we at now?
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Speaker 5: It's almost, what is it at now? I forget the number,
26:19
Speaker 5: but it's been rising. But if you look at the
26:22
Speaker 5: bond rate today on the 10-year, if you look at
26:25
Speaker 5: over the last 50 years, it's actually slightly below the
26:28
Speaker 5: average of the last. We're at 4.8% right now, and
26:32
Speaker 5: we may be headed to 5%, which is bad. We
26:35
Speaker 5: don't want to see interest rates rise because that means
26:37
Speaker 5: that the cost of everything from federal borrowing, and the
26:40
Speaker 5: United States government is the biggest borrower in the world,
26:43
Speaker 5: taking out a mortgage gets more expensive. And so I
26:47
Speaker 5: am concerned about that. But overall, I'm pretty.
26:52
Speaker 3: Bullish on this U.S. economy. I mean, the latest indications
26:55
Speaker 3: are that we're seeing a big boost in the economic
26:59
Speaker 3: output this quarter, both in manufacturing, construction, and investment, three
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Speaker 3: of the most important things we want in this country.
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Speaker 3: Our technology industries are doing amazing.
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Speaker 5: We lead the world in all of the high-tech areas.
27:14
Speaker 5: We have the best stock market in the world.
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Speaker 3: So, yeah. I mean, look, I get... By the way, yesterday,
27:21
Speaker 3: we have two cars, and one of them is an
27:22
Speaker 3: Audi that's a diesel car. And yesterday, I went to
27:25
Speaker 3: the service station. Now, it's not exactly the cheapest service
27:28
Speaker 3: station in the world, but you know what cost me
27:29
Speaker 3: to fill up my tank?
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Speaker 1: I'm afraid to ask.
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Speaker 3: A hundred bucks. Oh, jeez. A hundred bucks.
27:33
Speaker 1: What is it, like $ 6 a gallon now for diesel?
27:36
Speaker 3: Yes. Yep.
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Speaker 4: Yep.
27:37
Speaker 3: Wow. So, that's what we're at right now. So... Everybody
27:40
Speaker 3: wants to see gas prices come down.
27:43
Speaker 5: That will happen. By the way, there's no shortage of
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Speaker 5: oil in the world. We have massive amounts of oil.
27:47
Speaker 5: It's just the sticky problem we've got in the Middle East.
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Speaker 5: But overall, I feel like I actually think this may
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Speaker 5: be the beginning of a boom stage in the U.S.
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Speaker 5: economy as soon as we get those oil prices down.
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Speaker 1: And, of course, we have oil now in the low
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Speaker 1: 90s per barrel, right?
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Speaker 3: Don't say that.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
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Speaker 3: Sorry.
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Speaker 2: You just ruined my traffic Friday.
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Speaker 1: I know it had been 83 up until last week,
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Speaker 1: and it just kind of crept up. When I saw that,
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Speaker 1: my heart sank.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
28:18
Speaker 5: So, you know, you can look at what I do.
28:21
Speaker 5: This is a little tip for investors and just people
28:23
Speaker 5: want to know where their economy is headed. Every morning,
28:26
Speaker 5: and in fact, I'm delinquent, I didn't do it yet
28:28
Speaker 5: this morning, was to check what's happened to the global
28:31
Speaker 5: oil price. It was at 82. You're saying it's now
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Speaker 5: up to 90?
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Speaker 1: Is that Izzy or at the board, you say it's
28:36
Speaker 1: up to 92? Yeah, WTI 92. So there you go.
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Speaker 5: So that means, you know, we're going to see higher
28:44
Speaker 5: gas prices over the next couple of weeks because when
28:46
Speaker 5: the oil price goes up, obviously the gas price does.
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Speaker 3: So that concerns me. No question about it. But thank God,
28:51
Speaker 3: you know, we've got a president in the White House
28:53
Speaker 3: who says, drill, baby, drill. I mean, can you imagine
28:54
Speaker 3: how much the oil price would be if we weren't drilling?
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Speaker 3: Do you know we're the number one producer of oil
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Speaker 3: and gas in the world today?
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Speaker 1: We're exporting, right? More than anybody else. I mean, that's
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Speaker 1: an amazing thing.
29:04
Speaker 3: We export.
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Speaker 1: That's an amazing thing.
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Speaker 3: We actually produce more oil than we consume.
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Speaker 1: That's amazing. Now, here's the big question, though. Do you
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Speaker 1: see the economy correcting in time for the midterms?
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Speaker 3: It could be.
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Speaker 1: That doesn't sound very effective.
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Speaker 3: I would have said absolutely yes if you hadn't told
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Speaker 3: me we're at $ 92 a barrel on the oil price
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Speaker 3: right now. Sorry.
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Speaker 5: But a lot of it does depend on what happens
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Speaker 5: in the Middle East. And, you know, what I hope
29:33
Speaker 5: to see is that– You know, we have to be–
29:36
Speaker 5: one of the reasons I've been so much in favor of,
29:38
Speaker 5: you know, total American energy dominance, so we don't have
29:43
Speaker 5: to be dependent on the Middle East any longer. I mean,
29:45
Speaker 5: for most a year of my lifetime, the Middle East
29:48
Speaker 5: has been able to throw the whole world economy into
29:51
Speaker 5: recession and depression by just choking off the oil supply.
29:57
Speaker 5: I don't want us to ever be dependent again on
29:59
Speaker 5: Middle East oil.
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Speaker 1: I hear that. Nor should we ever, ever. And that's
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Speaker 1: why many in the Middle East are turning to other things,
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Speaker 1: tech sector and things like that, right? But the one thing,
30:08
Speaker 1: as much as people may look at our economy as
30:11
Speaker 1: potentially challenging, and you said, you point out that it's
30:14
Speaker 1: actually in much better shape than we're thinking, is that
30:17
Speaker 1: we're still better off than just about any other economy.
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Speaker 3: On Earth, right? Oh, for sure. I mean, I can't
30:24
Speaker 3: think of any major economy. There may be some small
30:26
Speaker 3: island economy that's doing.
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Speaker 5: Well that I'm not aware of. But if you look
30:29
Speaker 5: at all, if you look at the European countries, if
30:31
Speaker 5: you look at China, Japan, the UK, every other major
30:36
Speaker 5: country in the world, we're beating the pants off them.
30:39
Speaker 5: Our stock market is through the roof. Let's not forget,
30:41
Speaker 5: the stock market is through the roof. In fact, somebody
30:43
Speaker 5: just sent me a chart this morning. We have more
30:46
Speaker 5: millionaires in America today than ever before. And these are
30:50
Speaker 5: people used to be middle class people, but they invested
30:53
Speaker 5: in the market and now they have assets.
30:55
Speaker 3: Of worth more than a million dollars.
30:57
Speaker 5: And it's the numbers are just surging. So, you know,
31:00
Speaker 5: if you want to get rich in America, you obviously
31:02
Speaker 5: have to work and earn a good paycheck. But you
31:04
Speaker 5: have to then save and invest. And if you do that,
31:07
Speaker 5: you can become a millionaire in this country. Nowhere else
31:09
Speaker 5: in the world can you do that.
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Speaker 1: And we got about a minute left, Steve. I have
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Speaker 1: to let you touch on. I read your editorial on
31:13
Speaker 1: the Fox News Web site. about data centers and how
31:17
Speaker 1: we're being duped in many cases to think that all
31:19
Speaker 1: week not in my backyard but the dissenters are bring
31:22
Speaker 1: a bone economically duke to a local economy something.
31:26
Speaker 3: They they really do it and i uh... there's a
31:29
Speaker 3: story of this little uh.
31:30
Speaker 5: kind of rundown uh.
31:32
Speaker 3: dilapidated town and um... in a rural uh.
31:36
Speaker 5: washington state and you know everything was going to go
31:40
Speaker 5: in the wrong direction of these leaving and also made
31:42
Speaker 5: open data center also the jobs came in the construction
31:45
Speaker 5: Industry started to come back, and it rebuilt this little community.
31:49
Speaker 5: We could be doing that throughout America. I don't understand
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Speaker 5: your governor there, Kathy Hochul, saying we're going to outlaw
31:56
Speaker 5: data centers. By the way, the state already has 40
31:59
Speaker 5: data centers. I mean, data centers are the construction projects
32:03
Speaker 5: of the future. You know who are the biggest advocates
32:05
Speaker 5: of data centers right now?
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Speaker 1: Who's that?
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Speaker 4: China? China.
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Speaker 3: The unions.
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Speaker 1: I thought you meant outside of the country.
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Speaker 3: Where all the jobs are. Of course. I visited our
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Speaker 3: data center out in Loudoun County, Virginia, right outside of
32:17
Speaker 3: Dulles Airport in D.C. I've never seen so many construction.
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Speaker 1: Jobs in my life.
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Speaker 3: People say, oh, we need to bring back blue-collar jobs.
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Speaker 3: There they are.
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Speaker 1: And I heard that in Loudoun County, if they were
32:27
Speaker 1: to shut down all the data centers, everybody's property taxes
32:30
Speaker 1: would go up by, what, $ 6, 200 a year. That's how
32:33
Speaker 1: much they contribute to the economy.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so my feeling is if a community doesn't want
32:37
Speaker 5: a data center, they shouldn't build them there, but there
32:39
Speaker 5: are plenty. We have thousands of communities in this country
32:42
Speaker 5: that would love to have the jobs, love to have
32:44
Speaker 5: the new businesses, but we've got to build them because
32:49
Speaker 5: I wouldn't be talking to you right now. People say,
32:51
Speaker 5: I don't want data centers. I'm like, well, do you
32:53
Speaker 5: like the Internet?
32:54
Speaker 3: Do you like the GPS system you're using? Do you
32:56
Speaker 3: like using your cell phone? Do you like the fact
32:58
Speaker 3: that we have a military system that's based on our data?
33:03
Speaker 3: So we have to have them. It would be like saying, well,
33:06
Speaker 3: I want my lights to come on, but I don't
33:08
Speaker 3: want electric power.
33:09
Speaker 1: See, these are the same people who are against having
33:11
Speaker 1: cell towers, but yet they all wanted cell phone actors.
33:14
Speaker 1: Go out to the Hamptons. You will not find a
33:15
Speaker 1: cell tower, and everybody whines about the fact that there's
33:18
Speaker 1: no cell signal. Yeah, it's your fault because you refused
33:20
Speaker 1: to have one built. Steve Moore, economist extraordinaire. I could
33:23
Speaker 1: talk to you for hours, my friend. I always love
33:26
Speaker 1: hearing your voice, and now I'm so glad to get
33:27
Speaker 1: to talk to you. It's great to have you on today.
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Speaker 3: Thank you. Have a great weekend, folks. Labor Day weekend.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Steve.
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Speaker 3: All right.
33:35
Speaker 1: Have a great day. Thunderstorms today, though. Highs in the mid-80s,
33:38
Speaker 1: but nice for the weekend. That's a good thing. Ray
33:40
Speaker 1: Stajic saying you're going to have a gorgeous weekend for
33:43
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33:48
Speaker 1: On 710WOR. Guest hosting for Mark today. Here's Ken Rosato.
33:54
Speaker 2: And nice to be with you on this Thursday before
33:57
Speaker 2: Labor Day.
33:57
Speaker 1: We go to Jacqueline in Brooklyn. Good morning, Jacqueline.
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Speaker 4: Hi ken good morning i i i don't mark but
34:04
Speaker 4: i always enjoy when you fill in for him well.
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Speaker 1: Thank you i agree i love mark two and uh...
34:08
Speaker 1: i miss him when i'm on how about that because
34:10
Speaker 1: i'd like to listen to the reality to the podcast
34:13
Speaker 1: in the afternoon and uh... i miss him when i'm
34:15
Speaker 1: on how about that uh.
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Speaker 4: well that's good uh... you know earlier in the show
34:20
Speaker 4: you were talking about uh... how crime is down primarily
34:23
Speaker 4: due to those illegal uh... criminal element of immigrants that
34:28
Speaker 4: have been committing almost to the crime on is another
34:33
Speaker 4: factor that contributes to are the crime numbers being low
34:37
Speaker 4: I don't know that they're really accurate because I know
34:40
Speaker 4: in my precinct and I'm aware that this happens in
34:43
Speaker 4: other precincts as well they purposely do not report certain
34:47
Speaker 4: crimes I can tell you have a very specific incident
34:50
Speaker 4: that happened in my very neighborhood which is a very
34:52
Speaker 4: good neighborhood happened last month actually in July, and the
34:58
Speaker 4: captains of the precinct, they get promotions based on the
35:01
Speaker 4: crime stats being low.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. And we could get into this. We're unfortunately up
35:06
Speaker 1: against the news here. I wanted to get the call in,
35:08
Speaker 1: but you're 100% right. And so many things, so many
35:13
Speaker 1: misdemeanors don't get reported at all. They don't get written
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Speaker 1: down at all. And many minor felonies, if you will,
35:19
Speaker 1: if there's such a thing, get them down to misdemeanors
35:22
Speaker 1: just for that reason. Jacqueline in Brooklyn, I wish we
35:25
Speaker 1: had more time. Thank you, but you're absolutely right on that.
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Speaker 1: It's 11 o'clock now. You're listening to 710WOR.