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Speaker 1: Now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten woor filling
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Speaker 1: in for Mark, here's Ken Rosatto. Oh hello, hello, marcusov
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Speaker 1: today and enjoying a long weekend. Former New York City
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Speaker 1: TV news anchor Ken Rosatto reported for duty as I
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Speaker 1: stand and salute you all, fellow lover of seven ten
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Speaker 1: WR and certainly big time lover of the Mark Simone Show,
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Speaker 1: my favorite darn radio show ever. I listen every single day,
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Speaker 1: and it's good to be here sitting in for the
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Speaker 1: great Mark Simone, the winner of the Big Barrett Media Award.
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Speaker 1: Congratulations again, mister Simone. Sir, you probably best remember me
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Speaker 1: from the twenty years that I spent anchoring the Morning Show,
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Speaker 1: and a good chunk of those years the Noon Show
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Speaker 1: two over Channel seven. I did Good Day New York
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Speaker 1: at Channel five before that, just a lot of good
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Speaker 1: years in New York TV. These days, I host a
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Speaker 1: daily show on a New Jersey based TV news channel
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Speaker 1: you can see it good to be here with you
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Speaker 1: and having fun here on a Friday. We got a
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Speaker 1: lot to talk about. Our phone lines are open. We
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Speaker 1: want to hear from you, to take part in our conversation.
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Speaker 1: And the number is eight hundred three two one zero
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Speaker 1: seven ten. Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. Well,
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Speaker 1: it looks like we're finally out of the heat wave.
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Speaker 1: Most of the tri State's going to be what mid
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Speaker 1: eighties today, You could feel it though it's drier when
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Speaker 1: you walk outside, it doesn't feel sticky and heavy. Still
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Speaker 1: have the smoke not as bad as yesterday. Yesterday it
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Speaker 1: was awful. Just you know, today just feels so much
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Speaker 1: lighter out if you will, and it was, but I
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Speaker 1: know a lot of people, even with mild asthma, had
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Speaker 1: real bad conditions this week. And we're really impacted by
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Speaker 1: the smoke. But the air quality once again is considered
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Speaker 1: we have an air quality alert, so it's considered not
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Speaker 1: good for sensitive groups today to see of the Canadian
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Speaker 1: wildfire smoke. And I'm finally starting to see online people
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Speaker 1: responding to Canada. Now what do I mean by that?
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Speaker 1: You'd say, can It's an active nature. What are you
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Speaker 1: gonna do? No? No, I mean, proper forest management can
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Speaker 1: significantly stop or reduce wildfires significantly. Okay, they do it
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Speaker 1: in states like Florida. Again Florida. Kent's always talking about Florida. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know the when we have the everglas say, I say,
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Speaker 1: week as I live there part time, when we have
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Speaker 1: we have prescribed burns in the Everglades, and that minimizes
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Speaker 1: wildfires for like a day or two in the driest
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Speaker 1: of dry times in January February, which down there is
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Speaker 1: very very dry, you'll have a prescribed burn. Sometimes they'll
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Speaker 1: have a larger burn and for a day you'll get
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Speaker 1: some smoke that wafts, you know, to the west or whatever.
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Speaker 1: That's it, and then it goes away and everything's controlled.
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Speaker 1: You need to kill off, burn off, carbonize if you will,
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Speaker 1: the dying or dead trees, because that's fuel. And somebody
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Speaker 1: explained it to me once when I was coming up
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Speaker 1: in science class in high school that trees are like
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Speaker 1: giant solar cells and batteries. They absorb all the energy
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Speaker 1: from the sun, trap it in the form of carbon.
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Speaker 1: If you burn it, it basically is releasing the trapped
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Speaker 1: energy from the sun. It's a good way to look
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Speaker 1: at it well, of course the left. The left is
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Speaker 1: calling it climate change. It's all climate change, because you know,
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Speaker 1: before climate change, we never had wildfires. The earth was
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Speaker 1: like on fire ten million years ago. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what they're talking about, but it helps boost their argument,
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Speaker 1: or at least they think so. Those of us who
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Speaker 1: have brains and think realize they're full of crap. Wildfires
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Speaker 1: have always happened throughout the history of the Earth. They
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Speaker 1: will always happen as humans. All we have the power
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Speaker 1: to do is to control or minimize them a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Now we do it in much of the United States.
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Speaker 1: But Canada in the last few years has decided to
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Speaker 1: stop managing their forests. They stopped allowing the people from
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Speaker 1: the paper mills and whatnot from harvesting trees, which thinned
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Speaker 1: forest quite a bit. They stopped clearing out underbrush in
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Speaker 1: major national forests. And then all you need is a
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Speaker 1: good hit of lightning or somebody who very accidentally, I
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Speaker 1: don't say it's intentional, but somebody goes camping and they
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Speaker 1: don't put out a fire properly, or an ember flickers
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Speaker 1: up from their campfire, and before you know it, you
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Speaker 1: have trees going up all over the place. When I
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Speaker 1: was a reporter, I used to work for the CBS
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Speaker 1: owned station in Miami nineteen ninety eight to two thousand
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Speaker 1: and two. I remember covering a story in the Everglades
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Speaker 1: around the year ninety nine, I guess it was, and
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Speaker 1: I was wearing a I just had my white like
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Speaker 1: a white dress shirt and a tie on, and because
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Speaker 1: it was so hot was the Everglades, and I remember
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Speaker 1: standing about one hundred and fifty feet from what is
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Speaker 1: called a mala luca tree. If you live in in
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Speaker 1: the South, you know what a mala luca tree is
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Speaker 1: up here. It's kind of a it's a pine tree. Basically,
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Speaker 1: it's a type of Southern pine. Pine trees are loaded
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Speaker 1: with pine tar and pine oil, so they're extremely flammable.
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Speaker 1: All you need is a spark, and literally it's like
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Speaker 1: putting a spark on a can of gasoline. Until you
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Speaker 1: see it go up, you can't believe anything go up
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Speaker 1: this fast. It just goes like that, like a hundred
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Speaker 1: foot tree in a second could go from zero to
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Speaker 1: a million, just right up in flames. And I remember
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Speaker 1: doing a report and I had fire couple of hundred
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Speaker 1: feet behind me and one direction couple of feet one
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Speaker 1: hundred feet behind me in another direction, and the camera
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Speaker 1: shot was wide, and the cameraman saw some embers come
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Speaker 1: start blowing in our direction. Up to that point, the
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Speaker 1: wind was blowing away from me. Suddenly it was blowing
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Speaker 1: toward me while I was live on the air, And
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Speaker 1: while I was live by the air in the middle
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Speaker 1: of report, the maluluca tree fifty seventy five feet behind
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Speaker 1: me went straight up. Thankfully, I was wrapping my report
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Speaker 1: and the minute I got done speaking, I ran and
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Speaker 1: I rolled on the floor. I could feel my shirt
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Speaker 1: was on fire. It was It was not burning hot,
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Speaker 1: but it was smoking. It was smoldering. I scorched the
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Speaker 1: hair in the back of my head and I felt
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Speaker 1: how hot it was. The point of trying to make
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Speaker 1: is all you need is a little tiny ember, and
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Speaker 1: then you have the fuel in the trees and the
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Speaker 1: whole forest could go up. That's why you have to
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Speaker 1: manage your forests. Canada stopped doing it in about twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty one twenty twenty two under the most liberal regime Trudeau,
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Speaker 1: and then it's been carried on to this day. The
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Speaker 1: liberals don't believe in touching anything environmental, let it be
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Speaker 1: on natural et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Well, you
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Speaker 1: have to manage things that are in the wild. If
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Speaker 1: you have civilization nearby, that doesn't mean you're harming the wild.
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Speaker 1: Like if you have a dog is a pet, you're
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Speaker 1: not harming the dog by grooming it. In fact, if
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Speaker 1: you don't groom it, it can get sick. And that's
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Speaker 1: kind of the way it is with wildfires and forests.
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Speaker 1: So in twenty twenty three, do you know how much
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Speaker 1: carbon was released into the atmosphere by Canada because of
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Speaker 1: their wildfires? All those environmentals who talk about, oh, stop
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Speaker 1: emitting carbon. The US admits so much carbon in it
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Speaker 1: and it hurts our environment. Canada, because of its wildfires,
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Speaker 1: released seven hundred million metric tons of carbon, making it
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Speaker 1: the third largest polluter from any country in the world.
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Speaker 1: That was, in twenty twenty three, the third largest polluter,
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Speaker 1: and I think the first or second was because of
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Speaker 1: volcanic eruptions somewhere else. The point I'm trying to make
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Speaker 1: is that was pretty preventable, or at least it could
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Speaker 1: have been significantly less had they just managed their forests.
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Speaker 1: And I want to know what point do Americans get
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Speaker 1: to sue Canadians because of their lack of forest management,
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Speaker 1: because of our asthma attacks, days people had to take
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Speaker 1: off from work, polluting the environment, dirtying up the soil,
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Speaker 1: having to stay indoors when we should be outdoors doing something.
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Speaker 1: How about taking away the few days of summer that
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Speaker 1: we get ninety days of summer and a lot of
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Speaker 1: us have to stay indoors now and can enjoy our
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Speaker 1: summer days courtesy of our liberal friends to the north.
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Speaker 1: Yet immediately the Prime Minister of Canada speaking in French.
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Speaker 1: By the way, I noticed he did that on purpose.
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Speaker 1: He was speaking in French, not in English, so that
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Speaker 1: the sound bites wouldn't be translated and played in English.
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Speaker 1: He talked about the fact that it's the US being
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Speaker 1: the number one global warming contributor, which is not true.
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Speaker 1: By the way, India, Russia and China we fall way
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Speaker 1: down on the list. They are the biggest contributors of
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Speaker 1: carbon etc. Into the atmosphere, not us. But he started
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Speaker 1: to blame us right away. It's like, dude, we don't
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Speaker 1: have wildfires blowing smoke up your backside, so don't blame
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Speaker 1: us for this. In fact, when you consider all the
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Speaker 1: evs and the clean vehicle and the fact that we
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Speaker 1: switched to LED bulbs and whatnot. We've done a lot
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Speaker 1: to conserve. So Canada, shut your mouth, clean up your forest,
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Speaker 1: spend some money. All my Canadian friends no offense. But
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Speaker 1: like every one of my Canadian friends is as cheap
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Speaker 1: as gonna be. I'm not saying all Canadians are cheap,
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Speaker 1: but like I have twelve Canadian friends who it's like
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Speaker 1: they all have crocodile arms. You know, when it comes
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Speaker 1: to paying the building, I can't reach my wallet. Ken, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: all right, I don't know, Ken, the Canadian dollar is
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Speaker 1: worth a lot less, that's why. Yeah whatever. Seven ten
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Speaker 1: w r the voice of New York Ken Rosatto win
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Speaker 1: from Mark on a Friday. Did you hear about the
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Speaker 1: lunatic who broke into the Today Show's studio thirty Rock yesterday?
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Speaker 1: He was apparently looking for Al Roker, who, by the way,
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Speaker 1: is one of the sweetest men ever to walk the earth.
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Speaker 1: Al Roker is a great guy. This lunatic could not
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Speaker 1: find him. Instead came across the co anchor of the show,
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Speaker 1: Craig Melvin, is also a very very nice guy, saw
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Speaker 1: him on the set. So this guy made it to
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Speaker 1: this set, shouted some kind of racial slur at Craig,
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Speaker 1: and then thankfully NYPD officers got wind of this guy
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Speaker 1: because listen on the set, you think that there were
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Speaker 1: like fifty people, there aren't. There's like a floor manager,
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Speaker 1: maybe a director or a producer who's wandering around, and
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Speaker 1: then the on air people. It's really not like an
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Speaker 1: army of people. So you know, somebody shouldn't be there,
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Speaker 1: and somebody must have spotted this guy called the police,
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Speaker 1: and the police came up. There's so many police outside
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Speaker 1: thirty Rock well, so apparently they got this guy. He
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Speaker 1: said he came to see to find al Roker. We
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Speaker 1: don't know why. He's identified as Andrew Truelove. They say
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Speaker 1: he was not armed. Police believe he got in through
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Speaker 1: a stairwell. So in light of what's happening with Savannah
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Speaker 1: Guthrie and her mom, you would think that there would
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Speaker 1: be cops crawling all over thirty Rock to make sure
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Speaker 1: a stranger can't get in through a stairwell. But now
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Speaker 1: hopefully security has stepped up there and thankfully nobody was hurt.
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Speaker 1: But Craig did have to miss the beginning of the
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Speaker 1: third hour of today because he was dealing with this guy.
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Speaker 1: So thankfully Craig Melvin, he's a big guy. By the way,
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Speaker 1: I would not go up and say anything to Greg
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Speaker 1: Melvin because I think Craig Melvin could have knocked this
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Speaker 1: guy out. But you don't want anyone put in that circumstance.
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Speaker 1: When I was at Channel seven, I remember we had
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Speaker 1: I can't get into details about security, but let's just
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Speaker 1: say there was a lot of it, okay, and it's
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Speaker 1: thankfully there is armed security at all the TV stations
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Speaker 1: and TV networks inside too, and usually they surround the set.
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Speaker 1: There's always a couple of people with weapons in the
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Speaker 1: event something like this happens, thankfully, and then of course
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Speaker 1: NYPD is usually near the outside perimeter of the stations,
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Speaker 1: and thankfully they were there very fast. But this could
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Speaker 1: have been a disaster, a total tragedy, and we just
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Speaker 1: have to keep vigilant at all times. Seven ten w
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Speaker 1: R The Voice of New York. This is Ken rizottowin
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Speaker 1: from Mark on a Friday Trump administration last night. Did
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Speaker 1: you hear the speech? Did you watch it? I think
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Speaker 1: it was disgraceful that several of the networks chose not
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Speaker 1: to air any of it, and then you had like
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Speaker 1: CBS airing part of it, and then they came out
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Speaker 1: early and MS. Now, to their credit, they aired a
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Speaker 1: chunk of it, bits and pieces of it at least.
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Speaker 1: But you know, when you think back to the Obama administration,
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Speaker 1: the Biden administration, there was only one time when the
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Speaker 1: networks chose not to air something from the Obama administration,
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Speaker 1: and the reason was because it was the night that
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Speaker 1: all the networks were supposed to debut their prime time
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Speaker 1: fall lineup of programming and they were worried it would
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Speaker 1: impact their ratings. So I believe what they did was
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Speaker 1: they delay broadcast the president's speech, but they still aired it.
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Speaker 1: Never has there been a president that the networks have
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Speaker 1: treated with so much disrespect, and they, well, ken it's
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Speaker 1: our duty. We shouldn't broadcast the lies of this president.
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Speaker 1: It's not for you to judge that. You can air
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Speaker 1: the president's speech and then later if you want to
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Speaker 1: fact check him, fact check him, let him speak. It's America.
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Speaker 1: And then don't be surprised if the FCC comes in
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Speaker 1: and says, you know what, you are not serving the
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Speaker 1: public interest. Remember, those broadcast licenses belong to you. And
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Speaker 1: me as citizens. They don't belong to the TV networks
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Speaker 1: and stations. The TV networks and stations own the buildings
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Speaker 1: or the equipment and pay the salaries of the individuals
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Speaker 1: on the air to broadcast on channel two, four, five, seven, nine, eleven, thirteen,
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Speaker 1: et cetera. To actually transmit a signal. That is a
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Speaker 1: license that you are granted on an interim basis to
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Speaker 1: be renewed every seven years. And if the FCC deems
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Speaker 1: that you are not serving the public interest and someone
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Speaker 1: else can do it better, you lose your license. It
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Speaker 1: has nothing to do with being Republican or Democrat. You
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Speaker 1: have to best serve the public interest because there is
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Speaker 1: a limited amount as a small pool of licenses available.
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Speaker 1: So if someone else can do a better job, just
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Speaker 1: because your channel seven and you've been on the air
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Speaker 1: for seventy five years or whatever, doesn't mean someone else
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Speaker 1: might not do a better job. And I'm not trying
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Speaker 1: to sing a lot seven, by the way, I'm talking
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Speaker 1: about four or five, two, whatever, It doesn't matter the channel.
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Speaker 1: I'm just mentioning seven because I used to work there
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Speaker 1: and had a great time there. By the way, but
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Speaker 1: you need to understand that those are public licenses and
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Speaker 1: they are subject to FCC review. Now, it doesn't work
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Speaker 1: in a sense that the FCC can proactively take away
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Speaker 1: your license. It has to be subject to members of
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Speaker 1: the public complaining. Once people come up and complain, then
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Speaker 1: the FCC responds they can't proactively and preemptively stop you
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Speaker 1: from doing something, because then that's squashing freedom of speech,
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Speaker 1: et cetera. But you know, this could get ugly, and
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Speaker 1: I think when we get our mass media, I think
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Speaker 1: this could backfire. Let's put it this way. I think
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Speaker 1: it could backfire for mass media because what could happen
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Speaker 1: is people could say, listen, we didn't have to watch you.
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Speaker 1: We were able to stream the president online. And it
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Speaker 1: just shows how irrelevant TV news has become. It is
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Speaker 1: not something years ago, even ten years ago, people used
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Speaker 1: to rush home six o'clock at night, five o'clock at night,
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Speaker 1: you put on the news, have dinner with the family,
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Speaker 1: and you'd have Walter Cronkite back in the day on today.
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Speaker 1: I can't tell you a person who watches what we
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Speaker 1: call the linear broadcast of a TV newscast, I don't
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Speaker 1: know one linear broadcast means you watch it live when
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Speaker 1: it comes down the year five to six or whatever.
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Speaker 1: I don't know a person. You may. You may still
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Speaker 1: I know people who watch CNN or Fox News or
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Speaker 1: Newsmax or ms NOW, but I don't know people who
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Speaker 1: are watching local TV news anymore. And it's sad because
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Speaker 1: I loved that industry, certainly, I worked in it for
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Speaker 1: decades and want a whole bunch of emmy's doing it,
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Speaker 1: if I may pat myself on the back, but it's
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Speaker 1: just sad to see it being a shadow of its
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Speaker 1: former self. We want to know what you have to
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Speaker 1: say about stuff, so you give us a call. Eight
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Speaker 1: hundred three to two one zero seven ten. Eight hundred
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Speaker 1: three to two one zero seven ten. It's going to
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Speaker 1: be partly sunny. Today's actually pretty nice ad. It's a
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Speaker 1: lot less human right now. Still going to have some
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Speaker 1: smoke in the air, though it's going to make it
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Speaker 1: hard to breathe. We still have an air quality alert
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Speaker 1: in effect. Tempts making it to the mid eighties coming up.
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Speaker 1: Lots of folks still angry with Mayor Zorn Mamdani over
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Speaker 1: the ethnic neighborhood map that left off Little Italy. By
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Speaker 1: the way, I think it also left off Harlem. How
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Speaker 1: the heck do you leave off Harlem, I mean craziness.
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Speaker 1: In just a few we will speak with the head
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Speaker 1: of the Italian American One Voice Coalition about that and more.
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Speaker 1: But your calls are next eight hundred three two one
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