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Mark's 9am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Now, the Mark Simone Show on 710WOR. Filling in for Mark,
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Speaker 1: here's Ken Rosato. And a very happy Thursday. Good to
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Speaker 1: be with you. Yes, Mark is off on a nice
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Speaker 1: long weekend for Leoparday Thursday. And hopefully he's enjoying himself.
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Speaker 1: Nice to be here. Ken Rosato, former New York City
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Speaker 1: TV News anchor. The guy used to be on Channel
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Speaker 1: 7 and Channel 5. I was on Channel 55. Gosh,
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Speaker 1: it's almost there wasn't a channel I wasn't on at
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Speaker 1: some point. My gosh, find a channel. You could say, oh,
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Speaker 1: there's the ghost of Ken Rosato there. But it's so
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Speaker 1: nice to be here on iHeartRadio, 710WOR, the voice of
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Speaker 1: New York. It is always exciting walking in the building.
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Speaker 1: And here at iHeart, in the lobby, they have been
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Speaker 1: talking about redoing the lobby for years. And I've been
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Speaker 1: saying how exciting that's going to be in the couple
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Speaker 1: of years that I've been working here, part-time filling in
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Speaker 1: for Mark. I've been talking to the guys and the
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Speaker 1: ladies at the front desk and they've been saying, yeah,
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Speaker 1: they're going to do this lobby eventually. Well, last week
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Speaker 1: I came to the building for the first time since
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Speaker 1: they actually started doing the lobby. And you have to
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Speaker 1: walk about six and a half miles downtown. You make
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Speaker 1: a left, two rights. You ask two police. They take
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Speaker 1: you up a flight of steps. You go left to
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Speaker 1: the right. Then you got to show four forms of ID,
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Speaker 1: give a blood test, and then you get to the
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Speaker 1: second floor. Oh, and then when you get to the
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Speaker 1: second floor, you take an elevator and then you got
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Speaker 1: to get here. I sound like Jackie Mason now. But
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Speaker 1: it is going to be great when it's done. But
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Speaker 1: let's see, Izzy's at the controls here. Izzy, what do
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Speaker 1: you think it'll take about, they said a year. So
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Speaker 1: my guess is it's going to be about 14, 15 years, right? Okay. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So basically when I am on my third retirement, then
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about the lobby looking great. And then you
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Speaker 1: know what they're going to do? They're going to plan
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Speaker 1: on redoing the lobby again. That's what they're going to
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Speaker 1: do at that point. They say the lobby's 15 years
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Speaker 1: old now. We got to do it again. 800-321-0710, 800-321-0710.
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Speaker 1: What are you doing for Labor Day weekend? And have
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Speaker 1: you gotten out of town yet? So I know a
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Speaker 1: lot of people years ago, I remember when I did
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Speaker 1: the morning show at Channel 7, we used to talk
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Speaker 1: about the fact that the Friday of Labor Day weekend
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Speaker 1: used to be the escape time. First, it was 5 p.m. Friday.
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Speaker 1: Then eventually over the years, because I started doing that
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Speaker 1: show in 2003. So by like 2007, 2008, we noticed
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Speaker 1: that Friday at noon was escape time. Then by about 2015, 2017,
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Speaker 1: we noticed that no, no, no, Thursday at 5 p.m.
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Speaker 1: That's when people, they all took Friday off and they
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Speaker 1: got out of Dodge Thursday afternoon. Now we're seeing a
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Speaker 1: lot of people are getting off half day on Thursday
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Speaker 1: and they're getting out now so that The AAA is
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Speaker 1: recommending if you are intending on driving out of town,
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Speaker 1: the best time to go is right now, between now
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Speaker 1: and like 11 this morning. And then at 11, it
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Speaker 1: starts to get busy till about 2. Then you get
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Speaker 1: a little lull from 2 to 5. Then it gets
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Speaker 1: crazy again after 5. But you're almost better off just
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Speaker 1: waiting till tonight or leaving right now. Just make sure
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Speaker 1: you keep 710WOR on in the car. That's all we ask.
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Speaker 1: But it's going to be crazy. We'd love to know.
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Speaker 1: Give us a call. 800-321-0710. Are you just going to
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Speaker 1: stay put? Or are you heading out of town? If
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Speaker 1: you're heading down the shore or out to the east
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Speaker 1: end of Long Island or maybe up to Connecticut, the
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Speaker 1: beautiful Connecticut shoreline is beautiful, too. We have such beautiful
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Speaker 1: stuff in our area, beautiful places to go, all within
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Speaker 1: an hour or two of no matter where you live. 800-321-0710.
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Speaker 1: Just got some news in here. The New York Post
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Speaker 1: is reporting that the FBI said that they are investigating
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Speaker 1: a report that tens of millions of driver's licenses belonging
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Speaker 1: to people in the U.S. and Canada, not Canada, where's Canada?
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Speaker 1: It must be near Canada, that these driver's licenses were
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Speaker 1: being sold on the dark web. So there are places
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Speaker 1: on the Internet where creepy people who want to commit
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Speaker 1: nefarious acts go to get data about you, about your
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Speaker 1: driver's license, etc. And apparently this may be connected to Russia.
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Speaker 1: The FBI is looking into it. But if the data
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Speaker 1: breach is confirmed, it could be one of the largest
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Speaker 1: ever exposures of government-issued identity documents in North America. And
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Speaker 1: this will create the risk of identity theft and fraud
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Speaker 1: for tens of millions of people. This is a big deal.
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Speaker 1: So apparently the service is called Nexus. And it claims
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Speaker 1: to have tens of millions of licenses for people in
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Speaker 1: the U.S. and Canada and millions of other ID cards
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Speaker 1: and travel documents and hundreds of thousands of medical records.
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Speaker 1: So the question is, how did they get it? And
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Speaker 1: one cybersecurity company suggests that the systems were hacked. It
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Speaker 1: could have been by Russia. It could have been by
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Speaker 1: other governments, maybe Iran. Who knows? China. But that our systems,
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Speaker 1: our government, they're saying that the government computers were hacked.
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Speaker 1: So this isn't about the selling of fake driver's licenses.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about your real driver's license data potentially being
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Speaker 1: caught here and sold on the dark web. So you
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Speaker 1: can bet this is going to be big news in
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Speaker 1: the next few days. A lot of people are going
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Speaker 1: to be talking about that. I'm sure the FBI will
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Speaker 1: be doing a lot of investigating. 800-321-0710, 800-321-0710. It almost
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Speaker 1: feels like every one of us at some point have
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Speaker 1: had our data breached, right? I mean, because I did
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Speaker 1: a search not long ago and I found like, yes,
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Speaker 1: your data is on the dark web in 7,226 locations.
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Speaker 1: You know, especially being a public figure, somebody who's on
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Speaker 1: the air, who's been on the air in New York
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Speaker 1: for decades. People have tried. I can't even tell you.
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Speaker 1: I remember when I was a news director at Channel 55.
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Speaker 1: going back to 19, had to be in the 80s. No,
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Speaker 1: it was in the 90s. It was in the early 90s.
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Speaker 1: I had just become news director there. And I was
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Speaker 1: the main anchor at night, the 10 o'clock news. And
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Speaker 1: some lady had called the station insisting that I was
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Speaker 1: her ex-husband, a deadbeat husband, and that I owed her
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Speaker 1: child support. And they put her through to me. I
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Speaker 1: pick up the phone and she said, you've S-O-B, blah, blah, blah,
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Speaker 1: you owe us money. And I said, well, who are you?
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Speaker 1: She says, and mind you, let me tell you this.
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Speaker 1: I used a different name on the air. I won't
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Speaker 1: say what name, but I used a different name on
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Speaker 1: the air at the time. And she was insisting. She
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Speaker 1: basically was extorting me. She said, I'm going to call
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Speaker 1: the bosses and tell them that you skipped Dodge and
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Speaker 1: you owe us money. And you're now working as a
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Speaker 1: TV news anchor there and you're not paying your child support.
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Speaker 1: And I'm going to get you in trouble unless you
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Speaker 1: pay us X amount a month. Also, it was extortion.
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Speaker 1: So she did. I threatened her. I not threatened her,
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Speaker 1: but I dared her, I should say. And she went
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Speaker 1: ahead and called the bosses. And the bosses called me
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Speaker 1: into the office. And they said, is this true? And
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Speaker 1: I said, no, it is not. I took the call earlier.
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Speaker 1: But of course, I was a relatively new employee and
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Speaker 1: I felt like I was under the gun. This is, again,
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Speaker 1: back in the early 90s. We didn't have the data
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Speaker 1: that we have access to today. So I said, while
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Speaker 1: I was in the boss's office, she called again. And
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Speaker 1: they put her on speakerphone. And I put up my
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Speaker 1: fingers to say, watch this. And I said, whatever her
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Speaker 1: name was, Joan, let's just say it's Joan. I said, hey, Joan,
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Speaker 1: if I was your husband and I owe you child support,
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Speaker 1: what's my real last name? And she said, what do
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Speaker 1: you mean, what's your real last name? It's X, Y,
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Speaker 1: and Z. She said the name that I was using
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Speaker 1: on the air. And I said, oh, that's my real
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Speaker 1: last name? You sure about that? And that's when the
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Speaker 1: bosses smiled and said, lady, don't call back or we'll
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Speaker 1: call the cops and hung up on her. But that happens.
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Speaker 1: People try to take advantage of people all the time.
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Speaker 1: And you have to be careful what you put out
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Speaker 1: on Instagram and TikTok. You put your date of birth.
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Speaker 1: You put your kids' names. You put your dog's name.
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Speaker 1: You put your address. Show the new house with your
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Speaker 1: address on the house in the background. You show the
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Speaker 1: same location you hang out at work all the time.
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Speaker 1: People will put two and two together. And if they
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Speaker 1: want to come after you and steal your identity, it's
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Speaker 1: relatively easy to do so, especially younger people. I have
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Speaker 1: friends who have kids who post everything on their social
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Speaker 1: media sites. And they talk about everything. And that just
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Speaker 1: makes it that much easier for somebody to hack you
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Speaker 1: and to steal your identity. So don't let it happen.
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Speaker 1: Don't make it that easy. You know, I know a
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Speaker 1: friend of mine who changed. He has the wrong birth
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Speaker 1: date on his Facebook page on purpose. But every year
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Speaker 1: people wish him like 800 happy birthdays. Uh, his name
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Speaker 1: is Julian. He probably, he listens. So he, I used
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Speaker 1: to work with him at channel seven. He knows, he knows, uh,
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Speaker 1: that I'm talking about him now. Clearly I said his name,
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Speaker 1: but he puts a fake birthday and he says, Hey,
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Speaker 1: I don't mind getting, I get two, two, uh, onslaughts
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Speaker 1: of happy birthdays a year. One from the fake birthday
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Speaker 1: that I post on Facebook and one from the real one,
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Speaker 1: but he does it on purpose so that if anybody
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Speaker 1: is trying to steal his identity, that they will have
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Speaker 1: the wrong date of birth and therefore they won't have
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Speaker 1: that little extra bit of information to try to hack
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Speaker 1: into his information. 800-321-0710, 800-321-0710. It is Ken Rosato in
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Speaker 1: on the Mark Simone Show. Labor Day weekend starting a
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Speaker 1: little early on a Thursday. Crime in New York is
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Speaker 1: just out of control. That's right. I said it. Crime
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Speaker 1: in New York out of control. control i'm not talking
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Speaker 1: about crime nationwide it's actually down nationwide but ken we
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Speaker 1: just got statistics that show crime is down in new
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Speaker 1: york the only crime that's down in new york is
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Speaker 1: murders and murders are down about 20 percent okay uh
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Speaker 1: but the rest of the crimes rapes are up but
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Speaker 1: ken it's because they're analyzing what is a rape differently
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Speaker 1: rapes are up period you look at all the numbers
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Speaker 1: no matter how you tear it apart rapes are up
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Speaker 1: and that that's disgusting and horrible and there i i
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Speaker 1: have some theories as to why rapes are up but
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Speaker 1: rapes are up and then you have all other felonies
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Speaker 1: up and then you have misdemeanors no longer prosecuted prosecuted
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Speaker 1: Because you have the likes of an Alvin Bragg who
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Speaker 1: refuses to prosecute crime. When he came into office, he
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Speaker 1: said that was his way of balancing, leveling the playing field.
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Speaker 1: So when people commit crimes, we're no longer going to prosecute. Really? Remember,
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Speaker 1: crimes are often committed in areas where people have nowhere
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Speaker 1: to turn, in poor neighborhoods, etc. So when you say
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Speaker 1: you're not going to prosecute people in those neighborhoods, you're
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Speaker 1: subjecting the people who are living in the neighborhoods with
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Speaker 1: more crime. But the way he's selling it is, I'm
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Speaker 1: not going to go after so many people in certain
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Speaker 1: neighborhoods who are disadvantaged. Yeah, but now you're subjecting to
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Speaker 1: the hardworking people in those neighborhoods to having to live
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Speaker 1: around criminals. And that's what the likes of the liberals
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Speaker 1: like Alvin Bragg, that's the way they view life, that
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Speaker 1: there are victims and victimizers everywhere. And that the people
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Speaker 1: who've been in power up to this point are victimizers
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Speaker 1: and everybody else is a victim. And even if they
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Speaker 1: commit crimes, it's okay because as a victim, you're given
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Speaker 1: a pass. And so you have crime out of control.
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Speaker 1: So you can't, when you look at felonies and rapes
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Speaker 1: around the country decreasing, but in New York, rapes went
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Speaker 1: up and felonies are flat year to year. You got
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Speaker 1: to scratch your head. Yeah, murder's down, but you know
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Speaker 1: why murder's down? Murder's down because 2,500, 3,000 people have
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Speaker 1: been deported from, from New York who were illegal migrants
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Speaker 1: who were gone after by ICE, many of whom were murderers.
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Speaker 1: There were murderers in their home countries, and some of
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Speaker 1: them committed murder here. Now, you get rid of the handful.
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Speaker 1: You talk to police, they'll tell you there's only a
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Speaker 1: handful of people who are murderers in any society. You know,
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Speaker 1: if there were a million murderers, you'd have tens of
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Speaker 1: millions of murderers each year, and we don't have that,
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Speaker 1: thank God. But because there's only a handful of murderers,
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Speaker 1: and ICE got rid of many of them, You have
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Speaker 1: murders down. But of course, New York City and New
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Speaker 1: York State being sanctuary locales will never give credit to
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Speaker 1: the likes of ICE for that. But it's pretty obvious.
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Speaker 1: The minute ICE came in and started deporting these people, boom,
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Speaker 1: or arresting them, all of a sudden, murders are down. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know, you've got to scratch your head. And then
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Speaker 1: you say, well, Ken, then why are felonies, et cetera,
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Speaker 1: why are they flat? Well, because ICE doesn't handle felonies.
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Speaker 1: ICE doesn't arrest you for... I mean, let me clarify that.
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Speaker 1: We don't... ICE doesn't handle... non-murderers, the big crimes. Why?
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Speaker 1: Because New York City makes it practically impossible for ICE
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Speaker 1: to do their jobs because you have the likes of
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Speaker 1: a Mayor Mamdani and a Kathy Hochul running the city
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Speaker 1: and the state. Now, for Kathy Hochul to come in
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Speaker 1: and say that all the police in New York State
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Speaker 1: are no longer allowed to help out ICE agents in
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Speaker 1: any capacity, unless, let me make it clear, she says,
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Speaker 1: unless they're actually in the middle of committing a real crime, well,
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Speaker 1: who are you to say what's a real crime? If
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Speaker 1: they're committing a federal crime, they're committing a real crime.
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Speaker 1: Being here illegally, Kathy, Kathy Hochul, that's a crime. You
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Speaker 1: may not acknowledge that, but it's a crime. If you
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Speaker 1: don't like it, it's very easy. Change federal law. You can.
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Speaker 1: We have Congress members in New York State, New Jersey, Connecticut.
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Speaker 1: Change federal law. Very easy. Just go in there and
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Speaker 1: change it. But no. So now you have, I'm sure
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Speaker 1: a lot of folks upset that you have the sanctuary
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Speaker 1: cities and states that coddled illegal migrants. And when they are,
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Speaker 1: for instance, when they're being dealt with in local courts,
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Speaker 1: they're set free instead of being released to ICE agents
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Speaker 1: to be deported. Now, Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen, who,
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Speaker 1: by the way, I don't know if you saw, he
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Speaker 1: had a little scare with his jet coming into Washington, D.C.
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Speaker 1: I believe it was yesterday. His jet was coming in
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Speaker 1: from the Midwest, I believe, and one of its two
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Speaker 1: engines died. So they did an emergency. I mean, look,
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Speaker 1: pilots are trained to do a one-engine landing all the time.
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Speaker 1: But it's easy for us to talk about while we're
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Speaker 1: safely on the ground. He was midair. But they did
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Speaker 1: a safe landing. Great piloting. Landed safely in Washington. They
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Speaker 1: got to check the jet to see what was up.
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Speaker 1: But nonetheless, getting back to it, Homeland Security Secretary Mark
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Speaker 1: Wayne Mullen said on Tuesday that the White House is
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Speaker 1: looking into legal ways to withhold federal funding from sanctuary
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Speaker 1: states and cities that refuse to cooperate with immigration enforcement.
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Speaker 1: And if you think about it, there are ways to
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Speaker 1: do it. It's one thing if you don't want to cooperate.
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Speaker 1: When you start creating laws saying that local police cannot
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Speaker 1: have any interaction with ICE agents, now you're sort of
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Speaker 1: going into that gray area where you're crossing the line
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Speaker 1: and you are now impeding the exercise of law enforcement
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Speaker 1: for federal officers. You are now potentially subjecting yourself to
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Speaker 1: arrest if you're a local official. And you're getting in
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Speaker 1: the way. And this is getting in the way of
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Speaker 1: law enforcement from the federal level. So now they're looking
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Speaker 1: at ways of, at the very least, cutting resources to
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Speaker 1: states and cities and then potentially passing laws. Laws could
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Speaker 1: be passed. Congress can pass laws that force local municipalities. No,
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Speaker 1: they can't, Ken. There are all sorts of laws. They
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Speaker 1: give states independence with police. Yes, there are, but there
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Speaker 1: are ways around it. There are certain laws that can
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Speaker 1: be enacted that say that if police– basically, federal police
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Speaker 1: should have the ability to automatically deputize local police. And
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Speaker 1: in many states, it's permitted. In fact, the majority of
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Speaker 1: states do that. Whenever there's– state of Florida, perfect example.
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Speaker 1: A case where you have a large number of illegal
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Speaker 1: migrants running around and the federal police, in this case
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Speaker 1: ICE agents– and yes, they are federal police for those
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Speaker 1: liberals who don't believe they are– when ICE agents need
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Speaker 1: the help of the local police– They can go and
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Speaker 1: deputize the local police. Kathy Hochul says that I don't want,
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Speaker 1: with her buck teeth, I don't want us to be
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Speaker 1: spending local money, taxpayer money, to help the feds. That's
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Speaker 1: their deal. Okay. But think about it this way, Kathy Hochul.
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Speaker 1: The feds are not coming in and taking your local
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Speaker 1: police to another state to help them do their job.
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Speaker 1: They are arresting criminals in your state. criminals who may
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Speaker 1: have broken the law, broken federal law in New York State.
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Speaker 1: So therefore, they're not asking for you to be spending
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Speaker 1: money to help them do federal jobs in other states.
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Speaker 1: They're asking you to cooperate so that they can arrest
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Speaker 1: people who are here illegally who have committed other crimes
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Speaker 1: as well. And Kathy Hochul is making it practically impossible.
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Speaker 1: And that's where I say the feds have got to
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Speaker 1: step up. When you get one governor or mayor in cuffs,
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Speaker 1: and an orange jumpsuit on camera, and you see them
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Speaker 1: arrested like that, you will see how fast they stop
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Speaker 1: their bravado. Especially, I think of a J.D. Pritzker in Illinois,
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Speaker 1: all 800 pounds of them. You'll see their bravado about
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Speaker 1: being a sanctuary state stop very quickly. 800-321-0710, 800-321-0710. This
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Speaker 1: is Ken Rosato in for Mark. On Thursday of Labor
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Speaker 1: Day weekend, 710WOR, we're going to take, let's see, we're
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Speaker 1: going to, in the next segment, I always get confused.
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Speaker 1: This is the 9 a.m. segment. So the next segment,
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Speaker 1: we will talk more about the, we're going to talk
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Speaker 1: about the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. And we're also going
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Speaker 1: to talk about stuff happening with Mayor Mamdani and his influencers.
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Speaker 1: And then after that, we will take your calls at 710WOR.