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- 0:00Speaker 1: Now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten or filling
- 0:05Speaker 1: in for Mark, here's Ken Rosatto.
- 0:08Speaker 2: It's so nice to be with your happy Independence Day weekend.
- 0:12Speaker 2: Former New York City Too new Zacher guy Ken Rosatto
- 0:14Speaker 2: reporting for duty. I used to be on Channel seven
- 0:17Speaker 2: for twenty years. I did the morning and the noon show. There,
- 0:20Speaker 2: had a great time, good friends there, and I worked
- 0:23Speaker 2: for a year prior to that at Fox five Good
- 0:26Speaker 2: Day New York. A lot of people don't remember that
- 0:27Speaker 2: because it was so long ago, from twenty twenty, two
- 0:30Speaker 2: thousand and two to two thousand and three.
- 0:32Speaker 3: That's right.
- 0:33Speaker 2: I worked at Good Day and I was with Lynn
- 0:35Speaker 2: Brown back then, and Dave Price was on back then,
- 0:39Speaker 2: and who else, and then we got Mike Woods he
- 0:41Speaker 2: joined us, So it was a good time. That was
- 0:43Speaker 2: a lot of years ago. I have people coming up
- 0:45Speaker 2: to me on the streets that go when I was
- 0:48Speaker 2: growing up, when I was five years old, and I
- 0:50Speaker 2: look at them as they shut up. I just it's
- 0:55Speaker 2: hard to fathom that I'm not that old now, but yes,
- 0:58Speaker 2: and I got to meet I got to meet Sarah
- 1:01Speaker 2: Lee Kessler here at the wonderful iHeart Studios yesterday, whom
- 1:06Speaker 2: I used to watch on Channel nine when I was younger.
- 1:09Speaker 2: Not that Sarah's that much older than me, but what
- 1:12Speaker 2: an honor to meet Sarah le Kesler. She is just
- 1:15Speaker 2: a delightful, wonderful person and what a total pro all
- 1:20Speaker 2: the years that she served New York City. Just great
- 1:23Speaker 2: to meet her. Seven ten wr the Voice of New York.
- 1:27Speaker 2: Our phone lines are open. Give us a call eight
- 1:29Speaker 2: hundred and three to two one zero seven ten. The
- 1:32Speaker 2: Great Mark Simone taking a day or two off enjoying
- 1:35Speaker 2: the lyng nice long weekend again. Rumor has it, I
- 1:39Speaker 2: don't know that it's true, but rumor has it he
- 1:41Speaker 2: is working closely with Taylor, Swift and Kelsey right now.
- 1:45Speaker 2: They are kind of working on finals of the wedding plans.
- 1:48Speaker 2: That's what I hear he's doing. I'm sure if that's
- 1:51Speaker 2: the case, that Mark will post it on his Instagram
- 1:54Speaker 2: at some point today. We'll see what happens. I'm just kidding.
- 1:58Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 1:58Speaker 2: People are saying, is he really don't know? He who knows?
- 2:01Speaker 2: It's Mark who knows. In the middle of a heat
- 2:03Speaker 2: wave right now, we've been talking about this. Of course,
- 2:07Speaker 2: most of the tri State could see up to one
- 2:09Speaker 2: hundred to one hundred and two degrees today As Daria
- 2:13Speaker 2: was Daria Aldinger was saying that the record today is
- 2:17Speaker 2: one hundred and three. I think the all time record
- 2:20Speaker 2: for New York City is either one hundred and five
- 2:22Speaker 2: or hundred and six. Like ever in the history since
- 2:25Speaker 2: we've been keeping records, it's either one oh five or
- 2:28Speaker 2: one oh six that the high temperature was. But for
- 2:32Speaker 2: this day in history, it was one hundred and three
- 2:34Speaker 2: and we could hit one hundred and two. So you know,
- 2:37Speaker 2: what does that mean? When you get above like ninety
- 2:40Speaker 2: ninety five, your body just really can't even sense the difference.
- 2:43Speaker 2: It's just hot. Uh. And here's the advice that a
- 2:47Speaker 2: friend of mine who is a medical doctor constantly gives.
- 2:51Speaker 2: Even if you absolutely positively don't feel like you want
- 2:55Speaker 2: a sip of water right now before you do anything,
- 2:58Speaker 2: before you walk out of the house, have a full
- 3:01Speaker 2: glass of water, number one, And then if you are
- 3:04Speaker 2: outside doing anything within the hour, have another full glass
- 3:09Speaker 2: of water. You do not realize how much you dehydrate
- 3:12Speaker 2: just from breathing, from moving around, and the amount of
- 3:15Speaker 2: sweat that just evaporates off your body as you're walking
- 3:18Speaker 2: around in this heat. You want to kind of preempt
- 3:21Speaker 2: any possibility of getting sick, so drink extra water and
- 3:25Speaker 2: spend you know, if you didn't have to go to
- 3:27Speaker 2: the market, but maybe I should pick up those carrots
- 3:30Speaker 2: and those bananas. Go now, and instead of spending fifteen minutes,
- 3:33Speaker 2: spend about an hour. Soupermarket's a great, nice, cool place,
- 3:36Speaker 2: especially in the produce aisle, all the refrigeration open. You know,
- 3:40Speaker 2: I walked in yesterday to mine, and man, it was
- 3:43Speaker 2: ice cold, and I loved every second of it. It's
- 3:45Speaker 2: a great place to just walk nice and slowly, take
- 3:48Speaker 2: your time. We heard Roger Friedman saying, before go to
- 3:52Speaker 2: the museum, go to a theater. Enjoy the air conditioning
- 3:56Speaker 2: that's there already. And this way you don't have to
- 3:58Speaker 2: deal with the electric bills yourself. And it's a good
- 4:01Speaker 2: way to spend a couple hours until the sun comes down.
- 4:04Speaker 2: Remember ten a to two p worst time of the
- 4:07Speaker 2: day to be out. That's when it's absolutely the hottest.
- 4:10Speaker 2: And then two to four second worst time. After four pm,
- 4:14Speaker 2: as the sun starts to come down, it gets a
- 4:16Speaker 2: little better. But again, this is not just hot. This
- 4:20Speaker 2: is dangerously hot, so don't tax it. If you don't
- 4:24Speaker 2: have to. Don't stretch it, okay, especially if you're older
- 4:28Speaker 2: or if you have a baby or a pet. Don't
- 4:31Speaker 2: push it today. Drink the water, stay cool. Seven to
- 4:34Speaker 2: ten wore the Voice of New York. This is Ken
- 4:37Speaker 2: Risotto in from Mark Simone. Yeah, yeah, I know. I
- 4:40Speaker 2: wish Mark were into I love Mark. I listen every
- 4:43Speaker 2: single day. I know most of you callers because I
- 4:46Speaker 2: listen to you when you call. So when I see
- 4:47Speaker 2: on the collar roster, we have a little list of
- 4:50Speaker 2: all the people calling in. I know when you called
- 4:52Speaker 2: because I heard you during the week. I listened to
- 4:55Speaker 2: the show every single day. I don't miss Mark Simone ever.
- 4:57Speaker 2: If I can't hear him live, I listened to the
- 4:59Speaker 2: play back on the iHeartRadio app because I am absolutely
- 5:02Speaker 2: addicted to Mark Simon. Love Mark Simone, have for years.
- 5:06Speaker 2: And I briefly touched on this yesterday. I got to
- 5:08Speaker 2: fill in for Mark yesterday. But it bears repeating. I
- 5:12Speaker 2: don't know if you're aware of this, but because June
- 5:15Speaker 2: thirtieth is the deadline for much of many businesses and
- 5:20Speaker 2: municipalities to get their budgets in for the following year.
- 5:25Speaker 2: New Jersey, where I Live and New York City both
- 5:28Speaker 2: finalized their budgets. And I'm not sure if you heard,
- 5:31Speaker 2: but in New Jersey the new spending plan is roughly
- 5:34Speaker 2: sixty one billion dollars. Now, mind you, the population of
- 5:39Speaker 2: the state of New Jersey is just over nine million people.
- 5:42Speaker 2: Nine million people with a sixty one billion dollar budget.
- 5:47Speaker 2: In New York City, the twenty twenty seven spending plan
- 5:50Speaker 2: is one hundred and twenty six billion, okay, and that's
- 5:55Speaker 2: for eight and a half million people. Meanwhile, the budget
- 5:58Speaker 2: for the entire state of Florida for twenty twenty seven,
- 6:02Speaker 2: and Florida, by the way, has twenty four million people,
- 6:06Speaker 2: Florida's budget is one hundred and eighteen billion. So I
- 6:09Speaker 2: know I threw out a lot of numbers at you,
- 6:11Speaker 2: but think about the contrast here. New York City is
- 6:15Speaker 2: eight point five million people and their budget is one
- 6:18Speaker 2: hundred and twenty six billion. The state of Florida is
- 6:22Speaker 2: twenty six million people and their budget is one hundred
- 6:26Speaker 2: and eighteen billion. So for three times the population, they
- 6:30Speaker 2: have a lower budget than the City of New York.
- 6:33Speaker 2: I asked you to think about that. Why does that
- 6:36Speaker 2: make sense? I'm waiting somebody tell me, ding Ding. It doesn't.
- 6:43Speaker 2: It doesn't except for the fact that Florida is run
- 6:46Speaker 2: by Republicans and New York City is run by socialists. Okay,
- 6:51Speaker 2: and they're not just democratics thousands. These are socialists slash communists. Okay.
- 6:56Speaker 2: They don't think the same way Republicans. Don't think the
- 7:00Speaker 2: government is the answer to everything. Let charity do charity stuff,
- 7:05Speaker 2: Let individuals work and pay taxes, and let the government
- 7:08Speaker 2: do the government stuff. Okay. Socialists want the government to own,
- 7:13Speaker 2: run and control everything. But remember, ultimately, the only person
- 7:19Speaker 2: under socialism who benefits is the socialist. You look at
- 7:23Speaker 2: any socialist society the first couple of years, wonderful, It's panacea.
- 7:29Speaker 2: It is just glorious. Why because they seize everybody's wealth
- 7:33Speaker 2: and they redistribute it. And then when there's no wealth
- 7:36Speaker 2: left to redistribute, you wallow in your poop. That's socialism.
- 7:41Speaker 2: I bring you Cuba, Okay. Under Castor in nineteen fifty
- 7:45Speaker 2: nine came in literally confiscated everybody's wealth. My dear friend
- 7:49Speaker 2: Ileana Varella, I anchored with her at Channel four in Miami.
- 7:54Speaker 2: Back in mose at nineteen ninety eight to two thousand
- 7:56Speaker 2: and two right. She is born and raised in Cuba.
- 8:00Speaker 2: Her dad was a doctor. Always tells this story. She
- 8:03Speaker 2: was about fourteen years old, middle of the night, knock
- 8:07Speaker 2: at the door and they opened the door. Father, mother,
- 8:10Speaker 2: her and her brother. They opened the door because they
- 8:12Speaker 2: kind of sensed this might be coming. Castro's thugs with weapons,
- 8:17Speaker 2: kidnapped the father, take him from Havana, send them to
- 8:20Speaker 2: Santiago de Cuba, which is the other side of the island. Why,
- 8:24Speaker 2: because the communist government decided that's where he was more needed.
- 8:28Speaker 2: Then they took Iliana, her brother, and her mother out
- 8:30Speaker 2: of the house and took over the house that the
- 8:34Speaker 2: father had worked very hard for, took over that house
- 8:37Speaker 2: and created a communist headquarters from the house, and Iliana,
- 8:42Speaker 2: her brother, and mother were forced to share an apartment
- 8:45Speaker 2: in a crappy part of town with two other families
- 8:48Speaker 2: who was a three bedroom apartment and each family got
- 8:52Speaker 2: a bedroom that was the sub their sub living space
- 8:55Speaker 2: within the common apartment, one bathroom for all three families,
- 8:59Speaker 2: and a kitchen, and they all had to share because
- 9:01Speaker 2: that's what the communist government felt they need it. Okay,
- 9:06Speaker 2: So no matter how hard you work, no matter what
- 9:08Speaker 2: you achieved, crap. We take it from you, and you
- 9:12Speaker 2: live in what we give you. That's the way socialism works.
- 9:16Speaker 2: It's not that everybody does better. It's that everybody gets
- 9:19Speaker 2: a lower bar and has to deal with it. Whereas
- 9:23Speaker 2: capitalism sets the bar high. Everybody works hard to achieve it.
- 9:26Speaker 2: Will everyone achieve it? No, but at least you have
- 9:29Speaker 2: the freedom and the opportunity to achieve it. And when
- 9:32Speaker 2: you have a country where you have people who are
- 9:35Speaker 2: of every race, creed, and color having become millionaires and billionaires,
- 9:40Speaker 2: that tells you that everyone has a shot. Now, that
- 9:43Speaker 2: doesn't mean that everyone's going to be a millionaire a billionaire,
- 9:45Speaker 2: but everyone starts with the same freedoms and opportunities. Free
- 9:49Speaker 2: public school, free high school. In many cases, you can
- 9:53Speaker 2: get free college, through scholarship, whatever, you have the opportunity. Oh, ken,
- 9:58Speaker 2: you make it sound so easy. It's not easy. And
- 10:01Speaker 2: if I'm making it sound easy, then you're either mishearing
- 10:04Speaker 2: me or I'm miss speaking. I'm not saying it's easy.
- 10:07Speaker 2: I'm saying everyone born here, everyone who becomes a citizen here,
- 10:12Speaker 2: you all have. We all have the same opportunity.
- 10:17Speaker 5: All right.
- 10:17Speaker 2: I'm from a lower middle class family in New Rochelle
- 10:21Speaker 2: and I ended up a news anchor at ABC's headquarters,
- 10:24Speaker 2: a TV station in America. I would have never thunk
- 10:27Speaker 2: it growing up. There's nothing special about me. I just
- 10:31Speaker 2: happened to have a love for broadcasting and a love
- 10:33Speaker 2: for journalism. And I got into NYU and a scholarship,
- 10:37Speaker 2: and I was able to by working hard and you know,
- 10:39Speaker 2: get out of that school with a lot under my belt,
- 10:41Speaker 2: and I got eventually hired at Channel seven. It wasn't easy.
- 10:45Speaker 2: I had to work at nine, eight or nine different
- 10:48Speaker 2: radio and TV stations before I got hired there. Today
- 10:50Speaker 2: it's different. The TV industry is contracting at shrinking. There
- 10:54Speaker 2: There are no little stations in Oshkosh that hire you.
- 10:56Speaker 2: You now started a news twelve or they had FiOS
- 11:01Speaker 2: they went out of business FiOS TV. But that's where
- 11:03Speaker 2: you kind of start out and you cut your teeth
- 11:05Speaker 2: you work at. There aren't even a lot of radio
- 11:07Speaker 2: stations to work at now. A lot of them are automated.
- 11:10Speaker 2: This is live, but a lot of them are automated.
- 11:12Speaker 2: But that's the way you did it years ago, and
- 11:15Speaker 2: then you've achieved. Now did everyone achieve?
- 11:18Speaker 4: No?
- 11:18Speaker 2: There are a lot of people who tried and didn't.
- 11:20Speaker 2: But the point is I had the same shot everyone
- 11:22Speaker 2: else had. I had a lot of luck and a
- 11:24Speaker 2: lot of people who gave me a shot, and that's
- 11:27Speaker 2: the way it worked out for me.
- 11:29Speaker 4: You know.
- 11:29Speaker 2: So I was blessed. I acknowledge that. But the point
- 11:33Speaker 2: is everyone has an equal shot. It's not that I
- 11:35Speaker 2: had family in the business, somebody pulled a string for me,
- 11:38Speaker 2: somebody made a call. No, I didn't have any of that.
- 11:41Speaker 2: I didn't have any of that worked hard, was able.
- 11:43Speaker 2: I was the guy that got there two hours early
- 11:45Speaker 2: and stayed two hours late. And I guess they made
- 11:47Speaker 2: an impression and they hired me. And now I'm blessed
- 11:50Speaker 2: to be on the radio station that I listened to
- 11:52Speaker 2: all the time, to the point that I text Tom Cutty,
- 11:55Speaker 2: our program director, and his assistant. I text them all
- 11:59Speaker 2: the time if I hear some and weird or something
- 12:01Speaker 2: gets cut off because of the because of the commercials
- 12:03Speaker 2: and what I text them. They're like, oh my god,
- 12:05Speaker 2: Ken Risotto, you stopped listening. You're like, you're like a stalker.
- 12:08Speaker 2: I listened to the station day and night. I love it,
- 12:10Speaker 2: but as a fan, that's why it's especially exciting. For
- 12:13Speaker 2: me to come on on the air at seven to
- 12:15Speaker 2: ten wor anyway, enough we keep moving on, give us
- 12:19Speaker 2: a call at eight hundred three to two to one
- 12:20Speaker 2: zero seven ten, eight hundred three to two one zero
- 12:23Speaker 2: seven ten for the big fireworks show that is tomorrow night.
- 12:27Speaker 2: Don't forget it's at nine to fifteen schedule to happen
- 12:29Speaker 2: that or nine to twenty five. Excuse me. It's going
- 12:32Speaker 2: to be happening both on the East River and on
- 12:36Speaker 2: the Hudson River because of the This is the fiftieth
- 12:39Speaker 2: anniversary of the Macy's Firework Show, and it's the two
- 12:42Speaker 2: hundred and fiftieth anniversary of America, so it's a very
- 12:45Speaker 2: special event. It's going to be a laser show as well. Uh,
- 12:48Speaker 2: they're also going to be broad broadcasting. Listen to be
- 12:51Speaker 2: shooting off shells from the Brooklyn Bridge. So if there
- 12:55Speaker 2: were ever a time that you had relatives in town
- 12:58Speaker 2: from out of town, you want to show off New
- 13:00Speaker 2: York City and the beautiful Macy's fireworks show, Tomorrow night
- 13:04Speaker 2: is the night. This is probably going to be the
- 13:07Speaker 2: biggest and the best firework show you will have ever seen.
- 13:10Speaker 2: And let's just keep our fingers crossed so that we
- 13:13Speaker 2: don't get a thunderstorm. There's a chance of a passing thunderstorm.
- 13:16Speaker 2: It's only about twenty percent right now, not very high,
- 13:19Speaker 2: so keep our fingers cross it doesn't happen, and it's
- 13:21Speaker 2: going to be the best show ever. They expect three
- 13:25Speaker 2: million people to line all the different routes. The good
- 13:29Speaker 2: news is though it's not going to be three million
- 13:31Speaker 2: all like the Queen's Brooklyn shoreline, it's now spread out
- 13:36Speaker 2: from New Jersey to Long Island, Queens Brooklyn area. I
- 13:40Speaker 2: call that Long Island. I know people in Queens and
- 13:42Speaker 2: Brooklyn would differ, but geographically it's Long Island. Think about
- 13:45Speaker 2: it and they and of course everybody in Manhattan will
- 13:49Speaker 2: be able to see it. Just look left or right
- 13:51Speaker 2: and you'll be able to see. It's going to be
- 13:52Speaker 2: a spectacular show. Happy Birthday, America, Happy Independence to everybody. Again.
- 13:57Speaker 2: We're taking your calls at eight hundred three two one
- 14:00Speaker 2: zero seven ten. I don't know where that accent just
- 14:02Speaker 2: came from. We're taking our calls. I have no idea.
- 14:05Speaker 2: I'm born in Euroschelle. I have no idea where that
- 14:07Speaker 2: came from. But nonetheless, eight hundred and three to two
- 14:10Speaker 2: one zero seven ten sunny hot humid heat wave continuing
- 14:13Speaker 2: highs one hundred to one hundred and two humidity making
- 14:16Speaker 2: it feel hotter than that. So make sure you stay cool,
- 14:19Speaker 2: get out of the sun when you can, and again
- 14:21Speaker 2: we'll take your call. So at eight hundred three to
- 14:22Speaker 2: two one zero seven ten WR, we're coming right back.
- 14:26Speaker 1: This is the Mark Simone Show on seven ten WR.
- 14:30Speaker 1: Ben from Mark Today, here's Ken Rosato.
- 14:34Speaker 2: Get happy Independent, say weekend. I'm it for Mark and
- 14:37Speaker 2: enjoying the seat. I promise, though, Mark, I will dust
- 14:40Speaker 2: it off for you so that you can come back
- 14:41Speaker 2: on Monday and entertain. A Solis show was through seven
- 14:44Speaker 2: to ten w R, the Voice of New York, straight
- 14:47Speaker 2: to our busy phones. We say, good morning, Vincent, happy
- 14:49Speaker 2: for it, my friend Ah.
- 14:51Speaker 3: Happy Independence Day, Ken. Everybody touch young kids talk about
- 14:55Speaker 3: the glories of socialized medicine and socialism in general. That's
- 15:00Speaker 3: because they haven't lived it on their backs. Ken. Last year,
- 15:04Speaker 3: I was in Italy and I met up with some
- 15:07Speaker 3: friends and this friend told me that he had a
- 15:11Speaker 3: minor hernia that needed repair. He went to the doctor
- 15:15Speaker 3: and the doctor they score it. They said, wow, this
- 15:17Speaker 3: is not so bad. A year after the fact, he's
- 15:21Speaker 3: still waiting to have this hernia surgery right. And the
- 15:25Speaker 3: national healthcare system in Italy is hemorrhaging because the care
- 15:32Speaker 3: is so poor. It's better in the north that in
- 15:35Speaker 3: the south. A lot of people are buying private policies,
- 15:41Speaker 3: even though the dudes are taken out of their salary
- 15:44Speaker 3: every month, and a lot of doctors and nurses are
- 15:49Speaker 3: leaving the system because depending on where you live, the
- 15:53Speaker 3: government negotiates your contract. They tell the doctor how much
- 15:57Speaker 3: you're gonna make, They tell the tech how much you're
- 15:59Speaker 3: going to They tell the nurse how much you're gonna make.
- 16:02Speaker 3: And a lot of these professionals they're saying, I went
- 16:05Speaker 3: to medical school for ten years and I'm gonna make
- 16:09Speaker 3: a garbage man salary.
- 16:11Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty two bucks, twenty five dollars a visit. That's socialism.
- 16:15Speaker 2: There is no incentive to socialism. That's why it fails
- 16:19Speaker 2: every time it's been tried. And I love the democratic
- 16:22Speaker 2: socialists love to think that, well, it just hasn't been
- 16:25Speaker 2: done right. We're gonna do it differently. They're not doing
- 16:27Speaker 2: it differently. This is the way they get in through
- 16:30Speaker 2: the back door. They convince you they know what they're doing,
- 16:33Speaker 2: and then once they have power, they turn it into
- 16:35Speaker 2: crap like they did every place out. What do you
- 16:37Speaker 2: think all the other twenty people who've tried socialism, all
- 16:40Speaker 2: the other twenty times, that they all just missed something.
- 16:43Speaker 2: But you mail the solution, it's the same. Socialism is
- 16:46Speaker 2: only good for the socialist as.
- 16:48Speaker 3: You exactly, exactly can all the party leaders in Italy,
- 16:52Speaker 3: they drive around and what they call these blue CAUs
- 16:55Speaker 3: they're blue Mercedes Benz. Meanwhile the people are driving around
- 16:59Speaker 3: and free cyllin the fiats. And this same friend of mine,
- 17:03Speaker 3: he needed dental work, like major crowns and stuff in
- 17:06Speaker 3: the front. The healthcare doesn't pay for it. They'll pay
- 17:10Speaker 3: for two cavities cleaning and some bite wing X rays
- 17:16Speaker 3: once every two years. That's about the extent of it.
- 17:19Speaker 3: If you want restorative dental work, dig deep into your
- 17:23Speaker 3: pocket spout, because that's what it's going to cost you.
- 17:26Speaker 3: And I had a tenant years ago, a young couple
- 17:29Speaker 3: in their twenties talking about they were from Kansas, talking
- 17:33Speaker 3: about the glories of socialized medicine up in Canada. Well,
- 17:38Speaker 3: go up there and see how many people are dying
- 17:41Speaker 3: to come over to the border clinics right across our
- 17:43Speaker 3: border to get freeded.
- 17:45Speaker 2: That's what they do. If they need an MRI. They
- 17:47Speaker 2: can't wait nine months. If you got forbid to have
- 17:49Speaker 2: have a tum or something, you don't wait nine months
- 17:51Speaker 2: for an MRI. And that's what they do. They come
- 17:53Speaker 2: across the border and they spend out of pocket. You
- 17:55Speaker 2: could get a lot of people think MRIs are ten
- 17:57Speaker 2: thousand dollars. That's what they try to try to chargeing
- 18:00Speaker 2: urance companies. You can get an MRI for a few
- 18:01Speaker 2: hundred bucks, I mean, you know. And that's what people
- 18:03Speaker 2: from Canada do. They come over and do that.
- 18:05Speaker 3: There's all this medical tourism right over the borders, Wyoming,
- 18:10Speaker 3: North Dakota, all over the place right over there. They
- 18:14Speaker 3: just go over to the people who can afford it.
- 18:17Speaker 2: And in spite of the fact that unfortunately, yeah, it
- 18:20Speaker 2: can't afford it, right and in spite of the fact
- 18:22Speaker 2: that that helps relieve the socialized system, and even with that,
- 18:27Speaker 2: the socialized system doesn't work. It just doesn't work. Vincent,
- 18:31Speaker 2: Happy Happy Independence Day, my friend.
- 18:33Speaker 4: Love.
- 18:33Speaker 2: When you call you all the time and you as well,
- 18:36Speaker 2: my friend, always makes my day. I love you, visit
- 18:38Speaker 2: take it, Eric, take care, but thank you you bet
- 18:40Speaker 2: seven to ten wo r The Voice of New York Arnold,
- 18:44Speaker 2: good morning, good morning.
- 18:47Speaker 6: You know, I just wanted to add to one thing.
- 18:48Speaker 6: There's three hundred people a month in the UK, they
- 18:51Speaker 6: said are dying waiting for healthcare. But I wanted to
- 18:54Speaker 6: talk about the budget. You were recently talking about the
- 18:58Speaker 6: New York budget. One thing, I'm from originally New York
- 19:02Speaker 6: and then New Jersey, and then the progression is to
- 19:04Speaker 6: move to here, Florida, right, which is weird.
- 19:06Speaker 2: Low We're we're in Florida. I have to ask what city, Pierce,
- 19:10Speaker 2: Oh nice, Yeah, I'm down in Lauderdale.
- 19:11Speaker 6: Yes, okay, but anyways, the uh, you know, the one
- 19:16Speaker 6: thing that people forget is Florida doesn't have an income tax,
- 19:18Speaker 6: doesn't inherit and.
- 19:19Speaker 2: They're about to get rid of it's about to get
- 19:21Speaker 2: rid of property tax.
- 19:22Speaker 6: Yeah, the property tax. But you know, you look at
- 19:25Speaker 6: all these budgets, and you look at New York and
- 19:28Speaker 6: they hate anybody that that works, and you say to yourself, look,
- 19:32Speaker 6: they're going to confiscate homes. Who's going to do it
- 19:35Speaker 6: for them? They hate the cops, they're going to do
- 19:37Speaker 6: away with police, do away with the military. They want
- 19:40Speaker 6: to get all these people out of the city and
- 19:42Speaker 6: hit their budgets. One hundred and twenty five billion. Who's
- 19:44Speaker 6: going to pay for this? And then who's going to
- 19:46Speaker 6: confiscate people's homes? They don't have anybody, you know, they
- 19:50Speaker 6: keep talking big while we're gonna do this, and we're
- 19:52Speaker 6: going to do that, the other communists in Colorado's going
- 19:56Speaker 6: to confiscate people's homes. Who who is going to go
- 19:59Speaker 6: out there and take somebody's home, Arnold.
- 20:01Speaker 2: Remember Margaret Thatcher's line, socialism is great until you run
- 20:05Speaker 2: out of other people's money, right, Well, they.
- 20:08Speaker 6: Ran out already, and you know, the city of New
- 20:10Speaker 6: York just got the money from the state.
- 20:12Speaker 2: You wonder why ten thousand people, ten thousand people every
- 20:16Speaker 2: day moved to the Sunshine State of Florida. For a reason,
- 20:19Speaker 2: it's because they are fleeing this nonsense.
- 20:21Speaker 6: I wish they would I wish they would stop. I
- 20:23Speaker 6: don't want too many of them.
- 20:24Speaker 2: Yeah, the problem is too many bring the crazy left
- 20:27Speaker 2: wing politics to Florida. That's the problem. You know, they
- 20:30Speaker 2: don't realize that. Part of the problem is in New
- 20:33Speaker 2: York is the political mindset. You have to change, change
- 20:37Speaker 2: and we could have it better in New York. Well
- 20:39Speaker 2: you've got to do is vote differently. It really comes
- 20:41Speaker 2: down to that, Arnold, Thank you so much, sir. Happy
- 20:43Speaker 2: Independence Day, Happy Independence Day. Thank you. And Mario we
- 20:47Speaker 2: got about thirty seconds. How are you, sir? Hi Mary
- 20:52Speaker 2: or you're on Mario. Don't listen to the radio, it's
- 20:56Speaker 2: on delay. Listen to the phone.
- 20:58Speaker 5: Yeah, we were talking to Vince about the medical problems
- 21:01Speaker 5: in Canada. I think you should add another thing, and
- 21:04Speaker 5: it's something made maid Medical Assistance and Dying and it
- 21:09Speaker 5: goes into effect with August. And what it means pretty much,
- 21:13Speaker 5: the black and white of it is that a nurse
- 21:16Speaker 5: can come into your room in the middle of the
- 21:18Speaker 5: night and shoot you up with some drugs and take
- 21:20Speaker 5: you out and kill you. This is allowed. It's called
- 21:24Speaker 5: MAID made.
- 21:26Speaker 2: It's something they've had in Canada for years, and it's
- 21:28Speaker 2: something that's now being passed in a lot of different
- 21:31Speaker 2: states and it's really scary. Yeah, I'm with you. I
- 21:34Speaker 2: think people should look that up and think about it
- 21:36Speaker 2: because Canada they when they started, they figured just a
- 21:39Speaker 2: few people would get it. As it turns out, thousands
- 21:42Speaker 2: upon thousands of young, healthy people are committing suicide legally
- 21:47Speaker 2: in the state or in the nation of Canada because
- 21:50Speaker 2: of little because they have depression. Rather than treating the depression,
- 21:54Speaker 2: there are now doctors willing to end their lives. It's awful.
- 21:57Speaker 2: I appreciate the phone call, Surry. You're right, it's something
- 21:59Speaker 2: people need to read about.
- 22:01Speaker 7: Mario.
- 22:01Speaker 2: Happy Independence Day, sir, love having you on. Thank you
- 22:04Speaker 2: seven to ten wor It is eleven thirty four. Ken
- 22:07Speaker 2: Rosatto win from Mark on your.
- 22:08Speaker 1: Friday No Mark Simone Show, Live from the War Life
- 22:13Speaker 1: Back Studios. Guest hosting from Mark Today.
- 22:17Speaker 3: Here's Ken Rosatto and.
- 22:19Speaker 2: A happy Independence Say weekend to you seven ten War
- 22:23Speaker 2: the Voice of New York. This is not only Independence
- 22:25Speaker 2: Day weekend, it is the two hundred and fiftieth celebration
- 22:29Speaker 2: of our country. What a special commemoration. And to talk
- 22:32Speaker 2: about the history of the Declaration of Independence, one of
- 22:35Speaker 2: the most powerful declarations ever made by humans. We welcome
- 22:40Speaker 2: David Bob He's the president of the Bill of Rights Institute.
- 22:43Speaker 2: Good morning and welcome to the Mark Simone Show.
- 22:45Speaker 4: David.
- 22:45Speaker 2: It's Ken Rosatto. M though sorry to disappoint, great to
- 22:50Speaker 2: be with you, Dan, good to be with you, and
- 22:52Speaker 2: David is saying again only because we had we were
- 22:54Speaker 2: blessed to have David on my TV show in New
- 22:56Speaker 2: Jersey this week, so we talked to David about the
- 23:00Speaker 2: Declaration and about all the great founding documents of this country.
- 23:03Speaker 2: So let's talk about the prompting of the writing of
- 23:07Speaker 2: the Declaration of Independence. Was it caused specifically by colonial
- 23:11Speaker 2: anger over British taxation without representation? And I know they
- 23:15Speaker 2: had the Continental Congress for it. What prompted the declaration?
- 23:21Speaker 7: The Declaration was prompted by a series of things that
- 23:25Speaker 7: mounted over many years. You know, it's a tribute to
- 23:30Speaker 7: the patients of those who endured those challenges that they
- 23:36Speaker 7: didn't take action sooner. You know, they really didn't want
- 23:40Speaker 7: to end the relationship with the with this island that
- 23:46Speaker 7: had meant so much, that had birthed the colonies. They
- 23:51Speaker 7: went into this with a certain reluctance. But after a while,
- 23:54Speaker 7: as they stated in the document, in the Declaration of
- 23:56Speaker 7: Independence itself, they couldn't wait and they had to take
- 24:00Speaker 7: those twenty seven complaints, which really said, hey, the King
- 24:03Speaker 7: has abused his authority. He's become both the legislature. He's
- 24:07Speaker 7: taken those executive powers and abused them, and he's assumed
- 24:10Speaker 7: the powers of the judiciary. And they said, a prince
- 24:14Speaker 7: has become a tyrant.
- 24:16Speaker 2: That's fascinating. And just looking at the Continental Congress, there
- 24:19Speaker 2: were five people appointed right to draft the declaration was
- 24:23Speaker 2: Thomas Jefferson, it was what John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman,
- 24:28Speaker 2: and Robert Livingston. Right, those were the five who were
- 24:32Speaker 2: They were the Continental Congress appointees to do this. But
- 24:35Speaker 2: what's amazing is the difference in their backgrounds and ages.
- 24:39Speaker 2: That's what I love. I mean, you had the young
- 24:42Speaker 2: guy was Robert Livingston. He was only twenty nine, right,
- 24:44Speaker 2: Thomas Jefferson. We think of the old guy with the whig.
- 24:48Speaker 2: We think of him as Tom. He was only thirty
- 24:49Speaker 2: three years old. He was a kid. And then you
- 24:52Speaker 2: had the old man, of course, was Benjamin Franklin. He
- 24:54Speaker 2: was seventy. A lot of people didn't even live to
- 24:56Speaker 2: be seventy. Sherman was fifty five. So you had this
- 25:00Speaker 2: array of people of different ages. Was that done intentionally?
- 25:05Speaker 3: You know?
- 25:05Speaker 7: The group as a whole, the eventual signers, I think
- 25:09Speaker 7: their average age was right around forty two. So Benjamin
- 25:13Speaker 7: Franklin was an outlier. He was a statesman of extraordinary standing,
- 25:18Speaker 7: and there was a respect accorded those, you know. At
- 25:21Speaker 7: first it seemed to Jefferson that the task of drafting
- 25:24Speaker 7: the Declaration would go to John Adams. But John had
- 25:28Speaker 7: enough humility. He was not known for that virtue. But
- 25:31Speaker 7: he did say, in this case, Jefferson has the more
- 25:33Speaker 7: able pen. Let's give it to him. So think of
- 25:36Speaker 7: that assignment, though, you really got I mean everybody's done
- 25:39Speaker 7: stuff on deadline. Can you imagine you got to write
- 25:41Speaker 7: this document? You got seventeen days go, right? And so
- 25:44Speaker 7: he holed up in his house which is now called
- 25:49Speaker 7: Declaration House in Philadelphia, and he went to work, and
- 25:53Speaker 7: he did so without a bunch of books at hand.
- 25:56Speaker 7: He had a lifetime of learning that in those young years.
- 26:00Speaker 7: And if I can just really quickly, there's a moment
- 26:03Speaker 7: that I think is remarkable as we think about this legacy.
- 26:07Speaker 7: You know how if you write something and you really
- 26:09Speaker 7: don't want anybody else to read it, you'll scratch it
- 26:12Speaker 7: out and scratched over the ink. Well, he did that
- 26:15Speaker 7: with something he had written down on the parchment, and
- 26:17Speaker 7: the word that he wrote down to describe Americans. We
- 26:20Speaker 7: did not know until twenty ten that word was subjects.
- 26:25Speaker 7: The word he wrote above it on top of it
- 26:28Speaker 7: was citizens. That's the movement, right, that's the change, that's
- 26:31Speaker 7: the transformation. We are no longer subjects. We are citizens.
- 26:36Speaker 2: Fascinating And there's our history right there that is absolutely amazing.
- 26:41Speaker 2: And having been born and raised in New Rochelle proudly
- 26:45Speaker 2: I am Thomas Paine. And his patholic common sense had
- 26:50Speaker 2: quite a power about shifting public opinion, didn't it.
- 26:55Speaker 7: Common Sense was an absolute blockbuster. We have virality today
- 27:00Speaker 7: online and this would be like super virality. Pamphlets and
- 27:04Speaker 7: and you know, kind of booklets like this were the
- 27:07Speaker 7: where the stock in trade for carrying ideas. And it's
- 27:11Speaker 7: not like people sat around in taverns and you know,
- 27:13Speaker 7: pulled out their their their warren copy of Locke's Second Treatise,
- 27:17Speaker 7: but these ideas were in the air, they were in
- 27:19Speaker 7: houses of worship. And what pain kind of channeled was
- 27:23Speaker 7: this sense that no more we've had it. And he
- 27:27Speaker 7: really did not like monarchy at all, so he was
- 27:30Speaker 7: ready to do away with all monarchs, all kings, all
- 27:34Speaker 7: royal authority. But what he I think really channeled was
- 27:37Speaker 7: that that that sense that hey, we've given them enough time,
- 27:41Speaker 7: let's move on. Patients will no longer be a virtue.
- 27:44Speaker 7: And sure enough, that's the kind of momentum that carried
- 27:46Speaker 7: it forward.
- 27:47Speaker 2: I love it. And of course, the the incredible influence
- 27:50Speaker 2: that the Declaration of Independence had on the writing of
- 27:52Speaker 2: the Constitution and specifically the Bill of Rights, right, I mean,
- 27:55Speaker 2: it was all that was the the the big explosion.
- 27:58Speaker 2: Of course, the Treaty of Paris after the war kind
- 28:03Speaker 2: of was what would be the official birth point that
- 28:06Speaker 2: when England accepted the fact that we were an independent country?
- 28:11Speaker 2: Or would you say that the declaration is or is
- 28:14Speaker 2: it just somewhere in between.
- 28:16Speaker 7: Yeah, it's interesting. There's all these kind of debates that
- 28:20Speaker 7: we really could have. I think it's fair to peg
- 28:22Speaker 7: it right to the July fourth date. You know, the
- 28:26Speaker 7: declaration of what we did telling the world is a
- 28:32Speaker 7: really big deal. But we did have to win the war.
- 28:36Speaker 7: We had been at war for more than a year
- 28:38Speaker 7: at that point, and so it's a remarkable series of events.
- 28:42Speaker 7: It does take another you know, full seven years before
- 28:47Speaker 7: we get to the treaty, and then you have another
- 28:50Speaker 7: lengthy period of time. Really, it's a full arc of
- 28:53Speaker 7: fifteen years between the Declaration and the Bill of Rights.
- 28:56Speaker 7: So think of it between now and twenty forty one,
- 28:59Speaker 7: we're going to have fifteen years of two hundred and fifties,
- 29:01Speaker 7: which is really exciting. But you're right, can that there's
- 29:04Speaker 7: a relationship, and scholars sometimes don't want to acknowledge this.
- 29:07Speaker 7: They want to say something like the men of seventeen
- 29:09Speaker 7: seventy six were not the men who drafted the Constitution.
- 29:13Speaker 7: But to my co author Tony Williams and I, in
- 29:16Speaker 7: this book that we've just written, Divided over the Declaration,
- 29:19Speaker 7: we really make the case that the Declaration and Constitution
- 29:22Speaker 7: go together. They are written with a common argument that
- 29:27Speaker 7: says we need this vision where all human beings are
- 29:30Speaker 7: created equal government exists to secure their rights. That's the
- 29:33Speaker 7: vision laid out, but the Declaration the Constitution puts that
- 29:36Speaker 7: into effect.
- 29:38Speaker 2: And before we go, we just said about a minute left,
- 29:40Speaker 2: I just want to ask you what for people who
- 29:43Speaker 2: have the opinion that America was flawed from its founding
- 29:45Speaker 2: and not a special a great country, what would you
- 29:48Speaker 2: respond with? What would you tail them?
- 29:50Speaker 7: Human beings are imperfect? The founders recognize this. Think of
- 29:54Speaker 7: what it took to two thirds of them who signed
- 29:57Speaker 7: the Declaration of Independence did own slaves, they owned other
- 30:02Speaker 7: human beings. All of them knew that it was wrong,
- 30:05Speaker 7: even Thomas Jefferson, and I think what's remarkable is that
- 30:09Speaker 7: is a contradiction to that principle. But by putting down
- 30:12Speaker 7: the principle, there's a judgment rendered. We need to do better.
- 30:17Speaker 7: And were they quick enough to change.
- 30:20Speaker 1: No.
- 30:20Speaker 7: Many of them lamented the speed with which they went
- 30:23Speaker 7: to bring these rights to everybody. But here's something beautiful.
- 30:26Speaker 7: Right after the declaration was articulated, enslaved people claimed it
- 30:30Speaker 7: for their own. They mounted what came to be known
- 30:32Speaker 7: as freedom suits, and they brought these two judges and said,
- 30:37Speaker 7: look here in your official document, we have freedom. So
- 30:41Speaker 7: what I would say is this corrective mechanism that was
- 30:43Speaker 7: in the declaration. It stood for generations and stands still
- 30:47Speaker 7: to today, and I hope for another two hundred and
- 30:49Speaker 7: fifty years to be a standard that we can live
- 30:52Speaker 7: up to as Americans.
- 30:53Speaker 2: In order to form a more perfect union. Right, that's
- 30:58Speaker 2: what it was about to form. We knew it wasn't
- 31:00Speaker 2: perfect yet, and it's still not perfect. But it's to
- 31:04Speaker 2: form a more perfect union. That's why we come together
- 31:07Speaker 2: with ideas, and we don't have a monarch shutting us
- 31:10Speaker 2: down and putting us in jail for talking about it.
- 31:13Speaker 2: I could talk to you forever about this, David Bob.
- 31:15Speaker 2: I am just a history buff and I love talking
- 31:18Speaker 2: about it. David Bob is the President of the Bill
- 31:20Speaker 2: of Rights Institute on this special two hundred and fiftieth
- 31:24Speaker 2: anniversary of the founding of the United States of America.
- 31:27Speaker 2: David Bob, thank you so much for coming on today.
- 31:30Speaker 5: You're welcome.
- 31:31Speaker 2: Thank you so much, and Happy Independence Day, sir to
- 31:34Speaker 2: you two.
- 31:35Speaker 3: Thank you all right.
- 31:36Speaker 2: It's Ken Brazzatowan for Mark. On your Friday. We observe
- 31:38Speaker 2: Independence Day today. On the third tomorrow, of course, is
- 31:41Speaker 2: the actual day. When we come back. We'll take more
- 31:43Speaker 2: of your calls if you'd like. Eight hundred three two
- 31:46Speaker 2: one zero seven ten. Eight hundred three two one zero
- 31:50Speaker 2: seven ten for WR.
- 31:53Speaker 1: Now more of the Mark Simone Show on seven to
- 31:55Speaker 1: ten WR filling in for Mark.
- 31:58Speaker 2: Here again is Ken and nice to be with you
- 32:01Speaker 2: as who wrap up this last hour. Let's go to
- 32:04Speaker 2: the phones. Good morning, You're on the Mark Simone Show. Hello, Hello, Ken, Yes.
- 32:11Speaker 4: Hi, hey Ken, It's Chris from Mohan. Very quickly. I'm
- 32:16Speaker 4: very happy what's going on with all the socialist movement.
- 32:19Speaker 4: It is a gift from these people. The Democrat party
- 32:23Speaker 4: is ruined. If you ever watched Bill mart he's a Democrat.
- 32:25Speaker 4: He had Jade Vance on.
- 32:27Speaker 2: The other day.
- 32:27Speaker 4: He was saying, look, my vote is up for grabs now,
- 32:30Speaker 4: like I'm done, just immediately voting for this. And I
- 32:33Speaker 4: got a lot of friends that are Democrats too. They're saying,
- 32:36Speaker 4: we're not voting for these people. It's a blessing for
- 32:39Speaker 4: the Republican Party. They should just take it and run
- 32:42Speaker 4: with it and praise the Lord every time one of
- 32:44Speaker 4: these crazy socialists because they're never going to win on
- 32:47Speaker 4: a national level. Can you imagine AOC going up against
- 32:50Speaker 4: Marco Rubio on a debate. Can you just imagine that.
- 32:52Speaker 2: But here's here's the problem, Chris. We said, we would
- 32:55Speaker 2: have said ten years ago, they'll never win any public office,
- 32:58Speaker 2: and then they went in New York. Then we would say, oh,
- 33:01Speaker 2: they'll never win beyond New York City, and then they
- 33:03Speaker 2: went in New York State. Then we said they'll never
- 33:04Speaker 2: went outside New York State, and then they just won
- 33:06Speaker 2: in New Jersey. The problem is it's like cancer. They
- 33:11Speaker 2: creep a little out of time and before you know it,
- 33:13Speaker 2: you blink your eyes and they're in national office. That's
- 33:16Speaker 2: what scares me about them. I understand your point, Chris,
- 33:19Speaker 2: I don't disagree with what your point is. In other words,
- 33:21Speaker 2: once they're exposed, people will say, oh, they're nuts. The
- 33:25Speaker 2: sad part is there are enough people who say I
- 33:28Speaker 2: like that idea because, as many have said, as President
- 33:31Speaker 2: Trump said, it's easy to sell communism and socialism because
- 33:34Speaker 2: you just give away free stuff. Chris from Long Island,
- 33:37Speaker 2: thank you so much for the call, sir, and that'll
- 33:39Speaker 2: do it. Mark will be back in the seat on Monday.
- 33:41Speaker 2: I'm Ken Rosatto. Thank you to Mark and w O
- 33:43Speaker 2: R for letting me sit in today. Don't go anywhere,
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- 33:58Speaker 2: two hundred and fiftieth America Hoppy fourth of July from
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