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Speaker 1: Right now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten wo R.
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Speaker 2: Filling in for Mark.
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Speaker 1: Here's Ken Rosato. E. Very nice to be with you.
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Speaker 1: Former New York City TV news guy here reporting for duty.
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Speaker 1: You probably best remember me for twenty years over a
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Speaker 1: Channel seven and just hearing Daria Albinger talk about Bill Ritter,
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Speaker 1: the main anchor for decades at Channel seven. I had
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Speaker 1: the privilege and honor of working with him for the
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Speaker 1: twenty years that I was an anchor. And the group
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Speaker 1: that is anchors for TV stations in New York, at
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Speaker 1: all the stations, it's a very small family. We all
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Speaker 1: know each other pretty well. And I will say that
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Speaker 1: in the twenty years that I was there, Bill Ritter
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Speaker 1: was like a big brother in a lot of ways, kindest,
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Speaker 1: could be, super great advice, just a good man. And
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Speaker 1: I just wish him well. I pray for him every night,
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Speaker 1: and I just hope that the Alzheimer's, because of the
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Speaker 1: medications we have today, I'm hoping that those medications treat
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Speaker 1: him as kindly as possible. But he's a very good,
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Speaker 1: very hard working, very dedicated man, a dad, a grandpa,
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Speaker 1: and it was a pleasure working with him, you know,
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Speaker 1: And and hopefully he has a lot of good years
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Speaker 1: ahead of him. But it was big of him to
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Speaker 1: take a point where he realized the Alzheimer's was impacting
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Speaker 1: his memory enough that he had to step aside. The
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Speaker 1: late great Bill Butell had issues similar to that. I
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Speaker 1: wasn't sure if he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's per se,
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Speaker 1: but I know he had dementia related issues as well,
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Speaker 1: and he was just a lovely man as well. So anyway,
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Speaker 1: small group of people, we it just it broke my
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Speaker 1: heart when I heard the diagnosis publicly. I had heard
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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago rumors swirling about it, but
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Speaker 1: we just all hope that it wasn't true. And now
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Speaker 1: we know the truth. But Bill Ritter very brave for
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Speaker 1: coming out and telling everybody about it and sharing the
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Speaker 1: journey so that people know that we have to eat right,
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Speaker 1: exercise and talk to the doctor. If you have even
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Speaker 1: the tiniest symptom, don't avoid it. Talk to the doctor
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Speaker 1: and see if there are medications that can at least
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Speaker 1: prolong it. We have a lot to talk about today.
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Speaker 1: Phone lines are open, Give us a call, take part
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Speaker 1: in the conversation. At eight hundred three to two one
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Speaker 1: zero seven ten, eight hundred three to two one zero
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Speaker 1: seven ten. Special congrats to our friend Mark Simone for
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Speaker 1: those who didn't hear. This week he got the twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty six Gold Standard and Broadcasting Award from Barrett Media.
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Speaker 1: Nobody deserves it. More congrats my brother. And also, we
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Speaker 1: want to talk about the US Iran deal. It is
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Speaker 1: changing by the second, it seems, so the more we
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Speaker 1: hear about it, the more questions we have to ask.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people really scratching their heads saying should
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Speaker 1: we have signed this? Should we go along with this?
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Speaker 1: As of today for those who don't know or didn't
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Speaker 1: hear as of earlier today, Iran decided that they are
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Speaker 1: going to reclose the Strait of Horror moves because they
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Speaker 1: say that Israel's involvement in and presence in Lebanon negates
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Speaker 1: the deal, so that they are saying they are reclosing
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Speaker 1: the straight of Hormu's vice president of vents was supposed
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Speaker 1: to go to Geneva this weekend and now he's saying
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Speaker 1: it's postponed for the near future. Hopefully this is just
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Speaker 1: a roadbump that we could solve. If not, and I'm
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Speaker 1: a better watch it because we still have our military
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Speaker 1: in the waters around that country, and we could flatten
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Speaker 1: him in a heartbeat. So we'll see where this goes.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully the White House will have something to say about it. Today,
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Speaker 1: two million people packing Lower Manhattan for the huge Nicks
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Speaker 1: Championship celebration, and now there were about a dozen arrests.
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Speaker 1: But considering two million people there, that was enormous. You
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Speaker 1: would think that with two million people anywhere, you'd have
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Speaker 1: more trouble than not. But fortunately it was kept to
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Speaker 1: a minimum. We know that some people almost got crushed.
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Speaker 1: Unfortunately they weren't, but they almost got crushed when people
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Speaker 1: rushed in area, and folks who were near the pens
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Speaker 1: near the barricades got kind of pushed against the pens.
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Speaker 1: And then you had one case where a guy took
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Speaker 1: a bottle and broke it and cut another guy in
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Speaker 1: the neck, and that victim is in stable conditioned today.
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Speaker 1: Bad stuff should not have happened, obviously, but the good
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Speaker 1: news is the incident's were kept to a minimum, and
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Speaker 1: that is the good news. But for those of you
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Speaker 1: who missed yesterday's big, big celebration, I don't know if
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Speaker 1: you heard zoron Mumdani speaking just take a listen to this.
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Speaker 2: This is our city, this is our team. For fifty
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Speaker 2: three years, we watched for fifty three years. We waited.
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Speaker 2: Now we've won one last time, New York saying with
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Speaker 2: me Nixon.
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Speaker 1: See now, this is a man who knows how to
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Speaker 1: play the crowd or play to the crowd. Zoron Mumdani
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Speaker 1: is the ultimate populist that way, and it's kind of scary.
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Speaker 1: It's a little dangerous. Zoron knows how to get everybody
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Speaker 1: to look at the sparkles on his right hand, while
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Speaker 1: on his left hand he is doing very nefarious things
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Speaker 1: with the government. Some said he is just a socialist.
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Speaker 1: This is the way he thinks. No, I think it's
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Speaker 1: more nefarious than that. I think it's a plot. I
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Speaker 1: don't like this. I disagree with democratic socialism. It is brainwashing,
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Speaker 1: and they are brainwashing young people in this country. If
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Speaker 1: you ask the average young person to define socialism, they can't.
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Speaker 1: They have no idea what it's about. They think it's
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Speaker 1: just being feared people. It's the meaning for corupid people
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Speaker 1: don't equal or money. They forget or don't understand, or
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Speaker 1: we're never taught deliberately that there isn't a finite amount
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Speaker 1: of wealth in this world. It is infinite. Okay, there
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Speaker 1: is an infinite pot of money and it can grow
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Speaker 1: and grow and grow. It comes down to you will
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Speaker 1: be rewarded for the efforts you make. If you come
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Speaker 1: up with a great concept, if you invent a great widget,
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Speaker 1: if you bake a better chocolate chip cookie, if you
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Speaker 1: make a better doughnut, if you can build a house
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Speaker 1: faster and more efficiently, if you can come up with
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Speaker 1: an app that can put a taxi cab out of
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Speaker 1: business because someone can summon the car directly to your house,
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Speaker 1: like you know Uber and Lyft. Those people become multimillionaires,
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Speaker 1: if not billionaires, because they came up with a better idea.
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Speaker 1: They weren't born millionaires and billionaires. They weren't born with
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Speaker 1: silver spoons in their mouths. All right. Mark Zuckerberg wasn't
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Speaker 1: born in poverty. But he came up with a great
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Speaker 1: idea and he pushed that idea and he developed it.
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Speaker 1: That's what capitalism is about. And the beautiful part about
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Speaker 1: capitalism is everybody could be a millionaire every There is
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Speaker 1: no limit, there's no point about. We got two thousand,
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Speaker 1: that's it. We got to stop there. No everyone could
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Speaker 1: be wealthy and successful and happy in a capitalist society,
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Speaker 1: whereas in a socialist society, the common denominator is dumbed down.
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Speaker 1: You can't make everybody a millionaire by the government's waving
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Speaker 1: of a wand so let's dumb it all down and
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Speaker 1: make everybody poor because that they can maintain. We could
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Speaker 1: give if you just enough money to survive and know more.
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Speaker 1: And this way we're all the same. Well, what is
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Speaker 1: the incentive to even get out of bed? If whether
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Speaker 1: I go to work or I stay home on my butt,
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Speaker 1: I make the same amount of money, what's the difference.
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Speaker 1: I have a friend whose daughter lives in a communist country.
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Speaker 1: I won't say which, but her daughter is a cardiologist
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Speaker 1: and she has been trying to get to the United States.
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Speaker 1: And it makes me laugh because of all the people
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Speaker 1: that Biden allowed in illegally. She wants to come here legally,
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Speaker 1: and it's difficult. She can't get in. But as a cardiologist,
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Speaker 1: she makes less money than a cab driver in the
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Speaker 1: United States makes. In her country, she does not make.
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Speaker 1: I think she gets a little stipend and she gets
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Speaker 1: a nicer house to live in. They grant you the
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Speaker 1: house in that country. Wow. So she spent all those
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Speaker 1: years working her butt off in school and she gets
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Speaker 1: a nicer house to live in, but she gets the
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Speaker 1: same salary she could barely afford to buy food. That
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Speaker 1: shouldn't be the case. If you work hard and achieve,
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Speaker 1: you should not be struggling to buy food. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's the more effort you put in, the better idea
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Speaker 1: you come up with. That's the benefit of capitalism. That's
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Speaker 1: why you have people breaking down our doors from all
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Speaker 1: over the world. Yet people are not breaking down the
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Speaker 1: doors or communist countries to get there. You notice that
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Speaker 1: how many people here fight to get into China. All right,
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Speaker 1: maybe they'll go to the big cities in China that
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Speaker 1: are hybrids, you know, the big big cities. Hong Kong
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Speaker 1: is a hybrid. Remember Great Britain ran it for one
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Speaker 1: hundred years and it became democratic. It became a democratic republic.
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Speaker 1: It is still run quasi autonomously from the rest of
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Speaker 1: communist China, which is why it's still successful. Beijing. Same thing.
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Speaker 1: All the major cities in China where there is wealth,
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Speaker 1: there is wealth because the government steps back and lets
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Speaker 1: them run. Basically autonomously with their own little government they run.
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Speaker 1: As long as they keep paying the government money, they're fine.
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Speaker 1: And that's how come that happens. But communism is so
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Speaker 1: has failed every time and everywhere it's been tried. Yet
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Speaker 1: everybody who sells the game of socialism says they can
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Speaker 1: do it better. Zoron Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists, the
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Speaker 1: dssay's selling that game, telling everybody that you could have
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Speaker 1: whatever you want and it could still be fair, because
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Speaker 1: the people who've been in control all this time are
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Speaker 1: thieves and just evil and it's wrong and they don't
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Speaker 1: deserve to be in office. And young kids who've been
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Speaker 1: indoctrinated by their teachers in public schools for several decades now,
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Speaker 1: they believe that that's the case. That it is good
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Speaker 1: you're good hearted and empathetic if you're a Democratic socialist,
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Speaker 1: and if you're a capitalist, you're evil. You shouldn't be
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Speaker 1: in my presence. And hence you have the murder, the
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Speaker 1: alleged murder, i should say, by by a certain person
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Speaker 1: who's currently on trial right now. You have a murder
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Speaker 1: by a young man, and you have young women screaming
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Speaker 1: saying they're in love with him, Are you out of
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Speaker 1: your minds? This is what it's come down in this country.
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Speaker 1: Just insanity. But this is what happens when you have
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Speaker 1: a society that has been indoctrinated into the belief that
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Speaker 1: socialism is good and fair and capitalism is mean. Seven
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Speaker 1: ten WR The Voice of New York. It's Kenra zottow
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Speaker 1: in on a Friday for the Great Marximon enjoying a
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Speaker 1: nice long weekend. We want to hear what you have
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Speaker 1: to say at eight hundred three to two one zero
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Speaker 1: seven ten. Eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten.
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Speaker 1: Father's Day on Sunday? What are you doing for Dad?
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Speaker 1: I'm lucky, very very very lucky. My dad's ninety five
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Speaker 1: and a half years old, and I got both mom
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Speaker 1: and Dad still with me. I'm fifty nine plus. I'm
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Speaker 1: very lucky to have them both. So I will see
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Speaker 1: Dad on Sunday morning. But what are you doing? You
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Speaker 1: got special plans to give us a call let us know,
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Speaker 1: or some good ideas for Dad rather than the standard
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Speaker 1: barbecue or going out to dinner. What are you doing
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Speaker 1: that's special with Dad? Eight hundred three to two to
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Speaker 1: one zero seven ten. And we have more fraud involving
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Speaker 1: illegal aliens. This time it involves food stamps. Federal prosecutors
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Speaker 1: in Massachusetts have charged eleven illegal aliens with using stolen
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Speaker 1: identities and social Security numbers to fraudulently get one and
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Speaker 1: a half million dollars in benefits your tax dollars and mine.
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Speaker 1: And here is the Assistant Attorney General, Colin MacDonald talking.
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Speaker 3: About it blarmingly. Eleven of the fifteen charged defendants are
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Speaker 3: suspected illegal aliens, some of whom assumed stolen identities to
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Speaker 3: steal these taxpayer funded benefits and avoid detection. American citizens
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Speaker 3: were boxed out of these programs because illegal aliens took
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Speaker 3: their names to then take their money.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so there were people who genuinely needed those benefits,
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Speaker 1: and when they went to get the benefits, they couldn't
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Speaker 1: because illegal aliens who shouldn't be here were illegally using
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Speaker 1: their names and social Security numbers which they illegally obtained,
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Speaker 1: and they went and collect did the benefits that should
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Speaker 1: have gone to people who genuinely needed them. So, on
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Speaker 1: top of all of that, your tax dollars were used
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Speaker 1: to do that. So you work hard, you pay a
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Speaker 1: fortune in taxes, and you have a Democrat administration that
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Speaker 1: allowed these people in and they were just misappropriating funds
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Speaker 1: left and right. That's how much they care about your
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Speaker 1: hard earned tax dollars. That's why you never, ever, ever
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Speaker 1: blindly trust government. Okay, government always claims to be able
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Speaker 1: to do it better. They never do. They can never
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Speaker 1: do anything efficiently, They never do it better. Nothing was
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Speaker 1: ever created by government. It was only wasted by government.
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Speaker 1: Do you know that of every dollar spent in our
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Speaker 1: welfare system in the United States, do you know how
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Speaker 1: much money actually makes it to a welfare recipient, it's
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Speaker 1: between thirty and thirty five cents because of inefficiency, because
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Speaker 1: of union jobs, people collecting the money along the way.
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Speaker 1: So thirty to thirty five cents were as years ago
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Speaker 1: when you gave money to charity, charity would then distribute
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Speaker 1: it one hundred percent to the individual who needed charity.
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Speaker 1: So there's the difference when you have government versus charity.
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Speaker 1: And then you have the compromise. The NGO the non
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Speaker 1: governmental organizations such as Catholic charities and Lutheran charities and
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Speaker 1: Episcopal services, etc. And for a while they were doing
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Speaker 1: a pretty good job. So they were getting money allocated
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Speaker 1: by the government from taxes, but yet they were still
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Speaker 1: doing things a lot with people who were donating their time. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: the NGOs started getting political, and all of them right
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Speaker 1: now are on my suspicious list, to say the least.
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Speaker 1: And it's sad because I used to be one of
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Speaker 1: the people who would volunteer my time for Catholic charities
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Speaker 1: in Brooklyn and Queens and I used to go out
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Speaker 1: there and help them raise millions of dollars. And then,
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Speaker 1: with all due respect, let's just say that I saw
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Speaker 1: some things that may be a little uncomfortable and I
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Speaker 1: no longer have anything to do with them. But that's
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Speaker 1: not to say that you shouldn't donate. I'm not telling
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Speaker 1: you what you should do. But I'm just saying that
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Speaker 1: I don't like NGOs the way they have become today.
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Speaker 1: Not that they weren't set up with great intentions. I
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Speaker 1: just don't like the politics and the way they've had it.
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Speaker 1: Seven ten wor The Voice of New York. This is
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Speaker 1: Ken Risotto Win from Mark on a beautiful Friday, and
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Speaker 1: we're gonna have a nice, nice weekend. Actually, if you
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Speaker 1: like sun and clouds, low humidity and a little breeze,
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Speaker 1: highs in the low eighties. It's gonna be that way today, tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: and Father's Day Sunday. Really nice weekend in store. Coming
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Speaker 1: up later in the broadcast, we'll be speaking with a
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Speaker 1: woman who has developed away get This to turn plants
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Speaker 1: into clothing as efficiently as companies use fossil fuels to
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Speaker 1: make polyester. Only this material will not decompose into microplastics.
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Speaker 1: You know, polyester is made from oil. People don't realize that.
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Speaker 1: And when you throw out a polyester shirt, it ends
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Speaker 1: up in a landfill and turns into microplastics that gets
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Speaker 1: into the water supply you drink that. People die with
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Speaker 1: all these microplastics in their bodies. Well, her fabrics are
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Speaker 1: made into entirely from plants, but made as efficiently as polyester.
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Speaker 1: It's fascinating. It is now eleven twenty one. Your calls
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