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Hour 1: Saluting our troops! · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Now the Mark Simone Show on seven to ten woor
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Speaker 1: filling in for Mark.
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Speaker 2: Here's Ken Rosatto. It iss so good to be with
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Speaker 2: you on a Friday, and what a beautiful Friday it is.
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Speaker 2: But man, oh man, does Mark always pick the best
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Speaker 2: days to take off? There is so much news happening
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Speaker 2: today that I have a headache. My head is spinning.
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Speaker 2: I got in for the new first hour and by
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Speaker 2: So this is Ken Rosotto, former New York City TV
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Speaker 2: Have a lot of fun over there. But we want
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Speaker 2: So there is a lot happening. Is there a deal
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Speaker 2: in place for United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson's alleged murderer,
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Speaker 2: Luigi Magjoni. Now we may find something out about that
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Speaker 2: in the next couple of hours, and how the state
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Speaker 2: and federal cases would affect one another. Thompson was shot
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Speaker 2: in the in the back at point blank range, you recall,
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Speaker 2: on the morning of December fourth, twenty twenty four, is
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Speaker 2: literally from the windows where I'm sitting right now in
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Speaker 2: the Mark Simone studio, which by the way, is gilded.
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Speaker 2: You think that you think that President Trump painted the
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Speaker 2: Simone did up the studio. Now that he has the
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Speaker 2: nine am hour, he has gold, he has diamond chandeliers
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Speaker 2: in here. It's it's unbelievable. It's like I feel like
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Speaker 2: I should have worn a tuxedo coming in. But the
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Speaker 2: windows about twenty feet behind where this studio is point
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Speaker 2: out at the very spot where the shooting occurred back
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Speaker 2: in December of twenty twenty four. So that's how close
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Speaker 2: we are to where this happened. The New York Hilton
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Speaker 2: is right there, and ABC News legal contributor Brian Buckmeyer
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Speaker 2: has some details about what's happening.
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Speaker 3: I think the plan is to try to get a
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Speaker 3: good deal from the judge, sidestep the prosecution, take it
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Speaker 3: from there, and then hope double jeopardy argument wins in
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Speaker 3: the state court. And that's how you get Luigia Manngioni
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Speaker 3: serving twelve years in prison, because they probably believe this
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Speaker 3: is a mitigation case rather than a trial case.
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Speaker 2: So that's something that makes sense to me. We have
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Speaker 2: a lot going on, So there are two cases. Remember
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Speaker 2: there's the State of New York case, which is going
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Speaker 2: on right now. But what is supposed to happen today
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Speaker 2: at eleven am is that his attorney, his federal attorney,
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Speaker 2: will go to the federal judge and try to cut
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Speaker 2: a plea deal with the federal judge, and then they're
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Speaker 2: hoping retroactively that will then short circuit the state case
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Speaker 2: and they'll just have a plea deal with the Feds
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Speaker 2: and call it a day. That's my basic understanding of it.
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Speaker 2: I am not a lawyer. A friend of mine in fact,
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Speaker 2: my personal attorney is criminal defense attorney, not because I've
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Speaker 2: committed crimes. He's just a personal attorney, criminal defense attorney.
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Speaker 2: Imron On' sorry. He's going to be here a little
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Speaker 2: later to talk about what is happening this morning. In fact,
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Speaker 2: he's going to be reporting for Fox when it happens.
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Speaker 2: So he was good enough to give us some of
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Speaker 2: his time today, so we'll talk to him about that
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Speaker 2: in detail. That's kind of big. I'm sure there are
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Speaker 2: still a lot of you who are probably rolling your eyes, saying,
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Speaker 2: enough of this kid, throw him in jail or whatever.
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Speaker 2: But everybody deserves time at a court. We'll find out.
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Speaker 2: I just wonder if he will have federally mandated eyebrow
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Speaker 2: trimming when he gets I have heard from certain people
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Speaker 2: who have said, oh I think they look good. You think,
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Speaker 2: oh my god, my gosh. I look at those eyebrows,
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Speaker 2: and I get a little nauseous. I can't have lunch
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Speaker 2: when I look at those things. Just get some hedge
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Speaker 2: clippers on those, for God's sake. I just don't understand them.
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Speaker 2: I digress again. That will be something we will cover
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Speaker 2: apparently at eleven a m. His attorney, Remember he has
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Speaker 2: different attorneys for New York State and for the federal case.
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Speaker 2: I believe the federal attorney is a guy named Avi.
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Speaker 2: First name is Avi. I forget the last time I
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Speaker 2: thing is it moscowitz? I believe so so Avi will
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Speaker 2: be before the federal judge apparently this morning. That'll be
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Speaker 2: happening at eleven. That doesn't mean that the judge will
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Speaker 2: make a decision at eleven. It's just that the case
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Speaker 2: will be discussed allegedly, apparently reportedly between the attorney and
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Speaker 2: the judge and who else. The judge could say, all right,
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Speaker 2: this is what you'd like. I think that's acceptable. Go
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Speaker 2: ahead and do it and put it all in motion.
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Speaker 2: And if that is the case and it gets accepted,
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Speaker 2: then it becomes a question of how does that impact
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Speaker 2: the state case. Will the state still move forward or
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Speaker 2: will that short circuit a case under the rules of
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Speaker 2: double jeopardy. So we'll talk about that with Imron. I'm sorry,
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Speaker 2: he is. He is the man who knows these cases.
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Speaker 2: He's done a lot of criminal cases with my dear
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Speaker 2: friend Arthur Idalla to phenomenal, probably two of the best
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Speaker 2: attorneys in the business right here in New York City.
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Speaker 2: But Imron will be the one the partner who is
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Speaker 2: on this morning. Eight hundred three two one zero seven
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Speaker 2: for seven to ten wo r Ken Rizato win from Mark.
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Speaker 2: Happy Friday, Happy weekend to you. Did you hear about
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Speaker 2: the story that they were talking about this morning on
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Speaker 2: the Morning Show? Curtis and Larry talked about this the
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Speaker 2: aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. Now, if you're like me,
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Speaker 2: a lot of folks in the Mark Simon audience, we
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Speaker 2: love our members of the military who risk their lives
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Speaker 2: to defend us, keep us free, keep us a great nation.
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Speaker 2: And because so many of these members have been deployed
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Speaker 2: on the USS Abraham Lincoln for so long. I remember
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Speaker 2: these kids, many of them, majority of them are only
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Speaker 2: in there, you know, late teens or early twenties, their kids.
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Speaker 2: It's one thing to be deployed for three months and
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Speaker 2: then you hit a port and you get you know,
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Speaker 2: you blow off some steam for a few a few weeks,
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Speaker 2: and then you go back on the ship and then
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Speaker 2: you work for three months. I mean, that's what you
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Speaker 2: signed up for. But these people, men and women, have
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Speaker 2: been on the ship between two hundred and fifty and
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Speaker 2: two hundred and seventy days and they haven't even seen
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Speaker 2: a port. They haven't even stopped by a port in months.
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Speaker 2: So they have been literally out to sea with whatever
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Speaker 2: supplies get flown in on helicopters for two hundred and
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Speaker 2: fifty to two hundred and seventy days. Haven't been able
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Speaker 2: to see their families. They're loved ones. You know, you
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Speaker 2: get limited time that you could talk on your phones
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Speaker 2: and whatever. At least they have that, but they get
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Speaker 2: very limited time a lot of times. There's, of course
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Speaker 2: certain things you can't discuss because it's classified, but these
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Speaker 2: people are you know, they signed up for a lot.
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Speaker 2: I get it, but I think they have even more
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Speaker 2: that's been presented to them than they signed up for.
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Speaker 2: So they've been on extended deployment. There are over five
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Speaker 2: thousand sailors and marines on board the USS Abraham Lincoln.
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Speaker 2: The good news is in the next couple of months
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Speaker 2: they're supposed to be relieved. There's another aircraft carrier coming
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Speaker 2: to swap out with them, But Navy Times reported on
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Speaker 2: Tuesday that at least two sailors had to be prevented
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Speaker 2: from jumping overboard that's how much stress there under. And
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Speaker 2: there were other family members who spoke to the outlet
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Speaker 2: that said their loved ones were sort of in a
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Speaker 2: deep funk being on board. They just like they wake up.
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Speaker 2: It's the same thing. It's like Groundhog Day every day,
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Speaker 2: the same kind of stress. Don't know when they're coming home,
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Speaker 2: don't know when it's all going to end. Secretary of War, though,
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Speaker 2: Pete Hegseth says the reports are really overblown, completely misrepresentative.
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Speaker 4: Listen, we make sure at every ship, every crew, every
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Speaker 4: captain has everything we can provide them at every single moment.
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Speaker 5: Some deployments are longer than others.
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Speaker 4: And I have more respect and gratitude for those sailors
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Speaker 4: than anybody. What they do in those high seas and
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Speaker 4: those austere conditions.
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Speaker 6: With less port calls.
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Speaker 7: It's incredible.
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Speaker 4: Americans don't understand what it's like to do that. So
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Speaker 4: as someone who's been not been on a ship like that,
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Speaker 4: but been on long deployments, I feel it.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean, if there's anyone who does get it, it's
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Speaker 2: Pete hag Seth because he's been in the military. He's
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Speaker 2: spent years in the military, so I feel confident knowing
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Speaker 2: somebody like that is in charge because he does get it.
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Speaker 2: He does get it, and the troops love him when
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Speaker 2: he shows up. The sailors, the Marines, the soldiers adore him.
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Speaker 2: They cheer him, they work out with him. They really
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Speaker 2: love the guy because they know that he walked the
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Speaker 2: walk and talked the talk and can actually speak on
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Speaker 2: behalf of them. But enough is enough. And I think
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Speaker 2: a lot of these folks just want to get home,
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Speaker 2: and just not even they're not going to get out
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Speaker 2: of the military. They just want to be is it,
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Speaker 2: family and loved ones and spend some time like you
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Speaker 2: would or anyone else would. And I get that. You know,
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Speaker 2: they're not actively in war. We're in a skirmish right
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Speaker 2: now with Iran, and they're there to basically offset or
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Speaker 2: prevent a war from happening. But nonetheless they want to
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Speaker 2: be relieved. So fortunately there will be a swapout for them.
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Speaker 2: But if the reports are true, that's a serious deal.
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Speaker 2: If some of the sailors want that to jump overboard
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Speaker 2: and their lives, that's how much they were impacted by this,
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Speaker 2: then that says something about the conditions on board, and
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Speaker 2: that's something that has to be looked into and it's
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Speaker 2: valid that we look into that. We owe that to
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Speaker 2: our sailors, our marines, and our soldiers who at our
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Speaker 2: Coast Guard members. By the way, I'm in Space Force.
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Speaker 2: I'm not trying to leave anybody out. When you dedicate
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Speaker 2: a chunk of your life to the military, then the
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Speaker 2: United States has to back you one hundred percent for
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Speaker 2: the rest of your life. And they deserve that. Heck,
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Speaker 2: even I've seen improvements at VA hospitals. My dad is
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Speaker 2: ninety five and a half. God bless them. I'm going
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Speaker 2: to see today and Dad goes to the VA Hospital
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Speaker 2: in the Bronx. Because Dad was a Marine, a very
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Speaker 2: proud Marine. He was a sergeant and seprify And whenever
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Speaker 2: we walk into the VA Hospital in the Bronx, you'd say, oh,
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Speaker 2: if you've never been there, a lot of people probably
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Speaker 2: roll their eyes and think it must be horrible. Just
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Speaker 2: the opposite. One of the best run facilities I have
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Speaker 2: ever seen. Polite, courteous, spotless, They are quick to serve.
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Speaker 2: I walk in with my dad and they run up
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Speaker 2: to them with a wheelchair and they don't know who
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Speaker 2: I am. It's not like it's like a TV or
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Speaker 2: radio thing they run up with a wheelchair. They do
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Speaker 2: it for everybody else too, make sure the person the
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Speaker 2: vet is taken care of. Everything is right there, from
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Speaker 2: their mental health cases to their eyesight, to their hearing,
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Speaker 2: to their general practitioners, x rays, you name it, even
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Speaker 2: people who need prosthetics, eyeglasses. It is literally all under
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Speaker 2: on roof and if there's anybody who learned how to
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Speaker 2: do it right. And it used to be terrible. The
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Speaker 2: VA hospitals used to be awful twenty thirty years ago.
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Speaker 2: They have really flipped around. A lot of that was
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Speaker 2: because of President Trump in his first term, hearing about
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Speaker 2: the conditions and demanding the things change, and by his
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Speaker 2: second term those changes were implemented. So it's really nice
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Speaker 2: to see. And I want to do a shout out
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Speaker 2: to all the folks who work at the VIA Hospital
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Speaker 2: in the Bronx and all the VA hospital facilities. I
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Speaker 2: know there's the main one here in Manhattan, there's one upstate,
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Speaker 2: but I just am familiar personally with the one in
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Speaker 2: the Bronx, and I just want to say thank you
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Speaker 2: and a Lord of all the good folks there who
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Speaker 2: work so hard. But just for all our military members,
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Speaker 2: you know, We thank you for what you're doing, and
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Speaker 2: hopefully things aboard the USSA. Braham Lincoln, if there are
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Speaker 2: any challenges, we'll get taken care of as soon as possible.
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Speaker 2: The editor in chief of Navy Times spoke about the
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Speaker 2: publication of this story and stands behind it.
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Speaker 7: Ever since we released that report, we're getting more and
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Speaker 7: more feedback from sailors from previous deployments.
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Speaker 2: Who are just really exhausted.
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Speaker 7: They are exhausted, and they're discussing that more and more
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Speaker 7: with us, because I think that's a narrative that has
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Speaker 7: been suppressed a little bit until now.
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Speaker 2: All Right, so we'll see what happens. And yeah, if
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Speaker 2: the sailors are being and marines aboard the ship are
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Speaker 2: not getting the treatment they should, the proper treatment they should,
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Speaker 2: the food, et cetera, and the care, then we got
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Speaker 2: to deal with that. We're spending a lot of money,
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Speaker 2: your tax dollars in mind, trillions going to the military
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Speaker 2: over the years. So these people, these men and women,
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Speaker 2: deserve the best, the absolute best. Heck, if I could,
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Speaker 2: and we could give them filet mignon every day, if
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Speaker 2: that's what they want, they deserve whatever goodness we could
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Speaker 2: give them for the time that they're dedicating to us
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Speaker 2: eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten eight
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Speaker 2: hundred three two one zero seven ten Ken Rosotto in
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Speaker 2: seven ten wr. We'd love to hear from you on
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Speaker 2: The Great Marc Simone Show, the new first of three Hours. Hey,
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Speaker 2: do you ever play the lottery? How does a lottery
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Speaker 2: jackpot have to be for you to buy a ticket?
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Speaker 2: I ask izy our board out here, But Issy, how
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Speaker 2: high is your point that you will buy a ticket
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Speaker 2: when you normally would not? Five hundred five hundred million? Okay,
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Speaker 2: that's a good number. I mean I usually if it's
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Speaker 2: anything more than one hundred, I'll buy just one ticket.
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Speaker 2: When it gets to five hundred, I'll buy like three.
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Speaker 2: Not that it really increases your odds. It doesn't. Just
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Speaker 2: in the back of my mind. It's just for confidence sake.
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Speaker 2: And then when it gets to near a billion, then
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Speaker 2: I'll start buying. You know, it may only increase it
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Speaker 2: by one billionth of a percent, but whatever, you never
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Speaker 2: know there is it does increase the odds, but just
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Speaker 2: a fraction of a fraction of a percent. Anyway, if
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Speaker 2: you hadn't heard, there was one person in Quincy, Illinois,
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Speaker 2: a town of thirty nine thousand people. One person won
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Speaker 2: the one point zero four billion dollar powerball jackpot on Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: How amazing is that hasn't come forward yet, but literally
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Speaker 2: everybody at the High V that's the quickie mart where
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Speaker 2: it was sold. Everybody's buzzing about who might have bought
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Speaker 2: that ticket. I don't know, would you come forward and
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Speaker 2: tell people? Would you keep it secret? Some states allow
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Speaker 2: you to stay anonymous, other states don't. I'm not sure
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Speaker 2: what Illinois case is. And yes, I'm pronouncing the s
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Speaker 2: because it's Illinois apostrophe. That's what how I'm pronouncing it Illinois.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if Illinoi's rules you see how I
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Speaker 2: did that? Have it so that you can be anonymous?
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but either way, I would be curious
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Speaker 2: to see who the next billionaire is. I guess after
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Speaker 2: tax isn't taking the cash option. It's a little over
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Speaker 2: four hundred minion. I believe, yeah, you can make something
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Speaker 2: happen with that. But I'm just curious. Give us a call,
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Speaker 2: let us know. Is there a point at which you
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Speaker 2: buy a ticket and a point under which you will
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Speaker 2: not Just curious to see what the answer is to that.
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Speaker 2: Eight hundred and three to two one zero seven WR
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Speaker 2: the Voice of New York. It is ken rizzottowin from
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Speaker 2: Mark Simon on a Friday. And for those who did
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Speaker 2: not hear, President Trump is coming to Nassau County today.
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Speaker 2: He's going to help rally support for NASA County eject
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Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman's run for governor, and the President says he's
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Speaker 2: also coming to honor the local police.
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Speaker 9: The President has indicated an interest in coming to honor
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Speaker 9: the people of law enforcement here in Nassau County.
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Speaker 2: Nasau County backs the Blue that is Bruce Blakeman running
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Speaker 2: for governor. And he also talked about how his counties
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Speaker 2: police departments have worked successfully with ICE agents up to
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Speaker 2: this point.
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Speaker 9: We did it without raiding one church, one school, one business,
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Speaker 9: one daycare center.
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Speaker 2: It was very orderly. Well, there is a deal.
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Speaker 8: Now.
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Speaker 2: So you have the governor of the State of New York,
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Speaker 2: who is being pressured by the liberal leftists like Mayor
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Speaker 2: Mom Donnie, to tell the police departments around the state
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Speaker 2: that you can have absolutely no interaction with ICE. Now.
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Speaker 2: Of course they say right away, well no, no, if
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Speaker 2: there's something criminal, then they can have an interaction Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's frowned upon, and it has to basically be proven
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Speaker 2: up and down that they had no choice but to
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Speaker 2: go to ICE because of a criminal situation. But these
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Speaker 2: police officers, believe me, they would love to report everybody
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Speaker 2: who is here illegally, whom they know is here illegally,
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Speaker 2: to ICE, but they are forbidden. Why are we going
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Speaker 2: out of our way to protect people who have committed
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Speaker 2: a crime. If you're in this country illegally, think about it.
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Speaker 2: It's called illegal alien, whether you like the term or not.
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Speaker 2: If you're in the country illegally, then let police do
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Speaker 2: their job. Now, you'll say, but Ken, that's a federal crime. Well,
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Speaker 2: guess what. Kidnapping is a federal crime, yet you allow
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Speaker 2: local police arrest people for that. Bank robbery is a
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Speaker 2: federal crime. Counterfeiting is a federal crime. Transporting people illegally
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Speaker 2: across state lines, sex trafficking, these are all federal crimes.
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Speaker 2: But yet you allow the police to have interaction with
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Speaker 2: ICE or with federal agents on FBI, etc. On those cases.
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Speaker 2: But yet you won't let them have any kind of
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Speaker 2: interaction with federal agents when it comes to illegal aliens. Hmm,
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Speaker 2: let's scratch your head. And wonder why, mayhaps because you
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Speaker 2: hope they will be future Democrat voters, or, in the
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Speaker 2: case of New Jersey, current Democrat voters, because they voted illegally.
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Speaker 2: And we know that hundreds have voted illegally in New
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Speaker 2: Jersey who should not have, and thousands upon thousands have
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Speaker 2: registered to vote illegally who should not have. Hmm, do
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Speaker 2: you think maybe that has a little something to do
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Speaker 2: with it. I guarantee if the people who come here
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Speaker 2: illegally could prove that they were going to vote Republican,
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Speaker 2: Democrats would erect a five hundred foot wall all around
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Speaker 2: the country that would blot out the sun because they
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Speaker 2: wouldn't want them here. But because they think these people
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Speaker 2: are all going to be Democrat voters in the present
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Speaker 2: or near future. This is why they are very happy
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Speaker 2: to do everything they can to support and defend them. Hey, Hey,
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Speaker 2: three two one zero seven ten eight hundred and three
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Speaker 2: to two one zero seven ten the number to call.
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Speaker 1: Ken from Mark Today.
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Speaker 2: Here's Ken Rosatto, and it is good to be on
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Speaker 2: hour one of the allly three hour Mark Simone Show.
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Speaker 2: Three hours for the price of the original two. I
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Speaker 2: mean when I think about how much money we're saving
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Speaker 2: by getting that extra hour, I get very excited by that.
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Speaker 2: It is great to be here sitting in the great
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Speaker 2: This is Ken Rosotto, former TV news anchor in New
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Speaker 2: York City for twenty five years. I spent we in
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Speaker 2: Channel seven and Channel five, and it is just good
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Speaker 2: to be here today being able to talk and talk
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Speaker 2: my mind. All those years as a news anchor, you
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Speaker 2: had to keep your mouth shut, and just every time
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Speaker 2: I would read a story that the very liberal members
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Speaker 2: of my respective TV stations would write, I would kind
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Speaker 2: of grit my teeth. You know, we as anchors were
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Speaker 2: allowed to tweak things, but you can't change the overall
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Speaker 2: flavor and direction of the story, so it's usually just
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Speaker 2: the I always like to say that the mainstream media
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Speaker 2: commits sins of omission, whereas you know, it depends on
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Speaker 2: what they want to cover. There are like twenty seven
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Speaker 2: stories they could cover about a Republican that they ignore,
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Speaker 2: and then the Republican wore a shoe that had a
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Speaker 2: scratch on it and that becomes the story. And that's
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Speaker 2: sort of the thing that without I don't even think
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Speaker 2: they realized they were doing it because they're just raised
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Speaker 2: in a liberal environment and that's what tends to happen
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Speaker 2: with quote unquote mainstream media. And I had to deal
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Speaker 2: with that. Imagine sitting there with a bottle of tombs
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Speaker 2: on the set for twenty five years, with all the
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Speaker 2: TV stations I worked for, and just kind of keeping
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Speaker 2: my mouth shut, knowing that seventy percent of the people
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Speaker 2: around me would hate my politics because they are just
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Speaker 2: absolutely immersed in nothing but left wing politics. From whence
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Speaker 1: More of the marximone Show on seven to ten. Woor
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Speaker 1: going in for Mark here again is ken rosetto.
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Speaker 2: All right, good to be with you on a Friday
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Speaker 2: to our busy phones. Right now, let's go to Joe
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Speaker 2: in Elmwood Park. Good morning to you, Joe.
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Speaker 4: Good morning Ken.
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Speaker 2: I don't want to sound facetius or ludicrous.
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Speaker 4: Are they going to rig Blakeman's election like they did
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Speaker 4: to us in Jersey?
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Speaker 2: I sure hope not. Let's keep our fingers crossed. I
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Speaker 2: love brutes Blake been Way, and I think he would
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Speaker 2: be a fantastic governor in the state of New York.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he has so much going for him. Look
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Speaker 2: what he did to NASA County in the short time
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Speaker 2: he's there. And Jack would have been a good cover
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Speaker 2: for us too. Yeah, I believe that. I believe. In fact,
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Speaker 2: it's funny the few times that I said on the
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Speaker 2: air that he was avoiding me for interviews, No sooner
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Speaker 2: did I say that. His brother called and set up
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Speaker 2: an interview and we got him on the air, and
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Speaker 2: he was just so gracious and so kind. And guess what,
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Speaker 2: All that time I thought that my producers at my
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Speaker 2: show in New Jersey, I'm like, why isn't he responding?
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Speaker 2: Then I look in my phone and realized I had
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Speaker 2: Jack's phone number in my phone. The whole time, was
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Speaker 2: my fault for not calling him, so I blame myself
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Speaker 2: for not reaching out to him earlier. But I agree
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Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman would be the best thing for New York,
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Speaker 2: and Jack Shold could test it. But its too late now, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: too late, is right now. We'll keep our fingers crossed
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Speaker 2: for next time. That's all we can do. Thank you
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Speaker 2: so much, Joe. We go to Bill in Idaho. Good morning, Bill, a.
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Speaker 10: Woman to thank you for mentioning the bomb PA because
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Speaker 10: I've been treated in New York nineteen seventy through five
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Speaker 10: and I've seen the improvements in the last five years.
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Speaker 10: It's just amazing, isn't it?
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Speaker 2: Something you know, when you think government and I don't
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Speaker 2: mean to step on your bill. When you think government,
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Speaker 2: healthcare and what you generally tend to have a negative
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Speaker 2: stereotype in mind. And I remember the first time my
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Speaker 2: mother asked, as my mom used to go with my
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Speaker 2: dad and now neither one of them can can drive
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Speaker 2: down there alone. But they asked, would you come and
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Speaker 2: take dad. I was living in Central Jersey, but I said,
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Speaker 2: of course I will, and I still do now. And
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Speaker 2: I remember going there, pulling up and seeing how immediately
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Speaker 2: you are greeted, You're welcome. They rush to get you
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Speaker 2: a wheelchair. Everything is what can I do for you, sir?
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Speaker 2: Where can I take you? Where do you need to go?
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Speaker 2: It's just courtesy that the vet's all deserve. And by
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Speaker 2: the way, thank you for your service to Bill. Bill
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Speaker 2: you're still there.
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Speaker 6: I'm here and you know I will got to spoken
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Speaker 6: in just the last six months, and that it's you know,
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Speaker 6: I had no idea if you know this, but it's
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Speaker 6: either Northern Idaho is like a center of medical at
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Speaker 6: he I mean because all of candidates coming down.
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Speaker 10: And taking advantage of, you know, all the different facilities.
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Speaker 10: But the VA is like number three in the country,
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Speaker 10: and they are I've never seen anything like it. I mean,
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Speaker 10: they are you know, I'm ete one years old and
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Speaker 10: they treat me like, you know, I'm some sort of hero.
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Speaker 2: Well you are. And the fact that the fact that
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Speaker 2: you served, sir, you are we appreciate what you did.
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Speaker 5: Well, not really.
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Speaker 10: When I got in in nineteen seventy and I had
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Speaker 10: to go over to the VA on twenty fourth Street,
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Speaker 10: they were literally rats coming out of there because we
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Speaker 10: were baby killers that you remember.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what they thought. That's what the liberals were saying,
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Speaker 2: but thankfully you are in one piece and you deserve
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Speaker 2: all the respect in the world at the VA. And thankfully,
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Speaker 2: because of President Trump in his first term, the VA
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Speaker 2: right now is getting the resources necessary and treating our
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Speaker 2: vets with the dignity and respect they deserve. We appreciate
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Speaker 2: your bill. Let's go to James and Suffolk conty or
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Speaker 2: on w O R.
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Speaker 8: HI.
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Speaker 11: I had a couple of comments. I served on a
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Speaker 11: ship of the USS Independence and it would do nine
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Speaker 11: month tours at a time, and there were times that
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Speaker 11: did eighteen months. And if somebody wanted to jump off
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Speaker 11: that ship, there's no trying. You could simply jump off.
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Speaker 11: So I don't believe the narrative that people are trying
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Speaker 11: to jump off the ship.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there are you know, James, Look, we
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Speaker 2: assume everybody who's in the military is of the same
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Speaker 2: lockstep mind conservatives, or that isn't the case. The military
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Speaker 2: is made up of all sorts of different people, just
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Speaker 2: like main you know, the folks on the streets, And
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Speaker 2: it could very well be that you have, you know,
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Speaker 2: one kid who might have depression and might be telling
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Speaker 2: their mother or father like hey, you know it's it
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Speaker 2: sucks here, never know, and that person goes and complaints
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Speaker 2: to the Navy Times. And remember it is the publication's
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Speaker 2: job to get eyeballs on the publication. But that doesn't
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Speaker 2: mean that things are going flawlessly either, so it's worth
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Speaker 2: looking into it.
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Speaker 11: It's definitely rough and being on a ship and you
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Speaker 11: work at twelve I was day seven days a week,
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Speaker 11: and it does get tough. But they were doing that
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Speaker 11: back in the eighties, eighteen month tours in the Persian golf.
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Speaker 2: Would you get, James, you wanted to jump? James, I
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Speaker 2: don't mean to step on you. I was going to
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Speaker 2: ask you, did you at least get port calls every
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Speaker 2: now and then?
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Speaker 11: I didn't, but sometimes you would, but not usually out
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Speaker 11: in a Persian golf Wow. But if you wanted to jump,
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Speaker 11: you'd simply walk over to the edge and jump off.
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Speaker 11: There's no trying to jump. You could simply jump off
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Speaker 11: of it. But I also wanted to mention how they're
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Speaker 11: having that meeting with President Trump with the Nassau County Police,
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Speaker 11: and they said that Long Island Police are doing such
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Speaker 11: a great job not talking about Nassau, but the Suffolk
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Speaker 11: Police do not prosecute illegals. They protect them, and I've
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Speaker 11: had one try to break into my house, broke into
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Speaker 11: my truck. They refuse to file a report, claiming the
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Speaker 11: police would just the DA's and judges just release them,
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Speaker 11: so they don't even arrest them, even though I got
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Speaker 11: them on camera breaking into my truck and then two
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Speaker 11: weeks later tried to break into my house.
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Speaker 2: I'm fed up with it. I listen New York. New
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Speaker 2: York needs to get a new governor and people have
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Speaker 2: to get out and listen. I got to blame Republicans
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Speaker 2: for this. Get out and vote for the Assembly and
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Speaker 2: the Senate. What happens is you get the Republican right,
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Speaker 2: they vote for president and then like, yeah, I only
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Speaker 2: vote for president. Well that's your problem. If you only
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Speaker 2: vote for president, ninety percent of your day to day
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Speaker 2: life is not impacted by what the president does. It's
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Speaker 2: impacted by your governor, your mayor, your Assembly, your Senate.
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Speaker 2: Those are the people you have to vote for. Yet
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Speaker 2: they sit on their asses and they don't go out
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Speaker 2: and vote. And by the way, you can get an
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Speaker 2: absentee ballot. Do what the Liberals do. Vote seventy two
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Speaker 2: years early and vote for your candidate instead of saying
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Speaker 2: I had to go food shopping that day, I had
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Speaker 2: to go to the bank. I didn't have time. Well,
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Speaker 2: then you get what you get if you don't go
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Speaker 2: out and vote for your assembly and send it. You
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Speaker 2: have people in the New York State Assembly who are
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Speaker 2: such radical leftists that they make mom Donnie look like
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Speaker 2: a conservative. Remember he was a New York State assembly man.
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Speaker 2: That's what you get. You have one hundred other people
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Speaker 2: like him up in Albany who are radicals. And Governor
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Speaker 2: Bucktooth excuse me, Governor Hokel just signs off on whatever
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Speaker 2: they give her because she just wants to live along
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Speaker 2: and get along and get re elected.
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Speaker 11: Pathetic, But love your show, and thanks for taking my call.
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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, James. Appreciate your listening. But it is
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Speaker 2: the Mark Simone show. I'm just keeping the seat warm
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Speaker 2: for a couple of days for the great Mark Simone
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Speaker 2: for a day at least. He'll be back on Monday,
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Speaker 2: bright and early on his new first of three hours
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Speaker 2: that I know he is so happy. Hey is he?
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Speaker 2: How happy? Is Mark coming in for nine am? Now?
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Speaker 2: Isn't he excited?
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Speaker 9: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Is he's saying? Oh yeah, he's excited. He's bad, as
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Speaker 2: excited as a guy waiting to get needles in his eyes.
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Speaker 2: But no, no, no, But the great thing is there
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Speaker 2: is nobody better at this. This is the amazing thing.
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Speaker 2: I never get to see Mark because I fill in
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Speaker 2: for him. People ask me all the time, what's it like?
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Speaker 2: Is he like is a good guy? Yes, the few
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Speaker 2: times I've talked to Mark, he is an awesome man.
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Speaker 2: But I don't really get to see him and interact
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Speaker 2: with him because he's off and enjoying his long vacation weekends,
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Speaker 2: which is why I'm here. Mark is the best in
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Speaker 2: the business, period and he deserves all the accolades in
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Speaker 2: the world, including his Barrett Media accolades that he got
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Speaker 2: top twenty major market news talk radio best midday show.
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Speaker 2: He is just the best at what he does, and
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Speaker 2: we love Mark very very much. Let's go to Dave
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Speaker 2: and Malwan, New Jersey. Hello, Davey, Hey, how you doing
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Speaker 2: Ken good sir?
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Speaker 8: First thing I wanted to say is I can't wait
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Speaker 8: till you get your your own show. Oh no, great?
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Speaker 8: Hearing you? Yeah No, don't say that you're You're You're
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Speaker 8: awesome at the radio. You really are. Thank you, and yeah,
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Speaker 8: I want I wanted to see what your feelings were about,
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Speaker 8: you know, biological men playing in female sports. I mean,
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Speaker 8: obviously you're probably against it, like like I am, and
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Speaker 8: most most are. But what should we what should we
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Speaker 8: do with the transgender athletes? Because no one ever talks
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Speaker 8: about the remedy. We just talked about the problem.
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Speaker 2: I'm glad you're saying, Dave. I think that's a brilliant question.
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Speaker 2: And I've thought about this. Nobody ever asks that question.
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Speaker 2: So I have friends who are trands, and I've had
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Speaker 2: I've had this discussion, and I've asked, why don't you
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Speaker 2: know you could? You could ostensibly, if you are a
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Speaker 2: trans female, meaning you're born a man biologically, but you
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Speaker 2: you perceive yourself as a female, you could ostensibly play
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Speaker 2: in a man's team because you are still biologically for
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Speaker 2: the most part, unless they had surgery, they are biologically male.
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Speaker 2: Actually even after the surgery, they're biologically male because their
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Speaker 2: DNA says so. But then if not, then have a
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Speaker 2: league of your own. Listen, this is America. I think
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Speaker 2: it would be interesting to see a league of trans people,
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Speaker 2: and I bet you there would be an audience for that.
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Speaker 2: I think people more than anything else, out of the curiosity,
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Speaker 2: would want to check it out. But I think that
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Speaker 2: the experiment is carrying itself out right now with the WNBA.
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Speaker 2: If we in fact start getting the Eniscanters, etc. Starting
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Speaker 2: their own teams or joining teams as you know, men
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Speaker 2: who are tongue in cheek saying they are women. I
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Speaker 2: want to see what happens to women's sports, and I
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Speaker 2: think this is the great experiment. We'll find out what happens.
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Speaker 2: But I am with you. I think the whole idea
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Speaker 2: of forcing women or forcing the female teams to accept
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Speaker 2: genetic men where they have physiological differences that are clearly obvious.
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Speaker 2: I think that is just going to destroy women's sports,
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Speaker 2: and there's no point to having separate women's sports then
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Speaker 2: at that point, right all right, my friend David, listen,
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Speaker 2: I appreciate you calling my fellow New Jersey man. I'm
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Speaker 2: a garden Stater too. We appreciate you, Bud. I have
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Speaker 2: a great day, great weekend. You two thanks right you
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Speaker 2: I had a very good morning too. It is Friday morning.
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Speaker 2: Ken Rozatto used to be on Channel seven and Channel
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Speaker 2: and news, and people say you can't do both, Yeah
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Speaker 2: you can. When I was at Channel seven, I'll tell
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Speaker 2: you I had my own opinions, and yet I had
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Speaker 2: people who thought I was left wing, people who thought
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Speaker 2: I was right wing. They had no idea because anytime
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Speaker 2: I felt I was starting to go in one direction,
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Speaker 2: I would make sure I rewrote the story in the
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Speaker 2: unquote it as being a conservative. I was one of
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Speaker 2: maybe three in the entire industry who was conservative. But
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Speaker 2: it's important that you stay as right down the middle
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Speaker 2: as you can, and you can do it. So that's
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Speaker 2: why when people say you can't be both a talk
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Speaker 2: show host and a news anchor, yes you can. You
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Speaker 2: just as long as you're honest with people, I think
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Speaker 2: you can. Let's go to our phones right now. Eight
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Speaker 2: hundred three two one zero seven ten Mike and Portchester,
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Speaker 2: Good morning to you.
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Speaker 5: Ah right, How are you doing.
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Speaker 2: I'm good, Mike, how are you sir?
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Speaker 5: All right?
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Speaker 2: Listen.
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Speaker 5: I called because I keep learning about this affordability problem
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Speaker 5: and I'm wondering to myself, who are these people? Because
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Speaker 5: I solved the problem for myself when I was a
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Speaker 5: younger man and graduated from high school. I always worked
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Speaker 5: two jobs, right, and I went to high school, graduated
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Speaker 5: from Steppanach. I went to Fairfield University. I graduated from there.
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Speaker 5: I always had a job. Even when I was in university.
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Speaker 5: They gave me a scholarship paid half of my way
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Speaker 5: through h So you know, there's a If there's a will,
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Speaker 5: there's a way.
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Speaker 2: Uh here it's called it's called being raised with a
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Speaker 2: work ethic, Mike, and that's what you were raised with. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 2: the more leftist types believe in entitlement, and they believe,
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Speaker 2: by the way, you know that affordability was not a
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Speaker 2: word a couple of years ago, when actually it should
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Speaker 2: have been under Biden. The minute Trump took off, as
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Speaker 2: suddenly the liberals created the buzzword. They love coming up
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Speaker 2: with buzzwords, Mike. And that's what it's all about, catchphrases
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Speaker 2: and buzzwords. That's why they're all full of baloney. All right,
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