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Hour 3: Dolly Parton's fortune. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Now, the Mark Simone Show on 710WOR. Filling in for Mark,
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Speaker 1: here's Ken Rosado.
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Speaker 2: And just because Daria just said, I would love to
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Speaker 2: see someday there's going to be a Hurricane Daria, I
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Speaker 2: did the Google. I went on the Google and looked.
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Speaker 2: There was a Hurricane Daria in 1990, known as Cyclone Daria.
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Speaker 2: Cyclone is a hurricane, just another name. They call it
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Speaker 2: that on the other side of the world, but it
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Speaker 2: is the same type of storm. It was a European
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Speaker 2: windstorm that struck northwestern Europe. That's a rarity. January 25th
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Speaker 2: and 26th of 1990. So you see, Daria was not
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Speaker 2: left out of the hurricane naming business there. So Hurricane Daria.
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Speaker 2: No one is as good as our Hurricane Daria right
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Speaker 2: here in the newsroom, though. 710WOR, the voice of New York.
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Speaker 2: It's Ken Rosato in for Mark on your, I was
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Speaker 2: almost going to say Monday, on your Friday. Don't take
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Speaker 2: I used to work at Channel 7. For those that
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Speaker 2: I'm sure you've seen the video by this point of
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Speaker 2: the awful, glacier collapse that happened on the Nepal-China border.
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Speaker 2: It just happened the other day. To look at it,
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Speaker 2: you think, my gosh, how could anything be that powerful?
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Speaker 2: How could anyone survive something like that? And so many people,
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Speaker 2: as it turns out, did not. The newest numbers are
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Speaker 2: 579 confirmed dead. 90 of, well, let me say 1,900
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Speaker 2: plus are missing. 90 of the people missing are American citizens.
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Speaker 2: So we're still keeping our fingers crossed and hoping that
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Speaker 2: they are just somewhere and alive, but their families, as
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Speaker 2: you can imagine, just awfully, awfully worried just to see this.
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Speaker 2: It reminds you, the flashback to 9-11, when people's names
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Speaker 2: are being put up everywhere, their names and pictures are
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Speaker 2: being put up all over Kathmandu, which is a big
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Speaker 2: city right near there in Nepal, right by the Chinese border.
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Speaker 2: But what had happened was apparently a glacier collapsed and
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Speaker 2: it just sent Thousands of tons of debris and water
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Speaker 2: just cascading down and flattened, flattened chunks of the city
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Speaker 2: and all the people and bridges just like they were
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Speaker 2: toys and just wiped out so many people in an instant. Again,
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Speaker 2: 579 confirmed dead, 1,900 plus missing, and 90 Americans are
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Speaker 2: among those 1,900 missing. So prayers for those people and
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Speaker 2: the horror that that was. 7-10-W-O-R, the voice of New York.
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Speaker 2: It's Ken Rosato and from Mark. And for those people
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Speaker 2: who say, why did they build something near a glacier
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Speaker 2: like that? And yeah, part of me immediately thought that too.
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Speaker 2: And then I thought, oh, wait a second. We built
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Speaker 2: these cities called Los Angeles and San Francisco on this,
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Speaker 2: and San Diego for that matter, on this fault line,
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Speaker 2: the biggest fault on the planet Earth called the San
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Speaker 2: Andreas Fault. And they're the world's biggest earthquakes that happened there, right?
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Speaker 2: And we built in Italy and Sicily, We built the
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Speaker 2: city of Catania right by Mount Etna, just north of there.
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Speaker 2: And we built Naples right by Mount Vesuvius. Those are
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Speaker 2: both active volcanoes that still rattle and ooze lava. Look
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Speaker 2: at Hawaii. We still have populations on Hawaii right by
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Speaker 2: active volcanoes, Kilauea. So we do this as humans. It's
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Speaker 2: kind of hard to find any place on Earth that
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Speaker 2: isn't a certain proximity to something dangerous. But we just
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Speaker 2: hope that we could live as long as possible without
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Speaker 2: having to see disaster. 710WOR, The Voice of New York.
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Speaker 2: We'd love to hear what you have to say about
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Speaker 2: that and maybe prayers and wishes for the people who
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Speaker 2: have gone through that devastation there.
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Speaker 3: 800-321-0710.
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Speaker 4: 800-321-0710.
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Speaker 2: So President Trump loves to tweak the libs. Once again,
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Speaker 2: he signed that executive order that renames Trump. Lake Ontario,
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Speaker 2: Lake America. And for those who think he can't do that,
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Speaker 2: the president is the head of the executive branch. The
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Speaker 2: Department of the Interior falls under the jurisdiction of the
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Speaker 2: executive branch. So he names the head of the Department
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Speaker 2: of the Interior, who gets certified by the Senate, gets
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Speaker 2: approved by the Senate, and that person is. And so
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Speaker 2: he is, in essence, the boss of the Department of
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Speaker 2: the Interior, and that person is accepted the executive order
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Speaker 2: so yes the president has the authority to rename things
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Speaker 2: like the gulf of america and lake america now you
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Speaker 2: could say well that's arrogant of us to do that
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Speaker 2: how obnoxious why is it only obnoxious when america does
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Speaker 2: it how come it wasn't obnoxious when canada did it
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Speaker 2: you know yes it may have been a couple hundred
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Speaker 2: years ago but why wasn't it obnoxious Lake Huron, for instance,
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Speaker 2: which was named after French Canadian explorers on their side.
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Speaker 2: And more of Lake Huron is on the American side
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Speaker 2: than on their side, but yet it's called Lake Huron.
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Speaker 2: Why was that not obnoxious, right? Lake Superior, which was
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Speaker 2: actually named Lac Superior in French, which means the upper
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Speaker 2: lake named by the Canadian side. Why is that not obnoxious?
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Speaker 2: Why is it not obnoxious when the majority of the
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Speaker 2: Gulf of Mexico, what we used to call the Gulf
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Speaker 2: of Mexico, falls over? under or surrounded by American territory,
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Speaker 2: why is it called, why was it called the Gulf
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Speaker 2: of Mexico? Why is it wrong to call it after America?
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Speaker 2: Why is it that we seem to be always embarrassed
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Speaker 2: to accept the fact that this country is pretty great
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Speaker 2: at what it's done? It's, it's lifted more people out
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Speaker 2: of poverty and starvation on the planet than any other.
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Speaker 2: Is it perfect? Absolutely not. But does it have remedies
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Speaker 2: to fix its faults? Yes, it does. more so than
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Speaker 2: just about any other country on the planet. And I
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Speaker 2: would rather be nowhere else but the United States. You know,
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Speaker 2: my ancestors come from Europe and beautiful places, but I
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Speaker 2: am proud to be an American. I would never leave
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Speaker 2: this country. And that's why people die leaving other places
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Speaker 2: to come here. And yet you have liberals in this
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Speaker 2: country just doing nothing but besmirching the United States and
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Speaker 2: calling it names and saying how much it sucks and
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Speaker 2: burning flags and These are people who just have never
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Speaker 2: experienced life elsewhere, who just don't get it. They just
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Speaker 2: don't understand that others who have fled communism and oppression
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Speaker 2: and tyranny to come here know that the other side
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Speaker 2: isn't better. The grass is not always greener and that
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Speaker 2: you should be very happy to be an American instead
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Speaker 2: of criticizing the country and bashing it and saying it
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Speaker 2: stinks and it's not special. If you think there are problems,
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Speaker 2: work to fix the problems, but you don't stand there
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Speaker 2: and just bash your country and burn the flag and
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Speaker 2: and say, everybody here sucks. That is childish. That's like
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Speaker 2: being at a playground and losing at a game and
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Speaker 2: taking your ball and your bat and going home like
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Speaker 2: a spoiled little impetuous child instead of finding the issues
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Speaker 2: and trying to make them better. 800-321-0710, 800-321-0710. I'm sure
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Speaker 2: many of you feel the same way. Unfortunately, too many
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Speaker 2: people have been indoctrinated in our schools these days, the
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Speaker 2: last few generations, and that's what they're thinking. By the way,
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Speaker 2: we've heard a lot about the flock cameras. You know
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Speaker 2: what we're talking about with the flock cameras? These are
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Speaker 2: those video cameras from a company called Flock Safety. They're
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Speaker 2: set up in municipalities all over the country. In many cases,
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Speaker 2: they're set up to track down license plates on cars
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Speaker 2: so they could track down criminals. They can focus in
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Speaker 2: on things like dents on a car or a license plate,
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Speaker 2: as I mentioned, or a bumper sticker. So if they're
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Speaker 2: looking for a car that has some specific whether it
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Speaker 2: be a dent or a color variation or whatever, these
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Speaker 2: flock cameras can spot that. Well, flock cameras are also
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Speaker 2: used in other security means throughout municipalities throughout the country.
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Speaker 2: It started out that Democrats were, or I should say,
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Republicans, conservatives were very, very much against them
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Speaker 2: because it was very big brother to have these cameras everywhere.
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Speaker 2: We didn't want them spying on us. Yes, they do
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Speaker 2: good in terms of finding criminals, but in the process, they,
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Speaker 2: Many times they end up causing police to get notified
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Speaker 2: to pull over a car that just resembles a car
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Speaker 2: that might belong to a criminal. So you end up
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Speaker 2: inconveniencing a person who is totally innocent because they happen
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Speaker 2: to be driving in a car that resembles one that
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Speaker 2: they're looking for. So conservatives have been saying that's a
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Speaker 2: violation of our rights. We've been saying it for years.
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Speaker 2: Now Democrats are starting to say the same thing. They
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Speaker 2: don't like it. They don't like it. The flock cameras
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Speaker 2: should go away. So that's become a big issue in
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Speaker 2: a lot of, it's been a lot of debate, the
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Speaker 2: subject of a lot of debate. Well, Curtis and Larry
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Speaker 2: were talking about it. I heard it this morning and
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Speaker 2: I've heard it in recent mornings about the flock cameras.
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Speaker 2: You know, my thought, why don't the liberals who are
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Speaker 2: against the flock cameras, why aren't those same liberals against
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Speaker 2: all the cameras in New York City?
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Speaker 5: Huh?
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Speaker 2: Think about it. All the speed cams we have every
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Speaker 2: couple of blocks that if you happen to be doing
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Speaker 2: 31 in a 25 to get around a car, or
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Speaker 2: because a truck cut you off, you don't want to
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Speaker 2: get into an accident, so you do 31. Then all
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Speaker 2: of a sudden you get sent a $ 100 ticket in
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Speaker 2: the mail, and it violates the Constitution because you can't
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Speaker 2: go to court and face-to-face see your accuser, right? Because
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Speaker 2: your accuser is a camera, and you don't know somebody
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Speaker 2: could have used your car. So why are you the
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Speaker 2: one whose license could be threatened if the ticket isn't paid, etc. Well,
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Speaker 2: this is a problem. And of course, I don't like
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Speaker 2: the idea. I'm a conservative libertarian. I don't like the
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Speaker 2: idea of these flock cameras. I do understand that criminals
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Speaker 2: have been caught. I get it. But can kidnappers have
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Speaker 2: been caught? I get it. But they've been caught because
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Speaker 2: of how great our police officers are and our detectives are,
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Speaker 2: not because of a couple of cameras. They were able
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Speaker 2: to catch these crooks before the cameras. They could catch
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Speaker 2: them after the cameras. And unfortunately, the cameras have been abused.
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Speaker 2: So I say this, you liberals who are finally coming
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Speaker 2: around to the conservative side or the libertarian side saying
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Speaker 2: that we don't like flock cameras, and that's F-L-O-C-K, not
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Speaker 2: the other word you might be thinking. We don't like
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Speaker 2: flock cameras. Think about it in terms of all cameras
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Speaker 2: that are spying on you. like speed cams, like they
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Speaker 2: have the school zone cams. They have all sorts of
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Speaker 2: cams up and down Manhattan and around the boroughs that
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Speaker 2: are trying to check you out. So think about that. Oh,
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Speaker 2: even at the tolls, you have cameras now that check
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Speaker 2: your license plate, right? I just feel it's a big invasion.
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Speaker 2: Those cameras can be used to detect where you are
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Speaker 2: at any given time. And that's not what America is
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Speaker 2: supposed to be about. What do you think about it?
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Speaker 4: 800-321-7000.
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Speaker 2: 0710-800-321-0710. Of course, we have the passing of our iconic
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Speaker 2: Dolly Parton. So sad. Dolly, one of the few human
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Speaker 2: beings who stayed the heck out of politics. I heard
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Speaker 2: Mark talking about this this week. And that's what kept
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Speaker 2: her a popular person, if you will, on both sides
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Speaker 2: of the aisle. Because people did not have that sense
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Speaker 2: of animosity toward her because they didn't feel that she
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Speaker 2: was politically active. one side or the other. And that's
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Speaker 2: the way it should be. I don't care to know
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Speaker 2: about my entertainer's political persuasions. I want to know that
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Speaker 2: they could perform great. And Dolly was an amazing performer.
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Speaker 2: Not only could she sing, she could dance. She played
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Speaker 2: the fiddle. So she could play violin. She played guitar
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Speaker 2: and banjo. She also played keyboards. And she had, as
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Speaker 2: I mentioned, the incredible voice. She, more importantly- wrote her
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Speaker 2: own music and her own words, her own lyrics. There
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Speaker 2: aren't that many people who did all of that. And
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Speaker 2: she wrote hundreds and hundreds of songs, including some of
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Speaker 2: the biggest hits in America's music book. She is responsible.
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Speaker 2: Of course, it's amazing how many young people didn't realize
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Speaker 2: she recorded I Will Always Love You that Whitney Houston re-recorded,
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Speaker 2: if you will, because she fell in love with the
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Speaker 2: song and Whitney did such a beautiful job with it.
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Speaker 2: I think one of the greatest American voices there as well.
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Speaker 2: But hopefully Whitney and Dolly are singing that song together
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Speaker 2: in heaven because that is a great tune that I
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Speaker 2: think we should remember them both by. But I Will
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Speaker 2: Always Love You, written by Dolly Parton, one of the
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Speaker 2: greatest selling of all times. You know that that song,
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Speaker 2: you think, oh, Dolly must have made a fortune on
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Speaker 2: the royalties. She actually only made $ 10 million. And you say, well,
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Speaker 2: that's a lot of money. But when you consider how
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Speaker 2: many copies of that recording sold by Whitney Houston, 10 million,
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Speaker 2: I would have thought it would have been a lot more,
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Speaker 2: but that's how much she made royalties. But Dolly Parton,
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Speaker 2: born in absolute destitute poverty in the Appalachians, dies. Her
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Speaker 2: net worth was 450 million. Her gross worth, her total
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Speaker 2: estate was worth about $ 800 million. That includes her 50%
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Speaker 2: share in Dollywood and all her other investments. That is
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Speaker 2: a shrewd woman. And I love how she talks about
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Speaker 2: the fact that people had called her a dumb blonde.
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Speaker 2: And her response to that was, I'm not offended because
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Speaker 2: I'm not dumb and I'm not blonde. She's a brunette.
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Speaker 2: She wore blonde wigs. So I love that response. I
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Speaker 2: know I'm not dumb and I know I'm not a
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Speaker 2: real blonde, so therefore I'm not offended. And then, of course,
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Speaker 2: when Barbara Walters interviewed her in the late 70s and said,
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Speaker 2: would I refer to you as a hillbilly? And just
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Speaker 2: an obnoxious question to ask. And Barbara Walters, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 2: was an obnoxious person. My few encounters, I could get
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Speaker 2: into this on another show. My few encounters when I
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Speaker 2: was over at ABC News and when I was at
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Speaker 2: WABC-TV Channel 7 for 20 years, I had encountered Barbara
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Speaker 2: a number of times. Never once was she nice to me.
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Speaker 2: Never once. Literally, I remember the first time I saw
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Speaker 2: her storming down the hallway with her entourage. And I
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Speaker 2: had just gotten off the 12 o'clock news and I
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Speaker 2: stepped out of their way. They were coming down like
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Speaker 2: a presidential entourage. And I got out of the way
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Speaker 2: and she said, she looked at me, she pointed, she said,
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Speaker 2: out of my way, like I was going to say
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Speaker 2: something to her. I was already out of her way,
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Speaker 2: but that was her way of saying hello. And literally
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Speaker 2: every other opportunity I had to come into her path,
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Speaker 2: it was the same thing. Move or she would wave
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Speaker 2: her arm at me like you're in my way. Just
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Speaker 2: a disgusting way to be with people. And I haven't heard,
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Speaker 2: with the exception of someone like Oprah Winfrey, who said
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Speaker 2: that she paved the way for us women. That's the
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Speaker 2: biggest compliment that I've heard the woman have. Even Hugh
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Speaker 2: Jackman had comments like, well, she helped us in the
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Speaker 2: entertainment industry. But you never hear people say she was
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Speaker 2: a nice person. She just wasn't that nice to a
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Speaker 2: lot of people. I'm sure there are a few people
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Speaker 2: who say, oh, come on, Ken, you just didn't know
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Speaker 2: her like I knew her. You're right. I didn't. But unfortunately,
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Speaker 2: the only encounters I had were nasty ones. And, you know,
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Speaker 2: this is what do they say when somebody does something nice?
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Speaker 2: Only a few people talk about it when somebody does
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Speaker 2: something nasty. Everybody talks about it. Well, there you go.
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Speaker 2: Don't leave that legacy like Barbara Walters did. But a
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Speaker 2: person who never left a nasty legacy was Dolly Parton.
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Speaker 2: And we will be talking with a friend of mine
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Speaker 2: who is an Emmy Award winning entertainment journalist named John Bathke.
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Speaker 2: You've probably seen him on TV before. He's going to
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Speaker 2: be joining us about 20 minutes from now. So don't
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Speaker 2: miss out. 710WOR, the voice of New York. Ken Rosato
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Speaker 2: in for Mark, 800-321-0710. 800-321-0710. We'll take your calls next
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Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show. Now nine till noon weekdays.
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Speaker 1: Guest hosting for Mark today. Here's Ken Rosato.
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Speaker 2: And so nice to be with you. We go to
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Speaker 2: our busy phones. Vincent in Brooklyn. Good morning. Happy Friday,
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Speaker 2: my friend.
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Speaker 3: Happy Friday, Ken. Ken, most people don't know the reason
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Speaker 3: and the origins of rent control in New York City.
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Speaker 3: My family haven't been in real estate, me included, for
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Speaker 3: almost 100 years. My grandfather bought his first large apartment
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Speaker 3: building in New York City. two weeks before the Great Depression.
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Speaker 3: And my mother told me that during World War II,
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Speaker 3: because so many young brides, their husbands were called up
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Speaker 3: for service, they went back to live with their parents.
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Speaker 3: My grandfather owned very big apartment buildings at the time.
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Speaker 3: And mom told me half the building would be empty because.
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Speaker 3: The women went back to live with their folks, and
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Speaker 3: the men went off to war. So all these goody-two-shoes
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Speaker 3: in the New York City government after the war said, oh,
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Speaker 3: there's going to be price gouging when the G.I.s come back,
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Speaker 3: so they passed this bill. The problem is, is that
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Speaker 3: World War II was over, what, 75, 80 years? And
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Speaker 3: this hot potato law, this political law, still exists. Ken,
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Speaker 3: I own some of the toniest real estate in New York,
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Speaker 3: and I get sometimes offers to an hour. The reason why?
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Speaker 3: I never bought anything with rent control, and I never
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Speaker 3: bought anything with rent-stabilized tenants. I get offers. People call me, Vince,
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Speaker 3: I got this. Vince, I got that. And you know
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Speaker 3: what my answer is? Why do I want to be
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Speaker 3: a partner with the city of New York? So what
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Speaker 3: happens then is, as you pointed out, the city tells
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Speaker 3: these builders, you have to have a certain number of
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Speaker 3: apartments below market value. So what happens is the real estate,
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Speaker 3: the builder and the landlord raise the rent on the
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Speaker 3: other units. Right.
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Speaker 2: And it's the same thing.
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Speaker 3: Same thing.
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Speaker 2: If I could just jump in really fast, even look
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Speaker 2: at how many buildings, very special, expensive buildings that they build.
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Speaker 2: And there are units in that building, right? That have
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Speaker 2: to be lower income. So you have somebody who's going
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Speaker 2: to spend $ 5 million on a unit and then somebody
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Speaker 2: downstairs who's in a rental because that's what the city imposes.
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Speaker 2: So I worked my whole life to afford an expensive
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Speaker 2: apartment and to move from one neighborhood to that. And
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden I'm back in the neighborhood.
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Speaker 3: Exactly, Ken. And a lot of these people who live
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Speaker 3: in these subsidized, these low-rent apartments in these tony buildings,
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Speaker 3: they're on welfare. They're not the best of people in
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Speaker 3: my neighborhood from this real tony building that they put
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Speaker 3: up that you pay an arm and a leg to
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Speaker 3: live there. You see a lot of the people there
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Speaker 3: who are degenerates. Going outside of the supermarket, begging for money,
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Speaker 3: begging for this or that, or for some sucker to
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Speaker 3: take them inside and buy them a bag of groceries.
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Speaker 3: And then what they do is, after they suck at you,
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Speaker 3: they go shoot up or whatever. If the city wanted
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Speaker 3: more apartments for people in this, get rid of the
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Speaker 3: rent control law. Here's another ridiculous thing that the city
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Speaker 3: recently did. And the jerks who passed it, like this
19:35
Speaker 3: so-called Julie Menon, who says she's a common-sense Democrat, she's
19:40
Speaker 3: a socialist like the rest of them, with better hair,
19:43
Speaker 3: doing better clothes. What now that they did what? in
19:50
Speaker 3: the past, the renter had to pay the real estate fee.
19:54
Speaker 3: So he passed this law that now I have to
19:57
Speaker 3: pay the real estate fee as the landlord. And this stupid...
20:02
Speaker 3: But councilmen who promulgated this law said, oh, so that's
20:06
Speaker 3: so that people who are rent-stabilized apartments and rent-controlled apartments,
20:11
Speaker 3: when they move, they won't have to pay a fee.
20:14
Speaker 3: People who live in rent-controlled and rent-stabilized apartments are not moving.
20:18
Speaker 3: That's right.
20:21
Speaker 2: We all know that person who's been living in a
20:23
Speaker 2: rent-controlled apartment way beyond the time they should have been.
20:27
Speaker 2: I know several people. who actually they live there part-time,
20:31
Speaker 2: but they tell the folks at the front desk, well,
20:33
Speaker 2: if anyone asks, I'm here every day. You know, it happens,
20:37
Speaker 2: and they're paying $ 700 a month in an apartment that
20:39
Speaker 2: should be $ 10, 000 a month. And it's just, you know,
20:41
Speaker 2: that's not what the purpose was.
20:43
Speaker 3: You're right on, Ken, you're right on the money. And
20:46
Speaker 3: you see all these, especially downtown Brooklyn, you see all
20:50
Speaker 3: these high-rise buildings going up, And one tenant is subsidizing
20:55
Speaker 3: the lifestyle of the other. And another thing, the city
20:58
Speaker 3: tells you, oh, you've got to put bicycle storage in
21:01
Speaker 3: the building. Don't tell me what I have to put
21:03
Speaker 3: in my building. Stay out of my way. You're not
21:06
Speaker 3: an architect. Stop with the social engineering.
21:10
Speaker 2: Well, that's what socialists are about. That's the first part
21:12
Speaker 2: of social engineering is social, right? They want to control
21:15
Speaker 2: every aspect of your life. because they believe they could
21:19
Speaker 2: do it better, even though they've never held a real
21:21
Speaker 2: job in their lives and never owned a business, and
21:23
Speaker 2: they don't know what being part of this United States
21:26
Speaker 2: is about. It's unbelievable, Vincent, but I love you, buddy.
21:28
Speaker 2: I appreciate you calling. You have a great weekend.
21:31
Speaker 3: You have a great weekend.
21:31
Speaker 6: Thank you, Vincent.
21:32
Speaker 3: You have a great weekend.
21:33
Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. All right, we're going to take, we've
21:35
Speaker 2: got one minute left. Let's go to Chris in Manhattan.
21:37
Speaker 3: Chris. Yeah, good morning.
21:39
Speaker 6: About this Lake Ontario renaming. It's just such a childish
21:44
Speaker 6: thing to do. It's like him threatening to tear down
21:47
Speaker 6: the Kennedy Center. So what?
21:50
Speaker 2: Why is it childish for him to do it? It's
21:51
Speaker 2: not childish for Canada to have named it that initially, Chris. Listen,
21:55
Speaker 2: I don't have a problem with it. Every president could
21:57
Speaker 2: put their mark. Chris, only one of us could talk
21:59
Speaker 2: at a time. Every president could put their mark. on
22:02
Speaker 2: whatever they want that so it's a i'd guarantee if
22:05
Speaker 2: it was named the barack obama whatever nobody would say
22:08
Speaker 2: a freaking word all the schools that were named barack
22:10
Speaker 2: obama nobody said a word he wants to do it
22:13
Speaker 2: so what listen it's only for within the united states
22:15
Speaker 2: he has every legal right to do in canada can
22:17
Speaker 2: keep calling it they can call it that the joe
22:19
Speaker 2: jones lake if they want go ahead and.
22:21
Speaker 6: Say he's doing it to try to uh... with the
22:25
Speaker 6: tariff the tariff war That's just hurting the Canadian citizens
22:28
Speaker 6: and the United States citizens at a time when we
22:30
Speaker 6: should be trying to make the prices go down for
22:32
Speaker 6: the people. Carney's an idiot, and he's fighting with them,
22:37
Speaker 6: but it's not hurting him, it's hurting the people.
22:40
Speaker 2: Now, remember, we can outlast them because there are a
22:42
Speaker 2: lot more things they need from us than we need
22:45
Speaker 2: from them.
22:45
Speaker 6: We went to Venezuela to save them. We should save
22:47
Speaker 6: the damn Canadians. I mean, people have no idea how
22:50
Speaker 6: bad things are in Canada.
22:52
Speaker 2: The only thing, Chris, this is the problem. Listen, I've
22:55
Speaker 2: been to Canada. I was just in Canada not long ago.
22:57
Speaker 2: I understand. The problem is Canada has been screwing us over.
23:00
Speaker 2: truthfully and a lot they still don't have our liquor
23:03
Speaker 2: on their shelves for two years it's like a lot.
23:05
Speaker 6: Of government it's not the people of.
23:07
Speaker 2: All but this is the problem how else you get
23:09
Speaker 2: the government's attention but to do stuff like this it's
23:11
Speaker 2: about tweaking them let let uh... the the prime minister
23:14
Speaker 2: come to the microphone more often and i have a
23:17
Speaker 2: little conversation the problem is they've always counted on us
23:20
Speaker 2: always being there for them it's about time we maybe
23:22
Speaker 2: kick them in the backside to wake him up chris
23:24
Speaker 2: i appreciate the phone call.
23:26
Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show, live from the WOR LifeVac Studios.
23:31
Speaker 1: Guest hosting for Mark today, here's Ken Rosato.
23:35
Speaker 2: And so nice to be with you. And it is great.
23:38
Speaker 2: It's great that it just stopped storming. That's one thing
23:41
Speaker 2: for sure. But it's nice to be here, Ken Rosato,
23:44
Speaker 2: and on your Friday. Mark Simone enjoying his nice long weekend,
23:47
Speaker 2: and rightfully so. You know, we all, of course, lost
23:50
Speaker 2: a great, great megastar and icon this week, the great
23:54
Speaker 2: Dolly Parton. everybody feeling it, because Dolly kind of stayed
23:57
Speaker 2: out of politics, and that's a good thing, right? When
24:00
Speaker 2: you stay out of politics, you kind of don't upset anybody.
24:04
Speaker 2: The question is, what's going to happen now? What's going
24:06
Speaker 2: to happen to her estate? What's going to happen in
24:08
Speaker 2: terms of funerals? With us on the phone is Emmy
24:10
Speaker 2: Award-winning entertainment journalist John Bathke. He's going to talk to
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Speaker 2: us about the Dolly Parton passing and the plans for
24:17
Speaker 2: the upcoming funeral. Good morning to you, my friend, John.
24:21
Speaker 3: Good morning, Ken.
24:22
Speaker 5: Good to be with you.
24:23
Speaker 2: It's great to have you on. John has been on
24:25
Speaker 2: our show on On New Jersey in the past, and thankfully,
24:29
Speaker 2: I think, what did we do? We put you out
24:30
Speaker 2: to suffer in the last snowstorm we had. I think
24:33
Speaker 2: you helped us out with that, right?
24:36
Speaker 5: Well, suffer is right, but actually, it was very near home,
24:40
Speaker 5: so I could actually just walk out the door and
24:42
Speaker 5: get there. So it It wasn't a bad commute that day,
24:45
Speaker 5: but it was good to be on with you.
24:47
Speaker 3: That day as well.
24:48
Speaker 2: Well, that's a good thing. You know, here he is.
24:49
Speaker 2: The man wins Emmy Awards doing entertainment journalism, and we
24:53
Speaker 2: throw him out in a snowstorm. But that just says
24:56
Speaker 2: everything about us, right? So let's talk about Dolly Parton.
24:59
Speaker 2: This woman was just beloved by all Americans. She's probably
25:05
Speaker 2: one of the few, maybe the only person who was
25:08
Speaker 2: non-polarizing in an era when everybody's polarizing. And when she died,
25:14
Speaker 2: I think she just impacted everyone in some way, right?
25:18
Speaker 2: Everybody can think of where they were when one of
25:20
Speaker 2: her hits came on and think about things like even
25:23
Speaker 2: younger people not realizing that Whitney Houston's I Will Always
25:27
Speaker 2: Love You was her song. So why do you think
25:30
Speaker 2: America was so impacted by Dolly Parton?
25:35
Speaker 5: I think it's several things. She had this ability, Ken,
25:40
Speaker 5: to crystallize what everybody has felt or experienced or gone
25:46
Speaker 5: through in life and put it in a song and
25:50
Speaker 5: then attach a really catchy melody to it and drive
25:54
Speaker 5: that thing home and make it a hit. Think of
25:57
Speaker 5: 9 to 5. Everybody at some point has had a boss, right?
26:03
Speaker 5: Who was on their back or they didn't feel they
26:05
Speaker 5: were getting the fair shot. And that song just crystallized
26:10
Speaker 5: not only for women in the workplace at the time,
26:12
Speaker 5: but for everybody. And she did that again and again
26:16
Speaker 5: and again with her music. So I think people related
26:19
Speaker 5: to her in that way. And then there was this,
26:22
Speaker 5: you know, even though she obviously had a very glamorous
26:26
Speaker 5: life and worked with the biggest stars, she kept her
26:29
Speaker 5: salt of the earth persona and her way with words
26:34
Speaker 5: about her all through her life. And I think that
26:38
Speaker 5: authenticity just, held people so dear to her.
26:43
Speaker 2: Entertainment reporter John Bathke on with us today. This is
26:45
Speaker 2: Ken Rosato on The Mark Simone Show, and we're talking
26:48
Speaker 2: about Dolly Parton and her passing. She composed nearly 5,000
26:52
Speaker 2: songs that she started writing when she was a child.
26:54
Speaker 2: She recorded 1,000 to 1,100 of them, and she had
26:56
Speaker 2: 25 number one singles on the Billboard country chart, 113
27:00
Speaker 2: entries on the Hot Country Songs list. I don't know
27:08
Speaker 2: that we'll ever see somebody with that much success.
27:13
Speaker 5: No, and the fact that her success was so, as
27:17
Speaker 5: a songwriter, but as a performer, and as an entrepreneur,
27:20
Speaker 5: and as a philanthropist, it was so multifaceted. There are
27:25
Speaker 5: so many tent poles to her legacy in show business
27:29
Speaker 5: and in business. And I believe, I have to believe,
27:34
Speaker 5: that there will be songs of hers that are released
27:38
Speaker 5: for years and years and decades to come. I have
27:41
Speaker 5: to believe that she had in the bank things that
27:45
Speaker 5: she had recorded and never released, certainly songs that she
27:48
Speaker 5: had written and were never recorded and someone would love
27:51
Speaker 5: to record. I just think she may have left this earth,
27:55
Speaker 5: but her music is going to live on, and I
27:58
Speaker 5: think there will even be new music I mean, there's
28:01
Speaker 5: going to be a Broadway show about her life, you know,
28:04
Speaker 5: opening early next year. So with songs, new songs that
28:08
Speaker 5: she wrote. So she is a gift in a way
28:12
Speaker 5: to culture that is going to keep on giving, I believe.
28:15
Speaker 2: So I just read that in 2015 in Dollywood, at
28:19
Speaker 2: the Dollywood's Dream More Resort in Pigeon Forge, Dolly recorded
28:24
Speaker 2: and buried a song called My Place in History that
28:28
Speaker 2: nobody has ever heard. It is an unreleased secret song.
28:33
Speaker 2: It will be released in 2045. So we all have
28:37
Speaker 2: to stick around until 2045 to hear it. But that's amazing.
28:41
Speaker 2: I'm curious now what's in it, because maybe she finally
28:45
Speaker 2: unleashes on people.
28:46
Speaker 3: Who knows?
28:46
Speaker 2: I just don't see her unleashing on anyone.
28:48
Speaker 5: I have heard her speak about that. and she actually
28:54
Speaker 5: said after she buried it, she wanted to dig it
28:56
Speaker 5: back up because she thought it really was going to
28:58
Speaker 5: be a big hit.
29:02
Speaker 2: Well, it'll benefit her estate. That's amazing. Yeah, so she
29:07
Speaker 2: was worth a net of $ 450 million. Her total value
29:11
Speaker 2: was $ 800 million. This is a girl born in a
29:15
Speaker 2: big family in the Appalachian area, Tennessee. Total poverty, but
29:21
Speaker 2: they had love, and as she said, We had class.
29:24
Speaker 2: It was country class, but it was class. And you
29:27
Speaker 2: could see she had a certain dignity and class that
29:31
Speaker 2: only comes with being raised right. The respect that she
29:34
Speaker 2: had for other people, the love that she had for
29:36
Speaker 2: other people just came across anytime she was interviewed. hearing
29:40
Speaker 2: the way she spoke with Johnny Carson, Just the fun.
29:45
Speaker 2: And even the way she handled Barbara Walters, who couldn't,
29:48
Speaker 2: there were many times Barbara could be a not too
29:50
Speaker 2: nice person. And when Barbara asked Sarah, would I call
29:54
Speaker 2: you where I'm from? Would I refer to you as
29:56
Speaker 2: a hillbilly? And you could see Dolly was offended by it.
29:59
Speaker 2: But instead of saying, you know, shut your mouth, Dolly
30:02
Speaker 2: said with a smile and a giggle on intelligence. She said, well,
30:06
Speaker 2: if you said something like that to me, I'd probably
30:08
Speaker 2: come around and kick your shins and then laugh. But
30:10
Speaker 2: that was her way of saying, shut your mouth, lady.
30:12
Speaker 2: And it was a respectful way of doing it.
30:16
Speaker 5: And also, you know, she was born into those things
30:19
Speaker 5: and had a sense of respect in her growing up.
30:23
Speaker 5: She was also, I believe, certainly born with just an
30:29
Speaker 5: amazing drive, a drive to work, a drive to succeed,
30:34
Speaker 5: a drive to lift up not only her family, but
30:37
Speaker 5: then the entire county where she was born. I mean,
30:41
Speaker 5: years ago, she started a scholarship program in her county
30:45
Speaker 5: that she was born in, where everybody who graduated from
30:48
Speaker 5: high school, she gave them $ 500. I believe it continues
30:52
Speaker 5: to this day.
30:52
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
30:54
Speaker 5: There are people in public office. I heard the mayor,
30:57
Speaker 5: the former mayor of that town, say that he was
30:59
Speaker 5: one of those high school graduates who got a $ 500
31:02
Speaker 5: bonus for graduating from Dolly Parton. And, you know, that
31:07
Speaker 5: is just such a a great legacy to leave. And
31:12
Speaker 5: her literacy campaign that she has been so dedicated to
31:16
Speaker 5: for many, many years has provided millions of books to people.
31:20
Speaker 5: You talked about her net worth. I have to believe
31:23
Speaker 5: her net worth would have been twice what you're talking
31:26
Speaker 5: about if she had not been as philanthropic as she
31:28
Speaker 5: was and simply she gave away money to causes that
31:32
Speaker 5: she supported.
31:33
Speaker 2: Hundreds of millions. She gave away hundreds. They don't say
31:35
Speaker 2: how many hundreds of millions. She gave away How many
31:38
Speaker 2: people could say that? Hundreds of billions of dollars.
31:40
Speaker 3: Amazing.
31:42
Speaker 2: We don't know a lot about a funeral. Apparently, it's
31:44
Speaker 2: going to be a small private memorial service. But I
31:46
Speaker 2: would think that America is begging and dying for a
31:51
Speaker 2: big memorial service that could be organized outside of her
31:56
Speaker 2: rightfully deserved family memorial. I mean, they deserve a private
32:01
Speaker 2: small ceremony. But I would think that there would be
32:03
Speaker 2: something large organized for all the rest of us to
32:06
Speaker 2: celebrate her life. Don't you?
32:09
Speaker 5: Oh, absolutely. And I think there will be more than one.
32:12
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm sure that once she is laid to
32:17
Speaker 5: rest and the family has had a minute, I'm sure
32:20
Speaker 5: the Country Music Academy, I am sure the Ryman Auditorium
32:24
Speaker 5: in Nashville would be a beautiful place to host a
32:29
Speaker 5: very star-studded tribute concert to her. And I'm sure, you know,
32:33
Speaker 5: the Emmys are coming up. She was an Emmy winner.
32:36
Speaker 5: I'm sure there will be a tribute to her there.
32:37
Speaker 5: She was a two-time Oscar winner. I'm sure, you know,
32:41
Speaker 5: next year at the Oscars, there will be a tribute
32:43
Speaker 5: to her. I think I said Oscar winner. She was
32:45
Speaker 5: a two-time Oscar nominee, rather, for songs that she wrote
32:49
Speaker 5: for films and certainly the Grammys. I think she has
32:52
Speaker 5: about 10 Grammy awards. There'll be tributes to her along
32:55
Speaker 5: the way. And then I think when the Broadway show
32:57
Speaker 5: about her life, which she has been heavily involved in
33:00
Speaker 5: the writing of the music for, I think that will
33:05
Speaker 5: be another big moment in this sort of collective grief
33:10
Speaker 5: that people are experiencing and this want to celebrate this
33:15
Speaker 5: remarkable human being.
33:17
Speaker 2: John, I knew that she was from a big family.
33:19
Speaker 2: I didn't realize she was one of 12. Wow. Can
33:22
Speaker 2: you imagine in the poverty of the Appalachians? to have
33:26
Speaker 2: 12 kids. So she had six brothers. There were six
33:30
Speaker 2: brothers and six sisters in total. She was the fourth
33:33
Speaker 2: oldest of them. And six of the siblings are still alive.
33:38
Speaker 2: So amazing. Well, Emmy award-winning entertainment journalist, John Bathke, we've
33:43
Speaker 2: seen you on TV a billion times. I love that
33:46
Speaker 2: you came on this morning. We appreciate you. And I'm
33:48
Speaker 2: sure as we get more info about any upcoming Memorial
33:51
Speaker 2: of Life for the great Dolly Parton, we will have
33:55
Speaker 2: you on to talk about it.
33:57
Speaker 3: I would love it.
33:58
Speaker 5: Thank you, Ken.
33:59
Speaker 2: All right, John, have a great day. Thanks so much
34:00
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34:03
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34:35
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34:37
Speaker 2: before the end of the show. Chris and Beth Page,
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Speaker 2: Long Island. Good morning.
34:41
Speaker 4: Ken, I'll be quick about two things. Number one, I've
34:43
Speaker 4: had a lot of injuries. I'm 63 years old. I
34:46
Speaker 4: fractured my neck, vertebrae in a car, everything. By far,
34:49
Speaker 4: the worst thing I had was four years ago. I
34:51
Speaker 4: had shingles for about five weeks. It was beyond brutal.
34:56
Speaker 4: So I told all my friends, you've got to go
34:58
Speaker 4: out and get this shingle shot. It always comes if
35:01
Speaker 4: you've had chicken pox earlier, which most of us have had.
35:05
Speaker 4: So it can come back.
35:06
Speaker 5: In this form.
35:07
Speaker 4: I'm just telling you and all the listeners, please get
35:10
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35:12
Speaker 3: It's brutal.
35:13
Speaker 2: I'm with you. I had, I just, by the way,
35:15
Speaker 2: I'll let you talk some more. We got another minute here.
35:17
Speaker 2: I had my brother's father-in-law, if you could follow that.
35:20
Speaker 2: He had the old, the Zost, was it Zostavax or something?
35:23
Speaker 2: The original shingles shot. And that was only about 55, 60% effective.
35:28
Speaker 2: He still got shingles. Now, they told him had he
35:30
Speaker 2: not gotten the shot, he would have been in agony,
35:31
Speaker 2: but he was still hospitalized. It is painful. You get
35:35
Speaker 2: open sores and it's awful, right? So you need that
35:38
Speaker 2: shot and you can get it. It's a series of two,
35:41
Speaker 2: six months apart, just a quick shot. It doesn't hurt.
35:44
Speaker 2: You go right and just talk to your doctor. But
35:46
Speaker 2: go ahead, continue, Chris. I'm sorry.
35:48
Speaker 4: All right. And number two is the way I feel
35:51
Speaker 4: about socialism and all these young people who want and
35:56
Speaker 4: Mindami and all these people, you know what it all
35:58
Speaker 4: boils down to me, Ken?
36:00
Speaker 2: What's that?
36:00
Speaker 4: It's jealousy. They weren't able to do what Elon Musk
36:04
Speaker 4: can do, right? Elon Musk, and they're just jealous. And
36:08
Speaker 4: what happens is jealousy is a very powerful emotion, and
36:11
Speaker 4: it manifests itself in this hatred towards people who are successful.
36:16
Speaker 4: They're not mad at, you know, they're not mad at
36:18
Speaker 4: bad people or evil people. No, no, they're mad at
36:21
Speaker 4: people who have achieved and uh... that's what it comes
36:24
Speaker 4: down to it it all boils down to pure jealous i.
36:27
Speaker 2: Think i think it's jealousy it's jealousy that's being used
36:30
Speaker 2: and propagandized by the socialist they're not the ones jealous
36:34
Speaker 2: they're taking advantage of it and using that emotion to
36:37
Speaker 2: get young people to be suckers basically to be useful
36:40
Speaker 2: idiots and to uh... help push socialism they don't even
36:43
Speaker 2: realize it at the time that they're being useful idiots
36:46
Speaker 2: chris we're out of time here i appreciate the phone
36:48
Speaker 2: call my friend have a great weekend And I thank
36:50
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36:52
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36:54
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