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- 0:00Speaker 1: From now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten wor.
- 0:05Speaker 2: Filling in for Mark, here's Ken rosetto.
- 0:08Speaker 3: Well, Hello, Hello, hello, Marks off on a nice long weekend.
- 0:11Speaker 3: Former New York City TV news anchor Ken rosetto reporting
- 0:15Speaker 3: for duty as I stand in salute. Good to have
- 0:17Speaker 3: you all with me, and good to be here. Thank
- 0:20Speaker 3: you to warrant to our dear friend Mark Simone for
- 0:23Speaker 3: let me sit here. You probably best remember me from
- 0:26Speaker 3: twenty years they spent over at Channel seven. I anchored
- 0:28Speaker 3: the morning show and for a good chunk of those
- 0:29Speaker 3: years the noon show. I was at Channel five before that,
- 0:32Speaker 3: And these days I'm over a channel in New Jersey,
- 0:35Speaker 3: a TV channel called on New Jersey, and you can
- 0:37Speaker 3: stream it live or watch the reruns at o NNJ
- 0:40Speaker 3: dot com ONNJ dot com. Hope you check that out
- 0:43Speaker 3: some time. But good to be here at WOR today. Juneteenth,
- 0:47Speaker 3: of course, commemorating June nineteenth, eighteen sixty five. A lot
- 0:51Speaker 3: of people say, oh, juneteenth, Juneteenth. They don't know the
- 0:53Speaker 3: history of it, And when you think about it, this
- 0:56Speaker 3: is a totally messed up story in that you had
- 1:00Speaker 3: the Emancipation Proclamation in eighteen sixty three, freeing slaves right
- 1:04Speaker 3: around the country, and yet they kept it a little
- 1:07Speaker 3: bit of a secret. We didn't have the internet, we
- 1:09Speaker 3: didn't have social media, we didn't have TV and radio,
- 1:12Speaker 3: so they kept it a little secret from many, many
- 1:15Speaker 3: thousands of people in Texas who continue to believe they
- 1:20Speaker 3: were enslaved for another two plus years. Can you imagine
- 1:24Speaker 3: having two plus years of their lives taken away from
- 1:27Speaker 3: them when they were now free, And they didn't know
- 1:31Speaker 3: until it was brought to town, until the general came
- 1:34Speaker 3: in and said, hello, you people should have been told
- 1:37Speaker 3: you were free over two years ago. So the slaves
- 1:40Speaker 3: in Texas thought they were still enslaved until this date.
- 1:43Speaker 3: June nineteenth, eighteen sixty five went. Thankfully, every state in
- 1:48Speaker 3: the United States finally made it publicly known that slavery
- 1:52Speaker 3: was abolished, illegal and never again to be part of
- 1:55Speaker 3: the stain of America. But that's why it celebrated, you know,
- 2:00Speaker 3: was was? I understand June teenth was a contraction of
- 2:03Speaker 3: June and nineteenth. Then I raised my hand in school
- 2:06Speaker 3: once and I said, Okay, why couldn't that have been
- 2:09Speaker 3: a contraction of June thirteenth or fourteenth, or fifteenth or sixteenth.
- 2:13Speaker 3: Why is juneteenth automatically to be assumed that's June nineteenth.
- 2:16Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 2:17Speaker 3: Maybe I'm just a weirdo. I guess I am. But nonetheless,
- 2:20Speaker 3: it is a good thing that we have the freedom
- 2:23Speaker 3: for all people who were enslaved in this country, African
- 2:27Speaker 3: Americans who were enslaved in Texas until this date eighteen
- 2:30Speaker 3: sixty five. Thankfully, from that point on, slavery was illegal.
- 2:34Speaker 3: It doesn't mean that all the problems were solved, but
- 2:37Speaker 3: slavery at least was illegal. A lot to talk about today.
- 2:40Speaker 3: On top of that, phone lines are open. We'd love
- 2:42Speaker 3: to hear from you at eight hundred three to two
- 2:44Speaker 3: one zero seven ten. Eight hundred three two one zero
- 2:48Speaker 3: seven ten. I have been wanting for a few days
- 2:50Speaker 3: to congratulate our dear friend Mark Simone. He was awarded
- 2:54Speaker 3: the twenty twenty six Gold Standard in Broadcasting Award by
- 2:59Speaker 3: the Dye of Talk Radio Circles. Barrett Media. I mean
- 3:03Speaker 3: Barrett Media is when it comes to talk radio, that
- 3:06Speaker 3: is all we talk about. It's Barrett Media. So for
- 3:09Speaker 3: them to award anything to somebody, you have to be
- 3:13Speaker 3: very special, and we all know your listeners. As I
- 3:16Speaker 3: am I'm a fan of w OAR and I love
- 3:18Speaker 3: my Mark Simone show every day, and he just deserves it.
- 3:22Speaker 3: I just don't know another talk radio host on the
- 3:25Speaker 3: planet who deserves having that award more than Mark Simone.
- 3:29Speaker 3: So congratulations, buddy, that's awesome. Okay, today we got to
- 3:33Speaker 3: talk about the US Iran deal. The more we hear
- 3:36Speaker 3: about it, the more questions we ask. As Mark would say,
- 3:39Speaker 3: he would say that I agree with the on that
- 3:42Speaker 3: because every minute it seems to be changing. We've been
- 3:46Speaker 3: told one hundred and seventy two thousand times by the
- 3:48Speaker 3: administration it's a done deal. It's done, it's all done.
- 3:52Speaker 3: We got there. We just have to do the technical.
- 3:54Speaker 3: All of a sudden, in my mind, I became gosh, no,
- 3:58Speaker 3: I'm forgetting his saying it was the great a comedian.
- 4:02Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. I had his name on the tip
- 4:04Speaker 3: of my tongue two seconds ago. He used to talk
- 4:06Speaker 3: like this. He was a comedian. He was also a canter.
- 4:09Speaker 3: Somebody calling it tell me remind me. But I can
- 4:11Speaker 3: imagine him doing one minute we have it, one minute,
- 4:14Speaker 3: we don't have it.
- 4:14Speaker 2: One minute.
- 4:15Speaker 3: There's a deal, there's not a deal. It's a great deal.
- 4:17Speaker 3: It's a terrible deal. But that is what's going on here.
- 4:22Speaker 3: We have as of just an hour and a half ago,
- 4:24Speaker 3: two hours ago, now Iran saying the straight of our
- 4:26Speaker 3: moves is closed again. Really, well, what about the threat
- 4:29Speaker 3: that we're going to bomb you into non existence if
- 4:33Speaker 3: you don't follow the rules. So now we got to
- 4:36Speaker 3: see what the US is going to do. Apparently Vice
- 4:38Speaker 3: President Vance, who's going to fly to Geneva Sunday and
- 4:42Speaker 3: work out the minutia, the technical details of the truth
- 4:46Speaker 3: of ceasefire, if you will, with Iran. It was announced
- 4:51Speaker 3: first that he was not going, and everybody got suspicious,
- 4:53Speaker 3: like what's going on? Why is he not going? And
- 4:55Speaker 3: now Iran announced that they are reclosing the straight of
- 5:00Speaker 3: horror moves because they say that Israel is refusing to
- 5:04Speaker 3: leave Lebanon and because of the presence of US forces
- 5:08Speaker 3: in the region. Well, listen, Iran, the US forces are
- 5:12Speaker 3: going to be in the region until we see that
- 5:14Speaker 3: you stay on your game and as opposed or other
- 5:18Speaker 3: when it comes to Israel and Lebanon. Well, that's that's
- 5:21Speaker 3: something that of course can be discussed, but you cannot
- 5:24Speaker 3: single handedly and one sidedly reclose the straight of horm moos.
- 5:28Speaker 3: I would say that at that point the president needs
- 5:30Speaker 3: to respond in some way seriously. And I don't know
- 5:35Speaker 3: about you, but I have a lot of friends who
- 5:36Speaker 3: are saying, you know, Pooper, get off the pot when
- 5:40Speaker 3: it comes to Iran. If they continue stringing us along,
- 5:44Speaker 3: just get it over with. Just find where the Mullas
- 5:47Speaker 3: are again and put a bunker buster right on top
- 5:51Speaker 3: of them and say, Okay, enough of you. I'm done,
- 5:53Speaker 3: enough of this nonsense. Stops stringing us along. I know
- 5:56Speaker 3: the President does not want to hurt any other people,
- 5:59Speaker 3: and I'm with you, President, I'm with you. He doesn't
- 6:01Speaker 3: want to kill people. He doesn't want innocent Iranians dying.
- 6:05Speaker 3: They have nothing to do with this. This is all
- 6:07Speaker 3: about the Mullahs, the sick lunatics who are in charge
- 6:12Speaker 3: of that country. Iran is a great country, full of
- 6:14Speaker 3: very good people, and they don't have guns. This is
- 6:17Speaker 3: what happens when you don't have a Second Amendment. They
- 6:19Speaker 3: don't have guns. They can't defend themselves. If they go
- 6:22Speaker 3: to speak publicly in the street, they risk getting arrested,
- 6:26Speaker 3: court martialed, shot. They're equivalent of a court martial, which
- 6:29Speaker 3: is like same day, you're arrested, shot. That's it done.
- 6:33Speaker 3: You know, do you want to risk that? So they're
- 6:34Speaker 3: terrified to come out and protest. It's not like you know,
- 6:37Speaker 3: when we protested years ago. You came out in the street.
- 6:40Speaker 3: If anything, you had a fistfight, maybe somebody. It took
- 6:43Speaker 3: you like thirty seconds to load a musket. But now
- 6:46Speaker 3: it's you know, you go out and I run, and
- 6:48Speaker 3: you speak out and you're dead.
- 6:50Speaker 4: That's it.
- 6:51Speaker 3: So this is a problem. I think at this point
- 6:54Speaker 3: the president needs to to have some kind of action
- 6:57Speaker 3: that makes it very clear that we are not going
- 7:00Speaker 3: to take this anymore. So we'll see what happens with that.
- 7:02Speaker 3: The Obama Presidential Center officially opens that includes the Barack
- 7:07Speaker 3: Obama Presidential Library. Now, I don't know if you saw yesterday,
- 7:12Speaker 3: you saw the celebration. The music, by the way, was
- 7:15Speaker 3: off the chain, off the chart, sickly great. It was
- 7:18Speaker 3: just amazing music. It was a great celebration. And I
- 7:21Speaker 3: don't care where you stand on President Obama President Trump.
- 7:26Speaker 3: My attitude about it is this. I don't agree with
- 7:28Speaker 3: probably ninety percent of what President Obama stands for politically,
- 7:33Speaker 3: all right, but I respect him because he was the
- 7:35Speaker 3: president of the United States, my country. I respect that.
- 7:40Speaker 3: Maybe I'm part of a dying breed that still respects
- 7:43Speaker 3: the president. You could criticize him. I think you should
- 7:47Speaker 3: criticize him. And it's okay to criticize President Trump if
- 7:50Speaker 3: you are on the left, do so all you want.
- 7:53Speaker 3: But you could do so without threatening someone's life. You
- 7:56Speaker 3: could do so without saying I hate America. You could
- 7:59Speaker 3: do so without out getting into fisticuffs with people and
- 8:02Speaker 3: throwing paint on their car and breaking windows. You can
- 8:05Speaker 3: protest without being an ass, okay. And I enjoyed watching
- 8:12Speaker 3: the celebration of the opening of the Barack Obama Presidential Library,
- 8:16Speaker 3: and your darn bet, when I'm in Chicago, I will
- 8:18Speaker 3: go there. Because he was the president of the United States.
- 8:21Speaker 3: I would love to go there, and I hope people
- 8:24Speaker 3: on the left would also love to go to the
- 8:26Speaker 3: Reagan Library because he was the president.
- 8:28Speaker 2: Of the United States.
- 8:29Speaker 3: You could go there with your kids and say, here's
- 8:31Speaker 3: why we disagree. That's okay, but that's part of Americana.
- 8:35Speaker 3: It's part of our history. You can go and disagree,
- 8:39Speaker 3: but just be respectful.
- 8:41Speaker 2: That's it.
- 8:42Speaker 3: That's all I think we all should ask for as
- 8:45Speaker 3: Americans and all the musicians who went and performed.
- 8:48Speaker 2: God bless you. That was great. You did great.
- 8:50Speaker 3: But then don't boycott Republican events. It's okay if you
- 8:53Speaker 3: want to politely say I really can't, but then to
- 8:56Speaker 3: publicly come out.
- 8:57Speaker 2: And say I won't go there and bahl, that's.
- 9:00Speaker 3: You take it to the next level. The guy is
- 9:02Speaker 3: the president. He was elected by a majority of US citizens. Okay,
- 9:07Speaker 3: a majority, not a plurality, a majority. Have that tiny
- 9:12Speaker 3: bit of respect. You don't have to agree with anything
- 9:14Speaker 3: he stands for. Have the respect for the office, and
- 9:18Speaker 3: show up if he invites you. That's like, I'm just
- 9:20Speaker 3: glad the Knicks are going to the White House and celebrating.
- 9:23Speaker 3: And speaking of which, there's the perfect segue. Two million
- 9:27Speaker 3: people packing Lower Manhattan for the huge Knicks championship celebration.
- 9:31Speaker 3: How awesome was that? Considering all the people who were
- 9:35Speaker 3: jammed in, there were only a dozen arrests, which is
- 9:39Speaker 3: pretty amazing. And that speaks to how effective the commissioner is.
- 9:44Speaker 3: Commissioner Tish and the NYPD is just the best in
- 9:47Speaker 3: the world. They just are. There's no police force on
- 9:51Speaker 3: the planet that can do with the NYPD can do
- 9:54Speaker 3: but one thing, to keep an eye on Mayor zoron
- 9:57Speaker 3: Mamdani and his populace way of presenting himself, his popularity
- 10:03Speaker 3: among the young and the great masses of New Yorkers.
- 10:07Speaker 3: Did you hear him speak yesterday? Did it not feel
- 10:10Speaker 3: a bit like a campaign speech? I don't know if
- 10:12Speaker 3: you if you heard him speaking, but I will hear
- 10:15Speaker 3: he was. Here's a moment.
- 10:16Speaker 5: This is our city, this is our team. For fifty
- 10:21Speaker 5: three years, we watched for fifty three years.
- 10:24Speaker 2: We waited. Now we've won.
- 10:30Speaker 5: One last time, New York saying with me Nixon.
- 10:35Speaker 3: I mean he has his finger on the pulse, the
- 10:38Speaker 3: populist pulse of New York, and he is able to
- 10:42Speaker 3: act like a I don't know, like a shiny object
- 10:44Speaker 3: off to the right, getting your attention over to his
- 10:46Speaker 3: right hand, while with his left hand he's doing nefarious
- 10:49Speaker 3: things to the city in terms of the way we're
- 10:51Speaker 3: being run, the tax hikes or the desire for tax hikes,
- 10:56Speaker 3: the horrible climate for companies, major corporations in the city,
- 11:01Speaker 3: treating people who have achieved by their hard work and
- 11:05Speaker 3: their great ideas, they've achieved wealth in this city, and
- 11:08Speaker 3: treating them like garbage and like criminals, and at the
- 11:11Speaker 3: same time not punishing criminals for doing their deeds. This
- 11:15Speaker 3: is the man who was elected mayor of the city.
- 11:18Speaker 3: And then he gets up there and he puts on
- 11:19Speaker 3: the charming smile. And by the way, he is a
- 11:22Speaker 3: master of accents. This is a phony accent people. I'm
- 11:27Speaker 3: a fanatic about accents. I can do them, but when
- 11:29Speaker 3: I do them, certain people, certain groups take offense and
- 11:32Speaker 3: think I'm mocking. I'm not mocking. I can speak seven
- 11:35Speaker 3: languages fluently and I can do accents insanely well. And
- 11:39Speaker 3: when I do a Mamdani accent, people think I'm mocking
- 11:42Speaker 3: people who are Indian, and I'm not. I'm not. I'm
- 11:45Speaker 3: just able to emulate the sound. Years ago, you had
- 11:46Speaker 3: impressionists and everybody thought it was great. Today it's like, oh,
- 11:49Speaker 3: you are mocking this group of people. No, I'm not
- 11:52Speaker 3: stop it. But the bottom line is he is that accent.
- 11:57Speaker 3: You hear is him emulating a New Yorker. You will
- 12:00Speaker 3: catch video of him, go on YouTube. You'll hear him
- 12:03Speaker 3: speaking in his own cultural accent, okay, with an Indian
- 12:07Speaker 3: sound that makes it almost unintelligible. As you know, coming
- 12:10Speaker 3: from a New York perspective with sound, and then when
- 12:14Speaker 3: he speaks with a group of Spanish speakers, he goes
- 12:17Speaker 3: into a Spanish accent. He is the ultimate chameleon. He
- 12:22Speaker 3: could mesh in with any group and make them think
- 12:24Speaker 3: that he is part of them. Meanwhile, he is a
- 12:28Speaker 3: millionaire kid who had a silver spoon in his mouth,
- 12:31Speaker 3: raised by super wealthy elitist parents, and yet he tries
- 12:37Speaker 3: to make it look like he is just a kid
- 12:39Speaker 3: from the streets of New York, rolling up his sleeves
- 12:42Speaker 3: and playing basketball pickup ball with people. No, no, no, no,
- 12:45Speaker 3: no no. This kid came here when he was a kid.
- 12:47Speaker 3: He was already was born in Northern Africa to Indian parents,
- 12:52Speaker 3: and he is he is not an American by birth.
- 12:56Speaker 2: He became an.
- 12:57Speaker 3: American later naturalized. But this man is the ultimate comeleon.
- 13:03Speaker 3: Keep an eye on him. My friend Earl, who was
- 13:06Speaker 3: my we text day and night. He is my conservative soulmate,
- 13:11Speaker 3: if you will. He's a former cop. He's up in
- 13:15Speaker 3: Putnam County and he and he texted to me yesterday
- 13:19Speaker 3: mark my words in our lifetimes that man will become
- 13:24Speaker 3: president of the United States. And at first I tell him, nah,
- 13:28Speaker 3: you're crazy, and it sent chills up my spine. But
- 13:32Speaker 3: his words may have some truth. When you look at
- 13:35Speaker 3: the number of Democratic socialists who are duping the youth
- 13:38Speaker 3: in this country, making them think that they are just
- 13:41Speaker 3: another flavor of the Democrat party. It's terrifying and Democrats
- 13:45Speaker 3: need to do something about this because they won't listen
- 13:48Speaker 3: to conservatives. Democrats need to do something to wake people up.
- 13:52Speaker 3: There was there was a Dana Perino on Fox News
- 13:56Speaker 3: the other day talking about the fact that when young
- 13:59Speaker 3: kids were surveyed recently in a survey they they were
- 14:02Speaker 3: asked if they like democratic socialism, and at least it
- 14:06Speaker 3: was a plurality, if not a majority of kids under
- 14:09Speaker 3: twenty five. Younger people under twenty five said yes, they
- 14:12Speaker 3: support democratic socialism and all it stands for. And then
- 14:15Speaker 3: in the next breath, the question was do you believe
- 14:19Speaker 3: in people's rights to own their own homes? And more
- 14:23Speaker 3: than the original numbers said absolutely, So these idiots do
- 14:27Speaker 3: not even understand what socialism is. Under socialism, you don't
- 14:31Speaker 3: own your own home, you don't own any property. All
- 14:34Speaker 3: property is it's part of the state. You are apportioned
- 14:39Speaker 3: something to each according to his ability it's at or
- 14:43Speaker 3: his own. It is part of socialism, is part of
- 14:47Speaker 3: the collective. You don't own anything individually. You don't have
- 14:50Speaker 3: a house, and at any time the government can say
- 14:52Speaker 3: you you're living in that apartment, you're gone. My friend
- 14:55Speaker 3: Eleana used to be she was born and raised in Cuba,
- 14:58Speaker 3: and she was an anchor with me when I work
- 15:00Speaker 3: at the CBS television station in Miami years ago, and
- 15:05Speaker 3: she told me these horror stories when she was a teenager,
- 15:08Speaker 3: how in the middle of the night, her dad was
- 15:10Speaker 3: a doctor, she had a brother, and she and her mom,
- 15:13Speaker 3: middle of the night, knock at the door. It was
- 15:16Speaker 3: like two o'clock in the morning. They opened the door,
- 15:18Speaker 3: there's a bunch of military members guns and they said,
- 15:21Speaker 3: you're coming with us to her father. Why because they
- 15:23Speaker 3: were living in Havana and they needed doctors in Santiago
- 15:27Speaker 3: de Cuba, which is on the other side of Cuba.
- 15:29Speaker 3: Now this is just after Castro took over. So they
- 15:32Speaker 3: kidnapped her father, took him to the other side of
- 15:34Speaker 3: the island at gunpoint, and then took Iliana, her brother,
- 15:37Speaker 3: and her mother out of their home that they had
- 15:40Speaker 3: worked hard for to buy, confiscated it. Turned it into
- 15:44Speaker 3: military barracks for the communists for the Castro regime, and
- 15:49Speaker 3: then put Iliana, her brother, her mother into an apartment
- 15:52Speaker 3: that had three bedrooms to be shared with two other families,
- 15:55Speaker 3: so each family was given a bedroom to live in.
- 15:58Speaker 3: So it was sort of a way to punish the
- 16:01Speaker 3: heart achievements of the doctor father that she had, who
- 16:04Speaker 3: earned a home. No, no, no, we're going to take
- 16:06Speaker 3: that away from you, and we're going to put you
- 16:09Speaker 3: in an apartment with two other stranger families and you're
- 16:12Speaker 3: going to live together, because this is now the new Cuba.
- 16:16Speaker 3: That's what communism is, and that's what the socialist democrat
- 16:20Speaker 3: concept is, just flowered up a little bit to make
- 16:23Speaker 3: you think it's a good thing, that it's justice. It
- 16:26Speaker 3: isn't justice, it's criminality, and it can't continue in this country.
- 16:31Speaker 3: It's very dangerous.
- 16:32Speaker 2: How are we're going to take your calls?
- 16:33Speaker 3: At eight hundred three to two to one zero seven ten,
- 16:35Speaker 3: eight hundred three to two to one zero seven ten
- 16:38Speaker 3: seven ten WR The Voice of New York hen Risotto
- 16:40Speaker 3: went for mark sun and clouds today, breezy, low humidities,
- 16:44Speaker 3: high's in the low eighties, pretty much the same for
- 16:47Speaker 3: tomorrow and Sunday, really nice weekend in store. A little
- 16:50Speaker 3: bit later, we're gonna speak with John Boyd, Junior of
- 16:52Speaker 3: the Boyd Company. We're going to talk about how years
- 16:55Speaker 3: of Democrats running New Jersey with an anti business climate
- 16:58Speaker 3: is forcing all the major corporates to flee to friendlier states.
- 17:02Speaker 3: It is ten twenty two seven to ten wor coming
- 17:05Speaker 3: right back.
- 17:06Speaker 2: It's the Mark.
- 17:06Speaker 1: Simon Shall Live from the WR Lifeback Studios, guest hosting
- 17:12Speaker 1: for Mark Today.
- 17:13Speaker 2: Here's Ken Rosatto.
- 17:15Speaker 3: Adam, very good morning to you, seven ten WR the
- 17:18Speaker 3: Voice of New York. Phone lines open at eight hundred
- 17:21Speaker 3: and three two one zero seven ten. We go to
- 17:23Speaker 3: our friend Vincent in Brooklyn.
- 17:24Speaker 6: Good morning, Vincent, Good morning, Ken, Good morning Mara. Ken.
- 17:30Speaker 6: This deal with Daran is a horrible deal. And I
- 17:33Speaker 6: say that because Mark Levin, who has a show on
- 17:37Speaker 6: the other channel, who's a constitutional lawyer, read the details
- 17:42Speaker 6: of the deal over the last two days, and why
- 17:46Speaker 6: Also there's this backdoor slush fund of other countries are
- 17:52Speaker 6: supposed to supply loan guarantees of three hundred billion dollars,
- 17:57Speaker 6: and those loan guarantees of ainly gonna come from US.
- 18:01Speaker 6: We're gonna loader the money for a couple of other
- 18:04Speaker 6: countries and it's gonna wind up in their hand. Why
- 18:07Speaker 6: are we paying to rebuild their infrastructure? Iran was always
- 18:12Speaker 6: a rich country. In fact, I had an Iranian tenant
- 18:16Speaker 6: and his father escaped when the Atolla originally came into Palla,
- 18:21Speaker 6: and they're a very wealthy family that live in ten
- 18:25Speaker 6: of Fly, New Jersey. This is a bad deal. This
- 18:29Speaker 6: is a cop out. And you know why, at a
- 18:31Speaker 6: big waste of money. We spent all that money on armaments,
- 18:36Speaker 6: our stockpile of arms right now alone, and we kept
- 18:43Speaker 6: the navy over there, the whole kitten kaboodle over there
- 18:48Speaker 6: for months that we had a resupply with food, this, that,
- 18:51Speaker 6: and the other. For what it was a big dog
- 18:55Speaker 6: and pony show. He could have finished the job, he
- 18:58Speaker 6: said three months ago, we have two weeks worth of
- 19:02Speaker 6: targets and we could be done with this. General Jack Keen,
- 19:06Speaker 6: who's a consultant on a lot of the shows that
- 19:08Speaker 6: I'm sure you heard him, said the same thing that
- 19:12Speaker 6: he didn't know why Trump was going about this. I
- 19:15Speaker 6: picked up on one thing you said, he doesn't want
- 19:18Speaker 6: to kill people. Well, Ken, if you don't want to
- 19:21Speaker 6: kill people. Don't go to war because we lit dressed enough.
- 19:27Speaker 6: The Britz lit dressed enough. During the last days of
- 19:30Speaker 6: the war in Japan, which my father was in the
- 19:33Speaker 6: Philippine Islands, we lit up Tokyo every night. The bombers
- 19:38Speaker 6: would go over there and drop in sinuary bombs. This
- 19:41Speaker 6: is going to turn out into a stalemate, just like
- 19:44Speaker 6: what happened between North and South Korea.
- 19:48Speaker 3: Vincent, I'm just gonna jump in. I'm just gonna jump
- 19:50Speaker 3: in for a segment, friend, only because here you catch
- 19:52Speaker 3: a little bit of a breath. I don't disagree with
- 19:54Speaker 3: you on practically anything you said there. Here's the thing though,
- 19:58Speaker 3: and this is you know President Trump thinks chess wise
- 20:01Speaker 3: right ten moves ahead. This may not be the case
- 20:04Speaker 3: my hypothesis. Buddies of mine said the same thing. I
- 20:08Speaker 3: think at this point he sees that popularity is going down,
- 20:11Speaker 3: and you got to look at the big picture. Popularity
- 20:13Speaker 3: goes down, he loses the midterms for everybody, We lose
- 20:16Speaker 3: it all. At that point, we have no more control,
- 20:18Speaker 3: and I think he's trying to calm things down. In
- 20:21Speaker 3: the meantime, get everything back focused, get the economy back
- 20:24Speaker 3: when the midterms, then you could move forward full strength.
- 20:28Speaker 3: I think that his timing was a way off. He
- 20:30Speaker 3: underestimated how fast he could go in and do this
- 20:33Speaker 3: and come out, and I think that's it. But watch out.
- 20:36Speaker 3: I think the idea here is to get us through
- 20:38Speaker 3: the midterms, hopefully retain both houses, and at that point
- 20:42Speaker 3: that the goal is to you know, if Rand messes
- 20:45Speaker 3: around at that point, go after him full speed. We
- 20:47Speaker 3: got about a minute left. David and Queen, Hello.
- 20:50Speaker 4: Hey, Ken, good morning. I think the comedian you were
- 20:52Speaker 4: trying to remember before was the great JACKU Mason.
- 20:55Speaker 3: Yeah. The minute I said it, the minute I said
- 20:58Speaker 3: I can't remember his name, David Boom, it popped into
- 21:00Speaker 3: my head. You're absolutely right. I'm sorry, go ahead, sir.
- 21:03Speaker 6: He was great.
- 21:04Speaker 4: I saw his next to the last show and he
- 21:06Speaker 4: was good until the last day.
- 21:08Speaker 2: Well, and I appreciate you, thank you today.
- 21:11Speaker 3: Yes, he was brilliant and I got to meet him
- 21:14Speaker 3: a couple of times. Just an awfully nice guy, one
- 21:16Speaker 3: of the funniest guys in the world. And for those
- 21:18Speaker 3: who don't realize, he was a canter in his temple.
- 21:22Speaker 3: So it was a brilliant, brilliant man. David, I appreciate
- 21:24Speaker 3: that phone call. Also to our friend Vincent, I appreciate
- 21:27Speaker 3: your phone called Vincent always. Joe and Elmwood Park, good
- 21:30Speaker 3: morning to you. How were you Ken Thunder h Jackie Mason, Yes,
- 21:36Speaker 3: Jackie Mason is a talk like this. He was funny
- 21:39Speaker 3: and like doing the voice ten years ago. No big
- 21:41Speaker 3: deal doing that voice. And now someone's going to say
- 21:44Speaker 3: you're making fun of people who have a Yiddish ak.
- 21:46Speaker 4: No, I'm not.
- 21:47Speaker 3: I'm honoring him. I think he's awesome. That's why I'm
- 21:50Speaker 3: doing the voice.
- 21:51Speaker 4: Yeah, they learned it from Hillary.
- 21:53Speaker 3: That's right, they all do it. It's not Look, it
- 21:57Speaker 3: all depends on your intention. If your intention is to
- 21:59Speaker 3: mock somebody, people know if that's your intention, and that
- 22:02Speaker 3: is not my intention. Joe, Yes, go ahead.
- 22:06Speaker 4: Mondonnie's a clown.
- 22:09Speaker 3: But they said Mussolini was a clown.
- 22:12Speaker 4: Yeah, Hitler was a clown. I look at the problem
- 22:15Speaker 4: and look at the they're dangerous people.
- 22:18Speaker 3: You're right, because they win over the people, they win
- 22:21Speaker 3: over the masses, and once they went over the masses,
- 22:24Speaker 3: they become the puppet master. And that is the dangerous problem.
- 22:27Speaker 3: Joe and Elmwood Park, thank you. For the call, my friend,
- 22:29Speaker 3: we're out of time. Next, we got to get to
- 22:31Speaker 3: our new seven to ten wor the Voice of New
- 22:33Speaker 3: York coming up next. By the way, we're going to
- 22:35Speaker 3: speak with John Boyd, Junior of the Boyd Company. He's
- 22:37Speaker 3: going to talk about how the Democrats destroying the business
- 22:41Speaker 3: climate in a New Jersey forcing all the companies to flee.
- 22:45Speaker 1: Now more of the Marximone Show on seven to ten wor.
- 22:49Speaker 2: Filling in for Mark here again is Ken Rosatto.
- 22:53Speaker 3: Had a very good morning to you. It is great
- 22:55Speaker 3: to have you on. My gosh, it is so good
- 22:57Speaker 3: to be here in for the great Mark Simone, who
- 23:00Speaker 3: has the day off. Nice long weekend and well deserved.
- 23:03Speaker 3: We want you to give us a call at eight
- 23:05Speaker 3: hundred three to two one zero seven ten, eight hundred
- 23:08Speaker 3: three to two one zero seven ten. And we were
- 23:12Speaker 3: just getting some really good calls today. Anyway, you are
- 23:14Speaker 3: listening to the Marx Simo Show on a Friday, and
- 23:16Speaker 3: it is just a wonderful and interesting day. People going
- 23:20Speaker 3: crazy with what's going on in Iran. We're going to
- 23:22Speaker 3: talk more about that in just a little bit. In
- 23:24Speaker 3: the meantime, Democrats have run New Jersey top to bottom
- 23:28Speaker 3: for nine years, and during that time, spending has grown
- 23:31Speaker 3: out of control, taxes have gone sky high, the business
- 23:35Speaker 3: climate has become oppressive. Don't take my word for it.
- 23:38Speaker 3: You could ask the heads of more than a dozen
- 23:40Speaker 3: major corporations that called New Jersey home for decades, but
- 23:43Speaker 3: they've now fled for states that have friendlier business climates,
- 23:47Speaker 3: most recently Samsung and Exon Mobile. Well, John Boyd Junior
- 23:52Speaker 3: is the principle of the corporate site selection consultancy, The
- 23:55Speaker 3: Boyd Company. It's based in Princeton. He's here to talk
- 23:58Speaker 3: about that more. Good morning to John Kad.
- 24:01Speaker 4: Good morning. It's great to be with you.
- 24:02Speaker 3: Good to have you on. Just for the record, John
- 24:05Speaker 3: was nice enough to come on the TV show I
- 24:07Speaker 3: do in New Jersey the other day and I said, Man,
- 24:08Speaker 3: this guy is so good, we got to have him
- 24:10Speaker 3: on the radio show. So let's go through the rundown.
- 24:12Speaker 3: Democrats in New Jersey control the governor's office, the State Assembly,
- 24:16Speaker 3: the state Senate, both US Senate seats, nine of the
- 24:19Speaker 3: twelve congressional seats, the state Supreme Court, and the mayor's
- 24:22Speaker 3: offices of the fifteen largest cities in the state. So
- 24:25Speaker 3: I'm not trying to condemn Democrats per se in New Jersey,
- 24:29Speaker 3: but there's no question they controlled the whole bowl here.
- 24:33Speaker 3: So again I'm not trying to be bashing to Democrats,
- 24:37Speaker 3: but so they've controlled it all for nine years. So
- 24:41Speaker 3: at this point, who else do you blame in New
- 24:44Speaker 3: Jersey but the Democrats for what's going on with the
- 24:47Speaker 3: businesses leaving.
- 24:50Speaker 4: Well Ken, I think you're hitting the nail on the
- 24:52Speaker 4: head here. Business policy matters with respect to where companies
- 24:57Speaker 4: decide to do business. Okay, you mentioned Samsung, and not
- 25:02Speaker 4: every company is doing, you know, high profile relocations like Samsung. Okay,
- 25:07Speaker 4: I mean obviously Samsung is just the latest and a
- 25:10Speaker 4: number of high profile corporate relocations out of New Jersey
- 25:14Speaker 4: over the past decade or so. But equally concerning are
- 25:17Speaker 4: the dozens of companies that are scaling in other states
- 25:21Speaker 4: that are less costly, less taxed states like Florida and
- 25:24Speaker 4: the Carolina Is even New Jersey's neighbor, Pennsylvania, which is
- 25:28Speaker 4: growing its economy because of tax cuts. And I'm more
- 25:31Speaker 4: of all of the above approach to energy. So the
- 25:35Speaker 4: message is business policy matters, tax policy matters, and when
- 25:40Speaker 4: a company like Samsung leaves New Jersey. You're talking about
- 25:43Speaker 4: several hundred jobs, hundreds of millions of dollars of payroll
- 25:47Speaker 4: and taxable income leaving New Jersey over the next decade
- 25:50Speaker 4: or so. And it's so it's the income tax and
- 25:53Speaker 4: the sales tax losses. It's also the property tax burden
- 25:57Speaker 4: that shifts the middle class. New Jersey ins because corporately
- 26:00Speaker 4: locations decreased commercial property tax appraisals and revenue. But I
- 26:04Speaker 4: think policymakers need to link the affordability crisis that New
- 26:09Speaker 4: Jersey inster facing directly with the business climate and the
- 26:12Speaker 4: dangers of this continued exodus of corporate investment and jobs.
- 26:17Speaker 3: Yeah, and again, if it were Republicans in office in
- 26:21Speaker 3: New Jersey right now and running everything and this was happening,
- 26:24Speaker 3: I would be condemnatory of them equally. So it's a
- 26:27Speaker 3: matter of just what you're saying, whoever is causing the problem.
- 26:31Speaker 3: Voting the same way over and over again is not
- 26:32Speaker 3: going to solve the problem. It's doing the same thing
- 26:34Speaker 3: over and over again and expecting a different outcome. Is
- 26:37Speaker 3: the definition of insanity. And that's what we keep doing.
- 26:39Speaker 3: I say we because I'm a fellow New Jersey resident
- 26:42Speaker 3: You're down in Princeton with the Boyd Company, and I'm
- 26:44Speaker 3: a little further north. But it's just sad to see
- 26:47Speaker 3: that people expect change by doing the same thing. But
- 26:50Speaker 3: I will do this and give Governor Mikey Cheryl some applause,
- 26:55Speaker 3: because at least when it comes to energy, why don't
- 26:58Speaker 3: you talk about what Mikey Cheryl did did to try
- 27:01Speaker 3: to help the energy situation.
- 27:03Speaker 4: But she was this is not Phil Murphy two point
- 27:07Speaker 4: zero with respect to energy. Okay. Murphy was all about
- 27:12Speaker 4: making New Jersey the California of the East Coast with
- 27:15Speaker 4: respect to energy and California like mandates. Cheryl has been
- 27:21Speaker 4: good thus far. Okay, she's lifted the moratorium on natural gas.
- 27:25Speaker 4: That industry has enormous economic development potential, particularly the SMR
- 27:29Speaker 4: industry for R and D operations for New Jersey and
- 27:33Speaker 4: also natural gas. Okay, she's following more of a Joshapiro,
- 27:38Speaker 4: the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, with an all of the
- 27:41Speaker 4: above approach to energy to help businesses and taxpayers. Okay, Look,
- 27:46Speaker 4: this affordability crisis is real. Not every company wants to
- 27:50Speaker 4: relocate out of New York or New Jersey to the
- 27:52Speaker 4: Sun Belt. There are winning regional markets like Pennsylvania. Even
- 27:57Speaker 4: Connecticut is attracting a lot of out migration business. What's
- 28:01Speaker 4: a common denominator? Those states are cutting taxes and they
- 28:04Speaker 4: have a more pro business policy towards energy.
- 28:07Speaker 3: Yeah, and when you look at it in the greater scheme,
- 28:08Speaker 3: you think of the map of New Jersey. What better
- 28:11Speaker 3: place on the planet to locate a business. You have
- 28:14Speaker 3: the first and fourth largest business markets in the United
- 28:17Speaker 3: States in New York and Philadelphia. You have everything from
- 28:21Speaker 3: mountains to shore. Great universities Princeton University, Rutgers and J. T.
- 28:26Speaker 3: Kine Writer, Montclair State, Rowan Stockton, William Patterson. I can
- 28:29Speaker 3: go on and on. We got great colleges in New Jersey.
- 28:33Speaker 3: It's in a perfect area. You have expensive homes, less expensive,
- 28:36Speaker 3: more affordable homes, and great transportation.
- 28:39Speaker 2: It's all there.
- 28:41Speaker 3: So if you're a corporation, you want to go to
- 28:43Speaker 3: a place like New Jersey until you have government making
- 28:46Speaker 3: it oppressive.
- 28:46Speaker 2: To be there.
- 28:49Speaker 4: That's right, Kevin. Look, there's a live work play dynamic
- 28:52Speaker 4: behind corporate location decisions today. And this is a strong
- 28:56Speaker 4: suit as you just so articulated so well. K through
- 29:00Speaker 4: twelve schools, the cluster of major universities, of course, proximity
- 29:04Speaker 4: of Manhattan, Philadelphia, cannectivity to the global marketplace. Okay, so
- 29:08Speaker 4: you're right. All of the pieces of the puzzle are there.
- 29:12Speaker 4: The only thing that's missing is the heavy lifting from
- 29:14Speaker 4: Trenton politicians, tax cuts, reforming our energy policy to make
- 29:19Speaker 4: it more business friendly, and even doing some smart things
- 29:23Speaker 4: that really promote consolidations of municipal services to cut up
- 29:27Speaker 4: to reduce the property tax burden.
- 29:30Speaker 3: You know, it's funny to be able to say that
- 29:33Speaker 3: Governor Mikey Cheryl is the adult in the room now
- 29:35Speaker 3: when it comes to Trenton, because it looks like the
- 29:37Speaker 3: assemblies out of control. The State Assemblies is out of control,
- 29:41Speaker 3: the State Senate to some extent, but Governor Mikey Cheryl
- 29:44Speaker 3: is now like the sound mind of all of them
- 29:46Speaker 3: to try to bring things or keep things from getting
- 29:48Speaker 3: out of control. When it comes to making businesses leave
- 29:51Speaker 3: because people who have the attitude, the mumdani esque attitude
- 29:55Speaker 3: of oh you want to take your millions and leave,
- 29:57Speaker 3: go good riddance, which is what Hokeel did in New
- 29:59Speaker 3: York as well. Same attitude, although now she's changing her
- 30:02Speaker 3: tune as she sees the population declining and the major
- 30:04Speaker 3: corporations leaving New York as well. John Boyd, Junior principal
- 30:08Speaker 3: of the corporate site selection consultancy The Boyd Company, based
- 30:12Speaker 3: in beautiful Princeton, New Jersey. By the way, it's not
- 30:14Speaker 3: just a college town. What a beautiful town you live in.
- 30:17Speaker 3: Princeton is one of the prettiest places on earth. What
- 30:19Speaker 3: a great town. How long you been there?
- 30:22Speaker 4: So, we've been in Princeton since nineteen seventy five. But
- 30:27Speaker 4: we're also in boker Ratoon, Flord. We're in the sixth Borough. Ah,
- 30:31Speaker 4: we actually officially relocate. I still spend a great deal
- 30:34Speaker 4: time in New Jersey. Good at a lot of listeners
- 30:38Speaker 4: and fans here in the sixth.
- 30:39Speaker 3: Borough for wor about a fourth of our calls are
- 30:42Speaker 3: from there as well. And I'm just south of you
- 30:44Speaker 3: in Fort Lauderdale as well, so I'm there half the
- 30:46Speaker 3: time as well. But John, it is great to have
- 30:49Speaker 3: you on again. Please thank you for coming goud this morning,
- 30:52Speaker 3: and please come on again.
- 30:54Speaker 4: Thank you Ken.
- 30:54Speaker 3: It'll be a great weekend you too, John. Happy Father's Day.
- 30:57Speaker 3: Sound in clouds today. It's gonna be breezy. Oh, humidity
- 31:00Speaker 3: highs low eighties. Pretty much the same for tomorrow and Sunday,
- 31:04Speaker 3: Father's Day. A really nice weekend in store. Phone lines
- 31:07Speaker 3: are open. We're gonna take your calls. Coming up next
- 31:09Speaker 3: right after the break. The numbers eight hundred three two
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- 31:16Speaker 3: seven ten. The Great Mark Simone is off today. Ken
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- 31:25Speaker 1: This is the Mark Simone Show on seven ten WI
- 31:29Speaker 1: Ken for Mark today.
- 31:30Speaker 2: Here's Ken Rosatta.
- 31:32Speaker 3: That's so nice to be with you. Let's go down
- 31:34Speaker 3: to the Sunshine State. Let's go to Vince in Fort Pierce, Florida.
- 31:37Speaker 3: Good morning for Vince, Good morning.
- 31:40Speaker 7: You know, I gotta tell you Iran has been terrorizing
- 31:44Speaker 7: the world for forty seven years. Yeah, nobody did anything.
- 31:48Speaker 7: Obama gives them billions of dollars and says, no, don't
- 31:51Speaker 7: build any nukes, which is a joke because we know
- 31:53Speaker 7: they did. And by the way, that deal would have
- 31:55Speaker 7: expired ten years later anyway, So now it's ten years later.
- 32:00Speaker 7: But all these people all we need to do this.
- 32:03Speaker 7: They forget one thing. Trump is negotiating with the entire
- 32:06Speaker 7: Middle East is involved. They had Saudi Arabia attacking certain
- 32:10Speaker 7: places and Iran that's never happened. We had the entire
- 32:13Speaker 7: Middle East working with US SO and I support Israel
- 32:16Speaker 7: one hundred percent, but I think it's safe to say,
- 32:19Speaker 7: you know, they've gotten even for October seventh. I mean,
- 32:22Speaker 7: it's hundreds of thousands of people are dead, and they're
- 32:26Speaker 7: throwing a monkey wrench into this deal because net Yahoo
- 32:28Speaker 7: doesn't like it. Well, it has to be a deal
- 32:31Speaker 7: for everybody has to like it in the Middle East.
- 32:33Speaker 7: It can't be just you know, something that we want to, Oh,
- 32:36Speaker 7: just keep going, just keep bombing. They had nothing left
- 32:39Speaker 7: two weeks ago. Trump went in there with a couple
- 32:42Speaker 7: of more, you know, like I think they had three
- 32:44Speaker 7: hundred different missions. They didn't even have any opposition nothing.
- 32:48Speaker 7: They have nothing. They have nowhere force, no navy, no nothing.
- 32:52Speaker 7: And as far as Obama and his library there, you know,
- 32:57Speaker 7: I wouldn't.
- 32:58Speaker 4: I wouldn't.
- 32:59Speaker 7: They couldn't pay me to go there. He's on TV
- 33:01Speaker 7: undermining this whole deal, and he's also undermining Trump. All
- 33:05Speaker 7: that hatred that you see every day, kill Trump, do this,
- 33:08Speaker 7: it all comes from him.
- 33:10Speaker 3: So a lot of it certainly did start there, but
- 33:12Speaker 3: then you know, we always have different points in time.
- 33:14Speaker 3: A lot of people can you can also say this
- 33:16Speaker 3: started with Clinton, because there was a lot of the
- 33:19Speaker 3: polarization under Clinton. But you know, look either way, I
- 33:22Speaker 3: respect the office. I disagree with the man on everything,
- 33:26Speaker 3: but I still respect the office and I certainly would
- 33:28Speaker 3: never wish ill will on him. That's the difference. I'm
- 33:32Speaker 3: just trying to illustrate the difference between those on the
- 33:35Speaker 3: right and those on the left, especially today, there's so
- 33:38Speaker 3: much of a disparity there in the way we treat
- 33:41Speaker 3: like you and I. You're willing to watch the inauguration
- 33:44Speaker 3: of the of the Presidential Center, the opening of it. Meanwhile,
- 33:48Speaker 3: those on the left would never take a moment to
- 33:51Speaker 3: watch anything on the right. As as a friend of
- 33:53Speaker 3: mine who is another talk radio host at I don't
- 33:57Speaker 3: want to reveal the name, but he always says that
- 34:00Speaker 3: a democrat Republicans look at Democrats as good people with
- 34:03Speaker 3: bad ideas, and democrats look at Republicans as bad people.
- 34:07Speaker 3: And there is the difference. Vince in Fort Pierce, thank
- 34:10Speaker 3: you very much for your call, sir. We appreciate it.
- 34:12Speaker 3: Sun and Clouds today is going to be breezy, low humidity, highs,
- 34:15Speaker 3: low eighties. This is Ken rozantto in from Mark seven
- 34:17Speaker 3: to ten wo R The Voice of New York