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Speaker 1: It's the Mark Simone Shout live from the WR Life
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Speaker 1: Back Studios guest hosting for Mark Today. Here's Ken Rosato
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Speaker 1: and it's so nice to be with you on your
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Speaker 1: Thursday as we lead into Independence. Stay. By the way,
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Speaker 1: I like to call it Independence Day instead of fourth
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Speaker 1: of July, just because I know it's popular to call
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Speaker 1: it fourth of July, but we tend to lose count
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Speaker 1: or lose track of what the holiday is. We just
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Speaker 1: think of it fourth of July, hot dogs, fireworks forgetting
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Speaker 1: it is Independence Day. It's the day that are founding parents,
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Speaker 1: let's say, because the remember, behind those founding fathers were
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Speaker 1: founding mothers who sacrificed a lot too. And behind those
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Speaker 1: founding parents, they had some hutzpa to stand up to
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Speaker 1: the literally the giant power of the world at the time,
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Speaker 1: Great Britain, and say, screw you, We're going to be
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Speaker 1: an independent country. We want nothing to do with you.
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Speaker 1: And that took some hootspot because I bet you a
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Speaker 1: lot of them figured they were signing their death warrant
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Speaker 1: at that point. They figured that that Great Britain is
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Speaker 1: gonna come and uh, they were gonna come and wipe
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Speaker 1: them out and that's that they didn't have much defense,
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Speaker 1: and with a little help from you know, other countries
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Speaker 1: like France and whatnot, both giving mercenaries and weapons, they
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Speaker 1: were able to combat them. But read the history of
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Speaker 1: our country and the founding fathers and Independence Day. The
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Speaker 1: more you read about it, the more chills you get,
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Speaker 1: and you realize these guys were amazing. And by the way,
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Speaker 1: alcohol played a big role in it. These if you
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Speaker 1: read what the alcohol was, the alcohol bill was. Uh.
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Speaker 1: The they drank a lot. Uh when they spent their
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Speaker 1: weeks in Philadelphia calculating things and writing the Declaration of Independence,
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Speaker 1: et cetera. Uh, there is this giant bill, this tab
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Speaker 1: that they racked up for whiskies and beer and things
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Speaker 1: like that. These guys drank a lot because remember the
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Speaker 1: water wasn't really safe as it was, so they used
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Speaker 1: to add a little alcohol to it, and then they
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Speaker 1: added a little more to it, and then they would
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Speaker 1: get a little heated under the column. And that's probably
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Speaker 1: how a lot of their decisions were made. But worked
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Speaker 1: for them. I don't recommend it today, but it worked
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Speaker 1: for them. Seven ten wr The Voice of New York.
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Speaker 1: zero seven ten, eight hundred three to two to one
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Speaker 1: zero seven ten. This is ken Rosotto TV News anchor
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Speaker 1: Guy ken Rosotto. Remember I was on Channel seven for
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Speaker 1: twenty years. I was on Good Day in New York
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Speaker 1: on Fox five for a year. I only did that
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Speaker 1: a year, but it was a fun year. Good friends.
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Speaker 1: I still have a Channel five two. We are in
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Speaker 1: the middle of a heat wave. The tri State is
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Speaker 1: going to see around ninety seven to ninety eight degrees today.
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Speaker 1: A few spots will break one hundred. Usually Newark is
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Speaker 1: always a few degrees hotter. Then it's funny. Newark gets
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Speaker 1: a little colder than New York in the winter. They
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Speaker 1: call it cold as brick the brick City, And it
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Speaker 1: gets a little hotter than New York in the summer.
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Speaker 1: And I think a lot of it is because they're
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Speaker 1: sort of recessed. It's sort of a valley, and they
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Speaker 1: get the weather kind of concentrated there. But Newark will
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Speaker 1: probably break one hundred. New York again upper nineties. But
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Speaker 1: the real feel the temperature humidity index. We used to
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Speaker 1: call it years ago when I was a baby in
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Speaker 1: radio thchi. They called it the thgi. That means the
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Speaker 1: humidity is going to make it feel a lot hotter.
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Speaker 1: So you're talking one hundred and ten, but that's hot.
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Speaker 1: So make sure kids, pets, relatives, elderly relatives, we say
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Speaker 1: it quickly. Make sure that your elderly relatives have air
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Speaker 1: conditioning and that they are drinking a lot of water.
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Speaker 1: Older people don't sense the heat like younger people do,
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Speaker 1: and so they are likely to say, no, I'm comfortable,
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Speaker 1: I'm fine. You walk into the room and it's like
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Speaker 1: one hundred degrees and they don't realize they are dehydrating
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Speaker 1: by sitting in that heat. Their bodies are still reacting,
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Speaker 1: but they don't feel it. So if you are older,
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Speaker 1: make sure you put on your air conditioning, even if
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Speaker 1: it makes you feel a little uncomfortable. Get your air
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Speaker 1: down at least to seventy eight, and make sure you
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Speaker 1: drink plenty of water and actually a lot of Make
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Speaker 1: sure you have bananas, potassium, gatorade, things like that too,
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Speaker 1: because you don't want to deplete yourself of electrolytes. But
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Speaker 1: water important. Electrolytes also important. All right, sorry to give
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Speaker 1: the lecture, but very important, and for those of you
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Speaker 1: who love to make fun of the fact that I
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Speaker 1: live in Florida a good chunk of the year. I'm
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Speaker 1: in New York right now, but a lot of times
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Speaker 1: I am in Fort Lauderdale, both when I'm broadcasting and not.
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Speaker 1: And today in Fort Lauderdale the highest eighty six with
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Speaker 1: lower humidity than New York. So the next time my
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Speaker 1: friends say, how could you live in Florida? It's so
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Speaker 1: hot and humid, especially in the summer, Well, it actually
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Speaker 1: is cooler there in a lot of the summer days,
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Speaker 1: on a lot of the summer days than it is
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Speaker 1: in New York. And that's because when it hits ninety
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Speaker 1: five or so in South Florida, we tend to get
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Speaker 1: thunderstorms the cool things down. It's sticky, it's uncomfortable, but
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Speaker 1: at least it's not one hundred degrees plus. Everywhere in
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Speaker 1: South Florida has really powerful air conditioning, whereas it's kind
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Speaker 1: of hit and miss here in New York. You walk
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Speaker 1: into places and the air conditioning units struggle to get
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Speaker 1: things down to a certain temperature. Se wr the Voice
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Speaker 1: of New York. It is Ken Rozotto in for Mark
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Speaker 1: on Thursday, and Iszi our engineer actually brought this up.
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Speaker 1: He said, yeah, you know, I have the air conditioning on,
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Speaker 1: it's struggling. That's a great point. If you have your
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Speaker 1: air conditioning on and right now you're saying, hey, I've
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Speaker 1: had the air on all day, all night, and right
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Speaker 1: now my room is only getting down to seventy seven.
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Speaker 1: Air Conditioners are only meant to knock the temperature down
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Speaker 1: ten to twenty degrees on average. If you have a
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Speaker 1: big central air unit, maybe twenty five. That's it. So
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Speaker 1: if it's one hundred and humid out, the best your
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Speaker 1: air is going to get you down to it's like
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Speaker 1: eighty to seventy five. It's not going to get you
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Speaker 1: down to sixty eight, even if you said it at
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Speaker 1: sixty eight. In fact, it may even cause the coils
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Speaker 1: to freeze. So don't rush to call the repair people
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Speaker 1: immediately thinking your unit isn't working. When you get above
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Speaker 1: one hundred degrees or around that, that is the best
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Speaker 1: your air conditioning unit's going to do. It's going to
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Speaker 1: give you about twenty degrees, so be happy you're down
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Speaker 1: to eighty. But that's why you should make sure you
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Speaker 1: drink lots of fluids and hydrate all right. We were
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Speaker 1: talking earlier about gas prices dropping. They're continuing to drop
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Speaker 1: if you haven't noticed. Right now, the national average for
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Speaker 1: a gallon of gas is down to three eighty five
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Speaker 1: and by the end of the summer it should get
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Speaker 1: down to lower than it was a year ago at
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Speaker 1: this point, so it'll be lower than it has been
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Speaker 1: in about seven or eight years, and that should happen
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Speaker 1: by the end of the summer, so it'll be about
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Speaker 1: three point fifteen three ten a gallon. And as that
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Speaker 1: continues to happen, everything will drop in price, groceries, clothing,
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Speaker 1: your weekly gas bill. Think about that. If it goes
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Speaker 1: down by that much, you're talking about the average family
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Speaker 1: saving maybe forty bucks a week. You multiply that, that's
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Speaker 1: two thousand dollars a year. It's a lot of money
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Speaker 1: back in your family budget by those gas prices coming down.
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Speaker 1: So that is definitely a good thing. Big decisions of
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Speaker 1: course by Scotus the Supreme Court. This week, we just
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Speaker 1: talked to somebody from a female athletes organization about the
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Speaker 1: no biological males and female sports. And many people on
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Speaker 1: the left, especially among the the I call them the
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Speaker 1: extra letters. There's the lgbtq I A plus. Okay, the
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Speaker 1: LGB community tends to be one of one mindset, and
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Speaker 1: then the TQIA plus plus plus tends to be another community.
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Speaker 1: The difference is LGP are lesbian, gay, bisexual. They're like ken,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear all this art. Just to
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Speaker 1: I'll simplify it as much as possible. These are people
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Speaker 1: who live their true lives whatever, and they just happen
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Speaker 1: to be attracted to people of the same sex, all right.
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Speaker 1: Nothing different then the TIA xx plus plus whatever are
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Speaker 1: people who identify they call themselves queer, they identify differently,
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Speaker 1: they think they're a different gender. But blah blah boah.
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Speaker 1: All right, I'm not condemning anyone here, and I'm not criticizing.
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying there is a difference because one is
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Speaker 1: a actual attraction and one is a psychological belief that
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Speaker 1: is contrary to reality. All right. So and again that's
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Speaker 1: not being mean. I'm I'm not hurling an insult by
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Speaker 1: saying that there is a difference between the two, all right.
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Speaker 1: And that's why I think a lot of people in
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Speaker 1: the gay community. Traditional people in the gay community are
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Speaker 1: tired of being dragged into the transgender and queer identifying
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Speaker 1: and gender non binary and blah blah blah, on we go,
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Speaker 1: there is a difference. So I don't understand the complaint
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Speaker 1: from that community, because the Supreme Court simply said that
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Speaker 1: each state has a right to allow none are people, say,
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Speaker 1: born as biological males who identify as women. Okay, so
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Speaker 1: trans women, Certain states will allow it in certain moon.
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Speaker 1: And the Supreme Court said, it's education is managed by
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Speaker 1: the states, So let the states decide. That's all that
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Speaker 1: they said, Just like with the abortion issue, Let the
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Speaker 1: states decide. Let it be a local issue because of
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Speaker 1: your local morality and culture says one thing, then you
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Speaker 1: go with that. And if it says something else, and
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Speaker 1: you go with that. Title nine was set up by
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Speaker 1: the US government in order to make sure that women
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Speaker 1: have a place in sports, because they didn't because a
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Speaker 1: woman could not compete fairly on a men's team. And
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Speaker 1: under Title nine, literally, title line was thrown out when
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Speaker 1: they started allowing biological males who identify as women to compete.
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Speaker 1: And as I said earlier this morning, you don't ever
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Speaker 1: see biological women identifying as men fighting to get onto
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Speaker 1: men's teams because they would get their asses kicked. Excuse
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Speaker 1: my slang, but yes, that's what would happen. They would
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Speaker 1: get injured and they know that, and you just don't
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Speaker 1: see that happening, which then makes you scratch your head
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Speaker 1: and say, hmm, what's this all about. And if you
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Speaker 1: are a biological male identifying as a woman, you're not
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Speaker 1: being banned from sports. You can play on the boys team.
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Speaker 1: You're allowed to play on the boat. You could dress
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Speaker 1: up as you want, you could have long hair, you
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Speaker 1: could put in big breasts, and you could still compete
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Speaker 1: on the boys team. You can do that, So it's
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Speaker 1: not that you are being banned from sports. You are
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Speaker 1: being banned from competing on a team of people who
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Speaker 1: do not have the biological advantage that you have by
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Speaker 1: being born male. But mister Redundo, mister Rosudo, oh, my
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Speaker 1: kid had puberty blockers, so he didn't form it Adam's apple.
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Speaker 1: Even with puberty blockers. You tell you, talk to any
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Speaker 1: doctor or with his or her salt, and they will
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Speaker 1: tell you that biological males are born with a different
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Speaker 1: physical frame. They're born taller, longer, bigger shoulders, bigger arms,
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Speaker 1: and they have their little twitch cells respond differently in sports,
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Speaker 1: So biological males, whether they have testosterone in them or not,
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Speaker 1: and there's always a little testosterone from birth, by the way,
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Speaker 1: they will respond differently than biological females. So it is
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Speaker 1: just not fair to allow a biological male to compete
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Speaker 1: on a team of biological females, whether they identify as
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Speaker 1: male females, somewhere in between or somewhere from out of space.
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Speaker 1: Let's just stop the ridiculousness. We have girls getting hurt.
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Speaker 1: They're getting hurt because they're playing against biological males and
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Speaker 1: having volleyballs slammed at them at ninety miles an hour,
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Speaker 1: crossing brain damage. If it was your daughter, would you
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Speaker 1: accept that, No, you would not. And it's just well,
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Speaker 1: it's just because they're playing in the sport. No, it
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Speaker 1: wouldn't have happened playing against women. It happened because in
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Speaker 1: one team, the female athlete was playing against a male
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Speaker 1: athlete who slammed a volleyball into her head at a
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Speaker 1: speed three times what a woman would have hit it at.
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Speaker 1: That's why, and it's not fair. And all the young
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Speaker 1: girls who work their whole school careers to get to
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Speaker 1: a point where they could compete and get a scholarship.
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Speaker 1: They're having those scholarships ripped from their arms, and there's
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Speaker 1: nowhere to appeal because some good hearted liberals think it's
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Speaker 1: this better to be pro transgender community, thinking that forgetting
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Speaker 1: everything else, we just have to be pro trans pro
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Speaker 1: legal alien probe. As long as it's anti Trump, that's
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Speaker 1: all that matters. Stop it, stop it, step back, see
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Speaker 1: the reality before you make up your mind. Seven ten
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Speaker 1: for Mark on a Thursday, and we will take calls
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Speaker 1: to eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten,
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Speaker 1: eight hundred three to two to one zero seven ten.
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Speaker 1: We've got a couple of minutes here. I want to
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Speaker 1: talk also about birthright citizenship. I think this is the
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Speaker 1: biggest mistake the US Supreme Court possibly ever made. And
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Speaker 1: I know that's it sounds hyperbolic, but I mean that
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Speaker 1: probably the biggest mistake they have ever made. And why
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Speaker 1: do I say that? Well, first off, whatever Western nations
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Speaker 1: had birthright citizenship almost to the nation, in the last
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Speaker 1: few decades, they've gotten rid of it because it's ridiculous
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Speaker 1: you as an infant being born from your mother, you
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Speaker 1: don't have any say or control as to what country
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Speaker 1: you're born in. All Right, if a woman, say a
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Speaker 1: woman is from an enemy country, I say an enemy country,
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Speaker 1: doesn't mean they hate America. But a country that is
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Speaker 1: not on a good stance with America. Say you're from Iran,
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Speaker 1: and you happen to be on a cruise ship from
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Speaker 1: somewhere from Europe where they could board a cruise ship,
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Speaker 1: and that cruise ship happens to dock in New York
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Speaker 1: on its way to another location. They fill it with fuel,
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Speaker 1: they dock in New York. Woman gives birth while on
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Speaker 1: that cruise ship. That child's an American citizen. Now that
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Speaker 1: woman could hate America. Doesn't want their kid being an
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Speaker 1: American citizen. But based on the silliness, now that the
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Speaker 1: Supreme Court has decided that child is an American, they
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Speaker 1: can go back to Iran. They could indoctrinate the kid
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Speaker 1: as Bullock could have a field day with the kid
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Speaker 1: and teach the kid that America is the great Satan.
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Speaker 1: And at eighteen, or at any age actually, but at eighteen,
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Speaker 1: that kid can independently come back to the United States,
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Speaker 1: could even run for president. Because they are not a
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Speaker 1: naturalized citizen, they are a born American they could run
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Speaker 1: for president hating the United States and wanting to wage
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Speaker 1: ghad on the United States. I'm just giving you an
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Speaker 1: example of the can of worms now opened by our
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Speaker 1: illustrious Supreme Court Justice Roberts, who always wants to make
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Speaker 1: everybody happy because he's an anti Trumper. He was a
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Speaker 1: bush guy, very liberal Republican type. He is not a
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Speaker 1: conservative by any stretch. And he's been caught on audio
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Speaker 1: saying that, oh, under Obamacare, remember the big Obamacare debate,
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Speaker 1: go back, you'll find it online where he was called saying, well,
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Speaker 1: we can't do that because the country would go crazy. So,
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Speaker 1: in other words, he already played his hand. He already
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Speaker 1: showed the cards close to the vest that it wasn't
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Speaker 1: all about what is legal and just. It was about
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Speaker 1: making sure that the American people don't go crazy by
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Speaker 1: our decision. If that is not supposed to play into it. Remember,
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Speaker 1: justice is blind. You're supposed to look at the letter
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Speaker 1: of the law and interpret it. But between him and
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Speaker 1: Amy Coney Barrett, who has become the biggest disappointment ever,
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Speaker 1: and as a friend of mine said, that's the last
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Speaker 1: time a woman will get appointed to the Supreme Court
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Speaker 1: by the Republican Party. It seems at any time Republicans
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Speaker 1: appoint a woman to the Supreme Court, they start out
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Speaker 1: looking conservative and in five years they become more liberal
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Speaker 1: than the most liberal justices. So stop trying to vote
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Speaker 1: playing the dei card game here, okay, and just vote
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Speaker 1: on their record, their record on the court, please, But
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Speaker 1: just looking at the can of worms, it's been open.
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Speaker 1: It's scary. Birthright tourism in Florida. I used to live
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Speaker 1: in the city of Hollywood, Florida. There are condo buildings
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Speaker 1: all right that have two hundred, two hundred and fifty
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Speaker 1: units in them that have been bought up by wealthy
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Speaker 1: Russians Ola Gox, Like Bernie would say, Ola Gox, they
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Speaker 1: were Ola Doux, and they have bought these buildings and
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Speaker 1: literally converted them into birthright centers. So they charge wealthy
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Speaker 1: Russians twenty five to fifty thousand dollars to come for
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Speaker 1: a month that they're in their last month of pregnancy.
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Speaker 1: You get put up in this really nice condo on
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Speaker 1: the water, You get fed three meals, There are doctors
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Speaker 1: and nurses, and literally you give birth to your baby
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Speaker 1: there and somebody takes care of it. There are lawyers
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Speaker 1: in the building that get the kid the birth certificate,
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Speaker 1: then you fly back to Russia. It's all part of
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Speaker 1: the package, and that they openly advertise it. If you
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Speaker 1: go between Hollywood and Surfside and Sunnyside, Florida, Sunny Isles Beach, Florida,
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Speaker 1: I should say, up and down the coast on A
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Speaker 1: one A, you will see building after building after building
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Speaker 1: with all the signs written in Corillic in Russian. And
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Speaker 1: those people are taking part in this trade. They don't
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Speaker 1: even keep it a secret. It's wide open. And once
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Speaker 1: those kids are born, they are American citizens. Mommy takes
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Speaker 1: them back to Russia. At eighteen, the kid comes back
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Speaker 1: to the US and can now petition to have their
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Speaker 1: parents brought to the US with them as a sponsor.
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Speaker 1: And they are born American citizens, so they can't be
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Speaker 1: kicked out of the country. Think about that. Seven ten
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Speaker 1: three to two, one zero seven ten sunny, hot and humid. Today,
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Speaker 1: a heat wave continues. High's upper night nineties humidity making
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Speaker 1: it feel worse than that. And coming up later, we'll
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Speaker 1: speak with brand and digital strategist Fisher Wall Street is
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Speaker 1: cheering Meta's big new push into cloud computing. No more
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Speaker 1: do you need that big storage drive, even as the
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Speaker 1: move could mean lower profit margins. But your calls are next.
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