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Mark's 10am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten woor filling
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Speaker 1: in for Mark, here's Ken Rosatto. It's so nice to
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Speaker 1: be with you on a beautiful Friday. My goodness. I
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Speaker 1: heard Mark talking about it yesterday, saying, if you like
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Speaker 1: summer weekends. I can't even attempt the great Mark Simone's voice,
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Speaker 1: but he was saying, if you like summer weekends, this
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Speaker 1: is the perfect summer. And I'm thinking hyperbole. I love
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Speaker 1: my Mark Simone, but he's got to be exaggerating that.
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Speaker 1: I talked to a couple of my meteorologists friends and said, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: Mark's got his finger on the pulse. He's right if
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Speaker 1: you're going to pick at a few days of the
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Speaker 1: entire summer, you know, not that we could forecast six
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Speaker 1: weeks from now, but it looks like this. Is it Friday, Saturday,
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Speaker 1: Sunday sunshine, not that humid low eighties. It's one of
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Speaker 1: those days you just love to walk around. I mean,
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Speaker 1: if you're in Manhattan, you walk around, fresh air, sunshine.
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Speaker 1: If you're in suburbia, forget it. I am in the
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Speaker 1: middle of moving from northern New Jersey to central New Jersey,
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Speaker 1: and I woke up in central New Jersey today in
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Speaker 1: a valley area, and it was fifty seven degrees there,
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Speaker 1: and I think it only got down to the sixties
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Speaker 1: in Manhattan, but it was fifty seven. I walked outside,
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Speaker 1: got a little scared of that because I kind of
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Speaker 1: like the warm weather, but it was just so beautiful
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Speaker 1: and fresh. So I hope you enjoy this beautiful weekend.
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Speaker 1: For those saying, who the heck is this prattling on
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Speaker 1: on the Mark Simone Show, this is Ken Rozotto. I
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Speaker 1: was the morning anchor and for a while, noon anchor
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Speaker 1: two at Channel seven in New York. He remembered me there.
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Speaker 1: I was there for decades and decades. I was also
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Speaker 1: a morning anchor at Good Day in New York on
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Speaker 1: Channel five. I was on Channel fifty five, which is
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Speaker 1: now owned by CBS. It wasn't when I was there,
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Speaker 1: but it's now owned by CBS. So there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of New York history with me with television, but a
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Speaker 1: lot of people don't realize I did radio for a
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Speaker 1: lot of years before that too, in and around the
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Speaker 1: New York City area. So it's nice to be back
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Speaker 1: behind the microphone filling in for probably and arguably one
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Speaker 1: of the greatest talk radio people of any time, Simone,
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Speaker 1: and I'm honored and humbled to be sitting here these days.
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Speaker 1: What I do for a living, I host a daily
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Speaker 1: show on a New Jersey based TV news channel. It's
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Speaker 1: a streaming channel, which is where it seems TV is
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Speaker 1: how you could get it anywhere in the country, but
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Speaker 1: if you're in New Jersey you could see it easily.
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Speaker 1: It's on New jerseynj dot com. We had a lot
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Speaker 1: of talk about today. Our phone lines are wide open.
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Speaker 1: Give us a call. We could take part together in
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Speaker 1: the conversation. Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
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Speaker 1: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. Well, let's
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Speaker 1: start talking about Iran. Last night was the thirteenth night
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Speaker 1: where the US has literally pounded Iran. And I know,
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Speaker 1: with the the last month or two, the President has
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Speaker 1: made a lot of threats and we don't see really
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Speaker 1: what has happened over there. But now we're getting video
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Speaker 1: trickling in and it looks like it's no longer just threats.
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Speaker 1: They are pounding they the US military is pounding Iran
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Speaker 1: mercilessly now, going after targets that normally would be avoided
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Speaker 1: because I know, you know, to President Trump doesn't like
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Speaker 1: to impact the regular citizenry of a country. In this case,
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Speaker 1: he doesn't want to, and I don't want to put
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Speaker 1: words in his mouth. I'm just speaking on what he said.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't like impacting the everyday people. The people of
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Speaker 1: Iran are fantastic people. If you know any Iranian Americans,
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Speaker 1: you know, I know six people who, in fact they
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Speaker 1: call themselves Persian because well, Persian is a subset within
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Speaker 1: Iran anyway, not everybody in Iran is Persian, but the
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Speaker 1: ones that I know are all Persian, and they don't
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Speaker 1: even want to call themselves Iranian Americans for one hundred reasons,
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Speaker 1: but they are. They will tell you if you talk
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Speaker 1: to them that the current people running Iran are insane
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Speaker 1: and they don't care about their own people. They don't
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Speaker 1: care if their own people get killed because they are theocrats.
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Speaker 1: They are believed in an administration run entirely for the
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Speaker 1: glory of their God, and it doesn't matter if people
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Speaker 1: get killed because this is part of the process for them.
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Speaker 1: We believe that America's founded under God, whether you realize
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Speaker 1: it or not. We say one nation under God for
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Speaker 1: a reason, because in our founding, the founding fathers say
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Speaker 1: that God led them to this and helping and help
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Speaker 1: them to create the system that we have in the
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Speaker 1: United States today. And if you look at the checks
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Speaker 1: and balances, the way things are set up, it makes
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Speaker 1: a lot of sense. If you don't believe in a God,
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Speaker 1: then we have a whole lot of luck that has
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Speaker 1: brought us to two hundred and fifty years of a
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Speaker 1: wonderful country. If not, I say, the greatest country on
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Speaker 1: the planet. You could try to differ with me. We
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Speaker 1: could have a debate on that, but I don't think
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Speaker 1: you'll win. This is the greatest country ever on the
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Speaker 1: face of the earth for a thousand reasons. It is
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Speaker 1: not a perfect country, but nobody was perfect except for
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Speaker 1: one person, I believe, and they nailed them to a cross.
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Speaker 1: But that's another day, another story. Outside of that, I
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Speaker 1: would say that the United States, whenever it has had warts,
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Speaker 1: it has exposed those warts and tried to do whatever
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Speaker 1: possible to change the warts and fix them. So that's
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Speaker 1: the difference between the US and other countries. But we'd
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Speaker 1: like to hear what you have to say about it.
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Speaker 1: Eight hundred and three to two one zero seven ten.
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Speaker 1: So again with Iran, what has happened is now we
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Speaker 1: are escalating. It seems to going after bridges and power plants,
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Speaker 1: things that sadly will impact the rank and file people
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Speaker 1: of the country. But it seems that unless there's pressure
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Speaker 1: from the people internally on the government the things, they
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Speaker 1: are just going to continue. As is. The negotiators I
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Speaker 1: put in the air quotes lie to us during the
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Speaker 1: negotiation process. They smile and say one thing and then
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Speaker 1: go back and do something entirely differently. In fact, as
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Speaker 1: President Trump has pointed out many times, they will talk
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Speaker 1: to us in a negotiation setting, and the second they're done,
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Speaker 1: they go outside and talk to the lemmings in left
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Speaker 1: wing media in America and tell them just the opposite.
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Speaker 1: And then the left wing media takes their word and
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Speaker 1: doesn't take our word for it, which is crazy, the
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Speaker 1: fact that they look at the enemy foreign government and
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Speaker 1: believe them and take their word as more credible than
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Speaker 1: the United States because they hate Trump so much. And
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Speaker 1: that's what has happened with much of our quote unquote
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Speaker 1: mainstream media shifting gears now seven to ten wo R
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Speaker 1: the Voice of New York Ken Rozanno win from Mark
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Speaker 1: on Friday and Mayor Mom Donnie, he is, you know, urging.
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Speaker 1: He has urged New Yorkers to do all sorts of things.
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Speaker 1: He's sold New Yorker's a bag of goods in terms
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Speaker 1: of promising free buses didn't happen, free grocery stores didn't happen.
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Speaker 1: All sorts of freebies not going to happen. Rent freezing, Okay,
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Speaker 1: So he appoints people to the Rent Control Board and
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Speaker 1: they say that we will freeze the rents. And now
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Speaker 1: you have landlords who will likely win in court, who
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Speaker 1: are suing the Rent Control Board because you cannot impose
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Speaker 1: on the one side, massive fees and regulations and then
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Speaker 1: on the other side not allow those landlords to increase
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Speaker 1: the rent because they got to get the money from somewhere.
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Speaker 1: They're not in business renting property for charity sake. That's
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Speaker 1: not why they bought property, nor should they be expected
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Speaker 1: to be there for charity's sake, even if they just
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Speaker 1: are allowed to break even. But the idea that you
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Speaker 1: should impose rules on landlords. And by the way, the
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Speaker 1: biggest landlord in the city is the city. And guess
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Speaker 1: who usually breaks all the rules in terms of maintaining
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Speaker 1: their buildings. Yeah, you got it. The city Mamdani. Do
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Speaker 1: you get arrested for having buildings not kept up to speed? No,
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Speaker 1: you don't, but you'll go after the landlord who maybe
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Speaker 1: was left the building by a father or grandfather whatever,
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Speaker 1: left the building after the passing of that relative and
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Speaker 1: could barely afford to pay the inheritance taxes, etc. And
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Speaker 1: now you come after them and say, okay, now you
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Speaker 1: have to produce all of this for the individuals who
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Speaker 1: live in that building, and you're not allowed to collect
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Speaker 1: enough rent to run it. But you have to follow
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Speaker 1: all these rules because if you don't, the city he'll
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Speaker 1: come in to take over your building. That's the way
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Speaker 1: that the liberal mindset works, because the liberal mindset, the
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Speaker 1: super liberal, the socialist mindset is that everything belongs to
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Speaker 1: the collective, to the people, and you're lucky if you
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Speaker 1: are allowed to kind of hang on to it for
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Speaker 1: a little bit and make a few dollars on it.
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Speaker 1: But don't forget the city or the people own everything.
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Speaker 1: And that's the sickness that is socialism. It has never worked,
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Speaker 1: it never will work because it takes away incentive if
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Speaker 1: you're going to wake up tired one day, you feel achy,
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Speaker 1: Why would you get out of bed and go to
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Speaker 1: work if you're going to get exactly the same pay
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day as the guy who's
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Speaker 1: been up working twenty hours, sweating, breaking his bones. Why
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Speaker 1: why would you bother getting out of bed. There's got
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Speaker 1: to be a reward system, all right. When you negotiate,
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Speaker 1: I put in air quotes with your child. You say, hey,
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Speaker 1: if you do X, Y and Z, mommy'll give you
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Speaker 1: a treat. Daddy will take you such and such, We'll
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Speaker 1: take you to the park. That's the way we work.
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Speaker 1: We work with incentive. Okay, we know that there's something
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Speaker 1: good that comes of what we do. As adults. We
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Speaker 1: eat vegetables in many cases, not because we think they're
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Speaker 1: all yummy, but because we know we need them. Now
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Speaker 1: I've learned to think they're yummy. But it took me
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Speaker 1: a while when I was again A gouldn't stand my vegetables.
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Speaker 1: But you know that, hey, it's going to be good
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Speaker 1: for us, So you do that for the reward, all right.
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Speaker 1: That's what we do. And that's why socialism does not
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Speaker 1: and never will work, because the reward system is gone
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Speaker 1: eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten, eight
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Speaker 1: hundred three to two one zero seven ten. It's Ken
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Speaker 1: rosottowin for Mark on your Friday. So mam DONI going
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Speaker 1: back to him and talking about, of course Benjamin Thatt
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Speaker 1: and Yahoo, the Prime Minister of Israel coming here in September,
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Speaker 1: as he always does to speak to the UN General
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Speaker 1: Assembly or to be part of it. He usually does speak.
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Speaker 1: Now you have Mamdani. First, he was saying that he
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Speaker 1: was threatening to arrest the Prime Minister. Of course, he
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Speaker 1: has no authority to arrest anyway. He has to have
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Speaker 1: the ny PD do it. But he is the boss
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Speaker 1: of the NYPD. And you can imagine the conversation see
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Speaker 1: and Commissioner Tish may have had behind closed doors, and
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Speaker 1: Commissioner Tish being the only adult of the two of them,
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Speaker 1: Commissioner Tish would have said, I'm not gonna do it.
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to have our men and women put
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Speaker 1: their careers at stake. Can potentially be arrested by the
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Speaker 1: FEDS for breaking the law because you say so. So
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Speaker 1: it ain't gonna happen. So I don't know that that
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Speaker 1: was the conversation. But my guess is it went something
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Speaker 1: like that, and Mom Donnie then comes out after years,
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Speaker 1: Remember he has threatened to have Netanyahu arrested from when
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Speaker 1: he was an assemblyman. When when Mom Donnie was an assemblyman,
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Speaker 1: he was talking about this and urging it, and as
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Speaker 1: he was running for mayor he was urging it. And
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Speaker 1: now that he is mayor, you know, he came out
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Speaker 1: and said that he will do whatever he can possibly
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Speaker 1: do to arrest I keep mixing them up. I don't
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Speaker 1: know why, but to arrest yeah, well, I guess somebody
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Speaker 1: got to him and said, you can't do that, and
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Speaker 1: if you do that, you could be arrested by the Feds.
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Speaker 1: So now he makes his proclamation that we've tried everything
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Speaker 1: and exhausted everything and we can't arrest net Yahoo. However,
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Speaker 1: the good Mayor has come out and urged New Yorkers
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Speaker 1: to take to the streets in protests when Netting Yahoo
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Speaker 1: is here. Now, freedom of speech, right, You're allowed to assemble,
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Speaker 1: You're allowed to protest, you can do that. But the
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Speaker 1: people whom he is speaking to are not the good kind,
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Speaker 1: you know, stand there and be quiet and hold a
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Speaker 1: sign up protesters. These are the agitators. These are the professionals.
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Speaker 1: These are the people who get paid by the Sorrows
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Speaker 1: backed groups and get busted in from all over the country.
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Speaker 1: These are the people who shout in the faces of
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Speaker 1: ordinary New Yorkers trying to get to work. These are
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Speaker 1: the people who glue themselves to buildings and cement themselves
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Speaker 1: to roadways to prevent your passage, to just be pains
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Speaker 1: in the ass to anybody just trying to do their
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Speaker 1: job and live as ordinary New Yorkers, to try to
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Speaker 1: make a point, and they're in a minuscule minority, but
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Speaker 1: that doesn't matter. They make their presence known in such
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Speaker 1: a way that it is frustrating and annoying to everyday people.
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Speaker 1: And this is what Mamdani is urging now. He's urging
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Speaker 1: that the everyday New Yorkers take to the streets and
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Speaker 1: protest against the presence of Netanyahu in the fall. And
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Speaker 1: now the head of the New York at Police Benevolent
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Speaker 1: Association is saying, you're now going to put the NYPD
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Speaker 1: in danger because they're the ones who are going to
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Speaker 1: have to deal with these lunatics. Okay, look, if you
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Speaker 1: don't like this, let's just have the un no longer
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Speaker 1: be here. It probably would make sense anyway. You know,
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Speaker 1: Mamdani loves the Hague so much. Why did you put
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Speaker 1: the UN right next to the Hague? Go over somewhere
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Speaker 1: in the middle of Europe, where nobody wants to be,
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the fall, and that's where you
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Speaker 1: could have your protests. New York is too densely populated
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Speaker 1: a city to have it here anyway. It's ridiculous, But
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Speaker 1: that's what this mayor is calling for, as if we
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Speaker 1: don't have enough issues, and as if it's not crazy enough.
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Speaker 1: In September when the UN is in session. Now, Mom
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Speaker 1: Donnie is urging New Yorkers to come out in protest.
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Speaker 1: What do you think about it? Eight hundred three to
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Speaker 1: two to one zero seven ten. Eight hundred three to
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Speaker 1: two one zero seven ten. So you hear about the
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Speaker 1: lunatict went on the stabbing spree on the Upper West
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Speaker 1: Side yesterday. Curtis and Larry talked about this this morning.
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Speaker 1: It happened just about a mile or so up the
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Speaker 1: street from where I worked for twenty years at Channel seven.
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Speaker 1: Channel seven used to be at sixty seventh in Columbus,
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Speaker 1: right by Central Park West to block Over and this
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Speaker 1: happened in the eighties, I think about eighty seventh Street.
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Speaker 1: So apparently a man, the man who police identified his
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Speaker 1: fifty one year old security guard named Raoul Morales, who
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Speaker 1: himself lives on the Upper West Side. Police say he
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Speaker 1: stabbed two men randomly unprovoked, first a fifty seven year
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Speaker 1: old Asian man, then a fifty year old Jewish man
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Speaker 1: in separate unprovoked attacks, and witnesses say the man shouted
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Speaker 1: a La hu ak bar during both incidents and then
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Speaker 1: allegedly barricaded himself in his own apartment. The NYPD arrested
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Speaker 1: him and maybe charging him with hate crimes. Now the
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Speaker 1: good news is both victims are expected to survive, and
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Speaker 1: investigators say they're looking into Morales's mental state. You think,
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Speaker 1: I mean, who just goes out and stabs people randomly unprovoked?
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Speaker 1: You got to wonder, And while I don't know, and
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Speaker 1: what I'm about to saying go off on this tangent.
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Speaker 1: I don't know whether Morales smoked marijuana or not. I
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Speaker 1: don't know, but I will say this, in New York,
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Speaker 1: where you probably have two to three times the per
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Speaker 1: capital rate of people who are mentally unstable versus other
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Speaker 1: cities and other places in America. I've read those statistics.
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Speaker 1: I can't cite them right now, but I will find
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Speaker 1: them for anyone who wants to challenge me on that.
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Speaker 1: You have to wonder why it's happening and where marijuana
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Speaker 1: use has been tolerated for decades, including public marijuana use
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Speaker 1: for the most part, you could say can can My
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Speaker 1: kid got arrested in thatineteen ninety two for having a
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Speaker 1: tenth of announced. Yes, that did happen too. I'm not
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Speaker 1: saying that everybody was able to smoke marijuana anywhere, but
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Speaker 1: marijuana sales today are not what they were fifty years ago,
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Speaker 1: and it's not the same marijuana, and the THHC levels
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Speaker 1: are so much higher. So now the little dirty issue
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Speaker 1: nobody wants to talk about is that now that marijuana
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Speaker 1: is legalized, we have a lot of effects happening. You
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Speaker 1: know that today's strong marijuana can lead to psychosis, can
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Speaker 1: lead to schizophrenia, can trigger psychotic episodes. Not my opinion,
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Speaker 1: You can google it. Go to the Google and check
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Speaker 1: it out. It increases anxiety and panic, exactly the opposite
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Speaker 1: of what you think marijuana does. Regular use can cause
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Speaker 1: high rates of depression, mood instability, thoughts of suicide. It
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Speaker 1: can cause cognitive, cognitive and memory impairment. And unlike everything
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Speaker 1: we were told that it is not addicting, well just
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Speaker 1: the opposite. In fact, we're told now that cannabis use
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Speaker 1: disorder can lead to dependence, addiction, and withdrawal symptoms, and
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Speaker 1: this can even lead to insomnia, severe mood swings. And
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Speaker 1: these are all the same people who were vilifying cigarette
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Speaker 1: smoking all these years, saying it causes lung cancer. Those
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Speaker 1: people stay amazingly quiet when you ask them if the
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Speaker 1: disgusting smell of marijuana use impacts our lungs like cigarette
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Speaker 1: smoke did. Right, Well, let me ask you something. If
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Speaker 1: smoking a filtered cigarette can lead to lung cancer, and
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Speaker 1: you don't really necessarily take a deep drag of a
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Speaker 1: cigarette like you would marijuana, then why do you think
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Speaker 1: taking a deep drag of an unfiltered marijuana cigarette and
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Speaker 1: holding that thick smoke in your lungs in order to
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Speaker 1: get the effect, and doing that over and over again,
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Speaker 1: why do you think that's not going to impact your
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Speaker 1: lungs and cause lung cancer. And every time I've had
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Speaker 1: a doctor on the show that I do in New
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Speaker 1: Jersey and the topic of lung cancer came up. They've
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Speaker 1: alway said, well, there's really no nexus between marijuana use
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Speaker 1: and lung cancer. Well, actually that is now not true.
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Speaker 1: There's actually a publication called lung Cancer. Yes, you could
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Speaker 1: use the Google to look that up too, and it
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Speaker 1: shows that people with cannabis use disorder. That means if
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Speaker 1: you smoke on a fairly regular basis, you have at
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Speaker 1: least four times the risk of developing lung cancer smoking
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Speaker 1: marijuana compared to non users. So enough of the myth
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Speaker 1: that pot is somehow good for you. And in states
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Speaker 1: where it was thought that licensed dispensaries would bring a
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Speaker 1: fortunate tax revenues hasn't happened. As California, the dispensaries are
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Speaker 1: actually suing the state because they're allowed to uh to
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Speaker 1: stay open, but illegal dispensaries right next door are allowed
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Speaker 1: to sell pot and they're not being taxed. So now
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Speaker 1: the legal dispensaries who have to follow the regulations and
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Speaker 1: get tax are suing the state. It's a mess. And
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Speaker 1: yet Governor Gavenussom out there says nothing, why am I
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Speaker 1: bringing this up? Because it comes down to the mental
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Speaker 1: health situation and no one's going to tell me that
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Speaker 1: the increased use of marijuana does not impact people's mental
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Speaker 1: health in the city of New York. All right, we
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Speaker 1: want to hear what you have to say. Right now
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Speaker 1: the numbers eight hundred three to two, one zero seven ten.
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Speaker 1: We will take your calls beautiful sunshine today through Sunday
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Speaker 1: temps low eighties and zoron Mom Donnie's threats to arrest
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Speaker 1: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Attigna, who we will continue talking
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Speaker 1: to that about that with Fox News Legal analyst Greg
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Speaker 1: Jarrett just a little bit calls next though, eight hundred
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Speaker 1: three to two, one zero seven ten,