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

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  Speaker 1: Now, the Mark Simone Show on 710WOR. Filling in for Mark,
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  Speaker 1: here's Ken Rosado. Nice to be with you on the
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  Speaker 1: Friday of Labor Day weekend. Hope you have nice Labor
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  Speaker 1: Day plans ready and just hope you get out of
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  Speaker 1: Dodge without getting stuck in a lot of traffic. You
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  Speaker 1: heard Daria talking about this a little while ago, that
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  Speaker 1: if you're going to leave, the earlier the better. When
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  Speaker 1: I was at Channel 7 over the decades that I
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  Speaker 1: was there, and I'm no longer there, but had a
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  Speaker 1: good several decades there, a couple of decades. When I
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  Speaker 1: was there, I remember with each passing year, we would
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  Speaker 1: note that Labor Day getaway would start earlier and earlier.
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  Speaker 1: And so I remember when I first started there, it
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  Speaker 1: would be 5 o'clock on the dot on Friday. Then
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  Speaker 1: it would be noon on Friday. Then it would be,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, about 10 years ago, we started noticing that, no,
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  Speaker 1: 5 o'clock on Thursday. That's when they're getting out. And
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  Speaker 1: now it's basically around 11 on Thursday that things start.
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  Speaker 1: So from 11 to 2, it starts getting hairy. And
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  Speaker 1: then it picks up on Thursdays. This is it picks
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  Speaker 1: up again from 5 till about 8. And then Fridays,
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  Speaker 1: we're noticing like one of the bad getaway times starts
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  Speaker 1: in about an hour. So if you haven't gotten out yet,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to hit a little traffic from this point forward.
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  Speaker 1: Just pack your patience, give yourselves extra time, take a
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  Speaker 1: deep breath, and don't let somebody frustrate you. Don't be
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  Speaker 1: that guy who when you see the person blinking to
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  Speaker 1: get in the lane, you don't speed up and prevent
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  Speaker 1: them from getting in. Izzy is laughing because he knows
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  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Just, you know what, let them go, wave, smile.
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  Speaker 1: You're all trying to get to your destination, right? And
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  Speaker 1: enjoy your weekend. 800-321-0710, the number to call, 800-321-0710. It
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  Speaker 1: is Ken Rosato in for Mark Simone. So, of course,
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  Speaker 1: we are staying on trial watch right now for those
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  Speaker 1: who didn't catch our first hour. And, yes, if you
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  Speaker 1: don't realize, the first hour is now 9 a.m. for
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  Speaker 1: the great Mark Simone. So what we talked about was
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  Speaker 1: the beginning, of course, in Massachusetts of the Lindsay Clancy trial.
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  Speaker 1: There was drama late yesterday afternoon. So what had happened,
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  Speaker 1: of course, was somebody in the jury, if you missed it,
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  Speaker 1: or they sent a note, the jury sent a note
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  Speaker 1: to the judge. And apparently the judge instructed the jury
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  Speaker 1: once again to get back to work. Somebody would not listen.
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  Speaker 1: changed their minds and the accusation was the person is
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  Speaker 1: not following the judge's instructions and is stubborn and doesn't
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  Speaker 1: want to doesn't want to budge uh and the judge
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  Speaker 1: basically said look we spent a lot of time on
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  Speaker 1: this get back to work go back i think you
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  Speaker 1: can do this go back to work so there was
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  Speaker 1: a little uh animation if you will this morning at
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  Speaker 1: 9 a.m when everybody got in the courtroom but uh
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  Speaker 1: the jury is now back uh at it and we'll
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  Speaker 1: see what happens everybody you talked to is saying at
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  Speaker 1: this point, no matter who you talk to, they think
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  Speaker 1: that something will come to pass today. Either it will
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  Speaker 1: be a hung jury or there will be a conviction
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  Speaker 1: or I doubt there'll be an acquittal, but there'll be
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  Speaker 1: a conviction on one of the counts. We talked to
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  Speaker 1: Kathy from North Carolina before and the options would be
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  Speaker 1: starting at the bottom, starting at not guilty, which you're
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  Speaker 1: not going to have because both sides acknowledge that children
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  Speaker 1: were killed, that Lindsay Clancy killed the children But is
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  Speaker 1: it not guilty at all? Highly doubtful. Not guilty by
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  Speaker 1: lack of criminal responsibility, which is what we would call
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  Speaker 1: the definition of insanity, right? That's a possibility. Guilty of manslaughter,
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  Speaker 1: which is what Kathy from North Carolina. And you know what?
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  Speaker 1: My gut tells me that's the direction. I think Kathy's right.
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  Speaker 1: Guilty of manslaughter, which would get you up to 20 years.
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  Speaker 1: Guilty of second degree murder, which is life with possible parole.
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  Speaker 1: or guilty of first-degree murder, which is deliberate premeditation, or
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  Speaker 1: extreme atrocity, which is mandatory life with no parole. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think Kathy very rationally thought it all through,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought her arguments made a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 1: This is not trying to condone the actions of Lindsay Clancy.
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  Speaker 1: She murdered her kids, period. The question is, though, how
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  Speaker 1: should she be condemned for it? And give us a call.
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  Speaker 1: We'd love to know what you have to say about it. 800-321-0710. 800-321-0710. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there are 12 members of the jury and six alternates.
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  Speaker 1: On the main jury panel right now, there are nine women,
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  Speaker 1: three men. My gut, my gut tells me that the
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  Speaker 1: holdout is a guy. And my gut suggests the guy
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  Speaker 1: wants the strongest sentence and that the others either want
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  Speaker 1: a lesser sentence or Or something even less. I think
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  Speaker 1: it would be a lesser chance. I think that I
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  Speaker 1: would bet that the group either wants manslaughter or not
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  Speaker 1: guilty by manslaughter or not guilty by criminal responsibility, which
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  Speaker 1: in which case then they can assign her, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: to an institution. And she would be supervised at that point.
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  Speaker 1: But we'd love to know what your opinion is of it.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what? None of us know. None of
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  Speaker 1: us were there looking at the evidence and none of
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  Speaker 1: us are in the jury, with the jury in the
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  Speaker 1: jury room, not even the attorneys. We can only guess
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  Speaker 1: at this point what they're talking about and who the
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  Speaker 1: holdout is. So we'll see what happens. We'll find out.
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  Speaker 1: My gut says today. 800-321-0710, 800-321-0710. Now, there are other
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  Speaker 1: things in the news other than the Lindsay Clancy trial.
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  Speaker 1: Did you hear about gubernatorial candidate A guy I think
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  Speaker 1: is great, and I'm hoping for him, Nassau County Executive
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman. He's been referring to Governor Kathy Hochul as
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  Speaker 1: Hijab Hochul. So now, as recently as August 28th, and
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  Speaker 1: apparently several times before that, Governor Hochul has visited mosques
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  Speaker 1: or Islamic centers dressed in a headscarf or a hijab.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're an elected official and you are just
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  Speaker 1: visiting a religious center like that, you are neither required
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  Speaker 1: nor even expected. to wear a hijab any more than
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  Speaker 1: a Christian is expected or required to wear a yarmulke
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  Speaker 1: when they visit a temple, a kippot. If you go
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  Speaker 1: to a temple, I mean, if you want to participate
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  Speaker 1: or you don't want to stand out, you can put
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  Speaker 1: on a kippot. But there are a lot of Jews
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  Speaker 1: who go to a temple who don't even put on
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  Speaker 1: their yarmulkes. You know, I know I've had relatives. I'm
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  Speaker 1: married into a family that's partly Jewish, and I've been
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  Speaker 1: to many a gathering, bar mitzvahs and whatnot, where either
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  Speaker 1: non-Jewish members of the family or even non-practicing Jews, they
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  Speaker 1: don't put on a kippah. The men don't put that on. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you want to, you can and whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But Kathy Hochul, being that this is an election year,
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  Speaker 1: she hasn't done this apparently before, but now that it's
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  Speaker 1: election year and she's trying to kiss the butt of
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  Speaker 1: every group she can, she shows up wearing a hijab.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's, I think, honestly, it is condescending.
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  Speaker 1: It would be the equivalent of, I think, somebody who is,
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  Speaker 1: I know you're, This is going to cause people to
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  Speaker 1: get all upset. But if you show up at a
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  Speaker 1: gathering of people who happen to be Italian and you
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  Speaker 1: start talking, hey, how you doing? Hey, how you doing?
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's appropriation is what it is in essence.
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  Speaker 1: Or you show up to a group of people who
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  Speaker 1: are black and start doing what Hillary Clinton did, patronizing, saying,
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  Speaker 1: I have a bottle of hot sauce in my bag.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, excuse me? What are you assuming all black
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  Speaker 1: people walk around with a bottle of hot sauce? It's
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  Speaker 1: just so condescending. And so look at me. I think
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  Speaker 1: just like you. No, you don't stop it. We should
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  Speaker 1: celebrate our differences and celebrate. We're all different in our
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  Speaker 1: own way, whatever. And we know, Kathy, that you are
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  Speaker 1: not a Muslim. Ergo, you do not have to wear
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  Speaker 1: a hijab walking into an Islamic center, especially not when
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  Speaker 1: you're not going into a prayer service, especially. you're going
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  Speaker 1: into a center, not necessarily a mosque. I mean, most
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  Speaker 1: Islamic centers, or many at least, do have the mosque attached.
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  Speaker 1: But she didn't have to. And the point is, she
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  Speaker 1: didn't do it beforehand. And it's obvious she's kissing butt.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why Bruce Blakeman called her hijab hokal, because
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  Speaker 1: she's obviously culturally appropriating and kissing butt. Well, she, of course,
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  Speaker 1: to defend herself, she of the very bad caps on
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  Speaker 1: her teeth, said that it was just reprehensible. What what
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  Speaker 1: what he's calling her reprehensible. No, you wore a hijab
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  Speaker 1: and your name is local. What's reprehensible about it? You
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  Speaker 1: don't like it. Maybe maybe you don't like you're being
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  Speaker 1: sensitive because you don't like that you were called on
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  Speaker 1: the carpet for what you did. But, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: could pay respect to a group of people without culturally appropriating.
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  Speaker 1: especially when you don't normally do that. Do you normally
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  Speaker 1: wear a headscarf, Kathy? One of your staff, I guarantee,
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  Speaker 1: tell me which member of your staff you gave 50
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  Speaker 1: bucks and said, go ahead and find me one of
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  Speaker 1: these things. So, you know, a real nice one so
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  Speaker 1: that I look like I fit in. You didn't look
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  Speaker 1: like you fit in, Kathy. That's just face facts. 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me if I'm wrong. I could be wrong. Do
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  Speaker 1: you think you should? I don't know. Have I worn, here,
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  Speaker 1: I was a Catholic priest. Have I put on a yarmulke?
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  Speaker 1: At some temple services, yeah. When it was like my
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  Speaker 1: nephew or cousin, whatever, through my marriage, my nephews are
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  Speaker 1: too young on my other half side. But they're about
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  Speaker 1: to be. One is about to be bar mitzvahed. But
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  Speaker 1: cousins who have been bar mitzvahed, yeah, I think once
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  Speaker 1: or twice I did put on a kippot. I was
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  Speaker 1: at a wedding, a Jewish wedding. But it's funny because
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  Speaker 1: some of the Jews who were there in the family,
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  Speaker 1: the men were not wearing yarmulkes. And here I had
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  Speaker 1: a yarmulke on. But I did that more because as
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  Speaker 1: a priest, you know, we can wear something like that
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  Speaker 1: when you're ordained. And I'm no longer a priest. I
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  Speaker 1: don't function as one. But you wear something called a zucchetto.
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  Speaker 1: The Pope, most famously, and bishops still wear them, the
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  Speaker 1: white one for the Pope. And then you have, depending
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  Speaker 1: on if it's a bishop or a cardinal, They wear
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  Speaker 1: the bright red or the subdued burgundy red for the bishops.
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  Speaker 1: They wear a zucchetto. Zucchetto literally means little pumpkin because
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  Speaker 1: it looks like the top of a pumpkin, a jack-o'-lantern.
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  Speaker 1: So that's why it's zucchetto in Italian. But it's basically,
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  Speaker 1: it's a yarmulke and it's a head covering. And it
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  Speaker 1: was originally there because when you became a priest, even earlier,
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  Speaker 1: you became a subdeacon, they would shave a little piece
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  Speaker 1: of your hair to show that you were sacrificing for
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  Speaker 1: God And they would cover it with that because it
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  Speaker 1: was cold. That's where it started. And then later they said, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's sort of like in Judaism, you cover your head
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  Speaker 1: in the presence of God, etc. But priests can still
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  Speaker 1: technically wear that. So that's why I say I use
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  Speaker 1: that as an excuse. I'm putting it on. But Kathy
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  Speaker 1: Hochul has no reason to put on a hijab. You
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  Speaker 1: could still pay your respects. And it's nice. And you
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  Speaker 1: should pay respects by going to an Islamic center. They
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  Speaker 1: are part of your electorate. But don't patronize by putting
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  Speaker 1: on a job when you normally wouldn't. 800-321-0710, 800-321-0710. Some
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  Speaker 1: other news, of course, today, the big, big news for
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  Speaker 1: those who caught this maybe yesterday and you're wondering, what's
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  Speaker 1: going on, Ken? You know the inside. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: the inside, but I can only hypothesize what happened with
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  Speaker 1: Maria Bartiromo. We talked about this a little bit in
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  Speaker 1: the nine o'clock hour. Maria is a great lady. I
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  Speaker 1: worked with Maria for probably, what, 10 years doing the
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  Speaker 1: Columbus Day Parade when I was at Channel 7. Joe Piscopo, Maria,
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  Speaker 1: and I would co-host it. She could not be more delightful.
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  Speaker 1: I never get to use that word, delightful. But she
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  Speaker 1: truly is. She's a kind person. Very down-to-earth. There is
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  Speaker 1: zero pretense. When you're around Maria Bartiromo, she will tell
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  Speaker 1: you no matter what. If she sees something that looks silly,
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  Speaker 1: she'll tell you. She doesn't hold back. She's very real.
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  Speaker 1: All right? So I say that because that sort of
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  Speaker 1: tells me that she would be a true friend. She
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  Speaker 1: knew Donald Trump for decades, way before him becoming president,
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  Speaker 1: because he was a active in the business community in
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  Speaker 1: New York. And of course she was first on CNBC,
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  Speaker 1: then on Fox business, kind of the, the go-to human,
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  Speaker 1: the first person to broadcast from the floor of the
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  Speaker 1: stock exchange. And, you know, she is the real deal
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to business news, few people are as
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  Speaker 1: connected or know as many important people in the business
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  Speaker 1: as her. All right. And I could see her feeling
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  Speaker 1: a certain level of, uh, What's the word I'm looking for?
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  Speaker 1: A certain level of obligation, loyalty, fealty to the president
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  Speaker 1: because she knows him so long. So the allegation and
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  Speaker 1: we don't know that any of this is true. The
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  Speaker 1: allegation is that with the whole voting machine issue that
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  Speaker 1: where Fox had to settle seven hundred and seventy five
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  Speaker 1: million plus dollars with the voting. I don't even want
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  Speaker 1: to mention the name of the company. I'm not going to.
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  Speaker 1: But this happened several years ago where Fox paid out
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  Speaker 1: of court to settle a case where there were accusations
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  Speaker 1: that by President Trump that the 2020 election was stolen
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  Speaker 1: and that he had suggested that the voting machines in
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  Speaker 1: some cases were hacked or that there was fraud involving them.
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  Speaker 1: There was no evidence of that now. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: don't know 20 years from now what we could find out,
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  Speaker 1: but we don't know 20 years from now we can
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  Speaker 1: find out that the sky was really purple. Who knows?
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  Speaker 1: The bottom line is the president was just shouting that
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  Speaker 1: and with no evidence. And as a result, the the
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  Speaker 1: folks at Fox were sued and they settled and they
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  Speaker 1: settled for a lot of money, three quarters of a
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  Speaker 1: billion dollars. So you can imagine how sensitive the corporation
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  Speaker 1: is about anybody talking about it. or passing on word
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  Speaker 1: to the White House about your internal conversations about it.
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  Speaker 1: When a company pays you millions of dollars to be
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  Speaker 1: their anchor, you do what they tell you. And if
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to do what they tell you, you
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  Speaker 1: go and you say, all right, let's break the contract.
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  Speaker 1: Very nice knowing you, I'm leaving. But the allegation is
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  Speaker 1: that she reached out to the White House and shared
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  Speaker 1: information with the White House about Fox allegedly not wanting
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  Speaker 1: to give enough coverage to the president during a speech
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  Speaker 1: because he was going to talk about these voting machines
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  Speaker 1: and that she may have shared that information. That's the allegation.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know. But if that was in fact the
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  Speaker 1: case and Fox terminated her, they'd have every right to.
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  Speaker 1: Do I think that she is a bad person? Zero.
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  Speaker 1: She is a lovely person. And I know she's going
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  Speaker 1: to do whatever she wants in a very good way
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  Speaker 1: and be very successful here on in. And I'm just
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  Speaker 1: kind of sad not to see her on Fox anymore.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. 800-321-0710, 800-321-0710. We will take your calls next.
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  Speaker 1: It is 1021, and you're listening to Ken Rosato and
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  Speaker 1: for the great Mark Simone, 710WOR.