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Hour 1: Black Friday shopping. · 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 Rosato.
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  Speaker 2: And welcome to Black Friday. Mark is off on a
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  Speaker 2: nice long weekend. Former New York City TV news anchored
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  Speaker 2: Ken Rosato reporting for Duty. You'd probably best remember me
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  Speaker 2: from the twenty years I was privileged to spend doing
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  Speaker 2: the morning and the noon show for part of those
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  Speaker 2: years on Channel seven. I was at Channel five before
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  Speaker 2: then Great Place too, And these days I host a
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  Speaker 2: that at Thefooddude dot us. Good to be here with you.
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  Speaker 2: We got a lot to talk about today, but being
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  Speaker 2: this is the day after Thanksgiving, man, my pants are
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  Speaker 2: likely fitting from all all the food I ate. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know about you, gosh, why is it we only
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  Speaker 2: eat stuffing and like cranberry sauce on Thanksgiving or even
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  Speaker 2: turkey for that matter. This stuff is good, but then
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  Speaker 2: you get tired of it after like a few days
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  Speaker 2: of eating leftovers of it, and then you just wait
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  Speaker 2: till next year. Anyway, where are you going shopping today?
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  Speaker 2: Where you're finding the hot bargains? What's a hot deal
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  Speaker 2: you could share? We want to know. The phone lines
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  Speaker 2: are open. Give us a call, take part in the conversation.
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  Speaker 2: One eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. One
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  Speaker 2: eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten. I
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  Speaker 2: drove in from Jersey this morning into our beautiful midtown
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  Speaker 2: Manhattan studios and there was no traffic. Now, I figured
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  Speaker 2: there would be no traffic on the highways in New Jersey,
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  Speaker 2: but then coming through the Lincoln Tunnel there was nothing.
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  Speaker 2: And then in Manhattan. I'm sure this will change through
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  Speaker 2: the day, but there was nothing. I made it probably
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  Speaker 2: less time than any other time in the last year
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  Speaker 2: that I've commuted here, and I was like, doo, do
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  Speaker 2: do do do?
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  Speaker 3: Do?
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  Speaker 2: What do I do with all this time?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 2: Make some coffee. Let's make more coffee. Maybe a little
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  Speaker 2: more coffee. So if I sound like I've had a
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  Speaker 2: lot of coffee, you know why. But nonetheless, take your
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  Speaker 2: phone calls. At eight hundred and three two one zero
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  Speaker 2: seven ten. I'm wondering if Black Friday is becoming a
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  Speaker 2: thing of yesteryear and everything is just morphing into Cyber Monday,
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  Speaker 2: because I noticed, you know, in all the years I've
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  Speaker 2: worked on Black Friday, and literally for thirty five forty years,
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  Speaker 2: I've always worked on Black Friday. When driving into Channel
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  Speaker 2: seven or Channel five, or when even when I worked
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  Speaker 2: in Miami at CBS four down there, you would pass
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  Speaker 2: the parking lots of the malls on Black Friday and
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  Speaker 2: they would be packed like there was no space to
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  Speaker 2: be had, even at five in the morning. Four in
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  Speaker 2: the morning today, I noticed the parking lots for forty
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  Speaker 2: percent full, fifty percent maybe. So I'm wondering if people
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  Speaker 2: are just saying, you know what, why am I getting
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  Speaker 2: up in the middle of the night for that two
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  Speaker 2: hundre dollar TV when I could go online Cyber Monday
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  Speaker 2: or even a lot of Cyber Monday sales are happening
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  Speaker 2: right now and do it on the phone. You know
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  Speaker 2: why am I? Why am I going to wait online?
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  Speaker 2: I know some people like the excitement of going to
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  Speaker 2: the mall, you know that hour and the door as
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  Speaker 2: I call them, the doorbusters, right the doors open, everybody
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  Speaker 2: runs in. I want that dollar, I want that whatever.
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  Speaker 2: And it's the start of the holiday season, really officially
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  Speaker 2: the Christmas and Hanukah shopping season. But I think it's
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  Speaker 2: just too darn easy to sit at home in your
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  Speaker 2: pj's and get on your phone and say, all right,
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  Speaker 2: let's buy this, let's buy that, right, and just have
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  Speaker 2: it delivered to your door. We've really become a very
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  Speaker 2: comfortable society when it comes to that. And all I
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  Speaker 2: can say is, every time I see an Amazon delivery
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  Speaker 2: person or a UPS delivery person and I'm driving by,
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  Speaker 2: I always pay them the utmost of respect. I stopped
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  Speaker 2: my car let them go by, because I know that
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  Speaker 2: they are delivering precious cargo to somebody. So once again,
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  Speaker 2: when i'd had with three to two to one zero seven.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, you probably heard the news by now that
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  Speaker 2: one of the two National Guard members shot in a
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  Speaker 2: targeted ambush near the White House passed away yesterday. Her name,
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  Speaker 2: she is a hero. She needs to have her name
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  Speaker 2: out there. Her name Sarah Beckstrom. Now, Sarah was only
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  Speaker 2: twenty years old. By most definitions, she would be a
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  Speaker 2: kid twenty years old. Yet that kid still decided to
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  Speaker 2: protect her country, to donna uniform to go out and
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  Speaker 2: risk her life. And she volunteered to work for the
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  Speaker 2: holiday week so other National guardsmen could be off. Andrew Wolfe,
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  Speaker 2: the other National Guard member, just twenty four, remains in
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  Speaker 2: critical condition. Of course, he was shot as well. He's
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  Speaker 2: fighting for his life, the President said. And the suspect
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  Speaker 2: in this case, he's only twenty nine himself. They're all
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  Speaker 2: in their twenties. The suspect twenty nine year old rock
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  Speaker 2: Manula lochan Wall, an Afghan national who lived most recently
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  Speaker 2: in Washington State. Now they don't know why he did this.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently he drove all the way from Washington State to Washington,
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  Speaker 2: d C. Thirty something hundred miles to shoot these people.
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  Speaker 2: It could be just an opportunity thing. It looks like
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  Speaker 2: he pulled out his gun, he got out of his
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  Speaker 2: vehicle and just as he rounded the corner, the National
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  Speaker 2: Guard was there. And maybe it triggered him. Because he
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  Speaker 2: spent time in Afghanistan working for the CIA, he was
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  Speaker 2: a trained killer, that's what he did. Our CIA helped
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  Speaker 2: train him to be a killer. His job was to
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  Speaker 2: go after Taliban and al Qaeda and Islamic State terrorists
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  Speaker 2: and killed them basically if he couldn't take them peacefully,
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  Speaker 2: which however, you would do that in a war zone.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. He just killed them, So this is
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  Speaker 2: he was trained to be a killer. Why would you say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: this is the perfect person we want to come and
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  Speaker 2: become part of our society, right. I mean, it's hard
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  Speaker 2: enough having US citizens who who sacrificed their lives, meaning
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  Speaker 2: our soldiers, airmen, marines, et cetera, and seamen, et cetera.
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  Speaker 2: It's one thing that these are US citizens and we
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  Speaker 2: task with the duty of going out there to protect us,
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  Speaker 2: and they learn things. That's why so many soldiers and whatnot,
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  Speaker 2: they veterans. They don't want to talk about the horrors
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  Speaker 2: of war that they've seen. But it's another thing to
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  Speaker 2: then open the doors to people we have trained that.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't just the US military or trained them, this
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  Speaker 2: was the CIA. So I don't know, and I can't
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  Speaker 2: speak from first at experience, but I can only imagine
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  Speaker 2: if you are training someone to kill Taliban and al Qaeda,
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  Speaker 2: that it's not a pleasant thing to keep in the
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  Speaker 2: back of your mind. If you are that person trained
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  Speaker 2: and this person came here, was welcomed in by the
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  Speaker 2: Biden administration. Come on in. It was back in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty or twenty twenty one, I guess twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: The Biden administrations let them in, no big deal, settled them,
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  Speaker 2: gave them an apartment two thousand dollars a month apartment
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  Speaker 2: in a little town in Washington State and as a
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  Speaker 2: wife and five kids. And they said he worked for Amazon.
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  Speaker 2: I think that might have been a front because they
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to say he was an FBI. I'm not FBI.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me, a CIA operative at one point, but then
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  Speaker 2: he may have snapped. But what do you expect the
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  Speaker 2: guy to do. He was a trained killer. He was
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  Speaker 2: a trained killer. And think about what happened. He comes
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  Speaker 2: to DC and then he sees soldiers, okay, boom. So
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  Speaker 2: the point is you don't let someone like this into
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  Speaker 2: the United States at all. This person had no right
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  Speaker 2: being here and the administration, Biden administration, Excuse me? Is
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  Speaker 2: that cough? Let me just I have to use the
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  Speaker 2: cough button. Excuse me. That's the first time in a
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  Speaker 2: year that I've ever had to hit the cough button.
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  Speaker 2: There we go. But the Biden administration opened the Floodgates.
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  Speaker 2: Majorcas the head of Homeland Security, lied before Congress time
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  Speaker 2: and time again when they asked him about the border
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  Speaker 2: being Oh, the border secure, Border is secure, And they
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  Speaker 2: would do a split screen on Fox and show like
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  Speaker 2: one of the Fox reporters down at the border with
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  Speaker 2: thousands of people just walking by, like nothing to see here,
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  Speaker 2: nothing to see here. Meanwhile, Oh, the border is secure.
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  Speaker 2: He just lied to Congress over and over again. That's
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  Speaker 2: a guy that has to be dealt with legally, and
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  Speaker 2: I hope to God at some point he has dealt
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  Speaker 2: with legally. So smug so were a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: Biden administration people. But anyway, somebody driving by in DC
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  Speaker 2: when the shooting occurred had his dash cam going, I
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  Speaker 2: warn you, if you're disturbed by this sound, you might
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  Speaker 2: want to just cover your ears for a second. But
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  Speaker 2: this is the sound this person captured on their dash cam.
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  Speaker 2: Five shots. And those shots, it is believed are the
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  Speaker 2: shots coming from rock Manula's revolver. He had a three
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  Speaker 2: point fifty seven revolver, huge bullets, huge bullets, and he
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  Speaker 2: was very close apparently to the soldiers. He had just
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  Speaker 2: round to the block and he was maybe fifteen feet
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  Speaker 2: when he fired those shots very big caliber those of
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  Speaker 2: you who know a three fifty seven is a big
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  Speaker 2: caliber gun. So it is terrifying. These people, these young
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  Speaker 2: men and women, they risk their lives for us. And
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  Speaker 2: then you have the haters on the left who say
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  Speaker 2: they shouldn't be there and whatnot, and that the president
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  Speaker 2: has no right to call them into duty. Technically that yes,
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  Speaker 2: not technically absolutely, the president, especially in Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 2: Which is a federal territory, the president constitutionally, along with
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  Speaker 2: Congress or in charge of DC, president can call out
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  Speaker 2: the National Guard there any time he wants. He can
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  Speaker 2: remove the DC Council and the mayor at any point
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  Speaker 2: because they are only serving at his privilege or her privilege.
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  Speaker 2: If we have a female president. That is a federal territory.
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  Speaker 2: That's the way it was set up. So if I
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  Speaker 2: hear one more person say, oh, there was no right,
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  Speaker 2: the National Guard should have never been there, you don't
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  Speaker 2: know the constitution and you don't know what you're talking about,
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  Speaker 2: believe it or not. A National Guard sergeant who heard
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  Speaker 2: the commotion ran up to the scene armed with nothing
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  Speaker 2: but a pocket knife, and using a pocket knife, he
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  Speaker 2: waited for rock Manula to reload his gun. It was
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  Speaker 2: apparently a six shooter, so after firing he had like
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  Speaker 2: five shots in. He fired all five at the time,
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  Speaker 2: he didn't have a six bulletin. Thankfully, this sergeant took
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  Speaker 2: him down using a pocket knife. Talk about good training.
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  Speaker 2: Rock Manula then got shot by another National guardsman who
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  Speaker 2: came and I believe he shot him in the leg
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  Speaker 2: and the abdomen. So rock Manula is now hospitalized. He
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  Speaker 2: is expected to survive, and the CIA says this guy
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  Speaker 2: worked for them again. They say he worked in Afghanistan
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  Speaker 2: as part of a national strike unit trained to seize
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  Speaker 2: or kill Taliban, al Qaeda, and Islamic State terrorists. So
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  Speaker 2: it's very likely he may have had PTSD and may
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  Speaker 2: have been mentally challenged, but it is no excuse because
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  Speaker 2: he still managed to maintain a wife and five kids.
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  Speaker 2: He was able to get a car, drive it three
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  Speaker 2: thousand plus miles to DC and shoot two people. So
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  Speaker 2: he may have had sure PTSD. I have no doubt
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  Speaker 2: that makes sense that he would have, but he still
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  Speaker 2: led his life up to this point, so I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to hear as an excuse. Well, you know, he
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  Speaker 2: was psychologically challenged. And when he had mental issues. You
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  Speaker 2: can't know the guy still led a life. Where was
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  Speaker 2: his wife during these years saying, you know, my husband's unstable,
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  Speaker 2: he needs help. Clearly there was something brewing in the
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  Speaker 2: back of this man's mind. Bottom line is he should
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  Speaker 2: never ever have been allowed into our country, especially after
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  Speaker 2: being trained to kill terrorists. Can you imagine what this
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  Speaker 2: guy saw or the acts that he may have committed
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  Speaker 2: in Afghanistan? Yet Joe Biden, duke de dupa dup opened
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  Speaker 2: the floodgates wide, let anybody who wanted to be here come.
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  Speaker 2: So yesterday a reporter made the mistake of asking President
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  Speaker 2: Trump why he is blaming Biden for the death of
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  Speaker 2: this young national guard. It's a long answer, but he
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  Speaker 2: starts by calling the reporter stupid. You may think that's
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  Speaker 2: a little much, but having been a reporter myself and
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  Speaker 2: a news anchor for four decades, it was a pretty
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  Speaker 2: stupid question on her part. He was President Trump because.
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  Speaker 3: They let him in.
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  Speaker 4: Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person because they
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  Speaker 4: came in on a plane along with thousands of other
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  Speaker 4: people that shouldn't be here, and you're just asking questions
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  Speaker 4: because you're a stupid person, and there's a law passed
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  Speaker 4: that it's almost impossible not to get him out. You
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  Speaker 4: can't get them out once they come in. And they
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  Speaker 4: came in and they were unvetted, they were unchecked. There
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  Speaker 4: were many of them, and they came in on big
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  Speaker 4: planes and it was disgraceful. And if you look, you'll
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  Speaker 4: see there was a law pass it makes it almost
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  Speaker 4: impossible not to let them in, not to certify them,
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  Speaker 4: so to speak, once they come in and.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the president yesterday. And this is the
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  Speaker 2: problem the way the Democrats have set it up each
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  Speaker 2: time they come in off as they pass these little
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  Speaker 2: laws that are part of a bigger package. So you
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  Speaker 2: don't want to not pass the spending plan. But online
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  Speaker 2: two million, four hundred twenty six three hundred twenty three,
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  Speaker 2: there's a little line that says, oh, if somebody's a
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  Speaker 2: foreign national and they happen to sneak in the country,
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  Speaker 2: you can't let them leave it. They're allowed to stay here.
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  Speaker 2: That's the way the Democrats. There's hundreds of little laws
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  Speaker 2: like that on the books. And then you get a
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  Speaker 2: US District Court judge who tries to overstep their bounds
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  Speaker 2: and says, no, you can't send them back because of
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  Speaker 2: this law and this book in this district, then you
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  Speaker 2: can't do it. So as a result, we have right
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  Speaker 2: now fifty three million people in the US who are
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  Speaker 2: foreign born, and as many as twenty to thirty million
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  Speaker 2: more here illegally that we are. We can guesstimate and
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  Speaker 2: you know why we can guesstimate that based on how
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  Speaker 2: many kids are in public schools that just popped up
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  Speaker 2: out of nowhere and don't speak the language. And by
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  Speaker 2: the way, we're not only talking Spanish, we're talking from
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  Speaker 2: every country on the planet. And for anyone who says
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  Speaker 2: you're at Direspanic, Ken Joe Boiler brought up in your effect,
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  Speaker 2: I una part de mi familia abienna de baist gavrea.
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  Speaker 2: So don't think that I'm anti Hispanic. Okay, all right,
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  Speaker 2: maybe maybe you get the point. If this is the case,
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  Speaker 2: that means seventy three to eighty three million of our
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  Speaker 2: three hundred and forty two million people in the United
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  Speaker 2: States are foreign born. That is about one in four.
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy. That's crazy. No country on the planet has
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  Speaker 2: one in four of the people residing they're born elsewhere. Now,
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  Speaker 2: most of these folks may be perfectly wonderful. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: statistically probably ninety nine percent are awesome people all right,
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  Speaker 2: because immigrants did help build this country. There is no
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  Speaker 2: question they came legally, and so the good, hard working,
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  Speaker 2: tax paying immigrants, God bless them all. It's wonderful that
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  Speaker 2: they are here. But it makes it very hard for
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  Speaker 2: people to assimilate and to learn the American way of
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  Speaker 2: life if millions come from other cultures at once and
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  Speaker 2: predominate entire communities, perfect example, Minnesota. Like Minneapolis, you have
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands of people who just descended on it
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  Speaker 2: from Somalia. Now, we used to have limits of how
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  Speaker 2: many people come from each country. Back when my grandparents
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  Speaker 2: made their way from Italy, the United States had a
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  Speaker 2: cap of at one point of fifty thousand from the
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  Speaker 2: whole world to come here. The only people who were
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  Speaker 2: allowed to come in in larger numbers was the people
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  Speaker 2: from South America. They wanted to limit the number of
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  Speaker 2: people coming from Europe, and that's what they did, so
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  Speaker 2: for years, only fifty thousand people in total could come
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  Speaker 2: from anywhere on the planet but South America. And if
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  Speaker 2: you came up through South America that you were granted
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  Speaker 2: a pass, so to say, but this way people could
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  Speaker 2: come into the US and assimilate, as opposed to landing
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  Speaker 2: in a community and only speaking a specific language and
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  Speaker 2: not learning the American way of life, because that's not America.
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  Speaker 2: When you come in and just continue living the life
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  Speaker 2: came from. What's the point of coming here? Seven ten
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  Speaker 2: wr the Voice of New York. Mark took a long
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  Speaker 2: holiday weekend. This is Ken Rosatta. We will take your calls.
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  Speaker 2: Eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten eight
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  Speaker 2: hundred three to two one zero seven ten. Sunshine today
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow is going to be chilly though lot of wind,
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  Speaker 2: so make sure you bundle up if you're going shopping
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  Speaker 2: today and tomorrow. Tempts in the low forties wind dear
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  Speaker 2: today then tomorrow by the way, little rain for Sunday
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  Speaker 2: a little mild or two heights near fifty. A little
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  Speaker 2: later we will talk with entertainment showbiz guru Showbiz four
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  Speaker 2: to one one's Roger Friedman. Looking for a good movie
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  Speaker 2: this weekend. Roger will certainly know what to see ten
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  Speaker 2: twenty two right now seven ten wor coming right back
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  Speaker 2: now more.
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  Speaker 1: Of the Mark Simone show on seven ten woar filling
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  Speaker 1: in for Mark here again is Ken Rosatto.
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  Speaker 2: Gott be with you on Black Friday. If you want
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  Speaker 2: to give us a call right now, we'd love to
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  Speaker 2: hear from you. One eight hundred three two one zero
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  Speaker 2: seven ten one eight hundred three to two one zero
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  Speaker 2: seven seven ten.
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  Speaker 3: W O R.
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  Speaker 2: Just reading something here that I thought i'd share with you.
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  Speaker 2: This is I thought this was a joke. This almost
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  Speaker 2: sounds like something from the Onion. But apparently Vladimir Putin's
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  Speaker 2: scientists in Russia they've launched a squadron of remote control
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  Speaker 2: spy pigeons. Okay, let me put on my news anchor
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  Speaker 2: voice from nineteen fifty three. These pigeons are fitted with
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  Speaker 2: brain implants. A Kremlin backed Muscow neurotechnology firm boasts its
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  Speaker 2: operators can steer flux of these pigeons across the sky
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  Speaker 2: by zap I'm sorry, by zapping signals directly into their brain.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: The best part is I wish I wish we had
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  Speaker 2: this online right now. I could show you the pictures.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: They have these poor pigeons with these ginormous devices on
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: their heads, including implants they put into their brains. And
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: they say that right now we have one hundred percent
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: s arrival weight of pigeon. So they claim that they've
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: inserted electrodes into their brains and it's one hundred percent survival, right.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: I guess they don't want to up set the animal
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: rights wackadoodles in Russia either.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: But these.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: The pigeons, they say, right now, it's pigeons.
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  Speaker 3: This is real.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: By the way, I'm not kidding. It sounds like I'm kidding.
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  Speaker 2: It's real. Alexander Panoff, who founded a company in Russia,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: claims right now, solution works on pigeons, but any birth
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: can be used as carrier. He's saying, for transport. This
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: is about transporting payloads to people across the line. I
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: think it's something a little more sinister than that personally.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: But he's saying, like, right now, if they want to say,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: go over into Ukraine and they can't get good images
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: from satellites, they could send these pigeons over who would
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: be bearing little cameras and the pigeons could then see,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: you know, send back images, send back video images of
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: what they're flying over. Craig Cray. But they're talking about
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: if necessary, they could use ravens or sea cranes or
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: any any other albatrosses, any kind of bird. They just
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  Speaker 2: have to get the sensors implanted into the right part
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  Speaker 2: of the brain. Okay, I just want to meet the
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  Speaker 2: guy in Russia who thought this was a good idea.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I have idea. Of course, why would they speak English
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: with a Russian accent. I'm just making it up, but
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I have idea. We implant implants into brain of pigeon. Yes,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: good idea, good idea.
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  Speaker 5: Let's do that this week.
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  Speaker 2: Seven ten wo r the Voice of New York. Hey, listen,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Mark took a nice long holiday weekend. My dear friend there,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: and hope he's enjoying himself. This is Ken Risotto. We
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  Speaker 2: will take those calls once again. Eight hundred three to
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  Speaker 2: two one zero seven ten. Today's weather sunshine today and tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Today is going to be very chilly with a lot
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  Speaker 2: then tomorrow we're talking about same thing but less win.
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  Speaker 5: So there you go.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: But if you're doing some Black Friday shopping, just make
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  Speaker 2: sure you bundle up. Coming up, we're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: with enter our Talk Entertainment, I should say, with Showbiz.
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  Speaker 2: Four to one ones. Roger Freeman looking for a good
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  Speaker 2: movie this weekend. Roger will know what to see.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Mark Simone Show on seven to ten.
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  Speaker 1: Wi Ken from Mark Today. Here's Ken Rosatto.
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  Speaker 2: Good to be with you on Black Friday. Mark having
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: a nice long weekend. And Roger Friedman is the brains
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: behind Showbiz four When Money joins us Live with the
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  Speaker 2: hottest entertainment news. Roger Freeman. Happy Black Friday, Happy Black Friday.
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  Speaker 5: How are you?
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: I'm good. I'm celebrating with my computer screen open all
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: right now I could save on this and that, so listen.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: So I love Stranger Things, and I see Stranger Things
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: is back on Netflix. The first four episodes of season five,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: the last season just drops. How's it looking to you?
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: I loved it. I watched well, I had the press
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: had gotten three episodes in advance and we weren't allowed
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: to talk about them until the last minute on Wednesday.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: But they were terrific. And then the fourth episode had
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: I watched live on the network and it was just great.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: So I think it's going to be a wonderful final
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: season for them. Of course, the kids have all grown up,
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: which is kind of funny because you know, they couldn't
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: stay you know, teenagers forever. They're sort of pretending they're teenagers,
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: but they're in their twenties now or twenty and above.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: But you can sort of suspend your disbelief about that.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: And the special effects are insane. They're just fantastic.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Roger, what do you think makes that show so popular?
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Is it the nostalgia, the throwback? Why do so many
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: people love it?
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah? I mean, for me, I have to say it's
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: definitely the nostalgia. I mean, the whole thing feels like
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: a Steven Spielberg movie from nineteen eighty two. It feels
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: like et is sort of completely based on dungeons and Dragons,
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: so it's all things eighties. And now they sort of
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: revealed in these four episodes that maybe the whole show
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: is sort of not based on but revolves around the
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: children's sci fi book A Wrinkle in Time. And there's
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: a new young girl on the show. She'd been I guess,
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: like a baby in the other episodes, and now they've
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: grown her up to be somewhere around ten or twelve,
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: and she's reading A Wrinkle in Time and they're discussing
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: characters from it. So if you're into A Wrinkle in
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: Time you'll really like Stranger Things this season. The music
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: is great, very nostalgic. You know, the part of the
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: show takes place in something called the upside Down. You know,
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: it's the magical place, you know, sort of dangerous place
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: with monsters that's under the town of Hawkins. And so
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: they finally licensed Diana Ross's song upside Down. I love
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: it and so and that's very funny, and the rest
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: of the music is very it's all eighties music, so
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: I think, yeah, the nostalgia is a big part of it,
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: and the effects are terrific. The characters are very well drawn.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: You know each character now, you know exactly what their
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: histories are, what they're what they're up to. And it's
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: number one on Netflix absolutely.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: So you could tell the people behind it are having fun.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Can't you just tell that when you want, like they're
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: having a bread. Yeah, this is so cool. I love that.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: That's and and it's sort of infectious, and I think
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: that that's also part of why people love watching it.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: You feel like you're part of a club and you're
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: you're in on on stuff and you can't wait to
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: see what comes next. At the same time, it's real.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: Really cool. So you're proNT of the hell Fire Club,
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: right club they belong to exactly, and and so it's interesting.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: And of course all the actors in the show have
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: already started booking things outside of Stranger Things. So we're
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: going to see all these kids move on to big careers.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: I think, and all of a sudden they're in their twenties.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and get to act and to be there themselves.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Let me remind everybody this is Roger Friedman from Showbiz
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: four one one, Ken Rizotto Win from Mark seven to ten,
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: wo r and Roger Wicked is cleaning up at the
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: box office two hundred million bucks for this or through
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: that's but well done show.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well Wicked. Listen, everybody wanted to It was very
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: smart of Universal Pictures to break this into two movies,
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: because really, at one point during the second movie, I
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: was thinking, you know, this could have been one movie,
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: but they managed to work it out. The second movie
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: a lot of it reiterates the Wizard of Oz. See
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: you get to see the Wizard of Oz from from
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: a different perspective, and there are no big songs like
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: there were in the first in the first movie, but
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: the story, you know, gets exciting as they get to
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: the wrap up of you know, what's going to happen
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: to all these people? Now? Of course Universal is saying
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: that they're going to start having like sequels and prequels,
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: so we're not done with Wicked. There's going to be
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: uh a lot more stories from you know Oz. I
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: don't know how that's going to go to write songs for.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: All these Is it going to be the marvel? The
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: marvel of.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: You can tell that that that's what they want, you know.
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: L frank Baum, who wrote The Wizard of Oz wrote
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: other stories. Uh, and so I remember as a kid
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: reading all the other stories. They were came out of
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: one of these big hardcover books, and I remember reading
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: the other stories, but they weren't as memorable. Once once
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: she really did the Wizard of Oz, that was it,
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: you know. And so they're going to try to milk
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: it for what they can. But in the meantime, you know,
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: it's just a massive hit.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean, look, every little girl, please, even adults.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: But my little niece who's eight, actually charge she's she
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: dished at a party the other day and I was Wicked,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: so she everybody came in the Wicked thing. It was
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: so fun, and Zootopia made nice debut. Talk about that.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: Yep, Zootopia came back there. It's their sequel to their
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: twenty sixteen movies. Some people held on and it's gotten
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: I haven't seen it. It's gotten great reviews, but it's
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: also a hit. And then you've got, you know, really
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: great movies playing at the box office. We still have
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: one Battle after another which everyone should go and see
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: if they haven't seen it. It's really that's going to
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: win the Oscar this year. But there's plenty of other
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: good films playing I think at the Paris Theater. Netflix
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: has a couple of their films playing that are going
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: to be on Netflix soon but are worth seeing on
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: a big screen, so Frankenstein in particular. So it's a
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: very good season from it's a very good season for movies.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry I had to do that every time I
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: hear Frankenstein.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: I know that's what we're saying man too. During the movie.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: You're not saying it, right, But actually this track of
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: time is so serious and so beautiful to watch. It's
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: really beautiful. That's totally worth going to see it. Everything
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: is worth going to see in a theater and everything
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: is better seeing it on big screen.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: You know, I always listen. I always I remember at
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: a wedding hearing hearing the minister to say, you know
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: the difference between people just living together and loving each
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: other or coming to a wedding is the level of
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: commitment and the joy. You could sit home and have
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: a dinner, or you could go out to a formal dinner,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: and it makes it all the more special. And you're right.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: You could sit home and watch it on TV, or
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: you could go to a theater with other people and
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: kind of collectively enjoy the scene in the moment. And
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: I'm with you one hundred percent. Just makes it.
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: Over at the over at the Paris, if you're in Manhattan,
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: they're showing Jay Kelly the George Clooney movie, which I love,
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: and also Wake Up dead Man, the nud Knives Out movie,
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: so that there's plenty to see over there, nice and quickly.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Here, we've got a bit minute left here. The is
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: it that the New York Times bestseller list doesn't have
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: the cachet at once said because Lewis c K's first
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: novel ingram number fourteen times.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: Go ahead, Yeah, I don't understand what's going on with
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: the New York Times bestselloist. I got this email the
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: other morning from Lewis ckdr people saying we're number fourteen
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: on the best seller list. I'm like you are, And
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: then I went on Amazon. On Amazon, there are number
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: one thousand and seven. So I don't know how. I
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: wish I understood how it happened. But listen, you know,
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: Lewis k is very earnest about this book. He certainly
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: had a lot of problems being canceled for various things
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: that went on. He is funny. There's no question about
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: it that he's funny. He really made Oh now the
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: book is up to seven hundred and sixty on Amazon.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Well that's because you're talking about it.
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: As we're talking about it. Seems like a far clive
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: from number four on the New York Times. I don't
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: know how. I don't know what a Slight of Magic
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: is going on.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Wait, at the end of this interview, it's going to
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: be at number two.
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: You was it might be at number seven thirty. I
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: think that's But it's a Southern novel, it's Gothic. It's
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: very overwrought, I said when I wrote. When I wrote,
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: I wrote my review from it a couple of weeks ago,
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: and it came when it came to me and I said,
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: this guy's write a lot of Faulkner and a lot
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: of Cormac McCarthy and and in fact, that's what it's like.
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: It's like, it's like a Southern novel like that, and
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: it's got some it's got some questionable things in it.
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: So I don't know that it's really going to stay
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: at number fourteen very long, but we'll see, all right.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Well, he is the founder and editor in chief of
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Showbiz for one one. Roger Freeman. It's always great to
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: have you on. Have a wonderful day and enjoy your
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: digestion from yesterday.
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, Roger, happy.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: You as well, Thank you, sir. Sunshine today tomorrow chilli.
• 30:00
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• 30:03
  Speaker 2: heights near fifty. Phone lines open. We'll take your calls
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: next eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. Eight
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: hundred and three two one zero seven ten. It's Ken
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  Speaker 2: Rosotto Win on the Mark Simone Show for your Friday
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  Speaker 2: seven ten WR. Coming right back now.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: More of the Marx Simone Show on seven ten WR
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  Speaker 1: filling in for Mark.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Here again is Ken Rosatto and a very good black
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Friday morning, just before eleven o'clock. Right now we go
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: right to our busy phones. Vincent from Brooklyn, Good morning.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: How was your Thanksgiving, sir, my dad?
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: My Thanksgiving was excellent?
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: Ken?
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: And I have a secret stuff that I use. I
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: make Italian style stuffing for MyH for my Turkey, Italian style.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: How's that?
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: How's that? Well? Depend for four people? Stuffing for four people.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: You sawte about two cups of dice celery Dan, you
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: put it, put in the onions when the celery starts
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: to get clear, and uh, you put a little salt,
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: just a pinch of salt on the onions and uh,
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: and the sellery. Well this to bring out the moisture, right,
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: so you don't have to use a lot of oil.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: Then you put on you put the cube. I don't
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: buy stuff. I get like three quarters of a large
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: loaf of sliced bread.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Is just white bread.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: Just well, you can mix it up. You can use
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: white an whole, wea whatever you want. I use white bread.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: I cube I get, put it in a bag, let
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: it get dry overnight. Then I cube it up.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: Then when I saw tato veggies, I put it on
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: top of that. Let it get start to get soggy.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: I have two cups of chicken brought here and there.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: I throwing a dollar for chicken brought by door makes
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: it a dalian Is. Instead of putting bell seasoning, I
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: use a regano.
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: I put on it.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: It really really tastes good. It gets it's moist and everything. Ken,
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: I heard you talking about the problem of these people
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: coming to this country and not assimulating like our grandparents did.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: And this is all the fault of the nineteen sixty
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: four Hot Seller Act, which I'll explain it to the
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: audience real quick.
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: Basically worse.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Brian, I got to catch you only because it's news time.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: It's going to cut off automatically, but listen, man, I
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: thank you for the recipe. Please. I'm on next week,
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: so definitely call him. We're going to talk about more
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: with that Vincent Happy Black Friday. We've got lots of
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