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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I had a very good Wednesday morning. Good to be
with you at six so five on your Wednesday days.
April ninth, twenty twenty five. If you keeping score, this
is meant to in the morning and our friend Larry
has the day off. You may remember me, Ken Rosano
for my decades, says a TV news anchor here in
New York. I worked on Channel seven. I was on
Channel five, and you may also hear me filling in
(00:20):
from time to time for the great mister New York
Mark Simone when he takes the rare day off. I
always say, when I grow up, I want to sound
like Mark. He has a set of pipes on him,
like nobody's business. What a great voice.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Definitely a radio voice.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Oh my god, It's just comes so natural for him.
He's just so good and so confident and awesome, just
like our Larry. Larry and I both worked at Channel
seven together, well not together different times, but it's nice
to be in the seat of a fellow Channel seven alumn.
I now work these days at a channel in New Jersey,
a TV channel called on New Jersey o NNJ dot com.
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You could stream it from anywhere, no matter where you
are in the country. But if you if you are
my mother, my aunt, or a few of my relatives
and you long to see my face on TV, that's
the way you can see me o n NJ dot
com and you'll see me streaming news and commentary there.
I do it that way. It's a lot of fun.
I get to do it from the home, so it's great.
I also have a website that Natalie, you still haven't
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checked out.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Have you?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I did go on the food Dude.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Thank you. Thefooddude dot us, not the com I don't
want to confuse anybody. It's the food Dude dot us
literally access to millions of recipes from around the world,
so hopefully I'll check that out. The phone lines are
open here one eight hundred three two one zero seven
ten one eight hundred three two one zero seven ten,
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So if I can do it, you can do it,
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thank god you're not on TV anymore. Anything you want
to say, It's up to you again the talkback feature
on the iHeartRadio app, I've big three stories this morning
for your Wednesday. First, of course, the market has another
day of wild swings yesterday. The bad news these massive
swings are caused by uncertainty, uncertainty from mixed messages coming
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from the White House. But the good news is the
market is not experiencing the massive losses that it saw
last week. On Thursday and Friday, worldwide markets saw trillions
of dollars in investments lost. And while a lot of
that money belonged to big Wall Street fat cats who
could afford the hit, still billions more belong to hardworking
individuals and their investment and retirement portfolios like you and me.
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If you have a four to Zoe K or any
one of a myriad of investment accounts, it's pretty certain
you suffered some serious losses in the past week.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
To be clear, anything I tell you right now, I
am not a financial expert by any means. If I
were I'd be in the Caribbean right now, sipping a margarita,
listening to the show and not working. But I only
speak from personal experience, and I've been taught by my
financial professional friends over the years the worst thing that
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I can do when the market starts to take a
dip is to sell and take a loss. In fact,
I've always been told you only officially take a loss
when you sell in a down market. If you just
keep the money and let it ride, that you are
not losing your money. It's only what you cash out,
and if there is a down economy or a down market,
that you lose your money officially at that point. Now,
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the question is how long it'll take for the market
to rebound, And if I mean, we don't know, I'm
just assuming it will it always has historically. How long
can you afford to wait unless you absolutely positively need
your money for a specific reason right at this moment.
Several investor friends have told me just leave investments in place.
In fact, I know a number of people who jumped
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into the market head first yesterday, buying up anything that
appeared to be a bargain. And again I'm recommending nothing.
I am not a financial expert. I'm just sharing anecdotal information.
So what is the good news. Well, the good news
is that while the Dow closed down for a fourth
day yesterday, the downturn has been lessening each day. So
the Dow closed down three hundred and twenty points yesterday
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after closing down three hundred and forty nine points on Monday.
But it was twenty two hundred points, i should say,
down on Friday, sixteen hundred points last Thursday. So while
markets around the world are really tanking, US markets are
relatively stable in comparison, You say, but ken but can
its three hundred points down? Well, that's a lot better
than China was yesterday at this time and Europe Europe
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wash down, some of the markets were down three percent.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
The keyword here again is uncertainty. Even if the Trump
administration were to announce really bad news, if it were
announced with a battle plan of how we head out
of it or how long it might take, the market
would likely rebound be because of stability in terms of certainty.
We just need to know some certainty. Next, the Trump
administration says China made a big mistake with retaliatory tariffs
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on US goods and will now face a one hundred
four percent tariff rate as of midnight.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
He believes that China wants to make a deal with
the United States. He believes China has to make a
deal with the United States. It was a mistake for
China to retaliate. The president. When America is punched, he
punches back harder. That's why there will be one hundred
and four percent tariffs going into.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Effect, and that went into effect as of twelve oh
one am this morning. Beijing vowed to fight till the
end despite the massive new duties on exports to the US.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
The President likes to get things done, but he is
very much focused on ensuring that these deals are good
for the American worker, they are good for American manufacturing,
and again that they tackle these crippling deficits with these countries.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Now, remember, the US is the top market for Chinese products.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen said Tuesday that China has a
losing hand in its tariff standoff with the US because quote,
we are the deficit country. We export one fifth to
China of what they export to US, so they need
to sell goods to us. We're the market they need.
This is going to be a losing hand for them.
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Last year, China exported four hundred and thirty nine billion
dollars worth of goods to US, while the US sent
China one hundred and forty five billion dollars worth of goods.
So we could sell our products elsewhere, but China needs us.
The massive new one hundred and four percent teriff right
already took effect, like I said, just about six hours ago,
and now the bad news is, as sixteen point five
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percent of all US imports come from China, the cost
has to be made up somewhere, So that means prices
for goods from China or goods made with parts from China,
such as American cars and electronics, will likely see price increases.
The hope, of course, is an end result that either
forces China to the bargaining table to negotiate down tariff
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costs and relations between the two nations, or the repatriation
of industry to the United States, meaning we would be
back to building things here once again like we used to. Well,
the problem there is that takes time. You can't build
a factory in a day and hire and train workers
in a week. In the meantime, Americans are going to
have to pay the price. But the good news here
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is short term pain may equal long term gain with
more production autonomy, more jobs, and higher worker pay. Just
think back for a second to the COVID pandemic when
we needed Thailand all and things like that, and Naceta minifit,
which is tailent. All many of the pills were made
in China and we had to rely on them. So
many of our prescriptions come from China and India, they're
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not made here. And while it's a good way to
save money, and the manufacturing being done there saves us
money in terms of our drug costs and whatnot, the
problem is when you have things like a COVID case
or a pandemic i should say, or you have a
trade war teriff war. Now, all of a sudden, we
have an issue. So that's why we have to get
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back to at least doing some things here. It's one
thing if we had a little of our manufacturing go overseas,
but to have all of it go overseas, that's when
we find ourselves in a problem. And in other news
now also we have something that's really disturbing the acceptance
of a new mindset that devalues life and promotes violence.
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Now we saw how many younger people reacted to the
murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson allegedly by Luigi Manchioni.
No matter what your opinion of the healthcare industry, there
would have been a time not too long ago when
the idea of murder would have immediately and universally been condemned.
But today not so much. And what used to be
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a far left fringe idea of attacking politicians, specifically President
Trump and by extension, Elon Musk, more and more so
called mainstream democrats are throwing in with the idea, saying,
you know what, it's just liable to murder, to murder.
Based on political opinion data released on Monday from the
Network Contagion Research Institute and CRI get this statistic, it
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found that forty eight percent and fifty five percent respectively
of left of center people at least somewhat justify murder
for Elon Musk and President Trump. And these attitudes aren't fringe,
the report shows they reflect the new assassination culture grounded
in far left authoritarianism. It's becoming common parlance on social
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media and on university campuses. The group produced its study
with the Rutgers University Social Perception Lab. So this is
a serious group, and they surveyed over twelve hundred US
citizens about their attitudes toward political violence. Well, sorry, folks,
you can thank the infiltration of communist professors in higher
education in the US for this. Parents believe they're doing
the best thing possible for their kids sending them to
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these institutions, but many have become nothing more than propaganda
centers to teach, shutting down freest speech and destroying American values.
And you are paying one hundred gees a year for it.
How do you like that? Well, if I had a
dollar for every friend and relative who told me their
kid went off to college quote unquote normal and returned
totally radicalized, I would be sitting down and relaxing on
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a beach somewhere, all right, seven ten wor the Voice
of New York Time now six sixteen. A restaurant offers
up to twenty percent skinny discount. You heard me right,
if customers can squeeze through some little skinny spaces, unique
offer or body shaming. We're going to talk about it
when we get back. Plus, we have tickets to see
Barry Manilow at eight twenty five, Ken Rosatto and Hilariot
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seven ten wr Here a very good Wednesday morning to
you six twenty four and a chili day again. It's
going to be sunny pretty out there, but temp's only
in the mid forties and very very windy, so make
sure you bundle up once again. Ay mother nature, Knock,
knock knock. It's springtime, all right. This is a very
very cool story here at seven ten wor. There's a
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restaurant in Thailand that has come under fire for allegedly
discriminating against plus sized people by offering customers a discount
based on how thin they are. The restaurant is called
Chiung My Breakfast World. It's in Chung Mai. It offers
to shave up to twenty percent off of customers bills
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if they can squeeze through a set of narrow vertical
metal bars. They look like prison bars, and they come
in different sizes, so they're in five different levels, each
with a gap that starts wide and then decreases in size.
And if it's if you can only fit through the
wide setting, then you don't get a discount.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, I don't think my thigh would get through that
twenty percent.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I looked at it. That was pretty tight, Yeah, super tight,
and I am so claustrophobic just looking at that. I'm
having like thoughts that I'll get trapped, I'll get stuck
in those pipes. But customers are clear the easier levels
you get between five and fifteen percent. If you get
through the super super skinny tight ones, you get twenty
percent off. Again for customers who fail to clear the levels,
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the sign there reads full price.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Sorry, I wonder what are they getting out of this?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I mean, well, they're getting worldwide notoriety. Clearly would you
want to go to a restaurant, But you have to wonder,
I mean, is it in order to encourage people to
lose weight or is it to fat shame? That's the
question I wish I had them on right now that asks.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Them, Well, I don't think there's anything positive about this personally,
but uh, you know, I guess if you want a
smaller meal, maybe give you the discount.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I'm just reading some of the online comments. There's a
disgruntled user who is from Asia who said, seriously concerning
body shaming and weight obsession in Asia it's a big.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Well, that is a big thing. I have definitely read
about that, and that is as could be psychologically arming.
Would you ever try that?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Well?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Because Ken I was saying, you're quite slender.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
For those who haven't seen me since I was on
Channel seven, I'm down about fifty or sixty pounds since then,
not because I wanted to. Actually, my blood sugar levels
were a little off, and I'm one of those people.
They put on us some aglutide, one of those drugs,
but I'm on the baby baby dose. But let me
tell you, it knocks your appetite out, like you don't
want to eat. I take a sandwich and I literally
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work on it all day, so it's not easy to eat.
But nonetheless, we'd love to hear what you want to
say about this. Give us a call at eight hundred
three two one zero seven ten eight hundred three to
two one zero seven ten, or you can use the
talkback feature. Go to the iHeartRadio app and then choose
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Tell us what you think about restaurants fat shaming or
is it a way to keep encouraging people to lose weight.
If you lose weight, you get in shape, you get
a cheaper meal. By the way, despite the backlash, the restaurant,
which is known for serving international breakfast, is still maintaining
a four point three star out of five rating and
they have over seventeen hundred reviews, most of them good
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on Google.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
You know what, I bet you people will go if
they could get a discount, go for it.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
There was By the way, this was a similar thing
happened in China a couple of years ago, actually, back
in twenty eighteen. The owner in that restaurant, though, said
that you would get free food if you could pass
through a fifteen centimeter wide opening. And fifteen centimeters is
about six inches.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You have to be two years old.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Nutty, I think you have to be a fetus in
order to fit through that. But that's crazy. And with
about less than a minute here, I just want to
share with you something that happened. We recently moved in
from our we had a big house. We moved into
a little townhouse and we noticed that and we're renting
now we owned the house, we're renting the townhouse. We
noticed that the dryer wasn't drying, so we called the
landlord and they had a dryer repair person coming. So
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it's a new dryer. The temperature seems to be working. Still,
I would go through two three four cycles get my
clothes drind frustrating, So they got a vent cleaning guy.
He came clean the vents. He said, I don't understand why.
He said, the events are clean still two three four cycles. Finally,
it turns out they put new sighting over the outside
of the townhouse community a year and a half ago.
They sided right over the vent, so there was no
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air coming out of the side of the building. So
they just came yesterday and broke it open.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Wow, that could have been really dangerous because.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
You could add lint build up. We get out of fire,
Thank goodness, it's fixed. Seven to ten WR. It is
Wednesday morning, Ken Risotto win for Larry and now another
Larry Larry Kovski and for Jaqueline Carl with the six
thirty news.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Good morning Larry, well, good morning Ken. We got to
keep up our Larry quotas here in the morning. Thirty
two degrees and clear. At six thirty one, fort Lee
High School student charged with attempted murder. Another in critical
condition after he was stabbed inside a school bathroom on Tuesday.
The victim is expected to survive. The school was locked
down for much of the day on Tuesday as authorities
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sorted things out. An irate passenger and a Number five
train in the Bronx attacked two MTA workers with a
fold up scooter. One worker was hitting the face, the
other in the hand. Police say the passenger became enraged
when the employees tried to wake him up when the
train reached the end of the line. The attacker remains
at large. Octavio Dotel, a one time picture for both
the Mets, Yankees and other MLB teams, is among dozens
(16:21):
of people who died when the roof collapsed at a
nightclub in the Dominican Republic. Can they say a picture
is worth a thousand words, but is it worth a
week in jail? A tourist that Yellowstone Park was recently
sentenced to seven days behind bars and find forty bucks
for getting too close to Old Faithful to try and
get a closer picture of the famous geyser. Federal law
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requires that visitors stay on board walks of trails. Apparently
this person thought that it didn't quite apply to them.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah, it's steam. You could like have your old skin,
your whole body burned off. I mean, there's no one
who'd help you.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
We've been talking about this on the air over the
past couple of weeks, what people will do to get
a selfie crazy and people have died fallen off cliffs.
Well oh, let me, Oh, we got to go a
little bit further so we can get this great.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Picture with the people who love to take pictures with
bears behind them. Are you out of your mind? I
guess so that's what.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Photoshop is for.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Exactly good point.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
We should make an app that can put you in
like wherever you want in the world. You can post
away and people think you live the best life.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Hey, coming from TV. It's called the Green screen, right,
we have that already, all right, Larry Kovski, thank you
so by seeing you bet six thirty one right now.
And a troubling trend is normalized hatred toward at President
Trump and Elon Musk and even more concerning and who
study reveals widespread justification for violence. What is happening in
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our culture? We'll discuss it next. Want to join the conversation.
Leave us a talkback. Go to seven to ten wo
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six thirty eight Wednesday morning. Good to have you along
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with us. It's chili out, man. It's like thirty three
degrees right now, so make sure you bundle up.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
It was a little shocking this morning. Yeah, it was
a winter feel totally does not feel. I definitely went
to the closet and said, am I going to take
the north face out? And I said absolutely not. I'm
just gonna wear the wind jacket, windbreaker and say if
it's not.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
That cold, absolutely too too cold. Uh all right, well, nonetheless, listen,
there is something going on right now in our culture
that is a little off putting. No more than a
little off putting. It is sort of an acceptance of
a new mindset that devalues life and promotes violence. Now,
we saw how many younger people reacted to the murder
of the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, allegedly by Luigi Mangioni.
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No matter what your opinion of the healthcare industry. There
would have been a time, and not so long ago,
when the idea of killing somebody or even hurting them
would have immediately and universally been condemned. Everyone would have said,
you're out of your mind, don't do it, don't even
think about it, get it out of your mind. But today,
I guess, with the social media and very far fringy
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teachers at some universities, not so much. It's not so fringe.
And what used to be that idea of attacking people,
especially politicians, seems to be now becoming more and more mainstream,
specifically Donald Trump and by extension, Elon Musk. Well more
and more mainstream Democrats are throwing in with the idea,
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saying that we justifiable to murder them. What is wrong
with you? Data released Monday from the Network Contagion Research
Institute or NCRI found that forty eight percent and fifty
five percent respectively of left of center people didn't say
far left, just left of center people at at least
somewhat justify murder for Elon Musk and President Trump, respectively.
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I sure hope the Secret Service does a little scouring
of certain search terms on social media to find these
folks and have a little conversation. And these attitudes now
aren't even considered fringe. The report shows they reflect the
new assassination culture, grounded in far left authoritarianism, and it's
becoming common parlance again on social media, people saying all
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the time you should be dead. Don't think that way.
And if you have kids who you think or you
hear talk like that, sit them down and have a
serious conversation with them. We can't bring our society down
to this because I think too many people. I know
a lot of people. I'm a religious person, A lot
of people are not. I get it. That's why I
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don't want to push that on anybody. But you know,
if you if you don't have religion in your life,
have something else that grounds you morally. But please make
sure that your kids, your friends, your family know that
murder or injuries not something you want in your life.
Seven ten wo or the Voice of New York. We
want to hear what you have to say about this,
so you can go use the talk back feature. Go
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Tell us your opinion, give us, give us your theory
why it's happening and what you would do about it,
or you can give us a call too. Eight hundred
three to two one zero seven ten. Eight hundred three
to two one zero seven ten. That's really disturbing. I'm
just really concerned that there are so many people who
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think that that is not a bad thing, that you're
allowed to have feelings like that. I don't know, what
do you do? You know of anybody who speaks that
that extreme, you know, in terms of anything in their lives.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Oh, I would say anything. I know. I've heard people
in desperate moments say something and then you just look
at them like, oh, come on, you know you got
rethink that thought. People do get to a moment. But
as you were saying, it seems more normalized now. It's
not shocking when somebody says it anymore. Look what having
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some words like and I'm not even going to say
things like that come out of your mouth. You're nout
the president of the United States. I don't care if
you hate them you love them, doesn't air.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Not even about politics. I don't care where you stand politically.
Life is life. Life is precious, you know. Look from
the religious perspective, and I and there are people who
have every opinion on this. So again I'm not pushing
one perspective or another. I'm just saying that from the
religious perspective, you'd say all life is sacred. And I've
heard I have a friend of mine who's a priest
who says that this all started, you know when when
we started this, back when when abortion became legalizing. Hey,
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I'm not taking a side on abortion one way or
the other, folks, so please don't don't yell at me.
I'm not trying to hit that third rail. But my
friend father, Michelle's name is, he's from Canada. It's a
French Canadian Michelle. He said that, you know that wherever
you stand on abortion, it's in his view that it
cheapened life because now it became an argument of my body,
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my choice forgetting entirely that there is also still a
life in there and you could still believe in there
being a life in there and still having the choice,
And that was his point, and he feels that that's
where it started. And then there are people on the
left who say, oh, really, will you people on the
right for the death penalty, so you cheapen life. So look,
it goes both ways. It's you know, both sides can
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be accused of hypocrisy. You know when it comes to that.
Did that launch the idea of cheapening of life? I
don't know. You know, throughout history humans have have had
moments where they've not treated each other very nicely, going
back to barbarian times and through every time of war
to the present. But the idea that now we're in
a quote unquote civilized time, food is in abundance for
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at least our country. Look, the most you have to
worry about is who you're going to vote for in
the next election. So the idea that you would hate
someone so much, no matter who they are, again to
the point of wanting death, is very frightening.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
And do you see this turning around? How can it
turn around?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
I think people have got to be taught the value
of life again, you know, and it doesn't have to
be done from a religious perspective, but I think people
have to understand when you're young, you think you'll live forever,
and you don't mind saying that person should die, that
person should die because you think you're going to live forever.
If taught the reality that life is precious and way
too short. Maybe that'll be different.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
If that made me just think there's a new subway.
Surfing has been a big problem here in the city.
Kids have lost their lives jumping on top of trains, thinking, oh,
this is going to be funny. I'm going to once
again capture a moment for TikTok on this. And they
have a new program out where they're trying to get
kids to write the own campaigns to encourage other kids
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not to do this.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Great idea.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Isn't that a great idea because once again here is
a twelve thirteen year old who has no sense of
their mortality.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Right, you think you'll live forever. You never think you
never even probably broken arm or he broke a fingernail,
So you don't even know the pain and what a
family goes through at losing a loved one. So seven
ten woor let us know what you have to say
about that, or again, use the iHeartRadio talkback features on
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the little red microphone. Our time now is six forty
six and Trump asserts nations are quote his quote kissing
my ass in fact, yes, for proof you could you
could hear it with him.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
And don't let some of these politists go around said,
you know, because I'm telling you, these countries are calling
us up, kissing my ass.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
They are, they are.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Dying to make it to you. Please please make it you.
I'll do anything. I'll do anything, sir.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
And that is about the tariffs and negotiating tariffs. So
what is behind this bold claim. We're going to talk
about it when we come back. And it is iHeartRadio
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of Fortune tonight at seven thirty on Channel seven. And
a very good Wednesday morning too. It's six fifty three.
Just looking at the doubt futures right now, there's still
down three hundred and seventy four points. We'll see what happens.
At nine thirty this morning, the world markets were all
kind of all over the place, so you know, people
are still a little rattled. And President Trump yesterday talked
a lot of tariffs. In fact, he did talk about
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the fact once again that some seventy countries have come
knocking at the door of the White House wanting to negotiate.
To use the term, the leaders of the countries, they're
kicking kissing my ass, mister President. We want to negotiate tariffs.
So look again, we'll see what happens. Many in the
know in the financial world was saying, all right, put
your money where your mouth is, let's see it happen.
(26:47):
I think even some of the editorials we've read in
like the New York Post said, look, miss President, come forward,
negotiate something with some of the big the big countries
or the continents, like the European Union. Make a deal,
get a good deal now, and then start the ball
rolling and you'll see that there will be some calmness
(27:07):
in the market, and you'll see things get back to normal.
But right now you have a lot of folks who
lost a lot of money. And we're not just talking
about greed here. We're talking about older people who have
their retirement funds, younger couples saving for college funds for
their kids. So very important there, very very important. So
there are apparently seventy countries wanting to talk. It is
six p. Fifty four, It's seven to ten wor Henrazata
(27:30):
in for Larry this morning, and somebody's on the phone
from my childhood Maddie. Is this Maddie from neuroschell.
Speaker 7 (27:39):
Hello there, Ken living in Fairfield, Connecticut. Ken, you may
need to work on your mimic of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I'm sorry. I'm not good at that. I confess I don't.
I don't pretend to be a good impersonator, but it
is what it is. So Maddie used to be used
to live next door to my mother's sister in you Rochelle,
and so I knew Mattie from when I was a
little kid. And so it's nice that you're listening to
seven ten w R. You were at the train station
(28:07):
this morning.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
It hurt us, Yes, I was. I listened to Mark
in the morning. It was the morning station and there
you were, and I said, I have to talk to Ken.
I haven't spoken to him in a long time.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
And by Mark, you me and Mark Simone. For those saying,
wait a minute, you mean Larry, it's Mark Simone. You're listening.
Mark is a good friend too. I get to fill
in for him. Well, Maddie, we're tight on time, but
thank you so much for calling my love to the family. Please,
oh listen, your.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
Aunts and your dad, your mom. Hope if they're all listening,
HI to them too, My love to everybody.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
If they're not, I'll be very upset. Thank you so much,
Maddie Man, have a great day. I appreciate you bring fun.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
To ask them what kind of kid you were?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
But okay, chubby, I I really was.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
I was.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I was the only one in the family who was chubby,
and I was sort of introverted because of that. And
then when I got to high school, I think, you know,
when you when you are obsessed with your weight, you
try to go the other way, and so I became
very extroverted to try to cut people off of the
past so they couldn't say anything to me. But no
one ever made fun of me because I was the
tallest kid in school six with three Wow, six with
(29:11):
three in high school?
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Well not now you know I have since I have
compressed discs in my back, I'm like barely six one
two inches two inches over forty years.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
If I lost two inches, i'd be under five. But
you know what, I haven't measured myself in a while.
It could be happening.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Hey, we got some people on the phone lines. Not
a happy subject here. We were talking about the kind
of the murder culture that that's been going on, people
who have lost respect for life, and these are people,
you know. We talked about the Luigi Mangioni and the
assassination of the of the healthcare CEO, and these are
what people are having to say in our talk back feature.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
I'm a tofoic school teacher in New Jersey. I've had
colleagues come into work wishing that the assassination attempt had
worked in helping help the others. It's very shocking and.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Set an assassination attempt. She means about with President Trump,
and this is crazy. This is a study that was
just released that showed that fifty five percent of Democrats
and we're not talking about the fringe, fringe left, fifty
five percent out of some twelve hundred plus Democrats who
are surveyed say that they have a fair desire or
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a strong desire that President Trump and Elon Musk be assassinated.
That is shocking.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Fifty percent. I can't believe anybody would actually admit it, right,
even if they felt it, So you imagine what the
number really must be.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I don't even want to think about it. And somebody
else called in about the or used the talkback fature
about the violent mindset.
Speaker 8 (30:44):
You're looking too deeply. Just turn on any streaming TV
in which somebody walks over to somebody else, puts a
gun to their head and just shoots them in the head.
Sure it makes some good TV, but it sets the
mind set in our youth that that's cool, that's okay,
that kind of behavior is perfectly acceptable in the society.
(31:08):
And so then when it comes down to it, if
they get in with the wrong crowd, life has no value.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
That is so sad and true to some extent. You know,
for years we've kind of pushed shot it off and
it's just TV, it's fake. But no, if this is
all you shur around yourself with that kind of culture
of death, you lose a certain amount of respect for life.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah, And we've talked about that for years about video
games as well, because I mean that's interactive, and you know,
kids are just sitting there and I feel so old
saying it, but I never allowed those in my house.
One time, my son somehow ordered a game. It was
my fault. I didn't really look into it to see
(31:47):
what it was. It showed up and I was like, oh,
absolutely not. He already had it in. I took it away.
He's like, but we're not going to get our money back.
I'm like, I do not care.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Some things are morals are more important there, all right?
Seven ten WI we want to hear what you have
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AP was banned from the White House for refusing to
use the term Gulf of America. Now a judge has
(32:18):
ruled this is unconstitutional for viewpoint discrimination. We'll discuss this
with ABC Stephen Portnoy. That's coming up after the seven
o'clock News
I had a very good Wednesday morning. Good to be
with you at six so five on your Wednesday days.
April ninth, twenty twenty five. If you keeping score, this
is meant to in the morning and our friend Larry
has the day off. You may remember me, Ken Rosano
for my decades, says a TV news anchor here in
New York. I worked on Channel seven. I was on
Channel five, and you may also hear me filling in
(00:20):
from time to time for the great mister New York
Mark Simone when he takes the rare day off. I
always say, when I grow up, I want to sound
like Mark. He has a set of pipes on him,
like nobody's business. What a great voice.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Definitely a radio voice.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Oh my god, It's just comes so natural for him.
He's just so good and so confident and awesome, just
like our Larry. Larry and I both worked at Channel
seven together, well not together different times, but it's nice
to be in the seat of a fellow Channel seven alumn.
I now work these days at a channel in New Jersey,
a TV channel called on New Jersey o NNJ dot com.
(00:56):
You could stream it from anywhere, no matter where you
are in the country. But if you if you are
my mother, my aunt, or a few of my relatives
and you long to see my face on TV, that's
the way you can see me o n NJ dot
com and you'll see me streaming news and commentary there.
I do it that way. It's a lot of fun.
I get to do it from the home, so it's great.
I also have a website that Natalie, you still haven't
(01:18):
checked out.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Have you?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I did go on the food Dude.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Thank you. Thefooddude dot us, not the com I don't
want to confuse anybody. It's the food Dude dot us
literally access to millions of recipes from around the world,
so hopefully I'll check that out. The phone lines are
open here one eight hundred three two one zero seven
ten one eight hundred three two one zero seven ten,
or you could use the iHeartRadio talkback feature. Just open
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your iHeartRadio app perfectly free, by the way, go to
wor radio and look for the little red microphone on
the upper right of the screen. Just tap on the
mic and follow the instructions. Even I can do it,
So if I can do it, you can do it,
and you can leave a message tell us how you feel,
leave a comment, anything you'd like to say, Hey, Hey
Ken and I miss you on TV, or Hey Ken,
(02:06):
thank god you're not on TV anymore. Anything you want
to say, It's up to you again the talkback feature
on the iHeartRadio app, I've big three stories this morning
for your Wednesday. First, of course, the market has another
day of wild swings yesterday. The bad news these massive
swings are caused by uncertainty, uncertainty from mixed messages coming
(02:26):
from the White House. But the good news is the
market is not experiencing the massive losses that it saw
last week. On Thursday and Friday, worldwide markets saw trillions
of dollars in investments lost. And while a lot of
that money belonged to big Wall Street fat cats who
could afford the hit, still billions more belong to hardworking
individuals and their investment and retirement portfolios like you and me.
(02:50):
If you have a four to Zoe K or any
one of a myriad of investment accounts, it's pretty certain
you suffered some serious losses in the past week.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
To be clear, anything I tell you right now, I
am not a financial expert by any means. If I
were I'd be in the Caribbean right now, sipping a margarita,
listening to the show and not working. But I only
speak from personal experience, and I've been taught by my
financial professional friends over the years the worst thing that
(03:17):
I can do when the market starts to take a
dip is to sell and take a loss. In fact,
I've always been told you only officially take a loss
when you sell in a down market. If you just
keep the money and let it ride, that you are
not losing your money. It's only what you cash out,
and if there is a down economy or a down market,
that you lose your money officially at that point. Now,
(03:39):
the question is how long it'll take for the market
to rebound, And if I mean, we don't know, I'm
just assuming it will it always has historically. How long
can you afford to wait unless you absolutely positively need
your money for a specific reason right at this moment.
Several investor friends have told me just leave investments in place.
In fact, I know a number of people who jumped
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into the market head first yesterday, buying up anything that
appeared to be a bargain. And again I'm recommending nothing.
I am not a financial expert. I'm just sharing anecdotal information.
So what is the good news. Well, the good news
is that while the Dow closed down for a fourth
day yesterday, the downturn has been lessening each day. So
the Dow closed down three hundred and twenty points yesterday
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after closing down three hundred and forty nine points on Monday.
But it was twenty two hundred points, i should say,
down on Friday, sixteen hundred points last Thursday. So while
markets around the world are really tanking, US markets are
relatively stable in comparison, You say, but ken but can
its three hundred points down? Well, that's a lot better
than China was yesterday at this time and Europe Europe
(04:45):
wash down, some of the markets were down three percent.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
The keyword here again is uncertainty. Even if the Trump
administration were to announce really bad news, if it were
announced with a battle plan of how we head out
of it or how long it might take, the market
would likely rebound be because of stability in terms of certainty.
We just need to know some certainty. Next, the Trump
administration says China made a big mistake with retaliatory tariffs
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on US goods and will now face a one hundred
four percent tariff rate as of midnight.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
He believes that China wants to make a deal with
the United States. He believes China has to make a
deal with the United States. It was a mistake for
China to retaliate. The president. When America is punched, he
punches back harder. That's why there will be one hundred
and four percent tariffs going into.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Effect, and that went into effect as of twelve oh
one am this morning. Beijing vowed to fight till the
end despite the massive new duties on exports to the US.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
The President likes to get things done, but he is
very much focused on ensuring that these deals are good
for the American worker, they are good for American manufacturing,
and again that they tackle these crippling deficits with these countries.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Now, remember, the US is the top market for Chinese products.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen said Tuesday that China has a
losing hand in its tariff standoff with the US because quote,
we are the deficit country. We export one fifth to
China of what they export to US, so they need
to sell goods to us. We're the market they need.
This is going to be a losing hand for them.
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Last year, China exported four hundred and thirty nine billion
dollars worth of goods to US, while the US sent
China one hundred and forty five billion dollars worth of goods.
So we could sell our products elsewhere, but China needs us.
The massive new one hundred and four percent teriff right
already took effect, like I said, just about six hours ago,
and now the bad news is, as sixteen point five
(06:38):
percent of all US imports come from China, the cost
has to be made up somewhere, So that means prices
for goods from China or goods made with parts from China,
such as American cars and electronics, will likely see price increases.
The hope, of course, is an end result that either
forces China to the bargaining table to negotiate down tariff
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costs and relations between the two nations, or the repatriation
of industry to the United States, meaning we would be
back to building things here once again like we used to. Well,
the problem there is that takes time. You can't build
a factory in a day and hire and train workers
in a week. In the meantime, Americans are going to
have to pay the price. But the good news here
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is short term pain may equal long term gain with
more production autonomy, more jobs, and higher worker pay. Just
think back for a second to the COVID pandemic when
we needed Thailand all and things like that, and Naceta minifit,
which is tailent. All many of the pills were made
in China and we had to rely on them. So
many of our prescriptions come from China and India, they're
(07:44):
not made here. And while it's a good way to
save money, and the manufacturing being done there saves us
money in terms of our drug costs and whatnot, the
problem is when you have things like a COVID case
or a pandemic i should say, or you have a
trade war teriff war. Now, all of a sudden, we
have an issue. So that's why we have to get
(08:05):
back to at least doing some things here. It's one
thing if we had a little of our manufacturing go overseas,
but to have all of it go overseas, that's when
we find ourselves in a problem. And in other news
now also we have something that's really disturbing the acceptance
of a new mindset that devalues life and promotes violence.
(08:26):
Now we saw how many younger people reacted to the
murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson allegedly by Luigi Manchioni.
No matter what your opinion of the healthcare industry, there
would have been a time not too long ago when
the idea of murder would have immediately and universally been condemned.
But today not so much. And what used to be
(08:46):
a far left fringe idea of attacking politicians, specifically President
Trump and by extension, Elon Musk, more and more so
called mainstream democrats are throwing in with the idea, saying,
you know what, it's just liable to murder, to murder.
Based on political opinion data released on Monday from the
Network Contagion Research Institute and CRI get this statistic, it
(09:11):
found that forty eight percent and fifty five percent respectively
of left of center people at least somewhat justify murder
for Elon Musk and President Trump. And these attitudes aren't fringe,
the report shows they reflect the new assassination culture grounded
in far left authoritarianism. It's becoming common parlance on social
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media and on university campuses. The group produced its study
with the Rutgers University Social Perception Lab. So this is
a serious group, and they surveyed over twelve hundred US
citizens about their attitudes toward political violence. Well, sorry, folks,
you can thank the infiltration of communist professors in higher
education in the US for this. Parents believe they're doing
the best thing possible for their kids sending them to
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these institutions, but many have become nothing more than propaganda
centers to teach, shutting down freest speech and destroying American values.
And you are paying one hundred gees a year for it.
How do you like that? Well, if I had a
dollar for every friend and relative who told me their
kid went off to college quote unquote normal and returned
totally radicalized, I would be sitting down and relaxing on
(10:16):
a beach somewhere, all right, seven ten wor the Voice
of New York Time now six sixteen. A restaurant offers
up to twenty percent skinny discount. You heard me right,
if customers can squeeze through some little skinny spaces, unique
offer or body shaming. We're going to talk about it
when we get back. Plus, we have tickets to see
Barry Manilow at eight twenty five, Ken Rosatto and Hilariot
(10:38):
seven ten wr Here a very good Wednesday morning to
you six twenty four and a chili day again. It's
going to be sunny pretty out there, but temp's only
in the mid forties and very very windy, so make
sure you bundle up once again. Ay mother nature, Knock,
knock knock. It's springtime, all right. This is a very
very cool story here at seven ten wor. There's a
(11:00):
restaurant in Thailand that has come under fire for allegedly
discriminating against plus sized people by offering customers a discount
based on how thin they are. The restaurant is called
Chiung My Breakfast World. It's in Chung Mai. It offers
to shave up to twenty percent off of customers bills
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if they can squeeze through a set of narrow vertical
metal bars. They look like prison bars, and they come
in different sizes, so they're in five different levels, each
with a gap that starts wide and then decreases in size.
And if it's if you can only fit through the
wide setting, then you don't get a discount.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, I don't think my thigh would get through that
twenty percent.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I looked at it. That was pretty tight, Yeah, super tight,
and I am so claustrophobic just looking at that. I'm
having like thoughts that I'll get trapped, I'll get stuck
in those pipes. But customers are clear the easier levels
you get between five and fifteen percent. If you get
through the super super skinny tight ones, you get twenty
percent off. Again for customers who fail to clear the levels,
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the sign there reads full price.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Sorry, I wonder what are they getting out of this?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I mean, well, they're getting worldwide notoriety. Clearly would you
want to go to a restaurant, But you have to wonder,
I mean, is it in order to encourage people to
lose weight or is it to fat shame? That's the
question I wish I had them on right now that asks.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Them, Well, I don't think there's anything positive about this personally,
but uh, you know, I guess if you want a
smaller meal, maybe give you the discount.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I'm just reading some of the online comments. There's a
disgruntled user who is from Asia who said, seriously concerning
body shaming and weight obsession in Asia it's a big.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Well, that is a big thing. I have definitely read
about that, and that is as could be psychologically arming.
Would you ever try that?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Well?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Because Ken I was saying, you're quite slender.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
For those who haven't seen me since I was on
Channel seven, I'm down about fifty or sixty pounds since then,
not because I wanted to. Actually, my blood sugar levels
were a little off, and I'm one of those people.
They put on us some aglutide, one of those drugs,
but I'm on the baby baby dose. But let me
tell you, it knocks your appetite out, like you don't
want to eat. I take a sandwich and I literally
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work on it all day, so it's not easy to eat.
But nonetheless, we'd love to hear what you want to
say about this. Give us a call at eight hundred
three two one zero seven ten eight hundred three to
two one zero seven ten, or you can use the
talkback feature. Go to the iHeartRadio app and then choose
seven to ten WR and the upper right and you'll
see a little microphone. Click on the microphone, leave a message.
(13:51):
Tell us what you think about restaurants fat shaming or
is it a way to keep encouraging people to lose weight.
If you lose weight, you get in shape, you get
a cheaper meal. By the way, despite the backlash, the restaurant,
which is known for serving international breakfast, is still maintaining
a four point three star out of five rating and
they have over seventeen hundred reviews, most of them good
(14:12):
on Google.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
You know what, I bet you people will go if
they could get a discount, go for it.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
There was By the way, this was a similar thing
happened in China a couple of years ago, actually, back
in twenty eighteen. The owner in that restaurant, though, said
that you would get free food if you could pass
through a fifteen centimeter wide opening. And fifteen centimeters is
about six inches.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You have to be two years old.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Nutty, I think you have to be a fetus in
order to fit through that. But that's crazy. And with
about less than a minute here, I just want to
share with you something that happened. We recently moved in
from our we had a big house. We moved into
a little townhouse and we noticed that and we're renting
now we owned the house, we're renting the townhouse. We
noticed that the dryer wasn't drying, so we called the
landlord and they had a dryer repair person coming. So
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it's a new dryer. The temperature seems to be working. Still,
I would go through two three four cycles get my
clothes drind frustrating, So they got a vent cleaning guy.
He came clean the vents. He said, I don't understand why.
He said, the events are clean still two three four cycles. Finally,
it turns out they put new sighting over the outside
of the townhouse community a year and a half ago.
They sided right over the vent, so there was no
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air coming out of the side of the building. So
they just came yesterday and broke it open.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Wow, that could have been really dangerous because.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
You could add lint build up. We get out of fire,
Thank goodness, it's fixed. Seven to ten WR. It is
Wednesday morning, Ken Risotto win for Larry and now another
Larry Larry Kovski and for Jaqueline Carl with the six
thirty news.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Good morning Larry, well, good morning Ken. We got to
keep up our Larry quotas here in the morning. Thirty
two degrees and clear. At six thirty one, fort Lee
High School student charged with attempted murder. Another in critical
condition after he was stabbed inside a school bathroom on Tuesday.
The victim is expected to survive. The school was locked
down for much of the day on Tuesday as authorities
(15:58):
sorted things out. An irate passenger and a Number five
train in the Bronx attacked two MTA workers with a
fold up scooter. One worker was hitting the face, the
other in the hand. Police say the passenger became enraged
when the employees tried to wake him up when the
train reached the end of the line. The attacker remains
at large. Octavio Dotel, a one time picture for both
the Mets, Yankees and other MLB teams, is among dozens
(16:21):
of people who died when the roof collapsed at a
nightclub in the Dominican Republic. Can they say a picture
is worth a thousand words, but is it worth a
week in jail? A tourist that Yellowstone Park was recently
sentenced to seven days behind bars and find forty bucks
for getting too close to Old Faithful to try and
get a closer picture of the famous geyser. Federal law
(16:43):
requires that visitors stay on board walks of trails. Apparently
this person thought that it didn't quite apply to them.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah, it's steam. You could like have your old skin,
your whole body burned off. I mean, there's no one
who'd help you.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
We've been talking about this on the air over the
past couple of weeks, what people will do to get
a selfie crazy and people have died fallen off cliffs.
Well oh, let me, Oh, we got to go a
little bit further so we can get this great.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Picture with the people who love to take pictures with
bears behind them. Are you out of your mind? I
guess so that's what.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Photoshop is for.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Exactly good point.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
We should make an app that can put you in
like wherever you want in the world. You can post
away and people think you live the best life.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Hey, coming from TV. It's called the Green screen, right,
we have that already, all right, Larry Kovski, thank you
so by seeing you bet six thirty one right now.
And a troubling trend is normalized hatred toward at President
Trump and Elon Musk and even more concerning and who
study reveals widespread justification for violence. What is happening in
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our culture? We'll discuss it next. Want to join the conversation.
Leave us a talkback. Go to seven to ten wo
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six thirty eight Wednesday morning. Good to have you along
(18:12):
with us. It's chili out, man. It's like thirty three
degrees right now, so make sure you bundle up.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
It was a little shocking this morning. Yeah, it was
a winter feel totally does not feel. I definitely went
to the closet and said, am I going to take
the north face out? And I said absolutely not. I'm
just gonna wear the wind jacket, windbreaker and say if
it's not.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
That cold, absolutely too too cold. Uh all right, well, nonetheless, listen,
there is something going on right now in our culture
that is a little off putting. No more than a
little off putting. It is sort of an acceptance of
a new mindset that devalues life and promotes violence. Now,
we saw how many younger people reacted to the murder
of the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, allegedly by Luigi Mangioni.
(18:57):
No matter what your opinion of the healthcare industry. There
would have been a time, and not so long ago,
when the idea of killing somebody or even hurting them
would have immediately and universally been condemned. Everyone would have said,
you're out of your mind, don't do it, don't even
think about it, get it out of your mind. But today,
I guess, with the social media and very far fringy
(19:20):
teachers at some universities, not so much. It's not so fringe.
And what used to be that idea of attacking people,
especially politicians, seems to be now becoming more and more mainstream,
specifically Donald Trump and by extension, Elon Musk. Well more
and more mainstream Democrats are throwing in with the idea,
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saying that we justifiable to murder them. What is wrong
with you? Data released Monday from the Network Contagion Research
Institute or NCRI found that forty eight percent and fifty
five percent respectively of left of center people didn't say
far left, just left of center people at at least
somewhat justify murder for Elon Musk and President Trump, respectively.
(20:05):
I sure hope the Secret Service does a little scouring
of certain search terms on social media to find these
folks and have a little conversation. And these attitudes now
aren't even considered fringe. The report shows they reflect the
new assassination culture, grounded in far left authoritarianism, and it's
becoming common parlance again on social media, people saying all
(20:27):
the time you should be dead. Don't think that way.
And if you have kids who you think or you
hear talk like that, sit them down and have a
serious conversation with them. We can't bring our society down
to this because I think too many people. I know
a lot of people. I'm a religious person, A lot
of people are not. I get it. That's why I
(20:48):
don't want to push that on anybody. But you know,
if you if you don't have religion in your life,
have something else that grounds you morally. But please make
sure that your kids, your friends, your family know that
murder or injuries not something you want in your life.
Seven ten wo or the Voice of New York. We
want to hear what you have to say about this,
so you can go use the talk back feature. Go
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to the iHeartRadio app, go to seven to ten woor,
click on the little red microphone and voice off on this.
Tell us your opinion, give us, give us your theory
why it's happening and what you would do about it,
or you can give us a call too. Eight hundred
three to two one zero seven ten. Eight hundred three
to two one zero seven ten. That's really disturbing. I'm
just really concerned that there are so many people who
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think that that is not a bad thing, that you're
allowed to have feelings like that. I don't know, what
do you do? You know of anybody who speaks that
that extreme, you know, in terms of anything in their lives.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Oh, I would say anything. I know. I've heard people
in desperate moments say something and then you just look
at them like, oh, come on, you know you got
rethink that thought. People do get to a moment. But
as you were saying, it seems more normalized now. It's
not shocking when somebody says it anymore. Look what having
(22:09):
some words like and I'm not even going to say
things like that come out of your mouth. You're nout
the president of the United States. I don't care if
you hate them you love them, doesn't air.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Not even about politics. I don't care where you stand politically.
Life is life. Life is precious, you know. Look from
the religious perspective, and I and there are people who
have every opinion on this. So again I'm not pushing
one perspective or another. I'm just saying that from the
religious perspective, you'd say all life is sacred. And I've
heard I have a friend of mine who's a priest
who says that this all started, you know when when
we started this, back when when abortion became legalizing. Hey,
(22:39):
I'm not taking a side on abortion one way or
the other, folks, so please don't don't yell at me.
I'm not trying to hit that third rail. But my
friend father, Michelle's name is, he's from Canada. It's a
French Canadian Michelle. He said that, you know that wherever
you stand on abortion, it's in his view that it
cheapened life because now it became an argument of my body,
(23:02):
my choice forgetting entirely that there is also still a
life in there and you could still believe in there
being a life in there and still having the choice,
And that was his point, and he feels that that's
where it started. And then there are people on the
left who say, oh, really, will you people on the
right for the death penalty, so you cheapen life. So look,
it goes both ways. It's you know, both sides can
(23:22):
be accused of hypocrisy. You know when it comes to that.
Did that launch the idea of cheapening of life? I
don't know. You know, throughout history humans have have had
moments where they've not treated each other very nicely, going
back to barbarian times and through every time of war
to the present. But the idea that now we're in
a quote unquote civilized time, food is in abundance for
(23:46):
at least our country. Look, the most you have to
worry about is who you're going to vote for in
the next election. So the idea that you would hate
someone so much, no matter who they are, again to
the point of wanting death, is very frightening.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
And do you see this turning around? How can it
turn around?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
I think people have got to be taught the value
of life again, you know, and it doesn't have to
be done from a religious perspective, but I think people
have to understand when you're young, you think you'll live forever,
and you don't mind saying that person should die, that
person should die because you think you're going to live forever.
If taught the reality that life is precious and way
too short. Maybe that'll be different.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
If that made me just think there's a new subway.
Surfing has been a big problem here in the city.
Kids have lost their lives jumping on top of trains, thinking, oh,
this is going to be funny. I'm going to once
again capture a moment for TikTok on this. And they
have a new program out where they're trying to get
kids to write the own campaigns to encourage other kids
(24:43):
not to do this.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Great idea.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Isn't that a great idea because once again here is
a twelve thirteen year old who has no sense of
their mortality.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Right, you think you'll live forever. You never think you
never even probably broken arm or he broke a fingernail,
So you don't even know the pain and what a
family goes through at losing a loved one. So seven
ten woor let us know what you have to say
about that, or again, use the iHeartRadio talkback features on
the iHeartRadio app. Go to seven ten wor click on
(25:16):
the little red microphone. Our time now is six forty
six and Trump asserts nations are quote his quote kissing
my ass in fact, yes, for proof you could you
could hear it with him.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
And don't let some of these politists go around said,
you know, because I'm telling you, these countries are calling
us up, kissing my ass.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
They are, they are.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Dying to make it to you. Please please make it you.
I'll do anything. I'll do anything, sir.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
And that is about the tariffs and negotiating tariffs. So
what is behind this bold claim. We're going to talk
about it when we come back. And it is iHeartRadio
week only on Wheel of Fortune tonight, you at home
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(26:06):
of Fortune tonight at seven thirty on Channel seven. And
a very good Wednesday morning too. It's six fifty three.
Just looking at the doubt futures right now, there's still
down three hundred and seventy four points. We'll see what happens.
At nine thirty this morning, the world markets were all
kind of all over the place, so you know, people
are still a little rattled. And President Trump yesterday talked
a lot of tariffs. In fact, he did talk about
(26:26):
the fact once again that some seventy countries have come
knocking at the door of the White House wanting to negotiate.
To use the term, the leaders of the countries, they're
kicking kissing my ass, mister President. We want to negotiate tariffs.
So look again, we'll see what happens. Many in the
know in the financial world was saying, all right, put
your money where your mouth is, let's see it happen.
(26:47):
I think even some of the editorials we've read in
like the New York Post said, look, miss President, come forward,
negotiate something with some of the big the big countries
or the continents, like the European Union. Make a deal,
get a good deal now, and then start the ball
rolling and you'll see that there will be some calmness
(27:07):
in the market, and you'll see things get back to normal.
But right now you have a lot of folks who
lost a lot of money. And we're not just talking
about greed here. We're talking about older people who have
their retirement funds, younger couples saving for college funds for
their kids. So very important there, very very important. So
there are apparently seventy countries wanting to talk. It is
six p. Fifty four, It's seven to ten wor Henrazata
(27:30):
in for Larry this morning, and somebody's on the phone
from my childhood Maddie. Is this Maddie from neuroschell.
Speaker 7 (27:39):
Hello there, Ken living in Fairfield, Connecticut. Ken, you may
need to work on your mimic of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I'm sorry. I'm not good at that. I confess I don't.
I don't pretend to be a good impersonator, but it
is what it is. So Maddie used to be used
to live next door to my mother's sister in you Rochelle,
and so I knew Mattie from when I was a
little kid. And so it's nice that you're listening to
seven ten w R. You were at the train station
(28:07):
this morning.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
It hurt us, Yes, I was. I listened to Mark
in the morning. It was the morning station and there
you were, and I said, I have to talk to Ken.
I haven't spoken to him in a long time.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
And by Mark, you me and Mark Simone. For those saying,
wait a minute, you mean Larry, it's Mark Simone. You're listening.
Mark is a good friend too. I get to fill
in for him. Well, Maddie, we're tight on time, but
thank you so much for calling my love to the family. Please,
oh listen, your.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
Aunts and your dad, your mom. Hope if they're all listening,
HI to them too, My love to everybody.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
If they're not, I'll be very upset. Thank you so much,
Maddie Man, have a great day. I appreciate you bring fun.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
To ask them what kind of kid you were?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
But okay, chubby, I I really was.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
I was.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I was the only one in the family who was chubby,
and I was sort of introverted because of that. And
then when I got to high school, I think, you know,
when you when you are obsessed with your weight, you
try to go the other way, and so I became
very extroverted to try to cut people off of the
past so they couldn't say anything to me. But no
one ever made fun of me because I was the
tallest kid in school six with three Wow, six with
(29:11):
three in high school?
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Well not now you know I have since I have
compressed discs in my back, I'm like barely six one
two inches two inches over forty years.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
If I lost two inches, i'd be under five. But
you know what, I haven't measured myself in a while.
It could be happening.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Hey, we got some people on the phone lines. Not
a happy subject here. We were talking about the kind
of the murder culture that that's been going on, people
who have lost respect for life, and these are people,
you know. We talked about the Luigi Mangioni and the
assassination of the of the healthcare CEO, and these are
what people are having to say in our talk back feature.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
I'm a tofoic school teacher in New Jersey. I've had
colleagues come into work wishing that the assassination attempt had
worked in helping help the others. It's very shocking and.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Set an assassination attempt. She means about with President Trump,
and this is crazy. This is a study that was
just released that showed that fifty five percent of Democrats
and we're not talking about the fringe, fringe left, fifty
five percent out of some twelve hundred plus Democrats who
are surveyed say that they have a fair desire or
(30:23):
a strong desire that President Trump and Elon Musk be assassinated.
That is shocking.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Fifty percent. I can't believe anybody would actually admit it, right,
even if they felt it, So you imagine what the
number really must be.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I don't even want to think about it. And somebody
else called in about the or used the talkback fature
about the violent mindset.
Speaker 8 (30:44):
You're looking too deeply. Just turn on any streaming TV
in which somebody walks over to somebody else, puts a
gun to their head and just shoots them in the head.
Sure it makes some good TV, but it sets the
mind set in our youth that that's cool, that's okay,
that kind of behavior is perfectly acceptable in the society.
(31:08):
And so then when it comes down to it, if
they get in with the wrong crowd, life has no value.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
That is so sad and true to some extent. You know,
for years we've kind of pushed shot it off and
it's just TV, it's fake. But no, if this is
all you shur around yourself with that kind of culture
of death, you lose a certain amount of respect for life.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah, And we've talked about that for years about video
games as well, because I mean that's interactive, and you know,
kids are just sitting there and I feel so old
saying it, but I never allowed those in my house.
One time, my son somehow ordered a game. It was
my fault. I didn't really look into it to see
(31:47):
what it was. It showed up and I was like, oh,
absolutely not. He already had it in. I took it away.
He's like, but we're not going to get our money back.
I'm like, I do not care.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Some things are morals are more important there, all right?
Seven ten WI we want to hear what you have
to say about Use the talk fact feature. You can
go to the iHeartRadio app, use the seven to ten
wor site and go up to the little red microphone
on the top and tell us what you think. The
AP was banned from the White House for refusing to
use the term Gulf of America. Now a judge has
(32:18):
ruled this is unconstitutional for viewpoint discrimination. We'll discuss this
with ABC Stephen Portnoy. That's coming up after the seven
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