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December 5, 2025 • 15 mins
Ken Rosato fills in for Mark Simone. Ken highlights a new survey from The New York Times detailing the caffeine content in various coffee and tea brands. He also discusses reports of mysterious flashes of light observed on the moon, sparking speculation and curiosity among scientists and the public alike.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten woor filling
in for Mark. Here's Ken Rosada. Oh so good to
be with you. It is a Friday, isn't that nice?
I said this last time I was here too, and
just to I think it bears reminding everybody. Mark has
to deal with everybody Monday through Thursday. You know, Monday,
everybody's are like God, it's Monday, Tuesday. They're tired from

(00:23):
Monday Wednesday. There halfway through the week. They can't wait Thursday.
There's some anticipation. Then Uncle Ken comes in on Friday,
kind of like the grandpa who gets the baby after
mommy and Daddy has changed the diaper, and I get
to play with everybody and have a good time. So
I thank you to the Great Mark Simone and to
the good folks at iHeartRadio in War for letting me
come in. It is an honor to sit in the

(00:44):
seat of the person who I regard as one of
my heroes. I listen to this show every single day,
so I am one of you all. I am one
of the big fans of the Great Mark Simone. Anyway,
it is good to be here for those who are wondering.
I know that named Ken Rosotta from I used to
work at Channel seven. I was with Eyewitness News there

(01:04):
for twenty years. Very proud to be there. I'm not
there anymore, but I used to be. I was there
from what two thousand and three to twenty twenty three.
I did the morning show, and for a good chunk
of that time, I also anchored the noon show, and
I was with the great Lori Stokes and remember Bill Evans,
all those great folks. We did that. A lot of

(01:24):
good times there and then I was even a Channel
five before that. These days, I host a daily show
on a New Jersey based news channel called on New Jersey.
We hope you check us out sometime. You can stream
it ANYWHERENNJ dot comnenj dot com on New Jersey. I
also run a food website for all you foodies. It's

(01:45):
called Thefooddude dot Us. Thefooddude dot Us lots of free
recipes there, so check that out too. A lot to
talk about on this busy newsweek. My gosh, did a
lot happened this week? One of the things I read
which drives me crazy because I am a big coffee
hal like, I don't have any other vices all right.

(02:06):
I've never done a drug in my life, an illegal one,
at least I've never done one. I don't smoke cigarettes.
I don't even drink alcohol because I have a heart issue.
I have atrial fibrillation, so I'm not supposed to drink alcohol.
So you know, I admit, you're not supposed to drink
caffeine either with atrial fibrillation. But I do just a little. Now.
There's a survey here, a study actually, that says it's

(02:28):
never been a better time to quit caffeine. And this
I believe was in the New York Times that says
the cafes across the US are embracing the low and
no caffeine lifestyle with options that are a far cry
from dusty tea bags and rewarmed cafe. Well, yeah, I
will say that that's true. You go to a lot
of places and they have the machas and all these

(02:49):
other things. Just double check to make sure that the
calorie count isn't through the roof. All these coffee places
or traditional coffee places, if you haven't noticed, are now
offering all these alternatives to coffee teas and different mixed
drinks and flavor drinks. But if you read the fine print.
A lot of these things are like six hundred galleries
apiece and a lot of sugars in there, So you

(03:12):
may not get caffeine, but you got a lot of
other stuff. But this study goes on to say how
it's better for you to try to wean yourself off
of caffeine, and this is the time to do it.
I don't know, what do you think about it? Eight
hundred three to two one zero seven ten. Eight hundred three
to two one zero seven ten. You gotta have some

(03:32):
kind of ice in life, right, Why not a little caffeine?
The Clintons, Yes, Hillary and Bill. After Congress released tens
of thousands of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, House Oversite
chair James Comer more in that former President Bill Clinton
and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could face legal
repercussions because apparently they didn't want to go and testify

(03:56):
in front of Congress. And remember what happened when buy
and was president and some of the former Trump people
didn't testify. Yeah, they had FBI agents with CNN Live
knocking down their doors, raiding their homes, going through their
personal items, and arresting them. Let's see if the same
thing happens the other way, if there is the double

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standard or not. Because if you're called to testify before
Congress and you evade that, good luck with that. So
this is in connection with Epstein. You know, before we
found out that that Trump had zero connection now with Epstein,
and before all the files were released, et cetera, all
we heard for about a week or two from the
Democrats was release the files, release the files, trip us

(04:40):
something to hide. Well, now that everything's released, have you
heard anything about Epstein? Cricket? Cricket, cricket? That's the Democrats? Now,
why Because now we're finding out there a lot of
connections on the left with Epstein. We kind of knew
that all along. Listen, here's proof of the pudden for
the four years that Biden was in charge of everything.

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Do you think for a second, when they had full
charge of all the Epstein files, if there was anything
in there that was derogatory toward Trump? Don't you think
during that four year period that's all you would have heard,
Especially when Trump announced he was running for election again,
that would have been the first thing that was brought out.
But no, you didn't hear anything then, and they had

(05:22):
access themselves to everything. So that's why now you're not
hearing anything. Why because people like the Clintons are being
called and look, we're innocent till proven guilty. So I
want to make sure I say that clearly. But the
fact that we have all these Democrats now going to
be hauled before Congress to be talked to, you know,
let's see, let's see if they get the same treatment
that Steve Bannon got or that Peter Navarro got. Remember

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they had their doors knocked down in the middle of
the night, curious to see what happens. Seven ten wore
the Voice of New York. This is Ken Rozotto, Inframark
on your Friday. The Supreme Court has allowed Texas to
use their redistricting map that was challenged initially as racially discriminatory.
So the Supreme Court yesterday gave the green light to

(06:07):
Texas's efforts to use that new congressional map. Here's what
I find interesting. When the folks in Texas, rather they
duly voted in with their state House and state Senate
a new districting map in the state right, you had
people on the left screaming, bloody murder. California does so

(06:32):
specifically to eliminate any ability for people on the right
to have a say. So. Now, out of like forty
five Congress seats or fifty Congress seats in California, with
the redistricting, Republicans will be lucky to have maybe three
or four, and they represent forty to forty five percent
of the state's electorate. They're not going to have any
say yet. Have you heard anybody challenging California not a word?

(06:56):
Not a word. And the districting that they had before,
the re district thing that just happened was voted in
by the state. The people actually voted it in by
popular referendum, and it got overturned with another popular referendum.
But the point is it wasn't that it wasn't like
executive fiat that created the district before or the districts.

(07:17):
It was a popular referendum. You didn't hear a word
when it got overturned. Why because more Democrat districts were
being formed. But now you have a predominantly red state. Texas.
They did it with the state legislature through a means
that they can do so legally, and it legally passed

(07:37):
redistricting plan and it may give the Republicans three, four
or five more seats, but it may not. Yeah, the
people still have to say they get to vote, so
it may or may not give a few more seats
to the Republicans. But yet, of course Texas gets challenged. Well,
the Supreme Court rightfully so said shut up, sit down,
stay in your lane. I'm just talking to Fox News

(07:59):
legal consultant Greg Jarrett a little while ago, and we
talked about these US Circuit Court and district judges not
staying in their lanes. And they literally are just like
pebbles under or in your shoe. Rather you step down,
you feel that little pebble. They're annoying. They slow things
down for a few weeks, and then it gets fast
tracked to the US Supreme Court and overturned. But at

(08:20):
some point, I think the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,
Justice Roberts, needs to tell the US district judges, hey,
stay in your lane, mind your business, stop doing this.
We're going to keep slapping you. Seven ten w R.
The Voice of New York. Apparently, the Afghan terrorist who
was arrested just miles from DC came in under Biden.

(08:42):
His name is John shah Safi allegedly he was an
unvetted Afghan national who provided support to the Islamic State
of Iraq and Syria Korasan isis K as it is known.
He allegedly also provided weapons to his father, who's a
commander of a militia group in Afghanistan. So this is
a potential national security mess. And again because this is

(09:06):
from the Department of hall Land Security, by the way
this memo is put out, it'd be interesting to see
if anything gets done with that, if they get investigated,
they being the former officials with the Biden administration. But
once again another example illustrating what happened when we had
an open borders policy. No, we're not talking about oh Dan,
you are anti Hispanic. Well, I don't think that name

(09:27):
is Hispanic. Doesn't sound Hispanic to me. Yan Shah Safi
is not exactly Hispanic. So we're talking about people who
from every country on the planet just happened to use
Mexico to come through because the border between the US
and Mexico was wide open, so anybody from anywhere, including
remember the Chinese nationals were streaming in by San Diego

(09:49):
the border with San Diego and Mexico. So people came
from all over the world because the Biden administration wanted
them to. They put out the memo to the universe,
come on in, here's your big chance. You come in.
Even if we catch you in air quotes, we'll let
you go and you could get lost in the US
and become a citizen eventually and nobody will care. And

(10:11):
that's exactly what happened. Now we have the mess that
we have. Even if out of the ten to fifteen
or twenty million people who were here illegally, you might
have three four five thousand bad guys and all the
rest might be the nicest people in the world. The
problem is now you don't know because nobody got vetted.
And how do you even vet somebody who comes from
a country that is not our friend? They're not going

(10:33):
to volunteer that. Oh, you guys got some of the
bad guys we let out of prison. No, I don't
think Venezuela is going to do that. For instance, seven
ten wor the Voice of New York give us a call.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten eight hundred
three to two one zero seven ten. This is Ken
Rosatto Win on the Mark Simone Show. On your Friday,
eleven seventeen. By the way, in terms of weather, any

(10:56):
morning sun is going to cloud over a little bit later.
It's going to be very, very very cold today. Highs
only in the upper twenties. This is really the day
to wear hat, gloves, et cetera. Tomorrow and Sunday more
clouds than sun. Highs only in the upper thirties. So
the cold is here and we're still only in fall,
not winter. So seven ten wor the Voice of New

(11:18):
York check this out. There have been flashes of light
on the Moon suggesting there might be somebody up there
doing work and we don't know about it. So there
have been experts looking into this. You can go on
go on x or YouTube and see it just you know,
or do a Google search flashes of light on the
Moon and you'll see the video I'm talking about. It

(11:39):
looks like a reflector of some sort. Now some have
suggested maybe it's just a shiny piece of rock and
the sun was hitting it at a certain point. But
then someone else pointed out, no, this is on the
dark side of the moon. It couldn't be sun. How
did this happen? So it's going to be kind of
interesting to see if we do any further research. For
all we know, it could be US doing something top
secret up there, or it could any one of the

(12:02):
other countries who may have sent something up there. But
I would think if somebody sent a ship to the Moon,
we would know about it, right or at least I
hope we do. But according to NASA, what does it
say here? It says this was originally captured by an
astronomer in Japan who caught these bright flashes back on
October thirtieth, revealing a large round dot briefly illuminating the

(12:26):
Moon's surface before disappearing. It was two flashes. They were
two days apart, so that's interesting. One of them lasted
a few seconds. So check it out. Go online see
what I'm talking about it. It's kind of creepy. Wonder
if maybe somebody's up there living and just fail to
tell us. Sevin wor also a NASA and the ESA

(12:46):
that's the European Space Agency have declared that this lifeless comet,
that's what they keep calling it, that is headed our
way apparently keeps giving some kind of a heartbeat, like
as it's spinning. You know, a comet not only goes
forward but also spins. It's like imagine an Earth spinning

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that's also moving forward. And the white stuff you see
coming off is for the most part vapor and dust
that comes off as the comet is moving forward. Well,
apparently the comet appears to be giving off what looks
like a heart beat, and some experts are saying, well,
that's just because it's spinning, and as it spins, you
see this heartbeat, but it's beating at a strange rhythm,

(13:29):
like it's not beating boom boom boom, it's beating boom
boom like our heart boom boom. Well, how does that happen?
So this has been a weird comet headed our way.
We caught it about under a year ago as it
started heading our way, and it's still headed toward Earth,
although the experts say it's not going to come that close,

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but from an astronomical point of view, it is pretty close.
So we'll see what happens with that. And then finally,
have you heard about this? Being that it's Christmas time
in the city. Jackie Vernon, the voice of Frosty the Snowman,
Well he must have been a jolly happy soul prior
to getting married to his last wife here Hazel Sawyer

(14:09):
because according to a son. His son David, said that
in a podcast recently, the dad had apparently several families,
at least three before he married his present wife and
never told anybody. So imagine, I mean, I think about
how exhausting that is. One family's enough. Imagine having three
secret families, never telling anybody about any of the families.

(14:31):
Of course, this was the day before cell phones and
the internet and rumors like that. But next time you
hear Frosty the Snowman's voice, think about that hop happy,
jolly soul and the life that he led, Jackie Vernon
and that, according to his son David, all right seven
to ten wor the Voice of New York, we'd love
to hear what you have to say and what's going

(14:52):
on in your holiday season? Are you all prepared for
the holidays yet, because I haven't even started. We'd love
to hear where you are in the whole scheme of things.
Eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten. Eight
hundred three two one zero seven ten. Coming up just
a little bit, we'll speak with healthy living expert Paul
Fulford about the overuse of weight loss drugs seven ten

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wr to eleven twenty. We're coming right back with your calls.
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