FULL SHOW: Dressing more casually at the airport; Black Friday shopping.

Ken Rosato fills in for Mark Simone. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy suggests that more casual attire at airports could foster greater mutual respect among passengers. Many agree with his viewpoint. Ken interviews Financial Strategist Ron Glasnow. Ron discusses how consumers are preparing for Black Friday for shopping amid rising holiday prices. He shares practical budgeting strategies, such as setting strict budgets and focusing on essential purchases. In addition, tariffs being part of the economic policies are adding to consumer uncertainty. Both Ken and Ron emphasize the importance of patience in the coming months as the longer-term effects on consumers and the market unfold. Ken addresses whether NY AG Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey are truly “off the hook” after charges against them were dismissed without prejudice and explains the meaning of this legal term. A new Rutgers University climate study projects that New Jersey could face a 3.8-foot sea level rise, raising flood risk concerns for the state. Ken interviews NJ Republican Congressional candidate Billy Prempeh. Billy breaks down the state’s response to ICE raids. Their conversation covers potential safety concerns for residents and whether a change in the state senate could reverse what Ken and Prempeh call symbolic and misguided municipal policies.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten woor filling
in for Mark, here's Ken Rosatto.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Oh Man Oman the day before the big feast. Mark
is off at a long weekend. Good for him. Former
New York City TV news anchor Ken Rosato reporting for duty.
And you'll probably best remember me. I did twenty years,
twenty years having a great time anchoring the Morning Show
Channel seven here in New York. Before that, I was
on the Morning Show Channel five. And these days I

(00:28):
host a daily show on a New Jersey based news channel.
It's called on New Jersey ONANJ dot com. You could
stream it live anywhere in the country. It's New Jersey focus,
but it has all the tri state stuff TOONJ dot com.
I'm on every day there, and I run a food
website for all you foodies called the Food Dude. Thefooddude

(00:51):
dot us check it out. Hundreds of free recipes that
I put on there, in thousands or hundreds of thousands
actually from all over the world. And we've got a
lot to talk about today. But being this is the
day before Thanks to Giving, I'm not only a guy
who does news and politics but also food. Because of
the Food Dude, so feel free to talk Thanksgiving. We
don't have to keep this a hardcore political show. I

(01:13):
know Marcus like saying, Ken, keep it on, keep it on, politics, Mark, Mark,
you enjoy your day off. I'm going to welcome in
some calls about Thanksgiving, turkey, stresses around the holiday table,
politics and family. Whatever you want, open it up here.
Eight hundred and three two one zero seven ten. Do
you have a cool recipe you want to share, because

(01:33):
I'm going to talk about them. We want to hear
about it. What about your family traditions at Thanksgiving? Do
you always just have a turkey or do you have
a turkey and something else or something instead of a turkey?
You know, being an Italian American, we always have you
have to have lasagna. It's just lasagna is a man
made turkey. Okay, it's sort of constructed frank in parts

(01:56):
and then you get a lasagna. So but we always
have a you know, you have alasagna, then you have
the turkey if you have room for turkey. But tell
us what you think and what your family tradition is.
I know a lot of folks do mac and cheese.
We heard that earlier on MENTI in the Morning. Eight
hundred and three to two one zero seven ten. Well
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy ticked off some people while getting

(02:18):
cheers from a lot of others, including me. Don't know
if you heard him, but he asked people to consider
dressing a little more appropriately when taking flights.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly.
You know, I see people getting on the airplanes. They're
having a hard time taking their luggage and getting in
in the oversize or the above band. Help people out,
be nice, be courteous, and so we want to push
people as we come into a really bad busy travel season,
help people out, be in a good mood, dress up,

(02:49):
bring civility back to travel, and I think everyone's experience
is going to be that much better.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
And he's right. I fly every couple of weeks because
I live equally between New Jersey and Fort Lauderdale, and
I go back and forth, and depending on the time
of my flight, I cannot tell you how many people
I see boarding the plane looking like they literally rolled
out of bed and intend to go back to bed
when they got on the flight. Dirty hoodies, dirty sweats,

(03:18):
They literally look half asleep. Their hair is a mess,
maybe they didn't brush your teeth. I know, I'm sorry
to be gross. Like I usually catch the first fly
out flight out from a Newark Airport, and so it is.
You know, it's possible people rolled out of bed at
three am, they got their at five am for the
first flight, and they didn't brush your teeth or whatever.
It's gross. It's gross you were in public around other people.

(03:39):
But I know the attitude today from so many is
I don't care what people think. Okay, it's not about that.
Have a little self pride. How about that. You want
to be seen looking disgusting and having people kind of
it's just nasty. I've seen people the minute they get
on the plane, they get down to their socks or
bare feet. That grosses me out because then they walk

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to the to the lavatory barefooted. You know, when you
walk into a bathroom on a plane, it's all sticky
with urine that splashes, and it's nasty. You want your
bare feet to touch that. I've watched them sit on
their bare feet where they get especially young ladies, they
kind of sit on their feet on their chair, on
their seat, and so they got their bare feet and

(04:21):
they're touching their bare feet. I'm sorry to be on
the foot thing, but it's like now you're going to
touch other things and shake people's hands and stuff. No, no,
learn a little, learn a little decorum. And then the
grossest was about six months ago when I saw this guy,
not kidding, clipping toenails in their seats. I know, I'm
is he Your engineers looking at me like, shut up,

(04:42):
ors out of change it, change it. I'm telling you
it's nasty. I've seen people change their baby diapers on
the pull down table. That's where someone's going to put
their food the next flight. So all I'm saying is
like Sean Duffy said, and he didn't get into this
gross detail, try to act more civilized. That's all just
a little more so liized in society. Think of other people.
Would you like to sit down at a seat where

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somebody else had their bare feet? So then don't do it.
To the next guy, call and share. Maybe you have
a nicer story than that. Eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten. This is seven ten w R. The
Voice of New York Ken Rosotto Infra Mark. Well, I'm
sure you heard by now about US District Judge Cameron
McCowan Curry, the radical leftist activist Biden appointee who threw

(05:28):
out the James Comy and Letitia James indictments. Her argument
was that the prosecutor was no longer legally in power
as a prosecutor, so the cases had to be dismissed
on a technicality. So immediately tiss James and James Comy
took victory laps. All arrogant and the ms now types,
all the liberals with the with the you know, the

(05:51):
ear rings through their nose and the pink hair looking
like five hundred pounds like they're on their last breath.
Maybe they maybe they should rethink their joy because the
cases were dismissed without prejudice. Listen to the law professor
Jonathan Turley, listened to what he had to say.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
Letitia James took a bit of a victory lap after
this decision, and I think she missed the two words
that followed dismissal. And there was dismissal without prejudice. So
the Trump administration, even if they lose on appeal, could
seek out a new indictment. This is not over for James,
or call me. The judge specifically said, I am not

(06:35):
going to grant your motion to dismiss with prejudice. I'm
going to allow them to cure this problem.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
So what that means is it's going to take time,
but the government's going to come back after them. If
call me and James want to ensure the charges will
be refiled, keep gloating, keep gloating. That will ensure that
you will go back to court and next time every
I will be dotted and T will be crossed. So
the Trump administration plans to first appeal the activist judges

(07:03):
decision to the Fourth US Circuit Court of Appeals that's
in Richmond, Virginia. That used to be considered kind of
a conservative stalwart court, but in recent years it shifted
a little more left. So they have a shot at that.
If that doesn't work, they will refile the charges and
this time they'll do it with a different prosecutor and
it will go through because the case is Look, you're

(07:25):
innocent until proven guilty. But certainly the case against Letitia James.
You have documents that she signed that it was unquestionable.
I mean Mark was talking about this yesterday. I heard
him talking about it yesterday. You signed a document that
says you live full time in a residence in Virginia,
and that gives you a lower interest rate on your mortgage.

(07:45):
That's a federal crime. And you get a lower insurance rate,
and you get lower taxes from the local municipality in
the state. So now you are lying to three institutions
using a federal instrument, and you are the Attorney General
of the state of New York. You're not just some
average schmo. So you know how to read a contract? Okay,

(08:07):
how do you defend yourself against that? And on top
of that, to become the Attorney General of New York
you have to live in New York. So how could
you have Virginia as not a residence but your primary residence?
So I'd like to hear you know. Instead, what Letitia
James immediately does is says, this is a Republican trick
and a conspiracy. No, just answer the question did you

(08:29):
sign that document? And if you did so, why, and
then how about the other documents at the other houses.
She has all the other houses she allegedly did the
same thing in So you have to scratch your head
and say, you are the attorney general at the very
least you should you should be out on a level
playing field with everybody else. She's trying to be above
the law here. And remember the Democrats kept saying about Trump.

(08:49):
No one is above the law. Seven ten wr the
Voice of New York. This is Ken Risotto in for
the wonderful Mark Simone and joining his day off. And
in New Jersey, my beloved state of New Jersey. New
Jersey lawmakers have introduced a bill that would ban ice
agents and other law enforcement who interact with the public

(09:10):
from wearing masks or what they call disguises. The bill
would still allow undercover officers and those wearing shields and
don't cover their faces. If the shields don't cover their
faces or medical masks that's permitted. Violators could face fines
of up to one thousand dollars and they could get
up to six months in jail. Senator Benji Wimberley, I

(09:32):
love it. Listen, don't name your kid Benji, because your
kid's going to grow up to be an adult male.
And how would you like to be fifty five years old?
And people say, hey, Benji, it's just not an adult name.
Just think about that, you know, I'm just saying, but
Senator Benji Wimberly said that he's concerned that masked officers
might intimidate immigrant communities, and he said that criminals could

(09:53):
impersonate ICE agents. Okay, really, then here's what I would
say to the ICE ICE senior officers. Tell everybody that
the officers are wearing medical masks, and in that case,
then you can't say that they're violating local law. But
more important than that, technically, because these are not technically

(10:16):
in actuality, because they are federal agents. And we have
something called the supremacy Clause in the Constitution. The state
or local governments can enact all the laws they want.
They do not apply to a federal agent. As long
as a federal agent is following the orders and following
federal law, you can pass all the local laws you want.
And if you try to touch that ICE agent, you

(10:38):
will have your ass holed into jail yourself. So I
guarantee I know a lot of New Jersey State Police officers,
I mean a lot, and they would not follow that order.
You know how, the little cadra of elected officials put
out that internet meme in the last week saying if
you are a member of the military, you do not

(10:59):
have to follow illegal orders. Well, I say the same
thing now to the New Jersey State Police, and I
don't have to because they're well aware of it. If
New Jersey's legislature, which is all far left, radical leftist liberals,
if they enact a passive bill and the governor, the
new governor, Governor Mikey, if they sign that into law

(11:20):
and it says that you must arrest an ice agent
wearing a mask, I guarantee those state police will say no, no,
you go ahead and arrest them yourself. Senator, I'm not
going to arrest them because they know that under the
supremacy Clause of the Constitution, you, as a state police
officer in New Jersey, could be hauled up against the
wall and have your butt cuffed and taken to federal

(11:42):
prison if you try to stop a federal agent from
doing their job. Just a fact. If you doubt me,
or if you have an alternate opinion, try and debate it.
Go ahead, and I'll cite you the Constitution. In fact,
let's just do it right now, save you the time. Okay.
It's a direct violation of Article six, paragraph two US Constitution,
which has quote a state or municipality cannot pass a

(12:04):
law that interferes with the execution of federal law or
the duties of federal agents. So maybe the good state
senators missed that day in school in New Jersey. In
our eleven o'clock hour, we will speak to congressional candidate
Billy Prempe, he is a Republican running for Congress in
New Jersey's ninth congressional district, about the foolishness of states

(12:26):
or local municipalities trying to pass what are obviously symbolic
laws that cannot be enforced. Seven ten wore the Voice
of New York Ken Rosanto in from Mark the day
before Thanks to Giving. Oh man, do I love Thanksgiving?
By the way, here, I remember I told you I
was going to talk about food. For a second, I
talk about food. I used to work with the beautiful

(12:49):
and awesome Laurie Stokes at Channel seven. Remember Laurie. She is,
by the way, off air, as nice and as beautiful
as on air. She's one of my closest friends in
the world. And Laurie is the type person if I
don't talk to her in a year, which isn't the case,
but if I don't talk to her in a year,
and then I talk to her, it's like we've been

(13:10):
talking every day. Just a great lady. She is also
one of the best darn cooks you'll ever encounter. The
food of if you ever find yourself in that situation,
it's delicious. She taught me a recipe for stuffing that
kicks a button. I'm gonna talk about it through the
show a little bit, but I got to share that.
In fact, it was on my show that I do
in New Jersey. We taped it yesterday so I could

(13:32):
put it on the air and still come here. But
the key is layers of flavor, and Laurie takes She
takes three types of breads. She would take like rye
bread sour dough, and like a whole grain chunk type
it in type, cut it into chunks, toasted off with
herbs like fresh stage tons of fresh rosemary and a

(13:55):
little melted butter. Toasts that in the oven and then
put that in a bowl and add to that some
sauteed onions with garlic, a splash of a stock that's reduced,
and then bake that off in the oven with more
butter and more herbs. I'm telling you it's crazy, But
what she does is instead of adding sausage. She takes
dark meat like chicken thigh meat and shreds that and

(14:17):
puts that in. Because you're in the poultry theme, you
roast that off in the oven, or bake that off
in the oven and serve that. I'm telling you it's
the best darned stuffing. Somebody wants more, a more detailed recipe,
you could reach out to me on Instagram, find my
Instagram account Ken Rosotto on Instagram there and you'll you'll
see that. Or on Facebook. I'm Ken Rosotto on Facebook too,

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and I will give you this specific recipe. But it
is good. Seven ten w o R the Voice of
New York Again. It's Ken Rosotto in for Mark on
your Wednesday ten twenty is our time right now and
again when we come up come back in just a moment.
We want to take your calls. It's eight hundred three
to two one zero seven ten eight hundred three to
two one zero seven for seven to ten WR.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
This is the Mark Simone Show on seven ten WR.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Ken from today, Here's Ken Rosatto, had a very good Wednesday.
The day before. We go straight to our busy phones
and here's the man who sets off my holiday perfectly
Vincent from Brooklyn.

Speaker 5 (15:19):
Good morning, Vincent, Good morning Ken and bonifesta do ringraciamento day.
Hey on a tour for me.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Thank you and you's a for translation. Happy Thanksgiving to
you and your family. Thank you and.

Speaker 5 (15:32):
Santis exactly Ken. Ken. Also, they didn't even I don't
know if they filed the case in New York against
Latisha James. But she has a five family house here
and she listed in the fourth family house and that
goes against the rules of building registration, which she just
had to, like I had to fill out and have

(15:54):
submitted by the end of August. Now coming up next
week is the bedbug registration. You have to submit that
your apartments either did and you had the problem fixed
or never did have bad bugs, and you have to
sign that doc. You have to go online and electronically

(16:15):
signed that document and resubmitted to the city. That's next week.
So she's on. She could get her easily in trouble
in New York if yeah decide to pursue it.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Is and also in Massachusetts, remember she has another one
in Massachusetts. She's got homes all over the place, and
I think that's listed as a second home. You could
do that as a second home. That's okay, But I
think in Massachusetts she may and this is I don't
know for sure, but I believe she was renting that out.
Now the question is did she pay her income tax?
She may have, I don't know. I'm asking did she

(16:49):
pay her income tax on rent from that home or
did she list it just as a second home for herself?
But she is allegedly renting that out. So there are
a lot of questions here. And if you're going to
be the chief law enforcement officer of this, say to
New York, you better follow the law yourself exactly.

Speaker 5 (17:03):
And there's I don't know how you get around here
in New York. How you get around, say in an
apartment on the building only has four units when it
has five. Because also when you fill out your insurance,
when you have to buy your insurance, whether you buy
it every year or every three years like some people do,

(17:25):
because if you buy it all at once for three years,
you got to get a break on the rate because
you got to pay up all at once. You still
have to put down And she also be maybe liable.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
For insurance, right because if you say that it's your
personal residence as opposed to a residence you're renting out.
You get different rates, and you also pay different rates
in taxes in some communities. So no that.

Speaker 5 (17:47):
But here's the thing. Can you also you're lying because
it has four units and it has five units, and
you're telling the insurance company it has four So there's
a a liability on you on their pot because it
has five units, and you're lessening the liability by life

(18:07):
it's say hated as.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
There's no question. Look, there's no question. There was some
some dancing around fact. The issue is she's she's going
to try to make the argument. I'm sure that it
was the attorney that did this. But you are the
attorney general. You are an attorney, so you should know better.
You should double and triple check anything before you sign it.
If you're going to be in public office.

Speaker 5 (18:30):
Ken. On all of the building registrations, it says, are
you an agent for the landlord? Meanwhile you a rental
agent like a big real estate company, right, and if
you are, you still have to have the landlord sign
the official document.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Hey Ben, get out of it. If you did it,
you would be in jail in a heart right now.
You would be we'd be calling you, and you'd be
as a hey, I only got two more minutes left
in two quarters. That's that's what would be the case.
So you know that we would be treated quite differently.

Speaker 6 (19:03):
Unfortunately, also she has the legal slush fund here that
Kathy Hkal set up for of ten million dollars that
she could tap into, which we would never have the
advantage of something like that.

Speaker 5 (19:15):
And unfortunately all of us New Yorkers are on the
hook for her, for her bill.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
That's why I live in New Jersey. Vincent, you are
the best, my friend. Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you are.
Do you By the way, I gotta quickly ask, do
you guys do a pasta with your turkey?

Speaker 5 (19:30):
No? Just only when my grandfather used to come home,
because he would he would he would do we'd have
a lesignia and turkey. No, I just do I just
do a turkey.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
You're you're an a medigan. You're in a medigan all.

Speaker 5 (19:43):
Over Tomorrow night, Tomorrow night, I'll probably I'll leave pasta.
Well maybe tonight. I'll see maybe tonight and Friday night
I'll leave pasta.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
There you go, listen, enjoy it, have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
We will talk to you. I'm back on Friday for
to So what do you hear it? All one?

Speaker 5 (20:01):
All right?

Speaker 2 (20:03):
You thank you, sir, oh Man, I love talking Vincent
and and robbed you too, and Franklin score Happy Thanksgiving?
How are you, sir?

Speaker 7 (20:11):
Happy Thanksgiving to you, Ken and you and your family,
you know, uh you and uh and and uh Laurie
you had you It was it was great listening to you.
I listened as a retired transit cup. I listened to
you guys when you're on in mid day, you know, yeah, yeah.
The thing is with with the cases with Tommy and

(20:32):
and and Letitia.

Speaker 5 (20:35):
Uh they're both guilty.

Speaker 7 (20:36):
But the thing is like Pam Bonding was against uh
uh prosecuting call me. I mean she did. She thought
it was a weak case. She she had the assistant,
her assistant d A. He didn't he uh didn't want to,
you know, file charges. And then when the time was
running out, what did they ext What did Trump expect?
I was a real estate uh attorney to to you know,

(20:59):
and the time was running out, she got you can
you can indict a ham Sandwich and uh and and
Ady McCarty said on Fox about two months ago he said,
this case will never go against Tom, It'll never go
to front.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Let me say this, if I may rub only only
a couple of things. Number One, I think part of
the punishment is this. You know they knew. I think
deep down this wasn't going to go very far. But
they want to bankrupt the guy. Let's make his life. Hell,
see the difference. When they did this to Trump, he
had five billion in the bank, So I lose half
a billion. What's a big deal when you do it
to Komy. Now, I grant that he probably has a
lot of money stashed here and there, but he probably

(21:35):
will lose that money in defending himself. So I think
that's part. If they want to make it as painful
in existence as possible, let him have some sleepless nights
after what he put other people through. And I'm sure
that is the punishment in the back of their minds.
In terms of indicting a ham Sandwich, though, if you
look at the district where it was done, yes and no.
I mean you never can tell with a grand jury.
I've seen Steph where you say grand Juri will never

(21:56):
indict and they indict, and other cases where you say
this is a slam dunk and they don't, so you
never really know, but we'll see what happens. Look, they're
gonna appeal, and if the appeal doesn't work, they will
refile charges that.

Speaker 7 (22:07):
It makes a lot of sense what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
More importantly, though, what are you doing for Thanksgiving? Are you?
And what does your family?

Speaker 7 (22:14):
My sister, my sister has us over my You know,
a lot of relatives are no longer with us, but
my sister, my brother and sister in law. She cooks
turkey and pasta.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
There you go.

Speaker 7 (22:24):
We're Irish, mostly Irish, a little German, but you know
we're into the pasta with the turkey down with him.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
By the way, my friends, I'm not kidding about this,
and I mean no insult to my family. I had
my one of my dearest friends growing up. His name
is Bill Dirton Gerald. Give me a shout out. His
dad Irish and German. His dad used to make the
best damn pasta and pasta sauce ever ever, and I
used to love and yet he never ate it himself.
He didn't like pasta, but he made nobody's business. Something

(22:52):
about following the rules and the and the anyway, just delicious.
He's out there listening right now. So I give a
shout out to mister Dirtinger.

Speaker 7 (22:58):
God, God bless you can. Thanks for bringing up Lawi's name.

Speaker 8 (23:01):
You know.

Speaker 7 (23:02):
Yeah, I just saw you guys were great. You guys
were great together on the news.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
Thank you. Bill. Bill Evans had us all out in
the Hamptons a couple of weeks ago, so I was
at with her and we had a good time. It
was nice to see her again. And Rob, you have
a happy Thanksgiving, my friend. Thanks for checking in all right.
Seven to ten WR the Voice of New York. This
is Ken Rootto win from Mark the day before Thanksgiving.
A little bit later we'll speak with financial expert Ron
Glasgow about how Americans planned to spend their money this

(23:27):
Black Friday. At least one survey suggests people plan to
spend less this year than last.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
Now more of the Mark Simone Show on seven to
ten woor filling in for Mark.

Speaker 9 (23:38):
Here again is Ken Rosatto.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
And good to be with you on the Wednesday before
Thanksgiving and Mark has enjoined a nice long weekend.

Speaker 5 (23:46):
You know.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
New data from Deloitte shows that Americans are planning on
spending less this Black Friday. Than in years past. It's
a reversal from tradition. Financial expert Ron Glasgow is here
to talk about some possible reasons why and what MA
way you want to do to ensure that we have
our budgets done to control in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 9 (24:05):
Good morning, Ron.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
Glasgow, Good morning. How are you good? Very good? Happy
Thanksgiving in a little early So this Deloitte data should
be a little concerning, right does it suggest a contraction
of economy? The economy could be on the way.

Speaker 8 (24:19):
Yeah, I think it makes that suggestion. And I always
say you never want to look at any one article.
You want to look at a spattering. But you know,
article after article shows that consumer confidence is really down,
probably for the lowest sense three or four years ago,
when interest rates were really spiking. So, you know, to me,
it just feels like we've been on this bull market
for so long. You know, stocks are at all time high,

(24:42):
golden at all time high, everything's sort of at all
time high, and you know, nothing goes up forever. So
to me, it kind of feels like a jack in
the box. And you know, every quarter that goes by
when we have these new highs, it's kind of turning
that crank a quarter of return and soon or later
that jack's going to come out of the box.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
Yeah, like musical chairs, music stops. No extra chair. Sorry.
The data is showing now that people who make under
fifty thousand a year plan on scaling back spending by
twelve percent. People who weren't over two hundred thousand plan
on cutting back eighteen percent. That shocked me because I
thought the people who made over two hundred thousand, well,
they'll make it up. Yeah, they'll be spending more money.
So is it just that people don't feel secure now

(25:20):
overall about what's coming up in the next couple of quarters.

Speaker 8 (25:24):
Yeah, I think that's really it. You know, the markets
hate uncertainty, and there's quite a bit of that right now.
But just everyday people, you know, I'm pretty plugged into
my community and it's a fairly well to do community,
and people are, you know, concerned about prices. You know,
I did a podcast a while ago and on that
particular day, inflation came in at three percent instead of

(25:45):
three point one, and the market cent are all time high.
Well that's great for eggheads like me, but for everyday
people it doesn't matter, you know, it's you have this
massive run up in inflation. So now this set are control,
it doesn't mean that prices dial back. People were just
still gaining at a reasonable pace on top of that
massive jump, and that's very difficult to deal with.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
Yeah, I mean, I've heard some people say that. In fact,
Sean Hennedy was talking about this the other night. He said, look,
it's going to take until at least the middle of
next year before you see some of the changes that
were enacted by the Trump administration in terms of positively
affecting the economy. And then, if you know, you're maybe
too young to remember this, I'm fifty eight. Back in

(26:26):
the Reagan days, everybody said, oh, look it's reconomics isn't working.
It's a big failure. It took till two years, and
at two years, all of a sudden the economy flips.
Because in the late seventies we had total malays. It
was a horrible economy, and people thought that was the
new normal. But it shifted. Nineteen eighty two to nineteen
eighty eight, the economy was gangbusters. So do we just

(26:48):
have to be patient or do you think this might
be kind of a long term deal to deal with.

Speaker 8 (26:54):
Yeah, you know, I do think that we need to
be patient, and that's one thing Americans just aren't very
good at.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
You know.

Speaker 8 (27:01):
You know, you people like love to throw darts at
President Trump, and I get it. The guy's a lightning
rod more than any other president I've ever seen in
my lifetime. And I do remember the great round of
Riggan by the way, Yes, but but uh, you know,
he's the lightning rod. So he's gonna get his share
of criticism and his followers are gonna love what he says.
But you know, the things you do with tariffs. You know,
I grew up with a steel mill town, and I

(27:22):
know that the Chinese would take advantage of us in
the seventies. So it's good he's doing some things. I
think what makes people nervous is is sort of this
back and forth. You know, we're gonna tax Brazil on coffee.
We're gonna tax Vietnam on coffee. Now we're gonna take
that away. So but that's his style. You know, the
guy gets results and that's just the way he works
and just unsettling to some people. But yes, I think

(27:44):
patients is key, and don't be afraid for the market.

Speaker 5 (27:47):
To pull back.

Speaker 8 (27:48):
That's a very normal thing. You know, earlier this year
we had one, and man, you just before we were in
the middle of a great recession again. People are kind
of freaking out, and you know, you've got to uh
manage your savings and your investments for sort of an
all weather portfolio and anticipate those pullbacks because they do occur.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
I think Trump is doing kind of a ropidope. You know,
he confuses you, he makes you look over here, and
then he does something on the other side. He really
is the kind of guy people, you know, many on
the left call him nuts, they call him he's losing it.
I think he is genius on a level that we
don't understand, and he plays chess on such a level
that we can't comprehend. And I just really do think

(28:28):
that what we look at as confusion or as lack
of planning is very planned on his part.

Speaker 8 (28:35):
Yeah, you know, clearly he's much more than I am.
You know, I'm a former marine. I could barely play checkers,
let alone, so he's got me.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
I can't even play checkers.

Speaker 10 (28:45):
So you know, another guy.

Speaker 8 (28:46):
That reminds me of is Jim Harbaugh, the football you know,
supposedly he thrives on a chaotic environment and that's how
he coaches and very successful. It is rare, but it
works for certain people.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Absolutely. Well. Look, the only thing that really concerns me,
I'm sure if you're you clearly know, but better than
the economy. Better on the economy than me. Consumer spending
accounts for seventy percent of the GDP, and so how
will a possible downswing of four percent and spending impact
our gross domestic product?

Speaker 8 (29:17):
Yeah, and you know, I can't do the calculations on
the fly, but that is a massive concern. America's business
is business, and so when people stop spending and doing business,
it kind of has an avalanche effect. So that's the
real concern, is that people stop, and you know, I
think you're good to see it slow just because people
are starting to run out of money.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
You know.

Speaker 8 (29:37):
Something that is a little silly, but it comes to mind,
is if you remember the subway commercial five five dollars
foot long. I don't know how long ago that was,
but it wasn't very long.

Speaker 5 (29:46):
You know.

Speaker 8 (29:46):
I had to have my oil changed a couple of
weeks ago, and I stopped in the subway for the
first time in a long time. The cheapest sub on
the Mediu was the Vegie sub at ten dollars.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
And twenty cents.

Speaker 8 (29:54):
Yeah, so again, I can't remember exactly when that jingle stopped,
but I know no one's income is doubled in that time.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
You know what I just went for? Listen. I never
went for a fancy haircut my whole life, honestly. I
mean even when I was a news anchor over at
over at Channel seven here in New York, I always
went to supercuts. I'm sorry, people are gonna laugh. They
tease me all the time. Oh, you must go to
one of those fancy French places. Now I go to
sup I call it sup Pekup. I go to Li supercou.
It used to be like twelve ninety five, it's twenty

(30:22):
six dollars and you could go to a barber and
spend less. Now it seems than it's some supercuts. It's
just amazing. And yes, like you said, in a year,
it jumped from like seventeen or whatever to twenty six.
It's amazing. What's happening to with inflation right now? So
it's a little unnerving, I'm sure. So what's a website
for people to read more about.

Speaker 8 (30:41):
You run Oh sure, Glasgow Investments dot com Glasgow like
the City of Scotland Investments dot com.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
There you go, Financial expert Ron Glasgow. Thank you for
coming on the Mark Simon Show today. Happy Thanksgiving to.

Speaker 8 (30:52):
You you too, Thank you very.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
Much, thank you all right, Hey, celebrate the season with
the iHeartRadio Holiday Special one night to get you in
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(31:17):
about sixty degrees, partly cloudy tomorrow for Thanksgiving, but it's
going to be like ridiculously windy and a lot cooler.
Highs in the low forties. Wins are gonna make it
feel colder than that. Phone lines are open. We'll take
your calls next eight hundred three to two one zero
seven ten. Eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten.
It's Ken Rosotto win from Mark on your Wednesday seven

(31:37):
to ten WR coming right back.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
This is the Mark Simone Show on seven ten WR
Ken from Mark Today, here's Ken Rosatto.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
And straight to our busy phones. On this Wednesday, yes,
even the day before Thanksgiving, we go to Robert in Westchester.
Good morning Robert, Good morning Kit.

Speaker 11 (31:56):
How are you in? Happy Thanksgiving?

Speaker 2 (31:57):
Happy Thanksgiving? What care you for a Robert?

Speaker 11 (32:03):
This is my problem with the Democrats and.

Speaker 5 (32:05):
Especially the people that vote for them.

Speaker 11 (32:08):
For four years, they lied to the entire nation about
immigration and the border. For four years we had the
barbarian hordes stampede our country. And now every taxpayer is
afflicted with having to use their tax dollars not only
to get these people out who are the criminals and

(32:29):
the people who broke the law, but also to feed them,
house them, give them medical attention and aid. So now
when they think about voting next year for the interms,
think about what the Democrats plagued you with. Don't just
think of the present, but think of the future and
the past and what they had done to all of us,

(32:51):
because they lied to you before and they will lie
to you again. Just to do one thing, achieve power.
Impeach Trump, who's doing gangbusters. He's done more for not
only our nation but the world in ten months. Good
bat Ken, I wish you just all the best. By
the way, I will be having palpit tomorrow. But the

(33:13):
Turkey's primary yes on Americano Americano first.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
I'm with you too. Thank you, Ken, Thank you Robert.
Happy Thanksgiving again. It's funny Robert says that I remember
asking my grandfather from who was born in Italy, my
father's both both my grandparents. I remember asking my father's father,
what would happen? I was four, what would happen if
we ever went to war with Italy? And he put
his finger in my face and says, you are an American.
If we ever went to war with Italy, you are

(33:39):
an American. You fight for America because you are an American.
You are not an Italian. You may come from the
extraction of Italy, but you are an American. I never
forgot that America first. There you have, and I'm with him.
It is ten fifty nine right now, mostly cloudy mile today,
high's low sixties and partly cloudy tomorrow for Thanksgiving, windy
and cooler, high's low forties. Out on from Mark on

(34:00):
your Wednesday. Coming up a little later, we'll talk with
New Jersey Republican congressional candidate Billy Prempa about the Garden
State's new bill to make it illegal for ice agents
to wear masks. W Oar is the voice of New
York Back after the News.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten woor filling
in for Mark, here's Ken Rosatto.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
That's so nice to be with you. The day before Thanksgiving,
Mark and joined in ice long weekend former New York
City TV news sacred Ken Versato in the seat. I
feel very privileged to be in this seat. I always
feel like when I get up from the seat, I
kind of brush it off from Mark to make sure
it's back to the way it was. For those who
may or may not remember, I'll remind you I was
at Channel seven here in New York doing the morning

(34:41):
and noon show there for about twenty years. A great
time there, and then prior to that, I was a
Channel five. A lot of people don't remember. I did
Good Day Wake Up for about a year and before
I went to seven, but it was it was also
a lot of fun. I still have friends there and
these days I work at a New Jersey based TV
news channel is called on New Jersey and you could

(35:03):
stream it live or watch reruns that we do at
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there too. I run a food website too for you
foodies called the food Dude. You can check it out
at the food Dude dot us. The food Dude dot Us.

(35:23):
A lot to talk about today. I'm sure you've heard
about the US District Judge Cameron McCowan Curry. That's the
radical leftist activist Biden appointee. Does that sound negative on
my part? Who threw out the James Comy and Letitia
James indictments, And of course Comy he's so smug, He's
so smug. But me thinks James Comy is not going

(35:46):
to end up happy at the end, because even if
he doesn't get convicted of anything, I think the point
of the Justice Department's actions are to make it so
that James Comy spends so much money defending himself that
he will be bankrupt. And I think that's the point.
Does that sound malicious? Yes? Is it something the Democrats
have a PhD In doing it to Republicans over the years,

(36:09):
apps so frickin lutely, and it's about time they get
a little taste of their own medicine. Same thing with
little tissue, James. You know she thinks she's off the hook,
you know, Tish. Sorry, Tish, you signed, allegedly signed all
these documents saying that you would have as your primary
residence your residence in Virginia when you are the Attorney
general of the state of New York and must have
there's a residency requirement here. Than who are you lying to?

(36:32):
Maybe you should leave the position of Attorney general in
New York, right because technically you're saying that Virginia's your
primary residence, so you should leave your position. That's what
you're saying. You lied to somebody, Either you lied on
your documents in Virginia or you lied to the people
of New York saying that this was your primary residence
when it wasn't. So one has to give. You can't

(36:54):
have both simultaneously. They're mutually exclusive. And of course her
argument was that the prosecutor her the judge in this
case who threw out the cases. The argument was the
prosecutor appointed by Trump was no longer legally in power
because it was a temporary and interim appointment by the
Justice Department. So the cases had to be thrown out. Well,

(37:18):
before you get too excited, the cases were dismissed in
a way called without prejudice. To explain that is the
big professor at George Washington University, Jonathan Turley.

Speaker 4 (37:31):
Listen up, Poleticia James took a bit of a victory
lap after this decision, and I think she missed the
two words that followed dismissal, and it was dismissal without prejudice.
So the Trump administration, even if they lose on appeal,
could seek out a new indictment. This is not over
for James, or call me. The judge specifically said, I

(37:54):
am not going to grant your motion to dismiss with prejudice.
I'm going to allow them to this problem.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
So this means the Justice Department can refile the charges
if they want to ensure Comy and James, if they
want to ensure those charges will be refiled. Keep gloating,
keep besmirching the Trump administration. You will guarantee or be
guaranteed that you will be back in court very soon.
The Trump administration, apparently will first appeal the Act of

(38:24):
as Judges decision to the Fourth US Circuit Court of
appeals in Richmond, Virginia, which used to be considered kind
of a conservative court, but in recent years because of
Biden packing the courts with left wing extremists on purpose,
it's not so much it's more to a left, but
you know the people who are in those districts who

(38:45):
would be on the grand jury, they tend to still
be a little right of center. So we'll see what
happens if it gets to that point. Seven ten wo
r the Voice of New York. It's Ken rostto in
for Mark and New Jersey lawmakers also have been busy.
They've been talking about all sorts of stuff. They want
to ban ice agents and other law enforcement who interact

(39:07):
with the public from wearing masks or disguises. There's a
bill that they introduce. It would allow undercover officers those
wearing shields that don't cover their faces or medical masks,
but they cannot wear something that specifically covers their masks.
It covers their faces rather not revealing their identities to
people on the street, and violators would face fines of

(39:28):
up to one thousand dollars and could get up to
six months in jail. But apparently they have not seen
something called the Constitution and the supremacy clause. So allow
me to read what the supremacy clause is. It's Article six,
paragraph two of the US Constitution. It says, quote, a
state or municipality cannot pass a law that interferes with

(39:51):
the execution of federal law or the duties of federal agents.
So maybe the good state senators in New Jersey and
maybe they missed that day in school. In our later
in this hour, in our next half hour, we will
speak with Congressional candidate Billy Prempa. He is a Republican
running for Congress in New Jersey's ninth congressional district, and

(40:11):
we'll talk to him about the foolishness of states or
local municipalities trying to pass what are obviously just symbolic
laws that cannot be enforced. And also in New Jersey,
funding for beach replenishment was eliminated in the fiscal twenty
twenty five federal budget, and that could spell trouble for
the New Jersey Sure only four of the twelve required

(40:32):
federal spending bills passed. The bill that would fund the
Army Corps of Engineers is now under continuing resolution thanks
to the Democrats without federal dollars, many New Jersey beach
towns are going to have to self fund erosion control
or look for another solution. Well, some local officials are
even looking into new erosion control systems that would be

(40:53):
less expensive, including offshore sand filled barriers. That's what they
do down in Florida, by the way, because if they
had to replenish the sand after every storm, they'd have
been bankrupt decades ago. So look to states like Florida,
Texas or even other countries where they're constantly figuring a
way to preserve their sand. So now the question is,
with the Continuing Resolution still providing funding at last year's level,

(41:17):
why does New Jersey need so much more money in
this year's budget? I mean, seriously, how much more expensive
is it to preserve your shore this year versus last
Did the Army Corps engineers like jack up their prices?
You know, we didn't have a big event like Superstorm Sandy,
So why do you think it's going to be so
much more money this year to replenish your shoreline. It's
because Democrats in a state like New Jersey are always

(41:39):
looking for more money, more money, more money, more money.
In their mindset, just can't get enough. It's just money, money, money,
and it's about taking it from you and giving it
to me. If the state of New Jersey wasn't wasting
billions upon billions of dollars to pay for the nine
hundred thousand plus illegal aliens that we currently know of,
let alone the countless more that we and I say

(42:01):
week as I live in New Jersey, not counting the
countless more that we don't know of, New Jersey would
have tons of extra money without having to raise taxes.
It's liberals in New Jersey who simply do not put
two and two together, nor do they care to do so.
To realize that if you want lower electric rates, less
congestion on highways, teachers who could take better care of

(42:21):
your child because there would be fewer students per classroom,
not to mention lower crime, stop voting Democrat in order
to change the state's sanctuary status so as not to
permit this huge number of illegal aliens. And this is
not an anti immigrant sentiment because my family are immigrants.
This is an anti illegal immigrant sentiment, So stop conflating

(42:45):
all immigrants with illegal immigrants. If the immigrants were here illegally,
they'd be paying taxes, they would have Social Security numbers,
they would be contributing members of society. Okay, we would
have kids that we could account for in schools, and
with the additional local taxes the parents would be paying,
we could build more schools and hire more teachers. But
under the current federal law, we have to educate every

(43:08):
student who comes in, whether legal or not. If they
don't speak English, we have to hire teachers who can
speak multiple languages, and that costs even more. Plus we
have to provide two to three meals a day at
public schools for all students, including the children of the
illegal migrants, under the law. Liberals love to use the
word sustainable. Sustainable, Well, look, it is simply not sustainable

(43:31):
in the state of New Jersey when ten percent of
the current population is illegal, think about that. How staggering
is that a tent one in ten people in the
state of New Jersey that we know of, that's an
absolute fact that we know of is an illegal alien.
That is the approximate number, probably more than that. At

(43:52):
what point do we say enough is enough? You just
can't have an open door and let anybody in and
expect that's not going to have a negative, deleterious impact
on our community. Do we stop when it's fifty percent
of legal aliens. It's ridiculous. We literally have handed over
our nation to anybody who wanted it for the taking.

(44:12):
And you could thank the Democrats and the Biden administration
for the last four years for doing that to us.
That's exactly the legacy of Joe Biden and the Democrats.
But yet they get rewarded for it because you have
liberal Democrats especially and I might let me single out
some groups tends to be white liberal women who are

(44:33):
like thirty thirty five and under. They specifically, they're like
the largest group of hardcore Democrats who will never vote
anything else. I know you're going to say, I'm a
Republican cat, I read it.

Speaker 9 (44:44):
No.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
But in terms of groups and painting a broad brush there,
that group seems to be like unapologetically Democrat. You cannot
even bring it up with that group for whatever reason.
I think a lot of brainwashing in school and on
social media has to do with that. Seven ten wr
The Voice of New York Ken Rosatto in for Mark.
The phone lines are open eight hundred three two one

(45:07):
zero seven ten. Hey, there was a new Rutgers University
led climate study trying to scare the dickens out of
people into thinking New Jersey could see up to a
three point eight foot sea level rise by the year
twenty one hundred under current carbon emission. By the way,
whenever I do liberal talk, I'm going to add a lisp.
I have that prerogative. That number could rise to four

(45:29):
point five feet if ice sheet melt accelerates. I'll tell
you what. Let's give cows broccoli to eat, and their
farts will cause the oceans to rise a bazillion feet.
I mean. Scientists warned, Can I say farts?

Speaker 8 (45:42):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (45:42):
Okay? Mark doesn't say farts, does he? Okay, Let's say flatulence.
I'm sorry, so rewind the tape. Is he okay? Good?
So we'll say flatchelo okay, replace the word farts with flatulence. Good.
Scientists warned that flood risk is increasing rapidly across the state,
particularly for coastal and tidal river communities. That's the quote
they gave us from Rutgers. Now, it should be mentioned

(46:03):
that many environmental studies make these scary predictions that can
never be proven. Rush Limbay used to talk about this.
God rest your soul rush, because by the time this
would come true, you and I are going to be
dead twenty one hundred. That's the year twenty one hundred.
Let's see, I'll be one hundred and how many years old?
Not So why don't we all get together in seventy

(46:25):
five years and see if it was true. Every prediction
these liberals, environmentalists, they've all made. It has not come
to pass, none of it. It should also be mentioned,
by the way, the organizations that finance studies like this
one at Rutgers only finance studies that set out to
prove sea levels arising and the cause is human negligence.
You do not get the financing unless that is the premise.

(46:50):
So in others, if I say, well, I'll take a
look at whether humans have an influence on the environment
and sea levels rising, you don't get the money. So
an organization, and like Rutger says okay, we're going to
set out to prove this is so now they get
one hundred million dollar just making up the number one
hundred minion. Now they've get one hundred million. They go
out and they could finance whatever classes and they could

(47:12):
run these studies. But you have to have that as
the premise, So you start out on a liberal premise.
So just to qualify that's what you have to say,
it's unbelievable. Nowhere in the equation is whether sea levels
are actually rising? Are humans impacting sea levels? Is carbon
emission the cause? These leftist radical scientists environmentalists are convinced

(47:37):
that humans are causing too much carbon to be emitted,
and that the excess carbon is raising temperatures, and the
temperatures are melting polarized caps, and the polarized caps melting
are causing sea levels to rise. So they start off
with that foregone conclusion. Then they ask scientists and collegists
to reinforce their crackpot theories that can't be proven by
giving them lots of money they get from environmentalists, wacko donors,

(47:59):
and liberal government entities. Now, there are a lot of
scientists who don't believe those theories at all. They believe
climate is changing, but they don't believe humans have a
significant impact. Maybe a tiny one, but not much because
climate has been changing way before humans came and way
after humans are going to be gone. Climate has always changed.
Just look at history, and there is a way to
do that by taking ice core samples, et cetera. The

(48:21):
Earth has gotten warmer, then it's gotten colder, then it's
gotten warmer, then it's gotten colder. Greenland, perfect example. The
name greenland is called greenland because it used to be green.
Now it's ice covered. So yes, there is climate change,
but humans didn't cause it because it turned icy way
before we had carbon emissions like this. There's documentation all
about it, but we could talk about that on and

(48:43):
on and on. Just don't take what the liberals are
saying seriously and always take these studies with a grain
of salt. Seven ten w R. The Voice of New
York Mark taking a nice long weekend today, Ken Risotto,
filling and take and calls at eight hundred and three
to two one zero seven ten whatever you want to
talk about, politics, even Thanksgiving recipes, anything, and coming up
later in the show, we'll talk with New Jersey Republican

(49:04):
congressional candidate Billy Peppa about the Garden State's new bill
to make it illegal for ice agents to wear masks.
It's eleven twenty one w o R is what you're
listening to, and we're coming right back now.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
More of the Marximone Show on seven to ten wo
R filling in from Mark.

Speaker 9 (49:20):
Here again is Ken Rosado.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
Very good to be with you. Straight to our busy phones.
We go to Stuart in South Carolina. Happy early Thanksgiving
to Stewart.

Speaker 12 (49:29):
Thanks Ken, How are you good?

Speaker 8 (49:30):
Mess great talk to you.

Speaker 12 (49:32):
Listen, you were talking about all the illegal aliens in Jersey.
You know, in the South, we work with ice for
the most part, and we find illegal alien so we
send them back. But do you remember a while back
those escapees. One of them went to two Jersey troopers
and they sent him away.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
Yes, that was in Newark. They went into the police
precinct in Newark. Yeah. See, and that's where you got
to scratch your head, Stewart. I don't mean to step
on you, that's where you got to scratch your head
and and yourself. There's a difference between we will not help. Okay,
you don't want to actively go out, if you're a
sanctuary city, you don't want to actively go out and
arrest illegal aliens. But when they come to you and

(50:11):
say here I am come on really, I mean.

Speaker 12 (50:15):
When I heard that, how was that? Poplecic? I said,
this is phenomenal but you know, it is unbelievable. Tish says,
she has the backs of the police officers and the NYPD,
but then will not work for ICE. So in other words,
the police officers have got to go against these illegal,
hardened criminals and risk their lives. So you tell me
how the two makes sense. Everybody's expounding how wonderful tissue is.

(50:39):
I don't look at it that way. If she was wonderful,
she would be working with ICE to get those hardened
criminals out of that state, out of that city and
protect the police officers and the civilians.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
Yeah, the problem, dude, the problem is it's not her,
it's the law. You know, the law in New York
is sanctuary law means that you know, they the city
tells the police what law you know, you're a police officer,
what laws they can and can enforce. And that's part
of the problem. And the prosecutors won't prosecute. I mean,
this is my argument has always been. Look, they talk

(51:13):
about the fact that, you know, that's a federal crime.
We don't have to go after federal crimes. Well, the
problem is robbing a bank, that's an FBI case, that's
a federal crime. How about counterfeiting, how about kidnapping? How
about illegally transporting across state lines? Sex traffick? And these
are all federal crimes, yet local police always always take part.

(51:34):
You pursuing somebody across the state line, that's when it
becomes a federal crime. Yet local police still do it.
I mean, it's pick and choose. You can choose not to.
But how is it if what they're saying is true.
Where you know, we're local police, we can't enforce those crimes.
Then the other thirty five states that do enforce them
and help out ICE, then they're somehow breaking the law.

Speaker 12 (51:55):
That exactly right. I'll never forget when Deblasio had a
gallon bad with I think the police commissioner and pill
of marijuana and say you can legally carry this around
New York City. Now, now, apparently in New York City,
everywhere you go, you're smelling marijuana being smoked everywhere. But
that is still against federal law. I do not understand

(52:16):
how New York City is allowing a gallon bag of
marijuana be carried legally in that city.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
And technically, as you know, ICE agents or whatever, federal
agents can go around and say all right. I know
that you think it's cool to be smoking pot in public,
but you're under federal arrest. I mean, they could do that, right,
The question is will they and what will the response
from the people be. But you know, now we're finding
out more and more. For years we were told, oh, pot,
it's innocuous, it's not addictive. Now we find out, yeah,
it is addictive. The high, the high THHC pot right

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now is dangerous. It causes all sorts of problems.

Speaker 12 (52:48):
The THC level in pot used to be three percent
when I was a kid, and I'll be seventy two.
Now it's eighteen to nineteen to twenty percent DHC. This
is engineered marijuana. This is not your grandparents marijuana anymore.
And people are driving on this all the time and
they're extremely dangerous, And I don't know, I just don't

(53:09):
understand how the public is not outraged by all the
money the illegals are causing them and living like this
with people stoned all the time.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
Colorado State Police Steward, Colorado State Police, said that the
head of Colorado State Police, where it was first legalized, said,
if he knew then what he knows now about the
number of highway deaths and the fact that you can't
do public enforcement. There is no breathalyzer or roadside test
right that. If he knew that, he he would have said,
absolutely not. We cannot make this legal.

Speaker 12 (53:39):
You have to have a blood test. There's no side
of the road other than stigmas and things like that,
and then you can take them in for the blood test.
But as far as as any kind of alcacins or
thing like that, there's nothing except for maybe alcohol, DUIs.
But when you're talking about marijuana, my son was doing
seventy five miles an hour, is a deputy, and he

(54:00):
calls me. He said, Dad, I'm not in my county.
He said, I'm smelling marijuana coming from the car in
front of me and we're doing seventy five miles later
on the interstate.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
My god, I mean to laugh, but it's like how
much pods you got to be smoking that you could
smell it in the police car behind your good lord,
it's like arresting Cheech and Chong Stuart. Happy Thanksgiving, my friend.
We got to go to news. But I appreciate you
all the time when you call enjoy all right, My gosh,
seven ten wr the Voice of New York and as
Stewart is right, it's crazy, you know. Look, marijuana, you

(54:31):
want to do whatever you want to do in the
privacy of your own home. I'm not going to judge you.
But let's just make one thing clear. Let's you and
I and our friends in relative let's all agree on
one thing. Don't get behind the wheel. Even if you
have a couple of drinks. Let your relative who didn't drink,
let them drive. Because if you have a couple of
drinks and the guy behind you and the guy in
front of you has a couple of drinks, it doesn't
make for a good highway situation. And you don't want

(54:53):
the holidays to become tragic, all right, So let's please
promise that it is a Wednesday. Ken Zattowin from Mark.
Coming up in our next half hour, New Jersey Republican
congressional candidate Billy Prempa. We'll talk about the Garden State's
new bill to make it illegal for ice agents to
wear masks.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
This is the Mark Simone Show on seven to ten.
Wor Kin from Mark Today, Here's Ken Rosanna.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
And it's so good to be with you that day
before Thanksgiving and our friend here. Billy Prempa is an
Air Force veteran who is running for Congress in New
Jersey's ninth congressional district, which includes the city of Patterson,
a heavily Hispanic district which voted for President Trump. The
New Jersey State Senate recently introduced a bill that would
make it illegal illegal for ice agents to wear masks

(55:39):
when doing their work. It would be punishable by a
fine of up to one thousand dollars in time behind bars.
So we say good morning to Billy Prempa. What do
you think about the nuttiness of the New Jersey State Senate.

Speaker 10 (55:52):
I mean, I think you nailed it right there, straight
up nuttiness. I mean, I think Democratic Party is trying
to find any opportunity tobstruct the president Trump is trying
to do in this country. The people want safer streets.
We want to have these people out of our country.
And the truth is that working as an ice agent,
it's a very difficult job. It could be very dangerous.
It even puts you at a risk. And I think
that's having someone arrested and put in jail and find

(56:16):
it only solely done to try and disincentivize our ice
agis from getting their work done. But it only empowers
a criminal at the end of the day.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
You know, Billy, I thought the Democrats were the party
that loved masks about it exactly, But they are saying
there would be an exemption to medical masks or to
masks that are see through, like the face shields. So
here's what I would do if I was the head
of ice in the region, I would say, well, these
are medical masks. They're medically required because every one of

(56:44):
our agents was exposed to a substance at work, so
they have to wear medical masks. I mean, technically there's
vagueness in the way the law is written, but I
mean it's unenforceable nonetheless, because right the supremacy Clause of
the Constitution says state and local laws cannot be enacted
that would supersede federal laws.

Speaker 10 (57:05):
Yeah, and that's the issue that I think that are
the Democratic Party is doing here is the rules for
the rules, not for me kind of scenario. When the
pandemic was going on, they all weren't favored for it,
but now when people are trying to do their job,
they're completely against it. And the issue is that you
also bring up a very valid point is like, we

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don't know who's coming in, what they have, or what
the situation may be. I think it's more different than
police officers even covering their face when they're entering certain circumstances.
We don't know what they may have.

Speaker 5 (57:37):
I mean.

Speaker 10 (57:37):
And the frustrating thing is is a lot of the
drugs that are coming into this country, pencil particularly, it
only takes a very small amount to hurt you and
affect you. And I think that the safety and the
well being of our ice officers of this paramount, especially
when we don't know who we're dealing with.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
Look, the Democrat Party of the United States is responsible
for the greatest trafficking of individual humans in history. Think
about the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of kids
miners who were sex trafficked and permitted to have that
done to them. Literally, with the blessing of the Biden administration,

(58:14):
we lost track of hundreds of thousands of kids. They
came in, they went to sponsor family, sponsor families that
weren't veted. In some cases, you had families literally who
received three hundred kids and then there was no follow
up done. You had phone numbers, And this is not
my opinion. This isn't rumor. This is in a congressional hearing.
You had an agent of the federal government under the

(58:36):
Biden administration saying that there was an eight hundred number
given to these miners when they got to their homes,
their homes of their sponsors in the United States, and
they were told, if there's a problem, if you're stress,
if there's an issue, if you're being abused, call this number.
And apparently only one human being was assigned to answer
that call, and some fifty thousand plus calls came in

(58:58):
and went unanswered. That is disgusting. Where is the prosecution
of these individuals.

Speaker 10 (59:05):
Well, I think they're complicit in the human trafficking. And
it's interesting that you mentioned that because in twenty twenty one,
when I went over to the southern border, we were
able to speak with some of the migrants that were
crossing over, and this was something that I've heard frequently
that if you had any issue, you'd reach out to
the government, but it's like once you cross the border
and you get into the United States, they don't care anymore.

(59:26):
I think that was more of a virtue signal to
make the nation believe that something was being done on
their behalf and their benefit. But I think once they
got inside, nobody really cared. It just became our problem
at the end of the day.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
Yeah, And I don't know about you. I'm sure you
probably feel similar to me on this one. The conflation
by Democrats of illegal migrants and migrants, there is a difference.
There are so many millions of people in this country
who migrated here legally, and then you have illegal migrants.
There is a difference. It's like you inviting somebody into

(01:00:00):
your house for dinner or somebody burglarized at your house
in the middle of the night. Yes, they're both at
your house. One was invited in, one was not. What
is so hard to understand? Do they think we're all stupid?
And as the grandchild of migrants who came legally, I
am so highly offended when I hear that conflation, and
I'm sure many legal migrants.

Speaker 10 (01:00:20):
Are, Yeah, including myself. I mean, both of my parents
immigrated here from Ghana legally nineteen eighty four. They also
brought fourteen other relatives into the country, each and every
one of them swearing as an American citizen, taking the
oath and doing it the right way. So when I
see when I see people on the left claiming that
no one is illegal and everyone is legal, and they

(01:00:41):
all have claims that it's a country, it's not just
a flap in the face to mine, But it's a
flap in the face and my parents and all those
who have spent the money, who've invested will pay their taxes,
who have done it the right way to happily become
an American citizen. And the fact that there's people that
want to hop the border or overstay their visas and
then take advantage of our nation, and we have a
party that's cpposed to be representing the American people representing

(01:01:02):
them on the other side, it's ridiculous and I think
it's pretty much treacherous.

Speaker 11 (01:01:07):
It's treasonous. Man.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
You nailed at seven to ten wo r the Voice
of New York hen Risotto win from Mark on the
Wednesday before Thanksgiving with Billy Prepp. But who, by the way,
is an Air Force veteran running for Congress in New
Jersey's ninth congressional district. So look at that. You were
the child of immigrants and you've became a member of
our military to be to show your pride in America.

(01:01:29):
And it's funny my parents same situation. My grandparents came
from Italy. My father comes from a family of nine boys,
and I believe eight of the nine, including my dad,
we're all in the military. I mean, it's just it's
that pride of being American. But what's said is you
see too many people by the third, fourth, fifth generation,
they sort of get so used to being American that

(01:01:50):
they lose the sense of how special it.

Speaker 10 (01:01:52):
Is, absolutely and I don't want that to ever be lost.
I think that's something that America is starting to lose
because of that conflation between migrants and immigrants and illegals
and actual citizens. And I think a lot of that
is being done at person. It's done on purpose to
try and destroy the fabric of our nation. So it's
up to us to do what's right. I support ICE,

(01:02:15):
and I believe that all of our citizens should support ICE,
and we need to put America first above all, not
the means of others.

Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
Now, I'd like to see if this bill makes it
through the Assembly and then gets to either the current
governor at Governor Murphy or Governor Mikey in January. Like
to see if it gets to their desks if they
sign it into law, would New Jersey State police arrest
US federal agents? And then what would happen, because the
federal relations could turn around and arrest in the New
Jersey State Police for doing that, right, I mean, that's

(01:02:42):
interfering with the federal officer.

Speaker 10 (01:02:44):
It's just about again in and I was watching not
too long ago that she was voting an idea to
not paid federal taxes to the federal government. So I
can only see the situation getting worse before it actually
gets good.

Speaker 11 (01:02:55):
But who knows.

Speaker 10 (01:02:55):
I mean, similar to how President Trump was able to
get mob Donnie to the table, and it seems like
they've been able to make some sense of what can
be done for the betterman of the people of New York.
I'm hoping that Mikey Cheryl is a talking rhetoric right
now and she actually realizes the responsibility that she has
and tries to do the right thing. I won't hold
my breath, but I really hope.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
So Hey, Billy, just the funny thing again, Democrat hypocrisy.
Here she her argument. Mikey Cheryl's argument was New Jersey
is paying more money to the federal government than it
gets back. Well, how about the same argument democrats use
with take the rich and make the rich pay more
taxes for what it's redistribution of wealth. Same thing with
the states. Sometimes New Jersey will be making more money

(01:03:34):
and having to pay more money to the federal government.
Sometimes it'll be on the recipient and it all depends.
As New Jersey continues to lose population to southern states,
there will be a point when Florida will be paying
more income taxes than New Jersey to the federal government
and New Jersey will be on the recipient end. That's
the way it works. But I love how Democrats love
it when it's taxed the rich, but when it comes
to tax the rich, state, no, and then you can't

(01:03:56):
do that. Now we got to get more money back.
I'd like to see Mikey if she tries to do that,
she'll be hauled off in cuffs. That would be quite
interesting to see. But I'm not saying one way or
the other. Hey, Billy, tell us once again, tell us
your website how they can find out more about your campaign,
and if they want to make a domnation.

Speaker 11 (01:04:13):
They can follow me on social media.

Speaker 10 (01:04:14):
Just go to Billy premp ed b I L Y
P R E M P E H or Billy prempeed
dot com to visit my website, my policies. If you
had to volunteer, donate, get on board because we got
a big mission to do it. Twenty twenty six. Everyone
across the state of New Jersey look forward to supporting
you and representing you in Washington, DC come twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
Yeah, especially to counter the I see that the person
who may be running in Mikey Cheryl's old congressional seat
is a Bernie Sanders person. So somebody ultra ultra ultra left.
So we need to counter that with a Billy Preppa
in congress. Air Force, Yes, Air Force veteran running for
Congress New Jersey's ninth congressional district during the upcoming midterm elections.

(01:04:54):
Happy Thanksgiving, my friend, Billy Preppa, Thank you for coming
on this morning.

Speaker 10 (01:04:57):
Happy Thanksgiving to you too. Take care.

Speaker 2 (01:04:59):
You've bet it's ken razoontowin from Mark on your Wednesday.
When we come back, we'll take your calls. That number
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Speaker 1 (01:05:12):
Now more of the marximone show on seven ten WR
filling in for Mark.

Speaker 9 (01:05:17):
Here again is Ken Rosatto.

Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
Good to be with you. In our last segment of
the hour, let's go to John in his historia. Good morning, John,
good morning.

Speaker 13 (01:05:26):
And almost happy Thanksgiving, although every day should be a
day of thanks Amen. I have been a listener nigh
onto these seventy eight years since my mother's womb. I
just want to correct Americans who misspeak, including yourself. If
we are born here, which I am. I didn't know
any better when I was a kid, so I said
I was a Greek American. Now I say I'm an American. Heleen,

(01:05:49):
So you are an American Italianah.

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
I'll give you one more. I'm an American. Period's that's
fine with me. Not that I don't love my ancestors
coming from Italy, but I am an American and proud
to be. And you go to Italy.

Speaker 13 (01:06:01):
You did say Italian American.

Speaker 2 (01:06:03):
I said that that's what I said to my grandfather.
But my grandfather pointed in my face and said, you're
an American. No, he corrected me very quick. Yeah, absolutely,
and we should be one hundred percent you too. I
appreciate your call, John, and John's not wrong. Amen to that.
Have a good job here you too. Yeah, it's so true.

(01:06:24):
I mean my grandfather was when he came here, he
no longer said Italian American, even though he had an accent.
He said, I'm an American. And when when we go
to Italy Italian so many people who call themselves Italian
Americans go to Italy, we're just called American. They look
at us and say, stop, you're American. It is what
it is, all right. W o R The Voice of
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