FULL SHOW: ICE is on the move in many states; Zohran Mamdani's plans.

Ken Rosato fills in for Mark Simone. An ICE suspect opened fire at their workplace in San Antonio, Texas, last week. Is this situation a reflection of the ongoing consequences of the Biden Administration’s immigration policies and the impact of increased illegal immigration? Ken interviews Financial strategist and policy expert Steve Cotton. Steve discusses solutions for the housing crisis in NYC and nationwide. Steve also shares his outlook on the economy for the coming months. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is facing challenges with his plans getting passed that he campaigned on. Is there potential fraud in the SNAP program? Ken interviews brand and digital specialist Fisher. Fisher explains how you may soon carry your driver’s license and passport digitally on your phone, and how other countries are piloting digital identification as an alternative to physical documents.

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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 (00:08):
Yes, yes, yes, the end of the week is here.
Mark has the day off, and it's good to be here.
Former New York City TV news anchor Guy Ken Rosato
in and you probably best remember me for the twenty
years I spent anchoring the morning show at Channel seven.
I was a Channel five before that. Nowadays I get
to host a daily show on a New Jersey based
news channel called on New Jersey. You could stream it

(00:30):
live or watch reruns at o NNJ dot com. And
I run a food website for all you foodies, Thefooddude
dot us. Thefooddude dot Us. We've got a lot to
talk about to wrap up this busy newsweek. We want
to hear from you too. Don't just sit there, want
you to pick up the phone and call one eight
hundred and three two one zero seven ten. Hey, we

(00:52):
got some sad breaking news out of San Antonio, Texas.
Police there are saying that there was a twenty one
year old illegal ali and who fatally shot three people
just over an hour ago at what may be his
place of work. Now he and his family, according to
police illegally entered the US back in twenty nineteen, and
they were supposed to appear at a court hearing in

(01:13):
twenty twenty two, but authorities say they failed to show up,
and now three Americans are dead thanks to the Biden
administration doing nothing about this guy in twenty twenty two
when he was supposed to be removed from our country.
But these things have consequences. Okay, it doesn't mean that
everybody who came here illegally is going to be a murderer, clearly,

(01:34):
most or not. But the thing is, when you lose
track of people, you don't know who they are, what
their background is, why they're here, and then you lose
track of them, things like this happen and you have
three tax paying, hard working, good US citizens dead because
the Biden administration let this guy in, lost track of him,
and now he ended up according to authorities, they say

(01:57):
that he killed three people what they believe was his
place of work in Texas, San Antonio, seven ten wy.
And you know, we keep saying the nation is so polarized.
Now we may know for fact that it may be
because according to NBC News, they just conducted a poll
and check this out. The NBC News poll shows eighty

(02:18):
two percent of Republicans say they have friends who are Democrats.
When you ask democrats, do you have any friends who
are Republicans, only sixty four percent of Democrats say they
have a friend who's a Republican. And if you recall,
I've said this before Dan Bongino, before he became the
Deputy Director of the FBI, when he was a talk
show host, he used to say, Republicans think Democrats are

(02:42):
good people with bad ideas, while Democrats think Republicans are
bad people, and that's why there's no dialogue. That's why
they're so dialogue. Republicans, my Republican friends are always willing
to sit down and talk, and they don't get animated,
and they don't scream, and they don't go out with
green hair and nose rings protesting, screaming, burning police cars. No,

(03:03):
that is a feature of the left. The right doesn't
do that. It's just not part of the mo of
the right. If you have a disagreement, we'll sit down
and talk. I want to know what you have to say.
But unfortunately the left doesn't have that same opinion. Their
object is to shut you down because they need to

(03:24):
convince you of their way of life, of their thought process,
and as long as that's the case, there will be
no dialect. They don't want dialogue, they don't want die like.
They want to shut you down, dispatch you if necessary,
in order to make their way of life the way
of life. And that's that. So what did you think
about this lunatic? On the Upper East Side? If you
haven't heard, there was a guy with a gun who

(03:46):
was killed in a shootout with police after he apparently
pointed his gun at a guy in a building elevator. First,
then he later ran into a deli and he threatened
to shoot up the deli. Then he threatened to show
to a hospital. Now cops ended up shooting the man.
He was pronounced dead at a hospital. No word at
this point what was going on if he was mentally challenged.

(04:09):
But this brings up Zorn, Yes, mayor to be Zoran.
You know all he'll tell you back when you ask
him questions about things like this is gobbledegook.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Police have a critical role to play in creating public safety.
And I speak to those officers on the beat. I
hear a frustration from them that we're asking them to
do more than just focus on serious crimes. We're asking
them to do the work of mental health professionals and
so are nots. And that reliance on having them deal
with almost every failure of the social safety net is
making it impossible for them to tackle those crimes.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
No, just arrest them. I don't need, you know what.
I don't need the police officer to sit there and
do a question and answer therapy period where he says, so,
how are you feeling right now? If a guy's breaking
the law? All right? Granted, you can't treat every situation
the same. I get it. My dad was a cop.
There's a gentleman who calls the Carolinas who's a cop.
I know, Listen. I was raised with cops, raised with

(05:03):
law enforcement, raised with lawyers in the family and among friends.
I get it. Every circumstance is different. But a police officer,
they have a hard enough job and they don't get
paid anywhere near what they should. And as far as
I'm concerned, give them the tools and let them arrest
and then we'll deal with them later. They if the
individual being arrested needs mental health, I don't need the

(05:24):
cop to do that. And I don't need to send
a dime store psychologist out to every crime and let
them diagnose in ten seconds somebody who has a knife
andess threatening to kill their families or on. That's not
the way it works, okay, but that's the way this
this socialist wants it to be in this city. It's unbelievable.
He wants to deploy social workers instead of police to

(05:45):
respond to nine to one one calls like this. What
would have happened if a therapist showed up and this
guy had a gone and he's going threatening to shoot
up a hospital with a therapist have said, why don't
we sit down and discuss. I want to know what
you're feeling. Yeah, let's see you see how that works. Actually,
we find out that this has been actually tested since
earlier in the year and very quietly tested. In fact,

(06:09):
and published reports say that early results of this program
it's called be Heard. Yes, okay, we know you have
a gun and you're frustrated, but I want you to
be heard. It shows that it is not a good plan.
So Mamdanni has proposed shifting one point one billion dollars
toward the Department of Community Safety for this plan. Apparently,

(06:30):
an audit was conducted in May by the city Controller
and it was determined this thing is an utter failure.
I mean, Mamdanni hasn't even taken office yet to put
it into play, but we know it doesn't work. Apparently,
sixty percent of the calls that came in for what
would have been mental health responses, they were deemed ineligible.

(06:50):
And there are a bunch of reasons why we can
get into and more than thirty five percent of the
so called eligible calls from mental health professionals never got
a response. And for this, Mom, Donnie wants to spend
over a billion dollars of your tax payer money. Remember
when de Blasio's wife got this a billion dollars to
Blasio had allocated to deal with people who are homeless,

(07:11):
and after a couple of years we asked where did
that money go, and she couldn't account for it. They
had no idea and nothing was done. It's just a
billion dollars. I mean, come on, what do you think
can is this a bill? What's a billion dollars these days?
Please unbelievable. Certain people get a pass. Sadly, I think
people will get hurt or worse. You will see crime

(07:32):
rising all over the city, and now Zorin is insisting
on pushing to raise taxes for those free buses and childcare.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
You know, I've said time and again that I believe
these are the most straightforward ways that we can actually
fund universal childcare, making buses fast and free. And I've
said that the two clear ways to do so raising
personal income taxes on the top one percent by two percent,
and raising the corporate tax to match that of New
Jersey's corporate tax of eleven point five percent. Now, if
there are other to raise this money to fund this agenda,
the most important thing is that we fund the agenda.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, that's the most important thing, funding the agenda. You
know what the translation of that is, let's get money
out of people's pockets and into my agenda. That's what
it is. So some bad news for you, Zorim Governor
Hokol who controls the purse strings with the state legislature.
By the way, not you already said there is no
money to provide free buses.

Speaker 4 (08:22):
I cannot set forth a plan right now that takes
money out of a system that relies on the fares
of the buses and the subways.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Oh and as for that universal healthcare, that you wanted
to provide for free. Hokl also said there's no money
for that, Zoron. Sorry, And she's repeatedly pledged there would
be no increase in taxes full stop. But mister Mumdannie
is unrelenting.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
The most important thing is not how we fund it,
but that we fund it. I think these are the
most direct ways to do so. But any funding stream
that would fund these programs, that is one that we
would welcome.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
M Well, it ain't happening. There's no money, can't pull
what do they say, you can't get bud from a stone.
And if you heard Larry MENTI I listened to Larry
every day, just heard him little while ago saying this.
He said, if you can't get money for the buses,
and you can't get money for the universal health care,
we're gonna get the buddy for the free supermarkets there, Zoron,
it's not America. This is not a communist state. And yes,

(09:18):
when it gets down to free, just walk in and
grab stuff like it's a CVS. And you will only
arrest people who steal more than one thousand dollars worth
of stuff at a time. This is no longer America
this is no longer America. It's a system that cannot work.
I love how the left loves to use terms like sustainable.
How is it sustainable if people just walk in and
take stuff for free, and walk out to a bus

(09:40):
and get on the bus for free and drop off
your kid. You're going to trust someplace to take care
of your child for free and you have no say
in what goes on there when you're gone. Yeah, good
luck with that, Zoran. What happens the first time there's
a lawsuit with one of these free universal healthcare is
because somebody's child accidentally falls and gets hurt or gets

(10:01):
there's an accusation of abuse, physical or sexual. What's going
to happen then with this free universal healthcare? Z are On.
I'm just curious about that. Seven ten wo r The
Voice of New York one eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten one eight hundred three two one zero
seven ten. Mark has the day off. This is Ken
Rozzatto in for him and what looks like the ultimate

(10:23):
middle finger to incoming anti Israel mayor Mamdani. The current mayor,
Eric Adams is off two Israel right now. It's a
final trip there as Mayor of New York. But of course,
of all the places he could have gone, he chose Israel.
Remember the highest concentration of Jews in the entire world
outside of Tel Aviv's right here in New York. They

(10:45):
are part of the backbone of this city. That's why
it is so shocking that a man who has such
anti Israel policies and beliefs is now the mayor of
this city. And remember, Mamdani has threatened to have Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya, who arrested should he set foot
in New York. Remember, though Zoron, that the Prime Minister

(11:06):
would have diplomatic immunity, and if you touch him, there
would be an international scene like nobody's business, and you
would have to deal with our federal government coming in
guns of blason if you touch the Prime Minister of Israel.
So I'd almost like to see Mayor Mamdani try it.
I would love to see him try it, because he
would probably get arrested as a result. Seven ten w

(11:30):
r The Voice of New York. So another leftist lunatic
has made headlines this week. This time a guy showed
up at the Newark office of Acting US attorney Alena Habba.
This happened Wednesday evening. The FBI says the guy originally
he walks up to the building. It's a secure building.
He walks up to the building with a big old bat, goes,
you know, up to the metal detector. Yeah, I want

(11:51):
to come in. First of all, it's after hours. Secondly,
as a bat, all right it's and third it's downtown Newark.
Good luck with all three of those things. So security said, ah, me,
thinks you'd better walk outside, dude, and he left, comes
back five minutes later like he was never there the
first time. This time he left the bat on the sidewalk.
And here's what's even more amazing. Security let him in. Yeah,

(12:14):
good idea. So the guy then went to the floor
where Miss Habba's office is and began yelling incoherently and
smashing property. It is unclear whether he made specific threats
against Miss Habba, but why else would he go to
her floor after hours and go to her office. So
the cops are now trying to find the guy. Shouldn't
be hard. Just look for the guy with the bat.

(12:35):
H Have you heard this? Sixth story wealthy so called
sniper tourists yeah, listen up. Sniper tourists allegedly paid ninety
thousand dollars apiece to shoot human beings during human safari
trips to Sarajevo in the nineteen nineties, and they paid
an extra fee if they wanted to shoot children. Listen

(13:00):
to this insane This is according to some crazy claims
being looked into now by Italian prosecutors. This is actually
being thought of as really happening because there are a
number of people who claim it did not just one.
The investigation began after an Italian writer reported that he
uncovered evidence that wealthy gun enthusiasts I guess had too

(13:20):
much to do with their money. They were dubbed sniper tourists.
They paid Bosnian Serb forces for the chance to gun
down residents at random. During the four year siege of
the city. More than ten thousand people were killed not
by the sniper tourists, but in Sarajevo by overall snipers
and shelling from ninety two to ninety six because they
had the Balkan Wars. It's not known if those numbers, though,

(13:43):
include anyone who may have been part of this alleged
human safari story, but you know they're going to be
looking more into this, and that is sick if it
is in fact true. Seven ten w R The Voice
of New York Friday Morning, Ken Rozato in for Mark,
and did you hear that lawmakers in DC were making
twenty grand each at the expense of American taxpayers while
the government was shut down over the forty three days

(14:05):
of Democrats wouldn't even consider advancing the continuing resolution. Okay,
it cost the economy fifteen billion dollars a week, and
by federal law, they had to be paid. The constitution
actually demands it. Although a number of elected officials did
say they would forego collecting their salary, but most collected. Yeah,
think about that during that time. That's why they had

(14:27):
no problem letting it keep going on and on while
TSA agents and air traffic controllers and people trying to
collect their snap to feed their kids didn't get their money.
Pretty disgusting. And the likes of CHUCKI Chuck Schumer were
behind keeping the government shut and by the way, the
Democrats gained nothing from it during that period. I just
don't want to hear one. If you want to set

(14:47):
me off, tell me it was the Republicans that kept
the government shut. That's when I lose my relatively cool
demeanor and lose it at that point in a big way.
And we should mention Lady Gaga. She did a story
in Rolling Ston. She says she is lucky to be alive.
There's a story in Rolling Stone that says that while
she was filming A Star Is Born back in twenty seventeen,
she ended up suffering a psychotic break. She says she

(15:11):
had to do the movie on lithium. Lady Gaga says
that she had to cancel Joanne World Tour, which was
scheduled right after the filming. No word on what her
situation is right now. I have met her parents in
the past. They're lovely people. I only met her once,
very briefly. Very cool person, whether whatever you think of
her life or whatever. One of the most talented human

(15:32):
beings you'll ever meet, and comes from a very nice family.
By the way, New Yorker's tried and true, all right,
seven ten wo r the Voice of New York. We
want to hear what you have to say, so definitely
give us a call. It's eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten And Mark took a nice long weekend
starting today. We have partly cloudy skies today, Tomorrow highs
low fifties, maybe some clouds and showers tomorrow night, than

(15:55):
partly cloudy's Sunday a little milder tempts in the upper fifties.
The stock market took a big hit yesterday and while
the economy is looking strong in some sectors, it may
not be translating to the average hard working folks. Now.
Consumer sentiment for November is down, and we will speak
with financial strategist Steve Cotton about it. It is ten
twenty one, seven ten wor we'll be right back, So.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
Now more of the Marximone Show on seven to ten
wor filling in.

Speaker 5 (16:22):
For Mark here again is Ken Rosatto.

Speaker 6 (16:25):
Hey, good to be with you.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Let's go straight to the phones. Peter in the Harlem,
good morning. You're on the marximone show.

Speaker 6 (16:31):
Yes, good morning, it's a pleasure to listen to you.
I have a coverment. New York is dead. The fact
is that the stores are all run by people that
are unfortunately from other countries. So when the developments come in,
taking kick them out right away. The East Village, it's
tige of town. Harlem is another. I mean, what's going
on and they want to blame it on crime, but

(16:53):
it's not crime, it's greed. Do you have any comments, sir?

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yeah, I agree. I don't think you're wrong at all. Sir.
Look I here, I've lived in or around New York
City my entire life, with maybe a three four year exception.
I was in Miami. I'm fifty eight. I went to
grammar school, high school, college here, so I know what
to talk about. I've seen it go through all the
different iterations and it's almost unrecognizable right now. The thing is,
you need somebody who is a leader who will take

(17:18):
charge of the city and change things. We've seen it
go bad and then go good, and unfortunately, I think
we chose the wrong guy to change that. But I
appreciate the call, and I don't disagree with you. We
go to David and Queen's Good Morning, Hey Ken.

Speaker 7 (17:32):
I've been listening to radio for over forty years, and
there was a caller up to forty years ago who
predicted everything that's going on, and he's largely been blocked now.
But I think it's high time.

Speaker 8 (17:42):
To get some credit.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
To Jimney from Brooklyn, oh I remember listening to him.
I mean he was on Bob Grat years ago. I
think that was like one hundred years ago. He was, yeah, oh,
there we go. He gets a shout out there, let's
go down to North Carolina. Kathy, good morning.

Speaker 9 (17:57):
Hi.

Speaker 10 (17:57):
Can we really appreciate when you fill in from Mark?

Speaker 11 (18:00):
Thank you for telling guy.

Speaker 10 (18:04):
I haven't heard anybody talking about this. I'm going to
bring it up. Jimmy Kimmel lost his best friend who
is his bandmate a couple of days ago, and he
was on a show with a beautiful tribute for him,
and it was very moving. But I just wanted to
throw in there, what would Jimmy, what would you feel
like if people went on the air and started mocking

(18:25):
your friend's death or mocking the wife of your friend,
or his children, or his mother and his father who
were there with you in the studio. Like, he just
needs to get a clue of how irresponsible that was
and how rude. And now that it's happened to him,
somebody close to him has died tragically, maybe he should,

(18:48):
you know, think a little bit about what he did
to Charlie Kirk's family.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
And yeah, that's a very good point. Go ahead. I'm sorry,
let me finish your I'm sorry, Well.

Speaker 10 (18:59):
No, I'm I just want to but I'm going to
take a high road and I'm going to show some
grace to Jimmy Kimmel, and I'm going to give him
my condolences and my thoughts and prayers, which he never wants,
of course, but I just hope. I know this isn't
going to get to him, But I just want everybody
to collectively think, if you're in those shoes, you know,

(19:21):
to be a little more careful. And it's pretty obvious
he should have never done that, Like he almost lost
his job over it, which would have been great.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
And it wasn't only Kimmel, a lot of people who've
done that. And again it comes down to a dichotomy
of the left versus the right. There's just a whole
different Yes, I'm going to paint with a very broad brush,
but the left tends not to be into the religious stuff.
The right does tend to be a little bit more
into religion. We're talking about gradations of color here in
terms of religion non religion. The left tends to be

(19:50):
less empathetic. The right tends to be more empathetic. The
you know, the left is all about a show and
about being able to say they feel good about somebody,
but the right actually this is it. So yeah, there
is a difference there, and I think you're spot on
with that, Kathy. In fact, that harkens back to the
old you know saying that that we heard from. I'm

(20:11):
saying I'm forgetting names now, hello former FBI or the
current FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino. My gosh, it's what
happens when I'm at my coffee Dan Bongino again saying
that Republicans think Democrats are good people with bad ideas,
and Democrats think Republicans are bad people. There the Jimmy
Kimmel example is that right there, The idea that you
can make fun of Republicans dying because you don't consider

(20:35):
them good people, whereas we would never do the same
to them because we consider all people's lives precious. Star
in South Carolina, good morning, You're on seven to ten
w R.

Speaker 9 (20:46):
Hey, Jan, how are you? We've spoken several times, you know,
be in an off for forty eight years. What ma'am
Donnie does not know could fill an encyclopedia. This man
is an idiot. To think that social workers can go
to a seat. We have lost I think four or
five officers in the last six months going to domestics
and they were ambushed and killed even before they got
to the front door. This guy is out of his

(21:09):
ever loving mind, and him, coupled with Alvin Bragg, is
going to be the seventh circle of Hell in New
York City. I cannot believe for the life of me,
can people put these two people in office?

Speaker 2 (21:21):
And you know, Stuart, what's crazy. What's crazy is people say, well,
new York will learn. No, they won't learn. And here's
why New York is such a turnover of humans. I
think three quarters of the people currently living in New
York did not live here ten years ago. So that's
a huge junk of people. So as a result, it's
not like people could say, oh, remember back when we
elected that person, because I think a lot of those
people aren't here, so they don't understand. You know the

(21:43):
old adage about those who failed to learn history are
doomed to repeat it. We're repeating it right now. Sure.

Speaker 9 (21:50):
Yeah, real quick story. We had a mental patient and
I had a rapport with him, and any time they
dealt with him, if I was on duty, they would
call me officer Stewart. How are you you know? That
was nine times. The tenth time he tried to kill
me and kick the windows out in my patrol costs.
This is a ticking time bomb dealing with these people

(22:11):
and you do not They want an officer to go
with them, which defeats the entire purpose what they claim.
It's just insane.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
It's like when they tell an officer, don't aim at
the chest, aim at their foot. No, when you shoot,
you shoot right. They don't understand. Then you'll miss. And
if you're trying to protect yourself, that's it. So what
I hate to cut us off. We got to get
to the news, but I always appreciate your call, my friend,
Thank you very very much, and thank you for your
service as an officer. We appreciate that. Seven ten WR.
The time is ten thirty three and right after the news,

(22:41):
we'll speak with financial strategy Steve Cotton about how the
economy is looking now and what you can be doing
to safeguard your money.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
This is the Mark Simone Show on seven to ten
woor game from Mark Today.

Speaker 5 (22:54):
Here's Ken Rosatto.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
That really good to be with you on a Friday morning,
and the stock market took quite a hit yesterday. It
was down about seven hundred points. And while there are
some sectors of the economy that appear to be doing
better everyday, items like groceries are not really coming down
like we thought they might at this point. I mean
it's still fairly early on, but with the tariffs and whatnot,
things are still somewhat expensive. Eggs are down, yes, butters down,

(23:20):
but everything else is pretty much up. So a lot
of people are stretching their dollars to make ends meet.
Steve Cotton is a financial strategist. He's here to talk
about how consumer sentiment appears to be dropping for the
month of November and what we can do to safeguard
our dollars. Good morning you, Steve, Thanks for coming on.

Speaker 12 (23:37):
Good morning Ken, Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
You bet So, what is looking up in our economy?
What is looking down?

Speaker 12 (23:45):
Well? Energy prices have come down significantly. Matter of fact,
I heard this morning that there are twenty eight states
where the price of gas is already down to about
two dollars eighty cents a gallon. Wow, that's outstanding. When
you get energy prices down due to expanded production which
is what the Trump administration has been trying to do.

(24:06):
That has a ripple effect all throughout every product that
is made with petroleum products. We still have high housing costs,
but housing is largely a regional and a local phenomena.
It's due to shortage of supply, excess demand, persistently high

(24:26):
interest rates in terms of long term mortgage rates, which
the administration does not control. It's due to lots of factors,
population shifts, those kinds of things. So there are some
things the administration has had some success in addressing, and
some things that are just beyond their control.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
And Steve, I'm glad you brought up housing because here
in New York City where we are, we have something
called rent control. And for those unfamiliar, you know, there
is a board, a rent control board, and you know,
while the state and the city tell the landlords you
must do this to your property us put in fire extinguishers,
you must have this, you must you must maintain the plumbing,
you might and there are all these millions of dollars

(25:06):
a year of expenses that the landlords have to do.
They're not allowed to just raise the rent to pay
for it. So I don't know where the money's supposed
to come from. But the rent Control Board determines how
much or if the rent can go up or down
every I guess it's every other year or whatever. I'm
not living in New York City anymore, so if I
got the exact time that this happens. But the point is,
when you have rent control and people are locked in

(25:29):
at a good rate, they tend not to move. And
so when you have people not moving, you have no availability.
And when there's no availability of real estate, what happens
at the price of real estate? I leave?

Speaker 12 (25:41):
Well, that's that's true, right when when availability is limited,
prices are higher, right, and they remain higher. The problem
of housing in this country is one of supply. We
have underinvested in building new housing stock for twenty twenty years.
Communities that are trying to catch up. But there is

(26:03):
nothing wrong with requiring landlords and property owners to maintain
proper cleanliness, security, fire controls, you know, decent decent you know, water,
decent plumbing, and you know there there are a lot
of cases where we've seen slumlords. Oh yes, do those things.

(26:25):
And government should has an obligation to help support consumers
and provide minimal living standards. However, you've got to be
careful with rent controls because if you if you force
rents below a certain level where it's economic for those
landlords to make those improvements, you end up with a

(26:47):
housing shortage. And this is just economics. We've seen it
not only in New York, We've seen it in other
places around the country and around the world. So it's
a balancing act. Always. We have to hold land lords
and property owners to decent, minimal standards. There's nothing wrong
with that. But when you go overboard and you mandate expenses,

(27:10):
but you limit their ability to recoup those costs, then
you get a shortage.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
I'm with you just so that we remind everybody. This
is seven to ten wo R The Voice of New York,
The Mark Simone Show on a Friday. Ken Rosotto in
for Mark and we are speaking with financial strategist Steve Cotton.
We appreciate you coming in, Steven. You know, we have
something else here in New York City that's sort of
unique to us. We have these giant eleven hundred twelve
hundred foot tall, skinny skyscrapers that they've been building in

(27:37):
the last five to ten years. They're dotting the entire
landscape of Manhattan, parts of Queens and Brooklyn as well.
And the problem is many of those units are empty
because people from foreign countries, millionaires, billionaires from other countries
buy those units as investments. They don't even go there,
they don't even live there. The buildings are literally empty,
while there are thousands upon thousands of people all over

(27:59):
the city who desperately could use a place to live.
What could we possibly do to change that? The city
has tried to artificially affect change by saying, Okay, if
you're going to build that building, you have to do
twenty percent of the apartments for moderate income housing or
low income housing. But that can only help so much.

Speaker 12 (28:17):
Well, that's a problem, and it's a little bit unique
to New York. There are other communities where that kind
of thing structurally has happened. You can't you can't fence
out foreign investment or make it unattractive to foreign investors. However,
we do have an obligation to our own citizens first,

(28:37):
and we've got to really address the housing crisis through
expanded supply. That means incentivizing builders to build, lowering interest rates,
lowering the cost of construction. It's a combination of things,
but we really need a more creative approach to it
than we've seen in the past.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Well, financial strategist Steve Cotton, that is great advice and
always good to have somebody who has the bigger view
of the overall picture. We appreciate you coming on the
Mark Simone Show today.

Speaker 12 (29:07):
Well, thank you, Ken, the pleasure to be with you
as always go New York Baby.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
Amen. All right, you got it, Steve. Have a good day, sir.
Partley cloudy today and tomorrow high's low fifties, maybe maybe
some showers tomorrow night and partly cloudy Sunday, temps getting
a little warmer into the upper fifties. We're gonna take
your calls next eight hundred three to two one zero
seven ten, eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten.

(29:32):
It's Ken rosottowin from Mark on your Friday seven to
ten w o R. We're coming right.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
Back now more of the Mark Simone Show on seven
ten WR.

Speaker 5 (29:42):
Filling in for Mark. Here again is Ken Rosatto ten
fifty six.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Is that time seven ten WR The Voice of New
York Straight to our phones. We say hi to Shauna
on Long Island, Good morning, Shauna.

Speaker 13 (29:53):
Good morning Ken. You really carry the show well. I
wanted to find out about Mondani's foreign donations. Do you
know anything about that investigation? Has it led any anywhere.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
Yeah, it's going to take a while before they get
to the bottom of it. Obviously, there's a lot going
on behind the scenes. Once they announced an investigation is underway,
it could take months because they don't let you know
little dribs and drabs. It's all kept locked and quiet
until they find out enough information. And if you don't
hear anything, that means they didn't find anything. So but
I'm sure people are looking. There are a lot of

(30:28):
people who have Mamdani on the mind right now and
they are looking for anything that might discredit him in
any way, shape or forms or Trust me, if there
is something, they will get to the bottom of it.
Apparently there were some foreign based donations that were made
to his election campaign. He either returned them or it
turns out they were US citizens. So far that we
know who were living in foreign places. So that's what

(30:50):
we know at this point. Shanna, I appreciate the thank
you so much for calling you. Bet all right seven
to ten w R The Voice of New York. We
got somebody else lining it up, right now, do we
have line two? Okay, all right, So here's a quick
story I wanted to share with everybody. We got a
cute story here. Have you ever heard you've heard of
a dog bites man? How about man shoots I'm sorry,

(31:13):
dog shoots man? How about that story? This happened in Pennsylvania.
A Pennsylvania man told the cops the dog shot me dead. Serious,
This really happened. Apparently a guy put his shotgun down
on the bed and it was loaded, and then he
sat down on the bed next to the shotgun. His
dog got all excited, jumped up on the bed for

(31:34):
hugs and kisses. When he jumped up on the bed,
the shotgun went off. I'm laughing because the guy's okay.
The shotgun apparently caught the guy in the back. The
sun was downstairs, heard the shotgun go off. Got dad
to the hospital. He'll be okay. But the cops this
is the funniest part. At the end, when the cops
talked to the press, they said, we're investigating the shooting,
but we believe the dog shooting the man was accidental.

(31:58):
I just thought that was funny. I'm sorry, wo R
the Voice of New York. Paul, you are on the air.
Good morning, How you doing.

Speaker 7 (32:07):
I heard you talking about Mamdani and his idiot idea
about the social workers. I was a New York City
cop for five years. I switched over. I became a fireman.
But a couple of years ago he and Tiffany Caban,
a New York City council woman, Tiffany Cabban, issued a
document saying that if you're dealing with a psycho with

(32:27):
an DP, don't call the police. Instead, you can knock
a soda over and distract them. I swear to god.
They put this in print, they put this in writing.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
And that's why you know they've been quietly checking this out, Paul.
In over the last seven eight months, they have been
quietly testing this, and it has proven itself to be
an utter failure. It doesn't work. So clearly, this is
not something they just they've just tested once. As you
pointed out, it's been tested before multiple times. Sounds great,

(32:58):
but this is all about socialism.

Speaker 13 (33:00):
Hey.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
It sounds great to have everything free, too, doesn't work
that way, Paul. I appreciate the call. We got to
take a break for news here, but definitely keep tuning
in and keep calling party. Cloudy today and tomorrow highs
in the low fifties, maybe some clouds and showers tomorrow night,
and then partly cloudy Sunday, tempts in the upper fifties.
This is Ken razottowin from Mark on your Friday. Coming
up later, we'll speak with brand and digital specialist Fisher

(33:21):
about digital ID how iPhone users can add a digital
version of their passport to their iPhones. It's coming up
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Speaker 1 (33:29):
News, Now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten woor
Filling in for Mark, here's Ken Rosatto.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Yeah, so nice to be with you on a Friday. See,
Marc has to deal with you Monday or you have
to deal with Mark, Marcus to deal with all of us.
I listen Monday through Thursday. When ah, you're miserable on
Monday Tuesday. You can't wait for the week to get
by Wednesday? Like is this over Thursday or anticipating the weekend?
That I come in and fill in from time to
time on a Friday, And unlike the lucky grand parent

(33:58):
who gets the child in a good mood and then
has a child back when the diaper needs to be changed.
That's what That's what I am on a Friday. Good
to be with you. Former TV newsaker from here in
New York City, Ken Rosatto, reporting for duty. You'll probably
best remember me from twenty plus years I spent anchoring
the morning and midday show at Channel seven. I was
a Channel five before that, I did Channel fifty five.

(34:19):
These days, I'm on a streaming channel called on New
Jersey ONNJ dot com. I do a show Monday through Friday.
There just not today because I'm here happily. But and
then I also have a website. I have a website
for all you foodies called the Food Dude, So on
New Jersey. You can check out at ONNJ dot com

(34:39):
and the food Dude is Thefooddude dot us for a
free food website, thousands of recipes from around the world
straight to the business part of it. We got a
lot to talk about today to wrap up the busy newsweek.
In our phone lines wide open eight hundred three to
two one zero seven ten, so you hear a lot
from police and a fe not only in New York

(35:01):
City but around the country talking about how hey, crime
is down. Crime is down here in Chicago. Even though
seven hundred people are arrested this week, it crime is down.
You know what they failed to mention is when you
change the laws and you no longer have certain things
looked at as crime, when you decide as a district attorney,
you will not prosecute these seventy percent of the laws.

(35:23):
If people violate them, we will not prosecute them. So
you tell your police don't even bother arresting people for
those When you dumb down people who are arrested for felonies,
you dumb it down to a misdemeanor. Sure, crime appears
down when you say that murder in some cases is
an accident. You know when things like that happen. Statistically speaking,

(35:45):
things look like they're up and up and everything is
great and crime is down. The reality is crime is
not dropped. Anybody who works for the police department here
in New York or anywhere around the country will tell
you crime is not down. These statistics are down. Can
that's anecdotal. Talk to the cops I talk to on
a regular basis. I take calls on on my show
every day. I talk to cops all the time. My

(36:06):
dad was a cop. I have a lot of cops
in the family. Believe me, crime is not down, and
don't let the Democrats fool you and tell you it is.
And that's by the way true in Democrat and Republican cities,
but more so in blue cities. Because you don't punish people,
you let there be a revolving door. They come in
and out of the system. Crime just keeps going up
and up. Well, Mayor Zoram wants to deploy social workers

(36:29):
instead of police, of course, to respond to nine to
one one calls. But apparently the plan's already been operating
on a very small level in New York City. They've
been testing it quietly and it's been failing miserably. Published
reports say early results of a program called be Heard
shows it ain't working. Mom Dommy wants to take one
point one billion dollars, shifting it to the Department of

(36:51):
Community Safety for this send social workers plan. And apparently
an audit was done back in May by the city
Controller and they determine this thing is a failure. But
yet we all got suckered into it, right, We all
voted for Mom Donnie thinking he's going to make things better.
We don't need police. We already have members of the
NYPD leaving and just wait until he takes office and

(37:13):
the NYPD sees it they don't get protection by this
mayor that if it comes down to it, that he's
going to turn his back on the NYPD. We hope
it doesn't happen, but based on what he has said
of police in the past, it's likely going to happen.
You know, he out now told us who he is
and we just laugh at his head.

Speaker 14 (37:32):
He's not a socialist, he's not a communist. Come on,
you're overreacting. Can you conspiracy theorist? Sob No, No, he
said it. Why shouldn't we believe him. Apparently sixty percent
of the calls made under this plan, this be heard
as it is called sixty percent are deemed ineligible in
what they tested. More than thirty five percent of the

(37:55):
eligible calls from mental health professionals never got a response.
And for this, mom, Donnie wants to spend over a
billion dollars of your tax payer money. Sadly, I think people.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
Are going to get hurt or worse, and you'll see
crime rising all over the city. Speaking of crime, we
had Mayor to be mom, Donnie say this.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
Police have a critical role to play in creating public safety.
And I speak to those officers on the beat. I
hear a frustration from them that we're asking them to
do more than just focus on serious crimes. We're asking
them to do the work of mental health professionals and
social workers, and that reliance on having them deal with
almost every failure of the social safety net is making
it impossible for them to tackle those crimes.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
Yeah, that sounds great from a guy who's never held
a job in his life and who sits behind a
desk and pushes pencils around. Go out and just go
out for a day with the NYPD and see what
they have to deal with mentally unstable people who are stoned,
people who are drunk. And then you expect them to
listen to reason and oh, let's sit down, let's have
a nice conversation. Meanwhile, they have weapons. They'll pick up

(38:56):
a broken bottle, they'll throw a stone, and we're supposed
to just think that'll be fine. You know, someone's going
to get hurt. Mayor to be Mamdani, unfortunately, and too
many people were suckers and bought his whole line in
the meantime, all the promises, all the goodies that Mamdani promised,
all these wonderful goodies, the free buses, the free childcare,

(39:16):
the free supermarkets. He was suggesting raising taxes on the
richest of New Yorkers, those who make a million dollars
or more, which in New York sounds like a lot.
If you lived in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, that'd be a lot.
You live in New York. A million makes you middle class.
And this is what he said about it.

Speaker 3 (39:32):
You know, I've said time and again that I believe
these are the most straightforward ways that we can actually
fund universal childcare, making buses fast and free. And I've
said that the two clear ways to do so raising
personal income taxes on the top one percent by two
percent and raising the corporate text to match that of
New jerseys corporate tax of eleven point five percent. Now,
if there are other ways to raise this money to
fund this agenda, the most important things that we fund

(39:53):
the agenda.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
Yeah, part of the problem there's zuron is if you're
a multi millionaire or billionaire like your family is. By
the way, does your family live, Yeah, they live here
in New York. They also live in Uganda. I bet
you they pay their taxes in Uganda and not in
New York. I don't know. I could be totally wrong.
I might be totally wrong. I don't know. I'm conjuring
that up. I'm just saying I would bet somebody should

(40:17):
check into that. Where do you pay there? Where does
the family pay the taxes here in New York or
in Uganda? The problem is in the real world today,
if you're a multimillionaire or billionaire, you don't have to
call New York home anymore. You could call, you know,
walk Ashaw your home, pay the taxes there which you're
little to none, and still do business remotely. You don't
have to physically be located here anymore. You can fly

(40:38):
back and forth, not live here and make a good
living and visit New York for the best of it
and not be here to pay the taxes. Governor Tathy
Hochel said of the buses, I cannot.

Speaker 4 (40:49):
Set forth a plan right now that takes money out
of a system that relies on the fares of the
buses and the subways.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Translation, we are billions and billions and billions in debt
with the and you want us to give away seven
hundred million to a billion dollars more in freebes ain't
gonna happen. In terms of funding, Mom dummy shot back, the.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
Most important thing is not how we fund it, but
that we fund it. I think these are the most
direct ways to do so. But any funding stream that
would fund these programs, that is one that we would welcome.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
So Zoron is saying, here's a stone, let me try
to get blood from it, because it's never been tried before.
Zoron right, right seven ten wo R the Voice of
New York one eight hundred three to two one zero
seven ten one eight hundred three to two one zero
seven ten. It's Ken Razotto win from Mark on a Friday.
You know, back about six years ago, fewer than fourteen

(41:39):
million Americans were on food stamps. We call them snap now,
so no one feels bad. Back in the day, you
stood in line, you were handed actual stamps in a book,
and you got to use those stamps in certain food
stores and they could only be used for certain kinds
of food. Well, there's more and more. Liberal hands got
involved in the process. The program was made as easy

(41:59):
as possible for people so they wouldn't feel embarrassed, and
that's okay. Look, there are certain people who desperately and
genuinely need assistance. And I think if you're like me,
you have a heart. You don't want to see anybody
ever be at need or want for food. And I
would always offer somebody food. Anytime I've had anybody beg
me for money, I always say, listen, I'm not going

(42:19):
to give you money, but I'll give you food. All
too often they say I don't watch your food, I
want your money. I've had that told to me right
outside Channel seven studios a number of times. But the
few times people did take me up and I bought
them food. So anyway, stamps got replaced eventually by a
debit card, and instead of standing in line, the government
just transfers the money directly into the debit card account.

(42:41):
Of course, during the government's shutdown, that all got paused.
For the most part, people got to choose whatever they
want in the food store. As of late well, since
Joe Biden took over as president, the number of SNAP
recipients went from fourteen million to over forty two million nationwide.
Now it wasn't just because the need was higher. A

(43:01):
good chunk of That spike came during the pandemic when
the Democrat controlled government urged people to get in on
the program. In fact, under Biden, SNAP benefits were drastically increased,
eligibility was drastically expanded, so of course people took advantage
of it. Biden used executive and legislative actions to do that,
and unlike President Trump, there were no work requirements, so

(43:24):
all you got to do is say I want SNAP
and you got it. That was it. The sad thing
is there are people who genuinely need food assistance and
this is now costing US hundreds of billions of dollars,
and sadly, millions more people gloned onto the system at
the time, which caused more financial burden to taxpayers. Literally

(43:44):
one in eight Americans now receive SNAP benefits. That money
gets again direct deposited into a debit card from the
US government, and now you get people used to it
over not just a month or two, or even a
year or two, but many years, so it becomes part
of what they rely upon. So where does the US
money get that money from? They don't just print it.

(44:05):
It comes from you and me. You and I work,
and the money we earned gets taxed, and from the taxes,
those taxes go to pay programs like that. Again, I'm
not talking about the mother who is alone, the spouse
left and left them alone with children. I'm not talking
about that. Those people need this, That's fine, okay. I
believe that's what the program is for, to help them.

(44:27):
But I'm talking about if you are twenty one years old,
you are able bodied, and you choose not to work,
or you choose to work a job part time, and
you snap to pay for your food. If you're eighteen
to sixty four and can work, you should. And under
the current rules, Trump is simply saying, if you are
able bodied, an adult, you don't have dependents, and you

(44:48):
are between the ages of eighteen and sixty four, you
must work, volunteer or participate in training for about twenty
hours a week. That's it, in order to continue getting
your benefits. And what is the response. The response a
lot of people offering a lot of hate for it,
saying why why seven ten wr the Voice of New
York Ken Risotto win for Mark. It is Friday and
speaking of SNAP. That program is run under the Department

(45:11):
of Agriculture, and the person in charge of that department
is a person named Secretary brook Rollins. Well, after brook
Rollins got into office in the beginning of the year,
she did a little research and Secretary Rollins, surprise surprise,
found there is an enormous amount of fraud in the
SNAP program. With just a little research, she found five

(45:33):
thousand dead people still receiving SNAP in some cases for years.
Who's spending that money? Aha? She also found at least
half a million people half a million people receiving SNAP
benefits twice under the same name, so they collected They
had two different debit cards collecting money every month. She said,

(45:55):
over eighty percent of able bodied Americans on these benefits
can work, but choose not to, and that allows taxpayers
to foot the bill. Right Why should they work if
they could sit back and collect the money. It's human nature.
I almost don't blame them. We're the stupid people allowing
it to happen. Well, apparently there's going to be some
big announcements next week with a plan to fix all this.

(46:15):
You're gonna have a lot of angry people, but it's
got to be done. The party is over. Just remember,
when more people get back to work, more tax dollars
are generated to help pay down the debt. And how
would you like to have two thousand bucks in your
pocket for doing absolutely nothing? Hmm. Sounds like a good segue,
doesn't it. President Trump says he plans on sending every
American a two thousand dollars dividend check from all the

(46:39):
extra revenues we got from tariffs. White House Press Secretary
Caroline Levitt announced that on Wednesday. She said that a
team of economic advisors is looking into the logistics right
now how to do it to give him a tax credit,
that you send him a check. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson
initially said the payout may just be like a tax
savings under Trump's one Big Beautiful Bill legislat, but the

(47:00):
President said, no, come on, Scott, send him money, Send
him money, loosen up the purse strings. The President clarified
that to suggest that checks might be in the mail
before you know it. And couldn't you use two thousand
bucks around the holidays, And if you have ten members
of your family, that's twenty grand coming into your household.
Everybody would get one, I guess, unless I'm not sure
if it's just specifically taxpayers or if it's every member

(47:22):
of the household. All the details to come, but that
would give a nice quick spike to the economy. And
one last story here seven to ten w O war.
You know that swarmy smug SOB meaning son of a
bumpkin Congressman Eric Swollwell of California, the guy who was
allegedly having relations with Fang Fang, the Chinese spy or

(47:43):
reports now say that he's been hit with a federal
criminal referral. Yep, he and Letitia I have something in common.
The allegation is that he has alleged mortgage and tax
fraud related to his purchase of a one point two
million dollar home in Washington that he claim aimed as
his primary residence. Again, this is just an allegation at
this point. The problem is it can't be his primary

(48:06):
residence if he is a congressman from California, because California
must be his primary residence to get elected to go
serve in Washington, d C. So what is it with
the Democrats lying on mortgage forms to get a discount
on their mortgages, their taxes and insurance, lying about a
home being primary residence when it's not. That is a
federal offense. You're lying at federal documents. But once again,

(48:28):
if this is true, Swollwell is saying this is nothing
more than political retribution, just like what happened to Letitia James.
The problem is people like he and Leticia never come
forth and deny they lied on the forms that you
say it's political retribution. If you committed a crime, whether
there's political retribution or not, you are the one responsible

(48:49):
because you, in this case, allegedly committed the crime. Seven
ten w R The Voice of New York. It is
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Speaker 1 (49:24):
To Mark Simone Show on seven ten wr Ken.

Speaker 5 (49:28):
For Mark Today, Here's Ken Rosato.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
And good to be with you. On a Friday, straight
to our busy phones, we go to our friend Vincent
in Brooklyn.

Speaker 5 (49:34):
Good morning, Vincent, Ken, can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (49:39):
I sure? Ken?

Speaker 8 (49:40):
Okay? Ken, I heard the real estate expert that you
just had on your show.

Speaker 6 (49:44):
Ken.

Speaker 8 (49:45):
Me and my family have been in the real estate
business for ninety five years in New York City. There
was at one time there wasn't a neighborhood where my
grandfather owned or owned in the past house. He bought
his first department and building two weeks before the Great Depression.
One of the biggest drivers of the high rents in

(50:07):
New York City is you can't have twenty million immigrants
come into this country, and a lot of them are
going to the big blue cities like New York, Chicago,
La Boston. They also apartments that used to be let's
say marginal. Let's say apartments that ah, they were like

(50:30):
a slit. Put it this way, they would be considered
starter apartments. There would be an apartment that you rented
when you first got out of school, or you first
got married or whatever, and then you'd work your way up.
Now those apartments are considered high end. The people are
not building new buildings here because of all the regulations.

(50:52):
Every month there's a new regulation I have to comply with.
The newest one was a number of years ago, about
ten years ago. There was the lead paint certification. Right, okay,
you when you reent the apartment, you had to certify
that there were no children under six years old. There
was no lead paint. Everything was either ripped out or

(51:15):
painted over, which makes the lead innocuous. Now recently, two
weeks ago, I got an email from the City of
New York saying that I have to prove in advance
that there's no lead.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
How do you How are you supposed to do that?

Speaker 15 (51:31):
Yeah, here's the here's the con You have to call
up a lead abatement company and they come down and
every inch of your house they inspect for lead paint, vapors,
lead paint, lead and paint hasn't been used in one
hundred years. The only place and I used to work
in a steel factory sixty or sixty years ago, where

(51:55):
we used to make fuel tanks for gas nations and
for apartment buildings. When they would come off the assembly line,
me and this other kid. He was on the right
side and I was on the left side. And we
have buckets of red oxide primate paint and we would
paint the it's anti corrosive anthe d. We would paint
the tanks, and then when they were shipped out, the

(52:17):
landlord or whomever would paint them. What are the color
you want? That's the only place where it was found.
So now, when I got this letter, I called up
some letter batement companies. They want two hundred and seventy
five dollars per apartment cause certify that you don't have

(52:38):
lead vapors over a certain amount of millions.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
And Vincent I don't mean to step up the only
because it's almost news time. At Vincent, I guarantee there
are only certain people who are qualify to do that job.
And I wonder what their connection is with the officials.
I'm just saying, I don't know, but I'm going to
leave you with this. Vincent, you could you will appreciate this.
I show this story that I thought of you last
night when I read this story, New York City will
see a wave of apartment buildings with ninety nine units.

(53:05):
Did you hear this? So apparently there's a new tax program.
New York City developers have hit a fresh snag and
trying to solve the city's housing process. It's a new
tax program that costs them extra money if they build
a building that has one hundred apartments or more. So
what are they doing to save? And it's a lot
of money. So they're capping it off at ninety nine.
So now you're going to get like thousands of apartment

(53:25):
buildings with ninety nine units or less as a result.
Here they want to solve the housing process, the housing
crisis in New York City, but yet they impost penalties
on landlords who want to build buildings with one hundred
units or more. So why bother doing it? This is
the left. They always cut off their noses despite their faces. Vincent,
you know, I love talking to you, my friend. Have

(53:46):
a wonderful weekend. Enjoy it. Ah, my goodness. All right,
we're going to talk about ID coming up. It is Friday,
Ken Rozotto and from Mark In just minutes from now,
we will speak with brand and digital strategist Fisher about
an a new easy way to get through the airport
using your phone instead of a passport. And then We're
going to hit on the issue of digital ID seven

(54:08):
ten wor.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
Now more of the marximone Show on seven to ten
woor filling in for Mark here again is Ken Rosado, had.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
A good Friday to you seven ten wor The Voice
of New York and whether it's this morning is a
man who's on a TV show that I get to
do each day on the streaming channel on New Jersey.
Brand and digital specialist and strategist Fisher, who can be
found on x and threads with user name at Fisher
and through his website Fisher dot Media to talk about

(54:38):
digital ID and how iPhone users can add a digital
version of their passport to their iPhones and then, in
a very different version of the story, how the EU
and UK are requiring citizens there to have a very
different and much more potentially dangerous version of digital ID.
Good morning to you, Fisher, Good morning. A lot of
pressure there, Yeah, I don't have too high a for you.

(55:00):
So let's let's let's talk about the practical and safe
use of digital IDA. And that's the Apple version. Apple
has this really cool feature now, a digital ID for wallet.

Speaker 16 (55:11):
Yeah, and Google has the same and with both Apple
Wallet and Google Wallet. You can now load your passport,
your United States passport into this wallet and if you've
used Apple Pay, and if you're in the city, you've
used it probably on the subway rider buses with omni,
So it's really easy, really simple. You double click a
button on the side of your watch or your phone,

(55:33):
you tap to pay. The idea is the same thing.
And what's great about this and it's you know, New
York has its driver's license in an app. At this point,
New Jersey's pass legislation to have their driver's license mobile,
Connecticut and Pennsylvania is still up in the air as
to where that is. Having your passport allows you to
go through the airport using an ID where you can

(55:55):
tap and if you've been to an airport lately, you
have your regular lines, you have your TSA pre check lines,
you have you're clear you of all that, but there's
a digital ID line and normally they do facial recognition,
and some people don't like that. They don't want the
government to take your picture, even though they're deleted afterwards.

Speaker 17 (56:10):
It's just verification.

Speaker 16 (56:11):
But now having your passport in your phone, and most
people have a passport in one way or another you
can use that digital ID even if you don't have
you're in a state New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania that does
not have a digital driver's license, so it's really convenient.
It's also a convenient backup right of you know, say
you're traveling and you lost it, you get to a

(56:35):
checkpoint at the airport, whatever, you could begin that process
of easily easily or easier.

Speaker 17 (56:40):
Verifying your identification.

Speaker 16 (56:42):
So it really opens up now having it on Apple
on the iPhone and your Apple Watch, and having it
in your Google wallet, of being able to have a
standard identification that you can use at all these airports.
And then eventually what comes down the line is the
ability to verify your identity on your phone or your age.

Speaker 17 (57:01):
So say you're ordering.

Speaker 16 (57:02):
From Uber Eats and you need to want to order
a bottle of wine for Thanksgiving dinner and you need
to verify your age, you would be able to do
that eventually digitally. So again you know, there's I know
what we're going to go into, but having a digital
version of your driver's license or a digital version of
your passport isn't as scary as what might be going

(57:25):
on in other countries where they're doing national digital ideas.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
Let me just remind folks, you're listening to seven ten
wore the Voice of New York Ken Rosotto and from
Mark Simone on a Friday, and we are speaking to Fisher,
who is a brand and digital strategist. We're talking about
having your passport now on your iPhone or your Android.
I found myself the other day. I had driven from
Jersey to visit folks in Westchester, and while I was
halfway there, I realized, oh my god, I left my

(57:51):
wallet at home. But I remembered I have my driver's
license in my phone, so at least rather than turning
around and going home, I just continued on my way.
And I also have a credit card on my phone,
so I could tap and use that. But being fifty eight,
like I still have a paddic attack not having my
wallet now. We talked about this is the positive. Right
when you use your you have your license on your phone.

(58:13):
In New York, New Jersey, all they can do is
have access when I say they police or whatever, if
you've gotten stopped, they only have access to the info
on your license with a tap.

Speaker 16 (58:23):
Correct, correct, So what happens is and eventually as this
becomes a standard right and digital IDs begin to roll
out across the state. Right now, only twelve states in
Puerto Rico have a driver's license failable in your Apple wallets.
Some other states, like I said, New York, Oklahoma, they
have their own app. But eventually, what will happen is
you go to We'll start easy. You go to a

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bar or a restaurant and again need to verify ID
whether you're to get in or at the bar. You
would just tap your ID to a reader and it
would only give the information needed. So if your pictures
say that you're over twenty one, whatever, that is, right.
If you get pulled over by an officer, you they
would have a reader on them. I know there's a
lot of skepticism of well, don't don't hand your police

(59:08):
officer your phone. Absolutely, don't hand anybody your phone. But
what they will eventually have is just a reader, probably
a small little you know, reader on their vest or
on a clipboard or something, and you'll just tap. It'll
only show the information that they need. Now, obviously, as
a police officer, they will probably have your picture, date
of birth, you know driver's license class, you know whether

(59:28):
you can drive an eighteen wheel or motorcycle, et cetera.
There'll probably be some information. And when you go to
tsa same thing. When you tap your phone, it'll give
the information needed to verify. You know, it's a real ID,
your again, your picture, your name, all of that, right
to match your ticket. So yes, it is a permission based,
you know, kind of identification. So you you only show

(59:49):
the information that that.

Speaker 2 (59:51):
We had talked about that in the bests. My fear was, oh,
you hand your officer the phone and now he could
go through and he'll find something, Well what's that and
you say that can't happen. You do not and them
the phone. It's just a tap. They would have a reader,
just like restaurants have a reader when you go to
pay right.

Speaker 17 (01:00:06):
Yeah, and it's right that or omnis.

Speaker 16 (01:00:10):
I'm not as familiar with the with Google as I
am Apple, because as you know, I'm an Apple fanboy.
But I have Express Transit, so I tap when I
go to the subway. But sometimes you'd have to double tap,
you know, or a double click on the side of
your phone and then tap that way, depending on how
you have your phone set up.

Speaker 17 (01:00:25):
It's the same thing.

Speaker 16 (01:00:26):
And when you go to TSA with your passport on
your iOS or Google device, Android device, same thing. You
would double tap or double click your phone, it would
show the ID. You tap it to their reader and
then you wait for you know, to verify, and then
you walk through TSA.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
And we have two minutes left. So I'm just giving
your heads up on that. You are listening to seven
ten w R the Voice of New York kens in
from Mark on a Friday with Fisher who has a
digital strategist and Fisher talk about the difference between the
digital ID we're talking about here in the US and
now the digital ID which gives me the creeps, the
big brother version that they have in the EU and
in UK exactly.

Speaker 16 (01:01:03):
So in Britain they are doing a mandatory digital ID
system by twenty twenty nine. They're saying it's to combat
illegal working and deter migrants, but it's going to.

Speaker 17 (01:01:12):
Serve as your proof of right to work.

Speaker 16 (01:01:15):
It's going to eventually be a way that you can
get insurance, buy a house, renting property, opening a bank account,
all of that. And as you know you might have
heard in China they use they have social credits, right,
so if you do something or say something you can
be restricted from gaining access to something. That's what Britain's
going down the path to is you may not be

(01:01:35):
able to ride the tube or you may not be
able to take a plane because you wouldn't be able
to get through you know, their version of TSA. It
is going down a path of big brother and that
again is in the UK. It is not the same
as digital driver's license or your passport on your phone
that we have here in the United States.

Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
Something tells me the mom Danni's of the world wish
it could go that way though.

Speaker 17 (01:01:58):
I would, Yes, sure it would, but it would be
in England.

Speaker 16 (01:02:02):
It's more like you're on a college campus and you
have your ID and you tap it to go everywhere,
get into everything. It's that same premise compared to what
we have here in the United States, which is not that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
Yeah, and then your ID gets stolen in Britain and
then you your screw.

Speaker 17 (01:02:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:02:17):
And if that's right, and we've talked about that, if
that's a way for you to access your bank account
and that ID accesses everything, if that does get you know,
hacked in some way in Britain, that can cause a
lot of problems because that's one id for everything that's bad.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
All right, Well, I love talking to you all the
time because you are the man in the no brand
and digital strategist Fisher who can be found on x
and threads with user name at Fisher and through his
website Fisher dot Media, which by the way, I have
checked out. It's very cool. Thank you for coming on
this morning, Fisher. Thanks talk to you Lark. You bet
it's cameras Ato went from Mark on your Friday. When
we come back, we will take your calls. Give us

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Speaker 5 (01:03:09):
Here's Ken Rosano.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
And good to be with you. This is a special
weekend in my family. I have to take one second,
please indulge me. I want to say a very special
happy birthday. Have a little great nephew who turns three. Looky,
happy birthday, My niece Lauren, my sister in law Carolyn,
all have birthdays. And my dad, who I'm very blessed
to still have with us. He turns ninety five on Sundays.

(01:03:32):
So we're all gonna be with everybody, actually the whole
family will be together. But happy ninety fifth to my
dad Danny, and also happy belated Veterans Day to him.
He was a marine sergeant and very proud to be
so happy birthday to them. And if you're celebrating a
birthday too, we go to our busy phones right now,
Steven Manhattan, you're on seven ten wr Good morning.

Speaker 18 (01:03:52):
All right, Ken and Dog. Just tell everybody that foreign
countries like China, Russia, Guitar, Saudi Arabia amongst you many countries,
they pour billions of dollars into America through lobbying and
business deals. And the first thing those countries say is
keep your borders wide open.

Speaker 11 (01:04:09):
And increase immigration more. And they're flooding it. They have
the biggest influence. I hear elderly people calling in. They
want to know who's bringing all the money in. Well,
they're bringing it in and they're gaining citizenship. Millions of
third world as have come in to America and millions
of third world is both third world American hating candidates
like the Communist mayor elect of New York City. Folks,

(01:04:31):
you shouldn't act surprise. Nineteen sixty five Immigration Acts has
to go.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
Well. You know, it's amazing. We have tons of great immigrants.
Unfortunately the ones that came illegally did not start the
process the right way. The ones who came legally, God
bless them, and they helped build a great country. But
doing it the legal ways the way we got to
do it. Steve, thank you so much. I appreciate the call.
Seven to ten wo R the Voice of New York.
Let's go to Glenn in New Jersey. Glenn, good morning,

(01:05:00):
and I have a New Jersey to the driver's license.

Speaker 19 (01:05:02):
Now, employers are prohibited h to asking your data birth
on an application, but sometimes what they'll do is they'll say,
this job entails driving, and we need to just have
your driver's license number. We don't need to actually look
at it. We're breaking up identify you. The first two

(01:05:24):
is the year, your month, the second is your year
of birth, and the last is your eye color.

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
Oh. Interesting, Interesting, So you think they could glean a
lot from that right by kind of reading around the lines.

Speaker 19 (01:05:37):
There, Yeah, because now they know how old you are,
and if you're too old based upon your driver's license number,
you're not going to get the job.

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
Interesting. So that's age discrimination without saying it's age discrimination. Right,
very clever, that's the way it's done well, you know.
But again, though, you would think California would have exercised
the same caution before they gave out a commercial driver's
licenses to people who weren't citizens of the United States. Glenn,
we appreciate the call. Thank you very much for calling
in seven to ten WOR the Voice of New York.

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