November 14, 2025 • 33 mins
Ken Rosato fills in for Mark Simone. 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 takes your calls. 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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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten woor filling
in for Mark.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here's Ken Rosatto.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Yeah, so nice to be with you on a Friday.
See Mark 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 you're miserable
on Monday Tuesday. You can't wait for the week to
get by Wednesday, like is this over yet Thursday? Or
anticipating the weekend that I come in and fill in
from time to time on a Friday, and I'm like
the lucky grand parent who gets the child in a
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good mood and then has a child back when the
diaper needs to be changed. That's what I am on
a Friday. Good to be with you. Former TV news
aker from here in New York City, Ken Rosato 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. These days, I'm on a streaming
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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 onj dot com and the food Dude is Thefooddude
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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 officials, not only
in New York City but around the country talking about how, hey,
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crime is down. Crime is down here in Chicago even
though seven hundred people are arrested this weeknd 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.
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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,
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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. Yeah. Talk to the cops I talk to
on a regular basis. I take calls on my show
every day. I talk to cops all the time. My
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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
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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 Donnie wants to take one
point one billion dollars, shifting it to the Department of
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Community Safety for this send social workers plan. And apparently
an audit was done back in May by the city
Controller and they determined 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
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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 4 (04:01):
Die.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
He's not a social aus, he's not a communists. Come on,
you're overreacting. Can you conspiracy theorist? Sob No, he said it.
Why shouldn't we believe them? 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.
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More than thirty five percent of the eligible calls from
mental health professionals never got a response. And for this,
Mam Donnie wants to spend over a billion dollars of
your tax payer money. Sadly, I think people 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 Mam Donnie say this.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Police have a critical role to play in creating public safety.
And when 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 3 (05:03):
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 in the 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 were 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
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pick up 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, the free supermarkets. He was suggesting raising taxes
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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 and makes you
middle class. And this is what he said about it.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
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 ways to raise this money to
fund this agenda, the most important thing is that we
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fund the agenda.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah. Part of the problem there, iss Zuran is if
you're a multimillionaire or billionaire, like your family is. By
the way, where does your family live?
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
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.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
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 check into that.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Where do you pay there?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
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, uh, and still do business remotely.
You don't have to physically be located here anymore. You
can fly back and forth, not live here, and make
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a good living and visit New York for the best
of it and not be here to pay the taxes.
Governor Kathy Hochel said of the buses, I cannot.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
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 3 (07:26):
Translation, we are billions and billions and billions in debt
with the MTA, and you want us to give away
seven hundred million to a billion dollars more in freebies.
Ain't gonna happen. In terms of funding, Mom, dammy shot back.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
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 3 (07:48):
So Zoran 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 to ten wore the Voice of
New York one eight hundred three to two won zero
seven ten, one eight hundred three to two, one zero
seven ten. It's Ken rizzottowin from Mark on a Friday.
You know, back about six years ago, fewer than fourteen
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million Americans who 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 as possible for people so they wouldn't feel embarrassed.
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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.
I would always offer somebody food. Anytime I've had anybody
beg me for money, I always say, listen, I'm not
going to give you money, but I'll give you food.
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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.
Of course, during the government's shutdown, that all got paused.
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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
good chunk of that spike came during the pandemic, when
the Democrat controlled government urged people to get in on
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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
all you got to do is say I want SNAP
and you got it. That was it. The sad thing
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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 glond onto the system at
the time, which caused more financial burden to taxpayers. Literally,
one in eight Americans now receive SNAP benefits. That money
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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.
It comes from you and me. You and I work,
and the money we earned gets taxed, and from the taxes,
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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.
But I'm talking about if you are twenty one years old,
you are able bodied, and you choose not to work,
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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
are between the ages of eighteen and sixty four, you
must work, volunteer or participate in training for about twenty
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hours a week. That's it, in order to continue getting
your benefits. And what is the response. The response that
a lot of people offering a lot of hate for it,
saying why why? Seven ten wr the Voice of New
York Ken Rosatto in for Mark. It is Friday and
speaking of SNAP. That program is run under the Department
of Agriculture, and the person in charge of that department
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is a person named Secretary Brook Rollins. Well after Brooke
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
thousand dead people still receiving SNAP in some cases for years.
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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.
Over eighty percent of able bodied Americans on these benefits
can work, but choose not to, and that allows taxpayers
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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 gonna be some big
announcements next week with a plan to fix all this.
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
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are generated to help pay down the debt. And how
would you like to have two thousand bucks in your
pocket for doing absolutely noting? 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
extra revenues we got from tariffs. White House Press Secretary
Caroline Leavitt announced that on Wednesday. She said that a
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team of economic advisors is looking into the logistics right now,
how to do it? Did you to give him a
tax credit? Do you send him a check? Treasury Secretary
Scott Besson initially said the payout may just be, you know,
like a tax savings under Trump's one Big Beautiful Bill legislation.
But the President said, no, come on, Scott, send him money,
Send him money, loosen up the purse strings. The President
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clarified that to suggest that checks might be in the
mail before you know it. And couldn't she use two
thousand bucks around the holidays? And if you had 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
of the household. All the details to come, but that
would give a nice quick spike to the economy. And
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one last story here seven to ten. W you know
that swarmy smug SOB meaning son of a bumpkin Congressman
Eric Swalwell of California, the guy who was allegedly having
relations with Fang Fang, the Chinese spy or reports now
say that he's been hit with a federal criminal referral Yep,
he and Letitia I have something in common. The allegation
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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 claimed as his primary residence. Again,
this is just an allegation at this point. The problem
is it can't be his primary residence if he is
a congressman from California, because California must be his primary
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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 offect. You're lying at
federal documents. But once again, if this is true, Swallwell
is saying this is nothing more than political retribution, just
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like what happened to Letitia James. The problem is people
like he and Letitia 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 because you, in this case
allegedly committed the crime. Seven ten wr The Voice of
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New York. It is Friday, Ken Rosotto in for Mark.
It's going to be partly cloudy today. And if you
like a tempts in the low fifties, then it's a
good thing. That's what you're going to get. Coming up
in just a little bit, we're going to have brand
and digital strategist Fisher about a new easy way to
get through the airport using your phone instead of a passport.
We want you to give us a call. Coming up
next eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. We
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will take your calls eight hundred three to two one
zero seven ten seven ten wor eleven twenty two will
be right back.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
To Mark Simone show on seven ten wr Inn from
Mark Today.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Here's Ken Rose and did we with you on a Friday?
Straight to our busy phones, we go to our friend
Vincent in Brooklyn. Good morning, Vincent, Ken.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
I sure?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Ken?
Speaker 8 (16:10):
Okay, Ken, I heard the real estate expert that you
just had on your show. Ken, Me and my family
have been in the real estate business for ninety five
years in New York City. There wasn't at one time,
there wasn't a neighborhood where my grandfather owned or owned
in the past house. He bought his first apartment building
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two weeks before the Great Depression. One of the biggest
drivers of the high rents in 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
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apartments that used to be let's say marginal. Let's say
apartments that ah, they were like a let's 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
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are considered high end. That people are not building new
buildings here because of all the regulations. 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, when you
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went 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 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.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Lead supposed to do that.
Speaker 9 (18:01):
Yeah, here's the here's the can.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
You have to call up a lead of batement 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 a hundred years.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
The only place. And I used to work in a
steel factory sixty or sixty years ago where 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 paith and we would paint the
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it's anton corrosive anthe we would paint the tanks and
then when they were shipped out, the landlord or whomever
would paint them.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
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. She we'll certify
that you don't have lead vapors over a certain amount
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of million.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
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 qualify to do that job.
And I wonder what their connection is with the officials.
I'm just saying I don't know. But here I'm gonna
leave you with this. Vincent, could you will appreciate this?
I saw 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. Did
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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 gonna get like thousands of apartment buildings
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with ninety nine units or less as a result. Here
they want to solve that 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
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a wonderful weekend. Enjoy it. Ah, my goodness. All right,
we're going to talk about ID. Coming up. It is Friday,
Ken Rosato and from Mark. In just minutes from now,
we will speak with brand and digital strategist Fisher about
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 ten
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woor now more of.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
The marximone show on seven to ten woor filling in
for Mark.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Here again is Ken Rosado had.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
A good Friday to Here's seven ten woar. 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 specialists and strategist Fisher, who can be
found on X and threads with username at Fisher and
through his website Fisher dot Media to talk about digital
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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 bar for you. So
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let's let's let's talk about the practical and safe use
of digital ID. And that's the Apple version. Apple has
this really cool feature now, digital ID for wallet.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Yeah, and Google has the same. With both Apple Wallet
and Google Wallet.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
You can now.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
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, you tap to pay. The idea is
the same thing. And what's great about this and it's
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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 tap and if you've been to an
airport lately, you have your regular lines, you have your
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TSA pre check lines, you have your clear you have
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. It's just verification. But now having
your passport in your phone, and most people have a
passport in one way or another, you can use that
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digital ID even if you don't have a 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 say you've you're traveling
and you lost it, you get to a checkpoint at
the airport, whatever, you could begin that process of easily
easily or easier verifying your identification. So it really opens
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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. So say you're
ordering from Uber Eats and you need to want to
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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 on in other countries where they're doing national digital ideas.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
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
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halfway there, I realized, oh my god, I left my
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 had a paddic attack not having my wallet.
Now we talked about this is the positive right when
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you use your you have your license on your phone.
In New York, New Jersey, all they can do is
have access when I say they police or whatever if
you got stopped, they only have access to the info
on your license with a tap.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Correct, correct.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
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 and Puerto Rico
have a driver's license vailable 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 bar
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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 picture say
that you're over twenty one whatever, that is right, if
you get pulled over by an officer, they would have
a reader on them. I know there's a lot of
skepticism of well, don't hand your the police officer your phone.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Absolutely, don't hand anybody your phone.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
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. It'll only show the information that they need. No obviously,
as a police officer, they will probably have your picture,
date of birth, you know, driver's license class, you know
whether you can drive an eighteen wheel or motorcycle, et cetera.
There'll probably be some information. And when you go to
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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
the information that that we.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
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 hand them
the phone. It's just a tap. They would have a reader,
just like restaurants have a reader when you go to peg.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Right, yeah, and it's right that or Omni some 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 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. It's the same thing. And when
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you go to TSA with your passport on your iowas
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 3 (27:12):
And we have two minutes left, so just giving the
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 is 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 7 (27:33):
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 serve
as your proof of right to work. 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
(27:54):
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 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
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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 3 (28:22):
Something that something tells me the mom dnnis of the
world wish it could go that.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
Way though I would, Yes, I'm sure it would, but
it would be in England. It's more like you're on
a college campus and you have your idea and you
tap it to go everywhere and get into everything. It's
that same premise compared to what we have here in
the United States, which is not that.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yeah, and then your ID gets stolen in Britain and
then you your screws. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
And if that's right, and we 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 3 (29:04):
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, Larry. You bet
it's Ken Rozato went from Mark on your Friday. When
we come back, we will take your calls to give
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us a call at eight hundred three two one zero
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Speaker 1 (29:34):
Mark Simone show on seven ten WR.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
In from Mark today. Here's Ken Rosanto.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
And good to be with you.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
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. I have a little
great nephew who turns three. Looky, happy birthday. My niece Lauren,
my sister law Carolyn, all have birthdays. And my dad,
who I'm very blessed to still have with us, he
turns ninety five on Sundays, so we're all going to
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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 got to
our busy phones right now, Steven Manhattan, you're on seven
to ten w R.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
Good morning, all right, Ken, And I'll just tell everybody
that foreign countries like China, Russia, guitar Saudi Arabia amongst
many countries. They pour billions of dollars into America through
lobbying and business deals. And the first thing those countries
say is keep your boarders wide open and increase immigration
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war 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 worlds have
come in to America and millions of a third world
is both third world American hating candidates like the Communists
mayor elective New York City folks, you shittn't Act Surprise,
(31:03):
nineteen sixty five Immigration Act has to go.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
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,
(31:29):
Good morning, Ken.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
I have a new jersey to the driver's license. Now,
employers are prohibited 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 is the year,
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your month, the second is your year of birth, and
the last is your eye color.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Interesting. Interesting, So you think they could glean a lot
from that, right by kind of reading around the lines there.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
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 3 (32:16):
Interesting, So it's age discrimination without saying it's a 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, say, 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 wo R the Voice of New York.
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Thank you to Mark and thank you to WR for
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By the way, buck Sexton and I we went to
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seven ten WR
Now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten woor filling
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here's Ken Rosatto.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Yeah, so nice to be with you on a Friday.
See Mark 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 you're miserable
on Monday Tuesday. You can't wait for the week to
get by Wednesday, like is this over yet Thursday? Or
anticipating the weekend that I come in and fill in
from time to time on a Friday, and I'm like
the lucky grand parent who gets the child in a
(00:29):
good mood and then has a child back when the
diaper needs to be changed. That's what I am on
a Friday. Good to be with you. Former TV news
aker from here in New York City, Ken Rosato 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. These days, I'm on a streaming
(00:51):
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 onj dot com and the food Dude is Thefooddude
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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 officials, not only
in New York City but around the country talking about how, hey,
(01:32):
crime is down. Crime is down here in Chicago even
though seven hundred people are arrested this weeknd 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.
(01:52):
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,
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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. Yeah. Talk to the cops I talk to
on a regular basis. I take calls on my show
every day. I talk to cops all the time. My
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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
(02:59):
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 Donnie wants to take one
point one billion dollars, shifting it to the Department of
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Community Safety for this send social workers plan. And apparently
an audit was done back in May by the city
Controller and they determined 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
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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 4 (04:01):
Die.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
He's not a social aus, he's not a communists. Come on,
you're overreacting. Can you conspiracy theorist? Sob No, he said it.
Why shouldn't we believe them? 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.
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More than thirty five percent of the eligible calls from
mental health professionals never got a response. And for this,
Mam Donnie wants to spend over a billion dollars of
your tax payer money. Sadly, I think people 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 Mam Donnie say this.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Police have a critical role to play in creating public safety.
And when 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 3 (05:03):
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 in the 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 were 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
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pick up 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, the free supermarkets. He was suggesting raising taxes
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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 and makes you
middle class. And this is what he said about it.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
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 ways to raise this money to
fund this agenda, the most important thing is that we
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fund the agenda.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah. Part of the problem there, iss Zuran is if
you're a multimillionaire or billionaire, like your family is. By
the way, where does your family live?
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
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.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
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 check into that.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Where do you pay there?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
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, uh, and still do business remotely.
You don't have to physically be located here anymore. You
can fly back and forth, not live here, and make
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a good living and visit New York for the best
of it and not be here to pay the taxes.
Governor Kathy Hochel said of the buses, I cannot.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
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 3 (07:26):
Translation, we are billions and billions and billions in debt
with the MTA, and you want us to give away
seven hundred million to a billion dollars more in freebies.
Ain't gonna happen. In terms of funding, Mom, dammy shot back.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
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 3 (07:48):
So Zoran 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 to ten wore the Voice of
New York one eight hundred three to two won zero
seven ten, one eight hundred three to two, one zero
seven ten. It's Ken rizzottowin from Mark on a Friday.
You know, back about six years ago, fewer than fourteen
(08:09):
million Americans who 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 as possible for people so they wouldn't feel embarrassed.
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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.
I would always offer somebody food. Anytime I've had anybody
beg me for money, I always say, listen, I'm not
going to give you money, but I'll give you food.
(08:52):
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.
Of course, during the government's shutdown, that all got paused.
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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
good chunk of that spike came during the pandemic, when
the Democrat controlled government urged people to get in on
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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
all you got to do is say I want SNAP
and you got it. That was it. The sad thing
(09:59):
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 glond onto the system at
the time, which caused more financial burden to taxpayers. Literally,
one in eight Americans now receive SNAP benefits. That money
(10:19):
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.
It comes from you and me. You and I work,
and the money we earned gets taxed, and from the taxes,
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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.
But I'm talking about if you are twenty one years old,
you are able bodied, and you choose not to work,
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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
are between the ages of eighteen and sixty four, you
must work, volunteer or participate in training for about twenty
(11:24):
hours a week. That's it, in order to continue getting
your benefits. And what is the response. The response that
a lot of people offering a lot of hate for it,
saying why why? Seven ten wr the Voice of New
York Ken Rosatto in for Mark. It is Friday and
speaking of SNAP. That program is run under the Department
of Agriculture, and the person in charge of that department
(11:44):
is a person named Secretary Brook Rollins. Well after Brooke
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
thousand dead people still receiving SNAP in some cases for years.
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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.
Over eighty percent of able bodied Americans on these benefits
can work, but choose not to, and that allows taxpayers
(12:32):
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 gonna be some big
announcements next week with a plan to fix all this.
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
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are generated to help pay down the debt. And how
would you like to have two thousand bucks in your
pocket for doing absolutely noting? 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
extra revenues we got from tariffs. White House Press Secretary
Caroline Leavitt announced that on Wednesday. She said that a
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team of economic advisors is looking into the logistics right now,
how to do it? Did you to give him a
tax credit? Do you send him a check? Treasury Secretary
Scott Besson initially said the payout may just be, you know,
like a tax savings under Trump's one Big Beautiful Bill legislation.
But the President said, no, come on, Scott, send him money,
Send him money, loosen up the purse strings. The President
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clarified that to suggest that checks might be in the
mail before you know it. And couldn't she use two
thousand bucks around the holidays? And if you had 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
of the household. All the details to come, but that
would give a nice quick spike to the economy. And
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one last story here seven to ten. W you know
that swarmy smug SOB meaning son of a bumpkin Congressman
Eric Swalwell of California, the guy who was allegedly having
relations with Fang Fang, the Chinese spy or reports now
say that he's been hit with a federal criminal referral Yep,
he and Letitia I have something in common. The allegation
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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 claimed as his primary residence. Again,
this is just an allegation at this point. The problem
is it can't be his primary residence if he is
a congressman from California, because California must be his primary
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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 offect. You're lying at
federal documents. But once again, if this is true, Swallwell
is saying this is nothing more than political retribution, just
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like what happened to Letitia James. The problem is people
like he and Letitia 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 because you, in this case
allegedly committed the crime. Seven ten wr The Voice of
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New York. It is Friday, Ken Rosotto in for Mark.
It's going to be partly cloudy today. And if you
like a tempts in the low fifties, then it's a
good thing. That's what you're going to get. Coming up
in just a little bit, we're going to have brand
and digital strategist Fisher about a new easy way to
get through the airport using your phone instead of a passport.
We want you to give us a call. Coming up
next eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. We
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Speaker 1 (15:53):
To Mark Simone show on seven ten wr Inn from
Mark Today.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Here's Ken Rose and did we with you on a Friday?
Straight to our busy phones, we go to our friend
Vincent in Brooklyn. Good morning, Vincent, Ken.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
I sure?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Ken?
Speaker 8 (16:10):
Okay, Ken, I heard the real estate expert that you
just had on your show. Ken, Me and my family
have been in the real estate business for ninety five
years in New York City. There wasn't at one time,
there wasn't a neighborhood where my grandfather owned or owned
in the past house. He bought his first apartment building
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two weeks before the Great Depression. One of the biggest
drivers of the high rents in 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
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apartments that used to be let's say marginal. Let's say
apartments that ah, they were like a let's 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
(17:14):
are considered high end. That people are not building new
buildings here because of all the regulations. 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, when you
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went 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 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.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Lead supposed to do that.
Speaker 9 (18:01):
Yeah, here's the here's the can.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
You have to call up a lead of batement 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 a hundred years.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
The only place. And I used to work in a
steel factory sixty or sixty years ago where 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 paith and we would paint the
(18:41):
it's anton corrosive anthe we would paint the tanks and
then when they were shipped out, the landlord or whomever
would paint them.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
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. She we'll certify
that you don't have lead vapors over a certain amount
(19:10):
of million.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
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 qualify to do that job.
And I wonder what their connection is with the officials.
I'm just saying I don't know. But here I'm gonna
leave you with this. Vincent, could you will appreciate this?
I saw 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. Did
(19:34):
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 gonna get like thousands of apartment buildings
(19:55):
with ninety nine units or less as a result. Here
they want to solve that 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
(20:16):
a wonderful weekend. Enjoy it. Ah, my goodness. All right,
we're going to talk about ID. Coming up. It is Friday,
Ken Rosato and from Mark. In just minutes from now,
we will speak with brand and digital strategist Fisher about
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 ten
(20:38):
woor now more of.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
The marximone show on seven to ten woor filling in
for Mark.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Here again is Ken Rosado had.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
A good Friday to Here's seven ten woar. 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 specialists and strategist Fisher, who can be
found on X and threads with username at Fisher and
through his website Fisher dot Media to talk about digital
(21:08):
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 bar for you. So
(21:30):
let's let's let's talk about the practical and safe use
of digital ID. And that's the Apple version. Apple has
this really cool feature now, digital ID for wallet.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Yeah, and Google has the same. With both Apple Wallet
and Google Wallet.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
You can now.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
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, you tap to pay. The idea is
the same thing. And what's great about this and it's
(22:07):
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 tap and if you've been to an
airport lately, you have your regular lines, you have your
(22:28):
TSA pre check lines, you have your clear you have
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. It's just verification. But now having
your passport in your phone, and most people have a
passport in one way or another, you can use that
(22:48):
digital ID even if you don't have a 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 say you've you're traveling
and you lost it, you get to a checkpoint at
the airport, whatever, you could begin that process of easily
easily or easier verifying your identification. So it really opens
(23:13):
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. So say you're
ordering from Uber Eats and you need to want to
(23:35):
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 on in other countries where they're doing national digital ideas.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
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
(24:19):
halfway there, I realized, oh my god, I left my
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 had a paddic attack not having my wallet.
Now we talked about this is the positive right when
(24:39):
you use your you have your license on your phone.
In New York, New Jersey, all they can do is
have access when I say they police or whatever if
you got stopped, they only have access to the info
on your license with a tap.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Correct, correct.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
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 and Puerto Rico
have a driver's license vailable 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 bar
(25:15):
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 picture say
that you're over twenty one whatever, that is right, if
you get pulled over by an officer, they would have
a reader on them. I know there's a lot of
skepticism of well, don't hand your the police officer your phone.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Absolutely, don't hand anybody your phone.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
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. It'll only show the information that they need. No obviously,
as a police officer, they will probably have your picture,
date of birth, you know, driver's license class, you know
whether you can drive an eighteen wheel or motorcycle, et cetera.
There'll probably be some information. And when you go to
(26:02):
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
the information that that we.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
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 hand them
the phone. It's just a tap. They would have a reader,
just like restaurants have a reader when you go to peg.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Right, yeah, and it's right that or Omni some 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 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. It's the same thing. And when
(26:56):
you go to TSA with your passport on your iowas
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 3 (27:12):
And we have two minutes left, so just giving the
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 is 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 7 (27:33):
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 serve
as your proof of right to work. 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
(27:54):
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 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
(28:15):
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 3 (28:22):
Something that something tells me the mom dnnis of the
world wish it could go that.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
Way though I would, Yes, I'm sure it would, but
it would be in England. It's more like you're on
a college campus and you have your idea and you
tap it to go everywhere and get into everything. It's
that same premise compared to what we have here in
the United States, which is not that.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yeah, and then your ID gets stolen in Britain and
then you your screws. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
And if that's right, and we 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 3 (29:04):
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, Larry. You bet
it's Ken Rozato went from Mark on your Friday. When
we come back, we will take your calls to give
(29:25):
us a call at eight hundred three two one zero
seven ten eight hundred three two one zero seven ten
for wo R.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Mark Simone show on seven ten WR.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
In from Mark today. Here's Ken Rosanto.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
And good to be with you.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
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. I have a little
great nephew who turns three. Looky, happy birthday. My niece Lauren,
my sister law Carolyn, all have birthdays. And my dad,
who I'm very blessed to still have with us, he
turns ninety five on Sundays, so we're all going to
(30:03):
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 got to
our busy phones right now, Steven Manhattan, you're on seven
to ten w R.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
Good morning, all right, Ken, And I'll just tell everybody
that foreign countries like China, Russia, guitar Saudi Arabia amongst
many countries. They pour billions of dollars into America through
lobbying and business deals. And the first thing those countries
say is keep your boarders wide open and increase immigration
(30:41):
war 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 worlds have
come in to America and millions of a third world
is both third world American hating candidates like the Communists
mayor elective New York City folks, you shittn't Act Surprise,
(31:03):
nineteen sixty five Immigration Act has to go.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
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,
(31:29):
Good morning, Ken.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
I have a new jersey to the driver's license. Now,
employers are prohibited 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 is the year,
(31:54):
your month, the second is your year of birth, and
the last is your eye color.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Interesting. Interesting, So you think they could glean a lot
from that, right by kind of reading around the lines there.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
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 3 (32:16):
Interesting, So it's age discrimination without saying it's a 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, say, 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 wo R the Voice of New York.
(32:39):
Mark Simone will be back in the seat on Monday.
Thank you to Mark and thank you to WR for
letting me sit in today. I'm Ken Rosatto. Do not
go anywhere. Buck Sexton and Clay Travis are up ahead.
By the way, buck Sexton and I we went to
Regis High School together in Manhattan. I only recently found
that out good Man three o'clock the most listened to
radio talk show in Manhattan and in America. Sean Hannity,
(33:03):
Jesse Kelly's on at six o'clock, and of course we
have Mark in every weekday ten am to noon. If
you want to hear more of Mark, all you have
to do is check out the podcast. It's seven to
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(33:23):
degrees once again bucking Clay after the news. Have a
great day and a great weekend. Thanks for listening to
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