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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten woor filling
in for Mark, here's Ken Rosatto. Really really nice to
be here Halloween. Happy Halloween to you. Mark. Is a
nice long weekend. You may remember me from all the
years I've been on New York City TV, and it
was the morning news, Acer morning and midday. In fact,
for a bunch of those years at Channel seven, I
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was there twenty years. I was also the morning anchor
for a year at the Channel five. I was there
at good Day. I did that back in two thousand
and two to two thousand and three, if I recall.
And these days, I host a daily show on a
New Jersey based news channel. It's called on New Jersey.
You could stream it live or watch it rerun at
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Phone lines are open at eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten eight hundred three to two one zero
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seven ten. Well, we just heard during the news a
massive flooding. Did you see that weather yesterday? Man, I
mean we heard about it. We got the heads up
that it was coming. But man, until it comes, you
don't think it's going to be as bad as it was.
The high winds and that heavy rain one to three
inches of rain in New York left some parts of
the low lying areas Brooklyn, especially under a feet of water.
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And as we heard so far that we know of,
we have two people who died unfortunately in that flash flooding.
Just awful, awful. Just remember, especially if you live in
a basement apartment, whenever you have a big storm headed
our way, please stay upstairs. If you live upstairs and
there's a basement apartment, invite your neighbors to come up
and spend the afternoon or whatever with you, or the
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evening if there's a big storm. And of course, don't
drive into or onto a street if you don't know
how deep the water is. They say, turn around, don't drown.
All you need is like six inches or four inches
of water whatever. You could lose control of your car,
So don't take that risk. And then of course, there's
that awful news that happened down in the islands in
Jamaica Hurricane Melissa. So far we know fifty nine deaths.
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It was just disgusting, how horrible those poor people struggling.
And there was one mother who was talking about how
she tried to comfort her kids. Listen up, who's the
candidate on Let's see? Where did I? I just did
something to that sound bite. I'm sorry, but this mother
talked about how she's trying to comfort her child or
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her children. But it's hard to do that, as she
says it, with all the debt destruction around her, having
lost friends and friends, having lost homes as well, And
imagine then having to be the tough person and be
strong for your child. But with fifty nine people that
we know have so far lost in Jamaica, that number
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is going to go up, I think, sadly, as they
find more bodies in remote areas. It is now coming
up on ten minutes after eleven o'clock on your Friday Halloween.
The mayor's race continues to tighten. But is it too
little too late? Well, here were the three candidates at
the recent debate.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Who's the candidate on the left that can somehow derail him,
because I don't see anybody with a national presidence that
can pull that off.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Where are you on that?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I see somebody right here in my zoom camera. And
by the way, only for you zoom.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I hate zoom, but for you. But where's the stephen A.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Smith presidential bubble.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I'd have to give too much money, Bill, I'd have
to give up too much money. The Democrats definitely need
an outside here. Yeah, that was obviously stephen A. Smith
and Bill Maher talking about the candidates, and here were
the candidates of the debate.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I am the last person on this stage that mister
Trump wants to see as mayor. I am Donald Trump's
worst nightmare, as a progress of Muslim immigrant who actually
fights for the things that I believe in. Oh, if
you believe Andrew Cuomo, who's calling up Trump all the time,
I'm going to stand up to him, or mandamie, I'm
going to stand up to him. He stand up to
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President Trump, who controls all the money.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Guess what we the citizens lose.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Well, this morning we had Andrew Cuomo in. He was
on MENTI in the morning and we was talking about,
among other things, the infusion of cash that former mayor
Michael Bloomberg had donated through a political action committee. But
it looks like it might be just too little, too late,
because we've got three poles. If you saw these polls
that came out in the last week, and the closest
pole has Cuomo. Though he improved, he's still ten points
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behind zoron Mamdani. The amazing thing is people are buying
Mamdanni's lines. Will they revolt in six months or a
year when they find out that everything he promised, literally
down to the item, is impossible. He can't do He
doesn't have the authority as mayor to do any of
the things he's talking about. He can't freeze the rent,
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he can't give you free food, he can't all the
things he's talking about. Sounded like a wonderful communist fantasy,
but it can't happen. It doesn't happen that way. In fact,
the one experiment where there was a community supermarket in
Kansas City failed miserably. In spite of the millions upon
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millions of dollars infused by the state, it failed miserably.
They had to shut it down. It was a disgrace.
It became basically a den of crime. People went there
to shoot up drugs. They stole items. Because you're supposed
to sign out items and be a looted a certain amount.
They weren't following the rules. It was a disgusting breakdown
of humanity. And if you think it's going to be
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better here, I'll scratching my head to wonder where you're
coming from. Switching over to New Jersey. New Jersey is
interesting right now. And I should remind everybody you're listening
to seven to ten, woar the Voice of New York.
It's Ken Rosotto win from Mark on Halloween Friday, and
those phone lines are we're open eight hundred and three
to two one zero, seven to ten. In New Jersey,
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it's Chitdarelli and Mikey Cheryl. And right now all the
new polls, and they were two done two days apart,
so I guess one was done on Tuesday and I
believe one was done on Thursday. In both cases they
have Mikey Cheryl one point ahead of Jack Cheddarelli, but
the margin vera is three points, so that means that
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Jack Chitdarelli could be two points up at this point,
depending on how you look at it. The bottom line
is the energy this man has right now and the
support behind him. I'm seeing I live in New Jersey,
I see Chitarelly signs everywhere. I'd say for every ten
Chittarelli signs, I'm seeing one Mikey Cheryl sign And last
night Chittarelli was on there was a town hall that
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Fox News had with Sean Hannity. Listen to the response
he got from the crowd as he walked in.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Let's go maybe hometown crowd, hometown crowd.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
It it just became a Trump.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Rally, or as Jack Chitarelli followed up with, it became
a Chitarelli rally, because that's what Chitdarelli is finding everywhere
he goes throughout the state. It starts out with a
few hundred people, it quickly grows to a few thousand people,
people cheering him on, people coming up to him. He
has four Democrats in the state who have either endorsed
him or have shifted parties to the Republican Party and
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endorsed him. So this is something the opposite can't be
said for Mikey Cheryl right now. And the fact is
that New Jersey has eight hundred and sixty thousand more
registered Democrats than it does Republicans, So Mikey Cheryl should
be ahead by twenty points right now, fifteen to twenty points,
and she's not. Most of her support is from women
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and from younger people. Younger people not to vote, especially
in off year elections, by anywhere near the numbers of
as older people and the older people are supporting Jack Cheddarelli,
So it'll be interesting to see what happens. I recently
had a polster on my show that I do on
New Jersey O n NJ dot com, and I do
that every day in New Jersey, and the pollster was saying,
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how when you when they survey different people and they
say that they are likely voters, and then you it
turns out that half of them who say one thing
obviously doesn't come to pass. And he said that that
means that either they're not being honest or when they
say they're going to be a likely voter, that they
don't realize something's going to come up. So when you
see a poll of likely voters, as much as it's
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probably more accurate than someone than a poll of just
registered voters, you know that doesn't mean they've signed a
contract saying I will vote and this is how I'm
going to vote, you know, so just just remember that,
keep that in mind. Jack Chitdarelli was talking about the
recent polls.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Our internal poll in twenty one said that we had
a real shot this time. The internal polling says a
whole lot better. But listen, all I could tell is
wherever I go around the state, the energy's electric. The
reception of minority communities has been overwhelming positive. And when
Democratic mayors across the state are endorsing in the Republican nominee,
it tells you we're on the.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Sum Now, apparently some of the ballots are a number
of the ballots that have been returned early. All we
know is when we get ballots returned from Democrats or Republicans,
we don't know how the people voted. So for all
we know, people could have registered Republican but voted Democrat.
So you never know when you get the returned polls,
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the early ballots, I should say. But nonetheless, here's Jack
talking about the early ballots.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
We've seen the greatest number of Republicans returned vote by
mail ballots. That's a very very good sign. They went
out and last third week of September, and we're matching
them voter for voter here in the six days or
five days of early voting that we've had thus far.
That'll conclude on Sunday. Listen, if we go into election
day within a certain number of points, we're going to
win this thing.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And then, and I think he's right, the fact is
that Republicans tend to wait till election day. Democrats tend
to early vote. That's been the pattern for the last
ten to fifteen twenty years wherever early voting has occurred.
I remember as a kid, early voting only existed like
one day before election day, and it was meant for
people who had physical challenges or the elderly, and then
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that became two or three days. Then it became anyone
who wants to vote early. Then the pandemic happened and
everybody got ballots in the mail, and it kept changing,
so no longer do we have an election day. The
problem with that is you could vote a month early,
a month before election day for somebody, and then between
when you early vote at election day you find out
that the person is a mass murderer, you know and
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then what your vote is cast, and once it's cast,
that's it. You can't go and change it. So this
is the problem I have. I'm sure you probably have
with early voting, but while it exists, take advantage of it.
The Democrats do. Republicans should take advantage of it as well.
Make sure your vote gets in because come election Day,
anything could happened. Bad weather, you get sick, you have
to work late, you never know, get that vote in asap.
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In New Jersey you can early vote until Sunday, and
then if you don't vote by Sunday, you have to
wait because Monday there is no voting. Then Tuesday you
have to vote in person, and that is election Day.
Seven ten WR the Voice of New York. It is
Halloween Friday, and this is Ken Rosotto in on the
Mark Simone Show. Give us a call eight hundred and
three to two one zero seven ten. You ever get
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kind of really tired with all the household drudgery, all
the chores around the house. Apparently a company in California
has come up with a robot. Now you're going to say, Ken,
there've been robots. No, they literally are mass manufacturing a
robot that is five foot six right now, it's a
humanoid robot, so it's one of those walking things. It
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can talk, it can communicate with you, just like you
know the robots in the movies from years ago. And
this thing is going to cost twenty thousand dollars. When
I read this, I thought, either A it's not going
to be out for fifty years, or B it's going
to cost one hundred thousand or more. Now twenty thousand dollars.
And in fact, if you want to rent it, they
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have a let me see, let me get the details
for you.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Here.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
It says here, if you want to test it out first,
you can use a per month subscription plant. That's what
they're calling it, and that is apparently like four ninety
nine or something like that. So it's almost like renting
a car, testing out a car or something. And this
thing could be trained to do just about anything. Water
plants do the laundry, eventually, probably cook your meal, clean floors,
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do whatever, sweep. So how nice would that be to
do all your household chores, especially if you are physically challenged,
or if you're a single person and you have no
one to help you, or if you're an elderly person
and you want some company. Granted it's not a human,
but nonetheless it is a character walking around that may
make you feel almost like having a pet, that may
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make you feel like somebody is with you too, to
keep your company. Seven to ten WLA The Voice of
New York. There was a New Manhattan Institute poll out
that shows that if Congresswoman Elise Stephanic were to run
against Governor Coffee Hochel, who talks with the big porcelain veneers. Oh,
I said, I would never say that again. I'm sorry,
Kathy Hochel, that if Elise Stephanic were to run against
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Kathy Hokel for governor of New York, Stephanic would beat
her by one point. That is significant. New York City
may be blue, the state, though, is not. The state
is purple. You get out of the tri State, you
get up like north of Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, you see
things turn red rather quickly. Poles are just, of course,
a momentary snapshot of opinion, but it shows you that
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New York State is very much up for grabs outside
of New York City, and the citizens are fed up
with the status quo. So we'll see what happens with that.
But she has not officially announced that she would run
for governor, but I think at this point if she
did announce, you would see a Republican victory first time
in many, many years in New York. Seven ten wor
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the Voice of New York, marcuz Off. This is Ken
Risotto filling in again, taking your calls. Next one eight
hundred three two one zero seven ten one eight hundred
three two one zero seven ten Partly Sonny, a little
Wendy today for your Halloween mid fifties. In just a bit,
we'll speak with Republican New York City Councilwoman Joanne Ariola
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about the race for mayor on what she thinks it
possible Mam Dannie mayrialty would mean for New York City.
The Times, eleven twenty seven ten. WR will be right
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