now the mark simone show on seven ten w o r filling in for mark here's ken rosado

and so nice to be here happy friday the end of the week here and mark taking a nice

long weekend this is ken rosato former new york city tv news anchor on duty and proud to be here

thank you mark thank you w o r for letting me sit in the seat

you'd probably best remember me from 20 years i spent anchoring the morning show at channel 7

and nowadays i host a daily show over on a new jersey based channel you could see it everywhere

though it's called on new jersey you could stream it at o nj dotcom. And I also have a food website called The Food Dude. You could catch that at thefooddood.us. Thefooddood. Dot us. Absolutely free. Check out some holiday recipes. Good to be with you. A lot to talk about today. Give us a take part one 800 three two one zero seven 10

one eight hundred three two one zero seven ten well it is certainly holiday season in the

city you feel it everywhere just walking down the street here uh today coming into the uh the studio

to do the work here uh you got everything. You got the jingling in the

air and you got the decorations up everywhere. It really does feel festive. Did you catch the

Rockefeller Center tree lighting the other night? 10 o'clock at night. Gosh, I go to bed at like seven.

So at 10 o'clock, I had like one eye and saying, well, you light the damn tree for's sake, just light it. At least they call it a Christmas tree, though. I give them credit for that. They call it a Christmas tree, unlike what they did. Was it Minneapolis? The Minneapolis tree. They just called the Minneapolis tree the tree. The tree. It's like that's real, really into the spirit of the season, folks, the tree,

because God forbid, we offend anyone. Well, the whole point of the tree came out of the season.

Oh, right away, we're going to have the people say, can, you know, that's a pagan thing, the tree.

Well, yes and no, yes and no. There's a lot of symbolism behind the tree. Yes, it was not a direct

Christian thing. We could do a whole show on the origins of the tree, but nonetheless it has been

adapted and adopted into the holiday. So it is part of the holiday as part of tradition. So it's okay.

We call it a Christmas tree. You don't have to be an apologize for it. It's okay. You're not calling it a Christmas tree to offend people who don't celebrate Christmas. You're calling it a Christmas tree because guess what? It's a Christmas tree. That's it. And honor and revere and help celebrate everybody else's religion too. You're entitled to whatever you have in your faith, and I applaud you, and I would

respect anything that you have in your respect of religion, just like we ask that you respect

that we have a Christmas tree. Done. Enough said on that. Okay. Hey, at 710 W.O.R, the voice of New York,

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