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 on-n-j..com and i also have a food website called the food

dude you could catch that at the food dude dot us the food dude dot us absolutely free check out

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Well, it is certainly holiday season in the city.

You feel it everywhere.

Just walking down the street here today coming into the studio to do the work here.

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 God'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.

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