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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, 9 till noon weekdays. Mark Simone. More Mark. On 710WOR. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's take some calls. Let's go to Randall in Maryland. Randall,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Mark. Mark, do you know what's worse than picking
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  Speaker 2: your own pumpkins and apples?
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 2: Picking your own peas, whether you're agricultural, pick your own.
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  Speaker 1: Is that a big thing down there in Maryland, picking peas?
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's guys around here that do all kinds of stuff,
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  Speaker 2: strawberries and different stuff. My wife and I decided one
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  Speaker 2: Saturday morning we'd go pick fresh peas. And we came
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  Speaker 2: back with a big basket full of them. We came home,
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  Speaker 2: shelled them, and all we had was a big bowl
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  Speaker 2: of peas that weren't any good than frozen peas from
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  Speaker 2: the supermarket.
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  Speaker 1: What is wrong with you people? Picking pumpkins, picking apples,
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  Speaker 1: picking strawberries, picking peas? Now stop it. Go over there
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  Speaker 1: to Whole Foods. Go over there to Morton Williams. Go
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  Speaker 1: over there. Go to Uncle Joseph's.
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  Speaker 2: I got a lot of time on my hands.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right. Well, all right. Thanks for calling. Go
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  Speaker 1: into any good supermarket. They got 42 kinds of apples
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  Speaker 1: right in the front. You know, you got some orchard.
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  Speaker 1: They got their one kind of apples. It's got spots
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  Speaker 1: all over it and worms on it. Go to a supermarket.
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  Speaker 1: They got all these different kinds of apples. They polish them.
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  Speaker 1: They shine them. They look much better. What do you
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  Speaker 1: want to be, green acres? You're out in the woods
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  Speaker 1: picking your own fruit? Stop it. Let's go to Barbara
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  Speaker 1: in Tarrytown. Barbara, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Mark. I'm doing good. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Let me check. Not bad, not bad.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to let you know I am someone, and
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  Speaker 3: I know people, that also use C-A-S-H.
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  Speaker 4: Cash.
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  Speaker 3: You don't whip out a credit card.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so let me get this straight. You're the
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  Speaker 1: lady in front of us in the supermarket line holding
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  Speaker 1: everybody up paying cash, and they've got to make changes.
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  Speaker 3: Too bad. Get there earlier. I know a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people use cash.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you know how to use a credit card?
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  Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong with cash.
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  Speaker 1: You have a credit card, right?
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  Speaker 3: But I don't use it. I have it for an emergency.
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  Speaker 1: What do you have if you don't use it?
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  Speaker 3: Because my husband wanted a credit card. And he never
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  Speaker 3: used his.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, your husband won't let you use it, right?
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  Speaker 3: No, he's not going to let me use it.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I heard that your credit card was stolen once
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  Speaker 1: and your husband didn't report it because the thief was
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  Speaker 1: spending less than you. Is this true?
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  Speaker 3: I heard that from who?
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: You couldn't have. He couldn't have.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, why do you want to use cash? You have
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  Speaker 1: a phone, right? You got an iPhone.
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  Speaker 3: No, I do not.
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  Speaker 1: What do you call it?
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  Speaker 3: I'm on a landline phone that works wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're very old school, aren't you?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm 86 years young.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. All right, 86. You're allowed to use cash.
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  Speaker 1: I'm allowed?
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  Speaker 3: Now you give me permission?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we grant you permission.
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  Speaker 3: And when I purchased a toast oven using cash, when
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  Speaker 3: I got my change, because I had given the cashier
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  Speaker 3: more than the item cost, part of my change should
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  Speaker 3: have been three pennies to But I didn't get those
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  Speaker 3: three pennies.
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  Speaker 1: These are not pennies anymore. First of all, what are
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  Speaker 1: you paying cash for everything for? What are you, Tony Soprano?
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  Speaker 1: You got to pay cash for everything?
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  Speaker 3: Because I like to use cash.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: I know people.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So, hey, thank you for calling. You sound
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  Speaker 1: like a very, very nice woman. I'm glad you called.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for calling. You see, this is the type.
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  Speaker 1: They just want to be annoying. They want to hold
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  Speaker 1: you up in line. They want to count out their cash.
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  Speaker 1: You got that credit card. Use it. Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: Mike in Long Island. Mike, how you doing?
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  Speaker 5: So, Simone.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: I have a question for you.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: As Ellison changes Paramount's name to Skydance, what happens to
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  Speaker 5: the recognizable arches with Paramount's name above the famous Bronson
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  Speaker 5: Gate entrance on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a very good question. That's a very good point.
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  Speaker 1: That famous Paramount entrance. You're right. We're going to have Skydance.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to have like a ranch, like a Roy
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  Speaker 1: Rogers ranch. Skydance. It sounds like a company Robert Redford
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  Speaker 1: would create somewhere in Colorado. Yeah, it's a terrible name.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good question. Let's go to Michael in New Jersey. Michael,
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Very good, Mark. Good morning.
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  Speaker 6: I wanted to mention the fact that with 20 million
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  Speaker 6: illegals coming across the border two, three, four years ago,
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  Speaker 6: Republicans should be screaming from the rooftops about the affordability issue,
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  Speaker 6: and especially in the sanctuary cities where these 20 million
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  Speaker 6: illegals have been housed, driving up the rental rate, like, phenomenally.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's what Republicans did a few years ago. It
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  Speaker 1: was actually Donald Trump that came up with the issue
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  Speaker 1: of affordability and came up with the word affordability. He
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  Speaker 1: kept using it in the campaign. It was his big issue.
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  Speaker 1: And Democrats basically just stole it from them. Now they're
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  Speaker 1: using the word. But yeah, it's a good point. With illegals,
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  Speaker 1: that's one reason our budget is double the budget of Florida.
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  Speaker 1: Even though Florida has a bigger, bigger population, our budget
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  Speaker 1: is double theirs. Illegals, migrants. By the way, our Medicare costs,
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  Speaker 1: Medicaid costs are like triple what Florida's are. And that's
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  Speaker 1: because of illegals that we're paying for. Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: Bill Hamburg, New Jersey. Bill, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I got a pulse, Mark. That's a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's good. That's good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Two quick points. Big Trump supporter. People are saying
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  Speaker 4: that the economy is good, but the 20s still keep
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  Speaker 4: flying out of my wallet like they're single. Number two.
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean? Strip club? Why do they keep
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  Speaker 1: flying out of your wallet?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I agree with that earlier call, that lady. I
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  Speaker 4: am a cash guy. Why do you pay cash?
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a credit card?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I do. Why don't you use it? I use
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  Speaker 4: it if I buy a gift card.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you a simple question. You're in the supermarket.
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  Speaker 1: You take the credit card. You hold it over the
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  Speaker 1: thing for one second. You're done. Cash, you got to
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  Speaker 1: take it out. You got to count it. You got
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  Speaker 1: to get changed. Why bother with all that?
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  Speaker 4: But now there's a record of my credit card number.
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  Speaker 4: Out there, flying around.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, so you are at a strip club. Admit it.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to be on the record.
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  Speaker 4: Well, here's my second statement. The woman who was supposed
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  Speaker 4: to be executed, it was a botched job. So I
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  Speaker 4: hate to sound harsh, but why didn't they just take
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  Speaker 4: her out in the courtyard and shoot her?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't think they have that. I think there's
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  Speaker 1: four states that allow a firing squad. You can pick
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  Speaker 1: your execution, apparently, in that state. Instead of electrocution, she
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  Speaker 1: chose the lethal dose. So we'll see. But I want
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  Speaker 1: you to start using a credit card, all right?
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm not going to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Come on. What's the problem if you have a little record?
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  Speaker 4: I don't want my information flying around.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want your purchase recorded. All right. Well, what
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  Speaker 1: do you think is going to happen? You think somebody's
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  Speaker 1: going to call you in two years from now? We
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  Speaker 1: see here that you bought a can of peas in 2026.
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  Speaker 1: It's a supermarket. Who cares? Just use a credit card.
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  Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll talk to Ann Coulter, the
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  Speaker 1: great columnist, the best-selling author. We've got lots to talk
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  Speaker 1: about with her. Coming up next on 710WOR.