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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Get instant access to Mark by setting a pre set
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  Speaker 1: Now back to the Mark Simone Show on woikay.
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  Speaker 2: Let's take some calls. Let's go to John in Long Island. John,
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  Speaker 2: how you doing?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing well, Mark, how are you doing today?
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  Speaker 2: Good?
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  Speaker 3: I have a It bothers me to think how much
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  Speaker 3: money we waste in congressional hearings and Senate hearings and
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  Speaker 3: Supreme Court reviewing things. How come with this women's sports issue?
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  Speaker 3: How come they don't just set up a vote, go
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  Speaker 3: to the NCAA, have all the women secure email vote
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  Speaker 3: and see how they feel, rather than having a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of geriatrics that are just trying to get votes, trying
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  Speaker 3: to make decisions that affects millions of women.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's just people playing politics with it. Listen, it's
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  Speaker 2: just simple common sense. You don't have guys playing in
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  Speaker 2: women's sports. It's absolutely ridiculous. I mean, I was in
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  Speaker 2: high school. I played football. I thought I'd be great.
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  Speaker 2: What you go out there in the field and you
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  Speaker 2: may be good, But then all of a sudden, these
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  Speaker 2: guys much bigger than you just jump on you and
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  Speaker 2: tackle you. And it's tough. If I could have gone
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  Speaker 2: down there and played on the against the women, I
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  Speaker 2: would have done much better. I would have been Tom Brady.
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  Speaker 2: I would have crushed them all. But it's ridiculous. It's
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  Speaker 2: absolutely ludicrous men playing in women's sports. Let's go to
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  Speaker 2: Dennis in Connecticut. Dennis, how you doing fine?
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  Speaker 4: I'm an old Saturday listener.
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  Speaker 2: Well whatever that is.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I have cousins that have graduated from the nursing
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  Speaker 4: schools when they were in hospitals, and that when they
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  Speaker 4: started making nurses go to college, that's when the shortage happened.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you have to go to college to be a nurse.
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  Speaker 4: Now, yes, oh, yes, you have it. Well, to get
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  Speaker 4: a nursing degree, you have to have a college nursing degree.
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  Speaker 4: You don't get taught traded the hospital anymore. You have
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  Speaker 4: them for i'd say thirty maybe more years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, most there's is a pretty good It is
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  Speaker 2: a noble occupation. Let's go to Tim and the Conger's
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  Speaker 2: New York. Tim, how are you doing good?
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  Speaker 5: Good? How are you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: I just had a quick question, you know, like say,
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  Speaker 6: for example, you don't have a cell phone. This is
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  Speaker 6: regarding the entrance to the fair to get into the subway.
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  Speaker 6: And I don't go to the I don't go to
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  Speaker 6: the city much. I'm an older guy. I don't go
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  Speaker 6: to the city much at all anymore. But if you
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  Speaker 6: don't have a cell phone, how can you just like
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  Speaker 6: pass a credit card or something.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't have a cell phone. Who on earth
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  Speaker 2: would that be?
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  Speaker 6: I don't have a cell phone?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah? Why? I get confused. I don't I'm an older guy.
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  Speaker 6: I threw it. I threw it down the stairs. That broke.
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  Speaker 6: I got so.
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  Speaker 2: I know one woman, a friend of mine, one woman
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  Speaker 2: who has no cell phone, never has. I don't know why.
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  Speaker 2: She's just against them.
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  Speaker 6: I've had them, but I get so frustrated with them
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  Speaker 6: because like I can't get it out of airplane mode.
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  Speaker 6: I just I threw it down the stairs. It broke.
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  Speaker 6: I said, to hell, get a phone.
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  Speaker 2: You could be on Instagram, you could be on TikTok,
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  Speaker 2: you can see porn wherever. You want. To Get a phone.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna go see port anytime I want.
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  Speaker 2: That might be good for you. Get a phone. You
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  Speaker 2: could be on Instagram, you could be on all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: You can get all those apps. It's it's good for you.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to Vincent and Brooklyn Vincent. How you doing.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, to be previous caller. They make now cell phones
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  Speaker 5: for seniors where they don't have all the bells and
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  Speaker 5: whistles they have. You could call your relatives. They have
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  Speaker 5: a phone backed memory and so forth and so forth.
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  Speaker 2: Do you mean, like like an uncle junior a flip phone.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but they sell them and you could get text
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  Speaker 5: messages on them. There. It's not an iPhone, but you
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  Speaker 5: could for emergency purposes if you have to call people
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  Speaker 5: in an emergency. Yeah, Mark, What I wanted to talk
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  Speaker 5: about is I told Chris yesterday, I'm about to listen
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  Speaker 5: to Buck and Clay and all of a sudden, I'm
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  Speaker 5: smelling weed and I live in a brownstone. I'm smelling
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  Speaker 5: weed at my house, and say, what the dollar is
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  Speaker 5: going on here? I look out the window and Kathy
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  Speaker 5: Hoko and Andrew Cuomo should have thought about this in advance.
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  Speaker 5: They have no foresight on my stoopid in the entrance
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  Speaker 5: to my building, there are four teenagers from the local
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  Speaker 5: junior high school lighting up these spliffs that would have
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  Speaker 5: made Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir of the grateful, dead, proud.
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  Speaker 5: They look like cigars. So I go out there and
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  Speaker 5: I say, all right, guys, get off the stoop. And
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  Speaker 5: one of the guys looks me and starts bad mounting me.
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  Speaker 2: Mistake.
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  Speaker 5: After a couple of choice words and gestures, and little
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  Speaker 5: did he know across the street and on the right
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  Speaker 5: side of me, about twenty feet away with all my friends.
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  Speaker 5: I you know. So after a couple of choice words,
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  Speaker 5: these kids left. But now they were on their lunch break.
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  Speaker 5: They're gonna go back to school, all stoned out and everything.
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  Speaker 5: And now the marijuana that these kids are buying from
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  Speaker 5: these pot shops, it's much more potland like soup from
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  Speaker 5: South Carolina said, And they're probably like getting their older
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  Speaker 5: brother or a cousin or somebody who's about to go
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  Speaker 5: in the weed shop and they give them money and
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  Speaker 5: they say, get some for us too. We never figured
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  Speaker 5: this outh, these bozos. These are kids fourteen and fifteen
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  Speaker 5: years old yesterday out of their birds and giving me
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  Speaker 5: lip And what's the next thing, I gotta go to jail?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, you know, the nineteen eighties marijuana was
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  Speaker 2: totally different from today's weed.
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  Speaker 5: It's just like twenty three percent THC.
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  Speaker 2: Some of this weed much much more powerful, Vincent, great call,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for calling. Hey when we come back, the brilliant
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  Speaker 2: columnist Liz Peak will be with us next on seven
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  Speaker 2: ten w o r