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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show, now 9 till noon weekdays on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Quaylen
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  Speaker 2: in Florida. Quaylen, how you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Mark Simone, I'm so happy to hear
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  Speaker 1: your voice. The reason I'm calling because I met this
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  Speaker 1: mega hat, red hat guy at Pasquale's Many years, for
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  Speaker 1: many years now, and because we both listen to you.
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  Speaker 1: So now that the Pasquale is closed, I... Wait, wait, wait,
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  Speaker 1: slow down.
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  Speaker 2: What's Pasquale?
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  Speaker 1: Pasquale is the restaurant.
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  Speaker 2: In Portchester?
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  Speaker 1: In Portchester, yes. And it's closed now, okay?
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  Speaker 2: Pasquale is closed?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't know?
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, I don't keep up on every restaurant in Portchester.
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  Speaker 1: I know, but you know all about food.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I do. I've never been there, but it's a
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  Speaker 2: nice guy who had a restaurant on Arthur Avenue, and
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  Speaker 2: it was in Portchester. Okay. Why did it close?
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  Speaker 1: It saddened me.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Pasquale is closed. So this year, I only saw
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  Speaker 1: this guy once.
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  Speaker 5: What guy?
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  Speaker 1: And now I'm leaving. the one with the red hat.
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  Speaker 2: So what are you, picking up guys in Pasquale's? What
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  Speaker 2: do you mean?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I do. With my husband, pardon me, my husband's 91,
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  Speaker 1: and he, I don't know how old he is.
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  Speaker 2: So you got a little activity on the side, is
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  Speaker 2: that what you're saying?
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  Speaker 1: Side, yes, you could say that, because his wife was
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  Speaker 1: there too, and his family. So what I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: tell him, that now I go to Lugano in Greenwich.
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  Speaker 2: Lugano is in Greenwich? There used to be the boxing
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  Speaker 2: cat years ago?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, that's... I think that was, exactly, that's.
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  Speaker 6: Where it is.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what is the deal with you? You seem to
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  Speaker 2: go to these restaurants with a lot of bar action.
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  Speaker 4: What is that all about?
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  Speaker 1: Well, because we're old people, we don't cook anymore. We
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  Speaker 1: go to different restaurants.
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  Speaker 2: You don't go to Valbella, a nice, quiet restaurant?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Valbella, my God. That place is so expensive.
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  Speaker 2: Well, now you want to, hey, maybe you should go
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  Speaker 2: to J House. That's some real bar action there. I
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  Speaker 2: think that's where you should go.
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  Speaker 1: No, we can't. My husband can't. Too noisy. You know
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  Speaker 1: where we go now, which is delicious food?
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  Speaker 2: Cemetery?
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  Speaker 4: Cemetery.
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  Speaker 2: Where?
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  Speaker 1: La Scalle. La Scalle.
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  Speaker 2: La Scalle in the Delamar Hotel. Right on the water.
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  Speaker 2: Very beautiful.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But again, wait a minute. That's a place also with
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  Speaker 2: a lot of bar action. I think something's up with you.
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  Speaker 1: No, we don't go to the bar. We sit in
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  Speaker 1: the dining room. The food is excellent.
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  Speaker 2: Very, very good.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to waste your time.
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  Speaker 2: But you already did.
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  Speaker 1: Too late.
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  Speaker 3: Well, sorry.
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  Speaker 2: So just.
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  Speaker 1: In case this man is calling to listen to you,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to say hi, and I'm leaving. Hopefully,
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  Speaker 1: I'll see him next year if I'm still alive.
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  Speaker 2: You'll be alive.
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  Speaker 1: My husband and I, we just celebrated our 64th wedding anniversary. Really?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that is so touching. Now, unfortunately, the sun is 65. Tavern.
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  Speaker 1: Huh? Tavern of Grey Barn Tavern in Silvermont. You would
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  Speaker 1: like to go there.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to charge you for all these restaurant plugs.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you for calling. Let's go to John Greenvale,
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  Speaker 2: Long Island. John, how you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Mark.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you got a new Uncle Giuseppe's just opened in Greenvale.
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  Speaker 2: Big new Uncle Giuseppe.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it's absolutely fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 4: You must come and visit.
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  Speaker 2: I've been there. I've been there three or four times.
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  Speaker 2: I was there opening day.
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  Speaker 4: I was there too.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You were the guy hogging all the free samples, right?
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  Speaker 4: You had talked about the tragic death of Jane Mansfield.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: You know, when she died tragically.
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  Speaker 2: When her car.
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  Speaker 4: Rear-ended a tractor trailer, and her car slid under the
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  Speaker 4: rear of the trailer, and, you know, tragically, she was decapitated.
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  Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 4: But here's a little known fact. After that incident, the U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Department of Transportation passed a regulation that all tractor trailers
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  Speaker 4: had to install a series of metal bars at the
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  Speaker 4: rear base of the trailer.
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  Speaker 2: So the car couldn't go underneath. Very good. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: We always like an old guy calling with the radio on.
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  Speaker 2: Some obscure information. Thank you for calling. Let's go to
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  Speaker 2: John in Ronkakamo. John, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Mark. I'm doing great. First-time caller. Thanks for taking
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  Speaker 5: my call. So, hey, we have two Uncle Giuseppi's in
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  Speaker 5: the area. One in Smithtown and one in Mount Sinai,
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  Speaker 5: I believe.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for those who don't live in Long Island, Uncle Giuseppi's.
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  Speaker 2: It's like the Italian Wegmans. It's the greatest supermarket. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of great Italians, but it's such a great supermarket.
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  Speaker 2: They're like 10 miles long. They're great, great. I want
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  Speaker 2: one in Manhattan. Connecticut should get some. New Jersey, I
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  Speaker 2: think you got one. You need more. But hopefully, I
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  Speaker 2: talked to the owner. His name is a great guy,
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  Speaker 2: Carl Del Prete. He's going to try. He's looking all
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  Speaker 2: over the place, wants to open more. But you guys
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  Speaker 2: are so good.
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  Speaker 3: So we were talking the other day about people who
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  Speaker 3: move out of New York. And everyone who moves out
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  Speaker 3: of New York, they really miss it. I do business traveling.
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  Speaker 3: If a friend or a family member hears I'm coming,
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  Speaker 3: they said, bring us bagels.
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  Speaker 5: Well, bring us pizza.
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  Speaker 2: You know? Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: They move to these places that don't have bagels or
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  Speaker 5: pizza or deli. And then they say they love it,
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  Speaker 5: but they don't really because they miss it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't get great pizza everywhere. You will be
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  Speaker 2: able to get the bagels because a lot of these
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  Speaker 2: bagel companies, hedge funds have gotten behind them. They're opening
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  Speaker 2: all over the country. Pop-Up Bagels is about to be
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  Speaker 2: $ 300 million.
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  Speaker 3: Right, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I remember you talking about that.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Well, thanks for calling. Let's go to Andrew
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  Speaker 2: in Newark. Andrew, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Mark, how's it going on? Two things you don't mind. First,
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  Speaker 6: the toilets, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: It was about 30 years ago in San Francisco. They
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  Speaker 6: came out with these self-cleaning toilets. You had to pay
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  Speaker 6: for it, though, and then the door opened automatically. When
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  Speaker 6: I moved there, one of the first things I saw
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  Speaker 6: on Marcus Street, one of the... Oh, wow, I saw
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  Speaker 6: that on the news when I saw this. And the
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  Speaker 6: door opened because time was up, and a bill of
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  Speaker 6: smoke came out, and, like, 10 homeless people all shot
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  Speaker 6: out in different directions and stuff. But it's nothing new, but... First,
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  Speaker 6: I think it would be more economical if you just
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  Speaker 6: gave a guy a job to stay there and be
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  Speaker 6: a toilet attendant, take people out and keep it clean
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  Speaker 6: than what they're talking about. And you said toilet paper,
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  Speaker 6: really literally like this is a joke, but maybe if
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  Speaker 6: you just used dollar bills, it would be cheaper.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, hey, hey. Now listen, one thing about city government,
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  Speaker 2: they can't run anything. Anything. Anything they run stinks. Can
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  Speaker 2: you imagine them trying to take care of these public toilets?
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  Speaker 2: It's not going to be very good. Let's go to
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  Speaker 2: Ron in Woodstock. Ron, how you doing? Hello? Yes, Ron.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't sure.
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  Speaker 2: Woodstock. He's still stoned.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Woodstock.
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  Speaker 5: Great.
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  Speaker 2: Great.
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  Speaker 5: Great.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm calling about, you know, all these politicians, they
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  Speaker 1: should crack down on these corporations cheating on their taxes.
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  Speaker 1: It's a myth.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know they don't cheat on their taxes. They
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  Speaker 2: pay more taxes than anybody. They pay all the taxes.
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  Speaker 1: I know, but the myth is this. Every corporation, I
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  Speaker 1: work for a Fortune 300.
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  Speaker 5: That's on the Forbes calendar.
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  Speaker 2: And every corporation has to give the IRS a room
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  Speaker 2: at corporate headquarters. Oh, I know. The corporations all pay
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  Speaker 2: their taxes. It just sounds good for Democrats. If corporations
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  Speaker 2: would only pay their fair share, they play more than
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  Speaker 2: their fair share already. Hey, by the way, Democrats have
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  Speaker 2: tariffs on everybody. A tariff is when you increase the
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  Speaker 2: tax on a corporation because what they do is they
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  Speaker 2: tack it onto the price. So it's basically a tariff.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same thing. When Trump puts a tariff on,
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  Speaker 2: corporations don't necessarily have to pay it. Very often it's
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  Speaker 2: paid by the exporter, by the middleman. But when you
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  Speaker 2: put a tax on a corporation, boom, it goes right
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  Speaker 2: into the price. That's a real tariff. Hey, when we
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  Speaker 2: come back, nobody better to talk about these Mamdani toilets
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  Speaker 2: than Jimmy Fallon, the great comedian, great WOR host, Fox
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  Speaker 2: News host. Very funny guy. We'll talk to him next
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  Speaker 2: on 710WOR.