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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: What's better than two hours of Mark Simone?
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  Speaker 2: Three.
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  Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show. Now nine till noon weekdays.
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  Speaker 3: 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Will in Charlotte,
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina. Will, how you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Mark. Love your show. Listen, I've got an answer
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  Speaker 3: for where to put those data centers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You're a big Sopranos fan, right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so you remember the opening of The Sopranos and
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  Speaker 3: Tony Soprano's driving down the New Jersey Turnpike.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And he's going past refineries and old chemical plants and
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  Speaker 3: Superfund sites. That's the perfect place to put those data centers.
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  Speaker 1: Well, but there's no room there. First of all, it's crowded.
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  Speaker 1: There's a million things there. No land. And it costs
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  Speaker 1: a fortune for land there. You've got to put them somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: Knock a few buildings down. Those people are going to
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  Speaker 3: afford it.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, what about Charlotte, North Carolina, where you are? Let's
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  Speaker 1: put it there. You don't need that Charlotte Speedway, do you?
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  Speaker 4: Sure, why not?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I'll have to lower my property taxes a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: although they're a heck of a lot lower than they
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  Speaker 3: used to be up in New Jersey. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, actually it does. It will lower your taxes. They
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  Speaker 1: figured out how to create their own water and recycle
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  Speaker 1: it and use their own electricity. The problem is it
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  Speaker 1: makes noise, a lot of noise from data centers. So
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  Speaker 1: you've got to put them like half a mile away
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  Speaker 1: from everybody. Let's go to Phil, Suffolk County. Phil, how
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  Speaker 1: are you?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, hello, Mark, and thank you for taking my call.
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  Speaker 1: Where are you in Suffolk County?
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  Speaker 3: Northport.
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  Speaker 1: Northport. Is that Suffolk? Oh, yeah, it is. Northport. You
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  Speaker 1: got that new restaurant right on the water there, and
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  Speaker 1: you got the hotel there.
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  Speaker 4: It was very nice. We had this annual Cow Harbor
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  Speaker 4: Day where people run around and shut down the streets.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But anyway.
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  Speaker 1: It's a wonderful event. Actually, it's an annoying event. Just
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  Speaker 1: stay the hell away from Northport that day. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a wonderful event, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Mark, would you agree with me that the disturbing
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  Speaker 4: trend about this Lindsay Clancy is the fact that there
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  Speaker 4: are two other women that have come out and have
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  Speaker 4: used her in context of them murdering their own children?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, very good point.
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  Speaker 4: I feel that Lindsay should be held accountable. contemptible for that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with that holdout, Jura. You're right. It's horrible.
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  Speaker 1: And then the other trend is, what is it with
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  Speaker 1: these left-wing kooks with the killers and the murderers? Luigi Mangione,
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  Speaker 1: Lindsay Clancy. They have this whole new trend now of
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  Speaker 1: there are justified murders. It wasn't their fault. It's got
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  Speaker 1: to stop. That holdout, Jura, that's a hero there. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to Bob in Short Hills. Bob, how you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Mark.
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  Speaker 4: How are you?
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  Speaker 1: It's good.
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  Speaker 4: I'm cool, Eric. I got two topics if you have time.
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  Speaker 4: First one, about two months ago, you kind of poo-pooed
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  Speaker 4: the induction of Chubby Checker into the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm just wondering, can you think of anyone else
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  Speaker 4: in the rock world that had such an influence on
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  Speaker 4: that music?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, of course, easily. Easily, easily, easily. Like everybody else. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I love Chubby Checker. He's a very nice guy. And
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  Speaker 1: he had the record called The Twist. It was a
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  Speaker 1: big hit, but he was not a major influence. Stop
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  Speaker 1: saying my name.
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  Speaker 4: Over and over.
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  Speaker 1: It's annoying.
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  Speaker 4: He had a worldwide mania. He put people on a
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  Speaker 4: dance floor who hated to get on the dance floor.
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  Speaker 1: I hate to break it to you, but they were
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  Speaker 1: dancing long before Chubby Checker. He's a great guy. It
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  Speaker 1: was a great hit record, but it wasn't.
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  Speaker 4: A major influence. Joey D and the Starlighters, one of
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  Speaker 4: the biggest venues in New York for a couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but if you went to the Peppermint Lounge... And
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  Speaker 1: stayed there for five hours. You'd notice they played 6,000
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  Speaker 1: other artists. It wasn't just Chubby Checker.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but he created that venue. It was he who
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  Speaker 4: did that.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, let's go to Chuck Berry. Now, here's
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  Speaker 1: a guy who was one of the most influential guys
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  Speaker 1: to me who really pioneered the modern-day rock and roll.
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  Speaker 1: Even the Beatles will tell you they were copying Chuck Berry.
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  Speaker 1: There's nobody telling you they're copying Chubby Checker.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, there are a lot of people that
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  Speaker 4: copy Chubby Checkers who had offshoots of his song, The Twist,
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  Speaker 4: slow twisting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a big fad for two years with
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  Speaker 1: The Twist. Now, yeah. Oh, wait, no, wait, forget it.
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  Speaker 1: Stop for a second. Stop. Now lie down on the couch.
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  Speaker 1: Lie down. We're going to have to psychoanalyze you. What
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  Speaker 1: is this obsession with Chubby Checker all about? Where did
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  Speaker 1: this come from?
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  Speaker 4: I believe he should be in the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 4: He had 10 different dance songs, the Limbo, the Huckled Bar.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, these were all cheap fads. I mean, they were
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  Speaker 1: very good. The Limbo was a big fad for a year.
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  Speaker 1: These were fad records, novelty records.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I got another question for you.
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  Speaker 1: No, seriously, what is this Chubby Checker obsession?
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  Speaker 4: No, I think he's worthy of going into the Rock
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  Speaker 4: and Roll Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: He's worthy because there's nobody left. All the greats went
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  Speaker 1: in first. You know, I love that Gilbert O'Sullivan with
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  Speaker 1: Remember Alone Again Naturally. I love those records. He had
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  Speaker 1: three or four great, but he's not a rock and
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  Speaker 1: roll hall of fame guy. He was not a big influence.
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  Speaker 1: He was a silly little guy with a couple of
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  Speaker 1: nice hits.
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  Speaker 4: 40 chart, 40 chart songs. That's pretty good. Let me,
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  Speaker 4: one other thing. I'll give you another one. Anecdotally, I
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  Speaker 4: wonder if you could talk about a restaurant you probably
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  Speaker 4: knew closed about 10 years ago in the meatpacking district,
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  Speaker 4: Italian restaurant, famous, maybe you can call it infamous, probably
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  Speaker 4: frequented by Vincent. Uh, do you know the name of it?
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  Speaker 4: And what it closed? And I wonder if you had
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  Speaker 4: an anecdotes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Um, I'm blanking out. It was a little post or something.
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  Speaker 4: Um, on the Brogy street.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Ponties.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, parties. Oh, I thought that's, is that, is that,
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  Speaker 1: that's not really the meatpacking district. That's like on the water.
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  Speaker 4: It's not, well, they say it's meatpacking or, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 4: on the West side highway.
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  Speaker 1: No, there was a great Italian restaurant in the meatpacking district.
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  Speaker 1: It's closed because, uh, Google bought the whole building. It's,
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  Speaker 1: it's actually, uh, where the Crane Club is now in
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  Speaker 1: that building. But, you know, Ponte's was an old landmark,
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  Speaker 1: but didn't somebody in that whole deal, somebody involved in
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  Speaker 1: the restaurant get indicted?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it was a big family feud over the proceeds
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  Speaker 4: of his, he had about 30 real estate.
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  Speaker 1: No, but I don't know who, somebody involved in that
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  Speaker 1: whole restaurant got indicted or went to jail, something like that, right?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know that, but, you know, he sold that
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  Speaker 4: property for $ 115 million in 19, 19, I'm sorry, 2010.
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  Speaker 1: No, I was actually there a couple of times. Ponty
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  Speaker 1: was a landmark over there. Let's go to the expert.
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  Speaker 1: Vincent and Brooklyn, we only got about 30 seconds. Do
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  Speaker 1: you remember Ponty's?
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't, Mark. But speaking about a place you
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  Speaker 2: just mentioned, I used to hang out there a lot
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  Speaker 2: at the Bossett Hotel, a beautiful hotel. In fact, somebody,
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  Speaker 2: an acquaintance of mine, one night went up in there,
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  Speaker 2: took a half a bottle of sleeping pills and drank
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  Speaker 2: a half a bottle of scotch and took his own life.
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  Speaker 2: But me and my friends used to hang out there.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like a wonderful hotel. Now, what did you and
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  Speaker 1: your friends do there, or shouldn't we ask?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We got it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, anyway. They had a great lounge. The lobby of
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  Speaker 2: the hotel is absolutely gorgeous. I hope they don't destroy it.
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  Speaker 2: It's on Montague Street and Hick Street. And we used
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  Speaker 2: to go there, especially the lounge was open until 3
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  Speaker 2: at night. And I used to live in Brooklyn Heights
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  Speaker 2: at the time. And it was a great place to
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  Speaker 2: hang out.
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  Speaker 1: Like the Roberts Lodge in Goodfellas, that kind of place?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, actually, but Eva Mara probably knows it. It's on
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  Speaker 2: the corner of Vincent.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Vincent, we've got to go because we've got to
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  Speaker 1: do the news. But call tomorrow. We've got more time tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for calling. When we come back, the greatest pollster
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  Speaker 1: in the world, the real polls, not the fake polls
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  Speaker 1: you see in public. We'll get to the real polls
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  Speaker 1: coming up next. John McLaughlin will be with us on 710WOR.