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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: And now, Mark Simone on 710WOR. Thank you, Shadow Stevens.
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  Speaker 1: We'll take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number.
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  Speaker 2: 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Mark. I'm doing very well, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Mark, I was highly impressed with Caroline Leavitt on the
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  Speaker 2: Sean Hannity podcast. I mean, she's just incredibly amazing. Some
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  Speaker 2: of her recollections of being in the Situation Room, meetings
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  Speaker 2: with world leaders. Mark, my question is, is it possible
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  Speaker 2: that a little further down the road as she raises
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  Speaker 2: her two kids, that Fox News would offer her her
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  Speaker 2: own show?
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  Speaker 1: They already have. She has a standing offer. So far
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  Speaker 1: she's said no, she doesn't want to go back to
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  Speaker 1: full-time work, but they've already made the offer. She has
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  Speaker 1: a standing offer to do a show at Fox. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of former White House press secretaries have shows at Fox.
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  Speaker 1: Dana Perino, Kayleigh McEnany. She will be one of them.
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  Speaker 1: But when she's ready, when her kids are a little older.
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  Speaker 1: She will go back to work. Good question, Dave. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to Kelly in Brooklyn. Kelly, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 3: How are you, Mark?
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  Speaker 1: Let me check.
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  Speaker 3: I have a comment to make.
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  Speaker 1: Not bad.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: You've been saying about the kind of like a rebate
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  Speaker 3: check that she's going to send out to Hochul.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Everywhere else I heard it was $ 200. I called Hochul's office.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure they were thrilled.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's too bad. So you called.
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  Speaker 1: Up the local's office and you said, hello, and they went, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God.
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  Speaker 3: Not at all. No, I am not from Long Island.
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  Speaker 1: No, I am.
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  Speaker 3: I am from Dyka Heights, Brooklyn. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So it's $ 100 if you file your state income tax single.
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  Speaker 3: And $ 200 if you file as a married couple. And
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  Speaker 3: then I also asked, I said, oh, is this also
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  Speaker 3: taxable like the last.
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  Speaker 1: Time she did? Well, first of all, tell them you're trans,
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  Speaker 1: then it's $ 500.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what it is. And you will be federally
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  Speaker 3: taxed on it. So it's a scam. And I also said,
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  Speaker 3: why doesn't she do more debates on 2457? And there
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  Speaker 3: was no answer to that. So I just want you
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  Speaker 3: to know that's all these checks are. And it's our
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  Speaker 3: tax money that we're going to be taxed on again.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I always wonder what makes people call the
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  Speaker 1: senator's office or Kathy Hochul's office. It's like some junior
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  Speaker 1: staff intern you got on the phone. He doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: anything to do with anything. What do you think you'll
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  Speaker 1: accomplish with that call?
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  Speaker 3: Well, this one was the Albany office.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And she's not even in the Albany office. She
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  Speaker 1: works on third Avenue, 41st and third is where her
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  Speaker 1: real office is.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. So should I be frustrated? I contact all of
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  Speaker 3: my politicians. That's my legal right to do that and
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  Speaker 3: to let them know that.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I'm just saying when you call the offices,
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  Speaker 1: what they do, they have a huge staff. And if
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  Speaker 1: you're the lowest on the totem pole, the brand new
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  Speaker 1: junior intern, that's your job taking these calls.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: All you're talking to is them. It never goes anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: But I did get the correct information.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, that's good.
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  Speaker 3: So there you go.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for calling.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: If you call a Schumer's office, you're going to get
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  Speaker 1: the most junior staffer and you're going to tell them
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  Speaker 1: what you think. I'm just telling you, he doesn't run
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  Speaker 1: down the hall to Schumer and go, Hey, I just
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  Speaker 1: got a call from a woman in Brooklyn. Here's what
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  Speaker 1: she thinks. It never goes anywhere. Now, if you were
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  Speaker 1: to call a Schumer's office or somebody's office and say, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to make a large donation. It's a whole
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  Speaker 1: different story. You're going to be a big donor? Hang on,
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  Speaker 1: hang on. He'll actually come on the phone and talk
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  Speaker 1: to you. Let's go to Michael in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Michael,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing? Michael?
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  Speaker 4: Hi, how you doing? Good. I have a comment, and
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  Speaker 4: my comment is this. I get the New York Post
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  Speaker 4: delivered to my house every day.
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  Speaker 1: The physical newspaper?
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  Speaker 4: I'm a delivery person. He delivered the New York Times
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  Speaker 4: to me.
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  Speaker 1: All right, wait a minute. You get the physical newspaper
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  Speaker 1: delivered to you? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I'm still one of those old guys.
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  Speaker 1: All right, stop that. Stop that. That's news from 36
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  Speaker 1: hours ago. Go to the New York Post website, nypost.com.
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  Speaker 1: You'll get 10 times the news.
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  Speaker 4: I just like reading a physical paper.
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  Speaker 1: I know, but it's old news. The articles are not
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  Speaker 1: as big as they are on the website. The pictures aren't.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, but I got to tell you this, Mark. I
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  Speaker 4: never called you before. I used to listen to you
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  Speaker 4: on the weekends. Yeah. when you had that two-hour show
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  Speaker 4: on the weekends, I loved it. You always spoke about
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  Speaker 4: all the celebrities, and you always had interesting stories. But
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  Speaker 4: this is the thing I wanted to talk to you about,
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  Speaker 4: the New York Times, because I haven't read it in years.
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, the delivery guy delivered the wrong paper.
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  Speaker 4: I usually get the New York Post.
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  Speaker 1: Well, this is a fascinating story, but can we get
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  Speaker 1: to the point?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, this is the point. The first 10 pages
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  Speaker 4: of the New York Times, almost every article had an anti-Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's the point of the New York Times. It's
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  Speaker 1: an anti-Trump paper. It's not a newspaper anymore. It's just
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  Speaker 1: an anti-Trump thing.
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  Speaker 4: It's absolutely disgusting.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, that's what their audience wants. It's all Trump haters,
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  Speaker 1: and that's their business model. Hate Trump, and they've got
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  Speaker 1: a whole audience of Trump haters. Don't get the physical
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  Speaker 1: newspaper anymore. Let's take the New York Post. I think
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  Speaker 1: the print circulation is like 75,000. The website subscribers, I think,
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  Speaker 1: is 4 million right now, so. You'll want to go
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  Speaker 1: to the website because the print newspaper, the news is
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  Speaker 1: from yesterday when they printed it. It's like one-fifth of
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  Speaker 1: what's on the website. The stories are shorter. They don't
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  Speaker 1: have as many pictures. It's much better. Just go to
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  Speaker 1: the New York Post website and get a subscription. You'll
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  Speaker 1: love it. Let's go to April in Astoria, Queens.
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  Speaker 4: April. Listen. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Hi.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: I want to know, I am really confused when I
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  Speaker 3: hear constantly on the radio, on the news, we will win.
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  Speaker 4: The Republicans will win. If people come out to vote,
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  Speaker 4: we will win. But I don't understand, why won't people vote?
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's common when it's not a presidential year that
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people don't bother.
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  Speaker 3: There's a But why won't they bother?
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  Speaker 1: Because you've got to go somewhere. You've got to wait
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  Speaker 1: in line. It's a pain in the neck.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but how old are Republicans? Are they all 85 years.
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  Speaker 1: Old in wheelchairs? What is it? They're all ages. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't know that people don't like to vote? You know,
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  Speaker 1: like only 5% of people vote nowadays. But anyway, April,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for calling. Hey, when we come back, this guy
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  Speaker 1: is like a legend in the broadcasting business, Dan Mason.
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  Speaker 1: He ran CBS Radio. He ran Odyssey. He's the guy that,
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  Speaker 1: Imus worked for him and Howard Stern. He's got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of great stories. He wrote a new book. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk to him next on 710WOR.