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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 1: New York.
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  Speaker 2: Now three hours every weekday from 9 till noon on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: Well, hey, this UN week has just been awful, disruptive,
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  Speaker 1: screwing up everybody in New York City. Not just the traffic,
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  Speaker 1: but pedestrians too. All these road closures, sidewalk closures, street closures. Today,
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  Speaker 1: Netanyahu speaks at the UN. That's a very big, big day,
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  Speaker 1: so that'll mean a lot of tie-ups, a lot of security,
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  Speaker 1: but then it'll start to ease up a little tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: And then they got this UN week next week, but
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  Speaker 1: it's different. It won't be the world leaders. They'll be
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  Speaker 1: leaving over the weekend. By Monday, most of them will
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  Speaker 1: be gone. So you'll still have UN activity, but not
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  Speaker 1: the massive street closures and sidewalks closed. If you might
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  Speaker 1: have been standing in the right spot where they got
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  Speaker 1: all the barriers up and you can't cross the street
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  Speaker 1: and If you actually saw the presidential motorcade come by,
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  Speaker 1: it's something to watch, almost ludicrous kind of. It's like
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  Speaker 1: literally 50 motorcycles in a formation coming down the street.
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  Speaker 1: And then after that, a bunch of big black SUVs
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  Speaker 1: with all kinds of flashing lights. And then the presidential limousine,
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  Speaker 1: the beast. It's an incredible car. But it's not just
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  Speaker 1: one beast. Three of them. Three of them in a
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  Speaker 1: row come by. I guess that's because that way you're
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  Speaker 1: not sure exactly which one he's in. But if you look,
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  Speaker 1: you can see which one he's in. And then followed
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  Speaker 1: by a lot of black SUVs, followed by two ambulances,
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  Speaker 1: followed by cars with all kinds of weapons and Stinger
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  Speaker 1: missiles on top of them. It's an amazing thing to watch.
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  Speaker 1: But we should be easing up a little tomorrow, which
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  Speaker 1: is Friday, and then by Monday should be much, much better. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's take some calls. Let's go to Jerry in Delaware. Jerry,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Jerry.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, yesterday I heard you talk about the New Yorkers
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  Speaker 3: moving to Delaware.
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  Speaker 1: They're all moving to Delaware.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, they moved down here and they're not happy.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now listen, once they all get there, you
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  Speaker 1: can't keep talking like this. You can't be calm and
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  Speaker 1: you're going to have to go, how are you? And
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  Speaker 1: you're going to have to talk faster and shove and
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  Speaker 1: push everybody. Can you handle that?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's nice, but... they really been building houses
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  Speaker 3: like crazy here. Like these developments, 300, 500,000 or 300 homes,
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  Speaker 3: 500 homes. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So in case anybody doesn't know Delaware, it's like the
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  Speaker 1: number one place seniors are moving to from New York.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, what is it? You have low taxes there
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  Speaker 1: or no taxes, no state tax.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's like no sales tax on some things. There's like
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  Speaker 3: your car and stuff. Yeah. Tax on that. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: But the problem is they put these gigantic developments in,
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  Speaker 3: and the east-west roads here are only two lanes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: See, that's the other thing. They do that in Austin, Texas,
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  Speaker 1: right over there in New Jersey. They built a million
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  Speaker 1: skyscrapers along the water, but all they got is River Road.
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  Speaker 1: They forgot to add some roads. So you got that problem, too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, I mean, we moved down here from Jersey in 2011.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But we're used to traffic, and a New Yorker should
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  Speaker 3: be used to traffic.
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  Speaker 1: What made you pick Delaware? What made you pick Delaware?
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  Speaker 1: Just because it was cheaper in Delaware, easier?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we were retiring.
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  Speaker 1: And what is there to do in Delaware?
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  Speaker 3: You got the beaches. You got golf.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's the summer. What do you do in the
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  Speaker 1: winter there?
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  Speaker 3: Well, actually, I play golf all winter, pretty much. As
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  Speaker 3: long as it's 30 degrees, I'll play.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, look where I'm sitting right now, right now.
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  Speaker 1: Look where I'm sitting. It's like 200 feet away, I
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  Speaker 1: got Carnegie Hall. Right over there, I got the greatest
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  Speaker 1: shopping in the world. There's Bergdorf, there's this, there's that.
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  Speaker 1: Right over that way, there's Broadway. Surrounding us are hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of the hottest restaurants. What do you do in Delaware?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is a travel. You got to go north.
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  Speaker 1: How far is Philadelphia from here?
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  Speaker 3: It's about a two-hour ride.
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  Speaker 1: That's not so close.
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  Speaker 3: We're down in Louis. Sorry to jump to Cape May.
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  Speaker 3: That's some of our stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you moved to Delaware. I hate to break
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  Speaker 1: it to you. You sound like a beaten man. You
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  Speaker 1: sound totally defeated by Delaware.
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  Speaker 3: Now we're thinking of moving south to North Carolina or
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Thanks for calling. Good call, Jerry. See, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just telling you, that's what happens when you leave New York.
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  Speaker 1: I bet you I talked to this guy 10 years
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  Speaker 1: ago in New Jersey. He'd call up and go, hey,
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  Speaker 1: how are you? Move to Delaware.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: It wears you down. Same thing with Florida. I know
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  Speaker 1: guys that moved to Florida. They were like media guys
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  Speaker 1: here in New York. You could call them up and
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  Speaker 1: tell them a million things. They go, okay, yeah, right. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to write them. Now you call them in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: You tell them one thing. They go, what'd you say?
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  Speaker 1: You slow down when you leave New York. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to Mike in Florida. He's an exception. Mike in Florida,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Mark. You're absolutely right about slowing down. If
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  Speaker 2: I talk to somebody and I put out more than
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  Speaker 2: two thoughts to them, they're completely baffled and confused.
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  Speaker 1: It happens.
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  Speaker 2: It's incredible.
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  Speaker 1: There's another media guy, big media guy. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to mention any names, but I used to watch this
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  Speaker 1: guy cross the street. He'd go in and out of
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  Speaker 1: the cars. He'd walk right over the car. He'd boom, boom,
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  Speaker 1: and cross it. Last time he visited, He couldn't cross
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  Speaker 1: the street. He goes, oh, oh, oh, all these cars.
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  Speaker 1: He was afraid of them.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's funny. I still walk that way down here,
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  Speaker 2: and I walk after dinner every night. I walk through
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  Speaker 2: a mall, a shopping center, out to a shopping center.
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  Speaker 2: And I walk through the parking lot, and people will
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  Speaker 2: come to a stop and not move until I've, like,
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  Speaker 2: gone into a store or something. They're terrified to see.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, look, I dodged cabs in Manhattan for
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  Speaker 2: 50 years. They're not going to hit me. Believe me.
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to get me. I promise you.
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  Speaker 1: The way they drive down there, if they hit you,
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  Speaker 1: it wouldn't hurt. They drive like two.
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  Speaker 2: Miles an hour. It wouldn't hurt anyway. Exactly. Exactly. And
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  Speaker 2: then I could convince them that they didn't actually hit me.
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  Speaker 2: So it was even better. But, you know, you talked
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  Speaker 2: about the affordability. When I moved into Manhattan more than 50,
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  Speaker 2: almost 50 years ago, I was living in a studio
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  Speaker 2: apartment on 88th Street. I was paying $ 350 a month.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't afford it. Everything was, you know, everything was
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  Speaker 2: still relatively expensive. I mean, if you go, and if
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  Speaker 2: you go back to, you watch.
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  Speaker 3: An old movie.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, $ 350, 000 back then, that's the equivalent of
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  Speaker 1: $ 3, 500, 000 now.
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  Speaker 2: Right, exactly. So it's, exactly. But I wasn't making, you know,
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  Speaker 2: what they're making now either, you know. So it was,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if I was making $ 25, 000 a year, it
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  Speaker 2: would be a lot, you know. And, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: couldn't afford anything. I couldn't afford, you know, pizza was too...
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  Speaker 2: Pizza was only 50 cents a slice, but it's not
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  Speaker 2: like I could eat out every night. And it's expensive
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  Speaker 2: down here in Florida, by the way. Other than housing,
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  Speaker 2: it's very expensive to live. Food is expensive. Drinks are expensive.
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  Speaker 1: But in those days, back then, way back down on
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  Speaker 1: the Upper East Side, it was quite the swinging place.
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  Speaker 1: It was all singles.
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  Speaker 2: It was great.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of action there. Remember all those bars and
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  Speaker 1: all those places?
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  Speaker 2: A million bars on 2nd and 3rd Avenue.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: It was nothing but.
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  Speaker 1: The hottest women, nothing but action. Now you go to
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  Speaker 1: those neighborhoods, they're all 80. How are you? It turns
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  Speaker 1: out it's the same exact women. They never moved.
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  Speaker 2: No, and they're all sitting in the bar with their
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  Speaker 2: dogs now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they all got a dog. How are you? But, well, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: you're happy you moved to Florida, aren't you?
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  Speaker 2: I'll be back in Manhattan before I die. You see?
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  Speaker 2: I told you.
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  Speaker 1: You'll all be back. Every one of you in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be back.
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  Speaker 2: Look, you know, it's just... Everything was convenient when I
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  Speaker 2: left Manhattan. Everything was a block away. The supermarket... you know, everything,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the bagel shop, the pizza place. My doctor
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  Speaker 2: was that, you know, the subway was a block away
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  Speaker 2: on 86th street. It was great. I didn't have to
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  Speaker 2: hear you have to get in the car and schlep
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  Speaker 2: everywhere you go.
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  Speaker 1: And their life now is driving and circling around the mall,
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  Speaker 1: looking for a parking space. That's your life.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it's like. That's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for calling Mike. I don't mean to put down Florida.
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  Speaker 1: I know every, I agree. I have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: listeners in Florida. Always writing me. Stop putting down for,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just being realistic here. If you live in New
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  Speaker 1: York city, Appreciate where you live. It's great. Hey, we
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  Speaker 1: got a lot coming up. I'm here three hours every day,
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  Speaker 1: nine to noon every day, nine to noon. And then
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  Speaker 1: at noon, you got Buck Saxton and Clay Travis. They
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  Speaker 1: do a wonderful show every day at noon. Then you
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  Speaker 1: got the most listened to radio show in America, Sean Hannity.
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  Speaker 1: You got Jesse Kelly at six. You got the very
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  Speaker 1: funny Jimmy Fela at nine o'clock. In fact, he'll be
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  Speaker 1: with us later in the show here on 710WOR.