Latest / The Mark Simone Show / Mark takes your calls!

Transcript

Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Give w R A Bree said on the iHeartRadio app
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: to hear Mark Simone and all the WOR hosts in
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: an instead.
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: Now back to the Mark Simo show on wo R.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Hey, let's say some calls. Let's go to uh Pat Westchester. Pat.
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: How you doing?
• 0:19
  Speaker 3: Yes, tis in the afternoon. Nice to talk to you, Mark, Mark.
• 0:23
  Speaker 3: I just want to make maybe your readers, your listeners aware.
• 0:27
  Speaker 3: I won't name the airline, but my niece booked a
• 0:30
  Speaker 3: flight about two months ago to go to California on
• 0:33
  Speaker 3: Tuesday with my sister and her addans and because I
• 0:37
  Speaker 3: guess the weather California, they can't book a flight.
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 0:40
  Speaker 3: Fine, I understand that they refuse to read book Club
• 0:43
  Speaker 3: because she used points.
• 0:45
  Speaker 4: Oh how is that right?
• 0:47
  Speaker 5: Well, you know what I mean.
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: It's not it's not listening. These airlines are annoying, stupid, cheap, crummy, awful.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: But when you sign up for those points, you don't
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: really you know, somewhere in that fine printed says they
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: can do that.
• 0:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I saying.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: Signed it. You know, when you get that, thank very creditably.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: Try to get a word and with this.
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: One, Yeah, I wonder into any repoorts to that because
• 1:08
  Speaker 3: then she had a book a hotel.
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: Now there's nothing you can do because you could sue them.
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: You get this, but I guarantee in the fine print.
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: You know, whatever you get a credit card or anything,
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: you gotta yeah, true click if you does your husband
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: ever get a word in with you?
• 1:23
  Speaker 3: Sure so you can, you can talk.
• 1:25
  Speaker 4: I'll listen.
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: No, I like you, Pat, You're nice, a lot of spunk.
• 1:31
  Speaker 3: Well, I just couldn't believe it's this airline. I can't
• 1:33
  Speaker 3: name them.
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: Here she goes again, So good name the airline, go ahead,
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: jet Blue, Jet Blue. Well they're pretty good airline.
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: But they they are pretty good. I've been with him
• 1:43
  Speaker 3: since the inception of that airline. I'm really And then
• 1:46
  Speaker 3: they keep sending you things.
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: They want you to buy points.
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: I know, but this is everything, you know, when you
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: sign up for your iPhone, you gotta click this thing.
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: I agree. It's seventy two thousand paragraphs. Nobody's going to
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: read the whole thing, and when you sign up for
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: the points forty seven paragraphs, you're not going to read
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: the whole Somewhere in there it said we could take
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: your points away. You can't get this. You can't get
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: you know, when you're check into a hotel, you don't
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: realize you're signing this thing and it's got fine print
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: in it. And I know, but you're not wrong. Pat.
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: The airline is wrong, but it's legal. They can get
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: away with it. Let's go to Mike and Florida. Mike,
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: how you doing, Good morning? Mark as Mike.
• 2:24
  Speaker 4: Just to paraphrase Thomas Sole, affordable housing is housing you
• 2:28
  Speaker 4: can afford. That seems to be escaping everybody in this
• 2:32
  Speaker 4: conversation about affordability. It's always been expensive to live. I
• 2:36
  Speaker 4: mean my parents moved out to Suffolk County in the
• 2:38
  Speaker 4: early sixties and we didn't have air conditioning, we didn't
• 2:42
  Speaker 4: have TV in every room, We had one phone, one car.
• 2:47
  Speaker 4: People nowadays live very lavishly. You know, nobody got a
• 2:50
  Speaker 4: tour d in sixty thousand dollars. College education. Back in
• 2:53
  Speaker 4: those days you went to community college or the state
• 2:56
  Speaker 4: college or the city college, where tuition was inexpensive. You
• 2:59
  Speaker 4: didn't have a oh, you didn't have a computer. People. Yeah,
• 3:02
  Speaker 4: we didn't eat steak every day. People live very lavishly
• 3:05
  Speaker 4: now and they complain I can't afford it. Yeah, it's expensive,
• 3:08
  Speaker 4: Well is where you live.
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: There were always very expensive places and very cheap places.
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: If you haven't moved to Mississippi, and Mississippi it cost
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: this much. If you want to move to the middle
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: of Paris, it costs as much. I mean, that's precisely.
• 3:21
  Speaker 4: We can't live in Buckingham Palace.
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: No, you ever been in Buckingham Palace?
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: Pretty bad?
• 3:26
  Speaker 4: Oh maybe that was a bad example.
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: You wouldn't want to live like that. It's like an old, dusty, musty,
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: cobwebby place.
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: I've been in.
• 3:32
  Speaker 4: Gracing Mansion too, it's the same thing.
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Gracia Mansion. It's not so nice. It's not as
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: big as you think.
• 3:38
  Speaker 4: So nice.
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: No, it's a rickety old house. But it's got a
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: nice front yard overlooking the water. All right, Mike, thanks
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: for calling. Yeah, there's always, always, always been cheap places,
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: expensive places. If you go up to Beacon, New York,
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: very nice place, Hudson, New York, very nice, cost this
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: much to live. If you come to the middle of
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: Manhattan Park Avenue, it costs this much to live. It's
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: always been that way and it always will be that way.
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: Let's go to uh John Patrick in New York City. John,
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: How you doing.
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: Pretty good? Mark?
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: We don't like about anybody with a deeper voice than me.
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: That's not great. Sorry about that. I was coming back
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: from a meeting in Hoboken Monday, Mark, three days ago,
• 4:22
  Speaker 2: and I'm on the platform walking to get the past
• 4:24
  Speaker 2: train back into the city. And what do I see?
• 4:27
  Speaker 2: I see a guy with a Boa constrictor wrapped around
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: his body. The boa constrictor had to be eight or
• 4:31
  Speaker 2: nine feet. So I turned to one of the station
• 4:33
  Speaker 2: guys with the vests and say, hey, guys, there's a
• 4:36
  Speaker 2: guy with a boa constrictor. And they tell me, well,
• 4:38
  Speaker 2: if he puts it in the bag, it's legal. I
• 4:41
  Speaker 2: couldn't believe it. And then last night I grabbed Freeport
• 4:44
  Speaker 2: Authority cops mark and I said, guys, boa constrictor, Well,
• 4:48
  Speaker 2: if it's a pet, it's legal.
• 4:50
  Speaker 4: I can't believe it.
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you got to do. If the guy's working
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: down there in the subway eight hours a day, five
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: days a week, this guy's seen everything a thousand times.
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: He's seen it all.
• 5:02
  Speaker 2: I said, my wonderful I said, what if it's you know,
• 5:04
  Speaker 2: I don't want to be to get to into the
• 5:06
  Speaker 2: woods here, but what if it's a brown snake or
• 5:08
  Speaker 2: a black mom by the most poisonous snakes in the world.
• 5:11
  Speaker 2: I said, if somebody can bring that snake on on
• 5:13
  Speaker 2: the on the train, I said, yeah, if it's a pet,
• 5:15
  Speaker 2: put in a bag.
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: How did you get to be How did you get
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: to be such a snake expert? How can we know
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: all these different snakes?
• 5:21
  Speaker 2: I guess I watched too much of Steve Irwin.
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: God rest his Steve Irwin. Steve Irwin. Let's go to Uh,
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: let's see, let's go to Jay in New Jersey. Jay,
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: how you doing?
• 5:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: Mark?
• 5:36
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 5:36
  Speaker 2: You know, Hunter Biden's doing his rounds now. I thought
• 5:39
  Speaker 2: maybe you could have him on and ask him while
• 5:41
  Speaker 2: he got his brother's widow the crack.
• 5:43
  Speaker 4: How's that?
• 5:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: No, I don't think we want Hunter Biden on. That's
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: for We'll leave that to the Tucker Carlson's Uh. You know,
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: he's been very close to Hunter Biden for years. It's
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: not a recent thing. They were always very close. And
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: now he's having him on the podcast and letting him
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: say incredible, outrageous anti Semitic nonsense and all kinds of
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: crazy things about Trump. But that's Tucker is now what
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: they call a clickhore. You know, they'll do anything to
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: get clicks, to get the clicks on the podcast, clicks
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: on their websites, on their social a click corps. That's
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: Megan Kelly, one of the great clickhors in the world.
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Bill in New Jersey. Bill, how you doing?
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, let me hit the ball. God go ahead.
• 6:25
  Speaker 4: Bill.
• 6:25
  Speaker 5: Two questions. I backed Trump and ICE one hundred percent.
• 6:32
  Speaker 5: I hope that ICE is aware of the number of
• 6:36
  Speaker 5: illegal immigrants in Dover, New Jersey, Wharton and the surrounding areas.
• 6:41
  Speaker 5: They are all over and they take over Number two.
• 6:46
  Speaker 5: If you mentioned this before the warrant, I ran, yeah,
• 6:50
  Speaker 5: you know, as I say, I backed Trump. But the
• 6:53
  Speaker 5: talks on again, off on, off, on off. The twenties
• 6:57
  Speaker 5: are flying out of my wallet like singles.
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: That's not why you're paying these gas prices. That's New Jersey.
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: Where New Jersey tax, state tax, federal tax, the price
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: of gas is way lower than that everywhere else. You're
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: just paying it because you're in New Jersey. So yell
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: at your government to get rid of all those gas
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: tax But you're right. It is the Jackie Mason War.
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: It's on, it's off, it's not on, it's almost on
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: the straight it's open, sort of open. It's not really open.
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: It's closed to get, but now it's open. Hey, when
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: we come back, the great comedian, the great host, Jimmy Faylor,
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: will talk to him next on seven to ten wor