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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: an instance. Now back to the Mark Simon Show on WR.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, let's take some polls. Let's go to Carl, Yorktown Heights. Carl,
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  Speaker 2: how you doing all right?
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  Speaker 3: Good speak you Mark Mark over in New Yorktown. Our
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  Speaker 3: prices our gifts stayed between three twenty nine and three
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  Speaker 3: thirty three for us the last six months. I don't
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  Speaker 3: understand what we're not coming down yet?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, because New York State is every time the price
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  Speaker 2: of gas comes down, new York State increases the tax
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  Speaker 2: to keep it where it is. So gas is two
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  Speaker 2: fifty everywhere, but in California and New York they keep
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  Speaker 2: raising the tax, the local tax, to keep it up there.
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  Speaker 2: So the price you pay for living in New York. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: you got a lot of snow up there, Carl.
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, we had about between fifteen and eighteen fifteen,
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  Speaker 3: and still the sidewalks.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Carl, Thanks for calling Yorktown. It's a very
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  Speaker 2: nice place. Let's go to Rich in Myrtle Beach. Rich
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  Speaker 2: How you doing, hey, Thanks, Maul.
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  Speaker 4: We're getting two to four inches of snow here tomorrow
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  Speaker 4: afternoon and tomorrow night, and it'll stick around for a
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  Speaker 4: couple of days. They're going to be in the team
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  Speaker 4: for the next few days.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Myrtle Beach. Where's that South Carolina? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina, northin until you go down there to get
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  Speaker 2: away from this weather.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, in Inland where your buddy Joe Bartler lives. He's
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  Speaker 4: going to be getting five to eight inches in there
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  Speaker 4: by that part of South Carolina. Whoa, Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 4: Chuck Schumer continues to just show what a complete idiot
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  Speaker 4: and the putts he really is. It's just disgraceful what
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  Speaker 4: this guy is still in office. But I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if you saw this. I saw a posted somewhere that
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  Speaker 4: some film companies looking for as many cops and firem
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  Speaker 4: and as they can find because they're doing a giant
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  Speaker 4: documentary on the after nine to eleven illnesses and cancers
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  Speaker 4: that came about. I don't know if you saw anything,
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  Speaker 4: knew anything about that? No, but no acting experience needed.
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  Speaker 2: Well, obviously they want to people, you know, sounds like
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  Speaker 2: a documentary kind of thing. But interesting. Yeah, you're right
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  Speaker 2: about Schumer because uh, he's really the poster boy for
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  Speaker 2: term limits. He is just an old dinosaur, this old fossil,
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  Speaker 2: this useless bureaucrat who gets nothing done except for donors.
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  Speaker 2: And you wonder, how the hell did that guy stay there?
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  Speaker 2: How does he get reelected donor service? That's what he's
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  Speaker 2: known for. They all got his cell phone and is
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  Speaker 2: even the Republican donors. They'll as they'll tell you, I
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  Speaker 2: can wake that guy up at two in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: He'll do whatever I need. That's Chuck Schumer. That's that's
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  Speaker 2: been his main business for all these years. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: to Bob Montvale, New Jersey. Bob, how you doing good? Mark?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, I'm surprised that there's not more hope law about
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  Speaker 5: the MTA making history about like the one point five
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  Speaker 5: billion in all the time. It's interesting. There's a Dulge
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  Speaker 5: project at Mundani and Cochel could take to find out
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  Speaker 5: what jeez so much over time? What's going on over
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  Speaker 5: there all the money taking agency? As Curtis would say.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's though, it's total waste, fraud, bloat. New
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  Speaker 2: York State budget, New York City budget. You know, Florida
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  Speaker 2: is a bigger place than New York. It has a
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  Speaker 2: bigger population than New York State, It has more big
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  Speaker 2: cities than New York State. Their budget is half the
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  Speaker 2: budget in New York State. Half. We could cut our
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  Speaker 2: budget in half. You know what that means. It means
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  Speaker 2: your taxes get cut in half. New York City, we
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  Speaker 2: could cut this budget in half. That means your taxes
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  Speaker 2: get cut in half. You're overpaying like crazy for all
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  Speaker 2: that waste and fraud and bloat. Let's go to Richard
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  Speaker 2: in New Jersey. Richard, how you doing?
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  Speaker 4: How do you doing? Mark? Thank You've been taking the
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  Speaker 4: call with respect to Minneapolis. Something that doesn't make sense.
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  Speaker 4: It's cold as there than here. Why are they getting
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  Speaker 4: into confrontation spraying with firehosts.
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  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, the cold has helped. There was
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be a vicious, violent weekend test. The cold
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  Speaker 2: weather put an end to that last weekend. And they
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  Speaker 2: do spray them, but they spray them with that it's
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  Speaker 2: not I know what it is, mace or some chemical
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  Speaker 2: and they spray them in the face.
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  Speaker 4: On them and they get the hell out of dodge quick.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well yeah, but it's there's a lot of videos
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  Speaker 2: online you can see of them getting sprayed and it's
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  Speaker 2: not with a little you know thing you hold in
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  Speaker 2: your hand, little pepper spray thing. It's like a big
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  Speaker 2: fire hose of spray. It's great to watch those videos
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  Speaker 2: because it comes out all red and green and blue,
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  Speaker 2: like a rainbow of powder, just going hitting them right
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  Speaker 2: in the face. It's like a cannon. They use it.
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  Speaker 2: line too. How you doing?
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  Speaker 6: I'm good?
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  Speaker 3: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good? How are you?
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  Speaker 6: I'm calling about accessor ride.
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  Speaker 2: Wor Yes, you sound very gentle. What are you calling about.
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  Speaker 6: Access? The issues with accessor ride? They left me stranded
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  Speaker 6: last night and the night before.
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  Speaker 5: What's accessorizl uh?
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  Speaker 6: It's it's a transfer MTA transfer transportation for disabled.
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  Speaker 2: Oh and what happened? They didn't show up?
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  Speaker 6: They didn't show up Wednesday night or last night. Wow,
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  Speaker 6: I was standing out Nicole for twenty five minutes last
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  Speaker 6: night because it kept saying writing in three minutes, arriving
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  Speaker 6: in three minutes. They never showed up.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, sorry to hear that. You're okay now, I
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  Speaker 2: hope you got home.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, I got home. I just take accessorize. I had
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  Speaker 6: to take an uber last night. One hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 6: one days.
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  Speaker 2: Oh all right, well that's a terrible story. I hope
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't happen again. Thanks for calling. Yeah, that's the
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  Speaker 2: MTA for you. They've had not just the MTA, but
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  Speaker 2: MTA Metro North Long Island Roilroad. A lot of disruption
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  Speaker 2: all this week because of the snow, because of whatever,
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  Speaker 2: A lot of trains canceled late, didn't show up. But
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  Speaker 2: that's a horrible story there. Hey, when we come back,
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  Speaker 2: Charlie Gasparino will be with us, the best business reporter
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  Speaker 2: on earth. Lots to talk to him about. Coming up
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  Speaker 2: next on seven to ten wor