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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: If you're listening to Mark on the iHeartRadio app, save
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Now back to the Mark Simone show on woor.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know what is becoming very hot? Majong? Remember
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  Speaker 3: the game Majong? It was like old Yenta's in Brooklyn
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  Speaker 3: and Queen's. The old ladies would play this Majong was
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know how you play? It's with tiles and
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  Speaker 3: do you remember this a few Seinfeld episodes where George
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  Speaker 3: goes home to visit his mother and she's playing Majong
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  Speaker 3: with the neighbors. Believe it or not, this has become
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  Speaker 3: a very hot, trendy activity right now. Majong is considered
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  Speaker 3: very hot, very cool. Younger people are playing it. You
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  Speaker 3: go to the sleekiest, hottest, trendiest new restaurants, clubs, they're
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  Speaker 3: playing it. How the hell did this happen? Apparently it
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  Speaker 3: goes back to a couple of years ago. Sarah Jessica
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  Speaker 3: Parker started the trend and another celebrities and then got
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  Speaker 3: on Instagram and then it's getting played all over the
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  Speaker 3: place right now. So these are like the big activities
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  Speaker 3: of the future. Pickleball, Majong, that's unbelievable. Let's go to
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  Speaker 3: Bob in Montvale, New Jersey. Bob, how you doing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing great, Mark, Thanks for taking my call. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: earlier you mentioned that the State of the Union doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have to take place in Washington, d C. Yeah, Now,
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  Speaker 1: can you imagine live from Greenland with JD and the crew.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you probably got to do it in America. You
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  Speaker 3: probably got to do it in the US, but you
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  Speaker 3: could do it from different cities every year. No reason
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  Speaker 3: you have to sit there in front of Hakeem Jefferies
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  Speaker 3: and do it. Let's go to David in New Jersey. David,
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  Speaker 3: how you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for taking my call.
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to say, as an honorably discharged Navy veteran,
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  Speaker 5: where are the indictments on Russia Gate? The gun grabber
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  Speaker 5: Pam BONDI kept George Zimmerman in jail until his acquittal.
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  Speaker 5: Enough is enough. I have no illusions about anyone ever
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  Speaker 5: actually getting convicted on Rushi Gate, but at least let's
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  Speaker 5: have some indictments.
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  Speaker 3: All right, good idea. Let's go to Bill in Lafayette,
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  Speaker 3: New Jersey. Bill, how you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Hi? Mark? Two quick things at the very beginning of
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  Speaker 4: the Olympics, Andrea Bocelli shang, I think it was Polucci
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  Speaker 4: Act one. And there is talent there. I stood in
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  Speaker 4: my living room crying. The people I talked to at
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  Speaker 4: goosebumps and were shivering. There's talent and that is why
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  Speaker 4: my TV went off at halftime.
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  Speaker 3: And you got to remember, you're an older guy, you
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  Speaker 3: like that. The younger people like bad Bunny and they
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  Speaker 3: don't know what the hell Andre but Shelley is singing?
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  Speaker 3: You got It was always that way. You can go
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  Speaker 3: back to nineteen fifty eight and if you're young, you
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  Speaker 3: liked Elvis, if you're old, you like Nat King Cole.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's always a divided between old and young.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's about talent, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, But you're not the one the only one to
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  Speaker 3: judge it. Younger people got their idea of talent, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if they liked the way bad bet Bunny's pretty talented.
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  Speaker 4: Well, how many people got the shivers when they listened
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  Speaker 4: to dumb Bunny?
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  Speaker 3: I mean compared to well, apparently a lot because he's
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  Speaker 3: the biggest selling recording artist in the world right now.
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  Speaker 4: Is the concert sell you know, I guess he's selling
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  Speaker 4: had stuff to a bunch of knuckleheads sixteen year olds.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, but they you know, they're not knuckleheads.
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  Speaker 3: You know, everybody said the same thing about the Beatles
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  Speaker 3: back then. They said the same thing about Elvis back then.
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  Speaker 3: There's always going to be this big split in the demographics.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent, how you.
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  Speaker 2: Doing, Good morning, Mark, Mark, I'm okay. I like to
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  Speaker 2: extend my congratulations to you and iHeart Radio station in
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  Speaker 2: the iHeart Radio family of stations for winning the Barrett Award.
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  Speaker 2: And as I just told Chris, you're callscreen. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of people may not know that on ROCU TV, iHeart
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  Speaker 2: Radio has an app and sometimes I listen to your
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  Speaker 2: show live via the app on rope the Roku channel,
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  Speaker 2: or you could listen to the podcast and I don't
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  Speaker 2: need app.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know a lot of our audience listens on
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  Speaker 3: Alexa or a smart speaker. Many listen on their iHeart
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  Speaker 3: app on their phone.
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  Speaker 2: But on the iHeart Radio app on Roku, they have
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  Speaker 2: all the other stations. I mean when the app comes
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  Speaker 2: up on the home screen, the iHeart app, when you
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  Speaker 2: click on it, there's every station. There's even the other
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  Speaker 2: station up the dial.
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  Speaker 3: That's why you get that iHeart app. You can listen
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  Speaker 3: to every radio station in the cover.
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  Speaker 2: It's absolutely, it's absolutely, it's incredible. And on the weekends
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  Speaker 2: you get the fifteen minutes the extra.
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  Speaker 3: Get a bonus show from this show. We do an
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  Speaker 3: extra episode for the podcast listeners.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean, so I have a digital antenna on
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  Speaker 2: my Team TV and I have the Roku app, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't need the cable and I don't need to
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  Speaker 2: listen to and you those garbage news stations. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you can pick and choose what you want, and it's
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  Speaker 2: relatively inexpensive. And you know, if you don't want to
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  Speaker 2: pay eighty dollars one hundred dollars a month to just
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  Speaker 2: get basic cable service, I'm telling you it's the way
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  Speaker 2: to go. You buy, you buy the Roku setup. It's great.
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  Speaker 3: Mark Roku or Apple TV they got that little Apple
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  Speaker 3: box is great. But Evinces talking about the Barrett Barrett
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  Speaker 3: Media is like the trade magazine of the radio industry.
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  Speaker 2: It's all every time. I mean, I can't believe it.
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  Speaker 2: You can listen to Sean Nannity your show.
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  Speaker 3: You can listen to Tim Conway Junior KFI, Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 3: You can listen to Walter Sterling w PhD Philadelphia. You
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  Speaker 3: can listen to All fucking.
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  Speaker 2: Clay and Sean. You can listen to It's really great.
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  Speaker 2: It's cut the cable. Save yourself at least one hundred
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  Speaker 2: a month. Cut the cable.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Vincent, great call, Thanks for calling. But he
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  Speaker 3: was talking about we won. This is a big deal
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  Speaker 3: in the radio industry. This is like the Oscar for
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  Speaker 3: Best Picture. Barrett Media if you win their number one
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  Speaker 3: Show in America award. We won it for this show
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  Speaker 3: second year in a row, so thank them. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: thanks to Barrett. But it's a site you should check
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  Speaker 3: every day. You'll like this site Barrett Media because they've
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  Speaker 3: got the best coverage of radio, music, radio and talk radio,
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  Speaker 3: but also of news, talk, great articles, great stuff. It's
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  Speaker 3: want to get great stories every day, just go to
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  Speaker 3: Barrettmedia dot com. Barrettmedia dot com. Hey, Jimmy Fayla is
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  Speaker 3: on every night now at nine o'clock here on w
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  Speaker 3: r one of the funniest guys in the world. And
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  Speaker 3: we'll talk to him next