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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Live from the w o R Life Back Studios, Bill
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  Speaker 1: Mark Simon Show. Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to Randall in Maryland. Randall, how you doing? Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: let me trade again. Randall, you're there? We lost him? Hey, Randall,
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  Speaker 1: call us back, Sorry about that. Let's go to Larry
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  Speaker 1: in Cranford. Larry, how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Hey? Mark? Hi? You know the parade should end with
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  Speaker 2: Brunson on the last flow dressed as Santa Claus.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, like the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, I guess I don't know. He is such
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  Speaker 1: a superstar. He was a Yankee stadium last night. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: was like all over him. The guy is a massive story.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to see him endorsing everything, making a fortune,
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  Speaker 1: doing ads. Let's go to Mike and Florida. Mike, how
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  Speaker 1: you doing? Good morning, Mark, that's Mike. It's great that
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  Speaker 1: the city is honoring the Knicks. It's my third championship
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  Speaker 1: in my lifetime I've gotten to see. But I do
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  Speaker 1: think it's the cynic in me. It brings up the
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  Speaker 1: cynic in me because Mom, Donnie and his administration are
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  Speaker 1: very pro working class.
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  Speaker 2: That's all they ever talk about. Yet they've made it
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  Speaker 2: impossible for all millions of workers to get to work today.
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  Speaker 2: And the only.
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  Speaker 1: Thing they can't blame.
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  Speaker 2: And the rich you're going to be the ones who
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  Speaker 2: can be really, you know, all those poor people who
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  Speaker 2: can't get on the floats with the rich coach folks.
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  Speaker 2: It's good, So it is. There is a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of irony at least.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's any parade. That's that's for any parade. You
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  Speaker 1: can't blame mom, Donny. But I also remember everybody that
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  Speaker 1: works on those office buildings and broad it was told
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  Speaker 1: they have to work from home today. So they're not
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  Speaker 1: too upset. They're kind of like that.
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  Speaker 2: It's all the it's all the post flobs trying to
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  Speaker 2: get to Brooklyn on the on the on the FDR.
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  Speaker 2: And but it's great.
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  Speaker 1: Be very happy to call up work and say I
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  Speaker 1: can't get there, sorry, I have to work from Don't
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  Speaker 1: worry to They'll be fine. Thanks for connin All right,
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  Speaker 1: here's Randall from Maryland. Randall, how you doing.
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  Speaker 2: Good? Mark Mark's disagreement that was just signed by Trump. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: who signs on the other side of it?
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  Speaker 1: The leader what's his name? I can't remember. His name,
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  Speaker 1: but there's an Iranian leader that will sign it. Was
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  Speaker 1: that so hard to figure out? You can look it up,
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  Speaker 1: it's easy to google. I would tell you his name,
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  Speaker 1: but I can't remember it. But there's there's an Iranian
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  Speaker 1: leader in charge. He will sign it.
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  Speaker 2: I feel better, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, everybody at the worst agreement. It's just the
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  Speaker 1: temporary thing. It's just it's like a fourth inning thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's don't worry about it. There's a lot more that'll
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  Speaker 1: play out here. Let's go to Jim in New Jersey. Jim,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: End of a year remark? I saw very sadly. He
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  Speaker 2: died the other day, one hundred years old. Jean Shallatt died. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they already buried him in a Jewish cemetery in Cedar
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  Speaker 2: and Holes, New Jersey, which I know, well, there's not
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  Speaker 2: many left Mark. I was watching To Tell the Truth
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  Speaker 2: the other day with Gary Moore. I know I needed.
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  Speaker 2: Gillette is still around. She's eighty nine.
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  Speaker 1: For those years those of you under eighty five years old.
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  Speaker 1: Anita Gillette was a popular actress and singer that was
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  Speaker 1: on every game show talk show in the sixties, and
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  Speaker 1: she's still.
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  Speaker 2: I see Claudeen. What Launay died too?
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  Speaker 1: Mark?
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  Speaker 2: Remember?
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  Speaker 1: And those are you under eighty? She was married to
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  Speaker 1: Andy Williams. She was a French singer. Who what was
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  Speaker 1: the deal? She shot her?
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  Speaker 2: She was going, yeah, Spider Savage, Spider Savage was that
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  Speaker 2: his name?
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  Speaker 1: She got away with him, shot him and got away
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  Speaker 1: with it and was married to Andrew Williams. But all right,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for this trip down memory lane. Hey, I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you know who did die yesterday. It was a wonderful guy,
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  Speaker 1: a good comedian. His name was Tom Dreeson. Now you
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  Speaker 1: probably saw him on TV a lot. Tom Dreesen Sinatra
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  Speaker 1: like took him under his wing, made him his opening
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  Speaker 1: act for like the last twenty years. But Dreason was
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  Speaker 1: around from like the seven mid seventies. And when David Letterman,
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  Speaker 1: a young kid trying to break into the show business,
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  Speaker 1: went to California, when he first went to the comedy store,
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  Speaker 1: first time he ever got on stage, Dreason was there.
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  Speaker 1: And Dresen was a little more of a veteran. He
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  Speaker 1: wasn't that big yet, but he took Letterman under his wing,
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  Speaker 1: very nice to him, and right up until the end,
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  Speaker 1: Letterman always had Tom Dreason on his show. He was
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  Speaker 1: so grateful to him. And if you go to Letterman's
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  Speaker 1: Facebook page or mine, actually I shared it, but Letterman
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  Speaker 1: did quite a tribute to Tom Dreesen. He was a
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  Speaker 1: big part of Chicago. That was a huge Chicago hero
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  Speaker 1: and a wonderful guy. Died yesterday. He was eighty seven
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  Speaker 1: years old. Hey, So throughout the day, throughout the morning,
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  Speaker 1: we'll cover the parade, we'll bring you all the action.
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  Speaker 1: And then the big thing is the City Hall ceremony.
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  Speaker 1: I they'll start about eleven thirty or so, and eleven
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  Speaker 1: thirty will bring you the whole ceremony from Sid That's
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  Speaker 1: the part you want to hear. Alicia Keys is going
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  Speaker 1: to perform live. The players will speak and they'll get
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  Speaker 1: their trophy and all that. So we'll bring you that
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  Speaker 1: live right here. You'll hear all the action right here.
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  Speaker 1: When we come back, we hope to talk to Steve Moore,
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  Speaker 1: the great economists, the brilliant economists. We'll talk to him
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  Speaker 1: next on seven to ten wor