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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 3: Now three hours every weekday from 9 till noon on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Dave in
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  Speaker 1: Rockland County. Dave, how you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Good, how are you? Good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just asking about the groups in Germany.
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  Speaker 2: Trump's pulling them out. What's going on with that?
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  Speaker 4: You hear anything?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a big thing. I didn't hear one thing
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  Speaker 1: he said. Your phone is breaking up. You got that
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  Speaker 1: Rockland County cell service. Just say it again.
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  Speaker 5: With Trump and the troops in Germany bringing out all
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  Speaker 5: the troops for the EU issues.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. We're bringing some troops back from Germany. We
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  Speaker 1: don't need all the troops there. The EU, let them
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  Speaker 1: put up their own troops. You know, this EU... All
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  Speaker 1: these things we're involved in, you know, we pay all
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  Speaker 1: the money. They don't put in a penny. Let them
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  Speaker 1: kick in some of that. Let's go to Frank in Manhattan. Frank,
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing fine. Greetings from flyover country.
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  Speaker 1: Where are you?
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  Speaker 4: I'm in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 1: That's not flyover country.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you're not thinking of the right Manhattan.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you're in Manhattan, Kansas?
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  Speaker 4: I'm... I'm in Manhattan, Kansas.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a native New Yorker, and you go by Mr.
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  Speaker 2: New York.
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  Speaker 1: And why'd you move to Kansas?
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  Speaker 4: I went to school here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Back in 1970.
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  Speaker 1: So what happened? You saw a cornfield, and you said,
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  Speaker 1: this is great. I got to move here.
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  Speaker 4: It's the wheat state, okay? Get it straight. It's the
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  Speaker 4: wheat state.
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  Speaker 1: That's better? I'd rather have corn. What are you going
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  Speaker 1: to do with all that wheat?
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  Speaker 4: Make bread.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you do in Manhattan, Kansas?
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  Speaker 4: I'm retired.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no wonder you're in your pajamas at 1130.
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  Speaker 4: No, I've actually been out watering the garden and stuff.
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  Speaker 4: I've got a question for you. Go ahead. You go
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  Speaker 4: by Mr. New York, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And I just want to see if you're really Mr.
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  Speaker 2: New York.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: So I've got a New York question for you.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: What is a two-sewer hip?
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  Speaker 1: Say it again. What is a what?
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  Speaker 4: A two-sewer hit.
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  Speaker 1: A two-sewer hit was in stickball if you hit the
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  Speaker 1: ball far enough that it went two sewers.
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  Speaker 4: All right. That's good. That's good. Can you name two
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  Speaker 4: ingredients that are not in an egg cream?
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's hundreds of ingredients that aren't in an egg cream.
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  Speaker 1: It's chocolate syrup. There are two major ones. What do
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  Speaker 1: you mean?
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  Speaker 4: Eggs are cream.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 4: Eggs are no cream.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's true.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: All right. You thought I wouldn't know the stickball question?
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  Speaker 1: I'm friends with Curtis. You can't hang around Curtis and
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  Speaker 1: not know anything about stickball. He was like a stickball champion.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Good call, Frank.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for calling. Let's go to Stephen. Now, there's a
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  Speaker 1: debate whether it's Mayo Pack or Mahopic. Which is it, Steve?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it depends if you're a liberal or you're an American.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they actually fight up there about what their town's called.
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  Speaker 1: They got nothing better to do. I always call it
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  Speaker 1: Mayo Pack.
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  Speaker 5: I protest for a little bit. I'm going after Mike Lauer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not going after him physically.
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  Speaker 4: You're talking about Mike Lawler?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm working my way up. I'm different.
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  Speaker 1: You're definitely different. Not in a good way, but you're
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  Speaker 1: definitely different.
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  Speaker 5: I had four strokes. I'm a bereaved parent. When I
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  Speaker 5: was three years old, my brother got killed in a
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  Speaker 5: car there. But I'm doing okay. The police tried to
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  Speaker 5: take away my... What's that?
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  Speaker 1: No, you sound good. You sound like you have a
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  Speaker 1: good outlook on life, good personality. All right.
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  Speaker 5: Well, give me a question, please, so I can figure
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  Speaker 5: you out.
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  Speaker 1: What's the capital of Kentucky?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, gosh. Come on. Give me something different.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good question to ask people, because nobody ever
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  Speaker 1: gets it. It's Frankfurt. It's the one capital you'll never get.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, give me something else. Give me something else that's different.
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  Speaker 1: What's the capital of Guatemala?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, gosh. Stop asking me these questions.
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  Speaker 1: It's Guatemala City. It's an easy one to remember. Use
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  Speaker 1: that one, too, on people. Anyway, Frank.
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  Speaker 5: In your whole life, when you were with Grandma, what
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  Speaker 5: did she do to make you so happy?
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 5: When we were kids... When you were with Grandma, what
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  Speaker 5: did she do to make you so happy?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, she was wonderful. She'd say, turn that TV down. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for calling, Steve. Let's go to Mike in Manhattan. Mike,
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Mark, how are you?
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  Speaker 1: Good.
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  Speaker 2: Mark, let me tell you something. It's been a weird summer.
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  Speaker 2: I could never get to Beach Street. I can't believe
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow is September 1st.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 4: It's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: I forgot that. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. And the Jewish holidays are next week. Usually
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  Speaker 2: the last few years have been later than the years.
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  Speaker 2: But I got to tell you something.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: For the last 10, 15 years, after July 4th, the
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  Speaker 2: summer's over. You go two days in the store, like
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  Speaker 2: you're going to Target, and two days after July 4th,
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  Speaker 2: every shelf is all back to school, back to school this.
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  Speaker 2: And a week later, two weeks later, Halloween stuff is
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  Speaker 2: popping up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They don't give you a break. It's crazy. Before you
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  Speaker 2: know it, you know what they've been doing the last
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  Speaker 2: few years? They've been skipping Thanksgiving and going right into Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: So come mid-September, you'll be looking, you'll go to Lowe's,
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  Speaker 2: Best Buy, you'll go to Lowe's, Home Depot, you see
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  Speaker 2: Christmas trees in the window already.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. Absolutely. Good point, Mike. Yeah, it's terrible.
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  Speaker 1: What's that story? There's these stores that just sell Christmas stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I actually saw one of them already open. One of
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  Speaker 1: them is already open. Got time for one more? Michael
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  Speaker 1: on the east side. Michael, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I tried. Sorry. We used to make our own bagels.
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  Speaker 3: I do breakfast and lunchtime catering. And I stopped by
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  Speaker 3: one of these pop-up places. There were some young college
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  Speaker 3: kids there. And they said, oh, do you want to
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  Speaker 3: try one? That pop-up, everything bagel. is incredible.
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  Speaker 1: It is. Pop-up bagels are amazingly good. Now, why would
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  Speaker 1: you make your own bagels? You live on the east
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  Speaker 1: side of Manhattan. There's a bagel store every two feet.
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  Speaker 1: Why would you make your own bagels?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of them are crap.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they're not good enough for the great Michael of
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  Speaker 1: the Upper East Side, but you got H & H.
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  Speaker 1: You got all the best bagels. Hey, that one in Queens,
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  Speaker 1: they've been considered the best in Manhattan, the best in
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  Speaker 1: New York City for years. Utopia Bagels. They finally opened
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  Speaker 1: in Manhattan. There's one like 3rd Avenue, 52nd. There's one
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  Speaker 1: on 34th Street. But that pop-up is everywhere. They're really
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  Speaker 1: stealing their thunder. Pop-up bagels, pretty amazing. Hey, when we
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  Speaker 1: come back, speak of the devil, the best food writer
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  Speaker 1: and real estate writer, Steve Cuso. We'll talk to him
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  Speaker 1: next about restaurants, food, Manhattan, how's New York City doing,
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  Speaker 1: and rent and all that. We'll get to all that
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  Speaker 1: coming up on 710WOR.