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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show, now nine till noon weekdays on 710WOR. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's take some calls. Let's go to Dan in Queens. Dan,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Good, Mark. I wanted to mention to you, with the
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  Speaker 2: prostitution on Roosevelt and 82nd Street, been going on for
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  Speaker 2: a while, young, Asian, look like Chinese girls, uh, No English,
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  Speaker 2: under 18, with a big fat mama's son doing the
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  Speaker 2: business for them.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no English. What, are you going to have a
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  Speaker 1: conversation with her? How much do you pay for that, Dan?
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 1: No, but how much is that?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: There's a whole street in Queens with these products. But
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  Speaker 1: how much, like this guy in the trailer park, it's $ 140.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty cheap, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this mama's son must want $ 500. Oh, really?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the cops were out there yesterday. Two cops
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  Speaker 2: in front of the entrance of their second floor place
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  Speaker 2: right in front. It's closed. A lot of complaints. They're
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  Speaker 2: so young, Mark, you know, and they're illegal.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, now, let's be honest. When you walk down the street,
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  Speaker 1: do they all say, hey, Dan, hi, Dan?
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  Speaker 2: They say, Grandpa, can you do it?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, all right. All right, Dan, thanks for calling. That's
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  Speaker 1: like the old joke that Joe Biden says to them,
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  Speaker 1: how much? And she says, Forget it. You've had it. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to show you. So let's go to Mike
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  Speaker 1: in Portchester. Mike, how you doing? All right, Mark. How's
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  Speaker 1: it going?
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  Speaker 5: Good. All right. Listen, you were talking about the season.
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  Speaker 5: And I was just, I was in Costco the other day.
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  Speaker 5: They got skeletons and everything all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Halloween stuff's already out.
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  Speaker 5: I worked in retail, you know.
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  Speaker 1: You did?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Grants and.
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  Speaker 1: Grants. WT Grants. That was an old department store.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And where else did you work?
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  Speaker 5: And the thing was... Huh?
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  Speaker 1: I said, where else did you work?
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  Speaker 5: Bloomingdale's. I helped open the one in White Plains.
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  Speaker 1: The one in White Plains is spectacular.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a great store.
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  Speaker 1: It really is.
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  Speaker 5: And I worked there for 15 years part-time.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: And I was a teacher during the day. But the
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  Speaker 5: thing was that you had a demarcation of time, like,
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  Speaker 5: for Christmas. It was the day after Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So we had to work until, like, 1 o'clock in
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  Speaker 5: the morning, dressing the place up for Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, all right. Well, you know. Yeah, now, listen. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're right. Day after Thanksgiving, we'll start the Christmas season.
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  Speaker 1: Now it starts mid-September. Already Halloween stuff is up. It's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: That Bloomingdale's in White Plains is perfect because it's an
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  Speaker 1: enormous store. It's as big as the New York store.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a massive parking lot right around it. You
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  Speaker 1: drive right up, park your car, walk right in, come out,
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  Speaker 1: get right in your car. You know, the problem with
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  Speaker 1: these malls, some of these malls, you've got to drive
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  Speaker 1: into a garage. You've got to get a ticket. You've
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  Speaker 1: got to stand at a kiosk for five minutes. Then
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  Speaker 1: you go to the mall. You don't really buy anything.
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  Speaker 1: You just want to leave. And now you've got to pay.
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  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. These malls are all dying. You should pay
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  Speaker 1: everybody $ 5 to come into the mall. We have to
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  Speaker 1: pay to park. That's why that Bloomingdale's is great. Walt
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  Speaker 1: Whitman Mall is great. The Americana. You can just pull
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  Speaker 1: in and park. Don't have to get a ticket. Don't
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  Speaker 1: have to pay. Let's go to Dennis in Long Island. Dennis,
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing? Well, good morning.
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  Speaker 3: I've got a question regarding this DA from Philadelphia, Larry Krasner.
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  Speaker 3: He's saying some real... dangerous and inflammatory stuff towards Trump.
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  Speaker 3: How come this guy is still walking around? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you know, why aren't the feds investigating him?
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  Speaker 1: Well, so far it's legal what he's doing. It's terrible.
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  Speaker 1: But it's like Letitia James, you know. And the other
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  Speaker 1: problem is you get her on something, goes before a
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  Speaker 1: crazy district judge who's a left-wing guy and throws the
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  Speaker 1: case out. You know, they pretty much had her on
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  Speaker 1: that mortgage fraud. But, you know, you get to one
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  Speaker 1: of those crazy judges, they throw it out. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to Ralph in Manhattan. Ralph, how you doing? Great, Mark.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Philly's notorious for the worst fans in sports.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they are next to no one. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: they used to have a jail, Mark, right in Veterans Stadium,
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  Speaker 4: just for convenience sake.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, most stadiums have a jail in the stadium because
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  Speaker 1: they have to hold the guys until the police get there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, back when you didn't see that too often, it
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  Speaker 4: was very interesting to watch. But, you know, when Steinbrenner
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  Speaker 4: threatened to go to New Jersey, he was taken seriously.
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  Speaker 4: New Yorkers kind of went into a panic during that period,
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  Speaker 4: and they wanted their beloved Yankees to stay put right
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  Speaker 4: where they were. Then they went and built that other ballpark,
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  Speaker 4: which they never needed. That original Yankee stadium was so great, Mark. Well,
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  Speaker 4: they did need the new ballpark. You think so?
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  Speaker 1: I know so. George was a good friend of mine,
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  Speaker 1: and he explained it all to me once. The real reason,
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  Speaker 1: it has nothing to do with a better field or
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  Speaker 1: more seats. It has nothing to do. Remember they built
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  Speaker 1: that new stadium in Baltimore? That was the first.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they put in that new stadium a lot of stores,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of restaurants, a lot of stuff. And they
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  Speaker 1: found that people came to the game three hours early
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  Speaker 1: and spent a fortune in the stores, the restaurants, the bars.
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  Speaker 1: And when the game was over, they stayed an extra
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  Speaker 1: couple hours. And on the way out, spent a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money in the bars, the restaurants, the mall, the shopping,
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  Speaker 1: the souvenir. So they realized you could make double your money.
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  Speaker 1: You could get the money from the game and you
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  Speaker 1: could get the money from the shopping and all that
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  Speaker 1: and the eating. So every stadium had to all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden have a mall in it, had to have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of restaurants, had to have a lot of.
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  Speaker 1: stuff in it, and that's why they all started rebuilding.
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  Speaker 1: That was the real reason.
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  Speaker 4: It sounds like a Cohen situation at Citi Field because
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  Speaker 4: he's got the casino going, everything around the ballpark. He
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  Speaker 4: did away with the chop shops, which was a good idea.
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  Speaker 4: It sounds like he's more interested in all these ancillary
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  Speaker 4: things more so than the Mets.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he is. Because they're all smart business people. I
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  Speaker 1: remember Bob Kraft when he built the stadium in Foxboro.
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  Speaker 1: Right next door, what did he build? Like a Patriots
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  Speaker 1: mall where you can eat, drink, spend money. Now, it's
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  Speaker 1: good for the fan because you remember when the game
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  Speaker 1: let out, you were stuck in a nightmare of traffic.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody left at once. But with all the bars, restaurants, stores, everything,
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  Speaker 1: not everybody leaves at once. So there's never the same
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  Speaker 1: kind of traffic jam. Hey, when we come back, the
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  Speaker 1: very funny Jimmy Fallon. We'll talk to him next on 710WOR.