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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 2: Now back to the Mark Simon Show on wor.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's tax some calls. Let's go to Diane in Illinois. Diane,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing good, Mark, good morning.
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  Speaker 4: Hey.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I was looking at the price tag that Obama.
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  Speaker 3: You his basketball court three hundred and seventy six million,
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  Speaker 3: and that's just a basketball court. Trump is building a
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  Speaker 3: nine hundred seat ballroom for three hundred million. What would
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  Speaker 3: Obama's basketball court? What would that translate into money wise
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  Speaker 3: in the year twenty twenty five?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: No, Trump is always pointing that out. When the government
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  Speaker 1: builds a building like that new terminal at LaGuardia twenty
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  Speaker 1: four billion private sector, if they had done it eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred million, they just overspent. Like Trump said in the
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  Speaker 1: they said how much would a wall cost on the
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  Speaker 1: border and he said whatever, he said, one two billion,
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  Speaker 1: and he pointed to the senator, twelve billion. If these
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  Speaker 1: guys did it. Yeah, Obama spent three hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 1: million to build a basketball court, and Trump did it.
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  Speaker 3: But I guess, but in my what would three hundred
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  Speaker 3: and seventy six million transplate into dollars in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Probably four hundred and fifty million, so like half a
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  Speaker 1: billion dollars to build a basketball court. Thanks for calling, Diane.
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  Speaker 1: You know it's the same thing. This is all started
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  Speaker 1: a million years ago with the woman rink. Remember of
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  Speaker 1: the woman rink. The city was up till like twenty
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  Speaker 1: five million. This is back in the eighties. That's like
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  Speaker 1: one hundred million today. So and it went on for years,
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  Speaker 1: and Trump finally spoke out public He said, it's just
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  Speaker 1: a slab of concrete. It doesn't cost anything. He got
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  Speaker 1: no fight with Koch and Trump said I'll build it
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  Speaker 1: in a few weeks for a few hundred thousand, I'll
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  Speaker 1: pay for it. And then Kotch called his bluff and
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  Speaker 1: he did it. That's the difference between government doing something
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  Speaker 1: in the private sector. Let's go to Christine and Long Island. Christine,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing.
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  Speaker 5: Wait a minute, I've listened to you for decades.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, Well, I hope you were taking time
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  Speaker 1: out for meals and everything.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, okay. My question is this, and what has Joran
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  Speaker 5: Mandami's done as an assemblyman? He was in for five years.
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  Speaker 5: I believe, and months ago. I heard that he posed
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  Speaker 5: one bill, but I don't know if it ever passed.
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  Speaker 1: No, he did nothing there, but that's not unusual most
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  Speaker 1: of these Assembly people. It's like part time work for them.
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  Speaker 1: They show up once in a while, most of them
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  Speaker 1: don't do or anything.
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  Speaker 5: Voters picked this up last month. A voter called in
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  Speaker 5: from Idaho, saying, what has this man done? Nobody talks
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  Speaker 5: about what has he actually done?
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  Speaker 1: Well, imagine if you had actual, actual media instead of biased,
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  Speaker 1: corrupt media, they would be covering this constantly. Where are
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  Speaker 1: you in Long Island.
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  Speaker 5: I'm in Rockville Center.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you're going to vote for Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 2: I hope absolutely?
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  Speaker 1: All right? And A Donnelly's running for DA. Bruce Blakeman
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  Speaker 1: the best county executive in America. Make sure you vote
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  Speaker 1: for him. Let's go to Denise and Staten Island. Denise,
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  Speaker 1: how you're doing.
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  Speaker 6: Holly, Good morning, Mark, How are you good?
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  Speaker 7: I wanted to ask you if you could point out
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  Speaker 7: that at last night's debate. First of all, I'm a
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  Speaker 7: big supporter of Courtislila and I will be early voting
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  Speaker 7: for him Saturday morning. I'm on the South Shore area
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  Speaker 7: of Staten Island. But I'd like you to point out
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  Speaker 7: sometime today, if you could one point that Curtis Sliwa
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  Speaker 7: made last night and the room fell silent, and the.
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  Speaker 4: Other two Just what's that point.
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  Speaker 6: He's mentioned how billions were coming into New York are
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  Speaker 6: being paid for legal immigrants. Well, every day New York
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  Speaker 6: citizens were sufferings financially.
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  Speaker 1: Once he's made that point, everybody makes that point all
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  Speaker 1: the time, all that money wasted on the illegals that
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  Speaker 1: could have been taken care of New Yorkers. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to Mike in New Jersey. Mike, how you're doing Mark,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing good?
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  Speaker 4: Good? I'll tell you the thing like this, Curtis is
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  Speaker 4: probably the best carrying we've had in a very long time.
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  Speaker 4: Is a man that's spent decades of his life fighting crime.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he volunteered to do that. And he also
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  Speaker 4: said the homeless, he dealt with a lot of crazy people.
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  Speaker 4: He very dedicated, selfless individual, and he has he's articulate,
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  Speaker 4: he has ideas.
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  Speaker 1: Familiar We're familiar with Curtis.
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  Speaker 4: I get it. So if in the end of the
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  Speaker 4: day they want to blame Curtis, if God forbid, this
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  Speaker 4: guy's are on wins wins. This is a societal issue.
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  Speaker 4: There's not Curtis Lee was problems.
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  Speaker 1: No, Curtis belongs in the race. Everything you said is correct.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to blame somebody, blame Cuomo. What the
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  Speaker 1: hell is he doing in this race? Why did he
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  Speaker 1: even show up for this Curtis everything you just said
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  Speaker 1: is correct. And Clomos never even lived in New York City.
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  Speaker 1: He's from the suburbs. You know, every mayor who's run
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  Speaker 1: for mayor of New York lives in New York City.
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  Speaker 1: Is the first time we've ever had a mayor who
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  Speaker 1: spent his entire adult life not living in New York City,
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  Speaker 1: living in the suburbs. We've had mayors born out of town,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Mike Bloomberg was from Massachusetts, David Dinkins grew
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  Speaker 1: up in New Jersey, but they all lived in New
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  Speaker 1: York City their entire adult life. One more real face,
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Katie and Chappaqua. Katie, how you doing, Hi?
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  Speaker 2: Mark? I have a comment about the debate, and then
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  Speaker 2: I have a question. So I watched it online and
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  Speaker 2: you know, on the side there's chat comments and there
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  Speaker 2: it was really fun. I mean almost There was lots
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  Speaker 2: and lots of support for Curtis and mostly criticism for
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  Speaker 2: Cuomo and Mandani. And then I wanted to ask you, like,
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  Speaker 2: how in the world could it be asking Curtis to
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  Speaker 2: drop out when he's the only Republican and he's against
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  Speaker 2: two Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know, most people are not asking him
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  Speaker 1: to be out. That Trump has recruited some of these
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  Speaker 1: public figures, some billionaires like Bill Ackman to be all
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  Speaker 1: over the airwaves telling Curtis to drop out, But if
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  Speaker 1: you talk to actual voters, they're not. They don't want
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  Speaker 1: Curtis to drop out.
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  Speaker 4: You can't.
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  Speaker 1: You can't have a major party candidate dropout. They had
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  Speaker 1: Cuomo not been in the race, it would have been
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  Speaker 1: a whole different story. Cuomo is like a third party
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  Speaker 1: candidate who just showed up here because he had nowhere
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  Speaker 1: else to go. But you gotta give him credit. He
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  Speaker 1: had a good debate last night. He was strong in
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  Speaker 1: that debate last night. Hey, when we come back, Steve
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  Speaker 1: Moore will be with us. We hope we'll see No.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to him. A lot of big
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  Speaker 1: economic things to talk. We'll get to that next on
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  Speaker 1: seven to ten. Wor