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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Did Mark on demand by setting up pre Sad for
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  Speaker 1: his podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: Now back to Mark Simon on wry.
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  Speaker 1: Le's Sex and Calls. Eight hundred three two one zero
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  Speaker 1: seven ten is the number eight hundred three to two
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  Speaker 1: one zero seven ten. Let's go to Bill in Hamburg,
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey. Bill, how you doing good?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you Mark? You know you mentioned you're going to
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  Speaker 2: have a Neil Sedaka on Later. He is a great talent,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I guess sixty sixty two him, Frankie avalon
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  Speaker 2: Paul Anka, what great music. Now there was talent, And
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  Speaker 2: I just want mentioned real quick. My sister was on
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  Speaker 2: American Bandstand with Dick Clark and she met Neil Sedaka
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  Speaker 2: and he actually asked her out, and my stupid sister
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  Speaker 2: said no, Yeah, so there was my per What a dope. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so there's my in. You know, I could have been
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  Speaker 2: you know, I have a decent boys. I can say.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think.
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  Speaker 2: I could have been somebody. But now just another bum
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  Speaker 2: walking around a Polucaville.
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  Speaker 1: He's quoting from on the waterfront. But yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: I hate well, actually, let me think now. Neil Sidaka,
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  Speaker 1: the love of his life was his wife, Liba Liba Sidaka,
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  Speaker 1: whose family owned the big hotel in the Catskills where
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  Speaker 1: a very young Neil Sidaka worked and met her there.
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  Speaker 1: So I think he might have wanted to go out
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  Speaker 1: with your sister, But I think he was already on
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  Speaker 1: the way to marrying Liba Siedaka even even back then.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike, how you doing.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Mark, that's Mike.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to mention Neil Sidaka. But just one thing
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  Speaker 3: before that, one way to Democra. The Republicans could modify
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  Speaker 3: the Democrat to just say that Komane was in the
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  Speaker 3: Epstein files.
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  Speaker 1: He could have been.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, you know the other thing about Sadaka, other
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  Speaker 3: than is obviously I'm not telling how far be you
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  Speaker 3: for me to tell you, but all the songs he
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  Speaker 3: wrote for others, you know, I mean being a member
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  Speaker 3: of the Brill building and that that whole crowd over
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  Speaker 3: there is quite remarkable.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he wrote, he wrote the Love Will Keep Us Together,
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  Speaker 1: a huge hit for the Captain and to Neo. What
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  Speaker 1: else I'm trying? What else did he write?
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  Speaker 3: He wrote for Connie Francis.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, of course, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Now do you know that the biggest song did one
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  Speaker 3: of his songs.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's a long story. Sinatra started to sing The
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  Speaker 1: Hungry Years and concert and it was a it was
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  Speaker 1: a very touching, very serious ballad from Neil Sidaka about
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  Speaker 1: he and his wife when they struggled when they were poor,
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  Speaker 1: the Hungry Years, and it was all about how he
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  Speaker 1: misses the Hungry Years. And Sinatra started to sing it
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  Speaker 1: in concert and then dropped it after a few weeks,
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  Speaker 1: and Neil Sidaka asked me once, could you ask Sinatra
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  Speaker 1: why he dropped us?
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  Speaker 3: And I asked him, and imagine, that's a beautiful song.
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  Speaker 1: It's beautifully written. He said, I didn't understand the song.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get it. He said, you missed the hungry Yers.
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  Speaker 1: I miss when we were poor. He missed when we
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  Speaker 1: lived in this little apartment. Moved back there.
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  Speaker 4: You just go back.
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  Speaker 3: It's so Sinatra, it's funny.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, thanks for calling. There was another song.
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  Speaker 1: It was a huge hit Barbara streisand People nineteen sixty four.
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  Speaker 1: It was the biggest hit in the world. People who
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  Speaker 1: need People are the luckiest people in the world. And
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  Speaker 1: Sinatra had always sing the current. We would never sing
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  Speaker 1: it and they asked him why. He said, I don't
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  Speaker 1: understand the song. People who need people are the luckiest people.
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  Speaker 1: What the hell does it mean? And he was right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to uh Rich and Myrtle beach Rich. How
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  Speaker 1: you doing, Hey?
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  Speaker 2: Thanks?
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  Speaker 3: Mark?
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  Speaker 2: You know, Neil Saidakh was also good friends with Arthur Spooner.
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  Speaker 3: On the King of Queens towards the Yeah, Jerry, that's series.
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  Speaker 1: One, Jerry still Yeah, we'll talk about Neil Sadaka and
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  Speaker 1: the next hour we'll get to him. He was a
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  Speaker 1: real New York guy. He lived right over there, fifty
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  Speaker 1: eighth in Park. Let's go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing, Good.
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  Speaker 4: Morning, Mark, I'm okay, Mark. Thanks for talking about all
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  Speaker 4: the people in the United States who were celebrating the
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  Speaker 4: offering of the Komany Mark, That's nothing compared to what
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  Speaker 4: they were doing in Europe. In Europe, they were processions
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  Speaker 4: celebrating Commaney getting whacked. That in Paris looked like they
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  Speaker 4: were blocks and blocks and blocks long, carrying the old
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  Speaker 4: Iranian flag, Notani, the new Iranian flag, the murderer's flag.
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  Speaker 4: Also in Italy, in London, and in Greece, and these
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  Speaker 4: people were speaking. None of them had towels on their
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  Speaker 4: head like the whack jobs, the green haired monsters with
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  Speaker 4: the nose rigs who were protesting in Times Square and
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  Speaker 4: mark these people they copied George Sorows. They immediately had
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  Speaker 4: these massive made up with the picture of Donald Trump
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  Speaker 4: and pe Levy's son that they want to go start
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  Speaker 4: the interim government. And their new slogan is right from
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump, make Iran great again. Mega. And it shows
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  Speaker 4: a profile of Donald Trump looking forward and at his
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  Speaker 4: side pe Levy's son and on the need, it says, Mega.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm telling you Marked, the celebrations in Italy and
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  Speaker 4: Greece and Paris were massive.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, Vincent, that's great to know. Excellent call,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for calling. Yeah, we'll get to a Pavlovi. It's
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  Speaker 1: the son of the Chavaran who's been leading, you know
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  Speaker 1: the way. He wants to go back and run the country.
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  Speaker 1: From what I hear, they don't want him to. They
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  Speaker 1: love him, but he hasn't been in the country in
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  Speaker 1: forty seven years. You need somebody who knows what's going
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  Speaker 1: on over there. Hey, when we come back to the
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  Speaker 1: brilliant calumnist Liz Peak, we'll be with us next and
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk to her about all of this coming up,
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  Speaker 1: but first on Savent ten w o r