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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Live from the WOR LifeVac Studios, Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, let's take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number. 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to Ron in Pittsburgh. Ron, how you doing?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing good, Mark. How you doing? I know you
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  Speaker 3: got a check.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm fine. I'm fine.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Hey, I'm glad you got three hours here.
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  Speaker 3: You're refreshing. Hey, a couple days ago, I was working.
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  Speaker 3: I'm 73, but I still do stuff. And you had
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  Speaker 3: that lady who flipped out in that airplane screaming. That
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  Speaker 3: was so hilarious. Hey, you know, I'm 73. Back in
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  Speaker 3: the 80s, I had a game.
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  Speaker 2: How many times are you going to tell us this?
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  Speaker 2: Stop bragging about it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Mark.
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  Speaker 2: That's okay.
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  Speaker 1: That's okay.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead. But anyhow... I had a James Brown car alarm.
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  Speaker 3: He touched my car and went, wow, wow. It sounded
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  Speaker 3: just like her. That was like a James Brown thing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you live in Pittsburgh. You probably need three, four
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  Speaker 2: car alarms, right?
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  Speaker 3: I'm just kidding.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. It's a joke.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know about that. What do you think? Do
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  Speaker 3: you think it sounds like James Brown?
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  Speaker 2: Try it again.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think that sounds like James Brown?
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  Speaker 2: Do it again. Let me hear you do it again. Wow, wow. Uh, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't as good as the other guy, but I
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  Speaker 3: had an alarm sound just like an honest to God
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  Speaker 3: I did.
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  Speaker 2: And what kind of work do you do?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I was a postal employee for 41 years.
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  Speaker 2: This is like a Cliff Clavin. That's what I thought.
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  Speaker 2: What do you do now?
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  Speaker 3: Right now I'm a musician and I, uh, help clean
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  Speaker 3: a few banks once in a while.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, what kind of musician?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, my bass player singer. I like, uh, music.
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  Speaker 2: Let me ask you an important question. What makes a
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  Speaker 2: guy want to be a bass player when you could
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  Speaker 2: play the guitar? Why do you want to play the
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  Speaker 2: bass and just go?
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  Speaker 3: Because I'm going to tell you what, ask any bass player,
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  Speaker 3: because you, you have three guitar players, a band. You
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  Speaker 3: have one bass player who locks in with the drummer.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah. Well, since you brought that up, Hey, I
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  Speaker 3: just watched that, uh, Frank Sinatra special. I never realized
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  Speaker 3: how good that dude was.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Which special is that?
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  Speaker 3: It's on Netflix. Oh, okay. It's his whole life story. It's,
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  Speaker 3: he was really, uh, something else. I'll guarantee you one thing.
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  Speaker 3: He liked the bass players.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he had that Mule Hully, Major Hully, who played
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  Speaker 2: bass with him. If you got Fox Nation, that's another
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  Speaker 2: streaming service. Fox Nation, they got the best Sinatra documentary
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  Speaker 2: on there. It's called Echoes of an Icon. Fox Nation,
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  Speaker 2: go check out that Sinatra documentary because they spent a
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  Speaker 2: lot of money. They got all the clips.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I will. Did you know Frank Sinatra?
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  Speaker 2: Very well. Very well. In fact, I'm on the Fox
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  Speaker 2: documentary there. Yeah, very well.
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  Speaker 3: Now, is he as nice as guys project him to be?
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  Speaker 2: Well, people try to explain how he could be so
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  Speaker 2: nice and then the next minute throw in a ketchup
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  Speaker 2: bottle at a waiter. Well, the truth is. he liked
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  Speaker 2: to drink. He was always drinking. And if you were drinking,
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  Speaker 2: that's the personality. It could be nice one moment, crazy
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  Speaker 2: the next. But overall, a nice guy. Very, very, very
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  Speaker 2: good to people. Very charitable to people.
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  Speaker 1: Very talented.
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  Speaker 2: But he had a temper. He had a bit of
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  Speaker 2: a temper. But thanks for calling, Ron. Take care. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go to Jim in New Jersey. Jim, how you doing?
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  Speaker 1: I graduated from Cornell in 1979. I was in the
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  Speaker 1: hotel school. Drew Nipperon was class of 77. Mark.
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  Speaker 3: Drew.
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  Speaker 2: Drew Nipperon. He went to Cornell.
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  Speaker 3: You're right.
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  Speaker 2: I forgot about that. That's supposed to be one of
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  Speaker 2: the best hotel restaurant schools.
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  Speaker 1: The one in Switzerland. Mark, that campus up there today
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  Speaker 1: is nothing compared to what we did up there from
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  Speaker 1: 75 to 79. My 20th birthday, I tried to drive
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  Speaker 1: my car up the Cornell slope. I was so drunk.
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  Speaker 1: We used to have two student union bars on campus
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  Speaker 1: that were open until 2 in the morning. I remember
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  Speaker 1: the last example, Mark, my senior year, 1978 Labor Day.
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  Speaker 1: I was walking up the class at a hotel school,
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  Speaker 1: and my fraternity had a keg of beer at 8
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  Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning on the campus store. And we
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  Speaker 1: had a big party with the sororities. There's nothing up
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  Speaker 1: there today. You'd get locked up in jail if you
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  Speaker 1: tried that up there today. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: This fraternity, they're drinking alcohol, they're using ketamine, whatever that is, drugs.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds pretty bad.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, Mark. It's a lot of state schools. The
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  Speaker 1: Ag School, Oberman School, they have state school. The School
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  Speaker 1: of Human Ecology, that's like a home economics school there.
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  Speaker 1: That's a state school. The ILR School, that's industrial labor relations.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lot of the schools, but it's a great
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  Speaker 1: campus with the beautiful veterinarian, 20 acres of their veterinarian school.
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  Speaker 1: That's graduate. It was the first architecture schools there in
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  Speaker 1: the world ever is on the main campus.
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  Speaker 2: Well, but one problem with Cornell, it's Ithaca, right? Ithaca,
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  Speaker 2: you're like out in the middle of nowhere. There's not
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  Speaker 2: a lot around there.
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  Speaker 1: It was built, it was donated by Ezra Cornell, donated
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  Speaker 1: his cattle farm, which is up on the hill above
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  Speaker 1: the city. And it's divided by two gorges and they
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  Speaker 1: have nets there to prevent the students from jumping into
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  Speaker 1: the gorge and killing themselves. They actually have nets there.
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  Speaker 1: It's a very unusual campus, beautiful campus.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Sounds a little crazy, but good call. Interesting stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for calling. Let's go to Jim in Long Island. Jim,
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  Speaker 2: how you doing?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing good. Thank you for taking my call, Mark.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thanks for calling.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you a question.
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  Speaker 4: If you could comment on maybe if the president loses
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  Speaker 4: the House and the Senate, We're going to have impeachment, impeachment,
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  Speaker 4: impeachment every day. What if he just stepped down and
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  Speaker 4: let Vance be the president? Vance pardons Trump for everything,
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  Speaker 4: and Vance becomes the president.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't think that's necessary. The problem with— they' ll impeach
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  Speaker 2: him in the House all the time, but actual conviction removal— see,
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  Speaker 2: the problem is these Democrats hate Vance. They think Vance
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  Speaker 2: is even more right-wing. You always want to have— A
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  Speaker 2: vice president they call impeachment insurance. That's one reason Biden
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  Speaker 2: wanted Kamala. So I don't think the Democrats would want
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  Speaker 2: Vance as president. So I don't think they'd go full
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  Speaker 2: impeachment where they remove him. The other thing you ought
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  Speaker 2: to remember is the president doesn't really need Congress that much.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a great cabinet. He's not intending to look
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  Speaker 2: for any more cabinet members, so he doesn't need Senate confirmation.
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  Speaker 2: And he tends to not do a lot of legislation.
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  Speaker 2: He tends to govern with executive orders. So he wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: really be relying on Congress for much of anything. But
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  Speaker 2: let's not get ahead of ourselves. Things look pretty good
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  Speaker 2: for Republicans keeping the Senate. And the House, it's too
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  Speaker 2: close to call right now. Hey, when we come back,
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  Speaker 2: the very funny Jimmy Fallon will be with us next.