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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: What's better than two hours of mark simone three the
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  Speaker 1: mark simone show now nine till noon weekdays 710 wor
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  Speaker 1: hey let's take some calls 800-321-0710 is the number let's
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  Speaker 1: go to lorraine in long island lorraine how you doing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm fine, Mark. I'm doing very well. Just wanted to
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  Speaker 2: repeat again what that gentleman said before. So happy you
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  Speaker 2: are on for an extra hour. You're terrific to listen to.
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  Speaker 2: I learn something every day from you. You're funny and
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  Speaker 2: very smart. Oh, thanks.
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  Speaker 1: You sound like such a nice person. Why do I
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  Speaker 1: hear birds chirping?
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  Speaker 2: I'm on the beach. I'm sitting on West Hampton Beach.
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  Speaker 1: You are? Wow. Are you the only one there?
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  Speaker 2: Just about. Just the lifeguards just came down. And it's
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  Speaker 2: nice and quiet. And I got here an hour earlier
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  Speaker 2: so I could put you on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's very nice. Let me just explain to people
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  Speaker 1: that don't go to the Hamptons. They don't go to
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  Speaker 1: the beach there. All they do is go to eat.
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  Speaker 1: They go to lunch. They go to dinner. They go shopping.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: They don't even know.
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  Speaker 2: There's a beach. Well, West Hampton is a little bit
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  Speaker 2: nicer than that crowd out there. You don't get so
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  Speaker 2: many people. people like that, but just so happy to
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  Speaker 2: hear your voice and it's terrific. Thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 1: And you live in West Hampton?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I live in Moriches Bay. It's two towns over.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. With West Hampton, you got Donahue's just open there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the great Irish pub is like the Irish
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  Speaker 1: Elaine's that had been on 64th and Lexington for a
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  Speaker 1: million years. They closed and they moved to West Hampton.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, I'll have to go. I usually go to
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  Speaker 2: Fauna or Patio. There's a couple of other nice restaurants
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  Speaker 2: right in town. But I will look that up. Did
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  Speaker 2: they just open?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Donahue's East. It's in West Hampton. Go there. And
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  Speaker 1: then you go to the West Hampton Bakery and get
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  Speaker 1: the raspberry croissant. It's phenomenal.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: And Goldberg's, the bagel place.
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  Speaker 1: Goldberg's is very big out there now because it's really
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  Speaker 1: the only bagel place, although there is a pop-up bagel place.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 2: It is. Oh, you're a sweetheart. You take care, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Lorraine. Thanks for calling. Great talking to you.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Mark.
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  Speaker 3: I like your food tourism points that you make when
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  Speaker 3: you have callers from different places. It's really interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Name any place, I'll tell you what to eat there.
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  Speaker 1: But isn't that the best tourism? You don't want to
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  Speaker 1: hear about the zoo or the museum.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're absolutely right. That's the first thing you want
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  Speaker 3: to do when you get someplace is see what they're eating.
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  Speaker 1: I know. When you talk to somebody that comes to
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  Speaker 1: New York, oh, I love the museums. You're in the
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  Speaker 1: museum for an hour out of.
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  Speaker 3: The whole year. Right.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Meanwhile, if you go to Katz's, you're there for a
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  Speaker 3: couple of hours and you've seen more than you'll see
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  Speaker 3: in a museum in a lifetime. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, museums are great, but you go to Paris, Tampa,
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  Speaker 1: go anywhere and go to the museum, it looks the
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  Speaker 1: same everywhere. You're not experiencing local community and flavor. But
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  Speaker 1: what do you want to say, Mike?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, the guy called up earlier about the
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  Speaker 3: data centers. And, you know, the same people who were
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  Speaker 3: against the data centers, data, data, You know, they were
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  Speaker 3: all in on the wind turbines and they're all in
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  Speaker 3: on these solar farms that take up thousands of acres
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  Speaker 3: of land and create a nuisance to wildlife and so forth.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they were against the Amazon and Walmart opening
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  Speaker 3: in places because they after all, they would create jobs
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  Speaker 3: and lower costs for the people that they supposedly care about.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a little bit ironic and hypocritical, of course,
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  Speaker 3: as you always like to point out. that they would
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  Speaker 3: be against these data centers as they use their, they
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  Speaker 3: live on their phones all day, which do nothing but
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  Speaker 3: consume the data that these data centers help produce.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, they keep saying, well, without the data centers,
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  Speaker 1: you won't have your phone. I don't know. We didn't
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  Speaker 1: have any data centers. My phone's working fine. But I
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  Speaker 1: guess with them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but they, yeah, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Not with them, I guess it'll be much faster. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the Apple and the other companies are saying they're going
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  Speaker 1: to have to create a whole new generation of phones
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  Speaker 1: and computers. to keep up with the AI stuff. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to have to replace everything.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's the thing.
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  Speaker 3: These phones aren't the phones that we started out with
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  Speaker 3: even 10 years ago. They're, you know, they're, they're, they,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they're mini computers. They're, I mean, literally they're
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  Speaker 3: more powerful than the computers that launched the Apollo project.
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  Speaker 3: And so you need things to produce, you know, to
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  Speaker 3: do all the calculations that they were able to do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. All right, Mike. Great call. Thanks for calling. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to Don in Colorado. Don, how you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Doing great.
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  Speaker 4: And I wanted to comment about the radio stations in
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  Speaker 4: New York, and I'm a radio junkie and I read
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  Speaker 4: the trades. And basically what you said is there's variety,
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  Speaker 4: but as the demos age out and new demos come in,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and radio's declining but not dead yet.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's actually not declining. Same number of people listen
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  Speaker 1: now that listen 20 years later.
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  Speaker 2: I understand.
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  Speaker 3: I understand.
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  Speaker 4: It's far from dead, no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's actually not even declining. It's actually pretty strong.
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  Speaker 1: 163 million people listening. Sorry, I didn't mean to bring
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  Speaker 1: up facts. You don't want any facts.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no problem. I want radio to stay alive.
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  Speaker 3: You can do both.
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  Speaker 4: But what I'm saying is all the nail casting, all
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  Speaker 4: the streaming and all that, and I mean, the demos
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  Speaker 4: are changing. I mean, Light FM, you know, I would
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  Speaker 4: welcome back the Light FM of the 1980s than the
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  Speaker 4: one that we have now because.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're obviously an older guy. The old Light FM,
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  Speaker 1: it was Neil Diamond and Ann Murray and Brad. You
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  Speaker 1: can't play that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Correct.
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  Speaker 4: But, you know, the year-round format, I couldn't care less for.
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  Speaker 1: You sound out of breath. Is that because you're in Colorado?
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  Speaker 1: The air is very thin up there?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I just went up the stairs, but I wanted to
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  Speaker 4: say that the only time I would listen to a
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  Speaker 4: Light FM is when it goes off.
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  Speaker 1: You sound like an older guy. You just went up
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  Speaker 1: the stairs. You sound like you need a nap already. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for calling. The air is very thin out there
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  Speaker 1: in Colorado. Yeah, radio actually has the same amount of
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  Speaker 1: listeners and the same percentage of the population listening to
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  Speaker 1: radio now than 20 years ago, than 40 years ago.
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  Speaker 1: There's been absolutely no decline in radio listening, unlike television,
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  Speaker 1: unlike every other medium. But, hey, when we come back
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  Speaker 1: to the brilliant Steve Forbes... Will be with us. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk to him about trade war with Canada. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about lots of stuff. Steve Forbes coming up next on 710WOR.