Latest / The Mark Simone Show / Mark takes your calls!

Transcript

Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: This is the Mark Simone Show on.
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: 710WOR.
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Well, it's the 25th anniversary of 9-11. It's a very, very,
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: very sad day. I hate this day every year, looking
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: back and remembering. But you need to do it. Let's
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: take some calls because people have a lot of memories
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: and a lot of thoughts on 9-11. Let's go to
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: Jennifer in New York. Jennifer, how are you doing?
• 0:25
  Speaker 3: Hey, good morning.
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: Good morning. Nice to speak with you. I've been listening
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: to you for years. I'm a Rush Limbaugh baby, Bob Grant,
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: mom and dad, big influence, Brooklyn born and raised. I'm
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: on my way to a memorial as we speak in Washingtonville,
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: New York, where a large community of retired and active
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: firemen and police reside, and a large number were killed
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: on 9-11 from FD. That day is something. That strikes
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: a chord in my heart, makes me cry when I
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: talk about it, but that day made me become a
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: first responder and become a New York City police detective
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: to this day.
• 1:05
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: Followed my father's footsteps as a first responder, retired FD.
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: That day, I was on my way to college at
• 1:13
  Speaker 2: SUNY Purchase, and I just crossed the Tappan Zee going
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: to school thinking I was going to be a teacher.
• 1:20
  Speaker 2: God help us. Thank God I made the right choice today.
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: see what's going on in the teaching world as we speak.
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: You know, students not knowing about 9-11 hurts my soul.
• 1:32
  Speaker 2: But that day, driving home in this communal daze of
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: people horrified and frightened together, driving up the New York
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: City roadways and New York State Thruway to get back home,
• 1:46
  Speaker 2: I remember seeing the convoy from West Point coming down
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: the New York State Thruway and My heart leapt out,
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: and I knew in that moment I needed to change
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: my life trajectory, and I wanted to help. The only
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: way I knew how was to become a first responder.
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: That day inspired me, the loss of those.
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, Jennifer.
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: Sorry to get emotional.
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, I understand. But, Jennifer.
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: I want people to have that passion, that care, and
• 2:13
  Speaker 2: not forget the Morris Smiths, the Peter Frums. responders killed
• 2:20
  Speaker 2: and that, hey, I want kids to know about them
• 2:22
  Speaker 2: and not be dismissed by the defund the police and
• 2:26
  Speaker 2: the rioters and the poison that's out there where people's
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: minds are being raked and implanted with false ideas. To
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: understand the true tragedy but beauty of 9-11 that it
• 2:41
  Speaker 2: brought so many together in such horror. And I'm sorry
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: to get emotional. I'm very passionate. It's the Irish in me.
• 2:50
  Speaker 2: But I've been wanting to call and trying to get
• 2:52
  Speaker 2: through to you for a long time, but you're a
• 2:54
  Speaker 2: popular guy. But I'm so grateful to actually get through
• 2:59
  Speaker 2: on this day.
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: Well, we're grateful you got through. Jennifer, best call of
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: the day, maybe of the year, and keep up the
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: good work. I think you should think about running for
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: mayor one day. You're a very articulate woman.
• 3:13
  Speaker 2: Thank you, and please give my best to all those
• 3:15
  Speaker 2: you may meet that lost loved ones on this day.
• 3:19
  Speaker 2: I'll always have them in my prayers. Thank you so
• 3:21
  Speaker 2: much for your time, and God bless America.
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: Jennifer, very proud to have you in our audience. Call
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: us again. Take care. Let's go to Dr. Bob in
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: Long Island. Dr. Bob's a great surgeon. Dr. Bob, how
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: are you?
• 3:35
  Speaker 4: I'm good, Mark. Yeah, that was a great call that
• 3:37
  Speaker 4: just preceded me, and I called really just to honor Dr.
• 3:41
  Speaker 4: Someone I knew very well, she was really a sister
• 3:44
  Speaker 4: to me, Captain Kathy Mazza, who I knew as a
• 3:48
  Speaker 4: cardiovascular scrub nurse at LIJ and then St. Francis Hospital.
• 3:53
  Speaker 4: Her husband was a New York City policeman and detective,
• 3:57
  Speaker 4: and she decided to become a Port Authority policewoman. And
• 4:02
  Speaker 4: for ten years, for nine years, she worked in my
• 4:05
  Speaker 4: office one day a week just to see the patients
• 4:07
  Speaker 4: that we had operated on over the years, and she
• 4:09
  Speaker 4: was a very special person. nurse but then she became
• 4:12
  Speaker 4: port authority police woman and then the first woman captain
• 4:16
  Speaker 4: in the port authority police department at the tenth year
• 4:19
  Speaker 4: and was the commandant uh... at the police uh... the
• 4:23
  Speaker 4: academy over new jersey on nine eleven i often asked
• 4:27
  Speaker 4: her didn't she feel naked without a gun she always
• 4:30
  Speaker 4: had a gun at her ankle i didn't realize it
• 4:33
  Speaker 4: had been in my office on that day she came
• 4:36
  Speaker 4: over with the new recruits from jersey in a band
• 4:39
  Speaker 4: nine eleven went up into the buildings, into the South Tower,
• 4:44
  Speaker 4: and then brought down people into the lobby. She saw
• 4:46
  Speaker 4: that the revolving glass doors weren't letting people through fast enough,
• 4:50
  Speaker 4: so she got people away from the door, shut out
• 4:53
  Speaker 4: the windows so people could stream out, and she saved
• 4:58
  Speaker 4: countless lives just with that. She went back up into
• 5:01
  Speaker 4: the building, and they found her badge and remains about
• 5:04
  Speaker 4: a month later. I called to honor her. She was
• 5:07
  Speaker 4: an exceptional person.
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: And Say her name again.
• 5:11
  Speaker 4: Captain Kathy Mazza.
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: Kathy Mazza. All right.
• 5:15
  Speaker 4: Deloach was her married last name, but that's an extremely
• 5:19
  Speaker 4: special person. Incredible.
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: All right, Dr. Bob, great call. Thanks for calling. A
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: lot of heroes that day. Let's go to John in
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: Long Beach. John, how are you doing?
• 5:31
  Speaker 5: Fine good morning mark yes uh you were talking about
• 5:35
  Speaker 5: the world trade center uh earlier and uh i remember
• 5:39
  Speaker 5: there was a lawsuit or something they were trying to
• 5:41
  Speaker 5: determine whether it was one event or two events yeah
• 5:44
  Speaker 5: and uh i i thought that that was the big
• 5:47
  Speaker 5: issue not not whether somebody but i thought there was
• 5:50
  Speaker 5: coverage uh under the policy well you said there was
• 5:53
  Speaker 5: no yeah but i'm not sure yeah they.
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: Just couldn't get the insurance companies to pay they just
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: couldn't pay the claim and then uh Governor Eliot Spitzer,
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: Eliot Spitzer became governor, and he just finally had to
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: threaten the insurance companies that they would be banned from
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: doing business in New York if they didn't pay that claim.
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Isaac in Rockland. Isaac, how are you doing?
• 6:14
  Speaker 3: Hi, Mark. Long-time listener.
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: Yes, Isaac.
• 6:18
  Speaker 3: Just remembering my experience. So I was actually right underneath
• 6:23
  Speaker 3: the building when the plane hit it. I worked in
• 6:25
  Speaker 3: the Mercantile Exchange Building in the World Financial Center. When
• 6:29
  Speaker 3: the second plane, the first plane hit, I was still
• 6:32
  Speaker 3: in the train. I got out of the train, and
• 6:34
  Speaker 3: I was walking up to the building when the plane
• 6:36
  Speaker 3: came from the other side. We all ran down the block,
• 6:40
  Speaker 3: and then we're all sitting on the street. Remember where
• 6:44
  Speaker 3: the old Sims was over there?
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, Cy Sims.
• 6:48
  Speaker 3: It was to the other side.
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: So you started running?
• 6:51
  Speaker 3: Even then, people were.
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: You started running from the building?
• 6:57
  Speaker 3: Well, when the plane hit it, it looked at that
• 6:58
  Speaker 3: famous picture of the explosion in the building. I was
• 7:01
  Speaker 3: like by the foot of the building. We all ran
• 7:03
  Speaker 3: down the block just to get away from it. Then
• 7:06
  Speaker 3: we were just standing around. No one knew what to do.
• 7:08
  Speaker 3: We were just standing on the streets. And when the
• 7:11
  Speaker 3: building did come, when the first building came down, we
• 7:14
  Speaker 3: saw a big cloud. It looked like smoke. It was
• 7:16
  Speaker 3: dust and debris flying down the streets. And then when
• 7:24
  Speaker 3: it started running again, it was like a panic.
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah. All right. Well, great call, Isaac. Thanks for calling. Yeah,
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: everybody remembers those. Remember that video of the smoke, the
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: cloud coming and people running from that cloud. Let's go
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: to Pat in Westchester. Pat, what did you want to say?
• 7:39
  Speaker 2: Hey, Mark.
• 7:39
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 7:40
  Speaker 6: I was on my way to the office yesterday. 9-11,
• 7:43
  Speaker 6: and I'm crossing Fifth Avenue right in front of Lord & Taylor.
• 7:47
  Speaker 6: Remember the old Lord & Taylor?
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, 38.
• 7:49
  Speaker 6: And I look up, and I literally see the plane
• 7:53
  Speaker 6: in the sky, and I said to myself, gee, what
• 7:55
  Speaker 6: the hell's going on? I bet you there's a problem
• 7:57
  Speaker 6: at LaGuardia, and they're rerouting planes. Because I said, you know,
• 8:02
  Speaker 6: I was in that area crossing the street, you know,
• 8:04
  Speaker 6: right around mid-Tominant, and I said, I'd never seen a
• 8:07
  Speaker 6: plane flying so low right over Fifth Avenue. So literally,
• 8:10
  Speaker 6: that was the plane that crashed into the World Trade Center.
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: All right, Pat, thanks for calling. A lot of memories
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: that day from a lot of people. We'll take some
• 8:20
  Speaker 1: more calls a little later on. Warner Wolf saw the
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: whole thing. He was looking out his window. He lived
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: way downtown with a view of the World Trade Center.
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: He was live that morning with Imus. We'll talk to
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: him next. We'll talk to Warner next with some great stories.
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: So don't go away. It's the 25th anniversary of 9-11.
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: Mark Simone here on 710WOR.