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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show, now nine till noon weekdays on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's take some calls.
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  Speaker 3: 800-321-0710 is the number.
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  Speaker 4: 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to.
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  Speaker 1: Pete in Plainview, Long Island. Pete, how you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Very good, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Long-time listener. I like Plainview. You ever go to that
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  Speaker 1: Ivorone Pizza there?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. We had such good pizza here that Ivorone's
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  Speaker 3: had to move out.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, they're right there. Ivorone Pizza, big restaurant. What's the
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  Speaker 1: other one? La Piazza? That's pretty good there.
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  Speaker 3: La Piazza, right? We had an Umberto's. That's what I
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  Speaker 3: was talking about. Umberto's was here, but there was too
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  Speaker 3: much competition. They left.
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  Speaker 1: Plainview's a hot place now. Country Point, beautiful new condos, everything.
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  Speaker 1: It's a hot place.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, you can't get in there, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So anyway, you were talking about Steve Allen and ad-libbing. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So he is, to me, is one of Johnny Carson's
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  Speaker 3: best ad-libs. He's interviewing a farmer that's 105 years old,
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  Speaker 3: still runs his farm. Johnny says to him, what invention
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  Speaker 3: most changed your life? And the farmer says, electricity. And
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  Speaker 3: Johnny goes, thank God. I thought you were going to
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  Speaker 3: say the wheel.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's just staring. That's the greatest ad-lib of all? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I get it now. In other words, the wheel, he
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  Speaker 1: would have been really old.
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  Speaker 3: Right, like he's the old guy.
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  Speaker 1: This guy was on for 30 years. There were 50
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  Speaker 1: billion ad-libs better than that one.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, really? This is the one that I like Steve
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  Speaker 3: Allen did. He goes... I'd like to report a freak accident.
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  Speaker 3: Two freaks crashed into each other.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was very good at that. I used to
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  Speaker 1: work with Steve Allen. My favorite. I still use it
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  Speaker 1: all the time when somebody says, yeah, I live in Newark.
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  Speaker 1: And he'd say, if you call that living. But he
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  Speaker 1: was the fastest ad-libber I ever saw in my life.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Phil in Queens. Phil, how you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Mark.
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  Speaker 5: Just wanted to tell you two things. One is, Trump
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  Speaker 5: was a very good swimmer. My father-in-law taught him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is Phil's routine. He always calls and tries
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  Speaker 1: to convince you he knew everybody as a kid. He
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  Speaker 1: was best friends with everybody.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I knew a few people over the years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, but it's always from 75 years ago.
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  Speaker 1: But Trump has never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever,
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  Speaker 1: ever go swimming. He was a great athlete as a kid.
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  Speaker 5: He was a great baseball player.
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  Speaker 1: He was almost recruited for the major. He was a
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  Speaker 1: great baseball player, but... We need somebody who's known him
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  Speaker 1: like in the last 50 years. He does not go swimming.
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  Speaker 1: He's not a swimmer. It's funny because he builds massive
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  Speaker 1: swimming pools in every resort. Never goes swimming, ever. Has
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  Speaker 1: not been swimming in his adult life. But he was
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  Speaker 1: quite an athlete. Of course, he's still a great golfer.
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  Speaker 1: And for his age, he's phenomenal as a golfer. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to Ralph in Stanford. Ralph, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Simone, this is a real pleasure. I'm constantly impressed by
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  Speaker 2: all the big stars you work with.
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  Speaker 3: This is a real pleasure? This is a pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: Well, my question is, is there any big star, a
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  Speaker 2: big talent you ever wanted to work with and you
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  Speaker 2: never got the chance to?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. Well, there were a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people I didn't get to work with, but I knew
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  Speaker 1: off the air. There were a lot of people, great stars,
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  Speaker 1: who would not come on the air. They just didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to do it. But I was always friends with them.
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  Speaker 2: But, uh, another quick question. You ever think of, uh,
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  Speaker 2: having a biography or writing an autobiography? Cause if you do,
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  Speaker 2: I got.
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  Speaker 1: The, listen, I got like a 12 book deals going and, uh,
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  Speaker 1: they've been chasing me for like 20 years. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I got to figure this out. I got to, uh,
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  Speaker 1: learn how to just sit down and write, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to be a writer, you got to like tie yourself
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  Speaker 1: to a chair for like four hours and just write. But, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I used to write articles for a lot of major magazines,
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  Speaker 1: and then they'd call me up. If you have an idea,
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  Speaker 1: I'd give them the idea. They'd go, great, we'll take it.
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  Speaker 1: 1,200 words. And then they spent six months chasing me
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  Speaker 1: to get the article. I don't know. I just can't
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  Speaker 1: sit down and write. I don't know. You're right. I
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  Speaker 1: got to get on. I got to get on this.
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  Speaker 1: I was talking to Joe Concha one day. He goes,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to write. He goes, just dictate it.
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  Speaker 1: Just take your phone and dictate it, and it'll type
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  Speaker 1: it out for you.
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  Speaker 2: It's perfect.
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  Speaker 1: And I did that for a couple of days. And
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  Speaker 1: then you forget. I don't know. I always talk to
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  Speaker 1: these writers, the greatest writers. Well, how do you do it? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I have a room just for writing. There's nothing in
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  Speaker 1: the room. I go in there and I sit there
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  Speaker 1: for four hours and write. Then I go to lunch.
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  Speaker 1: Then I come back for four hours. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I just can't do it. It's too tough. Anyway, let's
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  Speaker 1: go to Al in Yonkers. Al, how are you doing? Good, Mark.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Mark, I wanted to say, you know, I've seen
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  Speaker 5: the paper and all about how Kathy Hochul has gone
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  Speaker 5: negative against Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And I hope he wins. But as you know, through
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  Speaker 5: the decades, negative advertising targeting the right ethnic groups and all,
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  Speaker 5: that could be very effective.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes.
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  Speaker 5: She's going to do whatever she can.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's effective. Many times it's not effective. It depends
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  Speaker 1: on the ads. She's also putting them in all the
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  Speaker 1: wrong places. She's advertising on local TV stations, which very
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  Speaker 1: few people watch anymore. That's not the way to go. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: if you see all these... attacking Blakeman ads and they
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  Speaker 1: upset you. Don't get upset. It's a compliment to Blakeman.
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  Speaker 1: Blakeman was 20 points behind. He's now pretty much tied
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  Speaker 1: in the real polls, not the fake public polls, in
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  Speaker 1: the real polls, pretty much tied. And she's seen that
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  Speaker 1: in her internal polling. And that's why she's in panic
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  Speaker 1: and spending millions on these attack ads. So when you
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  Speaker 1: see those attack ads, that's fear on her part. And
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  Speaker 1: You'll notice they've been doing opposition research on Blakeman for
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  Speaker 1: a year. You'll notice they couldn't come up with anything
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  Speaker 1: against him. So all they hit him with in these
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  Speaker 1: ads is that he's friends with Trump. They couldn't come
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  Speaker 1: up with anything to attack him on. So all the
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  Speaker 1: ads are just, he's too friendly with Trump. That's all
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  Speaker 1: they got. Let's go to Max in Manhattan. Max, how
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  Speaker 1: you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Mark, thank you for taking my call. There's a bill
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  Speaker 4: that recently passed. Hochul pushed it through and, um, The
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  Speaker 4: bottom line is that you can be in the hospital
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  Speaker 4: and you can be euthanized without your family's permission, without
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  Speaker 4: your permission. It's called MAID. M-A-I-D.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Well, we'll take a look at it. That's crazy
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  Speaker 1: Kathy Hochul. High-tax Hochul. She loves to tax you. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's what you ought to just call it from
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  Speaker 1: now on. High-tax Hochul. Trump was very good at that.
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  Speaker 1: Nicknaming somebody. Remember Sleepy Joe? Remember Low Energy Jeb? Crooked Hillary?
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  Speaker 1: If you do it enough, it sticks, so... High tax hokal.
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  Speaker 1: High tax hokal. High tax hokal. Hey, when we come back,
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  Speaker 1: the brilliant columnist. No, not Michael Goodwin. He had to
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  Speaker 1: move till tomorrow. We're going to have Michael Goodwin tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Filling in will be the also brilliant columnist, one of
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  Speaker 1: the greatest in the world, Miranda Devine. We'll talk to
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  Speaker 1: her next on 710WOR.