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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's Mark Simone here, 710WOR. Let's take some calls.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Jennifer in Paramus. Jennifer, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Mark, first-time caller. I just wanted to add to
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  Speaker 2: your story about the guy in the plane. I heard
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  Speaker 2: the guy who was sitting next to him is an
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  Speaker 2: author of a religious book. He had the book out.
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  Speaker 2: It just came out. He did a whole interview, and
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  Speaker 2: the guy did flip out over the religion conversation and
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  Speaker 2: And the fact that he just wrote a book. He
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  Speaker 2: has many books, this guy. I heard him on an interview.
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 1: So when you're sitting on a plane, you don't talk
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  Speaker 1: to the person next to you, do you?
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  Speaker 4: God, no.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's what they make headphones for. They pretend you're
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  Speaker 1: listening to something.
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  Speaker 2: I'd rather sit next to a golden retriever.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. And where are you in New Jersey? Oh, Paramus.
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  Speaker 2: Paramus.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Very good, Jennifer. Thanks for calling. Take care.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to... Let's go to Cynthia in Canada. Cynthia,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Hi, Mark. I'm laughing now. I'm in Canada now. I'm
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  Speaker 5: a New Yorker.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, good. You're not one of those Canadians, are you?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I was born here, but I am now an
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  Speaker 5: American citizen for quite a long time. But I have
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  Speaker 5: to take care of my mom in Canada. Okay, something
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  Speaker 5: really funny. I just received an email from my mom's
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  Speaker 5: bank manager. He ended it with, sincerely, William Chang, he, him.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, you've got to put your pronouns in there, he, him.
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  Speaker 1: I assume you're a she, her, right?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it was a he, him. William Chang, he, him.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, whenever the banker says sincerely, you're a... Sincerely
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  Speaker 1: and banker? Doesn't go together. All right, thanks for calling. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: these stupid pronouns everywhere. Let's go to Howard in Long Island. Howard,
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Hi, how are you?
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 3: First time caller.
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  Speaker 1: I can tell.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you why I'm calling. Yes. You know, you
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  Speaker 3: talk about the Abdul El-Sayed and everything like that. There
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  Speaker 3: is information about his mother, that his mother worked for
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  Speaker 3: fundraising and everything for Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah. No one ever
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  Speaker 3: brings that down to the newsrooms, and I don't know why.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's kind of important for someone that could
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  Speaker 3: hold a seat in the Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 4: Senate.
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  Speaker 1: Very good point. We'll look into it. All right, I'll
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  Speaker 1: look into that. I'll check it out. Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: Teddy in Nutley. Teddy, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 6: I'm doing great. I have a scoop for you on
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  Speaker 6: the guy in the airplane who attacked, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 6: The man he attacked was a pastor. A friend of
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  Speaker 6: mine used to attend his services down in the Florida area.
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  Speaker 6: He was on his laptop looking at doing his work.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: The man engaged him in a conversation. It was very
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  Speaker 6: pleasant at first. This is right from the pastor himself.
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  Speaker 6: This is from him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we engaged him. As we just heard, a
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  Speaker 1: pastor who's written books on religion and all that. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: this is what they make headphones for. You ever see, see,
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  Speaker 1: I have these little Apple earbuds, but you ever see
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  Speaker 1: some people buy the big Apple ones, those big, big, big,
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  Speaker 1: big headphones, and you say, well, why would you want
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  Speaker 1: to have those big, heavy headphones? This is what it's for.
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  Speaker 1: for air travel. Put the big ones over your ears
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  Speaker 1: so when anybody looks at you, they know you can't
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  Speaker 1: hear them. They don't even try to talk to you. Perfect.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Brad in White Plains. Brad, how you doing?
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  Speaker 7: Morning, Mark. Love the program. I know it's not good
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  Speaker 7: for you, but I'm so happy.
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  Speaker 1: You come on at night.
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  Speaker 7: Real quickly, Miranda Vine's column the other day about the
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  Speaker 7: assassination attempt on Trump in Pennsylvania. Can you give me
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  Speaker 7: your thoughts on how or what kind of cover-up we
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  Speaker 7: got going here? Because they mentioned that a shooter's body
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  Speaker 7: was cremated by somebody anonymously.
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  Speaker 2: Paying for it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the whole thing is very suspicious. Good point, Brad.
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  Speaker 1: You know, whenever there's an assassination, whether it's Lee Harvey Oswald,
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  Speaker 1: from that moment on, all you do is read profiles, articles.
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  Speaker 1: They dig into the background. Here's the history of Lee
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  Speaker 1: Harvey Oswald. Here's his wife, Marina Oswald. Here's an interview
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  Speaker 1: with his mother. There's a 60 Minutes piece. Who is
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  Speaker 1: this guy? This was the first assassination where, shh, no, nothing, nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody wants to look at him. Nobody wants to know
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  Speaker 1: who put him there, where he came from. Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: now going through the FBI hidden files to see what
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  Speaker 1: they can find. There are some FBI files showing the
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  Speaker 1: kid was obviously crazy from birth, totally emotionless, became fascinated
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  Speaker 1: with rifles and guns, trained himself to be a sharpshooter
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  Speaker 1: But the fact that there was no news organization ever
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  Speaker 1: that wanted to look at who the assassin was, wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do anything, investigate anything, fascinating. Go check Miranda Devine's column.
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  Speaker 1: You'll see. Let's go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent, how
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  Speaker 1: are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Mark. Mark, you said the magical words that
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  Speaker 4: the other day it was reported that the kid was
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  Speaker 4: emotionalistic and cried. He made, whoever got to this kid,
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  Speaker 4: he made the perfect Manchurian candidate. Everybody should look at
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  Speaker 4: that movie with Sinatra, if I'm not mistaken. Right, Mark?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's about recruiting some lunatic to be your assassin.
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  Speaker 6: Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Mark, I heard you speak about the city's latest bonehead
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  Speaker 4: idea of destroying beautiful Park Avenue. Well, given the fact
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  Speaker 4: that so many wealthy people live on Park Avenue, I
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  Speaker 4: hope they pool all their money and get the best
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  Speaker 4: lawyer and sue the city to stop that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, but here's the problem. They're doing the section
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  Speaker 1: of Park Avenue where nobody lives. It's all office buildings.
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  Speaker 1: It's all corporations.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you have all the homeless people sleeping in the
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  Speaker 4: middle of the median over there. You have every bum
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  Speaker 4: in the city setting up a homeless camp. Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's right.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. It'll be a homeless camp.
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  Speaker 4: Mark, you probably heard another boneheaded idea that the transit
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  Speaker 4: authority wants to do. They want to put green spaces
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  Speaker 4: on top of the bus kiosks. in Bedford-Stuyvesant. That's got
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  Speaker 4: to be the dumbest thing in the world because that's
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  Speaker 4: a lawsuit waiting to happen. What happens when a flower
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  Speaker 4: pot or a window box on top of these stupid
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  Speaker 4: kiosks falls down, hits a pedestrian, hits somebody going on
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  Speaker 4: the bus? Gee, or maybe somebody will even go over there, hint, hint, hint,
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  Speaker 4: and feign an accident.
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  Speaker 1: Good point, Vincent. Excellent call. Yeah, excellent. So, yeah, that
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  Speaker 1: part of Park Avenue they want to screw up. It's
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  Speaker 1: all office buildings, all big corporations. Problem is it's tough
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  Speaker 1: for them to sue the city because they need to
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  Speaker 1: do business with the city all the time. Hey, when
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  Speaker 1: we come back, the great entertainment reporter, Roger Friedman, lots
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  Speaker 1: to talk to him about next on 710WOR.