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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Hey, let's take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number.
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  Speaker 2: 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Jack in West Virginia. Jack, how are
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  Speaker 1: you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for taking my call.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I just want to make a comment about donating
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  Speaker 2: for the elections, candidates, and so forth. I have donated
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  Speaker 2: in the past to Trump and to some of the
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  Speaker 2: other candidates, and it just seems that whenever you make
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  Speaker 2: a donation, you get inundated with emails from the candidates
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  Speaker 2: and text messages, and And if there's a way to
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  Speaker 2: turn that off so you can make, I have not
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  Speaker 2: made any donations this election just for that reason.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you can, you can, when you get these emails,
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  Speaker 1: just block that email account. When you get the text,
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  Speaker 1: block the text number and that'll stop it. But you're right.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big problem. That's a good point. Thanks, Jack. Um, Although,
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, if you donate to President Trump,
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  Speaker 1: you'll get these texts. It'll be a number you don't recognize.
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  Speaker 1: You open up the text and say, hi, this is
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  Speaker 1: President Trump. I need to talk to you about something.
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  Speaker 1: So the good thing is you can say to your friends,
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  Speaker 1: this President Trump is texting me all day. And you're
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  Speaker 1: not lying. He actually is. Now, I understand what you're saying.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to donate because I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: get bombarded with all these texts.
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  Speaker 2: But....
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  Speaker 1: If you make a doctor's appointment now, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: had a doctor's appointment yesterday, just an eye doctor checkup.
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  Speaker 1: I got 4,000 emails and 3,000 texts. Confirm. Press 1
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  Speaker 1: to confirm. Then you get– I never got so many
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  Speaker 1: texts in my life about this little– that morning you
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  Speaker 1: get a text. An hour before you get a text,
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  Speaker 1: you go see the doctor. You're leaving now. You don't
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  Speaker 1: even get to the elevator yet to get this text.
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  Speaker 1: Take the survey on how it was. It just, it
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  Speaker 1: never stops. So you've got two doctor's appointments in one week.
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  Speaker 1: You can get 4,000 texts and emails. It never stops.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Barbie in New Jersey. Barbie, how you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 5: So a few years ago, you said they wanted the
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  Speaker 5: horse and buggy ended because the real estate Oh, no.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no. That's something else. They wanted the stable closed.
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  Speaker 1: There's a stable where they were keeping them. They were
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  Speaker 1: trying to close that stable because it was like on
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  Speaker 1: the Upper West Side in some pretty good land for
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  Speaker 1: a condo or something.
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  Speaker 5: I just want to say you made a comment about
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  Speaker 5: the racehorses. That'll be next, Mark.
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  Speaker 4: That'll be next.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're talking about it's rough on the horses.
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  Speaker 1: It's cruel to the horse having to pull a carriage
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  Speaker 1: around Central. It doesn't seem that cruel. But to have
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  Speaker 1: a guy jump on your back and whip you to
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  Speaker 1: make sure you go as fast as you can go.
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  Speaker 1: That seems a little cruel, this horse racing.
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  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, but it's been around forever.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I know. You know, it's nice.
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  Speaker 5: Our traditions are nice, and they just want.
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  Speaker 1: To take it away. I'm not against it. I like
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  Speaker 1: horse racing, but it's different.
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  Speaker 5: I don't understand what you're saying.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine if one of these guys in Central Park. I
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  Speaker 1: don't understand why.
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  Speaker 5: They're whipping them constantly either.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they want them to go faster.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, thanks for calling. You know, you see
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  Speaker 1: the guy in Central Park, and he's got the horse car.
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  Speaker 1: You know, basically he has some reins and he kind
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  Speaker 1: of flicks it. That's it. Imagine we jumped on the
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  Speaker 1: back of the horse and started whipping him. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's more cruel and that's what horse racing is. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to Bill in New Jersey. Bill, how you doing? Okay, Mark.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. And, you know, horses belong in Montana in
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  Speaker 4: an open field by a stream, not in New York City.
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  Speaker 4: The other guy that called said, you know, emails. How
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  Speaker 4: many times you call up a business and the first
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  Speaker 4: thing you hear is, Please listen carefully as our menu
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  Speaker 4: has changed. Come on. But what I called about is,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I'm an usher at a church, and even
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  Speaker 4: the little old ladies with the rosary beads are saying,
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  Speaker 4: why does Iran still exist? It's like they're in the
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  Speaker 4: Stone Age, and we have the most modern weaponry in
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  Speaker 4: the world. We could take them out in an afternoon,
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  Speaker 4: and the Straits of Hormuz are still closed? This is garbage.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you don't want to kill all the civilians. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it'd be easy to wipe out Iran, but you can't
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  Speaker 1: kill like 60 million civilians in the process. It's what
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  Speaker 1: they call asymmetrical warfare. It's the toughest thing to fight
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  Speaker 1: an asymmetrical war where they're like in a jungle with
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  Speaker 1: rocks and you're trying to catch it. It's the same
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  Speaker 1: thing happened in Iraq. It was tough. They're in caves.
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  Speaker 1: They're underground. It's tough. You could do it with ground forces.
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  Speaker 1: You just don't want to use ground forces.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but like you mentioned earlier, you know, the Strait
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  Speaker 4: of Hermes is open. It's closed.
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  Speaker 2: It's open.
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  Speaker 3: It's closed.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, where's the gunfire coming from? Mail them and.
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  Speaker 1: Take them out. Well, they got a few rockets left,
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  Speaker 1: a missile here, a drone there. It's more like they
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  Speaker 1: call them mosquitoes. They're just like little mosquitoes biting them.
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  Speaker 1: But thanks for calling. Let's go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Mark. Okay. Okay. I would like everybody to
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  Speaker 3: look at their utility bill, whether it's your gas bill,
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  Speaker 3: your electric bill, or your phone bill. As Bruce Blakeman
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  Speaker 3: pointed out the other night, Because Kathy Hochul is getting
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  Speaker 3: our electricity now from Canada, the delivery charge for the
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  Speaker 3: electricity is actually more than the usage. I got my
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  Speaker 3: electricity bill yesterday. I don't do anything online. I got
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  Speaker 3: my electricity bill by paper bill yesterday. And during your
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  Speaker 3: first hour, I opened it up. And the bill was
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  Speaker 3: for $ 133. And most of... $ 32 was for the actual usage.
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  Speaker 3: All the rest was either taxes and fees and delivery
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  Speaker 3: charges and green this and green that. Also, look at
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  Speaker 3: your gas bill and look at your phone bill. Embedded
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  Speaker 3: in all those... abbreviations you'll see all these nonsensical charges
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  Speaker 3: that the democrats are using to nickel and dime you
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  Speaker 3: the debt and that's why it's creating a lot of
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  Speaker 3: this unaffordability most people don't look at it they just
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  Speaker 3: take out the check or whatever or they pay it
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  Speaker 3: online and that's it oh and to the fellow who
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  Speaker 3: called and said He was being bombarded by all these
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  Speaker 3: text messages and this, that, and the other. I caught
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  Speaker 3: a check to Blakeman the other night, and on the
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  Speaker 3: form it said, I used the paper form, it said,
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  Speaker 3: what's your email address? I don't put in anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: And you won't be bombarded. Cut a check. Don't do
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  Speaker 3: it by credit card. Don't do it online. Do it
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  Speaker 3: the old-fashioned way, the Vincent way. Cut a check. But everybody,
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  Speaker 3: look at your bills tonight. How they're nickel and diming
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  Speaker 3: us to death in this city.
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  Speaker 1: Good point. Excellent call. Thanks for calling. Hey, when we
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  Speaker 1: come back, we'll talk to the brilliant Liz Peek, the
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  Speaker 1: great columnist Liz Peek. We'll talk to her next on 710WOR.