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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: It's the Mark Simone Show.
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  Speaker 2: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios. Hey, we'll take some calls.
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  Speaker 2: 800-321-0710 is the number.
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  Speaker 3: 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 2: It's fall. It's officially autumn. You go into a store,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of Halloween stuff for sale. On the
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  Speaker 2: news today, they're talking about the Rockefeller Center tree already.
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  Speaker 2: They've announced the date, November 7th. It's like a month away.
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  Speaker 2: They've already announced the date. The tree is coming November
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  Speaker 2: 7th and then December, whatever it is, 8th. They'll light
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  Speaker 2: it up. Anyway, let's take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to Mike in Florida. Let's see if the
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  Speaker 2: phone works. Mike? No, it's not working. Still can't do it.
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  Speaker 2: Did you do it?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Mark. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead, Mike.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Mark. I'm so happy you mentioned the announcing
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  Speaker 3: from last night's Yankee game. Bad. It was so bad.
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  Speaker 3: And not only was it dull, but I don't remember.
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  Speaker 4: Frank Messer or Bill White talking about the angle of
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  Speaker 4: inflection of the batter's swing, you know, for nine innings
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  Speaker 4: back in the day. And that's something else that I
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  Speaker 4: like to point out to people who don't pay attention.
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  Speaker 4: The way it's directed, it's one close-up shot of the pitcher,
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  Speaker 4: close-up shot of the batter, lots of quick takes.
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  Speaker 3: And you never see the field. You never see any action.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. You're right.
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  Speaker 3: Terrible. They shoot like a bad music video.
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  Speaker 2: So who are these announcers? Are they the TV announcers?
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  Speaker 2: The NBC?
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  Speaker 3: They must be the network announcers, so they have to
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  Speaker 3: be impartial.
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  Speaker 4: It's not Michael Kay and Paul O'Neill.
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  Speaker 2: And who was the greatest Yankee announcer ever?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I like Rizzuto and White. I like Frank Messer.
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  Speaker 3: He was considered dull at the time, but I like
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  Speaker 3: him because he just did the game. No histrionics. I
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  Speaker 3: like him. I mean, I remember Mel Allen.
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  Speaker 4: And Red Barber and Jerry Coleman back in the day.
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  Speaker 3: They were very exciting guys. And they would do it,
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  Speaker 3: and I was watching a game. It was like a
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  Speaker 3: World Series game, and Rizzuto was doing it by himself.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't even have anybody. He did nine innings by
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  Speaker 3: himself back when he was first starting out.
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  Speaker 2: Rizzuto was great. All right, thanks for calling, Mike. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 2: Rizzuto was phenomenal. But he'd yell. You got to yell.
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  Speaker 2: You got to go, holy cow. You got to scream.
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  Speaker 2: Mel Allen would scream. John Sterling would be screaming. You
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  Speaker 2: can't just go, well, that looks like a home run.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a grand slam. That's the biggest thing there is,
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  Speaker 2: a grand slam. Listen to this guy. He can't even
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  Speaker 2: say grand slam. He has to abbreviate it. He hammers
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  Speaker 2: this ball right center field. It is a slam. It's
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  Speaker 2: a slam? What is that? It's a grand slam. It
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  Speaker 2: was a slam. Anyway, let's go to Anthony in the Bronx. Anthony,
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  Speaker 2: how you doing? Hey, Mark.
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  Speaker 3: Go Buchanan.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's the Go Buchanan guy. So, all right. Thanks
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  Speaker 2: for calling. Yeah, I can't... I don't know. The buttons
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  Speaker 2: still don't work here. Yeah. Still dead on the phone.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Let's try... Let's go to Mike in Brooklyn. Mike,
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  Speaker 2: how you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, good morning, Mark. How's everything?
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 1: With the Yankees, actually, Michael K was on the ESPN radio.
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  Speaker 1: His call was much better than all of the TV commentators.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then.
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  Speaker 1: And then also the second thing, Mark, that you see
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  Speaker 1: the news this morning about that attempted airline hijacking from
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  Speaker 1: Dubai to Tel Aviv.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks more like a terrorist attack than a
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  Speaker 2: simple hijacking. It looks like a terrorist attack where they
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  Speaker 2: got somebody on a plane, a terrorist, who tried to
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  Speaker 2: stab the pilot. Frightening, frightening situation. Amazing that they got
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  Speaker 2: that plane down. But thanks for calling. Yeah. The game
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  Speaker 2: is NBC, right? Yeah, NBC. Channel 4 had the game.
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  Speaker 2: NBC Network. What happened to Bob Costas? Get Bob Costas back.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he's with NBC anymore. And he went
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  Speaker 2: a little crazy with the Trump derangement syndrome. I think
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  Speaker 2: that was the problem. Didn't he get a little too
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  Speaker 2: political on football? One of those telecasts, he got way
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  Speaker 2: too political. And even NBC got nervous with him on
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  Speaker 2: the air. So they don't make announcers like that anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Most of the greats, the real greats, were ex-players like Rizzuto.
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  Speaker 2: But there were many that weren't ex-players, Michael Kay and
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  Speaker 2: John Sterling. They were just great announcers. So you need
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  Speaker 2: more of that. Anyway, let's go to Rich on his
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  Speaker 2: car phone. Rich, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Mark.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Rich.
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  Speaker 3: Real quick question because I've seen the lost track of it.
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  Speaker 3: What's going on with Fauci? You don't hear a word
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  Speaker 3: about him.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Fauci's in hiding because he's in all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: legal jeopardy. He's been caught lying and all kinds of crap.
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  Speaker 2: He's been caught profiteering like crazy off the pandemic. They've
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  Speaker 2: gone after him a little, and he is in hiding.
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  Speaker 2: He's really, really, really worried about prosecution. He's got to
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  Speaker 2: get through— well, if the Democrats win Congress— in November. That
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  Speaker 2: could help him. That would stop the hearings. But there's
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  Speaker 2: going to be criminal referrals against Fauci. Really, really, really
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  Speaker 2: bad guy. And besides the lying and the crap that
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  Speaker 2: he pulled in the profiteering, just getting stuff wrong. It's
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  Speaker 2: amazing how much stuff he got wrong. And now people
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  Speaker 2: looking at his history, he did the same thing in
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  Speaker 2: the AIDS pandemic. He just got a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 2: wrong all the time. Hey, P. Diddy, Sean Puffy Diddy Doody,
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  Speaker 2: whatever the hell his name is this week. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's in prison. He's in Fort Dix. There's a prison there. Apparently,
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  Speaker 2: he is living very well. He is living quite a life.
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  Speaker 2: They take care of him in prison. The guards, everything.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a phone. He's making all the calls he wants.
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  Speaker 2: He's got porn. He's got booze. He's got a tablet
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  Speaker 2: and a Netflix account he can watch. And you remember
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  Speaker 2: the scene in Goodfellas where they're eating lobsters and steaks
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  Speaker 2: and the guards are bringing them bottles of wine. And
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  Speaker 2: apparently that's the case here. Prison. Remember Wolf of Wall
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  Speaker 2: Street where he goes to prison and he was so
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  Speaker 2: afraid of prison. And then the Wolf of Wall Street,
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  Speaker 2: he said, hey, when I got there, I realized it's
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  Speaker 2: a place where you can buy anything you need. If
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  Speaker 2: you got money, you can buy everything. So he's just
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  Speaker 2: bribing the guards, bribing everybody. And just like in Goodfellas.
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  Speaker 2: eating steak and lobster every night and having a great time.
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  Speaker 2: So Diddy's serving 50 months, although there's a push now
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  Speaker 2: for him to get out a little earlier. We'll see. Hey, Cornell,
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  Speaker 2: the rape allegations, they have so mishandled all of this
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  Speaker 2: that the people that were applying, students that were applying,
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  Speaker 2: parents that were, you know, like crazy, dropping their applications.
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  Speaker 2: They want nothing to do with Cornell. They find the
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  Speaker 2: handling of these rape accusations to cover up all this
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  Speaker 2: stuff absolutely disgusting. They say hundreds of people have dropped
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  Speaker 2: their applications to Cornell. Let's take one more call. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go to Myrna Williamsburg. Myrna, how you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm so excited. Hello, and God bless you. Oh, Myrna.
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  Speaker 5: I have tried to reach you for about three weeks,
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  Speaker 5: and you guys are so busy. I just wanted to
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  Speaker 5: be able to say how excited and happy I am
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  Speaker 5: to know you're back on the air, and you've been
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  Speaker 5: on the air, but I've been unaware of it. I
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  Speaker 5: used to listen to you, correct me if I'm mistaken,
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  Speaker 5: on WNEW.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: You used to do Sinatra.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: About 30, 40 years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Well, where have you been for the last few years?
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  Speaker 5: I've been around, sir. I didn't know how successful you
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  Speaker 5: had become.
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  Speaker 2: Why'd you stop listening?
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  Speaker 5: And because, you know, I'm a senior now and I
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  Speaker 5: got involved in other senior things.
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  Speaker 2: Well, aside from Mahjong and pickleball, well, you could have
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  Speaker 2: had time to listen.
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  Speaker 5: Well, now I've been listening to you regularly. OK, and
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  Speaker 5: I'm just so happy I got through today. And my
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  Speaker 5: next question, no, my comment is, why can't you be
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  Speaker 5: the baseball announcer? I would think you'd be great. Is
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  Speaker 5: it too late for you?
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  Speaker 2: I can't even watch an old game. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: announce an old game. I don't know. You've got to
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  Speaker 2: know all kinds of stuff. I don't know who all
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  Speaker 2: these players are.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to know a lot.
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  Speaker 5: I think I've seen you. Excuse me, because I know
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  Speaker 5: you have time to have to get rid of me.
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  Speaker 5: But what about, don't you do PBS or one of
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  Speaker 5: the old songs?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I did a lot of PBS shows for years.
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  Speaker 2: They don't really do those things anymore. Budget cuts over there.
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  Speaker 1: I see.
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  Speaker 2: They don't. But Myrna, we're glad you're back.
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  Speaker 5: Call us.
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  Speaker 2: Call us again. Keep listening. Glad you're back. It's Mark
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  Speaker 2: Simone here. Nine to noon. It's three hours every day.
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  Speaker 2: Nine to noon. And then at noon, you got Buck
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  Speaker 2: and Clay with a big show every day. And then
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  Speaker 2: you got the most listened to radio show in America,
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  Speaker 2: Sean Hannity, three o'clock. And don't forget Jimmy Fela, nine
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  Speaker 2: to midnight here on 710WOR.