Now, this is the Mark Simone show on 710 W.O.R.

Well, we'll get to the mayoral race. Everything you need to know. We'll give you all the latest.

We'll get to Epstein, the file. There's no list. We'll get to all of that coming up.

We'll get to diners. They're disappearing one by one and a whole lot more. It's also going to be a rough day

today, 100 degrees today. Real feel. The temperature will be like 90, but it's one of those real feel

of a hundred degrees sort of days. Then it's going to be much better the rest of the week. In fact,

it says a very little humidity on Friday. That's the good news. Remember how much

you were waiting for the summer? Remember, that's all we talked about from us. You can't

wait for the summer. Now you can't wait for fall to get this over with. But

let me explain one thing. The old old veterans who taught us all years ago, the real, like,

legendary newsmen, the great, great newsmen, the Kronkites of the world. The one thing they would

teach is that there's two types of stories. There's the important story, and then there's the interesting story that's

juicy and fun, but it's not important. And they would tell you the Kronkites, you just stick to

the important stories. Forget the juicy stories. Forget the interesting stories. You're there

to do the important stories.

Now, there was the later breed of great newsmen, the Brit Humes, and they would tell you,

stick to the important stories, but you can make them interesting.

You can figure out a way to make them juicy.

Well, you can't always. But the Epstein story is a good example. It is of

absolutely no importance in any way. It means absolutely nothing. But it fascinates people.

It's juicy. People want to talk about it. They can't stop. Now, not everybody. It's just a certain

group. And when

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