Now, the Mark Simone show on 710 W0R. Filling in for Mark, here's Ken Rosado. Indeed. Happy Friday. Mark is off this morning. However, Mark will be on from noon to three, setting up for Clay and Buck. So you've got to tune in to him for that because I'm having Mark withdrawal. I don't know about you. I miss my mark. I listen to Mark Simone every single day.

So you get to listen to him 12 to 3 today.

Well, it is an honor to sit in for him. I'm the former New York TV news anchor from channels 7, 5, and 10 and 55 for almost three decades. What are your weekend plans? It is Friday, holiday Friday. So it's like we get extra days this year because of when Christmas and

Hanukkah and New Year's and Quanta all kind of fell in the middle of the week. So that gives

us like the adjacent times. So the question is, are you going to other holiday parties as well?

I'm going to to the folks tonight because for the first year ever, my Italian

mom, who would normally cook, you know, the feast of the seven fishes, as they call it,

in Italian. And by the way, there's a reason why it's not called the seven fish. It's the seven

fishes, because it's seven different courses. That's why they call it the seven

fishes. Jesus didn't divide the loaves and the fish. He divided the loaves and the fishes

because there were different fish. They weren't like all one. It wasn't like a big thing of

white fish. Jesus said, here's some white fish, everybody. Hey, all you five thousand, take the white fish. He didn't say that. And he didn't talk like that either, I'm sure. Anyway, we went out on Christmas Eve, my family, for the first time in my life. We've always had Christmas Eve at home. And it was really, really nice. We went out to a really great restaurant in westchester and

had a nice meal and mom didn't have to cook for a change she got to enjoy it first she was

against it and she actually enjoyed it so it was good what were your uh plans coming up for

this weekend and what did you do for christmas eve how was your first night of hodica give us a call

the numbers one 800 three two one zero seven ten well you know that california's been how was your first night of Hanukkah? Give us a call. The numbers 1-800-3-2-1-0-7-10.

Well, you know that California's been a socialist mess now for decades. Ten years ago,

it took a turn for the worse when the folks in California passed a proposition that permitted

individuals to steal. That's right. To steal up to $950 in merchandise, and it would no

longer be considered a felony, but just a misdemeanor, and there would not be an arrest. So, I mean,

what message does that send to young people? Why, if you're not going to be arrested,

and it's only a misdemeanor, even if you did get arrested, what's the big deal, right? So that's when they decided if we go in numbers, do flash mobs, organize them with social

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