and welcome everybody to the mark simone show i am joe concha media reporter for the hill 800

321-0-710 new york 710 w-or this is my favorite station and to be sitting here in this chair

in for mr new new york and i was telling the producer

before blaine how great mark really is if you come to appreciate him on guys like me sit in this

chair and i'm not kissing bud here because he gave you an opportunity i firmly believe this i

listen to the show every day the guy could go from talking about politics to restaurants to

entertainment he's a swiss army knife of radio, and you really have to be that, right?

You're going to be all things to all people, because we can't just talk about one thing.

And Lord knows, we will talk about plenty of things today on this hot, hot Tuesday, once again,

almost used to at this point, right?

I mean, you get up, you expected to be 84 degrees at 10 o'clock in the morning.

Did you see Bet Midler's tweet, by the way?

We love Bet, right?

The wind beneath my wings, and she said, we don't love Bet?

Brett, okay, that's fine.

I'm getting a shaking of the head that we don't love Bet.

I'm pretty sure we do. sign off to Johnny Carson, right, on his last show. Big, big actress, obviously. And here's what

she tweets yesterday, in all caps, mind you. Hot enough for you, climate deniers? Thanks for nothing,

you idiots. Well, the responses on Twitter are always priceless, including from Joe Bestardi,

who I believe founded the Weather Channel, right? Pretty smart guy, smart meteorologists.

He responds to Midler's tweet by saying, quote,

What do you want clueless return to the 1930s?

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