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The Mark Simone Show

Mark Takes Your Calls!

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Greg in Florida called into the show to talk about the cycles of people moving into Florida and New York, every 10 years. Angel in Brooklyn NY called in to talk about how there's no more standards nowadays, regarding Claudine Gay becoming the President of Harvard College.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, we'll take some calls.

0:01.8

800.

0:02.8

321-0-7-10 is the number. 800. 3-2-1-0-7-10. Let's go to Greg and Florida. Greg, how you doing? All right, Mark. How are you today? I'm good. I'm good. I just wanted to tell you, you know, I know you said that, you know, every 10 years, there's a cycle in Florida. Yes. That also happens in New York City.

0:02.7

I mean, you can go all the way back to, you know, I mean,

0:25.9

forever, but, I mean, you could even start with LaGuardia. You know, he ran a very good city,

0:33.3

and then, you know, you go all the way go. Like, Wagner did great, Lindsay. All right, but the difference is, if you go to the worst parts of New York, like, what would you say, the 80s or whatever, it was still booming. It was unbelievable. I mean, you had Studio 54, you had Gordon Geckos all over the, it was still the hottest place in the world, even at its worst moments. Not the case with Florida. Oh, yeah, but you go... You can look at a place like Tampa, Florida. It's not like Miami. Tampa's booming. I mean, right now, it is out of control booming. You can't afford to live in Tampa right now. I know, but New York has a glamour, a glitz. Jimmy Fallon, the Tonight Show, right up the street there. Broadway's over there.

0:54.8

Radio. I know, but New York has a glamour, a glitz. Jimmy Fallon, the Tonight Show, right up the street there.

1:13.5

Broadway's over there.

1:14.6

Radio City's over there.

1:15.6

You don't have that in Tampa.

1:17.6

All right, then one quick question.

1:19.3

Hey, you got like 30 million.

1:21.2

I move on Longboat Key.

1:22.4

Wait, 30 million tourists come to New York City for the Christmas.

1:25.8

He's good just to visit.

1:27.0

You don't have 30 million people going to Tampa to walk around. Well, they're having a problem with housing because nobody can afford it. No, I know, but I watch these tourists come to New York. They go to see the tree in Rock and Boston. They go to Broadway. They go to Radio City. They go here. They go there. Where are you going to go in Tampa?

1:45.7

Oh, there's a lot of places to go in Tampa.

1:48.3

There's a whole bunch of places to go. You know, between, you know, the Riverwalk and the

1:52.6

Amelie and, you know, all of the stadiums we have there and everything.

1:57.1

Listen, ah, you're a nice guy. But compare Broadway Radio City to the Riverwalk in Tampa?

2:03.3

Listen, I was born in New York City.

2:05.4

Yeah.

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