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hey look at stock market up oil prices are dropping a little hey we'll take some calls i see a couple of open lines there. I don't usually see that. Call me, 800, 321, 0710 is the number. 800, 321, 0710. Let's go to Rich. Mertl Beach. Rich, how you doing? Hey, thanks, Mark. You know, the price of gas down here, Myrtle Beach, is now well over $4. It's un-American with WTI and what our Congress and Senate people are doing. The amount of oil and gas produced in this country, there's zero reason. It's un-American. There's zero reason our gas should be anything other than $250 to $3 a gallon, even in a crisis like this.

It's on board, it's treasonous, but it's gouging and price goutes.

It's unnecessary.

It's not, I don't know if it's treasonous.

It is unnecessary.

Yeah, no, we have more gas than we could ever use.

There's absolutely no reason the gas prices should be up in America.

But if that's the worldwide price, technically, these American producers can raise the price to match the world price. That's, you know, really, Mark, it's un-American and really price-couging at his finest, you know. It's not good. But if you, let's say the president clamped down on him, made him put the price back down, then what happens is they... Well, you know, I've called Tim Scott. Well, let me finish the sentence. If the president were to order them, put the price back down, and they could easily, then the problem is they'll just not drill as much. They'll cut down on drilling. They'll cut down on production. Right now, we're at 14 million barrels a day. They'll cut back to like 8 million barrels a day. And just do that to raise the price up. Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike, how you doing? Good morning, Mark. Yes, Mike. American graffiti was on Turner Classic Movies again last night, so I watched it for the million times.

But it got me to thinking, you know, Wolfman Jack has a pretty...

That was the movie with Wolfman Jack,

and they were looking at this beautiful blonde in the Thunderbird,

and that was a young Suzanne Summers, right?

Suzanne Summers.

It was a great movie.

I've seen it a million times and you mentioned

Wolfman Jack but it got me to thinking when you were still coming up as a DJ and playing

records you know back in the day there was cousin Brucey and marina Kay and they had the stage

names you know dandy Dan Daniel did you have a, you always Mark Simone?

Yeah, I was born with that name, and I always thought, you know, I never met anybody else with that name. So I thought it's kind of an odd name. I guess I'll have to change my name. But from the time I got in the radio, nobody ever asked me to change my name. You know, it wasn't until the Internet was invented. You know how you could Google your name on the Internet when it first came along in the search engines?

That I realized there's plenty of people named Mark Simone.

There's all over the place.

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