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Now back to Mark Simone on WOR.

Hey, let's take some calls.

Let's go to Tim in St. Louis.

Tim, how you doing?

Hey, Mark, so good.

Glad to have you back.

Hey, I've got to ask you a question.

Next time you go on vacation uh is it possible

you could possibly maybe bring on rachel maddow or don lemmon to guest host instead of curtis

man curtis's td s was running rampant he does i don't i heard some of it i he doesn't agree with

the trump on greenland but that's okay.

I tell you what, though, the bad thing he did was, you know, then he taught, any Trump supporters have drank the Kool-Aid. You know, it's one thing in your opinion, and I don't agree, but the thing is when you... I know, but Curtis got a lot of great stuff to talk about, all kinds of things. You know, Ed Koch used to have a rule, and he used to say, if you agree with me on nine out of 12 things, vote for me. If you agree on 12 out of 12, see a psychiatrist. You're not going to agree with them on everything. There's stuff with me you won't agree on. I could see why Vincent doesn't call in, because he must know more. I have a feeling something happened way back when and with a, what's going on? What are you doing in St. Louis? Freezing my butt off. Really? Yeah, it's damn cold here. Yeah, for sure. It's not warmer in St. Louis? You're not a little further set? Not really. Not really. So, but anyway, great show. Lackett. I just really got turned off. Oh, calm down. It's not that bad. Not bad. I was just wondering if it's just me or if you're hearing anybody else. No, I'm sure some people didn't like the criticism of Trump, but that was like five minutes out of two hours. I'm sure, Curtis, even me, you'll find things you don't agree with me on, but you can't judge by one thing.

Let's go to Randall in Maryland.

Randall, how you doing?

Hi, Mark.

Have you heard about this basketball, that college basketball scandal?

Yeah.

These students on the team, and they were bad teams, they got paid like 10,000 each to lose the game, make it even worse than people thought it would be.

Right. And same old story, but I have yet to hear any names of colleges or players.

Yeah, but I thought it was pretty good on their part. I mean, good for them. Showing innovation.

They made $10,000 a game. These students, you don't think that was good? Well, it's a losing team. They're expected to lose by 20 points, but these bookmakers want to have them be so bad that they lose by 40 points and would help the bookmakers. But, hey, if you stink at basketball, why not get paid $10,000 a game?

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