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The Mark Simone Show

Mark Takes Your Phone Calls !

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3694 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Mark talked with Greg in Long Island about lottery money going to fix the roads and schools. It never happened. Mike in Arizona asked Mark about reparations for slave relatives.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Giving you the stories behind the headlines.

0:03.8

Mark Simone on W-O-R.

0:10.3

Hey, we'll take some calls.

0:11.6

800, 3-2-1-0-7-10 is the number.

0:15.2

800, 3-2-1-0-7-10.

0:18.6

Let's go to Greg and Long Island.

0:20.1

Greg, how you doing?

0:21.4

I'm doing fine.

0:22.2

How are you?

0:22.9

Let me check.

0:23.7

Not bad.

0:25.6

Listen, I just turned 65, and I remember back in 1974, the inception of the New York

0:32.1

lotto.

0:32.8

It was called the $50,000 lottery, and each ticket cost 50 cents, and they promised to use the proceeds

0:40.7

to build new schools, improve them, maintain bridges and roads.

0:46.9

And you fell for that?

0:49.2

Fast forward to today, where's all the money?

0:52.2

Where is it going?

0:53.5

When they put the tolls on the roads that

0:55.5

that was to pay for the road all they see are plot holes and uh that remember you know you know you

1:00.7

go into a station every store and you see people plunking down 20 30 dollars for tickets

1:05.5

where's all that's free net money going into their coffers where's all the money going

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