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Phyllis in Brooklyn, NY, called Mark to ask him if he knows about the Frank Sinatra documentary that Fox News or Fox Nation is supposed to show. Mike in Florida calls Mark to talk about affordable housing and how expensive NYC is to live.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Let's get back to the Mark Simone show.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
I w r.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Hey, let's take some calls eight hundred three to two
one zero seven tennis and Peter, Peter and Harlem. He's
always angry about something, Peter, what's going on?

Speaker 1 (00:16):
I'm not angry.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
They're always angry about something.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Wait, let me say something. Number One, you didn't tell
the audience are two questions are a hang up, you
didn't tell the audience who's written those expensive apartments and
the fact that they might even be red Chinese or
our enemy. Secondly, well, we got to.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Go super super luxury apartments in New York very often
are a lot of Chinese people, a lot of Arab
you know people, a lot of the Middle Eastern people,
a lot of Russians. One of the reasons is, especially
China and those places, they don't trust their own government,

(00:55):
and they got to park money somewhere just in case
they have to flee, so they'll buy like a one
hundred million dollar apartment in New York. That way, they
got an asset. It's there. You know, if they have
to leave China, they can sell it. And you know,
they bought up all the apartments in New York that way,
and then they ran the apartments to buy. That's one

(01:17):
reason you cannot buy a rolex right now. If a
certain watches Paddock Philippe and a Rolex, there's like a
three year waiting list because a lot of the same
people they had to park their assets somewhere, so they
start buying up every watch in the world too. That's
why there's a massive waiting list. Let's go to Phyllis
in Brooklyn, Phillis.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
How you doing all right, good morning. I was just
wondering the conversation you had with saund yesterday. Yeah, you
know about the documentary that this Sinatra Enterprise is was preparing.
I believe you were part of it.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Now, Oh you're talking about it's actually Fox News or
Fox Nation. It's a big, massive Sinatra documentary. They interviewed
everybody in the world. Yeah, I'm on it. Two have
you seen? Do you know where it is?

Speaker 2 (02:01):
No?

Speaker 4 (02:01):
I don't. That's why I'm calling.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Well, I remember when I did it. I said once
it's coming out, and they said in the fall, I
don't think it's out yet, but it's coming soon.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
And it's not out yet.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
It's coming out, but it's at these guys that did
this documentary. They were younger guys, but they really knew
what they were doing. And I know they went to
Patsy's and interviewed everybody there, and they interviewed me for
like three hours, and they were I was telling them
everybody who would know everything about Sinatra's, giving them all

(02:34):
the names to interview. Every time I mentioned anybody that
we already did them. We already did them. We just
got done. So they interviewed everybody. They were very thorough.
Big Sinatra documentary. I don't know if it's Fox News
or Fox Nation, but it'll be coming out soon. Let's
go to Mike in Florida. Mike, how you doing?

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Good morning, Mark.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yes, Mike, it's not Your things should be great.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
You know.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Thomas soul, the famous economist, one said affordable housing is
housing you can afford. And it sounds kind of flippant,
but that's the truth. I mean, nobody could afford to
live in Manhattan, you know, or any big city. It's
expensive to live there. And I think it's great that
the president is out making his case, but where are
the other Republicans? You know, what are those months?

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Why aren't they speaking up?

Speaker 2 (03:19):
I mean Trump speaks every day to the media and
makes his case every day for hours on end. You know,
every every new you know, every every day I see
another news conference fromthing from the office there, and you know,
where are the other Republicans out there?

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, well it's Trump is right about the hoax. He
doesn't explain it that well. But the whole thing is
especially affordable housing. You know, there's places where you're not
gonna have affordable housing because they're very wealthy areas. And
you can yell and scream. You know, if you went
to Southampton right on the water on on what's that

(03:56):
the lane there, whatever, lane, metal lane, further lane, whatever
it is right on the water in Southampton, every house
is like eighty million dollars. You could stand there and say,
why isn't there affordable housing because it's not supposed to be.
If you go to the next town up, if you
go to Riverhead, there's plenty of affordable housing. It just

(04:16):
there's very, very very expensive neighborhoods. There's very poor neighborhoods,
and there's everything in between. Speaking of the Hampton, there's
an affordable housing crisis fight out. I'll tell you about
this the next hour. It's a good illustration. But if
you go to Long Island, you go anywhere in Long Island,
you go to Garden City, it's it's expensive. They don't
have any affordable housing. But they don't need to because

(04:39):
you go ten blocks that way, you're in Hampstead and
there's plenty of affordable housing. You're not supposed to have
affordable housing everywhere. It's okay to have a wealthy neighborhood,
a middle class neighborhood, a poorer neighbor It happens. So
we'll get into this in the next hour when we
come back. Our old buddy, Monica Crowley, now the Chief
Protocol Officer of the United States. We'll talk to her

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