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Pam from Paterson, NJ, calls Mark to ask him if the New York accent has survived the times. Marco, out in East Hanover, NJ, called Mark, looking for his prediction on how New York City will change over the next year under Zohran Mamdani.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
To the Mark Simon show on w R.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Pam and Patterson. Pam,
how you doing?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Just two things I thought they said. The New York
accent is dead earl.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yeah, oh yeah, That's why I couldn't understand that guy. Now,
the New York New York accent is everywhere. It's it
doesn't go away. You know, you go to Long Island,
go to Long Island standing in the American and you
see the most beautifully dressed woman, so elegant. You walk
up and say, hey, how are you? And she says
how are you? And the accent is right there?

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Really And.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
What's Curtis?

Speaker 1 (00:52):
What up to?

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Is he going to be on your show soon?

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah, we gotta have Curtis back. Yeah, we're gonna have
him back, definitely. We'll have him back, very very And
we love Curtis. I don't know what he's been. You know,
this guy has a schedule of like a ten thousand
events a day, parties, meetings, speeches, all the time. Yeah,
he's we had him on was it a week or two? Though?
We'll have him back very very soon. We'll get Curtis

(01:15):
back here. Let's go to Randall in Maryland. Randall, how
you doing good? Marsh?

Speaker 3 (01:22):
You made a great point earlier about I'm in the
economy on bush and killing bush about the time. I
remember back then people run around saying, oh, it couldn't
get much worse.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
It couldn't get much worse.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
And I said, really at that time.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Which what do you want to tug boat? Where are
you right now? I hear all this noise back there.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Actually I'm in Delaware, But stop ragging?

Speaker 2 (01:51):
What are you doing?

Speaker 1 (01:52):
What are you doing in Delaware? I sound like the irishman?
What are you doing in Delaware?

Speaker 2 (01:56):
I believe.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Place? Huh?

Speaker 2 (01:59):
What I would?

Speaker 3 (02:01):
I would rather be in Maryland. That's where I'm headed.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Well, why are you in Delaware? Okay? You don't want
to say? All right, you don't have to answer. You've
got a little what are you making? A little house call?

Speaker 4 (02:10):
There?

Speaker 1 (02:12):
I got it, I got it all right, you don't
answer you thanks for calling. Let's go to uh Marco
and East Hanover Marco. How you doing good?

Speaker 4 (02:23):
Morning, Mark, Just quick question, what do you think New
York City is going to look like in a year
from now?

Speaker 1 (02:28):
It'll look like after the first year at de Blasio,
it's going to be the same as Deblasio, which wasn't good,
but you got through it. You got through eight years
at the Blasio.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
Yeah, but we're all the crime in the seventies under
Beam and Cotch and Vincn's I mean right now, in
a year from now, I think New York City, short
of a blackout and a serial killer on the loose,
is going to.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Catapult the right back to nineteen seventy five.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
No, it won't. You remember, you got a lot of
the all these top people in the Mamdania Mistriss, you're
all from the Deblasio administration. So we'll do what they
did there. Hey, one thing about these crazy socialists, they
do tend to put in an okay police commissioners. You know,
remember when Deblasio came in, he did bring in Bill Bratton.
You know, he kind of restricted him a little, but
he had a decent police commissioner. And you're gonna have

(03:13):
Jessica Tish here. She'll be there at least the first year.
And if she leaves. I saw who his next choice
would be, and it's not a bad choice. It's a
I don't forget his name. He's Suffolk County Police commissioner.
He was with the NYPD for years. So it'll just
be like a deblasiodmistration, which wasn't good. It was bad,

(03:35):
but we got through it all right. Let's go to
Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Good morning, Mark, Good morning Mara. Mark speaking about this
accounting who built the restaurant for two and a half
million dollars and affordability. Yesterday I was talking to Mara
about a conversation I had about thirty five years ago
with a wise that I knew who in his Lady, listen, I.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Can't believe he would associate with a known criminal.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Well, anyway, I like you. This guy in his later years,
when he was young, he was the enforcer for one
of the families, and then he went into loan shocking
and uh. In later years, when he was an old man,
he had a bar and a restaurant. So one night
and he was a friend of the family. So one
night I'm in his restaurant having drinks and he was

(04:29):
telling me that even in the fifties, there was this
difference in affordability. He was telling me the accountant for
one of the families who had a big legit accounting agency.
Now you remember what Michael Corleone said when he left
New York. He said that when he went to Vegas,
he said, in ten years, the Corleone family will be

(04:51):
mainly legit.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
So they say that nothing personal say so.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Anyway, this guy was saying this exib Forsa was telling
me that the accountant who had this big agency, he
lived back in the fifties on certain place. And he
told me back then the rents were three hundred dollars
on something. This is in the fifties. And meanwhile, in

(05:19):
the rest of New York City you can get an
apartment sometimes even with gas and electricity, for fifty dollars.
But since this guy had to keep up the air
and the look of legitimacy, he lived on some place. Now,
isn't that income in equality that somehow it's supposed.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
To be that way, you got very expensive neighborhoods.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
You got very in exactly my point, Mark Well, Vincent
got it. That's what I was telling Mara. And this
idea of everybody's got to afford.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
No, no, he's supposed to have a very expensive there.
It's Vincent. We gotta go, we gotta do the news.
But great call is always when we come back. Jimmy
Fayla will be with us next on seven to ten
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