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Brian in Greenwich, Connecticut, called Mark to talk about Wegmans. Stewart in South Carolina calls Mark to let him know that, as a police officer himself for over 40 years in the southern part of the United States, he has never had to work a home invasion, and more because most of the South is an open carry state.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mister New York here's more marksimone on seven ten WR.
All right, we're learning more about the Rob Reiner situation.
The police have not yet held their press comp so
they not absolutely confirmed. But remember we told you last
hour they have arrested the Sun. They did take the

(00:21):
Sun into custody. Well now they've charged him. They've officially
charged him. Hasn't really been announce shit, but they've charged
him and there's a four million dollar bail on him.
Now this is Sunday, yesterday. This is terrible stabbing. The
night before Saturday night there was a big Conan O'Brien
Christmas party. Rob Reiner and his wife were there, and
somehow the son Nick was there, and apparently they got

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into a loud, loud, vicious argument at the party that
got very loud and out of control, so much so
that Rob Reiner and his wife left the party. So
that's Saturday night and it looks like the Sun came
to the house and again a loud loud argument. Uh

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and Reiner's daughter was living in the guest house. Apparently
she heard the argument and then at some point later
went over to check on them, found them dead. Called police.
Told police about the Sun. So here's the latest though
he is he has been charged apparently, and there's a
four million dollar bail. Let's take some calls. Let's go

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to Brian, Greenwich, Connecticut. Brian, how you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Hey, Hey, Mark, good morning, First first time I ever
called in here, and I love you. We've met a
few times over the years.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Where we meet.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
We met up with.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Sal scal very fine restaurant in Greenwich, Connecticut, right there
on the water. David Fletcher, the manager.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Excellent guy, great guy, super nice guy. I actually took
my girlfriend for her birthday party there. But real quick.
So Wegmans is actually from Rochester, New York. Mark, Okay, yep, Danny,
Danny Wegman. When I left the Waldorf in the Tavern
on the Green in twenty one club, I met Danny

(02:08):
Wegman through through a relative and we started off premise
catering business with you. You remember David Bult Oh god, David,
Oh my god. The best we did.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
I would parties.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
He was a great guy, but the great guys.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah you know what, he you'll admit a little nuts,
Oh good time. I was with him for three or
four years.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Very hard to have the number one highest rated New
York restaurant in New York and then be closed in
six months unless you're a little nutty.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Oh my god. But I'll leave it with this. Jim
from New Jersey is one of my best friends and
he calls in all the time. And when I heard
you mentioned Wegman's, I said, oh god.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
I got to call Mark and all Right from Rochester. Hey,
you said you worked at the Waldorf.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
I was director catering at the Waldorf.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Ye, Well have you seen the new Waldorf?

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah, I'm in. I'm a member of the distinguished Alumni.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
And uh, I like the old war Dog walderf a
little better. What do you think?

Speaker 2 (03:12):
So they had their open party in the ballroom the
night before our dinner. So it was a little bit
of a mess. And the lobby I think's really nice. Mark,
it's beautiful.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
It's nat They took away a lot of stuff.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
I don't think they did. You know, they took away
it went from I think it went from like fifteen
hundred keys to that to like three hundred, believe it
or not. So they're all private, you know, beautiful million,
multimillion dollar a year co ops and condos or whatever.
But but the ballroom is still the ballroom.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, it's not that same. It was white and gold.
Now it's silver silver. It looks like a big tin
can when you're in it. The beautiful lighting's gone. They
got those led Haligen whatever they are, they're not the same.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
They took the they took the chandelier at which is ridiculous.
I mean, how can you how can you do that?
But uh yeah, back in the days, forget about it.
I mean we had so many parties there, Oh my god.
But anyway, Danny's I think Danny's daughters are now in
charge of the company and they're great, great people as well.
And uh yeah, so's father.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
All right, well it's a great, great store. Thanks for Colling.
Let's go to uh Stuart in South Carolina. Stuart, how
you doing, Hey.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Mark car are you two points one? You know, I've
been in ployee office almost fifty years in the South,
in very gun friendly states. I have never worked a
home invasion, not one ever. I've never worked a car
jacket ever, because people here know is they open up
your door to your house, they're probably going to die.
If they open up the car door, they're probably going

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to die. So guns, guns prevalent among people are a
real crime deterurn. And you know that criminals do not
obey gun laws. Australia and New Zealand have taken guns
away from everybody nobody.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Okay, but the South South Carolina people know how to
handle a gun. This is New York City. Yes. Can
you imagine a woman in a great neck handling a gun?

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Well, maybe this is true, but if they may, he's
going to.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Open the purse. You can't even find the cod check
every thing. You know, you're going to look for a gun.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
And the other point I want to make is you're
absolutely right. New York City is wonderful. South Carolina is horrible.
We have crocodiles everywhere. The humidity and the summer is
just horrible. The people are on friendly. Please New Yorkers
stay in wonderful New York City, and please don't come
to South Carolina. It's a horrible place to live.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Noah, you've been sarcastic, but yeah, I am. I'd rather
be in New.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
York thirteen right now. It's what gas is two thirteen
right now.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Hey, No, but you got nowhere to go there.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
We got the beach, the mountains got everywhere here. I
mean I've been I grew up in Levittown, but what
I've been down South over fifty years. I would never leave.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
No, No, it's a great place. I'll stay here, but
it's a great place. Thanks for calling, Stuart. I'll actually
we don't have time. We'll take some more calls tomorrow
because I want to get to a Steve Cuzo. He's
the expert on New York, on real estate, on restaurants,
on what's going on, how is New York doing? How
is business? We'll get to all of that. What's going

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to happen under Mom Donnie, We'll get to all of that.
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