Latest / The Mark Simone Show / Hour 3: Donald Trump is rallying.
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios, Mark Simone. Well, hey,
- 0:08Speaker 1: the president, President Trump, will be going crazy now in
- 0:12Speaker 1: the next 26 days, campaigning, rallies every day, traveling all
- 0:18Speaker 1: over the country, every day traveling somewhere. This is what
- 0:21Speaker 1: it means to be, as he would say, a great closer.
- 0:24Speaker 1: You come alive at the end. 16th, 17th, 18th hole,
- 0:28Speaker 1: you go crazy. You really come to life. So, and
- 0:32Speaker 1: that's something that's not factored into the polls. The president
- 0:35Speaker 1: will be working his tail off to get this done.
- 0:41Speaker 1: He's got rallies every day. He gets on a plane
- 0:44Speaker 1: and flies to another state. Now today, I'm looking at
- 0:46Speaker 1: the schedule, it's actually going to be a tele-rally. Sometimes
- 0:51Speaker 1: it's a Zoom meeting, not an in-person meeting, but he'll
- 0:54Speaker 1: be doing that. So even today, there's going to be
- 0:56Speaker 1: a rally And then as we get to the weekend,
- 0:58Speaker 1: he'll be flying all over the place. Now, Wednesday, he
- 1:01Speaker 1: went to Texas to do a big rally. And he
- 1:04Speaker 1: had the great pitcher, Roger Clemens, introduce him. Clemens is
- 1:08Speaker 1: a Texas native. And that's pretty cool. You have Roger
- 1:11Speaker 1: Clemens introduce you at the rally. The people there love
- 1:15Speaker 1: Roger Clemens. But Clemens got quite a surprise. You know,
- 1:20Speaker 1: he was asked, would you introduce President Trump at the rally?
- 1:24Speaker 1: He thought that's all it was. So he gives the
- 1:27Speaker 1: president a big introduction. President gets up there and does this.
- 1:29Speaker 1: And then he says to Roger Clemens, come back up here.
- 1:34Speaker 1: And he had quite a surprise for him. He awarded
- 1:36Speaker 1: him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Clemens was stunned. It's
- 1:41Speaker 1: an amazing thing to get the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Now,
- 1:49Speaker 1: are you supposed to get that for being a great pitcher?
- 1:52Speaker 1: I guess. Well, actually, if you think about it, they
- 1:55Speaker 1: give it to They give it to singers. They give
- 1:57Speaker 1: it to comedians. Yeah, if you're really great at whatever
- 2:01Speaker 1: you do, if you're just an American who's really distinguished
- 2:03Speaker 1: themselves and become one of the very best in your field, yeah,
- 2:07Speaker 1: that's when you get a presidential medal of freedom. So
- 2:12Speaker 1: good for Roger Clemens. He got one. Bad for the
- 2:15Speaker 1: New York Yankees. Well, we knew this was going to happen.
- 2:20Speaker 1: I mean, we thought maybe they'll win one game at
- 2:23Speaker 1: home and then they'll, you know, There was no way
- 2:25Speaker 1: they were going to win the series. They were three behind.
- 2:29Speaker 1: And they were up against the greatest team in baseball
- 2:31Speaker 1: right now. They're not going to win three in a row.
- 2:34Speaker 1: So they lost last night. There was one home run.
- 2:36Speaker 1: High fly ball. Left field. Over is Mason.
- 2:41Speaker 2: It's carrying back to the wall.
- 2:45Speaker 1: It is up.
- 2:46Speaker 2: It is out.
- 2:49Speaker 1: It's a home run.
- 2:52Speaker 2: Anthony Volpe has tied it.
- 2:55Speaker 1: Ah, there you go.
- 2:56Speaker 2: See?
- 2:57Speaker 1: Now the Yankees are going to win. Well, all kinds
- 3:01Speaker 1: of things happen. What was that weird interference call? After review,
- 3:05Speaker 1: we have spectator interference. In addition, the left fielder would
- 3:11Speaker 1: not have made the catch.
- 3:13Speaker 2: Therefore, we have.
- 3:14Speaker 3: One run scoring and the batter runner is placed.
- 3:17Speaker 1: At second base. Ah, was that the one that looked
- 3:20Speaker 1: like a home run and he was about to catch?
- 3:22Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 3:23Speaker 1: You know, they call it spectator interference. If you're sitting
- 3:26Speaker 1: in the stands and this guy's way out in the
- 3:27Speaker 1: right field seats and the ball's coming right out at,
- 3:31Speaker 1: you're going to reach up and try to catch it.
- 3:34Speaker 1: It's perfectly, no, it's not interference. He was trying to
- 3:36Speaker 1: catch it. That's, you know, when you, that's the only
- 3:39Speaker 1: thing you can hope for when you're way out there
- 3:41Speaker 1: in the outfield sitting there is maybe you'll catch a,
- 3:43Speaker 1: catch a ball. That's about it. So the Yankees lost.
- 3:46Speaker 1: It's the end of the season and that's it. And, well, hey,
- 3:52Speaker 1: at least they got in the, They got in the playoffs.
- 3:55Speaker 1: That's something. So Mamdani tried this tightrope act last night,
- 4:00Speaker 1: walking right between the two, the anti-Semites, the anti-Israel crazies,
- 4:09Speaker 1: and then trying to appease Jews by going to the,
- 4:13Speaker 1: there was a vigil for those massacred on October 7th
- 4:17Speaker 1: by Hamas. So Mamdani went to the vigil. And because
- 4:23Speaker 1: of that, he got booed like crazy by his supporters,
- 4:27Speaker 1: his base, the anti-Semites. And then it's the anniversary of
- 4:34Speaker 1: October 7th. He puts up this ridiculous anti-Semitic nonsense on Twitter,
- 4:40Speaker 1: the most awful anti-Semitic attack on Jews, attack on Israel
- 4:45Speaker 1: on Twitter at the same time. So when he got
- 4:47Speaker 1: to the vigil, all the Jews booed him. He was
- 4:49Speaker 1: getting booed by anybody and everybody. You know, he tried
- 4:53Speaker 1: to do that little high wire act where you play
- 4:56Speaker 1: both sides, and it blew up in his face. So then,
- 4:59Speaker 1: to make up for it, he goes to a Palestinian restaurant.
- 5:05Speaker 1: And it's on the Upper West Side. He makes sure
- 5:09Speaker 1: the press is there, and they put out pictures of him. Now,
- 5:12Speaker 1: what does that mean, a Palestinian restaurant? What the hell
- 5:15Speaker 1: is a Palestinian restaurant? Where they throw rocks at you
- 5:18Speaker 1: when you're sitting there? A Palestinian restaurant. Actually, what does
- 5:21Speaker 1: the New York Post say? Oh, here. Palestinian restaurant? The
- 5:26Speaker 1: New York Post said, it's harm to table. Palestinian restaurant. Apparently,
- 5:34Speaker 1: it's a disgusting place. It's an anti-Semitic restaurant. On the menu,
- 5:39Speaker 1: here's a copy. Somebody's taking a picture of the menu.
- 5:42Speaker 1: Right on the menu, the big headline is, you know
- 5:46Speaker 1: how they'll say surf and turf. And so their big
- 5:50Speaker 1: headline is, From the river to the sea. Now that's
- 5:54Speaker 1: an anti-Semitic phrase that means wipe out Israel. But it's
- 5:58Speaker 1: on the menu. Big letters. From the river to the sea.
- 6:01Speaker 1: Here's the menu. Shrimp kebab. Served over rice with a
- 6:06Speaker 1: side of potatoes and salad.
- 6:08Speaker 2: $ 23.
- 6:08Speaker 1: Salmon kebab.
- 6:08Speaker 2: $ 26.
- 6:08Speaker 1: Whole red snapper. Market price. I don't know, Palestinian restaurant
- 6:22Speaker 1: named after somebody a child killed on October 7th. Disgusting place.
- 6:27Speaker 1: But that's where Mom Donnie was proudly dining last night.
- 6:31Speaker 1: Just a horrible, horrible situation having a vicious anti-Semite as mayor.
- 6:39Speaker 1: Can you imagine having a racist mayor? An out-and-out, open,
- 6:42Speaker 1: racist mayor? Well, you got basically what you have now.
- 6:45Speaker 1: In this case, anti-Semitic. absolutely awful. A bigot as mayor.
- 6:50Speaker 1: Never thought we'd actually see this. We also got a
- 6:54Speaker 1: bird brain as governor. Now, the problem was nobody was
- 6:57Speaker 1: paying the subway fare. Everybody's jumping the turnstile. How do
- 7:02Speaker 1: you fix a thing like that? Well, you probably just
- 7:05Speaker 1: look back at Rudy Giuliani, Bill Bratton, Ray Kelly. It
- 7:09Speaker 1: took them about a week to fix it. And what
- 7:11Speaker 1: they did was they started arresting all the turnstile jumpers.
- 7:15Speaker 1: They put cops down there. You jumped the turnstile, you
- 7:18Speaker 1: got arrested. You know, one thing about these criminals, they
- 7:21Speaker 1: got quite a network. They all talk to each other.
- 7:24Speaker 1: And if you're Bill de Blasio or Eric Adams or
- 7:28Speaker 1: one of these Democrats, you don't enforce the turnstile jumping,
- 7:31Speaker 1: so they all do it. They just jump over the turnstile.
- 7:34Speaker 1: They know nothing's going to happen, so they do it.
- 7:38Speaker 1: And this was going on years ago, and then when
- 7:40Speaker 1: Giuliani came in, He and Bratton started arresting them one
- 7:44Speaker 1: by one. They arrested them all. Within two weeks, word
- 7:46Speaker 1: spread around, don't jump the turnstile. And it stopped just
- 7:49Speaker 1: like that. No more jumping the turnstile. That's the way
- 7:53Speaker 1: you do it. That costs a little overtime with some cops.
- 7:58Speaker 1: And when you do that, you're going to arrest hundreds
- 8:00Speaker 1: and hundreds and hundreds at a time. So you have to,
- 8:02Speaker 1: I think back then, Giuliani, they got buses, big buses,
- 8:06Speaker 1: and used those as processing centers where they could Take
- 8:09Speaker 1: hundreds of these people down and process them. But you
- 8:12Speaker 1: can do it. It takes about two weeks. Word gets around.
- 8:15Speaker 1: It stops. Now, what is Kathy Hochul doing? She's spending
- 8:21Speaker 1: a fortune, millions and millions and millions to put in
- 8:25Speaker 1: new fair gates. Well, why not just spend thousands and
- 8:29Speaker 1: have the cops arrest them? Well, because this is millions.
- 8:33Speaker 1: This is contracts you can hand out to donors. This
- 8:36Speaker 1: is spending. This is what she likes to do. That's
- 8:39Speaker 1: her type of government. You spend like crazy. The MTA,
- 8:43Speaker 1: run by a bunch of idiots, led by that awful
- 8:46Speaker 1: Jano Lieber. So she debuted her gates. It's a big, huge, glass,
- 8:54Speaker 1: peck the glass gate. She says the MTA loses roughly
- 8:59Speaker 1: $ 350 million every year from fair beaters. Well, then it's
- 9:04Speaker 1: worth spending a million on cops. Stop it instantly. You
- 9:08Speaker 1: can stop it in a week. But instead, they're spending
- 9:10Speaker 1: a fortune on these gates. So far, 20 have been installed.
- 9:15Speaker 1: It's a pilot program. She was showing them off. And
- 9:19Speaker 1: they're going to do 20 more subway stations now. So
- 9:22Speaker 1: at this rate, they'll have the gates up everywhere within
- 9:25Speaker 1: 10 years, maybe. And it'll cost a fortune out of
- 9:30Speaker 1: your paychecks. But this is the Hochul way. And, you know,
- 9:36Speaker 1: same thing with the shoplifting and the drugstore and everywhere.
- 9:40Speaker 1: That's why everything's locked up. The shampoo is locked up.
- 9:42Speaker 1: The razor blades are locked up. You want some aspirin.
- 9:45Speaker 1: You want some NyQuil. It's locked up. You got to
- 9:47Speaker 1: ring a bell for the manager. You got to wait
- 9:50Speaker 1: for 10 minutes for the manager to come over with
- 9:53Speaker 1: the key, unlock it. It's a pain in the neck.
- 9:58Speaker 1: The reason we have to do this, it was decided
- 10:02Speaker 1: by Elvin Bragg and Cuomo and all these left-wingers not
- 10:05Speaker 1: to enforce the shoplifting. They said under $ 1, 000, no arrests.
- 10:12Speaker 1: These are professionally organized gangs. They've trained armies of kids
- 10:16Speaker 1: to come in with big hefty bags and steal $ 999
- 10:21Speaker 1: worth of stuff. And that way there's no arrest, nothing.
- 10:24Speaker 1: And that's why it happens. If you started arresting them
- 10:26Speaker 1: for any shoplifting, again, word would get around in two
- 10:29Speaker 1: weeks and it would all stop. They've done that. They
- 10:32Speaker 1: started doing that in San Francisco. It stopped instantly. Hey,
- 10:37Speaker 1: that stupid Starbucks, this is one messed up company, Starbucks,
- 10:43Speaker 1: pretty much invented the business of very high-end coffee shop
- 10:47Speaker 1: Very special, all kinds of incredible things on the menu.
- 10:51Speaker 1: But a lot of other chains sprung up. They're all
- 10:55Speaker 1: over the place now. There's Gregory's Coffee, a guy from
- 10:58Speaker 1: Connecticut named Gregory started it. They're big. They're all over
- 11:01Speaker 1: the tri-state area. What's that one over there, Blank Street
- 11:04Speaker 1: or whatever it's called? There's a couple of them that
- 11:07Speaker 1: are much better. And everybody's going, you see the line there.
- 11:11Speaker 1: And then down the block, you see the empty Starbucks.
- 11:14Speaker 1: So remember... About two years ago, they started rebuilding all
- 11:18Speaker 1: the Starbucks. They tried to make them look better, look
- 11:20Speaker 1: more sleek. Well, that wasn't the problem. The problem was
- 11:24Speaker 1: the quality. The problem was the price was too high. Well,
- 11:27Speaker 1: look at this. Starbucks now closing 250 stores, 17 in
- 11:34Speaker 1: New York alone, many in New York City. If you've
- 11:38Speaker 1: got a coffee shop in New York City and you
- 11:40Speaker 1: can't make it, you've really got a problem. There's also
- 11:44Speaker 1: mass layoffs that took place at Starbucks. They just axed
- 11:49Speaker 1: about 1,000 corporate staffers, laid off 300 non-retail employees. 1,000
- 11:57Speaker 1: locations have been redesigned. It's pretty stupid. Remember years ago,
- 12:02Speaker 1: the strategy was you open a Starbucks every two blocks.
- 12:09Speaker 1: That didn't work out. So five years later, they spent
- 12:11Speaker 1: a fortune remodeling them Now they're going to spend the
- 12:14Speaker 1: next three years closing them. And it couldn't happen to
- 12:17Speaker 1: a more annoying company than Starbucks. Hey, many New Yorkers
- 12:23Speaker 1: are really fed up with the taxes here. Now, Blakeman
- 12:28Speaker 1: has tied Kathy Hochul in the real polls, not the
- 12:31Speaker 1: fake public ones. In the real polls, they're both within
- 12:35Speaker 1: the margin of error. So it's basically tied. There's an undercurrent.
- 12:40Speaker 1: There's like an undertow in all of this. that the
- 12:43Speaker 1: polls and people and the fake news don't measure, and
- 12:46Speaker 1: that's it. People are a little disgusted with the taxes,
- 12:49Speaker 1: the spending, the affordability, and they're not blaming Bruce Blakeman
- 12:53Speaker 1: for it. Just the opposite. Nassau County has never raised taxes.
- 12:58Speaker 1: Hochul's raised taxes. Hochul's come up with schemes like congestion pricing.
- 13:03Speaker 1: But look at this latest survey. How many people are
- 13:06Speaker 1: really fed up? It turns out it's like 88%. 88%
- 13:10Speaker 1: are furious about the taxes. Now listen to this. 64%
- 13:15Speaker 1: of New Yorkers, registered voters, 64% believe we should abolish
- 13:23Speaker 1: all state income tax. You can do that. It's easy
- 13:27Speaker 1: to do. You don't need state income tax. They do
- 13:29Speaker 1: it in Florida, Texas, and a lot of places. And
- 13:32Speaker 1: they make more revenue than we do. You can do it.
- 13:35Speaker 1: You don't have to have a state income tax because
- 13:38Speaker 1: If you get rid of it, everybody comes running in here. Now,
- 13:40Speaker 1: the only problem is if you get rid of the
- 13:43Speaker 1: state income tax, everybody's going to want to move here.
- 13:46Speaker 1: That's more than half the reason everybody moves to Florida
- 13:49Speaker 1: or Texas to get away from the tax. But 64%
- 13:55Speaker 1: want no state income tax. And again, it's easy to do.
- 13:58Speaker 1: Nine states now, nine states have no state income tax.
- 14:02Speaker 1: And if you go to any of those nine states,
- 14:04Speaker 1: they're booming. Their economy is better than ours. Everything is better.
- 14:10Speaker 1: They got more revenue coming in than we do. You
- 14:12Speaker 1: just don't have to spend it. We spend like, I
- 14:15Speaker 1: think it's $ 400 billion between state and New York City.
- 14:19Speaker 1: The budget together, $ 400 billion. Should be about $ 120 billion.
- 14:25Speaker 1: The rest of that is just waste and fraud. You
- 14:27Speaker 1: get rid of that and you don't need any state
- 14:30Speaker 1: income tax. You make plenty of money on sales tax,
- 14:34Speaker 1: property tax, all that sort of stuff. Now, Blakeman has
- 14:38Speaker 1: already said if he wins, he's going to try to
- 14:41Speaker 1: eliminate all state income tax on anybody under $ 50, 000. $ 100, 000
- 14:48Speaker 1: a year for married couples. It'll cost about $ 35 billion.
- 14:51Speaker 1: But again, we could easily cut $ 100 billion out of
- 14:54Speaker 1: the budget. He wants to lower the top tax rate
- 14:58Speaker 1: from 6% to 4%. Don't be surprised if this turns
- 15:02Speaker 1: out to be the secret sauce that Blakeman's going to
- 15:05Speaker 1: win on, that people are fed up with the taxes.
- 15:07Speaker 1: They may not be telling pollsters, but we'll see. We'll
- 15:10Speaker 1: take some calls next. 800-321-0710 is the number.
- 15:12Speaker 2: 800-321-0710.
- 15:12Speaker 1: 710WOR. Hey, we'll take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number.
- 15:15Speaker 2: 800-321-0710. 0-7-10.
- 15:32Speaker 1: Let's go to Terry, New York City. Terry, how are
- 15:35Speaker 1: you doing?
- 15:38Speaker 4: Hi.
- 15:39Speaker 2: Hi, Terry.
- 15:39Speaker 5: This is actually Tori.
- 15:40Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry.
- 15:41Speaker 3: I'm calling because.
- 15:42Speaker 1: Tori, Tori, Tori.
- 15:43Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
- 15:44Speaker 3: Tori, that's okay. I'm calling because you were talking about
- 15:47Speaker 3: the high cost of the expenses of our congressmen and senators.
- 15:52Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 15:53Speaker 3: Why do they have to stay in Washington now that
- 15:55Speaker 3: we have FaceTime and Zoom meetings? Why does it have
- 15:58Speaker 3: to be that they have to be there all the time?
- 16:01Speaker 1: Well, you can't have it all pandemic-like. They've got this
- 16:06Speaker 1: beautiful Capitol and these beautiful chambers, and don't you want
- 16:09Speaker 1: them to use the building?
- 16:12Speaker 3: I understand that, but they could use it a few
- 16:15Speaker 3: times a year and then know who they're representing, actually
- 16:19Speaker 3: live in the community's Well, you.
- 16:22Speaker 1: Know, they do do that in the state assembly and
- 16:24Speaker 1: legislature here. It's a part-time job. You only go up
- 16:27Speaker 1: there like once a week or once every couple weeks.
- 16:29Speaker 1: You could do that. And then what do we do
- 16:32Speaker 1: with the Capitol? Rent it out for weddings and bar mitzvahs?
- 16:34Speaker 1: What do we do with it?
- 16:35Speaker 2: There you go.
- 16:37Speaker 3: I'm just saying, then the lobbyists wouldn't have as much
- 16:40Speaker 3: ability to get to them.
- 16:42Speaker 2: Oh.
- 16:42Speaker 3: It could be.
- 16:43Speaker 1: Well, that's the reason they have to be in Washington,
- 16:46Speaker 1: so the lobbyists can. take them to lunch and dinner
- 16:48Speaker 1: and send them women and do all that stuff. A
- 16:52Speaker 1: lot of stuff goes on there. Money's passed around.
- 16:54Speaker 3: I think so.
- 16:55Speaker 2: I think so.
- 16:56Speaker 4: All right.
- 16:56Speaker 3: Well, I just wanted to share that.
- 16:58Speaker 1: Good point, Tori. Thanks for calling. Let's go to Tom
- 17:05Speaker 1: in Queens. Tom, how are you doing?
- 17:07Speaker 2: Hey, Mark.
- 17:08Speaker 6: Good morning.
- 17:09Speaker 1: Yes. Go Buchanan. You can tell. Oh, no. No, we can't.
- 17:14Speaker 5: Oh, AI.
- 17:16Speaker 6: What's really going to take a hit, if it's not already,
- 17:19Speaker 6: is the camera industry and the phones and the cell phones.
- 17:22Speaker 6: What do you mean?
- 17:23Speaker 5: The pictures that they take.
- 17:25Speaker 6: Yeah. Well, they use AI in some of the editing
- 17:27Speaker 6: on these phones and along with the pictures that you take,
- 17:31Speaker 6: which is amazing. It's going to put a lot of
- 17:34Speaker 6: camera industry.
- 17:35Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but you still have to have the camera
- 17:37Speaker 1: to get the picture that you want to use AI on.
- 17:42Speaker 6: Well, I mean, I use my cell phone, but I
- 17:44Speaker 6: used to use Olympus. I used to go out and
- 17:46Speaker 6: buy Olympus cameras.
- 17:47Speaker 1: Well, the only problem with that, in all the testing,
- 17:52Speaker 1: from the iPhone 17 on and then the 18, all
- 17:56Speaker 1: the testing shows it's equivalent now of a Canon or
- 17:59Speaker 1: a Nikon camera in pixels, quality, definition, all that. There
- 18:03Speaker 1: you go. Yeah. Well.
- 18:05Speaker 6: That's my point.
- 18:06Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good point.
- 18:07Speaker 6: I mean, it's going to take a real hit on them.
- 18:08Speaker 1: Yeah. No, you're right. You're absolutely right. Well, thanks for calling.
- 18:13Speaker 1: You know, it used to be film cameras with film
- 18:17Speaker 1: in them. You know, I've been a photographer all my life.
- 18:19Speaker 1: I had all these great Nikons and everything. And then
- 18:22Speaker 1: we all went to digital cameras. And then I was
- 18:25Speaker 1: going to get rid of all the film cameras. And
- 18:27Speaker 1: I said, I wonder how much they're worth. And if
- 18:28Speaker 1: you want to know, just go on eBay. See what
- 18:30Speaker 1: they're selling for. Well, a top Nikon film camera. I
- 18:34Speaker 1: look on eBay. It's selling for about $ 8. 00. Nine bucks.
- 18:39Speaker 1: They're not worth anything. You had to throw them all out. Now,
- 18:41Speaker 1: he's right. At some point, you're going to throw out
- 18:43Speaker 1: all those great Nikon and Canon and Olympus digital cameras,
- 18:48Speaker 1: but it's going to be a while. The only time
- 18:53Speaker 1: you still see them used, professional photographers at the wedding,
- 18:56Speaker 1: because you look silly if you're just using your phone.
- 18:58Speaker 1: If you're going to charge them a thousand bucks to
- 19:00Speaker 1: be the photographer, you got to have a big camera
- 19:02Speaker 1: and lights and everything. Let's go to Vera in New York. Vera,
- 19:07Speaker 1: how are you doing?
- 19:08Speaker 5: How you doing? I'm good. I was calling you to
- 19:12Speaker 5: how do they do polling? Because I've been voting since
- 19:14Speaker 5: I was 17 years old and I'm 89. And they
- 19:18Speaker 5: never poll. Nobody never polled me.
- 19:22Speaker 6: Well, I never.
- 19:24Speaker 1: You can't poll everybody, but there are there are people.
- 19:27Speaker 1: I've been contacted by polls. It's happened.
- 19:31Speaker 5: Okay, they never contacted me. Okay, that was my first question.
- 19:34Speaker 1: I think it's just you. I think they just don't
- 19:36Speaker 1: like you. It's just you personally.
- 19:38Speaker 5: You know, since I was 17, I voted everything, special elections,
- 19:43Speaker 5: everything I voted. But the second question I wanted to
- 19:46Speaker 5: ask you, this year I went to vote for my
- 19:48Speaker 5: primary at the back. my polling site.
- 19:51Speaker 1: Already?
- 19:52Speaker 5: When I went to vote and I went in, you know,
- 19:55Speaker 5: and I gave them my card and everything. And they
- 19:57Speaker 5: gave me, I'm a Republican.
- 19:59Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay.
- 20:00Speaker 5: They gave me a ballot. And so when I looked
- 20:03Speaker 5: at it, I'm like, well, this is the wrong ballot.
- 20:05Speaker 5: And they were like, there ain't no Republicans running. I'm like, okay,
- 20:08Speaker 5: then I can't vote. And they said, you can do
- 20:10Speaker 5: it after David. I'm like, how can I do it
- 20:13Speaker 5: after David? I'm not a Democrat.
- 20:16Speaker 1: Yeah, this is tampering. Where was this polling place?
- 20:20Speaker 5: This is in Washington Heights.
- 20:22Speaker 1: Ah, okay, they're screwing around with the polling and giving
- 20:26Speaker 1: you the wrong thing deliberately.
- 20:28Speaker 5: Yes, sir, but I'm smart enough to know that. So
- 20:30Speaker 5: I say, I can't do that.
- 20:31Speaker 2: That's fraud.
- 20:32Speaker 1: Well, you sound like a pretty.
- 20:33Speaker 2: Yeah, so.
- 20:34Speaker 5: Anyway, I just wanted to, you know.
- 20:36Speaker 6: No, that's good.
- 20:37Speaker 1: You sound like a pretty sharp woman, Vera. Very good.
- 20:40Speaker 1: Thanks for calling. Yeah, they do sometimes screw around, give
- 20:43Speaker 1: you the wrong ballot, do that kind of stuff. Let's
- 20:45Speaker 1: go to Barbie in New Jersey. Is that your name, Barbie? Yeah, hi.
- 20:50Speaker 1: Like the doll?
- 20:51Speaker 2: Hi, Mark.
- 20:52Speaker 5: Yes.
- 20:53Speaker 1: Okay.
- 20:54Speaker 4: So I want to know what your opinion is of
- 20:58Speaker 4: Judge Napolitano.
- 20:59Speaker 1: Very nice guy. Very, very nice guy.
- 21:03Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 21:04Speaker 1: What's the matter? You want me to attack him? He's
- 21:06Speaker 1: a friend of mine. I can't attack the guy.
- 21:08Speaker 4: He doesn't seem like he likes Trump.
- 21:10Speaker 1: I don't think he does. I think he's anti-Trump. Well,
- 21:13Speaker 1: that has nothing to do with anything. That's fine.
- 21:16Speaker 2: He does.
- 21:19Speaker 1: Some of my best friends hate Trump.
- 21:20Speaker 4: What's going on? Do you know the latest, what's going
- 21:23Speaker 4: on with Maria Bartiromo? Do you know if she's going
- 21:26Speaker 4: to pop up anywhere?
- 21:27Speaker 1: Yeah, she'll pop up somewhere. She's actually having a good
- 21:29Speaker 1: time right now. You know, you don't realize to do
- 21:32Speaker 1: that show, she had to get up like at three
- 21:33Speaker 1: in the morning every day. You know what that's like
- 21:37Speaker 1: getting up?
- 21:37Speaker 4: Maybe she's happy.
- 21:38Speaker 1: You know, I got to get up at seven in
- 21:40Speaker 1: the morning to do this show and it's killing me.
- 21:41Speaker 1: It is killing me.
- 21:43Speaker 4: My goodness.
- 21:44Speaker 1: I've never gotten up that early in my life. It's
- 21:46Speaker 1: killing me.
- 21:47Speaker 2: Mark, you should have.
- 21:48Speaker 4: It started at 9 a long time ago.
- 21:49Speaker 1: Oh, please.
- 21:50Speaker 4: I don't know how you got away with that.
- 21:52Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, the show's pretty good 9
- 21:55Speaker 1: to noon, but getting up that early. So for her,
- 21:57Speaker 1: getting up at 3 in the morning, now she can
- 21:59Speaker 1: sleep as long as she's actually enjoying herself. She'll pop
- 22:02Speaker 1: up and she'll get something.
- 22:04Speaker 4: I like her.
- 22:04Speaker 1: She's a very nice person. Right now she's happy and
- 22:07Speaker 1: doing fine. Hey, when we come back, we'll talk to
- 22:11Speaker 1: the brilliant economist Steve Moore. And we'll get the truth
- 22:15Speaker 1: about affordability. We'll get the truth about taxes and all
- 22:18Speaker 1: this stuff coming up on 710WOR. Mark Simone.
- 22:24Speaker 4: Mr.
- 22:24Speaker 1: New York. Now three hours every weekday from 9 till
- 22:28Speaker 1: noon on 710WOR. Well, the great economist Steve Moore, he's
- 22:37Speaker 1: got a wonderful book that you should read. It's called
- 22:40Speaker 1: The Trump Economic Miracle. It'll explain a lot to you.
- 22:44Speaker 1: He runs the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. Every day they
- 22:46Speaker 1: put out the best daily briefing and analysis. You'll love this.
- 22:50Speaker 1: It's free. It'll come right to your email. Sign up.
- 22:52Speaker 1: Just go to UnleashProsperity.com. UnleashProsperity.com. Steve Moore, how are you doing?
- 23:00Speaker 2: Hey, Merrick. I'm doing well. Getting ready for the big
- 23:03Speaker 2: elections a month away.
- 23:03Speaker 4: 30 days.
- 23:06Speaker 1: Yeah, Democrats, you know, they're running on affordability. Wasn't it
- 23:08Speaker 1: Donald Trump that first ran on affordability years ago and
- 23:11Speaker 1: they've stolen his issue from him?
- 23:14Speaker 2: Well, if you look at, yeah, this is the issue
- 23:17Speaker 2: of the day and no question about it. And I
- 23:20Speaker 2: think the elections will really be decided on which party
- 23:24Speaker 2: people think are more going to give people a better
- 23:27Speaker 2: bang for their buck. And it's interesting because if you
- 23:31Speaker 2: look at the inflation rates now and how much things cost, food, housing, gasoline,
- 23:36Speaker 2: and so on. Did you know 80% of the increase
- 23:39Speaker 2: in the prices that people are paying happened under.
- 23:42Speaker 1: Biden, not Trump? 80%.
- 23:45Speaker 2: So, you know, that's point number one. Point number two,
- 23:48Speaker 2: you know, we've seen incomes in Trump's first two years
- 23:54Speaker 2: in office run ahead of inflation to the tune of
- 23:58Speaker 2: about $ 2, 000. Now, in the last three or four months,
- 24:00Speaker 2: that's reversed. And so, you know, people's Paychecks have not
- 24:05Speaker 2: kept pace with inflation, but for the first 14 months
- 24:08Speaker 2: they did. But the other point I would make is
- 24:11Speaker 2: if you look at the six states that have the
- 24:14Speaker 2: highest cost of living, the least amount of affordability, you
- 24:18Speaker 2: know which states those are?
- 24:19Speaker 1: No, let me guess. Blue states.
- 24:21Speaker 2: Yes. New York, New Jersey, California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Illinois.
- 24:27Speaker 2: So we're going to put, if you're concerned about affordability,
- 24:30Speaker 2: which we all are, You're going to put the people
- 24:32Speaker 2: who can't do anything about affordability in their own states
- 24:35Speaker 2: in power? It doesn't make a lot of sense. I mean,
- 24:38Speaker 2: so Trump cut taxes with his big, beautiful bill. That
- 24:43Speaker 2: was a $ 2, 000 basically pay increase, after-tax pay increase for workers.
- 24:49Speaker 2: Democrats want to get rid of that. They all voted
- 24:51Speaker 2: against that.
- 24:52Speaker 1: Hey, there's a study that came out. 64% of New
- 24:56Speaker 1: Yorkers think we should get rid of the state income
- 24:59Speaker 1: tax and have no state income.
- 25:01Speaker 3: What? Really?
- 25:03Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, my God. That can be done, right? You
- 25:08Speaker 1: can do that.
- 25:08Speaker 2: Well, I have not seen that study. You're going to
- 25:11Speaker 2: send that to me, Mark, because that's amazing. What was
- 25:13Speaker 2: the number?
- 25:13Speaker 1: 64% don't want to have state income tax.
- 25:18Speaker 2: Well, I mean, so people might think, gee, well, how
- 25:21Speaker 2: is New York going to survive without a state income tax?
- 25:23Speaker 2: But guess what? We have eight states. across the country.
- 25:26Speaker 2: We used to have nine, but Washington just adopted an
- 25:28Speaker 2: income tax. The fool's out there on the West Coast.
- 25:31Speaker 2: But we have eight states today, including New Hampshire, Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Wyoming, Nevada,
- 25:40Speaker 2: and one or two others that escape me right now.
- 25:43Speaker 2: I think South Dakota has no income tax either. So
- 25:46Speaker 2: these states, they have roads, they have hospitals, they have schools.
- 25:52Speaker 2: They've got all the public infrastructure you need. Florida, actually,
- 25:56Speaker 2: as you know, we've talked about this many times on
- 25:58Speaker 2: your show, has no income tax. They spend half as
- 26:01Speaker 2: much money on government per capita as New York does,
- 26:06Speaker 2: and yet they have better services in Florida than they
- 26:09Speaker 2: do in New York.
- 26:10Speaker 1: Yeah, and they have a bigger population. They've got more
- 26:12Speaker 1: major cities than New York does.
- 26:14Speaker 2: Yep, yep. So this would be such a.
- 26:20Speaker 2: A shot of steroids into the butt of the New
- 26:23Speaker 2: York economy, if they could do that, it would be
- 26:25Speaker 2: such a game changer. I don't think Kathy Hochul is
- 26:29Speaker 2: likely to do that, but you put the Republicans in,
- 26:32Speaker 2: they might go for that. I mean, it would be
- 26:36Speaker 2: so revolutionary. I mean, even to think about it, if
- 26:38Speaker 2: New York added their income tax, oh my God, you
- 26:41Speaker 2: would see so many people reversing. They're right now on
- 26:45Speaker 2: the road you know, going to Georgia.
- 26:47Speaker 1: Or Alabama or Florida or.
- 26:49Speaker 2: Texas, they just reverse and they get back on the
- 26:51Speaker 2: highway and go right back to New York. I mean,
- 26:53Speaker 2: New York has lost 2 million people. You know, New
- 26:55Speaker 2: York has lost, their population loss in the last 12
- 26:59Speaker 2: years exceeds the entire population of Manhattan. What?
- 27:03Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
- 27:05Speaker 2: Yeah. That's how many people have left. 2.15 million people
- 27:09Speaker 2: have left New York in the last 10 years.
- 27:11Speaker 1: Yeah, but wait a minute. If they come back, It's
- 27:14Speaker 1: already crowded. It's already gridlock here. What will we do
- 27:17Speaker 1: with all these people?
- 27:19Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's going to be depopulated pretty soon.
- 27:22Speaker 2: And then you've got, you know, the upstate areas in
- 27:24Speaker 2: New York that are getting clobbered by the income tax.
- 27:26Speaker 2: They won't drill for, you know, you've seen those charts
- 27:29Speaker 2: we have in our hotline that show that, amazingly, you've
- 27:35Speaker 2: got all the drilling is going on right on the
- 27:38Speaker 2: Pennsylvania and New York border in Pennsylvania, but none of
- 27:41Speaker 2: it's going on in Tennessee. New York, so they're digging
- 27:43Speaker 2: down in Pennsylvania and they're going laterally underneath New York
- 27:48Speaker 2: and taking out all your oil. Wow.
- 27:51Speaker 1: Hey, and people might not realize, besides the state tax,
- 27:54Speaker 1: we're paying climate tax, aren't we? We're all paying it.
- 27:59Speaker 1: Which tax? Climate tax. We're paying for all this green stuff.
- 28:02Speaker 2: Oh, well, so this is the new thing. This is
- 28:04Speaker 2: very scary. So, you know, the climate... movement has sort
- 28:08Speaker 2: of most people sort of move beyond climate change it
- 28:10Speaker 2: was yesterday's you know scare tactic uh but you know
- 28:14Speaker 2: they haven't given up on this and they've lost elections
- 28:16Speaker 2: and you know people go wait you want to raise
- 28:18Speaker 2: my gas price to eight dollars a gallon with all
- 28:21Speaker 2: these taxes you want to put on you know energy
- 28:23Speaker 2: uh so the new thing is all of these left-wing
- 28:26Speaker 2: interest groups and the trial lawyers are getting together and
- 28:29Speaker 2: they want to sue exxon for the fact that they
- 28:32Speaker 2: have uh you know, a drought in Iowa or for
- 28:35Speaker 2: the fact that they have, you know, the forest fires
- 28:39Speaker 2: in California and so on. Well, Exxon didn't do that.
- 28:42Speaker 2: They're trying to blame all these, quote, climate crises on
- 28:45Speaker 2: the Exxon and Chevron and oil companies. And what worries me,
- 28:50Speaker 2: if you get some liberal courts here in America, they
- 28:53Speaker 2: might side with the environmentalists. And they want to sue
- 29:00Speaker 2: these companies for billions and billions of dollars. Well, if
- 29:02Speaker 2: you sue Exxon and Chevron for billions of dollars, do
- 29:05Speaker 2: you think that's going to lower the price of gasoline?
- 29:10Speaker 1: Yeah. It's just amazing what these politicians get away with.
- 29:16Speaker 2: Well, it used to be like, remember the big payday
- 29:19Speaker 2: that the trial lawyers had was when they sued the
- 29:21Speaker 2: tobacco companies. Remember, that was, what, 30, 40 years ago.
- 29:24Speaker 2: So they've been waiting for the next tobacco bonanza. And
- 29:27Speaker 2: so now they want to sue the oil companies. There's
- 29:29Speaker 2: one difference. Cigarettes make, you know, kill people. Oil does
- 29:34Speaker 2: not kill people. It makes life on earth possible. Wow.
- 29:38Speaker 1: Hey, for all this money this green scheme has raised,
- 29:42Speaker 1: have they accomplished anything as far as making the environment better?
- 29:46Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing that they now admit. Now they're saying, oh,
- 29:50Speaker 2: the temperature is going to even rise faster than we thought,
- 29:53Speaker 2: even after spending trillions and trillions of dollars on climate change.
- 29:57Speaker 2: So it's made no difference whatsoever. But guess what? It's
- 29:59Speaker 2: made a lot of people very, very rich. And, you know,
- 30:03Speaker 2: climate change is a good business to be in because
- 30:05Speaker 2: it's sort of the, it's a big racket. And so
- 30:10Speaker 2: I call it the climate change industrial complex. Like we
- 30:13Speaker 2: used to have the military industrial complex. Now it's the
- 30:15Speaker 2: climate change industrial complex.
- 30:20Speaker 1: Nuclear power. We got rid of our nuclear plant here
- 30:22Speaker 1: in New York, thanks to Cuomo. And that was 25%
- 30:24Speaker 1: of our energy. But talk about how Google– there's other
- 30:29Speaker 1: places using small, effective nuclear power.
- 30:34Speaker 2: So this is a really amazing story, the comeback of nuclear.
- 30:38Speaker 2: Do you remember– I think you're old enough to remember, Mark,
- 30:41Speaker 2: the movie China Syndrome. Oh, yeah. Remember that one with
- 30:45Speaker 2: Jane Fonda? And I have to say, I mean, that movie–
- 30:49Speaker 2: probably single-handedly destroyed the nuclear industry for 30 years.
- 30:52Speaker 1: It scared people.
- 30:53Speaker 2: I remember watching it and saying, ah, I don't want
- 30:55Speaker 2: nuclear power. I'm going to get cancer. And so, you know,
- 30:59Speaker 2: it was all basically just fake. But as a propaganda tool,
- 31:04Speaker 2: it sort of worked well. I mean, it shut down the–
- 31:06Speaker 2: we didn't build a nuclear plant for 25 years after that. Well, now,
- 31:09Speaker 2: guess what? For the first time in 30 years, more
- 31:15Speaker 2: Americans favor nuclear power than oppose it. So Americans now
- 31:19Speaker 2: realize it was just a big hoax. And so we
- 31:22Speaker 2: should be building nuclear power. It's a great way to
- 31:24Speaker 2: get energy. We're going to need energy for our technology future.
- 31:29Speaker 2: And it's clean, it's efficient, it's cheap. And nuclear plants don't,
- 31:33Speaker 2: unlike solar and wind power, which take up thousands and
- 31:36Speaker 2: thousands of acres of land, nuclear power takes up maybe
- 31:40Speaker 2: 20 acres, not 2,000 acres.
- 31:44Speaker 1: Yeah, it's unbelievable.
- 31:45Speaker 2: So Google is building a big nuclear plant now to
- 31:52Speaker 2: help provide the power for the power centers and these
- 31:58Speaker 2: data centers that they need to build around the country,
- 32:00Speaker 2: and that makes a lot of sense to me.
- 32:02Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, Steve Moore, great as always. You should get
- 32:06Speaker 1: his book, The Trump Economic Miracle. It'll really explain things
- 32:09Speaker 1: to you.
- 32:09Speaker 2: Yeah.
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- 32:16Speaker 1: It's free. How do you come up with this every day?
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- 32:19Speaker 2: Just go to UnleashProsperity.com, folks, and you get it for free.
- 32:22Speaker 1: Yeah. And he comes up with stories, top of things
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- 32:28Speaker 1: Go to UnleashProsperity.com. UnleashProsperity.com. Sign up for the hotline. Steve Moore,
- 32:35Speaker 1: thanks for being with us. Thanks, Mark.
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- 33:17Speaker 1: every morning, 6 to 9. This is all here on 710WOR. Well, Hey,
- 33:30Speaker 1: there's a, a hurricane barreling through, uh, due to hit, uh,
- 33:36Speaker 1: the West coast, the panhandle of Florida and Alabama. You remember, um,
- 33:41Speaker 1: people were saying that ever since we called it the
- 33:42Speaker 1: Gulf of America, instead of the Gulf of Mexico, ever
- 33:47Speaker 1: since Trump renamed it Gulf of America, no hurricanes. Well,
- 33:51Speaker 1: this is the first one. There's a big hurricane coming
- 33:53Speaker 1: through there. Uh, there's another hurricane that we'll get the
- 33:56Speaker 1: remnants of it. Um, Over the weekend, Sunday and Monday,
- 34:00Speaker 1: we'll get some rain as a result. Otherwise, it's going
- 34:02Speaker 1: to be a beautiful day today. Really nice. Maybe the
- 34:06Speaker 1: nicest day for the rest of the year. It's going
- 34:08Speaker 1: to be sunny and 75 today. So that'll be good.
- 34:13Speaker 1: And then beautiful Friday, Saturday, and then Sunday, Monday, expect
- 34:17Speaker 1: some rain. Result of a hurricane. Trump administration, they've got
- 34:21Speaker 1: a great relationship with all the tech companies, all the
- 34:26Speaker 1: heads of the tech companies, the people you'd think would
- 34:28Speaker 1: be so anti-Trump, they're always there in the White House,
- 34:31Speaker 1: whether it's Apple or Zuckerberg or Bezos, they're so friendly
- 34:36Speaker 1: and they're all there with Trump all the time. Well,
- 34:39Speaker 1: it looks like there's trouble between the Trump administration and Microsoft.
- 34:43Speaker 1: In fact, the visa program, Microsoft has been cut off
- 34:48Speaker 1: from the program. Trump administration says Microsoft's been something about fraud, abuse,
- 34:55Speaker 1: So look for a brewing battle, Microsoft versus the Trump administration.
- 35:01Speaker 1: And this Bill Gates is not helping either with his
- 35:04Speaker 1: wild ranting and yelling and screaming and huffing and puffing.
- 35:08Speaker 1: Gates on the Sunday shows yelling, AI is going to
- 35:10Speaker 1: kill everybody and all. Now, this could be what's known
- 35:14Speaker 1: as Operation Change the Subject. Gates trying to get everybody
- 35:18Speaker 1: to forget about him and Epstein and start thinking about
- 35:20Speaker 1: him as the AI guy, the guy that booked to
- 35:23Speaker 1: talk about AI. Anyway, we're out of time. Don't forget,
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