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- 0:00Speaker 1: Live from Midtown Manhattan, here comes the Mark Simone Show on.
- 0:07Speaker 2: 710WOR.
- 0:10Speaker 3: Hey, well, we got a lot to get to this morning.
- 0:13Speaker 3: We'll get to Jerry Seinfeld. We've got some problems out
- 0:15Speaker 3: there on the road. We'll get to France. We'll get
- 0:17Speaker 3: to Bruce Blakeman. We'll get to Mamdani may have committed
- 0:21Speaker 3: a crime. We'll get to President Trump, of course. We'll
- 0:24Speaker 3: get to the midterms.
- 0:25Speaker 4: 14 days.
- 0:28Speaker 3: Two weeks from today, Election Day, two weeks from today,
- 0:31Speaker 3: you're in the final stretch now. You think you've seen
- 0:33Speaker 3: a lot of political ads now? Watch the next two weeks.
- 0:36Speaker 3: You're going to see an incredible blitz of political ads.
- 0:39Speaker 3: We'll get to Ilhan Omar. Looks like they got her.
- 0:43Speaker 3: We'll get to the Super Bowl halftime show. It looks
- 0:46Speaker 3: like we got a decision on who it is. Now,
- 0:50Speaker 3: two weeks until Election Day, two weeks. The way it
- 0:53Speaker 3: stands now, you listen to all these shows, one person
- 0:56Speaker 3: thinks this, one person thinks that, this guy's got this opinion,
- 0:58Speaker 3: she's got that opinion, they go back and forth. Here's
- 1:00Speaker 3: the way it actually stands right now. Looks very good
- 1:03Speaker 3: for Republicans to take the Senate, keep the Senate, maybe
- 1:06Speaker 3: even gain a seat or two. That looks very good.
- 1:09Speaker 3: The House, too close to call. Nobody's opinion matters at
- 1:12Speaker 3: this point. You can't predict anything right now. It's too
- 1:15Speaker 3: close to call. Uh, it's everything's within the margin of
- 1:19Speaker 3: error in the real polls, not the fake ones you
- 1:21Speaker 3: see on, although the fake ones in these last couple
- 1:24Speaker 3: of weeks, the fake ones all start correcting themselves. You
- 1:28Speaker 3: know how they'll tell you, uh, 98% of the time
- 1:30Speaker 3: we were right.
- 1:32Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:32Speaker 3: They were wrong. 99% of the time, what they do
- 1:35Speaker 3: is the last couple of days they correct so that
- 1:38Speaker 3: the final polls correct. And then they can claim that was,
- 1:41Speaker 3: they were correct. They were, but, uh, they lied to
- 1:43Speaker 3: you the whole election season. And then at the very
- 1:46Speaker 3: last minute, just correct it. But too close to call.
- 1:50Speaker 3: The House could go either way right now. Now, you
- 1:53Speaker 3: got another factor in there. One is the Republicans have
- 1:57Speaker 3: been moving up in the polls. Democrats have not. So
- 2:01Speaker 3: that momentum is usually an important thing in the last
- 2:04Speaker 3: couple weeks. And another factor is President Trump will be
- 2:07Speaker 3: out there on the trail just blitzing America with these appearances.
- 2:11Speaker 3: That can make a difference. It's not the speeches at
- 2:14Speaker 3: those rallies that I mean, those are a lot of fun.
- 2:17Speaker 3: But the reason they do these rallies is when you
- 2:20Speaker 3: go out there and you're going to appear and you
- 2:22Speaker 3: can have 10,000 people at the rally, most of the
- 2:25Speaker 3: time 30,000 people apply for the tickets. Only 10,000 get in.
- 2:29Speaker 3: But it's 30,000. And in the process, they've collected the emails,
- 2:33Speaker 3: the phone numbers of all those people. This is what
- 2:37Speaker 3: they call the ground game. They can contact them right
- 2:39Speaker 3: up to Election Day, make sure they go vote. That's
- 2:42Speaker 3: the real reason. for the rally. So he's literally crisscrossing
- 2:45Speaker 3: the country every day. He's going to a different state today,
- 2:48Speaker 3: goes to North Carolina every afternoon, middle of the afternoon,
- 2:53Speaker 3: gets on a plane, flies to another state, does a
- 2:55Speaker 3: three hour rally, flies home to the white house at night. Now, um,
- 3:00Speaker 3: the fact that he's going to North Carolina means they
- 3:02Speaker 3: haven't given up, given up on North Carolina. That's the
- 3:05Speaker 3: one state that looked pretty hopeless for the Republicans. North
- 3:09Speaker 3: Carolina is the one where they had the real problem,
- 3:11Speaker 3: but it looks like, uh, They wouldn't schedule this trip.
- 3:14Speaker 3: They wouldn't have him go there if they hadn't seen
- 3:15Speaker 3: something in the real polling that gave them some optimism.
- 3:19Speaker 3: So he's going to North Carolina later today. He's also
- 3:23Speaker 3: trying to settle things in the Russia-Ukraine war. Zelensky and
- 3:29Speaker 3: him are fighting. They never got along, really. You know,
- 3:32Speaker 3: if you want to not impress Trump, show up at
- 3:35Speaker 3: the White House in a T-shirt. That's not the right
- 3:38Speaker 3: thing for Trump. Remember that first meeting that got off
- 3:40Speaker 3: to a bad start? And Trump is kind of right
- 3:43Speaker 3: about that. You come into the White House for the
- 3:46Speaker 3: most important meeting, but the president of the United States
- 3:49Speaker 3: wearing a t-shirt, it's disrespectful. It's insulting. So the next
- 3:54Speaker 3: time he put on some, some kind of a suit,
- 3:56Speaker 3: it was sort of a suit. He tried a little,
- 3:59Speaker 3: but these two never got along. They never really will
- 4:02Speaker 3: get along. But there's been a rough patch in the
- 4:07Speaker 3: last few weeks. Zelensky has been brilliant inventing, manufacturing his
- 4:14Speaker 3: own weapons, his own missiles, his own drones, state-of-the-art, deadly drones.
- 4:19Speaker 3: By the thousands, he's been using them against Russia very effectively.
- 4:23Speaker 3: But to do it, you need Starlink. There's a special
- 4:27Speaker 3: military version of Starlink called Space Shield. And that's what
- 4:32Speaker 3: they've been using. And it's been so helpful. In real time,
- 4:37Speaker 3: they can see everything on the ground. They can direct
- 4:39Speaker 3: the drones. They can control everything. Well, in the last
- 4:43Speaker 3: couple of weeks, all of a sudden, for a few days,
- 4:45Speaker 3: the space shield slowed down. There was a slowdown in
- 4:49Speaker 3: the data coming. They were getting a little time delay
- 4:52Speaker 3: on it, so it wasn't as effective. It hurt Ukraine
- 4:55Speaker 3: for a couple of days. Everybody was yelling, it's President Trump.
- 5:01Speaker 3: first they were yelling was elon musk this is elon
- 5:03Speaker 3: musk starlink military version he shut it down he slowed
- 5:07Speaker 3: it down he throttled it down musk put out a
- 5:10Speaker 3: statement immediately saying i have nothing to do with it
- 5:12Speaker 3: i've sold the software it's controlled by the u.s military
- 5:17Speaker 3: the president united states they would have to slow it
- 5:19Speaker 3: down so then they went after trump and uh Trump
- 5:28Speaker 3: denied it, and it looks like there's no evidence that Musk...
- 5:30Speaker 3: There's no evidence anywhere that Musk shut it down. There's
- 5:33Speaker 3: no evidence anywhere that Trump shut it down. It looks
- 5:36Speaker 3: like what can often happen. You see it on your
- 5:38Speaker 3: own computer, your own Wi-Fi, all the time. Somehow, you know,
- 5:42Speaker 3: for a day or two, it slows down for some reason,
- 5:45Speaker 3: some technical thing. So the left has gone nuts. There's
- 5:49Speaker 3: one newspaper in England, The Telegraph, this one newspaper... There's
- 5:56Speaker 3: 6,000 billion newspapers in the world. This one newspaper published
- 5:59Speaker 3: a story that it was Musk that throttled it down,
- 6:03Speaker 3: but only because Trump asked him to. It was a
- 6:07Speaker 3: conspiracy between Trump and Musk to slow it down. Now,
- 6:11Speaker 3: there's no evidence of this anywhere, but the left has
- 6:14Speaker 3: run with this story. If you're watching Morning Joe, they
- 6:17Speaker 3: did this story all morning as if it's been proven.
- 6:19Speaker 3: It's just a story from one crazy newspaper. No evidence
- 6:23Speaker 3: that it really happened. Trump asked about Zelensky.
- 6:26Speaker 4: Zelensky says you're on the wrong side of history on
- 6:28Speaker 4: this one.
- 6:30Speaker 5: Zelensky said it? Zelensky doesn't know what he's talking about.
- 6:34Speaker 5: Zelensky is a man that should have had this war
- 6:36Speaker 5: settled a long time ago. If he would have listened
- 6:39Speaker 5: to me, he would have made a much better deal
- 6:41Speaker 5: a long time ago, and he'd have a million people
- 6:43Speaker 5: living from his side.
- 6:45Speaker 3: Yeah, that may be true. You know, listen, Zelensky's been
- 6:48Speaker 3: brilliant in this war, as they say, manufacturing, setting up factories. But, uh,
- 6:52Speaker 3: Let's be honest. You walk into an electronics store. You
- 6:55Speaker 3: want to buy something. It's Zelensky behind the counter. How
- 6:59Speaker 3: much would you trust this guy? He's got that whole
- 7:02Speaker 3: look of, no, no, no, listen to me. I wouldn't
- 7:05Speaker 3: trust this guy at all. Trump is calling for a
- 7:07Speaker 3: meeting with Putin. and Zelensky. Zelensky doesn't want to go.
- 7:11Speaker 3: Would he meet with just Putin? I don't know. He
- 7:13Speaker 3: was asked.
- 7:14Speaker 4: Mr.
- 7:14Speaker 2: President, would you meet with Presidents Xi and Putin to
- 7:17Speaker 2: discuss the end of the war without Zelensky there?
- 7:20Speaker 5: Well, I would meet in order, anything I can do
- 7:23Speaker 5: to end the war, whether somebody's there or not.
- 7:26Speaker 3: Yeah, that's, hey, that's what you do. Anything you can do.
- 7:30Speaker 3: So France is burning down to the ground. It's a
- 7:34Speaker 3: Every year they have the student protest. That's how this started. This,
- 7:36Speaker 3: what you're seeing now, is not student protesting. This is
- 7:40Speaker 3: Muslim extremists. This is Antifa. This is communist groups. These
- 7:46Speaker 3: are the most awful groups on earth. They've all infiltrated
- 7:50Speaker 3: the protest and taken it over. They're trying to burn
- 7:53Speaker 3: everything to the ground. Paris, everything. It's been quite obvious
- 7:59Speaker 3: they're going after Jewish-owned businesses. Anything Muslim, mosque, anything, somehow
- 8:05Speaker 3: they don't touch it. They're trying to take out government buildings.
- 8:09Speaker 3: They're trying to take out any landmarks. If you're thinking
- 8:14Speaker 3: of going to France, forget it. This is going to
- 8:16Speaker 3: go on for a while. In fact, tourists in France
- 8:20Speaker 3: basically have to get the hell out of there. There's
- 8:22Speaker 3: nothing to do. Everything is closed, by the way. The Louvre,
- 8:25Speaker 3: they tried to take the Louvre. The Louvre had a
- 8:28Speaker 3: ton of security. But they can't open. It's completely closed down.
- 8:31Speaker 3: Normally 20,000 visitors a day at the Louvre. It's closed.
- 8:35Speaker 3: They can't open it. Same with the Eiffel Tower. That's
- 8:39Speaker 3: a big thing to go into the Eiffel Tower, up
- 8:41Speaker 3: to the top, or that great Jules Verne restaurant in
- 8:45Speaker 3: the middle. But just about everything is closed. Versailles, that's
- 8:50Speaker 3: another big tourist center. That's closed. You can't go anywhere
- 8:54Speaker 3: near that. All the shopping districts have been totally affected
- 8:58Speaker 3: and disrupted. Outside the city, as I say, Versailles and
- 9:03Speaker 3: everything else, shut down, dangerous. These are real serious rioters.
- 9:08Speaker 3: These are not student protesters. These are Islamic extremists. These
- 9:13Speaker 3: are communist extremists. This is Antifa, and they can get very,
- 9:17Speaker 3: very violent. They're burning, looting. It's absolutely disgusting. The problem
- 9:23Speaker 3: is it's France.
- 9:24Speaker 6: It's Macron.
- 9:26Speaker 3: He's not doing anything. There should be a massive show
- 9:29Speaker 3: of force to put an end to this immediately. They
- 9:32Speaker 3: had some problems in Italy. About 300 rioters showed up.
- 9:36Speaker 3: And the military was called out immediately and stopped them
- 9:40Speaker 3: right then and there. That's what you got to do. Now,
- 9:43Speaker 3: I say bring out the military. Are we going to
- 9:44Speaker 3: bring out the French military? Well, the French military, good
- 9:49Speaker 3: luck with that. That's like calling in a Boy Scout troop.
- 9:52Speaker 3: So I don't know what they're going to do in France.
- 9:54Speaker 3: And there's nothing that's going to improve here. The country
- 9:58Speaker 3: has been infiltrated by all these people. As Ted Cruz said,
- 10:03Speaker 3: they committed cultural suicide, left the border wide open. The
- 10:07Speaker 3: country has been overrun by these people. Basically, the French
- 10:11Speaker 3: people are going to have to leave at some point.
- 10:12Speaker 3: President Trump.
- 10:13Speaker 7: They are incompatible with Western values. They despise everything about
- 10:20Speaker 7: France and they're destroying that country. And we're not going
- 10:24Speaker 7: to let that happen to this country.
- 10:26Speaker 8: Yes.
- 10:27Speaker 3: It's not like, you know, in the old days of immigrants,
- 10:29Speaker 3: they came to this country for the American dream. They assimilated,
- 10:34Speaker 3: they opened a business, you know, they became great Americans,
- 10:38Speaker 3: the immigrants. This is different. These are migrants. These are
- 10:41Speaker 3: illegals for the most part. They left the border wide open.
- 10:44Speaker 3: They come in, uh, Normally, you go to France because
- 10:48Speaker 3: you want to be French. You want to be living
- 10:50Speaker 3: in Paris and having a great... No, they come in
- 10:52Speaker 3: because they can't stand France. They hate everything about it,
- 10:54Speaker 3: the culture, the institutions. They want to burn it to
- 10:57Speaker 3: the ground. make it third world, and Trump is right
- 11:00Speaker 3: about that.
- 11:01Speaker 5: If you want to see what is at stake in
- 11:03Speaker 5: this election, just look at what's happening in France, a
- 11:07Speaker 5: once great nation that is being conquered, looted, and burned
- 11:11Speaker 5: to the ground by migrants, jihadists, and communists who hate Christianity,
- 11:17Speaker 5: and they hate, frankly, the Western civilization itself.
- 11:21Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 11:22Speaker 3: Now, Mamdani, Mayor Mamdani in New York, may be committing
- 11:26Speaker 3: a crime They may be able at some point to
- 11:29Speaker 3: actually charge him with a crime. You know, he's going
- 11:31Speaker 3: after ICE. ICE is Immigration Customs Enforcement. It's a law
- 11:36Speaker 3: enforcement agency that enforces the laws that are on the books.
- 11:40Speaker 3: If you're here illegally, they can arrest you and deport you.
- 11:44Speaker 3: They're not really doing that just because you're here illegally.
- 11:47Speaker 3: They decided way back in the beginning they would go
- 11:50Speaker 3: just after the illegals who are criminals, who are committing crimes,
- 11:54Speaker 3: who are doing robberies and rapes and have got convictions
- 11:57Speaker 3: or gang members. So that's who they've been deporting. And Mamdani,
- 12:03Speaker 3: of course, denouncing them. The Democrats hate this. They want
- 12:06Speaker 3: these crazy illegals that are committing crimes all over the
- 12:09Speaker 3: streets for all sorts of reasons. But the latest thing
- 12:12Speaker 3: is Mamdani has sent a letter to every parking garage,
- 12:16Speaker 3: every parking lot, every business. Do not let ICE use
- 12:20Speaker 3: your parking lot, your parking garage. Do not let them
- 12:24Speaker 3: park there. Obviously, when they come to New York, they
- 12:27Speaker 3: have to come with a lot of vehicles. They need
- 12:28Speaker 3: to park them somewhere. So he said ICE is not
- 12:33Speaker 3: authorized to use your garage or lots. It was a
- 12:35Speaker 3: very serious letter and a very threatening letter. You know,
- 12:38Speaker 3: you get a letter from the city of New York
- 12:40Speaker 3: telling you you better not do this. You're going to
- 12:43Speaker 3: get scared. The city of New York has a lot
- 12:45Speaker 3: of enforcement regulation power. You run a business here, even
- 12:48Speaker 3: a parking lot, a lot of things they could do
- 12:50Speaker 3: to you. So it's a menacing, threatening letter. But it
- 12:54Speaker 3: may be illegal. Legal scholars looking at this say it
- 12:57Speaker 3: is fairly close to committing a crime. Obstruction of justice
- 13:02Speaker 3: could be illegal. The Department of Justice is looking into it.
- 13:07Speaker 3: You can't interfere with law enforcement. You can't try to
- 13:11Speaker 3: stop the New York City police from doing something in
- 13:13Speaker 3: New York. You can't get in their way and try
- 13:15Speaker 3: to block them. Well, same thing with the federal law enforcement.
- 13:19Speaker 3: And remember, federal law supersedes local law. Federal law enforcement
- 13:25Speaker 3: agencies supersede local law enforcement agencies. So they're looking at
- 13:30Speaker 3: Mamdani as a possible criminal, possibly committed a crime. Hey,
- 13:35Speaker 3: we'll get to Jerry Seinfeld coming up.
- 13:37Speaker 9: He is.
- 13:39Speaker 3: Touring the country. You know, this guy created the greatest
- 13:43Speaker 3: sitcom ever. He made himself over a billion dollars. And
- 13:49Speaker 3: he likes to work. He's a hardworking guy. He's always
- 13:52Speaker 3: been a hardworking guy. He loves to go on stage.
- 13:55Speaker 3: He loves to tour the country, loves to do standup.
- 13:58Speaker 3: And you might say, why would a guy after all
- 14:01Speaker 3: that success with Seinfeld with a billion, why do you
- 14:03Speaker 3: want to tour the country? It's a rough life. You know,
- 14:07Speaker 3: even when you got private jets in the finest hotel suites,
- 14:09Speaker 3: you're still on the road, still traveling every day, flying.
- 14:12Speaker 3: But I asked him that once. I said, why do
- 14:14Speaker 3: you want to keep? And he said, That's what I do.
- 14:18Speaker 3: He said, it's like a dog. When you take the
- 14:20Speaker 3: dog in the park and you take the leash off
- 14:22Speaker 3: and he's so happy and he just runs. He goes,
- 14:24Speaker 3: that's what guys like me do when we do standup.
- 14:27Speaker 3: We want to just be turned loose on the stage. So,
- 14:31Speaker 3: and it's a great thing. And he tours all over.
- 14:33Speaker 3: He's been doing that for many years since Seinfeld went
- 14:36Speaker 3: off the air. Well, at college campuses, the crazy left-wing
- 14:40Speaker 3: communist college campuses, they started to boo him. You got
- 14:44Speaker 3: to remember Jerry Seinfeld to them, He's old. He's an
- 14:49Speaker 3: old dinosaur to them, to the 18-year-olds. Remember when you
- 14:52Speaker 3: were a kid and you looked at Bob Hope? Bob
- 14:54Speaker 3: Hope was the biggest comedian in the world. But when
- 14:57Speaker 3: you're a kid, you look, who is this old guy?
- 14:58Speaker 3: He's like from a relic from another era. This old,
- 15:03Speaker 3: old guy from the past. Well, that's how they look
- 15:05Speaker 3: at Jerry Seinfeld, believe it or not. So the college
- 15:09Speaker 3: campus kids would boo him. He would do these, that
- 15:12Speaker 3: was a big thing for a comedian. The college shows,
- 15:14Speaker 3: you can get a couple thousand people in the auditorium.
- 15:16Speaker 3: They would boo him and he had to stop doing colleges.
- 15:19Speaker 3: He couldn't do them anymore. So now he does major
- 15:22Speaker 3: venues in different cities and he's in Chicago and these
- 15:27Speaker 3: communist anti-Semites, anti-Israel buy tickets and they come in and
- 15:32Speaker 3: disrupt his show. They start screaming at him and it
- 15:34Speaker 3: gets really ugly. This is Chicago. Listen, I'm right in
- 15:38Speaker 3: the middle of a show. This is a bad heckler. Seinfeld!
- 15:42Speaker 4: Seinfeld!
- 15:43Speaker 3: Listen to me.
- 15:44Speaker 4: You're a racist.
- 15:46Speaker 2: There are 74,000 dead Palestinians. 74,000 Palestinians have been killed
- 15:53Speaker 2: by the racist state of Israel.
- 15:57Speaker 3: You're a racist. You're a racist. You're a racist. yeah
- 16:15Speaker 3: go online and watch the video as the guy's yelling
- 16:17Speaker 3: the Seinfeld starts dancing starts doing this dance it's very
- 16:20Speaker 3: funny and then he said you couldn't really hear it
- 16:23Speaker 3: he said I'm going to find out how much you
- 16:25Speaker 3: paid for your ticket and I'm going to send that
- 16:27Speaker 3: much to Israel as a donation and he's announced he'll
- 16:30Speaker 3: do that anybody that comes into Hegel and buys tickets.
- 16:33Speaker 3: He'll find out how much you paid. That amount will
- 16:36Speaker 3: be donated to Israel. So if you come in and
- 16:37Speaker 3: buy these tickets, it will become a donation to Israel.
- 16:41Speaker 3: Tough to have to go through. Anyway, we'll get back
- 16:43Speaker 3: to this. We've got more of these clips we'll get
- 16:45Speaker 3: to throughout the show. A lot more to talk about.
- 16:47Speaker 3: It's Mark Simone here, 9 to noon every day, three
- 16:51Speaker 3: hours every day, 9 to noon every day, here on 710WOR.
- 16:54Speaker 3: The Mark Simone Show.
- 16:57Speaker 1: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios.
- 17:04Speaker 3: Well, hey, speaking of protests, J.D. Vance out on the
- 17:09Speaker 3: campaign trail. And, oh, he got heckled. The heckler somehow
- 17:15Speaker 3: not only got into the rally, but, you know, they
- 17:18Speaker 3: got seats right behind the candidate. Those are important because
- 17:22Speaker 3: when you watch it on TV, those are the faces
- 17:24Speaker 3: right behind him. So this guy got right behind him
- 17:28Speaker 3: and started yelling and screaming. This was in North Carolina
- 17:31Speaker 3: at a rally. Now, President Trump going to North Carolina today.
- 17:35Speaker 3: Vice President Vance speaking there yesterday. So they think North
- 17:38Speaker 3: Carolina is still in play. They think they got a
- 17:41Speaker 3: chance there. But the protesters started yelling. What was he protesting? Ukraine? Israel? No,
- 17:48Speaker 3: he was yelling about the Epstein files. Yelling and screaming
- 17:52Speaker 3: about Jeffrey Epstein. What the hell does J.D. Vance have
- 17:58Speaker 3: to do with Jeffrey Epstein had never met the guy.
- 18:02Speaker 3: It is a, no, the guy he's not even in the,
- 18:03Speaker 3: he's the only person in the world, not in these
- 18:05Speaker 3: Epstein files. Um, so what did, uh, what did, uh,
- 18:10Speaker 3: Vance say? He said, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to
- 18:13Speaker 3: have to amend something I said earlier. I said that
- 18:16Speaker 3: we have zero illegal border crossings in the United States,
- 18:20Speaker 3: but clearly we got one, one isn't bad. So I,
- 18:23Speaker 3: it got a big laugh.
- 18:24Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 18:24Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 18:24Speaker 3: You have to be in North Carolina to get that.
- 18:26Speaker 3: I don't know what the joke was, but, um, the
- 18:30Speaker 3: audience did burst into laughter and cheers. This Epstein Files
- 18:35Speaker 3: stuff is a sad situation for Democrats. It's very sad.
- 18:38Speaker 3: They really built that up, that once they get these
- 18:42Speaker 3: Epstein Files, they're going to see how many pedophiles, all
- 18:45Speaker 3: the pedophiles are going to... Wait till you get these
- 18:48Speaker 3: Epstein Files. They didn't get them. They sort of got them.
- 18:50Speaker 3: They got a couple pages. They went nuts. They finally
- 18:53Speaker 3: released 20 million pages of the Epstein Files, and uh
- 18:58Speaker 3: many of us read the whole thing and there's one
- 19:00Speaker 3: thing pretty obvious in the epstein files the only pedophile
- 19:05Speaker 3: was epstein and maybe uh prince andrew he looks a
- 19:09Speaker 3: little guilty in that but outside of that uh 90
- 19:13Speaker 3: of the people dealing with epstein had nothing to do
- 19:15Speaker 3: with any women and the ones that did that were
- 19:18Speaker 3: looking for women all the time the bill gates that
- 19:20Speaker 3: sort of stuff the bill clinton's it wasn't a pedophile
- 19:24Speaker 3: they were looking for 30 40 50 year old women
- 19:27Speaker 3: And that's what Epstein delivered. Now, President Trump, the only
- 19:32Speaker 3: thing you learn from the Epstein files is that Epstein
- 19:34Speaker 3: hated Trump. They were bitter enemies. In fact, all through
- 19:38Speaker 3: the files, you see Epstein plotting on how to bring
- 19:40Speaker 3: down Trump, how to destroy him. And a lot of
- 19:44Speaker 3: celebrities look pretty bad in those files. They weren't doing
- 19:47Speaker 3: anything with women, but the Woody Allen types, Woody Allen
- 19:51Speaker 3: desperately needed money to finance his films. So Epstein was
- 19:56Speaker 3: giving him tons of money for his films, getting him
- 19:58Speaker 3: donors for the films. So Woody Allen was at Epstein's
- 20:01Speaker 3: house day and night. Anytime there was an Epstein luncheon,
- 20:04Speaker 3: a dinner party, Woody Allen would come and impress and
- 20:08Speaker 3: entertain the crowd. There were a few others in there, too.
- 20:12Speaker 3: A lot of notables in there. And then it was
- 20:14Speaker 3: every college president. Presidents of prestigious colleges. They were all
- 20:19Speaker 3: over Epstein because he was making massive donations. But there
- 20:22Speaker 3: was no J.D. Vance in there. The only mention of
- 20:25Speaker 3: Trump was how much Epstein and Trump hated each other
- 20:27Speaker 3: and had nothing to do with each other. So it's
- 20:31Speaker 3: a funny thing to watch. Democrats create a narrative. and
- 20:36Speaker 3: they just drill it into their heads. And then when
- 20:38Speaker 3: the files come out and you can see the narrative
- 20:39Speaker 3: was totally false and wrong, it doesn't matter. They keep going.
- 20:43Speaker 3: You keep, there's like this guy here that just keep
- 20:46Speaker 3: yelling about the Epstein files. So, and obviously they never
- 20:50Speaker 3: read the Epstein files, but hey, Vance was also, he
- 20:54Speaker 3: did this town hall CBS news with the CBS news anchor.
- 20:59Speaker 2: Okay.
- 20:59Speaker 3: How many people right now can tell me who the
- 21:02Speaker 3: anchor is of the CBS evening news? Let me see.
- 21:07Speaker 3: Looks like nobody. Nobody. Now, for years, everybody in America
- 21:14Speaker 3: knew who the anchor of the CBS Evening News was.
- 21:17Speaker 3: It was Walter Cronkite, of course. And then after that,
- 21:21Speaker 3: it was Dan Rather. And then after that, it was
- 21:24Speaker 3: Bob Schieffer. And then everybody knew that. And remember, it
- 21:27Speaker 3: was Katie Couric for two minutes. And then it was,
- 21:34Speaker 3: the guy wasn't bad, but nobody remembers who the guy was.
- 21:38Speaker 3: He was kind of bland. And then it was Norah
- 21:40Speaker 3: O'Donnell who put everybody to sleep. And then it was
- 21:43Speaker 3: a guy you never heard of. And now it's this
- 21:45Speaker 3: guy who looks pretty good doing it, but his name
- 21:49Speaker 3: is Tony DeCouple, whatever his name is. So they did
- 21:54Speaker 3: a town hall. He was the one running the town hall.
- 21:57Speaker 3: He hit Vance with the toughest questions. He battered him
- 22:00Speaker 3: with the toughest questions. Everything from gas prices to Iran
- 22:04Speaker 3: to immigration to corruption. The White House, boy, did he
- 22:07Speaker 3: hit him hard, really hard, which is fine. But then
- 22:13Speaker 3: they get a Democrat on CBS News. They ask him
- 22:17Speaker 3: the most gentle softball questions. There's never a follow-up. It's
- 22:21Speaker 3: just Jekyll and Hyde with this anchor. And all these news,
- 22:24Speaker 3: you watch Meet the Press, same thing. Republican is on there, badgering,
- 22:28Speaker 3: banging away at him with the toughest questions like a
- 22:30Speaker 3: pit bull chewing him up. Come back from the commercial
- 22:33Speaker 3: with the Democrat. They're like a little poodle cuddling with him.
- 22:36Speaker 3: It's like Jekyll and Hyde. It's unbelievable to watch. President
- 22:40Speaker 3: Trump yesterday called for New Mexico to change its name
- 22:44Speaker 3: to New America. All right. You just have to accept this.
- 22:49Speaker 3: He does this sometimes. I don't know what the hell
- 22:52Speaker 3: it means. What's he thinking? It's stupid. He does this sometimes.
- 22:56Speaker 3: It was a bizarre social media post. He said, New
- 23:00Speaker 3: Mexico should change its name to New America. The name
- 23:02Speaker 3: would add great value and prestige to the state. Home
- 23:06Speaker 3: values and incomes would rise. You would be even prouder
- 23:10Speaker 3: while saluting our beautiful American flag. Now, you've got to remember,
- 23:14Speaker 3: the guy is a lot of things. He's a combination
- 23:16Speaker 3: of things. He's an unbelievable business guy who built a
- 23:19Speaker 3: multinational global empire worth billions. This guy built 100-story skyscrapers
- 23:25Speaker 3: in his sleep. That's one side of him. The other
- 23:29Speaker 3: side is the Howard Stern side. He'll just say crazy things.
- 23:32Speaker 3: He'll say outrageous things.
- 23:35Speaker 10: Why?
- 23:36Speaker 3: Just to, you know, it's like a kid at the
- 23:38Speaker 3: zoo who just got to rattle the cage just to
- 23:40Speaker 3: get the animal jumping and screaming. He does that to you.
- 23:44Speaker 3: He's going to do that all the time. He's 80
- 23:46Speaker 3: years old. He's not going to change. He's always done this.
- 23:48Speaker 3: He's always going to do this. The other thing is
- 23:50Speaker 3: he likes to see his name in every, when he
- 23:52Speaker 3: picks up a paper, you know, most big stars, when
- 23:55Speaker 3: they get the newspaper, they pray they're not in it,
- 23:57Speaker 3: you know, especially if there's a scandal or anything. In fact,
- 24:01Speaker 3: there are some celebrities who actually have an assistant. In
- 24:05Speaker 3: the old days of the printed newspaper, go through the
- 24:08Speaker 3: paper and remove any articles, bad articles about them. And
- 24:12Speaker 3: I remember one of them told me once in the
- 24:14Speaker 3: worst scandals, he picked up the paper and it was
- 24:16Speaker 3: like Swiss cheese. It was all holes. But Trump's the opposite.
- 24:20Speaker 3: Good articles, bad articles, attack. He couldn't care less. He
- 24:22Speaker 3: just wants to see his name on every page of
- 24:24Speaker 3: every publication every day. It's A little crazy, but you're
- 24:29Speaker 3: not going to change it. That's the way he is. Hey,
- 24:31Speaker 3: we've got a lot more to get to. We'll take
- 24:33Speaker 3: some calls coming up. Mark Simone here. Three hours every day,
- 24:36Speaker 3: nine to noon every day on 710WOR. Mark Simone, Mr.
- 24:42Speaker 4: New York.
- 24:43Speaker 1: Now three hours every weekday from nine till noon on 710WOR.
- 24:51Speaker 3: Hey, we'll take some calls coming up. 800-321-0710 is the number. 800-321-0710. 3, 2, 1, 0, 7, 10.
- 25:00Speaker 3: The price of oil is spiking like crazy. It was
- 25:04Speaker 3: in the 90s, just the beginning of the week. All
- 25:08Speaker 3: of a sudden it is shot up to 105. It
- 25:11Speaker 3: was $ 106 a barrel a minute ago. 105 right now.
- 25:14Speaker 3: That's a huge spike in oil. Now, by the time
- 25:19Speaker 3: that gets to the pumps, it'll probably be after the
- 25:21Speaker 3: midterm elections. But why the spike? Well, because of the
- 25:27Speaker 3: Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia. The Houthis have been hitting
- 25:31Speaker 3: Saudi Arabia left and right. And then over the weekend,
- 25:34Speaker 3: some big attacks, missile attacks, drone attacks, whatever they could
- 25:38Speaker 3: hit in Saudi Arabia. They hit the airport earlier this month,
- 25:43Speaker 3: killed 13 people, wounded 300. They hit more over the weekend. Now,
- 25:49Speaker 3: The big problem for Saudi Arabia, every year they have
- 25:51Speaker 3: this big investor summit. It's a big international investment conference.
- 25:57Speaker 3: And it's not just to have a conference. The Saudis
- 25:59Speaker 3: make a lot of money. This is where they wheel
- 26:01Speaker 3: and deal and get future investments. It's actually called the
- 26:06Speaker 3: Future Investment Initiative. And it was supposed to be next
- 26:10Speaker 3: week in Riyadh. And it's a big important thing for
- 26:14Speaker 3: Saudi Arabia because they make a fortune off this. This
- 26:18Speaker 3: is where all the big investors from all over the
- 26:20Speaker 3: world come in. The crown prince, Mohammed bin Salan, this
- 26:23Speaker 3: is important for him. This is where all the money
- 26:26Speaker 3: comes pouring into Saudi Arabia. They can raise sometimes $ 40
- 26:30Speaker 3: billion just on this conference coming into Saudi Arabia. Organizers
- 26:36Speaker 3: said last year's gathering had 9,000 people from around the world.
- 26:40Speaker 3: And actually last year they brought in $ 50 billion in agreements.
- 26:44Speaker 3: So maybe this year they go for $ 60 billion. Well,
- 26:47Speaker 3: They've had to postpone the conference until next year because
- 26:50Speaker 3: of these hoodie attacks. They're afraid to do it. Too
- 26:55Speaker 3: dangerous right now. Conditions are too dangerous. They want these
- 26:59Speaker 3: investors coming, so they'll invest, not get killed, and there's
- 27:01Speaker 3: no investment. So obviously the conference would be a target.
- 27:04Speaker 3: So they've put it off until 2027. That's going to
- 27:08Speaker 3: cost them at least $ 50 billion. It's going to affect
- 27:11Speaker 3: Saudi Arabia. It's going to affect the whole Mideast. That's
- 27:14Speaker 3: why the price of oil, It's been spiking all day.
- 27:18Speaker 3: Here it is again, $ 106 a barrel. That's very, very,
- 27:22Speaker 3: very high. That's like Joe Biden kind of prices. Anyway,
- 27:25Speaker 3: let's take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number. Let's go
- 27:31Speaker 3: to Rob in Franklin Square. Rob, how are you doing? Hi,
- 27:35Speaker 3: good morning.
- 27:35Speaker 10: You too, Mark.
- 27:37Speaker 4: Great show again.
- 27:38Speaker 10: Listen, I 100% agree with what Vincent said yesterday, lambasting Putin.
- 27:43Speaker 10: The guys who KGB.
- 27:45Speaker 3: Now, let me get this straight. You're anti-Putin.
- 27:48Speaker 4: Wow.
- 27:48Speaker 3: What a brave stance you're taking.
- 27:50Speaker 10: Oh, yeah.
- 27:51Speaker 11: Okay.
- 27:51Speaker 10: But, you know, let's face it.
- 27:53Speaker 3: We're all anti-Putin. Everybody's anti-Putin.
- 27:56Speaker 9: The tariffs can be good for every.
- 27:58Speaker 3: Other country except for Russia. Let me ask you a question.
- 28:01Speaker 3: Everybody hates Putin. We all hate Putin. Everybody listening hates Putin.
- 28:04Speaker 3: We all hate Putin. So why do you have to
- 28:06Speaker 3: call us to tell us you hate Putin?
- 28:08Speaker 9: Well, I agree with what Vincent said.
- 28:11Speaker 3: Everybody already hates him. You're preaching to the choir.
- 28:14Speaker 12: And the triumvirate, the meeting with Xi and Putin, Zelensky
- 28:18Speaker 12: hasn't been invited for that.
- 28:20Speaker 3: Yes, he has. Yes, he has. Yes, he has.
- 28:22Speaker 9: No, he hasn't.
- 28:23Speaker 10: It was on America's Newsroom just.
- 28:24Speaker 3: Three minutes ago.
- 28:25Speaker 11: Oh, my God.
- 28:25Speaker 3: Then it must be true. No, he has been invited.
- 28:27Speaker 3: He has been invited.
- 28:28Speaker 4: Well, all right.
- 28:29Speaker 10: Have a good day, Mark. But you know what?
- 28:33Speaker 3: I guess all of this is because Trump said something
- 28:35Speaker 3: nice about Putin. I think that's what Vincent was saying.
- 28:38Speaker 3: Why does he have to be nice to Putin? Well,
- 28:40Speaker 3: it's the way Trump works. He's a master negotiator. He's
- 28:43Speaker 3: proven it in the last 40 years. He's been incredible
- 28:46Speaker 3: in negotiations. That's the technique. You start with the carrot first,
- 28:50Speaker 3: then the stick. He always does that with everybody. He
- 28:52Speaker 3: did that with Iran. First the carrot, then the stick.
- 28:57Speaker 3: He always tries the nice way first, then he gets
- 29:00Speaker 3: rough with them. Let's go to Craig in Columbia. Craig,
- 29:04Speaker 3: how are you doing?
- 29:05Speaker 11: Hey, how are you doing?
- 29:06Speaker 8: I'm doing very well, Mark. Thank you for taking my call.
- 29:10Speaker 3: What Columbia are you? Are you Columbia, South Carolina?
- 29:14Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
- 29:15Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
- 29:16Speaker 13: All right.
- 29:17Speaker 3: We just want to make sure it's not Columbia University.
- 29:19Speaker 3: All right, go ahead.
- 29:21Speaker 14: No, it's not.
- 29:23Speaker 4: I'm in Columbia.
- 29:24Speaker 8: I'm heading to Myrtle Beach right now. But anyway, you
- 29:28Speaker 8: had mentioned a couple of things. I've got two. I
- 29:32Speaker 8: got a letter from President Trump yesterday telling me my
- 29:37Speaker 8: October Medicare payment will be, I'll get a $ 90 credit
- 29:44Speaker 8: on my October. Now you think about that towards the
- 29:46Speaker 8: number of, I'm 78 years old. The number of people
- 29:49Speaker 8: on Medicare get a $ 90 credit. That's a lot of money.
- 29:53Speaker 8: Number one, number two, About a week ago, I got
- 29:57Speaker 8: a letter from the Internal Revenue Service. And they said
- 30:02Speaker 8: that if I put $ 1, 000 into a 401k, and I
- 30:04Speaker 8: just created a 401k with the company I work for,
- 30:06Speaker 8: and put $ 1, 000 in a 401k in 2027... the government
- 30:19Speaker 8: will match.
- 30:20Speaker 4: $ 5, 000. That's pretty good.
- 30:22Speaker 8: There's almost $ 1, 100 of your $ 5, 000 credit. I've never heard
- 30:27Speaker 8: you talk about that.
- 30:28Speaker 3: Well, one reason is not the most fascinating subject. It's
- 30:32Speaker 3: not the most riveting conversation, but it's good to know.
- 30:35Speaker 3: It's good to know. Thanks for calling, Craig. Yeah, you're
- 30:38Speaker 3: getting all kinds of credits from the president. Also, Elon Musk,
- 30:42Speaker 3: is going to give every child a special gift. We'll
- 30:45Speaker 3: get to that in the next hour. We'll get to
- 30:46Speaker 3: that in the next hour. For equal time, let's go
- 30:49Speaker 3: to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent, you've never called in the
- 30:52Speaker 3: first hour before.
- 30:54Speaker 10: No, no, I never called.
- 30:55Speaker 3: Never heard of you being up this early.
- 30:59Speaker 10: No, I have to take care of some business today,
- 31:01Speaker 10: so I had to get up.
- 31:02Speaker 3: I won't ask who, but okay.
- 31:04Speaker 10: Okay. Mark, you see, I know Trump's not going to change, but...
- 31:09Speaker 10: The optics of it is terrible, as the caller just said,
- 31:15Speaker 10: and a lot of people who are not calling up
- 31:18Speaker 10: the show are thinking. It's doing business in a wood-paddled
- 31:26Speaker 10: office on Fifth Avenue, I believe, and obviously other people believe.
- 31:32Speaker 10: is different than the way you do business.
- 31:35Speaker 4: All right.
- 31:35Speaker 3: Now, first of all, Trump in his life would never
- 31:37Speaker 3: have a wood-paneled office. The office would be gold on
- 31:40Speaker 3: top of gold with more gold.
- 31:42Speaker 10: It would probably be all gilded gold and marble.
- 31:45Speaker 3: It would be gold and mirrors. Can you imagine having.
- 31:47Speaker 10: A wood-paneled office? Exactly. And on the entrance to the room,
- 31:53Speaker 10: he would probably have his name over the doorway also
- 31:58Speaker 10: in gold. Mark, the optics of it aren't good at all,
- 32:04Speaker 10: and you know better than anybody else.
- 32:07Speaker 3: I know, but Vincent, Vincent, he's been doing business this
- 32:09Speaker 3: way for 40, actually 50 years. I know, but it
- 32:13Speaker 3: doesn't matter. He's been very successful. Nobody in the world
- 32:15Speaker 3: has ever been more successful than this guy.
- 32:18Speaker 10: I agree.
- 32:19Speaker 3: So I don't think he needs our advice. He doesn't
- 32:22Speaker 3: need our advice. Let him do whatever he does.
- 32:24Speaker 10: Well, all right. You know what? It's going to be
- 32:27Speaker 10: the acid test, Mark. Let's see how the midterms wash out.
- 32:31Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 32:32Speaker 3: Well, normally, in every case of every president, every.
- 32:35Speaker 10: Time, they lose the House.
- 32:38Speaker 3: He may be the first guy. No, they usually lose
- 32:39Speaker 3: the whole thing, but he may be the first to
- 32:41Speaker 3: buck that trend. But, again, you know, I remember Howard Stern,
- 32:45Speaker 3: like the first 20 years on the radio. Everybody would
- 32:48Speaker 3: say to him, you know, you don't have to say these.
- 32:49Speaker 3: Why do you have to say these kind of things?
- 32:50Speaker 3: Don't say these kind of things. Don't do this. You're
- 32:53Speaker 3: not going to change him. You're not going to change him.
- 32:56Speaker 10: Mark, I said I'm not... I don't, you know, the
- 32:59Speaker 10: guy obviously not going to change.
- 33:03Speaker 3: It's like saying to Don Rickles, why do you have
- 33:04Speaker 3: to insult everybody? Don't insult everybody.
- 33:07Speaker 10: That's what he does. Mark with Trump, you're right. It's
- 33:12Speaker 10: in the mix. It's dyed in the wool. Let's put
- 33:17Speaker 10: it in terms.
- 33:19Speaker 3: Maybe you'll relate to this. Godfather 3, Andy Garcia is
- 33:22Speaker 3: always beating up everybody. Michael keeps telling him, you can't
- 33:25Speaker 3: do that anymore. It's a different world. No more violence.
- 33:28Speaker 3: And then one time he does it and Don throws
- 33:32Speaker 3: up his arms. He goes, what am I going to do?
- 33:33Speaker 3: You are what you are.
- 33:34Speaker 10: You are what you are.
- 33:35Speaker 3: That's what Trump is.
- 33:37Speaker 10: Well, Mark, great speaking to you at this early hour
- 33:41Speaker 10: for me. And great show as always. I'm looking forward
- 33:46Speaker 10: to the other two hours that are about to come up.
- 33:49Speaker 10: You have a great day.
- 33:50Speaker 3: Vincent, everybody's favorite caller. Thanks for calling. Take care.
- 33:53Speaker 2: One more.
- 33:54Speaker 3: Let's go to Paul in the Bronx. Paul, we only
- 33:56Speaker 3: got a few seconds. What do you want to say?
- 33:59Speaker 14: I'd like to bring attention.
- 34:00Speaker 11: To a New York City cop that's sitting on Rikers Island,
- 34:03Speaker 11: 19-year veteran Omar Habib.
- 34:05Speaker 4: Go to freeomar.com, freeomar.com.
- 34:08Speaker 3: That's the cop in the Bronx that was, that's the
- 34:12Speaker 3: guy that threw the water cooler?
- 34:15Speaker 13: No, it's another one.
- 34:16Speaker 4: Oh. Not getting a lot of attention. Omar Habib, freeomarhabib.com.
- 34:21Speaker 3: All right. Thanks for calling. Hey, we got a lot
- 34:23Speaker 3: coming up. We got three hours every morning now. It's
- 34:26Speaker 3: 9 to noon, 9 a.m. till noon every day. Then
- 34:30Speaker 3: at noon, you got two great hosts, Buck and Clay.
- 34:32Speaker 3: That's a big, big show now. And then at 3 o'clock,
- 34:35Speaker 3: you got the most listened to radio show in America,
- 34:38Speaker 3: Sean Hannity. Jesse Kelly at 6. You got the very
- 34:41Speaker 3: funny Jimmy Fallon. What a great show. You've got to
- 34:44Speaker 3: start listening. You'll get addicted very fast. Jimmy Fallon, 9
- 34:47Speaker 3: to midnight, every night here on 710WOR. Mark Simone.
- 34:52Speaker 12: Mr. New York.
- 34:54Speaker 1: Now three hours every weekday from 9 till noon on 710WOR.
- 35:02Speaker 3: Hey, beautiful fall weather all week. It'll be 70 today,
- 35:06Speaker 3: 60 tomorrow. Bright sunshine all weekend, so you've got a
- 35:11Speaker 3: great seven days coming up. We've got two more hours
- 35:13Speaker 3: to go. We'll get to it right after the news. 710WOR.
- 35:18Speaker 3: Mark Simone.
- 35:19Speaker 4: Mr. New York.
- 35:21Speaker 1: Now three hours every weekday from 9 till noon on 710WOR.
- 35:30Speaker 3: Well, hey, it's hour number two.
- 35:32Speaker 4: That's right.
- 35:33Speaker 3: You missed the first hour. We start at 9 o'clock
- 35:36Speaker 3: every morning. The protests in France, as we reported yesterday,
- 35:42Speaker 3: 58 groups involved in that. These French protests trying to
- 35:46Speaker 3: burn down the country, destroy institutions, wipe out the culture,
- 35:51Speaker 3: take down the French democracy. Well, it was a bunch
- 35:55Speaker 3: of the normal yearly protesters, the students, the unions. Well,
- 35:59Speaker 3: 38 other groups jumped in. Violent. dangerous groups from antifa
- 36:06Speaker 3: to islamic extremists all sorts of to communist groups well
- 36:13Speaker 3: that was 38 of them we now know that it
- 36:16Speaker 3: was 101 well it's now 101 groups getting involved for
- 36:19Speaker 3: the future there are now 101 very dangerous radical groups
- 36:25Speaker 3: they're calling themselves chaos inc And they are now talking
- 36:29Speaker 3: about doing this in multiple countries. They want to stretch it.
- 36:32Speaker 3: They've got nine countries they want to target and come
- 36:36Speaker 3: in and take down cultural institutions and burn down cities,
- 36:41Speaker 3: destroy the democracy. They've got nine countries. Now, the problem
- 36:45Speaker 3: is it's France, so it's Macron. He's done nothing about this.
- 36:50Speaker 3: He's got some police in the streets. He really needs
- 36:52Speaker 3: to send the military in and just stop this, just
- 36:55Speaker 3: take all the looters and burners and arsonists and rioters
- 37:00Speaker 3: and just take them away and lock them up. He's
- 37:03Speaker 3: got to show force. They're doing that in Italy. They
- 37:05Speaker 3: started to get some of these protests. Italy put it
- 37:07Speaker 3: down real fast, brought out the military. You got to
- 37:11Speaker 3: stop it in its tracks. They're going to let it
- 37:13Speaker 3: get out of control in France. President Trump has been
- 37:16Speaker 3: warning them, warning them to do something about this. And
- 37:21Speaker 3: first of all, it's too late to go after the
- 37:24Speaker 3: initial cause, which is they left the border open for years.
- 37:29Speaker 3: And I'm afraid at some point the only way to
- 37:31Speaker 3: fix it is call Tom Holman and get him to
- 37:34Speaker 3: come over there and do what he did here, deport
- 37:37Speaker 3: millions of the worst criminal illegals and get them out
- 37:40Speaker 3: of the country. Well, the Senate race, it looks like
- 37:45Speaker 3: the Republicans have a good shot at not only holding
- 37:48Speaker 3: on to the Senate, maybe picking up a seat or two.
- 37:51Speaker 3: The one race people were worried about, Susan Collins in Maine,
- 37:55Speaker 3: always has these tough, tough races going. But in the end,
- 37:59Speaker 3: she always wins every time. So Collins, this time, she
- 38:05Speaker 3: had that terrible, crazy communist candidate. They had to get
- 38:09Speaker 3: rid of him, and they put in what they thought
- 38:12Speaker 3: was a more reasonable candidate. His name is Troy Johnson.
- 38:18Speaker 3: But they had a debate. By the way, every one
- 38:20Speaker 3: of these Senate debates, governor's debates, it's two debates or
- 38:24Speaker 3: three debates. The only one that's refused to do this
- 38:28Speaker 3: is Kathy Hochul. She did one debate and she picked
- 38:32Speaker 3: a little tiny thing that nobody sees called New York One.
- 38:35Speaker 3: She won't do it on a real TV station. She's
- 38:38Speaker 3: turned them all down. She won't do a second debate.
- 38:41Speaker 3: This is absolutely unheard of. It's a tribute to Bruce
- 38:46Speaker 3: Blakeman that she's terrified to debate him. He easily won
- 38:50Speaker 3: the first debate and there's no way she's going to
- 38:52Speaker 3: agree to a second debate. But getting back to Collins
- 38:56Speaker 3: in Maine, I think this is the second debate. So
- 38:59Speaker 3: there's a heckler starts screaming at Collins in the middle
- 39:05Speaker 3: of the debate. And she says, and this, by the way,
- 39:08Speaker 3: is the standard comeback you use when you get one
- 39:11Speaker 3: of these crazy hecklers going after you in a debate.
- 39:13Speaker 3: You say, well, obviously that's one of his supporters. Well,
- 39:16Speaker 3: that's somebody he's sent in to do this. That's standard.
- 39:19Speaker 3: You always use that response in a debate. So when
- 39:22Speaker 3: she does it, Troy Jackson tells her to shut up.
- 39:28Speaker 3: And this has gone viral in media. Maine. Now, to
- 39:31Speaker 3: go viral in Maine, all you need is about 100 people.
- 39:33Speaker 3: But it's a big moment. This could be the turning
- 39:37Speaker 3: point in the race. People thought that was you don't
- 39:40Speaker 3: say shut up to a woman. You don't say shut
- 39:43Speaker 3: up to a senator. And there's all kinds of protests
- 39:47Speaker 3: now against Troy Jackson saying he's abusive. The main slogan
- 39:53Speaker 3: of an abusive husband, they say, is shut up, shut up,
- 39:56Speaker 3: shut up. Well, take a listen. Here it is.
- 40:03Speaker 12: So this is obviously one of Troy's supporters.
- 40:08Speaker 3: Oh, shut up. You're not supposed to say that in
- 40:10Speaker 3: the debate. And you're not supposed to say that to
- 40:13Speaker 3: a woman. Take a listen to it again. So this
- 40:21Speaker 3: is obviously one of Troy's supporters. Oh, shut up. It's
- 40:25Speaker 3: not a bad thing to say. This is obviously one
- 40:28Speaker 3: of his supporters. Who would argue with that? Oh, shut up.
- 40:31Speaker 3: So they're using it in campaign ads. Could be a big, big,
- 40:35Speaker 3: big turning point there in the election process. Super Bowl halftime.
- 40:41Speaker 3: Nobody's happy with these choices. Bad Bunny. It wasn't a
- 40:44Speaker 3: bad show. It was just probably not the best idea
- 40:47Speaker 3: for a Super Bowl halftime show. They got a committee
- 40:51Speaker 3: that picks these shows led by Jay-Z. You'd think Jay-Z
- 40:55Speaker 3: would pick some great acts for halftime, but nobody's liked
- 40:58Speaker 3: the last few. So they probably told him, you better
- 41:01Speaker 3: do something better this time. So the word is Jay-Z
- 41:05Speaker 3: has picked this year's halftime show. He's picked himself. It'll
- 41:10Speaker 3: be Jay-Z if all these reports are correct. Jay-Z will
- 41:14Speaker 3: do the halftime show.
- 41:15Speaker 4: You know what?
- 41:15Speaker 3: It's not a bad idea. He is perfectly qualified to
- 41:19Speaker 3: do this. Hey, go back to like the 60s and
- 41:23Speaker 3: watch the Super Bowl halftime show. You wouldn't believe it.
- 41:25Speaker 3: It was like Andy Williams. It was like the most mainstream,
- 41:31Speaker 3: harmless sort of entertainers. And now it's just gotten crazier
- 41:36Speaker 3: and crazier and crazier every year. So, uh, Hey, Elon Omar,
- 41:42Speaker 3: I'm hearing they've got a real good, real good. Uh,
- 41:46Speaker 3: the evidence against Omar looks pretty bad, pretty bad. Now, um,
- 41:52Speaker 3: they were going after her for immigration fraud for lying
- 41:56Speaker 3: about her age because, uh, when her father came over
- 42:00Speaker 3: here and got his green card or visa or whatever,
- 42:03Speaker 3: if you have, uh, child, a minor, they're automatically in.
- 42:09Speaker 3: So the word is she doctored her birth certificate to
- 42:12Speaker 3: make it look like she was 17 and a minor.
- 42:16Speaker 3: And she wasn't. She doctored it to change her age.
- 42:20Speaker 3: So that would be enough to kick her out of
- 42:22Speaker 3: the country. That would be immigration fraud. And this whole
- 42:25Speaker 3: thing about marrying her brother to stay here, you may
- 42:29Speaker 3: remember a few days ago you saw the reports they
- 42:31Speaker 3: had gone through her garbage collection. the Department of Justice, FBI,
- 42:37Speaker 3: law enforcement, seized her garbage. And apparently her sister's garbage,
- 42:42Speaker 3: and apparently other people's garbage. Now, the reason they do that,
- 42:45Speaker 3: when they get your garbage, usually, you know, if you've
- 42:48Speaker 3: got a private eye after you, first thing they'll do
- 42:50Speaker 3: is get your garbage, because everything's in there. Your credit
- 42:53Speaker 3: card bills, your phone bills, everything's in that garbage. But
- 42:58Speaker 3: apparently what they were looking for in the garbage was DNA.
- 43:01Speaker 10: DNA.
- 43:02Speaker 3: You know, you leave your DNA on all this stuff
- 43:04Speaker 3: that you've touched. So apparently they got her DNA. They
- 43:07Speaker 3: got her brother's DNA. So I'm hearing they're going to
- 43:10Speaker 3: be able to prove she did indeed marry her brother.
- 43:13Speaker 3: So this could get very interesting. They're being very quiet
- 43:16Speaker 3: about it, which is also a sign that they're about
- 43:19Speaker 3: to get her on something. So keep an eye on that.
- 43:23Speaker 3: Kimberly Guilfoyle. Now, apparently, when all the heat started and
- 43:28Speaker 3: looked like she was going to be removed as ambassador...
- 43:32Speaker 3: And the scandal broke. Apparently, she was making a lot
- 43:35Speaker 3: of phone calls. She called Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth begging
- 43:39Speaker 3: for help, begging for him to put in a good
- 43:42Speaker 3: word for her and help her. Pete Hegseth used to
- 43:45Speaker 3: work at Fox News, as she did. They probably knew
- 43:48Speaker 3: each other from back then. So it was probably like
- 43:51Speaker 3: Tessio saying to Pete Hegseth, can't you do something for
- 43:55Speaker 3: old time's sake? Come on, Tom, for old time's sake.
- 43:59Speaker 3: Hegseth apparently did nothing. She called U.N. Ambassador to Turkey,
- 44:03Speaker 3: Tom Barak, who she knows, a big ambassador and a
- 44:07Speaker 3: longtime friend of the president's. I don't think that did anything.
- 44:13Speaker 3: And apparently she called Rupert Murdoch himself because it was
- 44:16Speaker 3: the Wall Street Journal that came out with all these
- 44:19Speaker 3: things against Kimberly Guilfoyle, going after donors for money and all.
- 44:23Speaker 3: It was the Wall Street Journal reporter. It says apparently
- 44:26Speaker 3: she placed a direct call to Rupert Murdoch himself about
- 44:30Speaker 3: the Wall Street journal articles and she tried to get
- 44:33Speaker 3: the stories removed she tried to get that coverage to
- 44:36Speaker 3: stop murdoch did not budge on that obviously you can't
- 44:40Speaker 3: do that you can't pull stories out but and it's
- 44:44Speaker 3: generally the rule at a place like that you you
- 44:47Speaker 3: know if you're the owner you can't really tell them
- 44:49Speaker 3: to kill stories uh apparently she tried to call trump
- 44:55Speaker 3: himself and plead her case but a couple of people
- 44:57Speaker 3: said trump would not take her call so She's out.
- 45:03Speaker 3: She's got to get out, clear out. It's a beautiful
- 45:05Speaker 3: mansion in Athens where the ambassador lived. Beautiful mansion, but
- 45:09Speaker 3: she's got to clear all her stuff out, which included,
- 45:12Speaker 3: believe it or not, portraits of herself on the walls.
- 45:16Speaker 3: That's kind of Trump-like to put your own portraits of
- 45:18Speaker 3: yourself on the walls. But Barry Weiss, boy, they're mad
- 45:23Speaker 3: at her. The left wing, she's the new CBS News president.
- 45:27Speaker 3: Apparently she pushed CBS reporters, to investigate Al-Sayed's background. Well,
- 45:33Speaker 3: the left is fuming. How dare she? Apparently, she even
- 45:38Speaker 3: said it on those numerous daily editorial calls where they
- 45:43Speaker 3: discuss topics. How dare she do something like that? Well, actually,
- 45:49Speaker 3: it was a major topic in the news, his ties
- 45:52Speaker 3: to the Muslim Brotherhood. He said he had nothing, never
- 45:56Speaker 3: heard of the Muslim Brotherhood, Then it turns out they
- 45:59Speaker 3: find his sister's old tweets, and she's a part of
- 46:02Speaker 3: the Muslim Brotherhood. That's his own family. Then he gave
- 46:05Speaker 3: you that whole story about he didn't really know his sister.
- 46:08Speaker 3: He hardly met her. And then the mother apparently had something.
- 46:11Speaker 3: He said he wasn't raised by his mother. But again,
- 46:15Speaker 3: this is a major story. This is what you're supposed
- 46:18Speaker 3: to investigate when something like that happens. And a guy
- 46:21Speaker 3: says he never met his sister. He didn't know his mother.
- 46:24Speaker 3: This is where you investigate. It's normal investigation. normal stuff
- 46:28Speaker 3: in the good old days of real journalism you'd put
- 46:31Speaker 3: a bunch of reporters on that immediately so that's all
- 46:34Speaker 3: she's doing is asking you to go back to the
- 46:36Speaker 3: normal journalistic standards hey uh john stewart big new contract
- 46:43Speaker 3: now you know uh jimmy kimmel couldn't get a new
- 46:47Speaker 3: contract when it was contract was up contract time normally
- 46:51Speaker 3: you get three years five years They gave him no
- 46:54Speaker 3: new contract. They refused to give him a contract. They
- 46:56Speaker 3: gave him an extension, a one-year extension. That's something you
- 47:00Speaker 3: only do when you don't want somebody, or if the
- 47:04Speaker 3: negotiations are stalled, you do a one-year extension until you
- 47:06Speaker 3: can get in it. But there were no negotiations. They
- 47:09Speaker 3: want him out. And it's different with Jon Stewart. They
- 47:13Speaker 3: offered him, hang on, I got to sneeze. Oh, it
- 47:18Speaker 3: went away.
- 47:18Speaker 4: Wait.
- 47:19Speaker 3: There you go. You missed it. A great sneeze. But, uh,
- 47:23Speaker 3: John Stewart only wanted two years. Now, you've got to remember,
- 47:26Speaker 3: John Stewart is sort of half retired. Remember, he took
- 47:29Speaker 3: a few years off from The Daily Show, and then
- 47:32Speaker 3: he returned a couple of years ago. So he doesn't
- 47:36Speaker 3: want to work. He doesn't know how much longer he
- 47:37Speaker 3: wants to work. So he only would do two years.
- 47:39Speaker 3: But they gave him a new two-year contract to not
- 47:41Speaker 3: only be the host once a week, but to produce
- 47:44Speaker 3: the rest of the week, executive producer. There's actual producers
- 47:47Speaker 3: doing it day to day, but he's the executive producer.
- 47:49Speaker 3: So new contract. that goes through the 2028 election. The
- 47:56Speaker 3: network Comedy Central said, John Stewart is a generational talent.
- 48:00Speaker 3: The Daily Show continues to be one of the most
- 48:04Speaker 3: influential franchises on television. Well, I don't know if you
- 48:10Speaker 3: can claim that if you've got a tiny audience. The
- 48:13Speaker 3: audience is generally about 700,000 people. they're saying they reach
- 48:18Speaker 3: a million over the year, but it's about six, seven
- 48:21Speaker 3: hundred thousand people that see Jon Stewart on The Daily Show.
- 48:24Speaker 3: I don't think you can call that the most influential
- 48:27Speaker 3: show in television. You know, The Five on Fox does
- 48:31Speaker 3: about four and a half million every day. Greg Gutfeld
- 48:35Speaker 3: on Fox does like three million every night. So if
- 48:40Speaker 3: you've got six hundred thousand viewers, I don't think you
- 48:41Speaker 3: can call yourself the most influential franchise on television. But
- 48:47Speaker 3: That's press release talk. That's the kind of thing you say. Hey,
- 48:50Speaker 3: Ukraine deserves a lot of credit here. As we've been saying,
- 48:57Speaker 3: Zelensky has been brilliant in one thing. Ukrainians have been brilliant.
- 49:00Speaker 3: They were depending on us for weapons. They figured out
- 49:03Speaker 3: how to make their own. They set up drone factories,
- 49:06Speaker 3: missile factories. They not only made drones, they made the
- 49:09Speaker 3: most state-of-the-art drones beyond anything anybody's ever seen. They're turning
- 49:13Speaker 3: them out by the thousands. Well, earlier this week, they
- 49:18Speaker 3: deserve a lot of credit for this. They had one
- 49:21Speaker 3: of their soldiers wounded in the battlefield. He was trapped
- 49:24Speaker 3: behind enemy lines. They rescued him by drone. It was
- 49:30Speaker 3: a drone evacuation. It was an amazing thing to watch.
- 49:33Speaker 3: He was surrounded on the ground by Russian kamikaze drones,
- 49:39Speaker 3: The terrain was mined all around. There was no way
- 49:42Speaker 3: to get to this guy with soldiers. Ukraine sent in
- 49:47Speaker 3: an unmanned drone, a very serious, unbelievably advanced drone, that
- 49:52Speaker 3: came in with a big net, and it landed close
- 49:56Speaker 3: to the soldiers. It was surrounded by other Ukrainian drones
- 50:01Speaker 3: to fight off the Russian drones, and the soldier managed
- 50:05Speaker 3: to strap himself into the The netting of the drone,
- 50:10Speaker 3: the big drone then lifted up the soldier and took
- 50:13Speaker 3: him away. It was absolutely an amazing thing to watch.
- 50:16Speaker 3: There's a video of it. The Ukrainian drones flanked this
- 50:20Speaker 3: thing on all sides, kept the other drones away. It
- 50:23Speaker 3: was an absolutely brilliant unmanned evacuation of this soldier. So
- 50:28Speaker 3: they are making a lot of great developments there in
- 50:30Speaker 3: Ukraine that every country will soon be able to use. Hey,
- 50:34Speaker 3: we'll take some calls next.
- 50:35Speaker 2: 800-321-7000.
- 50:38Speaker 3: 0-7-10 is the number. Also, we like a lot of
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- 50:47Speaker 3: the WOR LifeVac studios, the Mark Simone Show. Well, hey,
- 50:53Speaker 3: we'll take some calls.
- 50:55Speaker 4: Oh, look at that.
- 50:55Speaker 3: We got open lines. You never see open lines. You
- 50:58Speaker 3: want to call, do it right now.
- 51:00Speaker 4: 800-321-0710 is the number.
- 51:00Speaker 2: 800-321-0710.
- 51:07Speaker 4: 0-7-10.
- 51:07Speaker 3: Let's go to Blauvelt in Florida. Blauvelt, how you doing?
- 51:12Speaker 10: Good morning, Mark.
- 51:13Speaker 3: How are you? Ah, you got to practice. That's the
- 51:16Speaker 3: official greeting of Mar-a-Lago and Florida.
- 51:19Speaker 4: How are you?
- 51:21Speaker 3: It's thicker, deeper.
- 51:23Speaker 13: How are you?
- 51:25Speaker 4: How are you?
- 51:26Speaker 9: Listen, Chris the Panic, and I love what he calls.
- 51:29Speaker 4: He's a great caller.
- 51:30Speaker 9: But he was calling not too long ago. He was
- 51:33Speaker 9: so worried that they weren't doing anything with Omar. and
- 51:37Speaker 9: now he's got to be happy that things are going
- 51:40Speaker 9: his way.
- 51:41Speaker 3: No, he's never happy. Loves to panic. Loves to panic.
- 51:44Speaker 3: If you could tell him what they're doing, though, Mark,
- 51:46Speaker 3: he goes, when? Why is it taking so long? All right,
- 51:52Speaker 3: thanks for calling. Let's go to Robert in Westchester. Robert,
- 51:57Speaker 3: how you doing?
- 51:59Speaker 9: Good morning, Mark. Well, Mark, thanks for taking my call. Mark,
- 52:03Speaker 9: I got a quick question, and I hope you got
- 52:05Speaker 9: the answer.
- 52:06Speaker 3: Don't get your hopes up, but go ahead.
- 52:09Speaker 9: But I'm keeping my fingers crossed, brother. With the election
- 52:12Speaker 9: coming up in New York, I'm going to go vote early,
- 52:14Speaker 9: of course, for Bruce Blakeman and and Lowell Waller. Excuse me.
- 52:19Speaker 9: Is somebody watching, you know, to make sure that, oh,
- 52:23Speaker 9: my gosh, look, there's 200000 votes. We forgot to count.
- 52:26Speaker 9: Is somebody doing that?
- 52:28Speaker 3: Well, we don't have much of a Republican Party here
- 52:30Speaker 3: in New York. It was Democrats. They'd have poll watchers, lawyers,
- 52:33Speaker 3: and everybody studying every poll worker. And we don't have
- 52:36Speaker 3: much of that in New York. But there is a
- 52:41Speaker 3: lot of cheating. I know everybody denies it. But even
- 52:43Speaker 3: the Democrats privately will admit they can cheat it by
- 52:46Speaker 3: about 3%. You got to get enough votes to overcome
- 52:49Speaker 3: the cheating. That's all. Just big turnout. And any Bruce
- 52:53Speaker 3: Blakeman wins. It's all about turnout. Everybody's got to go vote.
- 52:57Speaker 3: It's two weeks from today. You're doing the early voting.
- 52:59Speaker 3: When is that? When are you going to do that?
- 53:01Speaker 9: Saturday, sir.
- 53:02Speaker 4: Saturday.
- 53:03Speaker 9: And I can't wait to cast my vote. And I
- 53:05Speaker 9: can't stand those those negative. How can you even have
- 53:08Speaker 9: a negative commercial toward you, the law? You people have
- 53:12Speaker 9: run this state for 16 years. Look where we are.
- 53:15Speaker 9: Just the mere fact, Mark, that we spent $ 8 billion
- 53:19Speaker 9: on people who are non-citizens. And by the way, one
- 53:22Speaker 9: more point, and thank you for being generous with your time.
- 53:25Speaker 9: What's happening in Europe, it's not.
- 53:27Speaker 13: Really being brought.
- 53:28Speaker 9: The only place you really see it is on either
- 53:30Speaker 9: Fox or Newsmax or with you. And this is when
- 53:33Speaker 9: President Trump said, and he was right, and I hate
- 53:36Speaker 9: to say it, but he was right, meaning what he said,
- 53:39Speaker 9: the enemy of the people is the press.
- 53:42Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, they've been horrible. You know, like the BBC,
- 53:45Speaker 3: which used to be such a prestigious news organization, is
- 53:48Speaker 3: now totally corrupt. If you're watching the BBC coverage of
- 53:51Speaker 3: these riots, they actually said, mostly peaceful. These are mostly
- 53:55Speaker 3: peaceful protesters. Half of France has been burned down. The looting,
- 54:00Speaker 3: the robbery, the violence. Mostly peaceful, but that's the BBC nowadays. So, yeah,
- 54:06Speaker 3: get out and vote.
- 54:07Speaker 4: You know what?
- 54:08Speaker 3: You can do early voting. Everybody go vote Saturday. If
- 54:10Speaker 3: you can't do it during the week, vote Saturday. This Saturday,
- 54:14Speaker 3: everybody go vote for Bruce Blakeman. Vote for Mike Lawler.
- 54:18Speaker 3: But especially Blakeman. If he becomes governor, everything will start
- 54:21Speaker 3: to turn around and change. And that's a good point
- 54:23Speaker 3: he made about Hochul complaining about affordability, complaining about this. Well,
- 54:28Speaker 3: you're the one. The Democrats have been running every single
- 54:30Speaker 3: thing in New York for 16 years. If there's anything wrong,
- 54:34Speaker 3: they're to blame. They've been running everything. Let's go to
- 54:36Speaker 3: Jacob in Denver, Colorado. Jacob, how are you doing?
- 54:41Speaker 2: Hi.
- 54:41Speaker 11: Eleven states have the SAVE Act on their ballot, and
- 54:44Speaker 11: I have heard no polling on it.
- 54:46Speaker 3: Well, if you do the polling, there is polling on it.
- 54:50Speaker 3: Something like 72% are all for the SAVE Act and
- 54:54Speaker 3: voter security, making sure that everybody is for that. It's
- 54:59Speaker 3: just you can't get it done because the states are
- 55:01Speaker 3: controlled by many of them by very bad secretaries of
- 55:06Speaker 3: state who are in charge of the voting procedures. Now,
- 55:09Speaker 3: there will be a SAVE Act at some point. It's
- 55:10Speaker 3: not going to happen in the next two weeks, so
- 55:12Speaker 3: it won't be there for this election. Let's go to
- 55:15Speaker 3: Sal in Kismet. Sal, how are you doing?
- 55:20Speaker 9: Good morning, Mark.
- 55:21Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 55:22Speaker 15: I have a comment about the situation in France. The
- 55:27Speaker 15: broken window theory comes into play in this. If you
- 55:32Speaker 15: allow the rioting to continue to happen, it will just
- 55:35Speaker 15: happen more and more.
- 55:39Speaker 3: You're absolutely right. The broken window theory, you don't even
- 55:42Speaker 3: allow a broken window. As soon as the broken window,
- 55:44Speaker 3: you fix it. You don't allow anything, anything. You keep
- 55:48Speaker 3: your public spaces clean, orderly. And that's the problem in France. Macron,
- 55:54Speaker 3: typical French president, doing absolutely nothing. The military should have
- 55:58Speaker 3: been called out immediately. Although I don't know what the
- 56:01Speaker 3: French military is capable of. He should have been on
- 56:04Speaker 3: the phone with President Trump asking for a real military
- 56:06Speaker 3: to come in. Let's go to Tom in Staten Island. Tom,
- 56:10Speaker 3: how are you doing?
- 56:11Speaker 4: How are you?
- 56:12Speaker 2: Good.
- 56:12Speaker 3: Great show.
- 56:13Speaker 4: Love to listen. Thanks. You know, French, you talked about chaos. Yeah. Right? Well,
- 56:19Speaker 4: Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 could take care of that.
- 56:22Speaker 3: There you go. For those of you under 90, what
- 56:25Speaker 3: he's talking about, there was a TV show called Get Smart.
- 56:29Speaker 3: Created by Mel Brooks, by the way. That was his
- 56:31Speaker 3: TV show, his sitcom. And Maxwell Smart, agent. The other
- 56:38Speaker 3: one was, the woman was 99. Barbara Felden, was it 86?
- 56:42Speaker 3: I think Maxwell Smart was 86. The Chief, the Cone
- 56:46Speaker 3: of Silence. And the organization, James Bond was fighting Spectre.
- 56:52Speaker 3: So on Get Smart, he was fighting an organization called Chaos.
- 56:56Speaker 3: One more. Let's go to Pete in Marlborough. Pete, how
- 56:58Speaker 3: you doing?
- 56:59Speaker 10: Very good, Mark.
- 57:00Speaker 6: Thank you for taking my call. I just want to ask,
- 57:05Speaker 6: the Democrats, I got the $ 90 rebate for the Medicare.
- 57:14Speaker 6: And then I was online and I saw this woman say, oh,
- 57:17Speaker 6: big deal. And then I said, well, since when did
- 57:20Speaker 6: a Democrat ever give you money? And she starts touting
- 57:23Speaker 6: off back, I think, in the 30s. I'm saying, well,
- 57:29Speaker 6: if that's the best you can do.
- 57:30Speaker 4: Good luck.
- 57:31Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good point. Thanks for calling. Trump, $ 90
- 57:35Speaker 3: to everybody on Medicare refund. He's talking about, was it
- 57:39Speaker 3: $ 1, 000 or $ 5, 000? I think he said $ 5, 000 for everybody
- 57:43Speaker 3: after the election. I don't know where that's going to
- 57:45Speaker 3: come from, but you never know. You never know. He's
- 57:47Speaker 3: about to bring in a couple of trillion in investment.
- 57:50Speaker 3: And from the tariffs, a couple of trillion will come in,
- 57:52Speaker 3: so maybe he could do it. Elon Musk got a
- 57:55Speaker 3: big giveaway. We'll get to that coming up. We'll get
- 57:58Speaker 3: to the dean himself, the best political analyst. All these
- 58:01Speaker 3: questions you have about the midterms, we'll ask him. Ed Rollins,
- 58:04Speaker 3: coming up next on 710WOR.
- 58:07Speaker 10: More Mark.
- 58:09Speaker 8: Mark Simone.
- 58:10Speaker 1: Now nine till noon weekdays.
- 58:13Speaker 13: On 710WOR.
- 58:13Speaker 5: Mark Simone.
- 58:16Speaker 3: Well, let's talk to the Dean himself, uh, Ed Rollins.
- 58:19Speaker 3: Nobody's run more campaigns, more successful campaigns, been involved in
- 58:23Speaker 3: more elections than, uh, Ed Rollins. And, uh, he knows
- 58:26Speaker 3: everything about this stuff. Ed Rollins, how you doing?
- 58:29Speaker 13: I'm doing well.
- 58:30Speaker 12: Thank you.
- 58:30Speaker 13: Good morning. Uh, let me just preface this.
- 58:33Speaker 12: So I don't think, I don't think anybody knows totally
- 58:36Speaker 12: what's going on out there.
- 58:38Speaker 13: Um, We now have early voting already on.
- 58:41Speaker 12: Obviously, it's a very competitive, we've got four or five
- 58:44Speaker 12: of these Senate races that are dead even. I think
- 58:48Speaker 12: when we began this premise, we assumed that Republicans were
- 58:51Speaker 12: going to lose the House because traditionally you lose in
- 58:55Speaker 12: the midterms. No one thought the Republicans were going to
- 58:58Speaker 12: be challenged in the Senate.
- 59:01Speaker 13: They certainly are, and I.
- 59:02Speaker 12: Think to a certain extent that's a lot of the
- 59:05Speaker 12: focus on two weeks from time.
- 59:06Speaker 13: That's what we'll be sitting up late at night, waiting
- 59:08Speaker 13: to watch.
- 59:08Speaker 3: All right. Now let me ask you some questions that
- 59:11Speaker 3: a lot of listeners ask this kind of stuff.
- 59:12Speaker 4: Sure.
- 59:13Speaker 3: Especially here in New York, it's a election day. You
- 59:15Speaker 3: go to the polls or even early. How do you know,
- 59:18Speaker 3: we don't have much of a Republican party here. Is
- 59:19Speaker 3: there anybody watching the workers at the polls or the,
- 59:22Speaker 3: make sure the ballots are correctly.
- 59:24Speaker 12: Well, you, you, you, you, you, you, an answer to
- 59:27Speaker 12: your question, not, Not to satisfy you or me. You
- 59:32Speaker 12: get some lawyers that volunteer all the time and go
- 59:35Speaker 12: out and look at it, but we don't.
- 59:37Speaker 13: Have a strong organization. Democrats have the labor unions.
- 59:40Speaker 12: They've been through this process and they control a lot
- 59:43Speaker 12: of the mechanisms.
- 59:45Speaker 13: We have a very competitive race, hopefully, for governor.
- 59:48Speaker 12: We don't know at this point, but I think Blakeman
- 59:51Speaker 12: has made a good campaign here and we'll see. Everything
- 59:56Speaker 12: else is pretty much I just did my absentee ballot yesterday,
- 59:59Speaker 12: and as a lifelong Republican, I couldn't find much to
- 1:00:06Speaker 12: vote for after I checked Blakeman's name.
- 1:00:08Speaker 3: Yeah. Okay, let's take Bruce Blakeman, for instance. He was
- 1:00:11Speaker 3: like 20 points behind. Now he's pretty close. It looks good.
- 1:00:15Speaker 3: We're in the last two weeks. What do you do
- 1:00:18Speaker 3: for a campaign when you're in the last two weeks?
- 1:00:19Speaker 3: What changes? What do you do then?
- 1:00:21Speaker 12: Well, the critical thing is making sure your workers are
- 1:00:25Speaker 12: are geared up they're ready to go they're it's it's
- 1:00:28Speaker 12: all about getting out the vote uh and and you
- 1:00:31Speaker 12: know parts of new york are very hard the city
- 1:00:33Speaker 12: itself with the apartments you can't go knock on doors
- 1:00:36Speaker 12: and you can't uh can't take voters to the polls but.
- 1:00:39Speaker 13: You hopefully there's a structure that it's going.
- 1:00:41Speaker 12: To get voters out uh you know call them up
- 1:00:44Speaker 12: city you need to ride the polls do you need
- 1:00:46Speaker 12: this you need that but again we don't have the
- 1:00:48Speaker 12: organization we don't have the labor unions you can bet
- 1:00:50Speaker 12: every labor union is out there intensely uh uh, on
- 1:00:54Speaker 12: the other side. Um, and I think just, even though
- 1:00:56Speaker 12: Blakeman's got the cops endorsements and what have you, they
- 1:00:59Speaker 12: don't go out and walk precincts. They don't, they don't,
- 1:01:02Speaker 12: you know, they, they give endorsements, but they don't, they
- 1:01:04Speaker 12: don't do the mechanism that, that organized labor has and
- 1:01:07Speaker 12: other structures. Yeah.
- 1:01:09Speaker 3: That's the problem. The Democrats have an army out there
- 1:01:12Speaker 3: in New York to get people.
- 1:01:13Speaker 12: And they keep, they keep the army going, you know,
- 1:01:15Speaker 12: when the election is over, it's, it's, it's a full-time
- 1:01:17Speaker 12: job and they hire, they hire some of the best people. So, um,
- 1:01:22Speaker 12: The key thing here, I think in this one, you know,
- 1:01:25Speaker 12: the Democrats may be more intense.
- 1:01:27Speaker 13: Republicans have more money. Uh, are they spending it right?
- 1:01:30Speaker 12: I don't know. Uh, I sit here in Upper East
- 1:01:34Speaker 12: Side of New York and watch the thing from afar.
- 1:01:36Speaker 12: I talked to people around the country and, and I
- 1:01:39Speaker 12: can just tell you, everybody is very worried about this race.
- 1:01:42Speaker 12: And the key thing is we don't know whether the
- 1:01:44Speaker 12: president's helping us or not. I mean, what he is
- 1:01:46Speaker 12: doing is he's dominating the media as he always does. Uh,
- 1:01:50Speaker 12: But is he talking about the issues that we need
- 1:01:52Speaker 12: to be talking about? And if I was the White
- 1:01:54Speaker 12: House political director, which I was many years ago, I'd
- 1:01:58Speaker 12: be saying we have a mission to finish.
- 1:02:01Speaker 4: Mr.
- 1:02:01Speaker 13: President, thank you for what you've done. We need a
- 1:02:03Speaker 13: Republican majority. We need a Republican Senate.
- 1:02:06Speaker 12: Majority, certainly, to continue to finish the job.
- 1:02:09Speaker 13: You haven't heard that conversation. What you've heard is.
- 1:02:11Speaker 12: All about I did this, I did that, I did this.
- 1:02:14Speaker 12: And it's all the stuff we've heard. And I think
- 1:02:17Speaker 12: to a certain extent, it's not. I just, I see
- 1:02:20Speaker 12: a lot.
- 1:02:20Speaker 13: Of energy going into these rallies and what have you,
- 1:02:22Speaker 13: but I don't see a lot of votes coming out.
- 1:02:24Speaker 3: Yeah. But the New York city, the problem, uh, Republicans
- 1:02:28Speaker 3: don't have much of a party and all they got
- 1:02:30Speaker 3: are these Republican clubs and all they do is throw
- 1:02:32Speaker 3: cocktail parties and take pictures of them.
- 1:02:34Speaker 4: So I, I agree.
- 1:02:35Speaker 13: It's been, you know, it's been, and you know, it's
- 1:02:37Speaker 13: been the same chairman for a long time. And, and, uh,
- 1:02:40Speaker 13: the Manhattan chairman's been the same. And, you know, Ms.
- 1:02:44Speaker 12: Castormedes is a young woman and she does the best
- 1:02:47Speaker 12: she can do to recruit candidates. But, you know, we've
- 1:02:50Speaker 12: not made progress. We don't, you know, it's just, and
- 1:02:55Speaker 12: I think if we, for some reason, don't win this
- 1:02:58Speaker 12: governor's race, we've got to tear this thing apart and
- 1:03:00Speaker 12: figure out what we want to do in the post-Trump period.
- 1:03:03Speaker 3: Yeah. The Trump rallies, whatever's wrong with them, that's one thing, but.
- 1:03:09Speaker 3: They do use those to sign up, get the emails,
- 1:03:11Speaker 3: get the phone numbers of everybody there. That's going to
- 1:03:14Speaker 3: help because they can push them to go.
- 1:03:16Speaker 12: Well, hopefully, I don't know what the step is afterwards.
- 1:03:19Speaker 12: I mean, that goes back to, you know, usually you
- 1:03:24Speaker 12: can't do much in the last two weeks of the campaign.
- 1:03:26Speaker 13: You've got to be in place.
- 1:03:28Speaker 12: You've got to have everything ready. And I think to
- 1:03:30Speaker 12: a certain extent, you know, when you look at, you know,
- 1:03:33Speaker 12: it's Probably every predictor is predicting anywhere from 15 to
- 1:03:38Speaker 12: 25 seats that we're going to lose in the House.
- 1:03:41Speaker 12: Are we fully in those 25 seats? That's the key
- 1:03:45Speaker 12: that I need to know and I don't know. In
- 1:03:47Speaker 12: the Senate races, we've got Alaska, Iowa. We've got seats
- 1:03:52Speaker 12: we should never have ever been competitive.
- 1:03:55Speaker 13: Alaska's been ours for a long time. Iowa's been ours
- 1:03:57Speaker 13: for a long time. Maine has been ours for a
- 1:04:00Speaker 13: long time. Michigan has been ours for a long time.
- 1:04:03Speaker 13: And now we're going to fight for all those. And
- 1:04:05Speaker 13: North Carolina is gone. And that's the race that's always ours.
- 1:04:09Speaker 12: And South Carolina, where Lindsey Graham has been for a
- 1:04:11Speaker 12: long time, is just not a good candidate.
- 1:04:13Speaker 13: She may win it.
- 1:04:14Speaker 12: I hope she does. But she's not a good candidate.
- 1:04:17Speaker 12: And Kansas, my goodness. You know, we haven't had a
- 1:04:21Speaker 12: Democrat win the Kansas Senate race since the 20s. When
- 1:04:25Speaker 12: you're worried about Kansas, Iowa, Texas, and Alaska, and South Carolina,
- 1:04:29Speaker 12: then you've got a tough year. Yeah. And we may
- 1:04:35Speaker 12: get it, but it's just a lot of concerns I have.
- 1:04:39Speaker 13: And I think the professionals all have to.
- 1:04:40Speaker 3: I want you to explain something to people because you
- 1:04:42Speaker 3: run a lot of campaigns. And actually, the last time
- 1:04:44Speaker 3: we had a billionaire trying to run for it was
- 1:04:47Speaker 3: Ross Perot. You ran that campaign. Everybody always, you know,
- 1:04:51Speaker 3: yell and scream. You got to tell Trump to stop
- 1:04:53Speaker 3: doing this. Tell him to stop saying this. Tell him
- 1:04:55Speaker 3: to explain to people. you can't tell anybody like that
- 1:04:59Speaker 3: to stop doing something. Can you?
- 1:05:00Speaker 14: Nope.
- 1:05:00Speaker 4: Nope.
- 1:05:01Speaker 3: You can't.
- 1:05:01Speaker 12: And, and, and Trump, Trump has, you can go back
- 1:05:05Speaker 12: to what he was in New York. He's the same,
- 1:05:07Speaker 12: same man. He's the same, you know, a lot more
- 1:05:10Speaker 12: experienced than a national forum, but he believes in himself
- 1:05:13Speaker 12: and his people around him basically are not going to
- 1:05:16Speaker 12: walk in and say, uh, Mr.
- 1:05:18Speaker 13: President, you shouldn't do this.
- 1:05:20Speaker 11: Mr.
- 1:05:20Speaker 12: President, you're going to go here whether you want to
- 1:05:22Speaker 12: or not. Trump's going to do what Trump wants to do.
- 1:05:25Speaker 12: That's just the reality of it. And it's, uh, And
- 1:05:28Speaker 12: anybody who stands in his way or tries to change
- 1:05:30Speaker 12: his mind is, is going to happen.
- 1:05:32Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:05:32Speaker 3: Oh, you must've gone through that with Ross Perot. He
- 1:05:34Speaker 3: was a very successful.
- 1:05:37Speaker 13: Well, he, he, and he didn't know anything about politics and,
- 1:05:40Speaker 13: you know, uh, there was a period in.
- 1:05:42Speaker 12: Time when, when I was first running the campaign, where
- 1:05:45Speaker 12: he was ahead, he was at 39% of the poll and,
- 1:05:47Speaker 12: and Bush and, and, uh, Clinton were behind him. Uh,
- 1:05:52Speaker 12: he could have been a viable candidate, but he, he
- 1:05:55Speaker 12: chose to not do the things that you need to do. He,
- 1:05:57Speaker 12: You've got to run a campaign, and there's three major
- 1:06:00Speaker 12: things in a campaign. One is you've got to have
- 1:06:02Speaker 12: a district you can win in or a state you
- 1:06:04Speaker 12: can win in. Second, you have to have a candidate
- 1:06:07Speaker 12: who is a good candidate, and you've got to run
- 1:06:10Speaker 12: a good campaign. If you have those three things, you
- 1:06:12Speaker 12: can win. If you don't have, you're missing one of.
- 1:06:15Speaker 13: Those along the line. If you have an overwhelmingly Democrat district,
- 1:06:19Speaker 13: you're not going to win it.
- 1:06:20Speaker 12: New York, you know, going down the ballot here yesterday, there's,
- 1:06:24Speaker 12: you know, For 25 years, I've looked for people to
- 1:06:27Speaker 12: vote in this city because I'm Republican.
- 1:06:29Speaker 4: There aren't many.
- 1:06:30Speaker 3: There aren't many. Hey, Ed Rollins, I'm trying to remember,
- 1:06:34Speaker 3: what happened to Reagan in the midterms? Did he lose
- 1:06:37Speaker 3: both houses?
- 1:06:39Speaker 12: No, we held the Senate. We lost the Senate the
- 1:06:43Speaker 12: second time. What happened is we had a big victory
- 1:06:46Speaker 12: in 1980. We got up to 192 seats, which was
- 1:06:48Speaker 12: a big gain. And then the Democrats took reapportionment, and
- 1:06:54Speaker 12: they redid it. So we lost 14 seats in the
- 1:06:59Speaker 12: 82 cycle. And then basically we held the Senate until 86,
- 1:07:05Speaker 12: and then we lost the Senate.
- 1:07:07Speaker 3: Now, of course, 84, you ran that campaign. That was
- 1:07:11Speaker 3: the most successful presidential campaign ever, Reagan re-election. You could
- 1:07:15Speaker 3: have had 50 states. You deliberately gave up Minnesota.
- 1:07:19Speaker 4: Didn't you?
- 1:07:19Speaker 13: I didn't spend any effort there.
- 1:07:21Speaker 12: I gave the chairman, who was Congressman Weber, a good guy,
- 1:07:26Speaker 12: I gave him $ 10, 000 to open a headquarters.
- 1:07:29Speaker 13: Never spent a penny. Went there one last day of
- 1:07:33Speaker 13: the campaign. We went to the airport and were there
- 1:07:36Speaker 13: for 15 minutes. And the president wasn't anxious.
- 1:07:40Speaker 12: The president wasn't greedy.
- 1:07:45Speaker 3: He didn't want to embarrass me.
- 1:07:46Speaker 12: If I knew it was that close, I would have
- 1:07:49Speaker 12: still gone in and I could have won it.
- 1:07:51Speaker 3: Yeah, but basically he didn't want to embarrass Mondale, so
- 1:07:54Speaker 3: he let him have his own.
- 1:07:54Speaker 12: He didn't want to embarrass Mondale, and we lost it.
- 1:07:58Speaker 12: A shift of 1,700 votes would have won it.
- 1:08:02Speaker 3: For those of you young people, there was a thing
- 1:08:04Speaker 3: back then called courtesy in an election. And the other.
- 1:08:08Speaker 12: Thing is we never ran a negative campaign. It wasn't
- 1:08:11Speaker 12: a negative campaign on our side at all.
- 1:08:13Speaker 13: And it was all about what we had done and
- 1:08:16Speaker 13: kind of a feel-good campaign.
- 1:08:19Speaker 12: And the only negative campaign, as Mondale said in the convention,
- 1:08:22Speaker 12: I'm going to raise your taxes. Reagan isn't. And we
- 1:08:26Speaker 12: ran that campaign. We just repeated his message.
- 1:08:28Speaker 13: So that's the only negative.
- 1:08:30Speaker 3: Well, that was the all-time greatest campaign. But Ed Rollins,
- 1:08:33Speaker 3: brilliant as always. Thanks for being with us. We'll do
- 1:08:36Speaker 3: it again soon.
- 1:08:37Speaker 12: My pleasure. Take care.
- 1:08:38Speaker 4: Bye-bye.
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- 1:09:29Speaker 3: Hey, well, two weeks from today, Election Day. Two weeks
- 1:09:38Speaker 3: from today, Election Day. Make sure you vote. That's the key.
- 1:09:42Speaker 3: Who's going to win? Depends on turnout. Republicans get the turnout,
- 1:09:45Speaker 3: they win. Democrats get more turnout, they win. So make
- 1:09:50Speaker 3: sure you vote. Now, it's going to be some night
- 1:09:53Speaker 3: two weeks from tonight. Two weeks from tonight, you're going
- 1:09:56Speaker 3: to be glued to the TV watching all these races.
- 1:10:01Speaker 3: Looks very good for Republicans in the Senate, the House.
- 1:10:03Speaker 3: It's too close to call. I know you're going to
- 1:10:05Speaker 3: hear a million different opinions. It's too close to call.
- 1:10:09Speaker 3: Netflix is in trouble. You know, a million years ago, Netflix,
- 1:10:14Speaker 3: they really pioneered streaming. And remember, the stock was like
- 1:10:17Speaker 3: 40 bucks and then it went to 400. It was
- 1:10:20Speaker 3: like the hottest thing in the world. Everybody was watching
- 1:10:23Speaker 3: Netflix and Netflix got better and better and better. While
- 1:10:28Speaker 3: the networks were dying, Netflix went all over Hollywood, hiring
- 1:10:31Speaker 3: the best writers, the best producers, the best directors, the
- 1:10:35Speaker 3: top actors, paying them a fortune more than the networks would,
- 1:10:39Speaker 3: paying them a fortune to create big, big blockbuster shows.
- 1:10:44Speaker 3: They had better comedy sitcoms, better, better dramas, better everything than, uh,
- 1:10:49Speaker 3: than the networks could ever do because they were spending
- 1:10:52Speaker 3: more money. They were hiring all the top talent. It
- 1:10:54Speaker 3: was unbelievable. Netflix just got.
- 1:10:57Speaker 4: Bigger and bigger.
- 1:10:58Speaker 3: It got so big. Uh, I think it was Eisner
- 1:11:03Speaker 3: was first at Disney who said to himself one day,
- 1:11:07Speaker 3: why are we selling all this stuff to Netflix? Why
- 1:11:09Speaker 3: don't we create our own streaming service? And, uh, Not
- 1:11:12Speaker 3: give it all to Netflix. So they did. And then
- 1:11:15Speaker 3: it was NBC and Paramount. Everybody else said, what are
- 1:11:19Speaker 3: we selling them content for? We'll create our own streaming service.
- 1:11:22Speaker 3: So next thing you know, there's like eight major streaming companies.
- 1:11:27Speaker 3: And now Netflix has been having a lot of trouble
- 1:11:29Speaker 3: attracting talent, finding anything different. So they've lost a lot
- 1:11:36Speaker 3: of viewers, a lot of streamers. And it's not so
- 1:11:39Speaker 3: much Netflix's fault. They just didn't see all this coming.
- 1:11:42Speaker 3: And I don't know what you could have done to
- 1:11:44Speaker 3: stop it. But now it's just like network TV or
- 1:11:48Speaker 3: cable TV. The pie is now getting split a million
- 1:11:50Speaker 3: different ways. So Netflix doesn't have the audience anymore. It
- 1:11:55Speaker 3: doesn't have the, as a result, the subscribers revenue has dropped.
- 1:12:00Speaker 3: Netflix just laid off a thousand people earlier, about a
- 1:12:05Speaker 3: week ago. And then the numbers again are dropping again. Uh, and, uh, it's,
- 1:12:10Speaker 3: it's what happened to cable TV. You know, if you
- 1:12:12Speaker 3: were the first, uh, HBO was the first cable network.
- 1:12:15Speaker 3: They had everybody on cable. Well, now there's 400 cable channels.
- 1:12:19Speaker 3: It's a whole different world. Hey, uh, on, uh, CNN
- 1:12:25Speaker 3: mentioned before, John Stewart, comedy central loves them. They just
- 1:12:27Speaker 3: re-signed him for a couple of years, uh, on CNN
- 1:12:31Speaker 3: where they have no ratings. They're in last place all
- 1:12:33Speaker 3: the time. Constantly CNN, uh, These anchors at CNN are
- 1:12:40Speaker 3: so delusional, so elitist. You know, on this show, we
- 1:12:45Speaker 3: do very well on this show. We're number one. We
- 1:12:47Speaker 3: kill the competition. We got big ratings. We're very happy.
- 1:12:51Speaker 3: But if we were in last place, if we were
- 1:12:54Speaker 3: the worst, we had low ratings, nobody, you can't get
- 1:12:58Speaker 3: delusional about it. You got to wonder what to do,
- 1:13:00Speaker 3: how to fix. But over at CNN, all of these
- 1:13:02Speaker 3: people there, these anchors, these CNN anchors, they think they're untouchable.
- 1:13:07Speaker 3: They think they're, gods of broadcasting. They're terrible. They're in
- 1:13:11Speaker 3: last place. They got nobody watching. So Christiane Amanpour, a
- 1:13:17Speaker 3: very distinguished Christiane Amanpour. Now, she was great as a
- 1:13:21Speaker 3: war correspondent back in the Gulf War. That's where she really,
- 1:13:24Speaker 3: really made her name. But then she went on to
- 1:13:28Speaker 3: be a CNN anchor, host. She took over for Charlie Rose.
- 1:13:32Speaker 3: But even that show, you know, the Charlie Rose show
- 1:13:34Speaker 3: and its heyday had... 60,000 viewers. That was about it.
- 1:13:38Speaker 3: It was never, I mean, it was very fine show,
- 1:13:40Speaker 3: but it never had any audience. I mean, it was
- 1:13:44Speaker 3: very elite Manhattan sort of audience, but that was about it.
- 1:13:48Speaker 3: And Christiane Amanpour, nice woman, tries hard, very left-wing biased,
- 1:13:53Speaker 3: but she's got no audience. So she's leaving CNN. The
- 1:13:57Speaker 3: word is they tried to cut her salary. She's getting
- 1:13:59Speaker 3: millions of dollars. You know, that's another thing. If you're,
- 1:14:03Speaker 3: Over at CNN, big anchor, and you're in last place,
- 1:14:07Speaker 3: and you've got no viewers, and you're getting 500,000 a year. Okay.
- 1:14:12Speaker 3: But if you're getting 5 million a year, it's insane.
- 1:14:14Speaker 3: So there's new owners of CNN, normal, sane, rational business people,
- 1:14:19Speaker 3: and they come in and they look at Christiane Amanpour.
- 1:14:22Speaker 3: You've got 12 viewers. You're in last place. Why are
- 1:14:24Speaker 3: you getting 8 million a year? So apparently they really
- 1:14:27Speaker 3: tried to cut her salary, so she's leaving. She made
- 1:14:30Speaker 3: the announcement after more than four decades. It says, one
- 1:14:34Speaker 3: of the most recognizable faces. Walk down the street with
- 1:14:42Speaker 3: Christiane Amanpour. See how recognizable she is. 99.999% of the
- 1:14:45Speaker 3: people walking by have no idea who the hell she is.
- 1:14:50Speaker 3: Even if you told them who she is, they still
- 1:14:51Speaker 3: wouldn't know who she is. She put out a statement,
- 1:14:54Speaker 3: after many months of thought and a few sleepless nights,
- 1:14:58Speaker 3: I've decided to separate from CNN, my partner of 43
- 1:15:02Speaker 3: fantastic years. Okay, very gracious statement. Sleepless nights. Hey, back
- 1:15:08Speaker 3: when you were in last place, that's when you should
- 1:15:10Speaker 3: have the sleepless nights. I'm in last place. I got
- 1:15:12Speaker 3: low viewers, no audience. What the hell can I do?
- 1:15:16Speaker 3: She said it was philosophical differences. Some people said philosophical differences.
- 1:15:21Speaker 3: Other people that know what they're doing said she was
- 1:15:23Speaker 3: also offered to stay at a Drastic pay cut, which
- 1:15:29Speaker 3: she didn't want to do. She did say she doesn't
- 1:15:32Speaker 3: like the new owners. These are the people that took
- 1:15:35Speaker 3: over CBS and put Barry Weiss in. You know, these left-wingers,
- 1:15:39Speaker 3: they're furious about Barry Weiss. They think Barry Weiss is
- 1:15:45Speaker 3: a crazy Republican conservative coming in. She's a liberal. She's
- 1:15:49Speaker 3: a Democrat. Barry Weiss is a liberal Democrat. The problem
- 1:15:53Speaker 3: is she's a Bill Clinton Democrat. You know, a sane Democrat. Normal,
- 1:15:58Speaker 3: old-fashioned Democrat. Not a crazy, a woke socialist Democrat. She's
- 1:16:03Speaker 3: a Bill Clinton Democrat, but she's from the New York Times.
- 1:16:05Speaker 3: She's a Democrat. But even Christiane Amanpour said in an interview,
- 1:16:10Speaker 3: I have great concern about her. Clearly, I'm concerned. I'm
- 1:16:13Speaker 3: concerned because of what's happened, the way she's handled CBS News.
- 1:16:17Speaker 3: What has she done at CBS News? Except trying to
- 1:16:19Speaker 3: get it back to the way it was. I mean,
- 1:16:23Speaker 3: do I have to list what's happening there? Hemorrhaging viewers.
- 1:16:27Speaker 3: probably hemorrhaging money, the ideological realignment of CBS. Well, all
- 1:16:33Speaker 3: she did is realign it from crazy left-wing back to
- 1:16:36Speaker 3: normal left-wing. Remember, Amanpour, she's very left-wing. She's had a
- 1:16:41Speaker 3: lot of backlash before. Remember, she was very anti-Israel in
- 1:16:47Speaker 3: her coverage. Remember when they released the Israeli hostages, she
- 1:16:51Speaker 3: said on the air in October, they were probably treated
- 1:16:54Speaker 3: better than the average Gazan citizen. Now we know these
- 1:16:58Speaker 3: Israeli hostages were beaten, raped, tortured, but the very biased
- 1:17:04Speaker 3: Christiane Amanpour said they were treated better than the people
- 1:17:07Speaker 3: in Gaza. Absolutely ridiculous. She got a lot of flack
- 1:17:13Speaker 3: for it. She later apologized, calling it insensitive and wrong.
- 1:17:17Speaker 3: She had to apologize because the backlash got intense. But
- 1:17:21Speaker 3: you know, even if she apologized, she believed what she said,
- 1:17:25Speaker 3: this real anti-Semitic crap that she said. Jerry Seinfeld getting
- 1:17:29Speaker 3: a lot of flack. He had to give up colleges
- 1:17:34Speaker 3: because the college students would just boo him like crazy
- 1:17:37Speaker 3: college kids. But he's trying to do normal shows, does
- 1:17:41Speaker 3: the Beacon Theater here in New York and big venues
- 1:17:43Speaker 3: around the country. So he's in Chicago and the hecklers,
- 1:17:47Speaker 3: they're going after Seinfeld because of Israel. It's absolutely ridiculous.
- 1:17:51Speaker 3: You know, when you go to A Seinfeld show, all
- 1:17:54Speaker 3: he's going to do is jokes about your phone, jokes
- 1:17:56Speaker 3: about your dishwasher. I mean, it's nothing to do with politics.
- 1:18:00Speaker 3: Never made a political comment in his life. But they're
- 1:18:04Speaker 3: going after him. Listen to these hecklers. 22,000 Palestinians. Our
- 1:18:08Speaker 3: children never killed. With our taxpayer money. With our taxpayer money.
- 1:18:14Speaker 3: And you're making jokes.
- 1:18:19Speaker 14: I'm racist.
- 1:18:21Speaker 12: I'm into it.
- 1:18:25Speaker 3: Listen to these lunatics. What do you think? It sounds
- 1:18:28Speaker 3: like I went to a mental institution and recorded this.
- 1:18:31Speaker 3: There's like rabid dogs, these lunatics. Now, Seinfeld, he's in
- 1:18:45Speaker 3: the middle of the show. And again, he's talking about,
- 1:18:48Speaker 3: you know, using your phone. He's talking about Instagram. It's
- 1:18:52Speaker 3: just funny, cute stuff. And this guy starts screaming.
- 1:18:56Speaker 4: Seinfeld!
- 1:18:57Speaker 2: Seinfeld! Listen to me. You're a racist. There are 74,000
- 1:19:02Speaker 2: dead Palestinians. 74,000! Palestinians have been killed by the racist.
- 1:19:30Speaker 3: Yeah, he said, I'll find out how much you paid
- 1:19:32Speaker 3: for the ticket. I'm sending it to Israel. But he
- 1:19:35Speaker 3: doesn't deserve this. I mean, these are just crazy, insane lunatics.
- 1:19:39Speaker 3: The last guy in the world who deserves this, Jerry Seinfeld,
- 1:19:43Speaker 3: who hasn't got a political bone in his body. Absolutely crazy. Hey,
- 1:19:48Speaker 3: I was talking about Elon Musk. He's announced Elon Musk
- 1:19:53Speaker 3: is going to give one share of SpaceX to every
- 1:19:58Speaker 3: child in America next year. Now, a share of SpaceX
- 1:20:02Speaker 3: is about, I think it's about $ 146 right now, a share.
- 1:20:09Speaker 3: So there's about 73 million children in the U.S. under 18.
- 1:20:17Speaker 3: So to give everybody a share of SpaceX would cost
- 1:20:21Speaker 3: them about $ 10 billion. $ 10 billion is like 35 cents
- 1:20:24Speaker 3: to us. $ 10 billion for him. He could find that
- 1:20:30Speaker 3: much in his sofa cushions that slipped in there. $ 10 billion. Now,
- 1:20:36Speaker 3: a share of SpaceX. It's a very great company. And
- 1:20:41Speaker 3: a lot of people bought SpaceX. The IPO, I think,
- 1:20:43Speaker 3: was around $ 140. And it went to $ 500. But it's
- 1:20:47Speaker 3: back to like around $ 140. But you'll make a lot
- 1:20:51Speaker 3: of money on SpaceX stock. You're going to have to
- 1:20:54Speaker 3: wait 20 years, but you'll make a lot of money.
- 1:20:56Speaker 3: SpaceX will be an incredible stock. It'll go to a thousand,
- 1:21:02Speaker 3: but in 20 years or 10 years or something, you're
- 1:21:03Speaker 3: going to have to hold it a long time. So
- 1:21:07Speaker 3: that doesn't mean you should buy SpaceX because you're going
- 1:21:09Speaker 3: to have to wait a long time. But if you're
- 1:21:11Speaker 3: a little kid, a little child, yeah, by the time
- 1:21:13Speaker 3: you're ready for college, it'll be worth a lot more money.
- 1:21:17Speaker 3: So that's a great thing that he's doing. Anthropic is
- 1:21:21Speaker 3: now saying they'll do the same thing. Anthropic getting in
- 1:21:24Speaker 3: on that action, but Great for Elon Musk. It's a
- 1:21:27Speaker 3: $ 10 billion giveaway. Hey, out in California, Department of Justice,
- 1:21:33Speaker 3: you know, they're trying to find voter fraud everywhere. And
- 1:21:36Speaker 3: they're finding it. Every time they look, they find it.
- 1:21:39Speaker 3: Out in California, there are 20,000 suspected non-citizens that have voted.
- 1:21:44Speaker 3: They've asked California to cooperate. They've identified the 20,000 non-citizens
- 1:21:49Speaker 3: who voted. California will not cooperate. But they're going in
- 1:21:52Speaker 3: there anyway. They just arrested... It's called Operation Protect the Vote.
- 1:21:57Speaker 3: They just arrested 24 of these people, foreign nationals, who
- 1:22:02Speaker 3: fraudulently registered to vote in the U.S. They arrested them
- 1:22:05Speaker 3: earlier this week and took them away. 24 have been arrested. Now,
- 1:22:09Speaker 3: that's what you've got to do because there are a
- 1:22:11Speaker 3: lot of illegal people fraudulently registering to vote. Now, when
- 1:22:16Speaker 3: they see people getting arrested and put in jail for that,
- 1:22:19Speaker 3: that's the only thing that's going to discourage this. You know,
- 1:22:23Speaker 3: if nothing's going to happen to you, you'll keep doing it.
- 1:22:24Speaker 3: But when you see people actually getting arrested, handcuffed, taken
- 1:22:27Speaker 3: out of their house, felony charges, thrown in jail, that's
- 1:22:31Speaker 3: the only way you're ever going to stop this stuff. Now,
- 1:22:37Speaker 3: Knicks tonight, they're going to get their, what do you
- 1:22:39Speaker 3: call them? Not World Series rings, playoff rings, championship rings.
- 1:22:43Speaker 3: They'll get them tonight after the game. There were a
- 1:22:45Speaker 3: lot of people, like me probably, who never watched basketball,
- 1:22:49Speaker 3: never paid any attention. But those playoffs were so exciting
- 1:22:55Speaker 3: at the end of last season. And the championship's so exciting.
- 1:22:58Speaker 3: I started watching it every night.
- 1:22:59Speaker 4: It was great.
- 1:22:59Speaker 3: You finally understood the magic of basketball. So maybe you'll
- 1:23:04Speaker 3: start watching this year. But you've got to remember, the
- 1:23:06Speaker 3: Knicks aren't so hot until the end. They definitely don't
- 1:23:10Speaker 3: really pick it up until the end of the season.
- 1:23:12Speaker 3: So you're going to have to sit through that. Bagels.
- 1:23:16Speaker 4: Bagels.
- 1:23:19Speaker 3: If this were five years ago or 10 years ago,
- 1:23:21Speaker 3: he said, who makes the best bagels? Well, it was
- 1:23:24Speaker 3: H & H bagels in Manhattan were considered the best.
- 1:23:28Speaker 3: There was Essa bagel. Out in Queens, there was Utopia bagel.
- 1:23:33Speaker 3: That's very good, that Utopia bagel. They always were winning
- 1:23:36Speaker 3: as the best bagel in New York City. Out in Queens.
- 1:23:41Speaker 3: And all these bagel things, you know, they tried to expand.
- 1:23:44Speaker 3: Utopia bagels came into Manhattan. First, 34th Street, now there's
- 1:23:48Speaker 3: one on 53rd. H & H has opened a few stores.
- 1:23:51Speaker 3: Essa Bagel is opening more. So they're trying to expand.
- 1:23:55Speaker 3: But the one that came out of nowhere and is
- 1:23:58Speaker 3: becoming the bagel of America is Pop-Up Bagel. It started
- 1:24:03Speaker 3: during the pandemic. These two kids in Westport, Connecticut, they're
- 1:24:07Speaker 3: college kids or whatever they were, during the pandemic started
- 1:24:10Speaker 3: making bagels at home. And they worked and worked on
- 1:24:13Speaker 3: it and tried and tried and tried. perfected the pop-up
- 1:24:16Speaker 3: bagel and they made the most unique cream cheeses that
- 1:24:19Speaker 3: were a little softer. You could just dip the bagel
- 1:24:23Speaker 3: and they opened Westport. That's the original first store. Then
- 1:24:26Speaker 3: I think there was one in Greenwich around Connecticut and
- 1:24:28Speaker 3: they became very big. Then they came into New York
- 1:24:32Speaker 3: and somewhere along the line, a big hedge fund saw
- 1:24:36Speaker 3: how good this product was and put in like 400 million.
- 1:24:41Speaker 3: There's now, I think like a hundred pop-up bagels around
- 1:24:44Speaker 3: the country. They're going to be the most famous bagel
- 1:24:47Speaker 3: in the world. They are delicious. And they get away
- 1:24:49Speaker 3: with stuff. You know, you had to buy a bag
- 1:24:52Speaker 3: of 12. Now, the smallest order you can get, you
- 1:24:56Speaker 3: have to buy a bag of three. There's nobody can
- 1:24:58Speaker 3: eat three bagels. But you have to buy a minimum
- 1:25:02Speaker 3: of three. So you're going to have to give away
- 1:25:04Speaker 3: one or two. But it's a way to charge you
- 1:25:07Speaker 3: more for each order. But again, hedge fund, hundreds of millions.
- 1:25:11Speaker 3: They're opening all over the place. Even around here, there's
- 1:25:13Speaker 3: a new one coming to Stanford. Huntington, Walt Whitman Mall,
- 1:25:17Speaker 3: you're getting one. Just come back in about three years.
- 1:25:20Speaker 3: They'll be like Starbucks. There'll be a pop-up bagel everywhere.
- 1:25:23Speaker 3: I don't know what the other bagel companies are going
- 1:25:24Speaker 3: to do. Hey, we'll take some calls next. 800-321-0710 is
- 1:25:27Speaker 3: the number. And if you're a new caller, call us.
- 1:25:29Speaker 3: We'd love that.
- 1:25:30Speaker 2: 800-321-0710.
- 1:25:30Speaker 3: The Mark Simone Show, live from the WOR LifeVac studios. Hey,
- 1:25:45Speaker 3: let's take some calls. Let's go to Kira, Beth Page. Kira,
- 1:25:49Speaker 3: how are you doing?
- 1:25:49Speaker 12: Good.
- 1:25:51Speaker 4: How are you?
- 1:25:52Speaker 3: Good.
- 1:25:52Speaker 16: I have two questions. Do you think the daylight savings
- 1:25:58Speaker 16: time is going to stick? Because they were talking about it,
- 1:26:02Speaker 16: and then they stopped talking about it, and then Trump
- 1:26:05Speaker 16: keeps pushing it, but nobody's talking about it.
- 1:26:08Speaker 3: No, it didn't pass this time. It will not be
- 1:26:11Speaker 3: here in time for this year, but next year. Hopefully
- 1:26:13Speaker 3: you get it. The senator, I'm blanking out his name,
- 1:26:16Speaker 3: from Arizona was the one that voted against it and
- 1:26:19Speaker 3: stopped it.
- 1:26:21Speaker 16: So one senator.
- 1:26:24Speaker 3: The vote was that close that, yeah, they lost his vote. Arizona, no,
- 1:26:29Speaker 3: it's Arkansas. Arkansas doesn't want it because they're right on
- 1:26:32Speaker 3: the cusp of a time zone, which means almost an
- 1:26:36Speaker 3: hour difference. So it would have been dark out in
- 1:26:39Speaker 3: Arkansas until about 830, and they didn't want to do that.
- 1:26:44Speaker 16: Okay, and my other question is, did Trump know that
- 1:26:52Speaker 16: they probably won't get the House, but he offered the
- 1:26:54Speaker 16: $ 5, 000 to everybody?
- 1:26:56Speaker 4: Was that a ploy?
- 1:26:58Speaker 3: A ploy from Donald Trump? Trump doing a ploy? Why,
- 1:27:02Speaker 3: I can't imagine such a thing. I can't imagine.
- 1:27:05Speaker 4: Oh, my gosh.
- 1:27:06Speaker 16: You don't think so?
- 1:27:07Speaker 3: Well, it looks very good for the Senate, for Republicans,
- 1:27:10Speaker 3: and the House pretty much could go either way right now. Yes,
- 1:27:15Speaker 3: obviously it's a ploy. It's like Oprah Winfrey with you
- 1:27:18Speaker 3: get a car, you get a car. That's what ploys are.
- 1:27:20Speaker 3: It's like Biden with the Biden phone or the Obama
- 1:27:23Speaker 3: phone or Biden with I'll forgive your student loans. That's
- 1:27:27Speaker 3: what politics is, a series of ploys. That's what a
- 1:27:29Speaker 3: campaign is. But thanks for calling, Kira. Good call. Let's
- 1:27:33Speaker 3: go to Barney in New Jersey. Barney, how you doing?
- 1:27:38Speaker 4: Hi, Mark. Yes.
- 1:27:40Speaker 9: Bernie, the dinosaur. I'm announcing I'm throwing my hat in
- 1:27:45Speaker 9: the ring as a Democrat candidate for president.
- 1:27:48Speaker 3: Oh, great, great.
- 1:27:50Speaker 9: The Democrats have been running dinosaurs for years. There was
- 1:27:54Speaker 9: Hillary and Bernie and Biden. They need a dinosaur this year.
- 1:28:00Speaker 3: All right, great. This is really... No, that's very funny.
- 1:28:04Speaker 3: What a great call. Oh, God. Anyway, let's go to
- 1:28:09Speaker 3: John in Ronkonkoma. John, how are you doing?
- 1:28:11Speaker 4: Hey, I'm doing good, Mark. I'm taking a call.
- 1:28:15Speaker 9: I've got a couple of things. I've got to follow
- 1:28:16Speaker 9: that call.
- 1:28:17Speaker 4: Anyway, why do we need.
- 1:28:18Speaker 9: These pop-up bagels in New York when you can get
- 1:28:21Speaker 9: bagels at any deli, get great bagels? You've got bagel
- 1:28:24Speaker 9: shops on every corner.
- 1:28:24Speaker 3: I'm telling you, they're pretty good. It must not just
- 1:28:27Speaker 3: be me. They're catching on. Have you had one? Have
- 1:28:30Speaker 3: you had one? Have you had one?
- 1:28:33Speaker 9: I have not yet.
- 1:28:34Speaker 3: Okay, don't say anything.
- 1:28:35Speaker 9: Are they all in Long Island yet? I haven't seen one.
- 1:28:38Speaker 3: There's one in Garden City. There's about to be one
- 1:28:40Speaker 3: in Honey. Go to the website. Pop-Up Bagels. Look it up.
- 1:28:43Speaker 3: I'm sure they've got a few in Long Island. Just
- 1:28:46Speaker 3: try it.
- 1:28:46Speaker 9: I'll have to check it out.
- 1:28:47Speaker 4: Yeah. All right.
- 1:28:48Speaker 3: Take care. They're softer, fluffier. They're absolutely delicious. Listen, I
- 1:28:56Speaker 3: was opposed to them at first. They kind of won
- 1:28:59Speaker 3: me over, and every morning I come in, I always
- 1:29:02Speaker 3: walk down there by Elvis Duran's Z100 because very often
- 1:29:05Speaker 3: there's a pop-up bagel buffet there. It wasn't today, but
- 1:29:09Speaker 3: let's go to Phil in Suffolk County. Phil, how are
- 1:29:11Speaker 3: you doing?
- 1:29:13Speaker 4: Yes, hello, Mark.
- 1:29:14Speaker 9: Greta Thunberg.
- 1:29:15Speaker 3: What, are you rolled up inside a rug? We can
- 1:29:18Speaker 3: barely hear you.
- 1:29:20Speaker 9: I'm sorry. Greta Thunberg, the sweetheart of climate change.
- 1:29:26Speaker 3: Greta Thunberg, yeah.
- 1:29:28Speaker 9: Turned Gaza sympathizer.
- 1:29:32Speaker 13: Yeah.
- 1:29:32Speaker 9: And now she's inserting herself in the French riots.
- 1:29:35Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:29:35Speaker 9: I'm sorry the sound quality is bad, but maybe you
- 1:29:39Speaker 9: could comment.
- 1:29:40Speaker 3: Well, there's nothing to comment on. She's a crazy lunatic,
- 1:29:42Speaker 3: always on the wrong side of everything. She's a radical lunatic,
- 1:29:47Speaker 3: chaos-creating radical. How old is she now? Probably 58 now.
- 1:29:52Speaker 3: With that climate change nonsense. What was she, like 15 then?
- 1:29:57Speaker 3: How long ago was that? So she's got to be
- 1:29:58Speaker 3: like 30 now. Greta Thunberg, the most ineffective, useless agitator ever.
- 1:30:04Speaker 3: She got a lot of attention for five minutes. Then
- 1:30:06Speaker 3: everybody forgot about her. What did you say? Oh, 23. Oh,
- 1:30:11Speaker 3: so maybe she was 13 back then. Or maybe it
- 1:30:14Speaker 3: wasn't as long ago as I thought. Let's go to
- 1:30:16Speaker 3: Mike in Ulster. Mike, how are you doing?
- 1:30:20Speaker 14: Good morning, Mark. I'd just like to comment on the gubernatorial.
- 1:30:24Speaker 9: Election that's coming up.
- 1:30:25Speaker 4: Go ahead.
- 1:30:26Speaker 14: I found it strange that Adrienne Adams had been picked
- 1:30:30Speaker 14: as Hochul's running mate. I think that Hochul had nothing
- 1:30:34Speaker 14: to do with that. I think the party picked her,
- 1:30:36Speaker 14: and God forbid Hochul gets reelected, I think they've already
- 1:30:40Speaker 14: got plans to oust her and elevate Adrienne Adams to
- 1:30:43Speaker 14: the governorship.
- 1:30:44Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right. They should have made more out of
- 1:30:46Speaker 3: this in the election. Her running mate is a lunatic, radical,
- 1:30:49Speaker 3: left-wing kook, Adrienne Adams. Hockel is from upstate New York,
- 1:30:53Speaker 3: so you always have to balance the ticket with somebody
- 1:30:55Speaker 3: from the New York City area. Adrienne Adams, a kooky, left-wing,
- 1:31:00Speaker 3: dangerous radical. That's her running mate. Let's go to John
- 1:31:05Speaker 3: in Long Island. John, how are you doing?
- 1:31:08Speaker 2: Hey, Mark.
- 1:31:09Speaker 10: I'm doing great.
- 1:31:09Speaker 11: Thanks for taking the call. I wanted to touch base
- 1:31:11Speaker 11: on something that you talked about yesterday about the credit
- 1:31:13Speaker 11: card fees. People are asking why. I own a couple
- 1:31:17Speaker 11: of small businesses. Before, they used to be all cash businesses.
- 1:31:21Speaker 11: But now with the credit cards, instead of charging somebody
- 1:31:24Speaker 11: a dollar, I'm charging somebody $ 1.
- 1:31:25Speaker 4: 75.
- 1:31:25Speaker 11: Because not only is the credit card company taking money,
- 1:31:29Speaker 11: but also the taxes. I used to pay a quarterly
- 1:31:32Speaker 11: tax of about $ 3, 000. Now, because everything's showing, I'm paying
- 1:31:35Speaker 11: quarterly taxes of about $ 25, 000 per store.
- 1:31:37Speaker 4: Okay, but wait.
- 1:31:37Speaker 11: If I hand you $ 10 to your business, you got $ 10.
- 1:31:39Speaker 3: If I pay with my credit card $ 10, how much
- 1:31:40Speaker 3: do you end up with from that?
- 1:31:48Speaker 11: I'm getting about $ 875. Wait, you're telling me the credit
- 1:31:51Speaker 11: card company takes $ 1.
- 1:31:52Speaker 3: 25 out of $ 10? Well, the credit card company takes
- 1:31:54Speaker 3: it two ways, coming and going.
- 1:32:03Speaker 11: Plus, you have the cash register fee. They're taking money,
- 1:32:07Speaker 11: plus the bank's taking money. Plus, I get taxed on
- 1:32:10Speaker 11: top of all that stuff, too.
- 1:32:12Speaker 3: All right, wait a minute. When you use your credit card,
- 1:32:13Speaker 3: you pay like whatever little 3% for the credit card company.
- 1:32:17Speaker 3: So now the machine that you use to run the
- 1:32:19Speaker 3: credit card, they take a percentage of it?
- 1:32:22Speaker 11: They get either 1% or 2%, right? Then the bank
- 1:32:26Speaker 11: takes money. for their fees, and then the tax man
- 1:32:30Speaker 11: comes along and he takes it.
- 1:32:32Speaker 3: I didn't realize that. I forgot that machine you run
- 1:32:35Speaker 3: it through.
- 1:32:35Speaker 11: Just ask Vincent from Brooklyn. I'm sure he knows about cash.
- 1:32:39Speaker 3: He pays cash. No, it's a good point. Excellent point.
- 1:32:42Speaker 3: Thanks for calling. Hey, when we come back, Bill O'Reilly.
- 1:32:45Speaker 3: We'll talk to him next about the midterms and a
- 1:32:47Speaker 3: lot of other stuff coming up on 710WOR.
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- 1:33:35Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a busy time, obviously, for everybody in the business.
- 1:33:41Speaker 4: Just trying to get through it, Simone. Two more weeks.
- 1:33:45Speaker 3: Yeah, that's going to be some election night in two
- 1:33:47Speaker 3: weeks from tonight, watching that. What do you think?
- 1:33:50Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going to be diverse. The one thing I
- 1:33:55Speaker 4: know is that everybody's mad. So nobody's not mad. And
- 1:34:04Speaker 4: I'm trying to think back in the Vietnam era, it
- 1:34:06Speaker 4: was like that, too. But how that's going to manifest
- 1:34:11Speaker 4: itself as far as people choosing a candidate. For example,
- 1:34:15Speaker 4: I think Blakeman's going to upset Hochul here in New York.
- 1:34:19Speaker 4: which would be a stunning blow to the radical left Democrats.
- 1:34:26Speaker 4: But he'll still get waxed out in California. And as
- 1:34:31Speaker 4: far as the Senate is concerned, it's impossible at this
- 1:34:35Speaker 4: point to pick it. You know, when I watch these
- 1:34:39Speaker 4: idiots on television, and they truly are idiots, and they're
- 1:34:44Speaker 4: speculating about this and that, they don't know. It's like
- 1:34:48Speaker 4: going to Miss Cleo. Remember Miss Cleo? And, you know,
- 1:34:52Speaker 4: you give the woman 50 bucks and she looks at
- 1:34:54Speaker 4: some balls. Yeah, I mean, come on. You know, the
- 1:34:59Speaker 4: one thing that you have to build on is facts.
- 1:35:02Speaker 4: In Michigan, for example, I said it is the big
- 1:35:06Speaker 4: Democratic star, charismatic guy. I can't see black Americans coming
- 1:35:11Speaker 4: out for the man. I cannot see it. That would
- 1:35:15Speaker 4: go against every tradition. Um, African-Americans, uh, they, uh, and
- 1:35:22Speaker 4: I'm generalizing, of course, they're very centered into their community
- 1:35:28Speaker 4: and how to improve it. And Al-Sayed is about as
- 1:35:32Speaker 4: far away from their community as you could get. Putin
- 1:35:35Speaker 4: is closer than Al-Sayed. So are all these people in
- 1:35:40Speaker 4: Detroit going to run out and vote for Al-Sayed? I, I,
- 1:35:43Speaker 4: and I'd be shocked. And if that doesn't happen, then
- 1:35:47Speaker 4: Rodgers will win.
- 1:35:49Speaker 3: So let's say Blakeman wins. We think Blakeman will win.
- 1:35:53Speaker 3: He should win. And within a year, he's turned New
- 1:35:56Speaker 3: York around quite a bit. He's lowered the taxes. Everything's better.
- 1:35:59Speaker 3: Could that be the end of this crazy socialist democratic
- 1:36:03Speaker 3: crap all over the place?
- 1:36:05Speaker 4: It's going to cause a lot of angst, that's for sure.
- 1:36:08Speaker 4: So I had Blakeman on the nose of the news yesterday.
- 1:36:11Speaker 3: Yeah, that's very good.
- 1:36:12Speaker 4: And I don't usually do, you know, politicians because they're
- 1:36:15Speaker 4: just going to give you, you know, the can line
- 1:36:18Speaker 4: and all that. But I ran into Blakeman last week
- 1:36:21Speaker 4: on Long Island, and, you know, I had a conversation
- 1:36:24Speaker 4: with him. I said, okay, look, I'll invite Hulk, or
- 1:36:27Speaker 4: he'll never come on. And then I'll invite you, and
- 1:36:30Speaker 4: you come on if you want. And he did. And
- 1:36:33Speaker 4: the thing about Blakeman, and I don't know him that well.
- 1:36:36Speaker 4: I mean, I know him. I live in Nashville County,
- 1:36:39Speaker 4: and he's a county commissioner, the director of it. The
- 1:36:43Speaker 4: thing about him is that he's got a very sharp
- 1:36:47Speaker 4: point of view. And his point of view is law
- 1:36:50Speaker 4: and order, number one. And the Nashville County Police Department
- 1:36:54Speaker 4: is a good department under Ryder. And, you know, it's
- 1:36:58Speaker 4: much tougher to police in New York City than it
- 1:37:01Speaker 4: is in Nashville. But There's a lot of miscreants in
- 1:37:04Speaker 4: Nassau floating around, and they've gotten that under control. Taxes
- 1:37:09Speaker 4: were the highest taxed state in the union. They've come
- 1:37:12Speaker 4: down a little bit in Nassau County, but not anything
- 1:37:15Speaker 4: dramatic because the state and the county and everybody else
- 1:37:19Speaker 4: owes so much money. I'm expecting Blake to hold the
- 1:37:23Speaker 4: line or drop it a little bit if he can
- 1:37:26Speaker 4: in certain areas. He can certainly cut out waste and fraud,
- 1:37:30Speaker 4: which Hochul and the Democrats will never do. And the
- 1:37:34Speaker 4: big joke among people who really are tuned into this
- 1:37:38Speaker 4: is the affordability. You haven't heard about that in about
- 1:37:41Speaker 4: two weeks since I just blew it up. Affordability, you
- 1:37:45Speaker 4: don't think the Democratic Party, if they win, is going
- 1:37:47Speaker 4: to raise taxes? I mean, so any money that you
- 1:37:52Speaker 4: would save in the grocery store at the gas pump
- 1:37:55Speaker 4: is going to go right into their hands and their pockets.
- 1:37:59Speaker 4: In the form of taxation. Taxation isn't just your paycheck.
- 1:38:05Speaker 4: It's nine bucks going into the city. It's what are
- 1:38:09Speaker 4: they charging out of park? Fifteen percent tax to park.
- 1:38:14Speaker 4: I mean, it's every blanket thing that we do in
- 1:38:17Speaker 4: New York state is taxed. Everything. I mean, next, they're
- 1:38:22Speaker 4: going to be tracking. They're going to be taxing trick-or-treating.
- 1:38:26Speaker 4: You know, there'll be some guy following around a kid, like,
- 1:38:29Speaker 4: give me half of that. You know, so I'm going,
- 1:38:33Speaker 4: you don't think the Democratic Party are going to raise taxes?
- 1:38:36Speaker 4: So what are you talking about affordability? How's that going
- 1:38:40Speaker 4: to shake? And there's never an answer to that question.
- 1:38:45Speaker 3: Yeah, but, you know, They have controlled every inch of
- 1:38:48Speaker 3: government in New York State and city for the last
- 1:38:50Speaker 3: 15 years. How do they, if there's an affordability crisis,
- 1:38:54Speaker 3: didn't they cause it? How did they get away from
- 1:38:56Speaker 3: not having an answer?
- 1:38:57Speaker 4: Of course they caused it. Of course they caused it.
- 1:39:00Speaker 4: But there is a line, it's about $ 60, 000 in New
- 1:39:05Speaker 4: York City, where people below that line don't pay much
- 1:39:09Speaker 4: tax at all, federal or state or anything. In fact,
- 1:39:14Speaker 4: the government pays them. So you get what they call
- 1:39:18Speaker 4: a tax rebate if you earn less than a certain
- 1:39:20Speaker 4: amount of money. And so those people, they don't care
- 1:39:24Speaker 4: about affordability. It doesn't concern them other than higher prices
- 1:39:31Speaker 4: cut into whatever cash they may have on hand. But taxes,
- 1:39:36Speaker 4: it doesn't bother them because they're not in the tax zone.
- 1:39:40Speaker 4: The people that get really hurt are the working people
- 1:39:45Speaker 4: who live in the suburbs and upstate New York and
- 1:39:49Speaker 4: all that, who bust their buns every day. And in
- 1:39:54Speaker 4: the paycheck, it keeps going up and up and up
- 1:39:56Speaker 4: and up. And when you look at where the money goes,
- 1:40:00Speaker 4: it's a scandal. So what are we paying now? Three
- 1:40:04Speaker 4: times as much money for our students to go to
- 1:40:08Speaker 4: school as Florida? Three times as much? For what? Florida
- 1:40:15Speaker 4: has better test scores than we do. What are you getting?
- 1:40:20Speaker 4: You're not getting anything. And then you have, it goes,
- 1:40:26Speaker 4: the money that is put out because no one is
- 1:40:30Speaker 4: watching the money. And that's the big fraud in Minnesota,
- 1:40:35Speaker 4: in California, in Maine. You say, oh yeah, we'll take
- 1:40:38Speaker 4: all your money and nobody's going to watch it. So
- 1:40:41Speaker 4: the crooks steal it. And where does AI come in, man?
- 1:40:44Speaker 4: These gangsters are already working on that. And so, you know,
- 1:40:51Speaker 4: I'm sitting here. I'm a logical, simple guy. And when
- 1:40:55Speaker 4: I do speak to my liberal friends, they have a
- 1:41:00Speaker 4: we hate Trump, number one. That's still number one with
- 1:41:03Speaker 4: a bullet on the billboard chart. We hate him. Okay.
- 1:41:07Speaker 4: And then they have very little after that. Very, very
- 1:41:11Speaker 4: little accomplishments, future economic growth. You don't get much. You
- 1:41:18Speaker 4: get a lot of mumbles. You get what Hochul does.
- 1:41:23Speaker 4: $ 8 billion you've spent, Governor Hochul, on migrants?
- 1:41:26Speaker 1: $ 8 billion in a year on migrants?
- 1:41:32Speaker 4: That alone should elect Blakeman.
- 1:41:36Speaker 3: Well, let's hope so. Hey, we've only got like a
- 1:41:38Speaker 3: minute left.
- 1:41:39Speaker 4: France.
- 1:41:40Speaker 3: Macron, not bringing out the military, not stopping this rioting.
- 1:41:44Speaker 3: What is he thinking?
- 1:41:47Speaker 4: Macron, he's thinking, where can I get my croissant? I mean,
- 1:41:53Speaker 4: it's France. You've been to France, right?
- 1:41:55Speaker 3: Yeah, of course.
- 1:41:58Speaker 4: Come on.
- 1:41:58Speaker 9: It's France.
- 1:42:00Speaker 4: France is a society that has expectations of the government
- 1:42:07Speaker 4: giving them what they want. That's it. That's your expectation.
- 1:42:13Speaker 4: Give me pension. Give me housing. Give me, give me, give.
- 1:42:19Speaker 12: Me, give me.
- 1:42:19Speaker 4: And now France doesn't have any money. They're broke. UK
- 1:42:23Speaker 4: is broke. Soon Spain will be broke. You can't absorb
- 1:42:27Speaker 4: millions of people who the first thing they do when
- 1:42:30Speaker 4: they get into your country is go on the national
- 1:42:33Speaker 4: health insurance toll. You can't pay the bills. That's exactly
- 1:42:38Speaker 4: what's happening.
- 1:42:40Speaker 3: Bill O'Reilly, we're out of time, but hey, great podcast.
- 1:42:43Speaker 3: We'll do it live. We got to watch the Stephen A.
- 1:42:45Speaker 3: Smith episode. You got somebody coming up later this week?
- 1:42:50Speaker 4: We're doing election specials this week because the interest is
- 1:42:55Speaker 4: so intense. And I think I got the best lineup.
- 1:42:59Speaker 4: I got all the guys that haven't made 50,000 mistakes,
- 1:43:04Speaker 4: and that means nobody from CNN. These people just root.
- 1:43:11Speaker 4: So I got really good people, hard-eyed people, no ideology.
- 1:43:15Speaker 4: They come in, they say, this is what's going on,
- 1:43:17Speaker 4: and that's what I want. So that'll be the long
- 1:43:20Speaker 4: form for the next week or maybe 10 days. And
- 1:43:24Speaker 4: then we'll get back to the usual chaos.
- 1:43:26Speaker 3: Everybody watch Bill O'Reilly's podcast. We'll do it live. Check
- 1:43:28Speaker 3: out his YouTube channel. Make sure you get his latest book,
- 1:43:31Speaker 3: Confronting America. You'll love it. And go to BillOReilly.com. Everything
- 1:43:36Speaker 3: is there. BillOReilly.com. Bill O'Reilly, thanks for being with us.
- 1:43:41Speaker 4: Appreciate it, Mark. If you go to France, let me know.
- 1:43:43Speaker 11: I'll tag along.
- 1:43:44Speaker 4: All right.
- 1:43:45Speaker 3: Take care.
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- 1:44:18Speaker 3: Well, I told you earlier in the show about the
- 1:44:20Speaker 3: big spike in oil. It spiked up to $ 106 a barrel. Well,
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