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- 0:00Speaker 1: He's mister New York Mark Simon on w o R. Well,
- 0:10Speaker 1: it's gonna be eighty degrees today, a beautiful day in
- 0:13Speaker 1: New York, and get lots to get to this hour.
- 0:16Speaker 1: So Tiger Woods, I don't know what he's I don't
- 0:21Speaker 1: know what's gonna happen here. He's got a real problem here.
- 0:24Speaker 1: He's been picked up for. It's not drunk driving. It's
- 0:28Speaker 1: driving on drugs, medication that made him impaired. It's not
- 0:33Speaker 1: the first time. It's in Florida. He's a powerful guy
- 0:37Speaker 1: in Florida. I don't know it's it's gonna be tough.
- 0:39Speaker 1: He's gonna have to stay out of jail. Normally you'd
- 0:42Speaker 1: get locked up, maybe not first offense, and maybe not
- 0:45Speaker 1: if you're a big, famous, beloved guy like Tiger Woods.
- 0:49Speaker 1: But if it's the third time, fourth time, you're gonna
- 0:52Speaker 1: have a problem. And he's got a problem here now
- 0:59Speaker 1: is remember his first wife, Elin Nordegren, that beautiful blonde
- 1:04Speaker 1: first wife, when she's the one that caused the first crash.
- 1:09Speaker 1: She found some stuff on his phone, apparently him carrying
- 1:12Speaker 1: on with other women. I mean, really graphics. It really
- 1:16Speaker 1: got her crazy and she chased him out of the
- 1:18Speaker 1: house with a golf club. She's chasing him with a
- 1:21Speaker 1: golf club. Imagine that the irony. The guy gets killed
- 1:24Speaker 1: with a golf club by his own wife, but he
- 1:27Speaker 1: jumps in the car, backs up eighty miles an hour
- 1:31Speaker 1: down the driveway, hits a tree, hits a fire hydrant.
- 1:34Speaker 1: That was the first accident she caused. So then there
- 1:37Speaker 1: have been a lot of accidents since. But the first
- 1:39Speaker 1: wife yesterday actually spoke about this. She said she's very
- 1:43Speaker 1: worried about him following this crash. As angry as she was,
- 1:47Speaker 1: she's not angry anymore. And she said, you know, they
- 1:50Speaker 1: have kids together. The kids are now eighteen and seventeen.
- 1:53Speaker 1: He said, the kids are great, and she said they
- 1:55Speaker 1: love spending time with their dad, and she's really concerned,
- 2:00Speaker 1: really concerned. Now here's an interesting detail that has not
- 2:03Speaker 1: been mentioned. As you know, Tiger Woods is now dating
- 2:08Speaker 1: Donald Trump Junior's ex wife, Vanessa Trump. They have been
- 2:12Speaker 1: dating for a long time now. She has kids. One
- 2:16Speaker 1: of them is Kay Trump, who's going to be one
- 2:17Speaker 1: of the greatest golfers ever. And she has kids. So
- 2:22Speaker 1: those would be Donald Trump's grandchildren and those kids are
- 2:26Speaker 1: protected by the Secret Service, and an order came down
- 2:29Speaker 1: when she started dating him that the Secret Service is
- 2:33Speaker 1: never ever to allow those kids to ever get in
- 2:36Speaker 1: the car driven by Tiger Woods. So throughout this relationship,
- 2:40Speaker 1: he has not been allowed to ever drive a car
- 2:44Speaker 1: with those kids in it. And the Secret Service has
- 2:46Speaker 1: been very careful make sure that never happened. But he's
- 2:51Speaker 1: getting a lot of flak right now. And the big
- 2:55Speaker 1: question is, you know, why doesn't he have a driver? Well,
- 3:00Speaker 1: apparently he can't have a driver, because I remembers explaining
- 3:07Speaker 1: this to you yesterday. The reason he got caught by
- 3:09Speaker 1: the first wife with the stuff on his cell phone. Normally, big, big,
- 3:13Speaker 1: big famous people who cheat like crazy. And that's a
- 3:15Speaker 1: lot of them, those stars. And I've been around a
- 3:19Speaker 1: lot of them, and I've seen out all works a
- 3:21Speaker 1: lot of them. Many of them they not only have
- 3:24Speaker 1: a driver, but they got a little entourage. There's a
- 3:27Speaker 1: bunch of people in the antourage that are very close
- 3:29Speaker 1: to them. And it's one guy's job to take care
- 3:31Speaker 1: of the women. A woman wants to see him, they'll
- 3:35Speaker 1: text this guy. This guy will pass it along and
- 3:38Speaker 1: there's usually a code name. Yeah, there's always a code name.
- 3:43Speaker 1: So the woman texts the guy, and the guy will
- 3:46Speaker 1: text the big star and say, talk to David, he'd
- 3:49Speaker 1: like to get together. That's the code word for a woman.
- 3:53Speaker 1: So if the wife found the phone, she'd see nothing.
- 3:56Speaker 1: And he never did that. He did it all himself
- 4:00Speaker 1: on his phone. And he can't have a driver because
- 4:04Speaker 1: he and he's kind of said to his closest friends,
- 4:08Speaker 1: he can't have anybody see what he's really doing or
- 4:11Speaker 1: what he's really up to. Doesn't want anybody to know
- 4:14Speaker 1: what he's doing. Now, that usually implies a couple of things.
- 4:20Speaker 1: If you're just cheating on your wife, you can usually
- 4:22Speaker 1: have a driver. You know, everyzillionaire, billionaire, every big star
- 4:25Speaker 1: with a driver. The driver sees him cheating on this,
- 4:28Speaker 1: but usually he's having a little affair with somebody. I'd say,
- 4:31Speaker 1: if you can't even let anybody see it, it usually
- 4:33Speaker 1: means it's something really kinky, weird, or it means it's
- 4:38Speaker 1: in numbers that are so great you don't want anybody
- 4:41Speaker 1: to see how many, how many, it's just it's off
- 4:44Speaker 1: the charts numbers. So I have a feeling that's what
- 4:47Speaker 1: it is with Tiger Wants. It's massive numbers that he
- 4:51Speaker 1: doesn't want anybody to see. So that's why I no driver.
- 4:56Speaker 1: He's getting a lot of flak. Nowne's a big golf analyst,
- 4:59Speaker 1: famous golf anmil said he really should just leave golf
- 5:03Speaker 1: and retire. He should find something else to do. He's
- 5:05Speaker 1: going to try to play in the Masters, but these
- 5:08Speaker 1: car crashes have left him with the most awful injuries.
- 5:11Speaker 1: His body is so damaged. And he's an unbelievable guy
- 5:14Speaker 1: with discipline and training and working hard to come back
- 5:18Speaker 1: from these injuries. But he's never going to play like
- 5:22Speaker 1: he used to play. He's never going to be a top,
- 5:24Speaker 1: top player. He's just too banged up, injured, damaged. So
- 5:28Speaker 1: this golf analyst said, what's the point. I mean, you're
- 5:31Speaker 1: Tiger Woods, and you know, the most disciplined kind of
- 5:33Speaker 1: the way. You can train hard enough so that you
- 5:35Speaker 1: could still get in the tournament and get through it.
- 5:38Speaker 1: But what's the point. It's like running the marathon. It's
- 5:41Speaker 1: great to say you ran it, but you came in
- 5:42Speaker 1: four hundred and eighty seventh place, you know, which is
- 5:45Speaker 1: fine for anybody to still be proud. But if you're
- 5:48Speaker 1: Tiger Woods, what's the point. If you're not going to
- 5:50Speaker 1: finish in the top ten or twenty, and then Dave
- 5:54Speaker 1: portnoy coming after him. Portnoye says he has absolutely no
- 5:59Speaker 1: sympathy for Tiger w Woods. When it comes to Dui,
- 6:02Speaker 1: he said, no sympathy. Put him in jail, you know,
- 6:05Speaker 1: he said. Portnoiser goes, I got a lot of vices,
- 6:08Speaker 1: but my vice has only put me in jeopardy. Nobody else.
- 6:11Speaker 1: When you get behind the wheel totally impaired, you're gonna
- 6:14Speaker 1: really you could really hurt somebody, you could kill somebody.
- 6:17Speaker 1: Says I have no sympathy. Put the guy in jail,
- 6:21Speaker 1: and there's gonna be a lot of that when he
- 6:22Speaker 1: gets into court. That's the problem. So Vanessa Trump, who's
- 6:26Speaker 1: been going out with him, she's was finally asked about it,
- 6:29Speaker 1: said he's very disappointed and a little bit pissed is
- 6:33Speaker 1: her quote, if I'm being honest, she said, so not
- 6:38Speaker 1: too happy about it, but this is not gonna If
- 6:40Speaker 1: he can get out of this one, it's pretty amazing.
- 6:42Speaker 1: But I think everybody's right that he's got to give
- 6:45Speaker 1: up golf and that's it. So the shutdown at the airports,
- 6:50Speaker 1: the TSA, all of that with disaster looks like it's
- 6:53Speaker 1: pretty good now with ice in there. You know, there's
- 6:57Speaker 1: only a fifty thousand TSA people and I think like
- 7:02Speaker 1: fifteen thousand of them are not there called in sick.
- 7:04Speaker 1: But you can send in fifteen thousand ice agers to
- 7:08Speaker 1: make up the difference. And they've been very good in
- 7:10Speaker 1: the airports. But there's still lines, and apparently Friday was
- 7:15Speaker 1: a really ugly thing for passengers to watch. Friday, it
- 7:19Speaker 1: was still out of control, three four hour lines. And
- 7:22Speaker 1: that's the day the Senate and the Congress adjourned for
- 7:25Speaker 1: their three week vacation. Three week vacation in the middle
- 7:29Speaker 1: of this shutdown, with people going through hell in the airports,
- 7:32Speaker 1: they take three weeks off and they fly home. Well,
- 7:35Speaker 1: TMZ and other news organizations were there photographing these senators
- 7:40Speaker 1: going through the airports, these congressmen, and there they were
- 7:43Speaker 1: with vip escorts taking them right through the right through
- 7:47Speaker 1: the gate, no line, no inspection, no TSA. Days has
- 7:51Speaker 1: got escorted right through, vip escorts, strolling them right past
- 7:56Speaker 1: the line. The worst defender was John Thune, Senate majority leader, Republican.
- 8:02Speaker 1: He was the worst. He just they saw him just
- 8:04Speaker 1: breeze past the lines at Reagan National Airport with a
- 8:08Speaker 1: big grin for the cameras. Really really annoying. Now, as
- 8:16Speaker 1: I've explained to you, one thing that goes on, you'll
- 8:19Speaker 1: never hear anybody in Congress ever criticize the Secretary of
- 8:23Speaker 1: Transportation because when you're the Secretary of Transportation, the first
- 8:27Speaker 1: thing you do, because you end up meeting everybody in Congress,
- 8:30Speaker 1: the first thing you do is give them all your
- 8:32Speaker 1: cell number, and you tell everybody in Congress, every big
- 8:35Speaker 1: player in Washington. Any problem, you call me. You're going
- 8:38Speaker 1: through the airport, anything you need, call me. So if
- 8:42Speaker 1: John Thune, anybody, anybody in Congress, if they're going to
- 8:45Speaker 1: the airport, they call up the Secretary of Transportation, who
- 8:49Speaker 1: immediately gets some vip escort to meet their car when
- 8:52Speaker 1: they pull up at the airport, take them right under
- 8:54Speaker 1: the plane. And Duffy in the current Secretary of Transportation
- 8:59Speaker 1: does it. Buddha jet. All secretaries of transportation do this.
- 9:03Speaker 1: Everybody important in Congress everywhere has the phone number. They'll
- 9:07Speaker 1: never have to wait for anything transportation wise. So that's
- 9:11Speaker 1: why they never criticize the Secretary of Defense. Boy, this
- 9:16Speaker 1: is thinking about Facebook. Here's all these things, these protests
- 9:20Speaker 1: that these teenagers got addicted. They're so addicted. Here's this mother.
- 9:25Speaker 1: Now the mother is going to sue what they did
- 9:27Speaker 1: to her teenage daughter. They addicted her to Facebook. Can
- 9:31Speaker 1: you really blame Facebook? You're the mother. Take away the computer,
- 9:35Speaker 1: take away the phone, fix it so they can't have
- 9:39Speaker 1: a Facebook app in there? But is it really addictive?
- 9:45Speaker 1: I know they have an algorithm where as soon as
- 9:47Speaker 1: you've done watching something, if they can figure out what
- 9:50Speaker 1: you like, and they'll show you something you like next
- 9:51Speaker 1: and they'll keep doing But everybody does it. We do
- 9:54Speaker 1: that on the radio. Go put on any music station
- 9:58Speaker 1: on the radio. Hey, coming up next, We're going to
- 9:59Speaker 1: do this. It's as soon as the song ends. They
- 10:02Speaker 1: know what else you'd like and they play it. They
- 10:03Speaker 1: can keep you listening for a lot. It's normal. Everybody
- 10:07Speaker 1: does that. You can't really blame Facebook, can you. It's crazy?
- 10:12Speaker 1: And what does that mean they're addicted to Facebook? Why
- 10:14Speaker 1: they just sit on it for hours? Well, Hey, when
- 10:17Speaker 1: I was a kid, I was addicted to television. I
- 10:19Speaker 1: could do it for hours. Your mother would yell at you,
- 10:22Speaker 1: go outside, play do something, turn that TV off. It's
- 10:25Speaker 1: been you're sitting there for four hours. When I was
- 10:28Speaker 1: a little kid, I could watch TV for eight hours.
- 10:30Speaker 1: I could watch everything. It just and my mother would
- 10:33Speaker 1: yell at me, go do your homework. This is my
- 10:35Speaker 1: homework watching this is my homework. So, uh, it's nothing new,
- 10:41Speaker 1: you know, as people have pointed out, with all the
- 10:44Speaker 1: technology and digital and everything, everybody's doing the same thing
- 10:48Speaker 1: they always did. The behavior doesn't change. Well, now you've
- 10:50Speaker 1: got online bullying. Yeah, well it used to be schoolyard bullying.
- 10:54Speaker 1: It's the same behavior. It just moves to a new medium.
- 10:57Speaker 1: So Facebook has really got to do something. They really
- 11:00Speaker 1: got to fight back. You know. The biggest problem is
- 11:02Speaker 1: not the team's getting addicted to Facebook or the big
- 11:06Speaker 1: problem is is gen Z Generation Z. They and it
- 11:11Speaker 1: might be a result of all this digital stuff. They're
- 11:14Speaker 1: just weak and flabby and they can't work and they
- 11:16Speaker 1: you know a lot of employers now, studies are showing
- 11:19Speaker 1: gen Z people can't work nine to five. It's too long,
- 11:24Speaker 1: it's too much. They can't take nine to five normal
- 11:27Speaker 1: eight hour office day. Everybody always did that. They can't
- 11:30Speaker 1: take it. So a lot of them are saying they
- 11:33Speaker 1: have to have a nap in the middle of the day.
- 11:34Speaker 1: You get an hour for lunch, but they're using it
- 11:36Speaker 1: to take a nap, which you know, many people can't
- 11:40Speaker 1: do that in an office because it's a big open office.
- 11:43Speaker 1: You can't sleep in the mid So, believe it or not,
- 11:46Speaker 1: a lot of gen Z people would go to an
- 11:50Speaker 1: AMC movie theater. If you go to any AMC movie theater,
- 11:54Speaker 1: they got these beautiful recliner chairs. They're really nice. If
- 11:58Speaker 1: you haven't been to a movie theater, well, go to
- 12:00Speaker 1: an AMC theater. I mean, it's an unbelievable recliner. You
- 12:03Speaker 1: can lie back and you can. So they go pay
- 12:05Speaker 1: fifteen dollars in the daytime on their lunch shower to
- 12:08Speaker 1: go to AMC movie theater, go go into one and
- 12:11Speaker 1: sleep for an hour on the recliner. They put their
- 12:13Speaker 1: earbuds in alarm on the Apple Watch. But there's people
- 12:19Speaker 1: now making money off these gen Z idiots. There's companies
- 12:23Speaker 1: that are opening up nap rooms where you can come
- 12:25Speaker 1: take a nap on your lunch hower. Little pods where
- 12:28Speaker 1: you can nap. There's a big one called Nap York.
- 12:31Speaker 1: It's opening all over the place. You come pay whatever
- 12:34Speaker 1: it is twenty bucks. You can go in that little
- 12:36Speaker 1: pod and nap for an hour and they're doing a
- 12:40Speaker 1: hell of a lot of business. Unbelievable. Now, Curtis sliwa
- 12:46Speaker 1: Our Curtis Sleiewaing. He's on here every morning six to ten,
- 12:49Speaker 1: getting a lot of flak from some not a lot
- 12:51Speaker 1: of people, but some people give him flak for why
- 12:54Speaker 1: did you do a video with may Or Mom Donnie?
- 12:58Speaker 1: That's terrible? How would you do something like that? Well,
- 13:01Speaker 1: and he's been all over I'm looking. I see him
- 13:03Speaker 1: seen on three TV screens, heeries on New York one.
- 13:06Speaker 1: Everybody's asking him about it. Hey, it's perfectly normal. I'm
- 13:10Speaker 1: not a big fan of Mayor Mom Donnie. I mean,
- 13:12Speaker 1: do you think he's terrible? Everything he believes in and
- 13:15Speaker 1: his mayor. But if he called up and said can
- 13:20Speaker 1: I come on the show, I'd say yes, yeah, be
- 13:23Speaker 1: a very polite, nice, you know, not a hostile interview.
- 13:28Speaker 1: But he he'd ask him tough questions. And if he said,
- 13:33Speaker 1: could you come do a video with me? For what
- 13:36Speaker 1: do you mean? It's a comedy sketch. We're going to
- 13:37Speaker 1: show it at a charity Buteah, Okay, maybe I would
- 13:40Speaker 1: do And actually I've done that many times with mayors
- 13:43Speaker 1: that I thought were terrible. Deblasio or whoever. You know,
- 13:47Speaker 1: be a big charity lunch where I'd introduce him. You'd
- 13:49Speaker 1: give him a nice introduction. You don't say he's a
- 13:51Speaker 1: great mayor, but you find something nice to say about him.
- 13:55Speaker 1: And so Curtis was asked about doing that video. Just
- 13:58Speaker 1: about anybody would say, Okay, it's the mayor of New York.
- 14:01Speaker 1: You do. That's why you see all these top business
- 14:03Speaker 1: leaders who can't stand what he's doing, but they's still
- 14:05Speaker 1: go meet with him. Even President Trump, he's the mayor
- 14:08Speaker 1: of New York. You meet with him. So here's Curtis.
- 14:10Speaker 2: What New Yorkers want to see is a city where
- 14:13Speaker 2: we can vehemently disagree with each other and also still
- 14:16Speaker 2: know that we live in the same site.
- 14:17Speaker 1: Actually, this is Mayor Mondanni. So everybody was asking Curtis
- 14:20Speaker 1: about it. Why did you do that? So the Mamdani lovers,
- 14:23Speaker 1: why would you do a video with Curtis?
- 14:25Speaker 2: What New Yorkers want to see is a city where
- 14:27Speaker 2: we can vehemently disagree with each other and also still
- 14:30Speaker 2: know that we live in the same city. And a
- 14:32Speaker 2: sense of humor, I think is a prerequisite. To being
- 14:34Speaker 2: a New Yorker.
- 14:35Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's not like he went partners with
- 14:37Speaker 1: him on something. It's a it's a comedy, little comedy skit.
- 14:41Speaker 1: It's for a charity dinner, all right. And what about
- 14:45Speaker 1: everybody going crazy at all.
- 14:47Speaker 2: Of these people who can't distinguish between a sketch and reality.
- 14:51Speaker 2: I think it shows some of the problems they're having
- 14:53Speaker 2: with their politics.
- 14:54Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, a lot of people run for the Democratic nomination.
- 14:59Speaker 1: You got the slick Gavin Newsom, fast talking, slick, quite
- 15:03Speaker 1: a salesman, but the world's worst manager. California is an
- 15:06Speaker 1: absolute disaster. People are fleeing California like crazy. And then
- 15:11Speaker 1: you got who els. You got the Josh Shapiro's a
- 15:14Speaker 1: pretty bright guy, but maybe he's not. You know, none
- 15:19Speaker 1: of pizaz to be the Democratic nominee. And by the way,
- 15:24Speaker 1: with Gavin Newsom three years out, two and a half,
- 15:29Speaker 1: three years out, there's always in every Democratic race study history,
- 15:33Speaker 1: there's always a guy who looks like he'll be the
- 15:35Speaker 1: nominee so far out in front, and it's always a flashy,
- 15:37Speaker 1: good looking pretty boy type, and in every case they
- 15:41Speaker 1: never get the nomination. There's always been one of these.
- 15:44Speaker 1: It was Gary Hart, it was John Edwards. There's always
- 15:47Speaker 1: one of these guys, but they never get the nomination.
- 15:50Speaker 1: Then the other thing. In the Democratic Party, they got
- 15:52Speaker 1: really stupid people who aren't very bright. Kamala Harris would
- 15:55Speaker 1: be a good example. And now you got another one.
- 15:57Speaker 1: There's talk of Corey Booker, who's a nice, nice looking guy,
- 16:03Speaker 1: got a nice smile, but he's dumb. That's the problem,
- 16:06Speaker 1: and every Democrat taste. It's not a very bright guy.
- 16:08Speaker 1: He's dumb. But now he's being asked about running. Sounds
- 16:12Speaker 1: like you're saying she would be open to your running
- 16:15Speaker 1: for presidents. So you're not ruling it out, Senator, I
- 16:18Speaker 1: am definitely.
- 16:19Speaker 3: Not ruling it out. I'm running for reelection. I hope
- 16:22Speaker 3: New Jersey will support me for another six years.
- 16:26Speaker 1: And again, nice guy. He was the mayor of Newark
- 16:28Speaker 1: at one time. He was a terrible mayor. Newark got
- 16:31Speaker 1: much worse when he was the mayor. He was never
- 16:33Speaker 1: even there most of the time. But just a dumb guy,
- 16:36Speaker 1: and he's perfect for Democrats.
- 16:38Speaker 3: This is going to go down as one of the
- 16:39Speaker 3: worst foreign policy follies, blunders, costly mistakes that have been
- 16:44Speaker 3: made in the modern era. And it's outrageous that the
- 16:47Speaker 3: Republicans won't even call the administration in and have hearings
- 16:51Speaker 3: where we can provide oversight and frankly and demand accountability,
- 16:55Speaker 3: which is what the American people deserve.
- 16:56Speaker 1: Now Thatt's not dumb, this guy.
- 16:57Speaker 3: This is going to go down as one of the
- 16:58Speaker 3: worst warren policy follies, blunders costs.
- 17:02Speaker 1: This is the biggest blunder in the history of foreign policy.
- 17:06Speaker 1: They went and wiped out the worst terrorist, most evil
- 17:09Speaker 1: leader on the face of the and the top forty terrorists.
- 17:13Speaker 1: They wiped out the worst, most evil, awful, evil terrorist
- 17:19Speaker 1: government in the world. And he thinks it's the biggest
- 17:22Speaker 1: blunder ever. So Republicans should pray that this guy gets
- 17:28Speaker 1: the nomination. Hey, we'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred
- 17:31Speaker 1: three to two one zero seven ten is the number.
- 17:34Speaker 1: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.