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- 0:00Speaker 1: Live from Midtown Manhattan, here comes the Mark Simone Show
- 0:05Speaker 1: on 710WOR.
- 0:05Speaker 2: Well, it's Friday. That's good news. It's going to be
- 0:11Speaker 2: a nice day today in the 80s. Might be the
- 0:14Speaker 2: last day in the 80s for a while. And it
- 0:17Speaker 2: should be a pretty nice weekend. A lot to get to.
- 0:20Speaker 2: We'll get to Iran. We'll get to Cornell. We'll get
- 0:24Speaker 2: to that botched execution. We'll get to the midterms. We'll
- 0:29Speaker 2: get to Mamdani and, of course, a whole lot more.
- 0:32Speaker 2: The Yankees, the next game is tomorrow night. They begin
- 0:35Speaker 2: the seven-game playoff series with Tampa tomorrow night. I think
- 0:39Speaker 2: it's 6.30, right?
- 0:40Speaker 3: 6.30.
- 0:41Speaker 2: It's an early game. So everybody will be watching that.
- 0:47Speaker 2: Unless you're in Boston, you probably won't want to watch that.
- 0:50Speaker 2: President Trump has sent a third aircraft carrier, To Iran,
- 0:55Speaker 2: it is heading there now, but also he is sending
- 0:58Speaker 2: an amphibious assault ship with about 5,000 Marines on it. Now,
- 1:03Speaker 2: this type of ship is used for ground invasion. Now,
- 1:07Speaker 2: the word is that after the midterms, the day after
- 1:12Speaker 2: the midterms, he is going to just pound Iran into
- 1:15Speaker 2: the ground. There may even be, now that landing force,
- 1:19Speaker 2: those Marines, that amphibious force, that would be for Karg Island.
- 1:24Speaker 2: They would take Karg Island. We would take it. That's
- 1:27Speaker 2: the entire oil facility of Iran. We would seize that.
- 1:33Speaker 2: And that aircraft carrier would be used for punishing brutal
- 1:38Speaker 2: attacks on Iran. And the president has said, once they
- 1:41Speaker 2: confirm that Iran was behind the fly Dubai hijacking and
- 1:46Speaker 2: the attack on our air base in the UK, that
- 1:49Speaker 2: would be reason enough to just completely pound them into
- 1:53Speaker 2: the ground, just literally destroy much of that. We're trying
- 1:57Speaker 2: to wipe out the IRGC and all of that. So
- 2:02Speaker 2: the hijacker, by the way, if you're a New York
- 2:04Speaker 2: Times reader or you watch CNN or MSNBC, you may
- 2:07Speaker 2: not know about this. It was an actual hijacking. He
- 2:10Speaker 2: was an actual terrorist, a radicalized extremist, Islamic extremist. His
- 2:17Speaker 2: mission was to kill Jews. That was the idea. It
- 2:20Speaker 2: was a flight filled with Jewish people, Jewish children. He
- 2:24Speaker 2: wanted to kill them all. That's what it was. If
- 2:27Speaker 2: you're reading the New York Times or watching MSNOW, they
- 2:31Speaker 2: keep telling you it was an altercation among employees. There
- 2:33Speaker 2: was an altercation, a workplace altercation. It's not what it was.
- 2:38Speaker 2: It was a terrorist attack. He was a very radicalized hijacker.
- 2:43Speaker 2: Here's Benjamin Netanyahu. It looks like he had been radicalized.
- 2:47Speaker 2: I think it's too early to say whether he had
- 2:49Speaker 2: any connections with Iran or with anyone else. It's too
- 2:52Speaker 2: early to.
- 2:53Speaker 4: Say that, but we'll be able to say that fairly
- 2:58Speaker 4: definitively within a matter of days.
- 3:02Speaker 2: Yeah, he knows more than he's saying there. Now the
- 3:04Speaker 2: question is, and the most important question, is he a
- 3:07Speaker 2: lone wolf? Was he inspired by something and did this?
- 3:11Speaker 2: Was he part of an actual cell? Are there others involved?
- 3:14Speaker 2: If so, you've got to find them quickly. it will
- 3:17Speaker 2: turn out most likely that Iran was involved. He's clearly
- 3:20Speaker 2: a lunatic terrorist and just was the most vicious knife attack.
- 3:26Speaker 2: There are two possibilities. The big question is, how did
- 3:30Speaker 2: he get a job as a co-pilot? How did this
- 3:32Speaker 2: airline hire him without a proper background check? And also,
- 3:36Speaker 2: in most airports... The crew of the plane, even the pilots,
- 3:40Speaker 2: are supposed to go through the same screening the passengers do.
- 3:43Speaker 2: That's in most airports. It's supposed to be that way
- 3:46Speaker 2: in this country. Now, you're talking about other countries, other airports.
- 3:50Speaker 2: Who knows? Who knows what they do? And even in
- 3:53Speaker 2: this country where they're supposed to screen passengers, The crew
- 3:57Speaker 2: and the pilots, who knows if they really do. You know,
- 3:59Speaker 2: they know these people. They might let them just walk
- 4:01Speaker 2: through Netanyahu. There are two possibilities.
- 4:04Speaker 4: One, that he didn't go through a metal detector because,
- 4:07Speaker 4: you know, passengers go through a metal detector. But I'm
- 4:09Speaker 4: not sure that pilots always do because, you know, you say, OK,
- 4:12Speaker 4: he's part of the air crew.
- 4:13Speaker 2: Let him go. Number one.
- 4:15Speaker 4: And then he could have carried a knife or an
- 4:17Speaker 4: axe or he might have gotten an axe from the
- 4:20Speaker 4: equipment in the, you know, that might be standard on
- 4:24Speaker 4: this airplane.
- 4:25Speaker 2: Yeah, so clearly his intent was to crash the plane,
- 4:28Speaker 2: kill it. It was a plane filled with Jewish passengers.
- 4:31Speaker 2: It was an anti-Semitic terrorist attack. There's no question about that.
- 4:34Speaker 2: They'll be announcing that very, very soon. Then you had
- 4:38Speaker 2: the attack on our airbase in the UK. It looks
- 4:42Speaker 2: like Iran was behind that as well.
- 4:44Speaker 5: There are strong indications that Iran... played a part in
- 4:49Speaker 5: what happened over the weekend at RAF Fairford. But of course,
- 4:52Speaker 5: it remains an ongoing, complex and serious police investigation. And
- 4:58Speaker 5: of course, we are working closely with our colleagues in
- 5:00Speaker 5: the United States of America.
- 5:02Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's why another aircraft carrier, a third one
- 5:05Speaker 2: is heading towards Iran, an amphibious assault ship is heading
- 5:09Speaker 2: towards Iran the day after the midterms. They'll pay for
- 5:13Speaker 2: all of this.
- 5:14Speaker 6: We knew that Iran and IRGC was going to try
- 5:19Speaker 6: to do an attack, possibly on a United States asset
- 5:23Speaker 6: in the UK. We had been already watching this with
- 5:26Speaker 6: our counterparts in London, giving them a heads up. They
- 5:31Speaker 6: were also feeding information to us. So this was something
- 5:34Speaker 6: we were paying attention to already. We just didn't know
- 5:36Speaker 6: where it was coming from. Iran is the lead world
- 5:39Speaker 6: sponsor of terror.
- 5:41Speaker 2: Yeah, well. Hey, the Cornell situation, it looks so bad
- 5:46Speaker 2: for the university. However, if you really look into it,
- 5:51Speaker 2: this gang rape, alleged gang rape, was a couple of
- 5:56Speaker 2: years ago. It was 2024. It was two years ago
- 5:59Speaker 2: that it took place. The word went around the campus.
- 6:03Speaker 2: The students all seemed to know about it. And as
- 6:06Speaker 2: it was happening, these kids were texting each other. They
- 6:10Speaker 2: were in a group chat. All over the campus, everybody
- 6:13Speaker 2: apparently was on this group chat, and they were telling
- 6:15Speaker 2: everybody about what was going on, and if you want
- 6:17Speaker 2: some free sex, although they didn't use the word sex,
- 6:19Speaker 2: they used something worse. They said, come on over, and
- 6:23Speaker 2: people were coming over. It was a horrible, horrible situation.
- 6:28Speaker 2: And she was, the problem was, believe it or not,
- 6:32Speaker 2: in the New York law, some states have this law.
- 6:36Speaker 2: If you get yourself so drunk that you can't even
- 6:41Speaker 2: see straight, You can't consent because you're so drunk. If
- 6:44Speaker 2: you do that to yourself, if you get yourself drunk,
- 6:48Speaker 2: it's no longer a crime. In other words, you can't
- 6:51Speaker 2: claim rape if you got yourself that drunk. It's a
- 6:53Speaker 2: stupid law. It's got to be changed. There was a
- 6:57Speaker 2: push to change this law in the state assembly. Democrats,
- 7:01Speaker 2: of all people, kept blocking it. So that's the reason,
- 7:06Speaker 2: most likely, that when it went to the prosecutor, he
- 7:08Speaker 2: didn't file criminal charges. Because it turns out the young student,
- 7:14Speaker 2: she went out to, she was 18. You have to
- 7:19Speaker 2: be 21 to drink, right? Yeah, you have to be 21.
- 7:21Speaker 2: So she's underage. She had a drink before she went out.
- 7:27Speaker 2: And then a bunch of them are going to a bar.
- 7:28Speaker 2: This is, Cornell is in Ithaca, and they went to
- 7:31Speaker 2: downtown Ithaca, and they went to some bar. And at
- 7:33Speaker 2: that bar, if you're underage, if you're 18, they'll let
- 7:36Speaker 2: you in, but they'll draw a big X on your hand.
- 7:39Speaker 2: which means you're underage, not supposed to serve you. But
- 7:42Speaker 2: she goes out to this bar and there's a lot
- 7:43Speaker 2: of students there. Some of them are old enough to
- 7:45Speaker 2: get a drink. And apparently they gave her drinks. And
- 7:50Speaker 2: then this is what they do in college. And they
- 7:52Speaker 2: all left and went to another bar and had more drinks.
- 7:56Speaker 2: So by the time she got to the fraternity, went
- 7:59Speaker 2: over this fraternity house, there was supposed to be a
- 8:02Speaker 2: party or something. They were supposed to see some friends
- 8:04Speaker 2: at this fraternity house. By the time she got there,
- 8:07Speaker 2: She had had 10 drinks, 10 drinks. That's a lot
- 8:12Speaker 2: of alcohol in a little woman, a young 18-year-old woman,
- 8:18Speaker 2: 10 drinks. She gets to the fraternity party, and the
- 8:23Speaker 2: first thing they do is give her a drink. That's
- 8:24Speaker 2: drink number 11 she's had. They also give her some drugs.
- 8:29Speaker 2: It's not clear whether it was cocaine or something else.
- 8:32Speaker 2: She took some kind of drugs, sniffed something, plus the
- 8:36Speaker 2: 11 drinks. She didn't know where she was. She couldn't
- 8:39Speaker 2: see straight. She even passed out a couple of times.
- 8:42Speaker 2: She went apparently to a bedroom in the fraternity house
- 8:45Speaker 2: with some student, a male, and slept with him. He
- 8:49Speaker 2: then started texting about it. Other guys came in and
- 8:52Speaker 2: had sex with her. So this is how this all
- 8:54Speaker 2: got out of control. She was so traumatized by all
- 8:58Speaker 2: of this that she, I guess she told her friends,
- 9:02Speaker 2: and word got around campus. In fact, all the guys,
- 9:05Speaker 2: these awful guys were bragging about this So the story
- 9:08Speaker 2: got known all over campus. It took her a while,
- 9:10Speaker 2: a couple of weeks, to get up the nerve and
- 9:13Speaker 2: compose herself enough to go to the campus police and
- 9:16Speaker 2: tell them what happened. And she told them the whole story.
- 9:20Speaker 2: It's a 10-page report that they wrote. Ten pages of
- 9:24Speaker 2: her telling her story, exactly what happened. And they sent
- 9:29Speaker 2: it over to the local district attorney in Ithaca. And
- 9:33Speaker 2: he looked at it and decided he couldn't file criminal
- 9:36Speaker 2: charges because she was so drunk that she can't claim rape.
- 9:40Speaker 2: This is this strange New York law. Cornell did start
- 9:45Speaker 2: to investigate, and they put together an investigating committee, and
- 9:49Speaker 2: they did investigate. Now, this has not been made clear.
- 9:52Speaker 2: Cornell did take some action. They expelled some of the students.
- 9:56Speaker 2: Some of the other students, they suspended them for a
- 9:59Speaker 2: year or two. So they did take some action. They
- 10:03Speaker 2: also closed that fraternity down. So they did take some action. Now,
- 10:09Speaker 2: all of a sudden, the story went public. A lot
- 10:11Speaker 2: of press. The district attorney looked really bad for not
- 10:15Speaker 2: filing those charges. And I guess he's now deciding to
- 10:20Speaker 2: actually file the charges. But it's too late. Kathy Hochul
- 10:23Speaker 2: has stepped in.
- 10:25Speaker 3: Why?
- 10:26Speaker 2: Because she's got a tight election race. Bruce Blakeman is
- 10:29Speaker 2: starting to pull ahead of her. So she's got to
- 10:32Speaker 2: act like she's on top of this. Pretend she's doing something.
- 10:36Speaker 2: So she has put the Attorney General Letitia James in
- 10:42Speaker 2: as the special prosecutor to go after these kids. Now,
- 10:45Speaker 2: A problem with Letitia James, one, she's not that good
- 10:48Speaker 2: as a prosecutor. Her biggest dream fantasy in life was
- 10:53Speaker 2: to get Trump. She came up with a preposterous case
- 10:57Speaker 2: that a left-wing kook judge took her side, but then
- 11:01Speaker 2: it was eventually tossed out, ruled ridiculous. So she's not
- 11:05Speaker 2: that successful as a prosecutor. The other problem is the
- 11:09Speaker 2: district attorneys all over New York State, that's a state job.
- 11:13Speaker 2: District attorney is not a local job. It's a state job.
- 11:16Speaker 2: That's why there's no term limits on it. And the
- 11:19Speaker 2: district attorney that she says fumbled up the case is
- 11:23Speaker 2: her district attorney. So she should remove him and replace
- 11:27Speaker 2: him with what she thinks is a great district attorney.
- 11:28Speaker 2: But she's not going to do that because this is
- 11:30Speaker 2: all for show. She's pretending that she's taking action. She's
- 11:34Speaker 2: doing something. She's on top of it, appointing Letitia James.
- 11:40Speaker 2: That's enough. to make it look like she's doing something
- 11:43Speaker 2: and to stall till the election, which is only 32
- 11:46Speaker 2: days away. Students say, and apparently record show, this is
- 11:51Speaker 2: not the first rape problem on campus. It's happened before
- 11:55Speaker 2: a number of times. And there's about 16,000 students at Cornell.
- 12:01Speaker 2: If you got 16,000 students, and if you, as we
- 12:04Speaker 2: just showed you, the kind of drinking they do and
- 12:06Speaker 2: the drugs and Who knows what could happen on campus?
- 12:09Speaker 2: Students are all frustrated.
- 12:11Speaker 7: It's been incredibly somber on campus this week. I think
- 12:15Speaker 7: students are disgusted that something like this could have taken
- 12:17Speaker 7: place on our campus. But I think there's also a
- 12:21Speaker 7: lot of frustration across many parts of the process.
- 12:25Speaker 2: Now, Cornell is an awful place. Earlier this week, we
- 12:28Speaker 2: told you about the horrible anti-Semitic rallies that were going
- 12:33Speaker 2: on at Cornell. There were students chanting from the river
- 12:35Speaker 2: to the sea. I mean, real anti-Semitic, awful stuff at Cornell.
- 12:39Speaker 2: The only good news for them is this rape story
- 12:41Speaker 2: has got everybody to forget about that part of it.
- 12:44Speaker 2: Hopefully they get that problem solved, too. But the student's
- 12:47Speaker 2: not happy.
- 12:47Speaker 8: Mostly sorrow and just kind of a lot of sadness
- 12:51Speaker 8: surrounding the case. People don't really know what to do
- 12:55Speaker 8: with how they're feeling. That's why I am really excited
- 12:57Speaker 8: about this hearing and creating more policies that are going
- 13:00Speaker 8: to give students the voice they feel like they need
- 13:03Speaker 8: right now. Um, I feel like people just want to
- 13:05Speaker 8: take action. They don't know like where to though. So
- 13:08Speaker 8: I'm hoping like the assembly and admin and different clubs
- 13:11Speaker 8: can be here as resources, um, for us and a
- 13:14Speaker 8: time that we really, really do need it.
- 13:17Speaker 2: That's a Cornell student. You hear that? Um, like, um,
- 13:20Speaker 2: like I, like, um, uh, like, um, that's a Cornell student. Hey, this, uh,
- 13:25Speaker 2: botched execution. It's Krista Pike. It sounds horrible. They gave
- 13:30Speaker 2: her a lethal injection. She survives. In fact, The reporters
- 13:34Speaker 2: could hear her. They sometimes put a curtain down, but
- 13:37Speaker 2: they could hear her say, hey, how come I'm in
- 13:39Speaker 2: so much pain? She survived the injection. They gave her
- 13:43Speaker 2: another lethal injection. She survived that. In fact, they could
- 13:47Speaker 2: hear her snoring. This sounds horrible. This sounds like, how
- 13:50Speaker 2: the hell could this happen?
- 13:51Speaker 8: What?
- 13:51Speaker 2: This is unbelievable. How could such a thing? Well, if
- 13:55Speaker 2: you look into it, it does happen on a regular basis.
- 13:58Speaker 2: In fact, 3% of all executions, end up like this,
- 14:02Speaker 2: where they can't kill the person. And you might say, well,
- 14:07Speaker 2: no matter what you try, for instance, take hanging, hanging
- 14:11Speaker 2: a prisoner. That's the highest number of bungled executions. When
- 14:17Speaker 2: it comes to hanging, 85 were botched. 1901, they hung
- 14:23Speaker 2: the outlaw, Tom Blackjack Ketchum. His head popped clean off
- 14:28Speaker 2: when he dropped because They didn't take into account how
- 14:31Speaker 2: fat he was. Things go wrong. Well, what about electrocute? Well,
- 14:36Speaker 2: electrocutions have had problems. In fact, second most botched executions.
- 14:42Speaker 2: There are many incidents where the inmate's head bursts into flames.
- 14:46Speaker 2: That sort of stuff. Now, the lethal injection. Lethal injections
- 14:51Speaker 2: have had 75 botched attempts. 75. So she survived. They
- 14:57Speaker 2: took her to the hospital. It's believed she has a
- 14:58Speaker 2: terrible brain injury. As a result, but apparently her lawyers
- 15:04Speaker 2: kept telling everybody because of the condition she was in,
- 15:08Speaker 2: she had the most awful veins. She had these tiny
- 15:11Speaker 2: little veins and they kept telling them there was no
- 15:14Speaker 2: way the injection would get through her veins, that it
- 15:18Speaker 2: wouldn't be able to kill her. I mean, listen to
- 15:20Speaker 2: this lawyer.
- 15:21Speaker 1: It was also predictable. Krista's legal team told the state
- 15:24Speaker 1: of Tennessee and the courts that her medical conditions would
- 15:27Speaker 1: cause her to suffer an agonizing death. The state and
- 15:31Speaker 1: the court dismiss Krista's concerns.
- 15:34Speaker 2: Yeah, they didn't take that into consideration.
- 15:35Speaker 1: Krista is alive right now.
- 15:38Speaker 9: We don't have a sense of her prognosis or much
- 15:42Speaker 9: update on her health at the moment. But we do
- 15:46Speaker 9: know that she is alive right now and receiving life-saving
- 15:52Speaker 9: medical care.
- 15:52Speaker 2: All right, now they're going to argue. They're going to
- 15:54Speaker 2: try to execute again. They're going to try to argue
- 15:56Speaker 2: she suffered enough. She survived two executions. She can't try
- 16:00Speaker 2: to do it again. But who knows?
- 16:02Speaker 10: She was heard to remark that it was burning.
- 16:05Speaker 2: This is actually the witness that was there.
- 16:07Speaker 10: She was heard to remark that it was burning and
- 16:11Speaker 10: painful in her arm, that her arm would explode. And
- 16:14Speaker 10: that all sounded to me like the intravenous was no
- 16:16Speaker 10: longer in the vein, if it ever really was. And instead,
- 16:20Speaker 10: the chemical was then being infiltrated into the skin and
- 16:25Speaker 10: tissues of her arm. Yeah.
- 16:29Speaker 2: Some people, I remember we had a call yesterday. They said,
- 16:31Speaker 2: why not just use a 25-cent bullet, just a firing squad.
- 16:36Speaker 2: You know, there are, I think, seven states that still
- 16:39Speaker 2: have firing squads. It's kind of ugly and not very
- 16:43Speaker 2: 2026-like to have a firing squad. But there are states
- 16:47Speaker 2: that do it. And there is an argument for it. Anyway,
- 16:51Speaker 2: we've got a lot to get to this morning. Don't forget,
- 16:53Speaker 2: I'm here three hours every day now, 9 to noon,
- 16:55Speaker 2: 9 a.m. to noon, three hours every day. Mark Simone
- 16:59Speaker 2: here on 710WOR.
- 17:03Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show, now 9 till noon weekdays on 710WOR.
- 17:11Speaker 2: Well, hey, a lot going on. Now, the amazing story
- 17:16Speaker 2: of Fly Dubai, the hijacking, the heroes on that plane,
- 17:20Speaker 2: the pilot, unbelievably brave. This guy was stabbed so badly,
- 17:25Speaker 2: stabbed in the head. His arm stabbed so badly, it
- 17:30Speaker 2: was basically, they say, split in two. He's in a
- 17:33Speaker 2: hospital in the UAE right now, recovering. They're optimistic about
- 17:38Speaker 2: his full recovery. But it was just unbelievable how with
- 17:43Speaker 2: all these stab wounds just bleeding everywhere, somehow this pilot
- 17:48Speaker 2: was still able to type in the emergency codes to
- 17:50Speaker 2: the tower, let them know what was happening. And they
- 17:53Speaker 2: hardened those cabins, you know, after 9-11 so you can't
- 17:55Speaker 2: get in there. Passengers, there's no way into the cabin.
- 17:58Speaker 2: You can't even break the door. It's so hardened. Somehow,
- 18:01Speaker 2: as wounded as he was, he got to the door
- 18:03Speaker 2: and opened the lock. And just heroic passengers came in there. One,
- 18:09Speaker 2: a plumber. who tackled the hijacker, put him in a chokehold,
- 18:16Speaker 2: and Benjamin Netanyahu praising this hero, even online, plugging the
- 18:22Speaker 2: plumber's business. He's such a hero, this plumber. But look
- 18:28Speaker 2: at this part. The heroic plumber asked Netanyahu to tell
- 18:32Speaker 2: Trump that I love him. That's not going to help
- 18:35Speaker 2: him with the CNN MSNOW crowd, but... It's interesting. Well,
- 18:39Speaker 2: you got to realize if you're an Israeli, you got
- 18:42Speaker 2: to be so grateful to Donald Trump. The country might
- 18:45Speaker 2: not be there right now if not for Trump. So
- 18:50Speaker 2: an amazing, amazing story. The most amazing part of this,
- 18:56Speaker 2: you got a hero like this plumber who stops the hijacker,
- 19:00Speaker 2: but you got a pilot so wounded, can barely use
- 19:02Speaker 2: his arms. The miracle of all this, on the plane,
- 19:08Speaker 2: There happened to be two off-duty pilots, just happened to
- 19:11Speaker 2: be among the passengers. So they screamed into the cabin,
- 19:15Speaker 2: does anybody here know how to fly a plane? Two
- 19:17Speaker 2: off-duty pilots are sitting there, they were able to land
- 19:22Speaker 2: the plane without any problems. It was an amazing story.
- 19:27Speaker 2: So we'll keep following this. Obviously, we'll find out, as
- 19:31Speaker 2: Netanyahu says, he'll be able to confirm very soon that
- 19:35Speaker 2: this was indeed a radicalized terrorist attack. It's believed it's
- 19:38Speaker 2: going to link to Iran. And then the retaliation for
- 19:42Speaker 2: this will be brutal. You know, this crazy Gavin Newsom
- 19:46Speaker 2: is trying to get back into the 2028 race. He
- 19:48Speaker 2: was the front for a while, only because there was
- 19:52Speaker 2: nobody else really there. And this always happens in the
- 19:55Speaker 2: democratic world. Two, three years out, way, way, way, way
- 19:59Speaker 2: too early. Some pretty boy comes along. It was Gary
- 20:02Speaker 2: Hart at one time. It was John Edwards at another time.
- 20:04Speaker 2: And they become you know, the front runner for two seconds,
- 20:09Speaker 2: and then they always fade away. And that's what happened
- 20:10Speaker 2: to Gavin Newsom. He was the front runner for a
- 20:13Speaker 2: few months, got a lot of attention, looked good, went
- 20:15Speaker 2: on TV, you know, wasn't afraid to go out and
- 20:21Speaker 2: get confronted. He went on with Sean Hannity and others,
- 20:24Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk, remember that? But that sort of candidate always
- 20:28Speaker 2: fades away after a while. So Gavin Newsom trying to
- 20:31Speaker 2: come back. He's now doing a new round of podcasts.
- 20:33Speaker 2: The problem is.
- 20:36Speaker 2: He's selling his house in California for about $ 8 million. Now,
- 20:41Speaker 2: the details of the house are coming out. You know,
- 20:43Speaker 2: you're supposed to be a public servant. You're supposed to
- 20:45Speaker 2: be a hardworking governor. But look at this. This house
- 20:49Speaker 2: has a personal wellness oasis. It has a resort-style pool,
- 20:53Speaker 2: tennis court, a private casita. That means a smaller house.
- 20:57Speaker 2: That's a big word in L.A. They all call them
- 20:59Speaker 2: casitas because they're just living among Mexicans. They're using all
- 21:03Speaker 2: these Mexican terms now. But the other thing is the
- 21:06Speaker 2: house has a 5,000-bottle wine cellar. 5,000 bottles? Now, I'm
- 21:14Speaker 2: not a wine drinker, but I've seen people have a
- 21:18Speaker 2: wine cellar, but it's got 50 bottles. I've seen people
- 21:23Speaker 2: with a big wine. Maybe they got 500 bottles. Some
- 21:26Speaker 2: people have those little wine cooler refrigerators. What does that hold?
- 21:30Speaker 2: 25 bottles?
- 21:31Speaker 3: Five?
- 21:33Speaker 2: Thousand bottles of wine? Who the hell would have 5,000
- 21:38Speaker 2: bottles of wine? That Stu Leonard's liquor store doesn't have
- 21:41Speaker 2: 5,000 bottles of wine. How long would it take you
- 21:45Speaker 2: to drink five? Let's say you drank two bottles a day.
- 21:47Speaker 2: It would still be years. It'd still be five years
- 21:52Speaker 2: to drink all that. I mean, that's a lot of
- 21:54Speaker 2: wine to keep on hand. It doesn't look good if
- 21:57Speaker 2: you're trying to be a public servant that you live
- 21:59Speaker 2: like this. You know, Some people think, oh, is Andrew
- 22:01Speaker 2: Cuomo going to try and run in 2028? No, I
- 22:03Speaker 2: can guarantee you not. He got humiliated and wiped out
- 22:07Speaker 2: in that awful mayoral race. And he just bought a
- 22:10Speaker 2: $ 9 million house in Southampton, a Southampton compound for $ 9 million.
- 22:16Speaker 2: You don't do that if you want to run for president.
- 22:18Speaker 2: As a Democrat, you know, he's trying to look like
- 22:20Speaker 2: man of the people. The fact that he did this
- 22:23Speaker 2: and it's so public means he knows he's got no shot.
- 22:26Speaker 2: So I don't think you'll see him in 2028, at
- 22:28Speaker 2: least not doing that. Hey, Lindsey Clancy's lawyer, he lost
- 22:34Speaker 2: his fourth attempt to get the murder charges dropped. This
- 22:40Speaker 2: old codger, you got to give him credit. He just
- 22:42Speaker 2: keeps trying and trying and trying. Now, remember, in the
- 22:46Speaker 2: first trial, his case was that he presented was that,
- 22:51Speaker 2: of course, she did it. We know she did it,
- 22:53Speaker 2: but she did it because she was all messed up
- 22:55Speaker 2: on these drugs they gave her and she was traumatized
- 22:58Speaker 2: by the psychosis. He admitted the whole theory of the
- 23:01Speaker 2: first case. He is admitting she did it. It's obvious
- 23:03Speaker 2: she did it. So now he's arguing that there's no
- 23:08Speaker 2: evidence she did it. And this is what he's planning
- 23:11Speaker 2: to go into court with. His quote, where is the
- 23:14Speaker 2: evidence she did this? Where is the proof? Where is
- 23:17Speaker 2: the DNA? This case is all speculation. Well, I'm sure
- 23:21Speaker 2: they can bring up the transcript of the first trial
- 23:24Speaker 2: where he admitted she did it. So I don't know
- 23:26Speaker 2: what he's thinking there. But he went before a judge.
- 23:28Speaker 2: He keeps trying to get this dismissed. No retrial. Judge
- 23:32Speaker 2: William Sullivan denied the motion. It's the fourth time he's
- 23:36Speaker 2: had this denied. He argued that the motion was silly.
- 23:43Speaker 2: And I don't think he's going to keep trying to
- 23:45Speaker 2: get this thing dismissed. So there's going to be another trial,
- 23:48Speaker 2: which is good for us. It'll give us something to cover.
- 23:50Speaker 2: But there will be another trial. So they had the
- 23:54Speaker 2: debate last night for New York State Comptroller was Tom DiNapoli.
- 23:58Speaker 2: Very fine guy. He's the Democrat, but he's a good guy.
- 24:01Speaker 2: You should vote for DiNapoli. Very good Comptroller. And he's
- 24:05Speaker 2: running against the other guy. That's how good the guy's
- 24:10Speaker 2: campaign is. I don't know. I can't remember his name.
- 24:12Speaker 2: I met the guy. I don't remember his name. But
- 24:15Speaker 2: people like DiNapoli. He's pretty good. So they had the debate.
- 24:17Speaker 2: I think it was on New York One, which is
- 24:19Speaker 2: why nobody ever saw it. Nobody will ever see it.
- 24:21Speaker 2: Nobody knows about it. There's going to be a debate
- 24:25Speaker 2: next week for the Attorney General. Now, that is important.
- 24:28Speaker 2: You want to get rid of Letitia James, who's just awful,
- 24:32Speaker 2: just like a dirty political operative. Vote for the Republican. Oh,
- 24:37Speaker 2: my God. I can't. It's hard to say. It's like
- 24:40Speaker 2: a camaraderie. It's a long name, but she's very good.
- 24:43Speaker 2: Vote for her. And then about 10 days from now,
- 24:46Speaker 2: they'll have the gubernatorial debate, Blakeman against Hochul. Should be great,
- 24:51Speaker 2: but again, it's on New York One, which only has
- 24:53Speaker 2: like 12 viewers and is also the most left-wing, biased,
- 24:57Speaker 2: crazy place, so they'll do everything to protect Hochul. Hey,
- 25:00Speaker 2: we'll take some calls. We've got a lot more to
- 25:02Speaker 2: get to on 710WOR. Now 9 till noon weekday.
- 25:08Speaker 5: Smart Simone.
- 25:09Speaker 2: Only on 710WOR. Well, let's take some calls. 800-321-0710 is
- 25:20Speaker 2: the number. 800-321-0710. Let's go to Frank in Phoenix. Frank,
- 25:26Speaker 2: how are you doing? Good morning, Mark.
- 25:29Speaker 11: Mark, my wife and I were listening to you yesterday
- 25:31Speaker 11: talking about the jet hijacking. And she said, why can't
- 25:34Speaker 11: they come up with some kind of way they can
- 25:36Speaker 11: get into the cockpit, they can unlock the door from outside?
- 25:40Speaker 11: You know, after 9-11, you would think they would have
- 25:42Speaker 11: come up with some kind of a plan, right?
- 25:45Speaker 2: Well, the problem is with 9-11 was these hijackers breaking
- 25:48Speaker 2: into the cabin and taking over the plane, so they
- 25:50Speaker 2: hardened the cabin so there was absolutely no way to
- 25:53Speaker 2: get in. Hey, Mark, you know what? Oh, I'm sorry.
- 25:55Speaker 11: I'm sorry.
- 25:56Speaker 2: Go ahead. If that pilot hadn't unlocked the door, this
- 26:02Speaker 2: plane wouldn't have been saved, and the experts say they only—
- 26:06Speaker 2: You're really in a hurry, aren't you? Calm down. Okay.
- 26:09Speaker 2: You might want to try a decaf coffee.
- 26:12Speaker 11: That's what I'm doing. I'm drinking coffee now.
- 26:14Speaker 2: Experts say another 40 seconds and the plane would have crashed.
- 26:18Speaker 2: There would be no saving it.
- 26:19Speaker 11: And you know, Mark, the other thing is the girl,
- 26:21Speaker 11: they botched her execution.
- 26:23Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 26:24Speaker 11: People shouldn't feel sorry for her. Her and her friends
- 26:27Speaker 11: kidnapped the girl.
- 26:28Speaker 2: Who said anybody feels sorry for her? Nobody feels sorry
- 26:31Speaker 2: for her.
- 26:31Speaker 11: Well, they're all crying on the Fox News about this woman.
- 26:34Speaker 11: She suffered and suffered. They decapitated the girl.
- 26:39Speaker 2: Hey, what's the temperature in Phoenix right now?
- 26:41Speaker 11: Mark, if you came out here now, you would say, wow,
- 26:44Speaker 11: it's beautiful. It's only 68 degrees. But during the last
- 26:49Speaker 11: three weeks of August. Every day it was between 108
- 26:53Speaker 11: and 119, and one day it hit 121. It's brutal, brutal.
- 26:59Speaker 2: When it's 121, what happens? You can't go out at all?
- 27:03Speaker 11: After 100, you can't go out, you know? It's just
- 27:06Speaker 11: so hot. You've got to stay in the air conditioning.
- 27:08Speaker 2: You know, in New York, when the summer's over, we're
- 27:10Speaker 2: so sad. They don't realize in Phoenix you're thrilled when
- 27:12Speaker 2: the summer's over.
- 27:13Speaker 11: Yes, absolutely.
- 27:15Speaker 2: You're celebrating it's over. You got it. All right, thanks
- 27:17Speaker 2: for calling. Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike, how
- 27:20Speaker 2: are you doing?
- 27:22Speaker 3: Good morning, Mark.
- 27:23Speaker 2: Yes, Mike.
- 27:24Speaker 11: But it's a dry heat.
- 27:25Speaker 3: Don't forget.
- 27:26Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a dry heat in my oven, too. It's
- 27:28Speaker 2: still pretty damn hot. I wouldn't want to go in
- 27:31Speaker 2: there either.
- 27:34Speaker 11: You know, I had a question.
- 27:35Speaker 3: It's well known that you're Sinatra's, you're probably, I guess,
- 27:39Speaker 3: easy to say your favorite male singer. But who's your
- 27:42Speaker 3: favorite female singer of that year?
- 27:44Speaker 2: Ella Fitzgerald, without question. Ella Fitzgerald, greatest female singer ever.
- 27:49Speaker 3: And where do you stand on Peggy Lee's and Margaret
- 27:52Speaker 3: Whiting's and people like that?
- 27:54Speaker 2: Peggy Lee was a phenomenal singer, although a very limited
- 27:57Speaker 2: sort of a style. Ella Fitzgerald could do anything. Peggy
- 28:00Speaker 2: Lee was quite an incredible singer. If you're a younger person,
- 28:05Speaker 2: you should go online and find these people. Peggy Lee,
- 28:08Speaker 2: Ella Fitzgerald.
- 28:10Speaker 3: I grew up, my mother controlled the radio in-house. It
- 28:13Speaker 3: was any WAM and it was Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah
- 28:17Speaker 3: Vaughan and Edie Gourmet and those types that she.
- 28:21Speaker 2: Edie Gourmet, a little schmaltzy, very talented.
- 28:23Speaker 3: Yeah, a little schmaltzy.
- 28:25Speaker 2: Catskill, schmaltzy kind of singing. But Peggy Lee, you know,
- 28:30Speaker 2: she did that great classic Fever, Madonna covered it. Madonna
- 28:34Speaker 2: was very... A lot of these singers were very inspired
- 28:36Speaker 2: by Peggy Lee.
- 28:37Speaker 3: Yeah, because she was a real kind of... She had
- 28:41Speaker 3: that certain style, kind of like, you know, in the
- 28:43Speaker 3: Julie London sort of... you know, she, I think they
- 28:48Speaker 3: look better than they sang in some cases.
- 28:50Speaker 2: Yeah. Although Peggy Lee, Julie London, very beautiful voice, but
- 28:53Speaker 2: Peggy Lee, much, much more skilled singer, jazz singer, that
- 28:56Speaker 2: sort of stuff. So, uh, did you know them?
- 28:58Speaker 3: Did you interact with them? Oh yeah.
- 29:00Speaker 2: Very well. Ella Fitzgerald used to be a regular on
- 29:02Speaker 2: my show. Peggy Lee was a regular guest.
- 29:04Speaker 4: Oh really?
- 29:04Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 29:05Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 29:06Speaker 3: Did you, hey, did you know Robin Coulee?
- 29:09Speaker 2: I happen to, I'm always asking. Very well, very well,
- 29:11Speaker 2: very well.
- 29:11Speaker 3: I saw him recently, you know, he always plays, I
- 29:14Speaker 3: saw him recently in Murder, She Wrote episode, and he
- 29:15Speaker 3: always plays suaves with sophisticated guys.
- 29:18Speaker 2: Yeah, but in real life.
- 29:19Speaker 3: Was he like that, or was he like a, hey,
- 29:21Speaker 3: listen to this.
- 29:22Speaker 2: No, he was very suave, but he was very, like
- 29:25Speaker 2: a lot of those guys, Steve Lawrence, all those, in
- 29:27Speaker 2: real life, very, very funny guys, great senses of humor.
- 29:29Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 29:30Speaker 2: They spent their lives working with comedians that rubbed off
- 29:32Speaker 2: on them. They were very, very... Right. Sometimes you watch
- 29:35Speaker 2: those old Carol Burnett shows, you'll see Robert Goulet or
- 29:38Speaker 2: Steve Lawrence in sketches.
- 29:39Speaker 3: Yes.
- 29:39Speaker 2: You can see how funny they could be. Yeah.
- 29:42Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
- 29:42Speaker 3: He had great comic chops. There's no doubt about it.
- 29:45Speaker 2: All right. It's 2026. We're not supposed to talk about
- 29:47Speaker 2: Robert Goulet more than one minute. I know.
- 29:49Speaker 3: Or Ella Fitzgerald in the same.
- 29:51Speaker 2: No, Ella Fitzgerald, that's different. That's a timeless legend. I'll
- 29:56Speaker 2: agree to that. Whenever you talk to like a Taylor
- 29:59Speaker 2: Swift or any contemporary singer and you get into that,
- 30:02Speaker 2: you find out they worship Ella Fitzgerald in those kind
- 30:05Speaker 2: of scenes, that they secretly study them and learn from them.
- 30:08Speaker 2: And are inspired by.
- 30:09Speaker 3: And she had a massive output. I mean, you know.
- 30:12Speaker 2: Actually, the most albums.
- 30:14Speaker 3: The songwriter series that she did.
- 30:15Speaker 2: The singer that holds the record for the most albums,
- 30:17Speaker 2: Bing Crosby, 200 albums. Number two is Ella Fitzgerald, 166
- 30:22Speaker 2: albums that she put out.
- 30:24Speaker 10: That's incredible.
- 30:25Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 30:25Speaker 2: All right, great.
- 30:26Speaker 3: It's unbelievable.
- 30:27Speaker 2: Great call, Mike. Thanks for calling. Let's go to Ralph
- 30:29Speaker 2: in Stanford. Ralph, how you doing? Good morning, Mr. Shimon. Oh, yes, Mr.
- 30:35Speaker 5: Ralph.
- 30:35Speaker 2: I understand that thing.
- 30:36Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 30:38Speaker 11: I understand as a young man, you came from the
- 30:41Speaker 11: distant provinces of the Midwest to break into New York
- 30:44Speaker 11: City broadcast.
- 30:46Speaker 2: How hard was that to do? And what was your
- 30:49Speaker 2: first job? Well, yeah, I was from the Midwest, but
- 30:51Speaker 2: I went to school in Boston. And while I was
- 30:53Speaker 2: in college, I worked at first year. I was at
- 30:55Speaker 2: a little station in New Hampshire, WFTN. By my final year,
- 30:59Speaker 2: I was on the best station in New England, WPRO.
- 31:02Speaker 2: And then I came to New York. But you got
- 31:04Speaker 2: to practice. You want to be in the radio?
- 31:07Speaker 5: Oh, no, no.
- 31:08Speaker 11: I'm just very curious about your career because you've been
- 31:11Speaker 11: so successful.
- 31:12Speaker 2: Every great radio host, I think Scott Shannon, did he
- 31:15Speaker 2: tell us this the other day? Everybody, when they were
- 31:17Speaker 2: a little kid, like in their bedroom at home, they
- 31:19Speaker 2: would practice doing radio shows. They would even build themselves
- 31:22Speaker 2: a little fake radio station, and you'd practice over and
- 31:25Speaker 2: over and over again. And as the great consultant Mike
- 31:29Speaker 2: McVeigh said, it was like you had to throw the
- 31:32Speaker 2: football through the tire a million times to practice and
- 31:34Speaker 2: get yourself ready. But good question, Ralph. Let's go to
- 31:40Speaker 2: John and Paramus. John, how are you doing?
- 31:43Speaker 3: Good, Mark.
- 31:44Speaker 8: How are you doing?
- 31:45Speaker 2: Perfect call. You've got 12 people talking. I hear squeaking,
- 31:49Speaker 2: engine noise. So anyway, you had the author on. Now
- 31:55Speaker 2: you're in a tornado. What the hell's going on?
- 31:57Speaker 11: What are you talking about?
- 31:59Speaker 2: So anyway, I read that really good.
- 32:02Speaker 3: Huh?
- 32:04Speaker 2: You read what? No, I left.
- 32:06Speaker 11: All right, good. So anyway, I just finished a book
- 32:09Speaker 11: about Roy Cohn.
- 32:12Speaker 2: American, it was really good.
- 32:13Speaker 7: Really good.
- 32:14Speaker 2: Did you have any dealings with him?
- 32:15Speaker 4: Did you know him?
- 32:16Speaker 2: Yeah, I knew Roy Cohn. He was the world's greatest lawyer.
- 32:21Speaker 2: He was a genius of a lawyer. He was unbelievably brilliant.
- 32:24Speaker 2: He was a very, very nasty guy. He could be
- 32:26Speaker 2: really rough and tough and nasty. One reason that made
- 32:29Speaker 2: him the greatest lawyer is... besides being an incredible lawyer
- 32:33Speaker 2: in court, he would do whatever he had to do.
- 32:34Speaker 2: He'd put a body in your trunk if he had to,
- 32:36Speaker 2: whatever he had to do to win a case. Yeah,
- 32:40Speaker 2: I can imagine.
- 32:41Speaker 3: That book was really, and the book is really good.
- 32:43Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 32:44Speaker 2: And it's American Scoundrel. It's really good. There are a
- 32:46Speaker 2: lot of good books about Roy Cohn. What's his name?
- 32:49Speaker 2: Sid Zion, the great writer, wrote one, too. Yeah. Just
- 32:52Speaker 2: check all those books. Hey, by the way, there's a
- 32:54Speaker 2: huge myth out that Donald Trump was mentored by Roy Cohn,
- 32:58Speaker 2: Roy Cohn trained him. None of this is true. They
- 33:01Speaker 2: knew each other, and he did use Roy Cohn as
- 33:04Speaker 2: his lawyer in a certain period. Wasn't his mentor or
- 33:08Speaker 2: anything like that. But they forget to point out, at
- 33:10Speaker 2: that time, the reason Trump was using him, Roy Cohn
- 33:13Speaker 2: was the biggest lawyer around. Everybody used him. The Catholic
- 33:17Speaker 2: Church used him. Roy Cohn was the lawyer for the
- 33:18Speaker 2: Catholic Church. He was the Cardinal's lawyer. He was Aristotle Onassis' lawyer.
- 33:23Speaker 2: He was George Steinbrenner's lawyer. Everybody used Roy Cohn, and
- 33:27Speaker 2: that's when Trump used him. Hey, we got a lot
- 33:29Speaker 2: coming up. We got three hours every day now, nine
- 33:32Speaker 2: to noon every day, three hours. Then at noon, you
- 33:35Speaker 2: got Buck Saxton and Clay Travis. And then three o'clock,
- 33:39Speaker 2: you got the most listened to radio show in America,
- 33:42Speaker 2: Sean Hannity. You got Jesse Kelly at six. You got
- 33:45Speaker 2: the very funny Jimmy Fallon. You got to listen to
- 33:47Speaker 2: that show. You're going to be amazed by it every night.
- 33:50Speaker 2: 9 to midnight. It's all here on 710WOR. Welcome back
- 33:55Speaker 2: to the Mark Simone Show. Live from the WOR LifeVac studios.
- 34:01Speaker 2: We're going to just have to face it. It's Halloween season.
- 34:04Speaker 2: Summer's over. It's Halloween season. Then you're going to see
- 34:08Speaker 2: Thanksgiving stuff everywhere. The Rockefeller Center tree is coming November 7th.
- 34:14Speaker 2: That's like 35 days from now. The Rockefeller Center tree
- 34:17Speaker 2: is going to come into New York. Hey, looks like
- 34:21Speaker 2: a slight chance of rain. It's going to be a
- 34:22Speaker 2: nice day today. It's going to be like 84, 85 degrees.
- 34:25Speaker 2: This could be the very last time it's in the
- 34:28Speaker 2: 80s this year. And a slight chance of rain around 7.
- 34:31Speaker 2: And it should be a nice day tomorrow. May, you know,
- 34:35Speaker 2: less humid, cooler, be like 70. And then Sunday should
- 34:39Speaker 2: be nice. A slight chance of rain on Sunday. But
- 34:42Speaker 2: should be a beautiful fall weekend. The leaves are turning already.
- 34:46Speaker 2: Back after the news, two more hours to go here
- 34:48Speaker 2: on 710. W-O-R.