Latest / The Mark Simone Show / Hour 2: Who is Tom Steyer?
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Mark Simone Show. Hey, beautiful day today.
- 0:09Speaker 1: Preview of summer this week. It's going to go back
- 0:11Speaker 1: to the fifties and sixties next week, but this week eighties.
- 0:14Speaker 1: It'll be the hottest day of the week. Today could
- 0:17Speaker 1: hit ninety degrees today. Hey, we're talking about madonna new album. People.
- 0:26Speaker 1: I'm getting all kinds of emails. People got mad You're
- 0:28Speaker 1: making me feel old. No, I'm just being honest with you.
- 0:33Speaker 1: If you went to all the top forty stations today,
- 0:36Speaker 1: all those DJs, they're in their twenties or thirty. They
- 0:38Speaker 1: don't know who Madonna is. That was forty years ago.
- 0:43Speaker 1: I hate to break it to you. It was forty
- 0:44Speaker 1: years ago. Madonna was speaking. And back then, if you
- 0:49Speaker 1: wanted to listen to Madonna on the radio, where would
- 0:52Speaker 1: you have listened to her forty years ago. I'm trying
- 0:54Speaker 1: to think now. Not WABC, that was already talked by then.
- 1:00Speaker 1: I had to listen to w NBC. You listen to
- 1:02Speaker 1: Howard Stern in the afternoon playing Madonna. Now K to you.
- 1:07Speaker 1: I don't know that was more. Yeah, okay, w KT
- 1:10Speaker 1: you would have been around. I mean, it's here now,
- 1:12Speaker 1: but this was the old w k T you ninety
- 1:16Speaker 1: nine XT you could have listened to it there, that's
- 1:21Speaker 1: about it. Howard Stern was on in the afternoon WNBC
- 1:25Speaker 1: playing Madonna all the time. Or you could have gone
- 1:29Speaker 1: to those clubs Xenon, Oh Bar, remember all those clubs,
- 1:34Speaker 1: the Palladium. You would have heard Madonna but trying to
- 1:39Speaker 1: make a comebacks. But it's a long time ago. That
- 1:41Speaker 1: was the she really took off, was like eighty four
- 1:44Speaker 1: eighty five. That's where she was like really a superstar
- 1:47Speaker 1: all of a sudden. A few years before that she
- 1:50Speaker 1: had been the She worked in the coat room at
- 1:53Speaker 1: the Russian Tea Room right over there, she worked in
- 1:55Speaker 1: the coat room, and before that she worked at the
- 1:57Speaker 1: bottom line in the coat room, check in your coat.
- 2:01Speaker 1: So hey, another big anniversary today. It was ten years
- 2:04Speaker 1: ago today that Apple announced the new iPhone. This would
- 2:10Speaker 1: have been twenty sixteen. The new iPhone would have no
- 2:13Speaker 1: plug for the headphones. Do you remember? There was the
- 2:18Speaker 1: lightning plug where you'd plug in the power, and next
- 2:21Speaker 1: to it was that little round hole where you'd plug
- 2:23Speaker 1: in your earphones, your headphones. Your earphones or headphones of
- 2:26Speaker 1: course had a chord and you'd plug it into the phone,
- 2:29Speaker 1: and Apple announced the new iPhone would not have any
- 2:33Speaker 1: earphone plug, no headphone plug, no jack for the headphones.
- 2:38Speaker 1: This was the most shocking thing anybody ever heard of.
- 2:41Speaker 1: All hell broke loose. Nobody could figure that out. How
- 2:44Speaker 1: the hell were you supposed to plug in your headphones?
- 2:47Speaker 1: What were you going to do without headphones that could
- 2:49Speaker 1: plug in? Everybody predicted it was the end of the iPhone.
- 2:52Speaker 1: People would now have to switch to an Android phone.
- 2:58Speaker 1: Apple had this all figured out, were thinking way ahead,
- 3:01Speaker 1: They were thinking long term, very quietly. They had already
- 3:05Speaker 1: bought Beats, the headphone company. They had already figured out
- 3:10Speaker 1: the AirPods, the Bluetooth air pods, and they sounded pretty good.
- 3:16Speaker 1: And it was rough the first year. A lot of
- 3:18Speaker 1: people didn't like this, and they were going to switch
- 3:20Speaker 1: over to the Android and Samsung Galaxy Android. They thought,
- 3:26Speaker 1: this is the best thing that's ever happened. Apple just
- 3:29Speaker 1: committed suicide. Well, Apple had it all figured out, and
- 3:34Speaker 1: within no time at all, selling those AirPods became a
- 3:39Speaker 1: huge business. Like the first couple of years that did
- 3:42Speaker 1: twenty billion. By year four they sold thirty billion in
- 3:47Speaker 1: air pods. It's now a forty to fifty billion dollar
- 3:50Speaker 1: a year business. It's a bigger business than Spotify or
- 3:54Speaker 1: any of those kind of things, and it's an enormous,
- 3:58Speaker 1: enormous business. And Sam sung the Galaxy to Android. They
- 4:02Speaker 1: didn't know what the hell hit him. Apple had just
- 4:05Speaker 1: thought this through, had chess gamed this out like twenty moves,
- 4:08Speaker 1: and it was a brilliant move. You know, they sell
- 4:11Speaker 1: those AirPods. Every year is a new AirPod Pro two,
- 4:14Speaker 1: AirPod Pro three. You know, they sew something like seventy
- 4:18Speaker 1: five billion of those a year all over the world.
- 4:21Speaker 1: Absolutely amazing. So swallwell, he's out of politics, he's out
- 4:28Speaker 1: of Congress, and he's out of the California governor's race.
- 4:32Speaker 1: There's a lot of candidates. We like Steve Hilton, he's
- 4:35Speaker 1: pretty smart. There's another Republican or two in there that
- 4:38Speaker 1: are pretty good. A lot of Democrats in that race.
- 4:41Speaker 1: There's talk of Kamala Harris jumping into that governor's race.
- 4:46Speaker 1: The guy that everybody thinks is the Democrat that's he's
- 4:51Speaker 1: not a good candidate. He's a terrible candidate. But they
- 4:53Speaker 1: thought had a good shot is Tom Steyer, the billionaire.
- 4:58Speaker 1: Remember he ran for president. He's got he's a multi billionaire,
- 5:04Speaker 1: and he's spent a fortune on TV commercials. Back in
- 5:08Speaker 1: twenty twenty, if you were watching Network TV, all you
- 5:11Speaker 1: saw with Tom Steyer in the sweater in his living
- 5:14Speaker 1: room telling you about climate change. That's the main problem
- 5:17Speaker 1: with him. He's like a one issue guy, climate change,
- 5:20Speaker 1: and even on that he doesn't know what the hell
- 5:22Speaker 1: he's talking about. But there he was looking into the
- 5:24Speaker 1: camera talking about climate change, and he spent a fortune
- 5:30Speaker 1: of his zillions of commercials on and it did him
- 5:32Speaker 1: no good. He went absolutely sorry about that, absolutely nowhere
- 5:37Speaker 1: in the race. Now, the thing is he's a bad talker.
- 5:43Speaker 1: He's a boring guy. He's uncomfortable to watch. You go
- 5:46Speaker 1: to sleep listening to him. But those commercials, they put
- 5:49Speaker 1: him in his living room by the fireplace with a
- 5:51Speaker 1: sweater on. So if he sounded dull, will it fit
- 5:54Speaker 1: the environment? Now? The problem is if you get him
- 5:56Speaker 1: out on a campaign stage in a rally, oh does
- 5:59Speaker 1: he sound awful? He really sounds dull. He's got no personality,
- 6:03Speaker 1: and he's got another problem. Back in twenty twenty, in
- 6:06Speaker 1: that campaign, he was at something where there was a
- 6:09Speaker 1: bunch of rappers and hip hop guys, and they were
- 6:12Speaker 1: performing and they were dancing, and he got up and
- 6:15Speaker 1: danced with them. And here was this awkward, old white
- 6:20Speaker 1: guy trying to dance with them. He didn't know what
- 6:22Speaker 1: the hell he was doing. It was so cringey. It
- 6:26Speaker 1: was the worst thing in the world. Where those videos
- 6:28Speaker 1: have resurfaced and the last two days they've gone viral,
- 6:32Speaker 1: and they're really hurting him, really hurting him. He is
- 6:36Speaker 1: so awkward and uncomfortable to what and you see him dancing,
- 6:40Speaker 1: it's just it's not even funny. You just cringe looking
- 6:44Speaker 1: at this video. So the problem is he's got no
- 6:49Speaker 1: shot at all. And just a warning to everybody out there,
- 6:53Speaker 1: don't dance. If you have a great dancer, good go dance,
- 6:56Speaker 1: But if you don't know what you're doing. Remember the
- 6:58Speaker 1: Seinfeld episode where Lane becomes the new president of the
- 7:02Speaker 1: company and everybody respects her, fears her. Then at the
- 7:06Speaker 1: Christmas party she dances. She's the most awful dancer, and
- 7:09Speaker 1: then they all just laugh when they see her. She's
- 7:11Speaker 1: laughed at all the time. I remember once, you know,
- 7:14Speaker 1: I knew JFK Junior when he came into a room.
- 7:18Speaker 1: It was unbelievable. The charisma he projected. He was the handsomest,
- 7:22Speaker 1: the way he moved like an athlete, he was unbelievable,
- 7:25Speaker 1: just magnetic. You couldn't take your eyes off. But there
- 7:29Speaker 1: was one party where there was dancing. He got on
- 7:32Speaker 1: the dance floor and started dancing. We were stunned. He
- 7:37Speaker 1: was the worst dancer you've ever seen. It was a
- 7:39Speaker 1: lane in Seinfeld. It was so clutchy and awkward that
- 7:43Speaker 1: suddenly the handsomest guy that ever lived was ridiculous looking.
- 7:48Speaker 1: He was just a silly looking guy, and the rest
- 7:50Speaker 1: of the party nobody could look at him. So if
- 7:51Speaker 1: you don't know what you're doing, do not dance at
- 7:55Speaker 1: a party, at a wedding, Don't ever ever do it. Hey,
- 7:59Speaker 1: this is fascinating. In the Ukraine, the war continues. Now.
- 8:06Speaker 1: You know, when we go to war in Iran, everybody
- 8:10Speaker 1: is saying, how long is it gonna take? Why it's
- 8:11Speaker 1: been three weeks? What the hell's taken? Its on Ukraine,
- 8:14Speaker 1: it's like year twelve. Nobody says a word. It's fine.
- 8:18Speaker 1: The Iran war. We've spent whatever, we spent twenty eight
- 8:22Speaker 1: billion dollars. People are yelling how much money this is ridiculous.
- 8:25Speaker 1: What I waste the money twenty eight million the Ukraine War,
- 8:29Speaker 1: that's four hundred and fifty million already nobody blinks, and
- 8:33Speaker 1: it's fascinating. You know, we were so afraid of Iran,
- 8:38Speaker 1: the military Iran, well they folded in like two hours.
- 8:42Speaker 1: In their first two hours, we wiped out everything we had.
- 8:46Speaker 1: And we were also so afraid of Russia, superpower. You know,
- 8:49Speaker 1: they used to do those Russian military parades with the
- 8:52Speaker 1: tanks and the soldiers in those parades of Russian military. Oh,
- 8:57Speaker 1: it looks so intimidating. Then they go to war little
- 9:00Speaker 1: Ukraine and they can't get anything done. It's four or
- 9:02Speaker 1: five years later. Five years later, they still haven't made
- 9:06Speaker 1: half a mile of progress yet. So nothing. And now
- 9:09Speaker 1: here's the interesting thing. Ukraine, little tiny Ukraine, has been
- 9:13Speaker 1: able to hold off what was supposed to be a
- 9:16Speaker 1: superpower Russia for all these years. Now these Ukrainians are
- 9:21Speaker 1: getting very sophisticated. Yesterday there was a battle they won
- 9:26Speaker 1: with robots. They sent some robots into combat against Russian
- 9:31Speaker 1: soldiers and they were looking to take some territory and
- 9:34Speaker 1: they did. Ukraine sent in these robots and they beat
- 9:38Speaker 1: the Russian soldiers took the territory robots. Obviously, no injuries
- 9:44Speaker 1: because it was just robots. No humans had to go
- 9:45Speaker 1: anywhere near this battle. So this is the future, apparently,
- 9:49Speaker 1: and it was being tested out and they were very
- 9:51Speaker 1: successful with those robots. You may see that in the future.
- 9:55Speaker 1: You know, in the good old days, pilots could get
- 9:58Speaker 1: shot down all the time because their planes had to
- 10:01Speaker 1: go in fly low. We don't do that anymore. Drones
- 10:04Speaker 1: do it all. If you lose a drone, nobody's hurt,
- 10:07Speaker 1: no injuries, no casualties. It's all drones. So that's in
- 10:12Speaker 1: the air. You're going to see this on the ground. Now,
- 10:14Speaker 1: these robots are going to take over combat. Hey, the
- 10:18Speaker 1: police officer, Eric duran this is this tragic case. He's
- 10:22Speaker 1: on duty. They're trying to stop this crazy drug dealer,
- 10:26Speaker 1: he says. He jumps on a motorcycle to flee, and
- 10:29Speaker 1: he's about to run his motorcycle into a bunch of cops.
- 10:32Speaker 1: So Eric Durant thinks fast. There's a big cooler there.
- 10:35Speaker 1: He picks it up and throws it at the guy
- 10:36Speaker 1: to knock him off the motorcycle. But he knocked him
- 10:40Speaker 1: off and the guy went sideway, he hit a tree,
- 10:42Speaker 1: the motorcycle hit him, and the guy ended up being dead.
- 10:45Speaker 1: Terrible accident, and maybe you shouldn't have thrown the cooler.
- 10:48Speaker 1: But it's a split second decision a cop has to make.
- 10:52Speaker 1: It's understandable. The gets before a crazy judge in the Bronx.
- 10:58Speaker 1: This crazy left wing kouk of a judge convicts him
- 11:01Speaker 1: instantly and then sentences him to three to nine years
- 11:05Speaker 1: in jail. Nine years in jail. This is a cop.
- 11:09Speaker 1: It was an accident. Nine years in jail. This kuk
- 11:12Speaker 1: of a left wing judge two seconds ago had a case,
- 11:15Speaker 1: similar case, same thing. Well, actually was much worse. It
- 11:19Speaker 1: was much worse. This kid beat a homeless man to
- 11:21Speaker 1: death and killed him, beat him to death and killed him.
- 11:24Speaker 1: And the kid was a gang member, beat a homeless
- 11:26Speaker 1: guy to death and killed him. This same judge gave
- 11:28Speaker 1: the kid like three months. What a difference. It's obviously
- 11:32Speaker 1: a left wing kuk of a judge. It's become a
- 11:35Speaker 1: big issue. Bruce Blakeman's running for governor. He most likely
- 11:40Speaker 1: will get elected governor. He has said he will pardon
- 11:42Speaker 1: this cop day one hour, one minute, one soon, one
- 11:47Speaker 1: minute after taking office, will pardon this guy, this Eric
- 11:51Speaker 1: durand this officer. Now he's from an immigrant family. Mother's
- 11:55Speaker 1: an immigrants. She's crying yesterday saying they came to America
- 11:59Speaker 1: for a new life. The American dream turned out to
- 12:01Speaker 1: be a nightmare for her. Last night at the Islanders game,
- 12:05Speaker 1: they had a big fundraiser for this cop. He's got
- 12:08Speaker 1: to appeal. The case needs a legal defense. Arthur Idella
- 12:12Speaker 1: is a good attorney. He's jumped in to be the attorney.
- 12:15Speaker 1: Alan Dershowitz, the brilliant, probably the best appellate lawyer in America,
- 12:21Speaker 1: has volunteered to help. But you need money, and they
- 12:24Speaker 1: had a fundraiser last night Islanders game. Fans donating like crazy.
- 12:28Speaker 1: If you want to donate yourself, go just google Eric
- 12:32Speaker 1: Duran fundraiser. I'm sure it'll come up. Eric Duran fundraiser.
- 12:37Speaker 1: So crazy.
- 12:38Speaker 2: Mom.
- 12:38Speaker 1: Donnie with his grocery store that he hasn't has a
- 12:43Speaker 1: clue how to do it. First of all, there's almost
- 12:46Speaker 1: no profit in grocery stores. You could make a profit
- 12:50Speaker 1: out in the suburbs. You can make a even there.
- 12:54Speaker 1: It's like a four to five percent profit. As soon
- 12:56Speaker 1: as you operate a grocery store in Manhattan. You cost
- 12:59Speaker 1: go crazy. First of all, you have to have the
- 13:01Speaker 1: food delivered to your grocery store from the food company.
- 13:05Speaker 1: And if it's in the suburbs, it costs this much.
- 13:10Speaker 1: If it's in the middle of Manhattan or New York City,
- 13:13Speaker 1: the price goes way up to get the food. Why
- 13:16Speaker 1: because they have to send the trucks into Manhattan. They
- 13:19Speaker 1: can't park anywhere. Most of the time, they're gonna have
- 13:22Speaker 1: to double park, and when they do, they're going to
- 13:24Speaker 1: get a two hundred dollars ticket on the truck. And
- 13:28Speaker 1: you know, like a lot of these places where you
- 13:30Speaker 1: buy an appliance or something, it's free delivery, except Manhattan.
- 13:34Speaker 1: The reason is they're gonna get ticketed like crazy. You
- 13:37Speaker 1: can't park. You know, you got a big truck delivering stuff.
- 13:40Speaker 1: It's tough. Now what these grocery stores have to do.
- 13:43Speaker 1: If you're a big supermarket, you got trucks around the
- 13:46Speaker 1: store all day and night. They're always dropping off you know,
- 13:50Speaker 1: one hundred trucks a day come to drop off stuff.
- 13:53Speaker 1: So the parking tickets are astronomical. So most of these
- 13:57Speaker 1: big chains, CBS, the big drug stores, the big stores,
- 14:00Speaker 1: they make a deal with the city to pay a
- 14:03Speaker 1: set fee for all the park instead of paying every
- 14:07Speaker 1: parking ticket on every truck. They'll just pay a set
- 14:09Speaker 1: fee and they'll negotiate. It'll be one hundred and fifty
- 14:12Speaker 1: thousand a year to pay all the tickets. FedEx has
- 14:15Speaker 1: to do the same thing. You just do that, but
- 14:18Speaker 1: it adds to the cost to your groceries. Then you
- 14:21Speaker 1: come into Manhattan, you got unions, you got all this,
- 14:23Speaker 1: So that's why it costs so much. Has nothing to
- 14:25Speaker 1: do with the grocery store owners. In fact, supermarket owners,
- 14:29Speaker 1: the profit margin is like one percent, which is unbelievably low.
- 14:33Speaker 1: So Mom Donnie doesn't understand any of this. Also, he
- 14:37Speaker 1: has no idea how to do a grocery store. It's
- 14:42Speaker 1: absolutely astronomical what he's spending. It normally would cost a
- 14:47Speaker 1: million to two million to open the thing. He's spending
- 14:50Speaker 1: thirty million on space that's already free that he owns.
- 14:55Speaker 1: City Hall says they will tap a private operator to
- 14:59Speaker 1: manage the stores daily operations. Now, there's no reason to
- 15:05Speaker 1: even do any of this. If you want to lower
- 15:07Speaker 1: the price of groceries, you could do that in one second.
- 15:12Speaker 1: You just go to every supermarket Manhattan and say we
- 15:15Speaker 1: will no longer ticket any truck in front of your store.
- 15:18Speaker 1: We'll drop some of the taxes on you. We'll get
- 15:21Speaker 1: rid of the taxes as long as you agree to
- 15:23Speaker 1: lower the prices. They would all take the deal in
- 15:25Speaker 1: a second. That's all you'd have to do. You don't
- 15:27Speaker 1: have to try to build a grocery store that you
- 15:29Speaker 1: don't know how to build, run it every day when
- 15:32Speaker 1: you don't know how to run. This is going to
- 15:33Speaker 1: be an absolute disaster. First of all, if you said
- 15:37Speaker 1: to Gristiiti's or Morton Williams, here's some space, put a
- 15:41Speaker 1: grocery store there, it would be there two months later.
- 15:45Speaker 1: If the city tries to do it as they are
- 15:47Speaker 1: here in East Harlem, it's not going to be there
- 15:49Speaker 1: till twenty twenty nine, three years to do this. I mean,
- 15:54Speaker 1: it's never even going to happen. You'll never live to
- 15:57Speaker 1: see one of these grocery stores. Hey, we'll take some calls. Next.
- 16:00Speaker 1: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
- 16:04Speaker 1: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten, mark simone
- 16:09Speaker 1: on seven ten w R. Hey, Well take the calls.
- 16:15Speaker 1: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
- 16:18Speaker 1: Let's go to hal in Freeport. How are you doing.
- 16:22Speaker 2: It's fabulous Freeport. How were you?
- 16:24Speaker 1: Isn't that the Nautical Mile?
- 16:26Speaker 2: Well the car deally years ago, Paul Conti.
- 16:30Speaker 1: Would say, all, yeah, I remember, yeah.
- 16:32Speaker 2: Yeah, fabulous Freeport. You buy a car, will go down
- 16:36Speaker 2: the Nautical Mile. We'll buy your dinner at the restaurant
- 16:38Speaker 2: of your choice.
- 16:38Speaker 1: Well, the Miracle Mile that's near the Americana, that whole strip.
- 16:41Speaker 1: But down in the South Shore where you got all
- 16:43Speaker 1: those restaurants and clubs in bart that was called the
- 16:45Speaker 1: Nautical Mile.
- 16:47Speaker 2: And there's only one good restaurant there called Nautilus. All
- 16:51Speaker 2: the rest on a fresh store of today.
- 16:54Speaker 1: Anyway, Yeah, go ahead.
- 16:55Speaker 2: Anyway. I had an idea with the epidemic two or
- 16:59Speaker 2: three years ago to get produce any goods that's grown
- 17:04Speaker 2: on the North Fork and the South Fork, put it
- 17:07Speaker 2: on pallets and put it on train the last car,
- 17:12Speaker 2: get it into Penn Station, and you could also feed
- 17:15Speaker 2: the restaurants there or somehow disperse it where you don't
- 17:19Speaker 2: need these big trucks and diesel guzzlers and everything else
- 17:24Speaker 2: you get.
- 17:25Speaker 1: I hate to break it to you, we already do this.
- 17:26Speaker 1: Many of our restaurants and stores are getting produce from
- 17:29Speaker 1: the North Shore. In the South Shore, they're already doing that.
- 17:32Speaker 1: But even if it's a small truck, you got to
- 17:34Speaker 1: park it somewhere.
- 17:35Speaker 2: No, no, you put it on a last car of
- 17:38Speaker 2: the Long Island Railroad.
- 17:39Speaker 1: Yeah, but then you have to get it from Penn
- 17:40Speaker 1: Station to the store.
- 17:42Speaker 2: No. No, the restaurants at Penn Station.
- 17:45Speaker 1: There's no restaurants at Penn Station.
- 17:47Speaker 2: Well, what's the other one? Grand Central Station. Yeah, they
- 17:53Speaker 2: have restaurants, right.
- 17:54Speaker 1: Not really, they got two up on the mezzanine and
- 17:56Speaker 1: then they underneath they got the clip. But no, no,
- 17:58Speaker 1: no they can't. It doesn't work that way. No, no,
- 18:01Speaker 1: it has to go through the loading docks service entrance. Yeah,
- 18:04Speaker 1: Pen Grand Central. Actually, you can eat very well there.
- 18:07Speaker 1: There's a steakhouse. There's the at Brassrat, Grand Brassray. There's
- 18:11Speaker 1: a Chipriani. There's a by the way. In Grand Central.
- 18:14Speaker 1: They got a like a supermarket there that's phenomenal, phenomenal,
- 18:19Speaker 1: that food hall. It's like the best of everything. Murray's
- 18:23Speaker 1: cheese and eat from the Upper Easts set like really good.
- 18:26Speaker 1: If you want to just do your grocery shopping, Grand
- 18:29Speaker 1: Central it's phenomenal. And there's the oyster bar down below. Now,
- 18:32Speaker 1: if you go to Penn Station, there is nothing to eat.
- 18:35Speaker 1: It's like prison food the whole place. There's that one
- 18:39Speaker 1: pizza place that's not bad. What's the pizza place down there?
- 18:42Speaker 1: It's okay, it's not it's not bad, but it's not great.
- 18:46Speaker 1: There's nothing to eat at Penn Station. Let's go to
- 18:49Speaker 1: Danny in Long Island. Danny, how you doing doing good?
- 18:53Speaker 2: Wealk?
- 18:53Speaker 3: I remember it was a place of pen that sold
- 18:55Speaker 3: the giants slice of pizza. It wasn't a great pizza,
- 18:57Speaker 3: but the size of it alone was breathtaking. I listened
- 19:00Speaker 3: to this Mondani. How much he's in over his head.
- 19:03Speaker 3: You know it's going to cost thirty million dollars to
- 19:06Speaker 3: build a supermarket. Forget that you have to pay rent
- 19:09Speaker 3: to the place where it is now.
- 19:12Speaker 1: But actually there's no rent. It's free space. They own
- 19:14Speaker 1: the space.
- 19:14Speaker 3: Okay, Well, it's a logistical nightmare. You talk about how
- 19:16Speaker 3: many people you have to employ just to run a supermarket. Manages, deli,
- 19:21Speaker 3: people stocking the shelves of they it's a twenty four
- 19:23Speaker 3: to seven operation. You'd be better off seen if people
- 19:26Speaker 3: qualify and give him a fifty dollars gift card.
- 19:28Speaker 1: And yeah, no, that's a good idea. Yeah. First of all,
- 19:31Speaker 1: it doesn't matter because you'll never live to see the supermarket.
- 19:34Speaker 1: It's never going to open. It will never happen. You know,
- 19:37Speaker 1: this is how these guys are so crazy, these socialist, communist,
- 19:41Speaker 1: left wing kook politicians. They take office, they show, here's
- 19:45Speaker 1: to all the stuff. Okay, thirty million to build one supermarket,
- 19:50Speaker 1: and he announces it, thirty million supermarket. Now, every real
- 19:53Speaker 1: expert from the real world has told him it's one
- 19:57Speaker 1: million to open a supermarket, maybe two million at the moment.
- 20:00Speaker 1: John Katzimtititi's met with him the other day told him,
- 20:02Speaker 1: you know it's about two million at the most. Really
- 20:05Speaker 1: one million to open a supermarket. If you were a
- 20:10Speaker 1: normal person, you'd run out of the room screaming at
- 20:12Speaker 1: your people. What the hell did you tell me thirty
- 20:14Speaker 1: million for? Why would you tell me?
- 20:16Speaker 2: Now?
- 20:16Speaker 1: You know it's only one but they don't say a word.
- 20:19Speaker 1: They go ahead with their thirty million. Why it's contracts.
- 20:23Speaker 1: You can hand out lots of contracts to hand out.
- 20:25Speaker 1: Let's go to Robert and Manhattan. Robert, how you doing.
- 20:30Speaker 4: Mark to the discussion. Every troupe that enters my hot
- 20:35Speaker 4: on through Lincolnt trailer, it's a all about one hundred
- 20:39Speaker 4: and thirty five dolars.
- 20:40Speaker 1: Very good point. I forgot about that. Not only when
- 20:43Speaker 1: your truck comes to Manhattan, not only will you get
- 20:45Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty dollars parking ticket, you'll pay one
- 20:46Speaker 1: hundred and fifty to come through the tunnel. You're right,
- 20:49Speaker 1: it's an extra three hundred just to get to Manhattan.
- 20:53Speaker 1: Very good point. Yeah, that's you want to bring down
- 20:56Speaker 1: the prices. All you got to do. No more parking
- 20:58Speaker 1: tickets on those trucks, and trucks can come through the
- 21:01Speaker 1: tunnels and bridges for free. You know. The real good
- 21:05Speaker 1: idea was everybody always said, why don't you just have
- 21:08Speaker 1: all these trucks do they're delivering between midnight and six
- 21:12Speaker 1: when there's no traffic and you can park anywhere. Well,
- 21:16Speaker 1: that would make a lot of sense. But then every building,
- 21:19Speaker 1: every office building, every apartment, everybody'd have to have their
- 21:23Speaker 1: service entrance manned and operated twenty four hours a day.
- 21:26Speaker 1: It's too expensive, so they don't want to do it.
- 21:28Speaker 1: Let's go to Bob in Montvale, New Jersey, Bob, how
- 21:31Speaker 1: you doing.
- 21:32Speaker 5: I'm doing good, Mark, thanks for taking a call. And
- 21:35Speaker 5: you know I did hear mister captain the Tide's talk about,
- 21:40Speaker 5: you know, those stores. But last Wednesday on his own show,
- 21:45Speaker 5: he said he met with the mayor and agreed to
- 21:48Speaker 5: help him. So, I know what you said, but there's
- 21:52Speaker 5: nothing we can do about those contracts. They're always going
- 21:54Speaker 5: to be there.
- 21:55Speaker 1: But no, that's the other way government operates here. John
- 21:58Speaker 1: is the world expert in New York City how to
- 22:00Speaker 1: operate a supermarket. He has more supermarkets in New York
- 22:03Speaker 1: for forty years. He said to the mayor, I'd be
- 22:05Speaker 1: happy to help you. If that were any normal person,
- 22:10Speaker 1: they would call him every day with seventeen different questions.
- 22:14Speaker 1: You'd keep consulting him. But it's government. Yeah, we don't
- 22:17Speaker 1: need him. We can do this ourselves. We'll figure it out.
- 22:22Speaker 1: It's fascinating to watch. It's like these amateurs that do
- 22:27Speaker 1: these podcasts. I'll go to every professional radio person. I
- 22:31Speaker 1: hate my podcast. You got to listen to my podcast
- 22:33Speaker 1: and it never cursed him. Ask a question, ask him
- 22:36Speaker 1: for some advice, ask him how to do They never
- 22:39Speaker 1: ask they they just think they're the same thing. With politicians. Well, hey,
- 22:44Speaker 1: when we come back and Coulter will be with us next.
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- 23:21Speaker 6: How you doing fantastic? How are you? Marximone?
- 23:25Speaker 1: I'm good, beautiful day. Do you like to Well, you're all.
- 23:28Speaker 1: You're in California, you're in Florida, You're used to this.
- 23:31Speaker 1: We haven't seen ady in a long time. It's very good.
- 23:35Speaker 6: I hope you have the clothes for it.
- 23:37Speaker 1: Me not have the clothes for something.
- 23:41Speaker 7: That's true.
- 23:42Speaker 5: Uh.
- 23:42Speaker 1: Now, let me ask you Trump de arrangement syndrome question. Now,
- 23:45Speaker 1: sometimes you hate Trump, you don't, but it's always something specific.
- 23:48Speaker 1: I don't like what he did on the border. I
- 23:49Speaker 1: don't like this. I don't like but these people that
- 23:51Speaker 1: go nuts over anything he does. What is the cure
- 23:55Speaker 1: for that?
- 23:57Speaker 6: I don't know. I've wondered about that. I've asked some
- 24:00Speaker 6: of my New York Times reporter friends. Some of them
- 24:05Speaker 6: have it, some of them don't. But as as I
- 24:08Speaker 6: said in the theme of my last book, it's it's
- 24:12Speaker 6: utterly counterproductive. They can't they can't formulate.
- 24:16Speaker 7: A straight argument.
- 24:17Speaker 6: It's just, you know, just that he's a poopy head,
- 24:20Speaker 6: and that's supposed to be sufficient. And every everything he
- 24:23Speaker 6: does they put the worst possible interpretation on. Not to
- 24:26Speaker 6: mention they're getting awfully cliched. They've really got to stop
- 24:29Speaker 6: comparing him to a mafia don so old or talking
- 24:34Speaker 6: about the adults in the room, et cetera, et cetera.
- 24:39Speaker 6: But anyway, the New York Times reporters thought it would
- 24:41Speaker 6: go away, because I do think the New York Times
- 24:45Speaker 6: became and they are the most articulate version of liberal thought.
- 24:50Speaker 6: But when Trump came along, unfortunately, it shot up subscriptions
- 24:54Speaker 6: to The New York Times. But but I think they're
- 24:58Speaker 6: They're reportage standard really dropped to cover Trump, and and
- 25:04Speaker 6: so I've asked him, do you think it'll go back
- 25:06Speaker 6: to normal once he's gone. They assured me it would,
- 25:08Speaker 6: but I'm not sure it will or it has. I mean,
- 25:11Speaker 6: we had kind of an example of that during the
- 25:13Speaker 6: four years Biden was in office, and the shrillness of
- 25:18Speaker 6: the attacks. It's also a little bit like they are
- 25:23Speaker 6: the little boy crying wolf when when everything he does
- 25:29Speaker 6: leads to, you know, fire alarms from them, How are
- 25:33Speaker 6: we supposed to know when there's actually something to be
- 25:36Speaker 6: concerned about.
- 25:36Speaker 1: Yeah. Also, whatever he does, this is it. He's finished.
- 25:40Speaker 1: It's over the Jesus picture, this is the end.
- 25:44Speaker 6: Kind of given up on that second second term since
- 25:48Speaker 6: they were so spectacularly wrong when he won a second term,
- 25:52Speaker 6: I think I think that's calmed down some of the
- 25:55Speaker 6: particularly girlish hysterics on the left when they saw that,
- 26:02Speaker 6: accusing him of being a Russian Asian, a rapist, what
- 26:07Speaker 6: else for a king, cheat, a liar, a king? And
- 26:13Speaker 6: oh and of course what was it I can't even
- 26:15Speaker 6: remember how many felonies thirty four felonies. When they saw
- 26:20Speaker 6: that that woe did not work, In fact, backfired spectacularly
- 26:24Speaker 6: when he was re elected with an even larger popular
- 26:27Speaker 6: vote margin in twenty twenty four.
- 26:29Speaker 7: That that really settled a lot of them down.
- 26:32Speaker 6: Oops, our hysteria has not worked well.
- 26:35Speaker 1: The new one is you you cannot attack a pope.
- 26:37Speaker 1: You if you attack a pope, you can't have a
- 26:40Speaker 1: fight with him. Don't they remember he attacked and fought
- 26:42Speaker 1: with the pope eight years ago with the other pope.
- 26:45Speaker 1: Nobody remembers it.
- 26:46Speaker 6: Well, he is a barbarian lout.
- 26:54Speaker 1: Yes, that's the idea.
- 26:56Speaker 7: No, Trump is No, that's the idea.
- 26:58Speaker 6: It should have been attacked the Tom Holman did, which
- 27:04Speaker 6: I retweeted, Yeah, I know early this morning. It was
- 27:08Speaker 6: put perfectly don't this is not This is not a
- 27:13Speaker 6: moment for sophomore tweets about or whatever his truth socially
- 27:19Speaker 6: about a pope. Homan was perfectly calm and serious, saying,
- 27:25Speaker 6: if he saw what I saw, he'd realized how many
- 27:29Speaker 6: were and described what he sees, you know, nine year
- 27:31Speaker 6: old girls being bleeding from being repeatedly raped and trafficked,
- 27:37Speaker 6: and opening trucks with twenty nine dead human bodies, including
- 27:41Speaker 6: children from the heat, trying to cross into the border,
- 27:44Speaker 6: et cetera, et cetera. Not to mention all the dead Americans,
- 27:48Speaker 6: he says, if the Pope saw what I saw, he
- 27:50Speaker 6: would not be so cavalier about all the lives were saving.
- 27:54Speaker 7: That's the way to respond.
- 27:56Speaker 1: Of course, but it's ten years now. When are people
- 27:58Speaker 1: going to realize that Donald trum he's the most powerful
- 28:01Speaker 1: man in the world. He's this big CEO, he's the press,
- 28:03Speaker 1: but he's also a little Howard Stern. There's a Howard
- 28:05Speaker 1: Stern side to him. He's going to treat some outrageous things,
- 28:08Speaker 1: and he's going to make some bad jokes and what
- 28:10Speaker 1: you call him a barbarian lout. He's gonna do that
- 28:13Speaker 1: once in a while. It's part it comes fro.
- 28:15Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm well aware of that.
- 28:16Speaker 7: I wish he wouldn't.
- 28:17Speaker 6: Most people can alternate. I mean, there's a different way
- 28:21Speaker 6: every Even children speak differently to their kindergarten teacher than
- 28:26Speaker 6: to their mother, than to their little playmates than to
- 28:30Speaker 6: you know, the next door neighbor. I suspect mebas know
- 28:35Speaker 6: how to do this, but but our president does not.
- 28:40Speaker 1: Okay, But as you know, as you've seen with your
- 28:43Speaker 1: own eyes, behind the scenes, when nobody's looking, every politician
- 28:46Speaker 1: talks that way and does the same stuff. They just
- 28:48Speaker 1: do it privately, then in public they put on that
- 28:51Speaker 1: formal version of themselves. But he decided, like Howard Stern,
- 28:56Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go on the air and be myself
- 28:59Speaker 1: no filter. What's wrong with it?
- 29:02Speaker 6: I am completely rejecting this as being acceptable, markimone. Mister
- 29:09Speaker 6: may continues to say it in that beautiful radio voice
- 29:12Speaker 6: you have, which almost is luring me in. But I'm sorry,
- 29:16Speaker 6: I rejected and direly all right.
- 29:18Speaker 1: But it was the same thing with Howard Stern when
- 29:20Speaker 1: he came along all the old radio guys. Oh yeah, okay,
- 29:24Speaker 1: that's funny, but he but not this. He went too far,
- 29:26Speaker 1: and he's always going to go too far.
- 29:29Speaker 6: I never really cared for Howard Stern. I thought he
- 29:31Speaker 6: had some funny people on his program, but I thought
- 29:34Speaker 6: he also was a barbarian lout.
- 29:38Speaker 1: Okay, but there's a place for barbarian loved by.
- 29:41Speaker 6: The way, nobody would elect him president.
- 29:43Speaker 1: Well that's true. What about the Swallowell? This is like
- 29:49Speaker 1: the other Epstein, isn't it. I mean, here they got
- 29:50Speaker 1: an Epstein in their midst, and they're covering it up
- 29:52Speaker 1: for all this time.
- 29:54Speaker 6: It's I'm it's it's sunning. It's sunning. All these girls
- 29:59Speaker 6: coming forward. It does remind me of Bob Packwood. And
- 30:07Speaker 6: for your for your younger listeners, the Democrats have a
- 30:11Speaker 6: habit of doing this when they don't need a politician anymore.
- 30:14Speaker 7: They are well aware.
- 30:15Speaker 6: I mean, all these Democrats coming out, all these girls
- 30:18Speaker 6: coming out. I think you and I were the only
- 30:21Speaker 6: people who didn't know about this, Mark Simone. So why
- 30:25Speaker 6: do they hit him down on it? Because they want
- 30:27Speaker 6: to get him out of the race for governor. He's
- 30:29Speaker 6: considered the most moderate of the Democratic candidates. So the
- 30:32Speaker 6: same thing happened a million years ago. I mean, it's
- 30:34Speaker 6: happened a million other times, but it was just so
- 30:37Speaker 6: obvious this quote. Republican member of the of the Senate,
- 30:42Speaker 6: Senator Bob Packwood was the Rhino of his day, really
- 30:47Speaker 6: really really pro abortion. So the Democrats wanted him for
- 30:51Speaker 6: his pro abortion vote when they didn't need him anymore.
- 30:54Speaker 6: It was the first year, it was when Clinton was elected.
- 30:57Speaker 6: Clinton had a Democrat House, Democrats and large enough majorities
- 31:01Speaker 6: they didn't need this rhino Republican anymore. And suddenly the
- 31:06Speaker 6: flood gates open. Every single member of the Democratic Party
- 31:10Speaker 6: knew about it, all these women stepping forward, but no,
- 31:14Speaker 6: they just kept their lips zipped because they wanted to
- 31:16Speaker 6: keep him in office. And you do see that with
- 31:18Speaker 6: a swallow one thing. One thing, I mean, I've been
- 31:23Speaker 6: so distracted by the fact that all of these girls
- 31:26Speaker 6: were so intoxicated they didn't remember what happened. But since
- 31:31Speaker 6: that they had been raped the next day, I will
- 31:34Speaker 6: I will repeat my warning to the female sex. Really
- 31:41Speaker 6: a bad idea to get so drunk that you can't
- 31:43Speaker 6: walk or remember what happened to you. Really, really, besides
- 31:48Speaker 6: being unladylike, bad things can happen. One thing I haven't
- 31:52Speaker 6: heard anyone mentioned. And I suppose she's better off this way,
- 31:56Speaker 6: But oh my gosh, what about swall Well's wife. Now, yeah, oh,
- 32:04Speaker 6: there's a deep sensitivity from Marksimbo. What you really feel
- 32:10Speaker 6: sorry for? I mean, she has three little kids. She
- 32:14Speaker 6: thinks she's you know, on easy Street, married this this,
- 32:17Speaker 6: and you know, I'm well, certainly by the standards of congressome,
- 32:21Speaker 6: particularly the Democratic Party, this handsome congressman on his way up,
- 32:27Speaker 6: uh has a wonderful life and suddenly she finds out this.
- 32:35Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, I don't know what. I guess you
- 32:37Speaker 6: divorce him, but it's pretty awful.
- 32:41Speaker 1: Hey, the gil Go Beach mass murderer. That wife hasn't
- 32:43Speaker 1: divorced him yet, So.
- 32:50Speaker 6: I think I think she's getting that divorce with bothering
- 32:53Speaker 6: to hire an attorney.
- 32:56Speaker 1: All right, well, everybody, you check out an culture on Twitter.
- 33:00Speaker 1: Great stuff there, even better Substack. You got a new
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- 33:06Speaker 7: Yeah, oh BOFO column.
- 33:07Speaker 1: And I'd like your sub sec. It's got all kinds
- 33:10Speaker 1: of stuff, your videos, your podcasts, all of that. Just
- 33:13Speaker 1: go to Anculter dot substack dot com, and and Culter
- 33:19Speaker 1: thanks for being with us.
- 33:21Speaker 6: Good to talk to you. Mark Simone, bye bye.
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- 34:12Speaker 1: Well, you know the New York Times. They got all
- 34:15Speaker 1: those crazy left wing, angry cooks at the New York Times,
- 34:18Speaker 1: but there were always these guys that were kind of respectable,
- 34:21Speaker 1: thoughtful types. There was David Brooks, he was supposed to
- 34:26Speaker 1: be the Republican over there, but he's more left wing
- 34:28Speaker 1: than anybody. And then there's the other one, Thomas Friedman.
- 34:32Speaker 1: And these are the guys that when they came on,
- 34:34Speaker 1: they were quite professorial, respectable, elder statesman, thoughtful, you'd see
- 34:41Speaker 1: them on PBS, and well now they just became absolute
- 34:46Speaker 1: raging cooks. Thomas Friedman New York Times shocked everybody this week,
- 34:51Speaker 1: just stunned them when he actually said out loud in writing,
- 34:55Speaker 1: he just actually said, I don't want to see us
- 34:57Speaker 1: win and Iran. I hope I ran wins because they
- 35:00Speaker 1: I don't want to see. He actually said, I don't
- 35:02Speaker 1: want to see Donald Trump or Benjamin Netta who benefit
- 35:06Speaker 1: politically from US winning the war, because they're horrible, disgusting,
- 35:11Speaker 1: despicable people. So he actually said he hopes the enemy
- 35:15Speaker 1: beats America. He hopes America loses the war. I mean,
- 35:18Speaker 1: it's unbelievable that anybody would say that. And it's one
- 35:22Speaker 1: thing if you're a twenty six year old, angry, vicious
- 35:25Speaker 1: New York Times kook. But this is their elder statesman,
- 35:28Speaker 1: this is their grand columnist, this is Thomas Friedman. People
- 35:33Speaker 1: are stunned that he said it. I mean, there's no
- 35:34Speaker 1: way you should be saying anything like that during war
- 35:38Speaker 1: that I hope America loses. And there's no way if
- 35:42Speaker 1: you're a legitimate news organization that you should hire anybody
- 35:46Speaker 1: like that, or should at least be suspended or reprimanded,
- 35:49Speaker 1: or that somebody should apologize for it. Can you imagine
- 35:52Speaker 1: the middle of the World War Two, a whole pitler
- 35:55Speaker 1: wins because I hate FDR. I don't want to see
- 35:57Speaker 1: him look good. A whole pitler wins. Can you image
- 36:00Speaker 1: anybody saying that in World War Two? But here you
- 36:03Speaker 1: got Tom Friedman actually saying it out loud. New York
- 36:07Speaker 1: Times total silence. They don't say a word about it.
- 36:10Speaker 1: It's just fine for them. It's that Trump derangement syndrome
- 36:14Speaker 1: like we're just talking about with Anne Coulter. She hates Trump.
- 36:17Speaker 1: Sometimes sometimes she's attacking Trump like crazy but it's always
- 36:20Speaker 1: over a specific issue. And I wish he didn't do
- 36:23Speaker 1: this with the border and this with a deportation. It's
- 36:26Speaker 1: always about something specific. And then when he does something good,
- 36:28Speaker 1: she likes him. But Trump derangement syndrome. It's just insane.
- 36:32Speaker 1: It's just over the top, crazy, insane hatred about anything
- 36:36Speaker 1: and everything. Hey, we're out of time. Enjoy the day.
- 36:39Speaker 1: It's going to be summer today, it'll be near ninety.
- 36:42Speaker 1: I'll be back tomorrow ten to noon. I hope you
- 36:45Speaker 1: will be too. I'll talk to you then on seven ten.
- 36:48Speaker 1: WR