Latest / The Mark Simone Show / Hour 1: We lost a broadcasting legend.
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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is seven to ten, r Boy. The Mark Simung
- 0:04Speaker 1: Show starts.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Now.
- 0:08Speaker 1: Well, hey it's Monday. It's gonna be a beautiful sunny day.
- 0:11Speaker 1: We got a lot to get to today. We'll get
- 0:14Speaker 1: to a ran, we'll get to the met Gallop, We'll
- 0:16Speaker 1: get to Mom Dannie, We'll get to a whole lot more.
- 0:21Speaker 1: Let me just update you on a couple of things.
- 0:23Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani. The latest is he was. It was announced
- 0:29Speaker 1: overnight that he was in critical condition but stable. He's
- 0:32Speaker 1: improving a little. In fact, I actually heard the phrase
- 0:35Speaker 1: turn the corner. He's getting. The main problem, the thing
- 0:40Speaker 1: to put him in the hospital is a bad case
- 0:42Speaker 1: of pneumonia, but very stable, and it looks it looks
- 0:47Speaker 1: better than it did yesterday. Late last night, word was
- 0:51Speaker 1: he was improving a little. It's a slow thing to
- 0:54Speaker 1: recover from. Rudy Giuliani, of course, the greatest mayor ever
- 0:59Speaker 1: in history, a fighter, a great fighter in anything he does.
- 1:02Speaker 1: You can be sure he'll be a great fighter in
- 1:05Speaker 1: this and I think we'll come through it. So that's
- 1:07Speaker 1: the latest on that. John Sterling, that was the terrible
- 1:12Speaker 1: news this morning. John Sterling has passed away. Of course,
- 1:15Speaker 1: a wonderful, beloved guy, the Yankee announcer for a lot
- 1:20Speaker 1: of years. Actually, he got to the Yankees late. It
- 1:22Speaker 1: was eighty nine. I thought he'd been there earlier, but
- 1:24Speaker 1: it wasn't until nineteen eighty nine that he got to
- 1:26Speaker 1: the New York Yankees until two and twenty four, although
- 1:30Speaker 1: remember in twenty twenty two he cut down his schedule.
- 1:35Speaker 1: He wasn't doing so many away games. He was a
- 1:37Speaker 1: lot older than the people thought or realized, but a wonderful,
- 1:40Speaker 1: wonderful guy was a regular listener to this program. He
- 1:44Speaker 1: was a great, great radio host. Before being the Yankee
- 1:48Speaker 1: play by play announcer, he was a radio sports talk
- 1:51Speaker 1: host and was considered maybe the best ever in his day.
- 1:56Speaker 1: In the seventies and eighties. WMCA years ago was the
- 2:00Speaker 1: big talk station in New York. And when I got
- 2:03Speaker 1: there was the early eighties. He was gone by then.
- 2:05Speaker 1: I think he had left town actually for a few years,
- 2:07Speaker 1: working somewhere else. But when I got there, I only
- 2:10Speaker 1: heard about was John Sterling Johnston. He did the best
- 2:13Speaker 1: sports talk show ever. People were still talking about him
- 2:18Speaker 1: years later. And then, you know, not long ago, maybe
- 2:22Speaker 1: it was last year he came back for a little
- 2:24Speaker 1: while on the other station. He was doing a weekend
- 2:27Speaker 1: talk show, the first time I got to hear him
- 2:29Speaker 1: really do a radio talk show. He was phenomenal. He
- 2:32Speaker 1: was really great. He was a wonderful guy in real life.
- 2:35Speaker 1: There's not a bad thing anybody will ever say about
- 2:38Speaker 1: John Sterling, great guy in real life. I knew him
- 2:41Speaker 1: pretty well, and he loved Frank Sinatra. In fact, whenever
- 2:44Speaker 1: we got together, there was a few minutes of talk
- 2:47Speaker 1: about broadcasting stuff, and then the whole conversation was Sinatra,
- 2:52Speaker 1: and he always had a million Sinatra questions. He was
- 2:55Speaker 1: the nicest guy. Everybody worked with him loved him. He
- 3:00Speaker 1: made the news for that fire, and he lived in
- 3:03Speaker 1: New Jersey. Was the avalon, and the fire destroyed the
- 3:08Speaker 1: whole place, all the whole complex. He lost everything, lost
- 3:12Speaker 1: his Emmy's, his World Series rings, everything. Now what they
- 3:15Speaker 1: don't tell you, World Series rings get replaced. It's easy
- 3:17Speaker 1: to do. The company that makes him bal for will
- 3:20Speaker 1: replace them if you lose them. I imagine the Emmy
- 3:23Speaker 1: people do the same thing. You lose your Emmy, they'll
- 3:25Speaker 1: replace it for you. There were certain players. In fact,
- 3:28Speaker 1: one Yankee legend often considered the greatest Yankee. Well, I
- 3:33Speaker 1: don't want to mention names, but he would go to
- 3:36Speaker 1: George Steinbanner every couple of years and say, my all
- 3:39Speaker 1: my rings were stolen. He had a lot of them,
- 3:40Speaker 1: and they'd replace all the rings for him. And then
- 3:44Speaker 1: this happened about every five maybe five times every couple
- 3:47Speaker 1: of years. And then the George started to realize, nobody
- 3:51Speaker 1: has that many breakings and robberies in their house. He's
- 3:53Speaker 1: just collecting rings, so they cut him off from getting
- 3:56Speaker 1: the rings replaced. But John Sterling, wonderful, wonderful guy was
- 4:01Speaker 1: he yea eighty nine years old, the voice of the
- 4:05Speaker 1: Yankees for years. Wait a minute, let me see we
- 4:07Speaker 1: must have some John Sterling cut somewhere. Be honest, he
- 4:10Speaker 1: was my second favorite Yankee announcer ever. First Phil Rizzuto,
- 4:15Speaker 1: It'll always be the scooter, Phil Rizzuto, but John Sterling
- 4:20Speaker 1: in the modern times the best ever. I swung on
- 4:23Speaker 1: at it high in the air, to deep right. That
- 4:25Speaker 1: ball is high hit as far.
- 4:27Speaker 2: He has gone.
- 4:30Speaker 3: Burdie goes boom, he kills a home run a.
- 4:34Speaker 4: Short way in the right, deal, seats Burn, baby Burn,
- 4:38Speaker 4: and the Yankees tie the ball game at won.
- 4:41Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard to come up with those catchphrases, but
- 4:43Speaker 1: he was good.
- 4:44Speaker 4: Well, no, there it goes to eat right, Hit us high,
- 4:46Speaker 4: hit us far, he is gone. Hit at the foul pole,
- 4:51Speaker 4: Curtis Grandison? Is it a three run home run? To
- 4:55Speaker 4: go with his two run home run? The grandy man
- 4:58Speaker 4: can o all the brandy man can.
- 5:03Speaker 1: He was a wonderful guy, always beautifully dressed, always a
- 5:06Speaker 1: suit and tie. John Sterling swings drills, did it right?
- 5:10Speaker 1: That ball's hard? Little s far?
- 5:12Speaker 3: That is gone.
- 5:14Speaker 1: The Milkman delivers.
- 5:17Speaker 4: He hits up bottom of the fourteenth, one out, two run,
- 5:21Speaker 4: walk off home run. That's the Milky way. Milky Cabrera
- 5:27Speaker 4: ends the ball game with a two run bottom of
- 5:30Speaker 4: the fourteenth home run.
- 5:31Speaker 1: Yeah away with words. If you ever heard him do
- 5:33Speaker 1: it a radio talk show. He was very articulate and
- 5:38Speaker 1: very knowledgeable on millions of subjects. Could talk about anything.
- 5:41Speaker 1: It was great at it. And again this is probably
- 5:44Speaker 1: the most famous phrase.
- 5:45Speaker 4: Ball game over.
- 5:47Speaker 1: Yankees win, The Yankees win. John Sterling, he was a wonderful,
- 5:56Speaker 1: wonderful guy. Sorry, sorry to be lost. Hey, you know
- 6:02Speaker 1: what we lost? Spirit Airlines. It's gone. Spirit Airlines closes,
- 6:06Speaker 1: goes out of business. Thousands of people are out of work,
- 6:10Speaker 1: Tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of passengers are
- 6:13Speaker 1: stranded all over the place. It's an absolute disaster for
- 6:17Speaker 1: the airline industry, a disaster for travel. And who caused it? Well,
- 6:23Speaker 1: you got to put some blame on Spirit Airlines, But
- 6:26Speaker 1: who caused it? Elizabeth Warren, Merrick Garland, Pete Bootagetge, Joe Biden.
- 6:34Speaker 1: They are responsible for this. They wiped out Spirit Airlines.
- 6:39Speaker 1: It was absolutely unnecessary. Spirit Airlines was in a lot
- 6:43Speaker 1: of trouble business wise for many years. They filed for
- 6:46Speaker 1: bankruptcy all the time, and they finally, finally were able
- 6:51Speaker 1: to solve the problem. JetBlue decided to what they called
- 6:55Speaker 1: it a merger, but Jet Blue really was going to
- 6:57Speaker 1: just buy it. It would be absorbed into Jet Blue.
- 7:01Speaker 1: That would have solved everything, fixed everything. You might have
- 7:05Speaker 1: had some little layoffs, but most of the employees would
- 7:10Speaker 1: have stayed, most of the flights would have stayed. It
- 7:12Speaker 1: would have been perfect. The passengers would have been taken
- 7:14Speaker 1: care of. Why didn't they merge. Why didn't the sale
- 7:18Speaker 1: go through? Because the Democrats stopped it, specifically Elizabeth Warren,
- 7:24Speaker 1: who not just publicly railed against it, but behind the
- 7:27Speaker 1: scenes so aggressively fought to block that merger. And then
- 7:33Speaker 1: Pete Boudajetge went crazy trying to stop Jet Blue from
- 7:37Speaker 1: taking over Spirit Airlines. And then Merrick Garland got on
- 7:42Speaker 1: the act, and Joe Biden was all over this. And
- 7:44Speaker 1: then Merrick Garland, the very dirty, sleazy Attorney General, he
- 7:49Speaker 1: and the Justice Department killed the deal. The Justice Department
- 7:53Speaker 1: blocked it, stopped it thanks to a lot of push
- 7:56Speaker 1: from Buddha Jedge, Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden. Merrick Garland,
- 7:59Speaker 1: the crew dirty awful Attorney General stopped it. And that's
- 8:03Speaker 1: why all these people are now out of work. That's
- 8:06Speaker 1: why all those passengers were stranded suddenly with no way
- 8:11Speaker 1: to get home. Now, what was the reason, What excuse
- 8:15Speaker 1: could they possibly have given? Why wouldn't you want to
- 8:17Speaker 1: send those save those jobs. Well, they did argue it
- 8:20Speaker 1: was too much monopoly. If they had merged, it would
- 8:23Speaker 1: have been maybe nine percent of the market. I would
- 8:26Speaker 1: hardly call that a monopoly. They didn't have ninety one
- 8:31Speaker 1: percent of the market. It was just nine percent of
- 8:33Speaker 1: the market. It was absolutely ridiculous. Democrats, there's no rhyme
- 8:37Speaker 1: or reason to what they do. You know, it comes
- 8:39Speaker 1: to healthcare, Obamacare, they don't mind that. Completely totally owning
- 8:43Speaker 1: total dominance of the market, total monopoly, that they don't mind.
- 8:47Speaker 1: So you got to remember, Democrats never follow the science.
- 8:51Speaker 1: This is an important thing to remember. Democrats don't believe
- 8:54Speaker 1: in science. They don't follow the science. And business is
- 8:58Speaker 1: a science, it really is. If a real businessman, a
- 9:01Speaker 1: Donald Trump, or a real businessman, a real CEO, had
- 9:04Speaker 1: been in charge, then he would have looked at the
- 9:07Speaker 1: whole deal, the merger. He could have check looked at
- 9:10Speaker 1: everybody's numbers, books, seen if it was the right thing
- 9:12Speaker 1: to do or if it was necessary. But Democrats don't
- 9:15Speaker 1: follow the science. You see that all the time. You
- 9:17Speaker 1: see that with Mom Donnie. It's a great example. His
- 9:21Speaker 1: tax policies, his economic policies. There's a whole science to
- 9:25Speaker 1: running an economy. We know what works, we know it
- 9:27Speaker 1: doesn't work. We've got a thousand years and a billion
- 9:30Speaker 1: examples where we can look at the data. If you
- 9:33Speaker 1: do this, it works, the economy booms. If you do
- 9:35Speaker 1: this it doesn't. It's scientific, it's mathematical. You can prove it,
- 9:39Speaker 1: you can scientifically test it. A billion times and you
- 9:42Speaker 1: got your results. Democrats don't believe in that. I mean,
- 9:46Speaker 1: we've seen any time you do socialism total failure. You
- 9:51Speaker 1: go into detail as to why every time you cut
- 9:53Speaker 1: taxes you see an economy boom. You've seeing it right now.
- 9:58Speaker 1: You can just look at the science. Look at the Texas,
- 10:00Speaker 1: look at Florida, look at Tennessee get rid of the
- 10:04Speaker 1: taxes or cut them down very low. Every business and billionaire,
- 10:08Speaker 1: everybody runs to the state. The economy flourishes, everybody thrives,
- 10:13Speaker 1: everybody of every income level does better. It's a science.
- 10:18Speaker 1: But Democrats don't believe in the science. They never follow
- 10:21Speaker 1: the science. You'll see this with Mom Donni. Mam Donnie
- 10:25Speaker 1: seems to love tax revenue. Kathy Hokle loves tax revenue.
- 10:30Speaker 1: This is their big thing. More tax revenue, more tax
- 10:33Speaker 1: revenue they can get. Well, if you follow the science
- 10:36Speaker 1: to do that. You want to get your biggest taxpayers here.
- 10:41Speaker 1: You want to get the big big taxpayers here. That's
- 10:44Speaker 1: how you get tax revenue. They create these unscientific tax
- 10:48Speaker 1: policies that drive the billionaires out. They leave. Now you
- 10:51Speaker 1: get less tax revenue. It's like there's a science to
- 10:55Speaker 1: running a restaurant. If you got your biggest customers, the
- 10:58Speaker 1: ones that spend a fort that come, the regulars that
- 11:02Speaker 1: come all the time, they're about to order the most
- 11:04Speaker 1: expensive everything. Their checks are high, they spend the most
- 11:07Speaker 1: money in your restaurant. You take care of them. You
- 11:10Speaker 1: do extra things for them. You send them emails, you
- 11:13Speaker 1: send them thank you notes, you do special stuff when
- 11:16Speaker 1: they come in, You give them special things, you take
- 11:19Speaker 1: care of That's how you keep your best customers. You
- 11:21Speaker 1: don't give them a hard time. You don't charge them
- 11:24Speaker 1: extra and insult them. You don't drive them away. If
- 11:27Speaker 1: there's a science to it, But democrats never follow the science.
- 11:32Speaker 1: The do you see that Newark flight. There's a flight
- 11:36Speaker 1: coming into Newark Airport and he's coming in kind of low,
- 11:39Speaker 1: big huge jumbo jet coming in low. In fact, solo
- 11:44Speaker 1: knocks down a light pole and then hits a truck.
- 11:49Speaker 1: The landing gear under the plane goes right through the
- 11:51Speaker 1: window of the truck. Now, it's an overseas flight from Italy,
- 11:56Speaker 1: which could mean to give the pilot fatigue. The guy
- 11:59Speaker 1: was obviously in the air many many, many, many hours.
- 12:03Speaker 1: They still haven't explained exactly what happened, why, the pilot
- 12:07Speaker 1: would try to come in that low, and they think
- 12:13Speaker 1: he didn't realize how much. I guess he knew his height,
- 12:16Speaker 1: but the landing gear was down and he didn't realize
- 12:19Speaker 1: how many feet down that landing gear would go, and
- 12:22Speaker 1: that's how it hit the truck. Pretty scary for the
- 12:24Speaker 1: truck driver. Tonight is the met Gala, which makes a fortune.
- 12:32Speaker 1: I used to go to that every year years ago.
- 12:33Speaker 1: It was a whole different thing. If you go back
- 12:36Speaker 1: to the nineties, the early two thousands, it was the
- 12:38Speaker 1: most prestigious, classy, dignified event. It was all the great
- 12:44Speaker 1: business names in New York. You'd see all kinds of
- 12:46Speaker 1: Bloomberg types taking tables, and you'd see all the great
- 12:50Speaker 1: people of New York society, and it was very elegant.
- 12:53Speaker 1: It was really quite something back then. Well it's a
- 12:56Speaker 1: whole different thing to now. It's crazy rap stars, pops stars,
- 13:01Speaker 1: crazy Instagram influencers. It's the most cheesiest, leaziest, trashiest. But
- 13:09Speaker 1: you know, I understand why Anna wind Tower did that.
- 13:12Speaker 1: She had really no choice because if you go back
- 13:16Speaker 1: to them great days of them at gala, and I
- 13:18Speaker 1: list you all the names that were there as I
- 13:21Speaker 1: think about it, they're all dead. They're all dead or
- 13:26Speaker 1: in wheelchairs. They're all gone. So she had to reinvent
- 13:29Speaker 1: the whole thing and she did pretty smart of her.
- 13:33Speaker 1: And they'll make a fortune. You know, Back in those days,
- 13:36Speaker 1: a ticket was five hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, a
- 13:39Speaker 1: table was ten thousand and twenty five thousand. Maybe maybe
- 13:42Speaker 1: they had a seventy five thousand dollars table if you
- 13:45Speaker 1: were a big sponsor, one hundred thousand. Well it's all
- 13:47Speaker 1: different today. Table prices start at three hundred and fifty thousand.
- 13:53Speaker 1: A single individual ticket is one hundred thousand. Yeah, so
- 13:59Speaker 1: they'll take you, they'll I think they'll take him like
- 14:00Speaker 1: thirty million tonight. Now the big sponsor. Obviously he wants
- 14:05Speaker 1: to be the bell of the ball. He wants to
- 14:06Speaker 1: be the star of this whole thing. Jeff Bezos has
- 14:09Speaker 1: spent ten million to be the co host. He put
- 14:12Speaker 1: ten million into this deal. And I guess I think
- 14:17Speaker 1: you know that wife, Lauren Sanchez. I have a feeling
- 14:19Speaker 1: she pushed him on this a lot. But he'll be
- 14:22Speaker 1: the big, big player. Meryl Streep, who plays wind Tower
- 14:27Speaker 1: in the Devilwares product, They keep begging her to come.
- 14:30Speaker 1: She says she will not be there. She's not coming tonight.
- 14:33Speaker 1: But some of the cast, well we'll talk about the
- 14:34Speaker 1: movie a little later, but that's tonight. If you're anywhere
- 14:38Speaker 1: around the metropolp Museum, it's a traffic nightmare. If you're
- 14:42Speaker 1: anywhere around the Stanhope Hotel, the Mark Hotel, the Carlisle,
- 14:47Speaker 1: that's also a mess because a lot of these people
- 14:49Speaker 1: all go there. That's their changing room, that's the kind
- 14:52Speaker 1: of the dressing room. They change there into their wacky
- 14:55Speaker 1: costume and then they head over a block away to
- 14:57Speaker 1: the museum. So don't go nowhere near that area tonight.
- 15:00Speaker 1: It's going to be a mess because it's not only
- 15:02Speaker 1: all of that, but thousands of people lining the streets
- 15:06Speaker 1: to witness this crazy bunch of people. Hey, we'll take
- 15:10Speaker 1: some calls next. Eight hundred three two one zero seven
- 15:14Speaker 1: ten is the number eight hundred three two one zero
- 15:18Speaker 1: seven ten in Mark on Demand by setting a preset
- 15:23Speaker 1: for his podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
- 15:26Speaker 3: Now back to Mark Simone on woor.
- 15:31Speaker 1: Hey, let's take some calls. Eight hundred three two one
- 15:35Speaker 1: zero seven ten is the number eight hundred three two
- 15:39Speaker 1: one zero seven ten. Let's go to Bill and Brooklyn. Bill,
- 15:42Speaker 1: how you doing, hi? Mark?
- 15:44Speaker 3: Mark?
- 15:45Speaker 2: Did John Batchelor retire? Uh?
- 15:49Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. We don't have that
- 15:51Speaker 1: show here anymore. It's still a I think it's a podcast.
- 15:54Speaker 1: You can listen to it as as a podcast if
- 15:56Speaker 1: you go online. I think you can probably find it.
- 15:58Speaker 1: But we got a much better show. He was good,
- 16:00Speaker 1: John Batchler. We've got a much better show nine o'clock
- 16:03Speaker 1: Jimmy Fayler every night, nine to midnight. Have you listened
- 16:05Speaker 1: to it?
- 16:06Speaker 3: Yeah, Jimmy's pretty good.
- 16:07Speaker 5: I used to like John though, used to give you
- 16:09Speaker 5: a history lesson, you know, Anzio and d Day in
- 16:11Speaker 5: the Battle of Bulge And.
- 16:13Speaker 1: Yeah, no, he's had them very very very good. But
- 16:16Speaker 1: Jimmy fail a fun, funny entertainment. It obviously does a
- 16:19Speaker 1: lot better rating's wife than a history lesson, so it's
- 16:22Speaker 1: better for us. But you just go on any podcast
- 16:25Speaker 1: site type John Batchler. I'm sure his podcast will will
- 16:28Speaker 1: come up, but make sure you listen to Jimmy Fayla
- 16:31Speaker 1: every night nine to midnight. Right here, let's go to
- 16:34Speaker 1: Rich and Myrtle Beach. Rich, how you doing, Hey?
- 16:37Speaker 2: Thanks? Mark? You know, Spirit Airlines was the number one
- 16:40Speaker 2: airline of bringing Northern was in New York, New Jersey. Canny,
- 16:43Speaker 2: get down to Myrtle Beach. That's going to be a
- 16:45Speaker 2: big hit for tourism down here this particular summer. Able
- 16:48Speaker 2: to keep some of the wacky libels up there and
- 16:50Speaker 2: they won't come down here. Now. It was a reporting
- 16:52Speaker 2: yesterday that Liz Warren. It's funny somebody brought up the
- 16:55Speaker 2: other day that it was a Reagan judge that approved
- 16:58Speaker 2: this denial of the merger. But that means nothing.
- 17:02Speaker 1: This was all Elizabeth Warren, Pete Boodha, Judge Merrick Garland.
- 17:06Speaker 2: And there was a report that Liz Warren sold twenty
- 17:09Speaker 2: thousand shares of Spirit sized in the last time to fourteen.
- 17:12Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I know that's flying around
- 17:14Speaker 1: all over the internet. I haven't confirmed that. I don't know.
- 17:16Speaker 1: It may not be true, but yeah, it was Elizabeth Warren.
- 17:19Speaker 1: Thanks for calling Elizabeth Warren. She for some reason this
- 17:24Speaker 1: really bugged her, so behind the scenes she was pushing, lobbying, fighting,
- 17:28Speaker 1: battling with everybody in the government to make sure the
- 17:31Speaker 1: merger didn't go through. She blocked it and Buddha Jedge,
- 17:34Speaker 1: who is an absolute idiot. It was all over television
- 17:38Speaker 1: denouncing the merger, saying it would drive up fares, it
- 17:41Speaker 1: would cost jobs, it would do this with everything they
- 17:44Speaker 1: said it would do, it wouldn't have done. And by
- 17:47Speaker 1: not allowing the merger, they caused the same stuff to happen,
- 17:50Speaker 1: but to an even greater level. So it was just absolute,
- 17:56Speaker 1: just total idiots. And of course Merrick Garland maybe the
- 18:00Speaker 1: the dirtiest, sleaziest Attorney general we've ever had, all those
- 18:03Speaker 1: fake law fair cases where him uh, and he's the one,
- 18:08Speaker 1: He's the one that officially Department of Justice blocked the merger.
- 18:11Speaker 1: It was absolutely ridiculous. Now there's a couple of top
- 18:16Speaker 1: Democratic commentators who have actually said that that blocking that
- 18:21Speaker 1: merger was a mistake, and apparently they're getting hounded by
- 18:24Speaker 1: everybody in the democratic world online for admitting that. Let's
- 18:28Speaker 1: go to lou in Union, New Jersey. Lou how you doing.
- 18:32Speaker 3: Well, Good morning, Mark.
- 18:33Speaker 5: I just want like a comment about the John Storrings
- 18:35Speaker 5: person when he was an announcer for the Yankees in
- 18:39Speaker 5: the booths for years on TV, and then Michael Cake
- 18:42Speaker 5: came alone. It wasn't that a demotion for.
- 18:44Speaker 3: Study to the on radio.
- 18:47Speaker 1: Uh no, I don't know, not not really. I mean
- 18:50Speaker 1: he was a radio guy. He loved radio. His whole
- 18:52Speaker 1: career was in radio.
- 18:54Speaker 5: H yeah, but did you take a cut?
- 18:57Speaker 1: No? No, no, you don't take a cut. But you know,
- 18:59Speaker 1: in the good old days, it was the nineteen fifties
- 19:01Speaker 1: or sixties or seventies, even the eighties, you'd wanted to
- 19:05Speaker 1: be on TV. You probably had more people hearing you
- 19:07Speaker 1: on TV than on the radio. But nowadays it's the opposite.
- 19:10Speaker 1: There are more people listening to the radio than watching TV.
- 19:13Speaker 1: Radio listening is up. TV viewership is way way down,
- 19:16Speaker 1: especially network TV. But now he was very happy with
- 19:21Speaker 1: doing radio. You know, it's nice to be on TV,
- 19:24Speaker 1: but you really, nobody really sees you. I guess, you know,
- 19:26Speaker 1: if it rains, then they come to there's a shot
- 19:28Speaker 1: of you in the booth, but outside that you're just audio,
- 19:32Speaker 1: You're not video. And again, you probably have more listeners
- 19:35Speaker 1: today on the radio than on TV. Let's go to
- 19:37Speaker 1: Bill in New Jersey. Bill, how you doing okay?
- 19:41Speaker 3: Thank you?
- 19:41Speaker 1: Mark?
- 19:42Speaker 3: You know this show tonight the met Gala. It should
- 19:45Speaker 3: definitely change your name from Medgala to the nut Gallery.
- 19:49Speaker 3: It's definitely for iq TV viewers, where people spend thousands
- 19:54Speaker 3: and thousands of dollars to come out and look like
- 19:56Speaker 3: freak with those stupid ass clothes on, and you probably
- 20:00Speaker 3: well not fine, well not fine. One Republic in the group.
- 20:03Speaker 3: In the group including Meryl Streep, who is very talented,
- 20:09Speaker 3: but she's very homely. I mean she looks very nice. Yeah,
- 20:15Speaker 3: we'll take that makeup off and you know, painting the makeup.
- 20:20Speaker 1: They went to cast her in Baywatch. But she's pretty
- 20:24Speaker 1: pretty nice looking, I mean, very handsome woman. When you're
- 20:28Speaker 1: when you're attractive, but not in the really hot way,
- 20:31Speaker 1: they call you a handsome woman. She was, Yeah, I
- 20:35Speaker 1: know what you're saying. Yeah again, the good old days
- 20:38Speaker 1: of the met Galley, you'd go there and you'd walk
- 20:40Speaker 1: around the room and there was Michael Bloomberg, and there
- 20:42Speaker 1: was Henry Cravis, and there was Ron Perlman, and there
- 20:45Speaker 1: was all the top business people. There was Henry Kissinger
- 20:48Speaker 1: and his wife. They were all the top society people.
- 20:52Speaker 1: You'd see Princess Diana there and as they say, why
- 20:57Speaker 1: the transition, why did they get rid of that? Go
- 20:59Speaker 1: to this crowd? Well, those people are all dead or
- 21:02Speaker 1: they're too old, or they don't come anymore. And they
- 21:05Speaker 1: went to this crowd. And the truth is, you can
- 21:08Speaker 1: get more money out of these people. They throw around recklessly,
- 21:12Speaker 1: more money. So instead of fifty thousand a table, now
- 21:15Speaker 1: it's five hundred thousand a table, and they're getting it.
- 21:18Speaker 1: So they make a lot of money with these people.
- 21:21Speaker 1: And you know, back then it was real fashion. You
- 21:25Speaker 1: don't get a met Gala. They'd be one year honoring
- 21:28Speaker 1: Ralph Lauren or somebody like that. And now you don't
- 21:31Speaker 1: know what the hell. It's called costume art, and you're right,
- 21:33Speaker 1: it's like Halloween costumes. But you know, that was the
- 21:37Speaker 1: other thing about the met Gala. All the billionaires in
- 21:38Speaker 1: society people are gone, and sore is the fashion world really?
- 21:42Speaker 1: People don't dress up anymore. There's no more suits and ties.
- 21:45Speaker 1: People dress crazy in real life, so you might as
- 21:48Speaker 1: well do that for the met Gala. She's not wrong.
- 21:50Speaker 1: It's making more money than it ever did. Made thirty
- 21:53Speaker 1: one million last year with Bezos kicking in ten million.
- 21:56Speaker 1: It'll probably make thirty five million this year. So it's tonight. Hey,
- 22:00Speaker 1: when we come back, Michael Goodwin will be with us.
- 22:04Speaker 1: We'll talk to him next on seven to ten. Wo
- 22:08Speaker 1: oh oh, nobody told me Michael Goodwin's got the day off.
- 22:13Speaker 1: Michael Goodwin's got the day off. Liz Peak will be
- 22:16Speaker 1: with us next. Another brilliant columnist. She's our other Michael Goodwin.
- 22:22Speaker 1: She's great, brilliant writer. But we'll talk to her next
- 22:27Speaker 1: on seven to ten. Wor mister New York he's on
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- 22:37Speaker 1: Michael Goodwin will be with us tomorrow. With us today
- 22:40Speaker 1: is the brilliant columnist Liz Peak. Of course you see
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- 23:03Speaker 1: how you doing.
- 23:04Speaker 6: I'm terrific. Thanks for having me on Mark.
- 23:07Speaker 1: Great to have you Spirit Airlines. I guess Pete Boodha, Jedge,
- 23:12Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren, Merrick Garland and Joe Biden might have got
- 23:16Speaker 1: this one wrong. What do you think?
- 23:18Speaker 6: Well, we knew it at the time, didn't we I mean,
- 23:20Speaker 6: you had a failing airline hadn't been profitable in some time.
- 23:25Speaker 6: Jet Blue stepped in, and it made all the sense
- 23:28Speaker 6: in the world to combine these two fleets. It was
- 23:32Speaker 6: just a stupid ideological Lena Khan moment, frankly, where all
- 23:38Speaker 6: big companies are bad and making them bigger is worse.
- 23:42Speaker 6: You know, Honestly, when ideology interferes with political decision making
- 23:50Speaker 6: and business decision making in particular, it always turns out badly.
- 23:54Speaker 6: Marked always, and this is a perfect example. You've got
- 23:58Speaker 6: thousands of lots of jobs now which will be lost,
- 24:02Speaker 6: and the consumer is not better off. The consumer is
- 24:05Speaker 6: worse off, you know. So they're trying to throw the
- 24:10Speaker 6: blame on Donald Trump. And certainly the Iran war has
- 24:13Speaker 6: pushed up jet fuel prices, has pinched all these airlines.
- 24:17Speaker 6: That is not the problem for Spirit Airwys.
- 24:20Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of the It's like the Mamdani approach.
- 24:23Speaker 1: You don't forget the science, forget the data, forget the metric,
- 24:28Speaker 1: just whatever sounds good, whatever feels good. It felt good
- 24:31Speaker 1: to block that merger.
- 24:32Speaker 6: So uh yeah, it's it's it's scratching an itch that
- 24:36Speaker 6: that nobody but the most dug in ideologues even new existed.
- 24:42Speaker 6: But you're right, except Mamdani I would take issue with you.
- 24:46Speaker 6: He doesn't even research the data. He doesn't look at
- 24:49Speaker 6: the studies that show that rent control always leads to
- 24:53Speaker 6: a degradation of the rental stock, et cetera. I mean,
- 24:57Speaker 6: what offends me about Mandanni. He's not even trying. He's
- 25:01Speaker 6: not even trying to learn what works and doesn't work.
- 25:05Speaker 6: And when you impose policies on eight million people the
- 25:09Speaker 6: city of New York without even doing your basic research,
- 25:13Speaker 6: without hearing from different points of view about why it
- 25:17Speaker 6: might not go well, I find that really an abdugation
- 25:21Speaker 6: of his responsibility. But I don't think he feels any responsibility.
- 25:25Speaker 6: I think he's so caught up in making TikTok videos
- 25:28Speaker 6: and getting clicks and being popular personally. And you know
- 25:34Speaker 6: the reality is, by the time this guy's out the door,
- 25:37Speaker 6: that's when all the bad impact from his policies will
- 25:40Speaker 6: show up, not now, so he can coast along pretending
- 25:46Speaker 6: that he has better ideas, even though every single one
- 25:49Speaker 6: of his ideas has been tried in other places, in
- 25:52Speaker 6: other countries, in other socialist regimes and shown to fail.
- 25:57Speaker 6: It does not move him, because he won't will be
- 26:00Speaker 6: no accountability.
- 26:01Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's what I mean. They don't follow the science.
- 26:03Speaker 1: You got scientific experiments, a million of them. I'll give
- 26:06Speaker 1: the same conclusion. They don't follow the science. But hey,
- 26:09Speaker 1: you're right, that's a good point. You know, same thing
- 26:11Speaker 1: with Buddha Jege Elizabeth Warren. They're bad decisions even after
- 26:14Speaker 1: they're gone all of a sudden hit you like with
- 26:17Speaker 1: Spirit Airlines. Yeah, yeah, straight of horn Moose. The US Navy, No,
- 26:23Speaker 1: apparently they're clarifying they're not going to escort ships, but
- 26:26Speaker 1: they will be in the gulf if a ship wants
- 26:29Speaker 1: to try to come through. A couple did apparently this morning,
- 26:32Speaker 1: got fired warning shots fired at it. But what do
- 26:35Speaker 1: you think?
- 26:37Speaker 6: It is inconceivable to me that we cannot corral this
- 26:42Speaker 6: fleet of little boats. And admittedly when you're near the
- 26:46Speaker 6: coast of Iran also people being able to file fire
- 26:51Speaker 6: missiles easily at these ships. You know, at some point
- 26:54Speaker 6: I think we have to take a more aggressive stance.
- 26:57Speaker 6: I know that's not popular because everybody will wants this
- 27:00Speaker 6: war to end. No one likes the fact that gasoline
- 27:03Speaker 6: prizes are over four dollars. Again, but if we're going
- 27:06Speaker 6: to do this to leave now, to back out with
- 27:09Speaker 6: Iran holding a path still to a nuclear weapon, holding
- 27:15Speaker 6: in reserve all their enriched uranium, and more importantly, being
- 27:19Speaker 6: completely in denial about the fact that they're going to
- 27:24Speaker 6: have to give those things up or their economy is
- 27:26Speaker 6: going to be ruined for a substantial period of time.
- 27:29Speaker 6: I mean, this is now beyond immediate repair. So these
- 27:33Speaker 6: Mullas are making decisions that are going to affect the
- 27:36Speaker 6: people of Iran. Admittedly they don't care about the people
- 27:39Speaker 6: of Iran, but nonetheless they are subjecting their country to
- 27:46Speaker 6: what five years a decade of sort of economic misery
- 27:50Speaker 6: because they won't give up a nuclear weapon, which nobody
- 27:53Speaker 6: in the world wants them to have, except maybe North Korea.
- 27:57Speaker 6: I mean, I honestly, what's the audience for the Mullas
- 28:02Speaker 6: having a nuclear weapon? There is none. I mean, it's
- 28:05Speaker 6: really the most extraordinary act of defiance. I think that
- 28:11Speaker 6: we've seen sort of geopolitical history in a long time,
- 28:14Speaker 6: and I cannot imagine it will go well. Continued blockage
- 28:19Speaker 6: of the Strait of Horror moves. I don't see that
- 28:21Speaker 6: going well, and I hope that President Trump responds.
- 28:25Speaker 1: Democrats in the media, yelling and screaming, it's a stalemate.
- 28:29Speaker 1: We're in a stalemate. It's not a bad stalemate though,
- 28:32Speaker 1: I mean, Iran is right now newter there's no position
- 28:35Speaker 1: to do anything as far as financing terrorists or attacking anybody.
- 28:39Speaker 1: So what's the problem with just keeping besides the oil prices,
- 28:42Speaker 1: what's the problem with this stalemate? Let's just keep this
- 28:44Speaker 1: for a while.
- 28:45Speaker 6: Well, except for oil prices and the fact that's not
- 28:48Speaker 6: just our country, the entire world is struggling to satisfy
- 28:52Speaker 6: their energy needs. I do. I am kind of amazed
- 28:56Speaker 6: that europe NATO allies in particular are not moved by
- 29:01Speaker 6: the fact that they're running out of jet fuel, that
- 29:04Speaker 6: their energy costs are against ballooning out of control to
- 29:09Speaker 6: help the United States in this particular mission. I mean,
- 29:13Speaker 6: it is really a sort of incredible situation where our
- 29:18Speaker 6: media is totally on the side of NATO, like, well,
- 29:21Speaker 6: what did you expect? This was Donald Trump's war? Not really,
- 29:25Speaker 6: I mean, Iran was a bad actor, threatening the entire
- 29:29Speaker 6: Middle East. And by the way, now we know, and
- 29:31Speaker 6: we didn't know beforehand, that their stock of missiles were
- 29:36Speaker 6: not only much bigger than expected, but also much more capable.
- 29:40Speaker 6: And all those European capitals that are saying, well, it's
- 29:43Speaker 6: not our war, this is not our problem. They are
- 29:46Speaker 6: within reach of those missiles that Iran has been able
- 29:51Speaker 6: to manufacture. So it's sort of perplexing to me that
- 29:56Speaker 6: they feel they have no stake in the game. They
- 29:58Speaker 6: do have stake in the game, and they particul have
- 30:00Speaker 6: stake because they have renounced fossil fuels, tried to go
- 30:05Speaker 6: entirely green energy in countries like Germany and France and
- 30:08Speaker 6: the UK, and it has not worked out well. And
- 30:11Speaker 6: POI today it really isn't working out well.
- 30:14Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 30:15Speaker 1: Hey, here in New York, we got the craziest mayor,
- 30:18Speaker 1: the craziest governor coming up with these schemes, this Pieta
- 30:22Speaker 1: tear tax. Although let's give Andrew Cuomo credit. He was
- 30:25Speaker 1: the first one to push this Pieta tear at tax.
- 30:28Speaker 1: What how crazy are they? Why would you chase your
- 30:31Speaker 1: biggest tax payers out of the state.
- 30:34Speaker 6: It is just simply stupid. And you know, I guess
- 30:37Speaker 6: they're desperate for revenues. Mom, Donnie is desperate for revenues
- 30:41Speaker 6: because otherwise he will not be able to provide all
- 30:44Speaker 6: the great freebies that he talked about, free buses and
- 30:47Speaker 6: free health, free childcare, et cetera. And his young followers,
- 30:52Speaker 6: many of them first time voters, are going to be
- 30:55Speaker 6: disaffected if he doesn't come through with these promises. And
- 30:58Speaker 6: he knows that. So if he has ambitions, and we
- 31:02Speaker 6: know he does beyond Gracie Mansion, he is going to
- 31:06Speaker 6: have to come up with some of these things. And
- 31:07Speaker 6: the only way he can do it is by soaking
- 31:10Speaker 6: the people who have money in New York and who
- 31:12Speaker 6: already paid the great majority of the revenues that this
- 31:17Speaker 6: city runs on. But honestly, mark to dissuade people from
- 31:22Speaker 6: coming to New York having a pietote, which by the way,
- 31:25Speaker 6: means they're paying doorman, they're paying cleaning agents or whoever
- 31:30Speaker 6: takes care of these apartments. They're already contributing and they
- 31:34Speaker 6: pay real estate taxes. Obviously they're already contributing to the city.
- 31:38Speaker 6: But when they do come, why do they come to
- 31:40Speaker 6: go to Broadway theaters, to go to restaurants. They are
- 31:43Speaker 6: essential to the machinery of New York's economy. So you know,
- 31:48Speaker 6: this again is ideology over practicality. Chasing away the wealthy
- 31:54Speaker 6: of New York. We've already seen what that does. It
- 31:57Speaker 6: shrinks your tax base. It shrinks the ability of someone
- 32:00Speaker 6: like Mom Donnie to carry forward all these policies that
- 32:03Speaker 6: he wants to desperately implement. But guess what take money.
- 32:08Speaker 6: So again, when I say he didn't do his homework,
- 32:11Speaker 6: he didn't do any research into where that money's going
- 32:14Speaker 6: to come from. He didn't research how he was going
- 32:17Speaker 6: to be able to tax the rich but also keep
- 32:19Speaker 6: the rich in New York. You can't do it. So
- 32:22Speaker 6: you know, they will continue to come up with these programs.
- 32:25Speaker 6: This is probably less immediately damaging than some others. But
- 32:29Speaker 6: I was just in Palm Beach. I can tell you
- 32:31Speaker 6: everybody down there who has an apartment in New York
- 32:34Speaker 6: is saying, we got to get out. It's just too much.
- 32:36Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're right, he didn't do his research. You know,
- 32:39Speaker 1: when he got into office and I just found out
- 32:41Speaker 1: there's a ten billion dollar deficit. Eric Adams about a
- 32:44Speaker 1: year ago did a speech announcing that deficit. You think
- 32:48Speaker 1: he would have known that.
- 32:49Speaker 6: You know, Eric Adams for everybody, for everyone dumping on him,
- 32:52Speaker 6: and he made some big mistakes which he can talk about.
- 32:56Speaker 6: When he became mayor, he used to call Mike Bloomberg
- 32:59Speaker 6: every cup weeks and say, what do I do about this?
- 33:02Speaker 6: How can I He wanted information, he wanted guidance, and
- 33:06Speaker 6: he wanted to succeed for himself certainly, but also for
- 33:10Speaker 6: the people of New York. You haven't seen Mom, Donnie
- 33:13Speaker 6: reach out to anybody who has ever done anything good
- 33:16Speaker 6: for New York.
- 33:17Speaker 3: So you know he's.
- 33:18Speaker 6: Reaching out to people you know with ties to the
- 33:21Speaker 6: Muslim Brotherhood and Lena Khan, who he just you know,
- 33:25Speaker 6: can pinpoint one of the worst mistakes of the Biden
- 33:29Speaker 6: administration refusing to bail out or to allow a merger
- 33:33Speaker 6: that would bail out Spirit Airlines. These people don't know
- 33:37Speaker 6: what they're doing, and they're hurting the communities where they're working.
- 33:42Speaker 6: But again, Eric Adams knew what he didn't know. Mark,
- 33:46Speaker 6: this guy doesn't know what he doesn't know, and that's
- 33:49Speaker 6: a very dangerous thing.
- 33:51Speaker 1: Well, Liz Peak brilliant as always. Everybody should go to
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- 34:19Speaker 6: Have a terrific sunny day for once, it's.
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- 34:25Speaker 1: coming up, Michael Goodman will be with us tomorrow. He
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- 35:00Speaker 1: You know, remember the name Shared Brown, Ohio senator Democrats
- 35:05Speaker 1: loved him. They thought he was a guy who could
- 35:07Speaker 1: talk to the factory workers, the blue collar but they
- 35:10Speaker 1: thought that was They're key, this Midwestern Shared Brown. But
- 35:16Speaker 1: it never worked and he's trying to make a comeback.
- 35:19Speaker 1: Now try he's trying to get himself elected again Senate primary,
- 35:25Speaker 1: you know, for Ohio Democratic Senate primary. So now he
- 35:29Speaker 1: claims he always supported closing the border. Now he's the
- 35:34Speaker 1: vast majority of Americans want the border closed. Despite all
- 35:37Speaker 1: the anti ICE stuff, The vast majority of Americans support ICE,
- 35:41Speaker 1: support closing the border. So here's the shared Brown claiming
- 35:45Speaker 1: I always support I always, always, always supported closing the border.
- 35:48Speaker 1: But they're looking back at all statements he said just
- 35:52Speaker 1: the opposite. Co sponsored a bill to end the deportation.
- 35:58Speaker 1: Voted against ensuring ICE has sufficient resources, voted against resources
- 36:03Speaker 1: for ICE. Co sponsored a built to end all of
- 36:05Speaker 1: the deportation, and go on and on with these votes.
- 36:09Speaker 1: Voted to stop funding for deportation of criminal aliens. He's
- 36:13Speaker 1: got the most open border reputation of anybody. But these guys,
- 36:17Speaker 1: I don't think they understand how the internet works. They
- 36:21Speaker 1: don't realize you can't just say stuff. Anybody can go
- 36:23Speaker 1: look up your history, your past. So hey, we got
- 36:26Speaker 1: a lot to get to in the next hour. We'll
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- 36:33Speaker 1: I don't understand this film, Well, I'll explain. In the
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