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Mark's 11am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mr. New York, Mark Simone, now three hours every weekday
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  Speaker 1: from 9 till noon on 710WOR. Well, hey, it's the
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  Speaker 1: third and final hour. Remember, it's three hours every day,
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  Speaker 1: 9 till noon, three hours every day. So, Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 1: had the debate Tuesday night versus Kathy Hochul. He was
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  Speaker 1: phenomenal in the debate. He just crushed her in the debate. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you're a crazy Democrat, you'll think Hochul won, but
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  Speaker 1: normal people don't think she won. It was bad. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: Blakeman fundraising has been up dramatically since the debate. Money
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  Speaker 1: is pouring in. People were very impressed. Now, Kathy Hochul
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  Speaker 1: started with a huge war chest, about $ 35 million. And
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  Speaker 1: she did not take matching funds, public matching funds. So
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  Speaker 1: she's not obligated to debate. She turned down all the
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  Speaker 1: major debates, Channel 2, Channel 4, Channel 5, Channel 7,
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  Speaker 1: Channel 9. She refused all these debates. She agreed to one.
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  Speaker 1: This is what Democrats do when they're really scared. They'll
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  Speaker 1: agree only to New York 1 because it's tiny. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: sees New York 1. And it's very biased, very left wing.
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  Speaker 1: You'll notice their moderators kept cutting Blakeman off every time
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  Speaker 1: he was getting a good point. We have to move on.
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  Speaker 1: We have to move on. We have to move on.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you have to move on? You can take
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  Speaker 1: all the time you want. It's New York One. You
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  Speaker 1: don't really have much of a schedule. You could do
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  Speaker 1: whatever you want. And then they do those yes or
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  Speaker 1: no gotcha questions. So when you try to answer the question,
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  Speaker 1: try to really give some substance, they'll jump in. It's
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  Speaker 1: a yes or no question. Just one word, yes or no.
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  Speaker 1: We can't let you talk. One of those kind of debates.
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  Speaker 1: But Blakeman fundraising, very, very big. Mamdani has jumped into
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  Speaker 1: the race actively now. Mamdani now has a commercial, a video.
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  Speaker 1: TV commercials don't mean much of anything anymore. You want
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  Speaker 1: to reach people, you do it online, social media videos.
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  Speaker 1: Mamdani has put out his attack video on Blakeman.
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  Speaker 2: Governor Kathy Hochul actually fights for working families in New York.
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  Speaker 2: When Bruce was busy... Or actually, Bruce wasn't that busy.
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  Speaker 2: Governor Hochul was helping us close a $ 12 billion budget
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  Speaker 2: deficit here in New York City. And when New York
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  Speaker 2: City needed a partner in delivering free universal childcare, Governor
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  Speaker 2: Hochul didn't just help us deliver 2,000 new seats for
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  Speaker 2: two-year-olds this year. She worked with us so we could
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  Speaker 2: deliver 10,000 more seats next January. That's why I'm voting
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  Speaker 2: for Governor Hochul. Because she's the real deal for New Yorkers.
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  Speaker 2: And Bruce Blakeman? He's a bad apple.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, now, um, analyze that. What do they accuse
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  Speaker 1: Blakeman of? They did a hell of a lot of
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  Speaker 1: opposition research. What do they accuse him of? He's not there? Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. The guy works day and night. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I know this for a fact. He's got a schedule
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  Speaker 1: that's like 6 a.m. to midnight. He just works and
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  Speaker 1: works and works, not to mention crisscrossing the state, not
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  Speaker 1: to mention going to every event of importance that he
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  Speaker 1: needs to be at. So it's a false accusation. If
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  Speaker 1: they have to lie, that's quite a compliment to Blakeman.
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  Speaker 1: And this childcare, daycare, I think there's something they're not
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  Speaker 1: telling you about with this daycare. The same thing with
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  Speaker 1: Mamdani and his daycare here in the city. When it
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  Speaker 1: comes to this daycare, you know it's only until about
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  Speaker 1: 2 p.m. The idea of the daycare is you can
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  Speaker 1: put your kid there if you're a single parent or
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  Speaker 1: you don't have anybody to stay home or both parents
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  Speaker 1: are working. You have daycare to put the child in. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's only till 2 p.m. Do you know anybody who
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  Speaker 1: has a job that ends at 2 p.m.? Not you guys.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about normal office work. Yeah, most people work
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  Speaker 1: 9 to 5 or more. So what is the point
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  Speaker 1: of the daycare if it's only till 2 p.m.? And
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  Speaker 1: by the way, it's not there in the summer. It's
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  Speaker 1: only in the school year. So if you're working, there's
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  Speaker 1: no daycare for you. So Mamdani never quite pointing that
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  Speaker 1: out to people. Blakeman looks real good now. He's got
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  Speaker 1: money pouring in left and right. Last night, there was
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  Speaker 1: a huge fundraiser for Blakeman at Madison Square Garden. James Dolan,
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  Speaker 1: a garden owner, hosted this big fundraiser. So there'll be
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  Speaker 1: a ton of money for Blakeman to spend 18 days
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  Speaker 1: until the election, just 18 days, two and a half weeks.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where it really counts, you know, all the
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  Speaker 1: money and everything. That's where you want to blitz in
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. So it'll be quite a finish.
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  Speaker 1: Now remember, Blakeman has this pattern. You saw it in
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  Speaker 1: Long Island in his two elections. He starts off way behind.
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  Speaker 1: He's 15, 20 points behind. And then he's 10 points behind.
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  Speaker 1: And then he's five points behind. And then he's caught up.
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  Speaker 1: And then he always wins. So you'll see him most
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  Speaker 1: likely win in 18 days. President Trump... He's got an
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  Speaker 1: AI director now. Do you remember our U.S. attorney here,
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  Speaker 1: Jay Clayton? He was a fine U.S. attorney. He was
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  Speaker 1: a really good guy, very smart guy. Everybody likes Jay Clayton.
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  Speaker 1: So President Trump made him the director of national intelligence.
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  Speaker 1: That's a huge job in Washington. And before he was
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. attorney here, he had quite a resume. He
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  Speaker 1: was the head of the SEC. He's done a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. So he's the national intelligence director. Now, President
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  Speaker 1: Trump also just appointed him AI czar. He's the AI czar.
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  Speaker 1: And the president has asked him, he's given him 120
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  Speaker 1: days to come back and report on the pros and
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  Speaker 1: cons of AI. And Clayton will oversee a superintelligence task force,
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  Speaker 1: which is being formed to put all the smartest people
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  Speaker 1: on it. Make sure the leaders in AI, they're calling
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  Speaker 1: it superintelligence, and that the interest of the American people
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  Speaker 1: are put first. Clayton predicted that over time there will
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  Speaker 1: be stronger mechanisms to mitigate risks and identify opportunities with AI.
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  Speaker 1: Task force not fully formed. On it will definitely be J.D. Vance,
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  Speaker 1: Scott Besson, Pete Hegsiff, Deputy Chief of Staff Richard Waters,
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  Speaker 1: former AI czar David Sachs. So, You've got to remember
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  Speaker 1: the important part of this is if it's true that
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  Speaker 1: AI is so powerful it could take over the whole world, well,
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  Speaker 1: then it's absolutely essential that we be in the lead,
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  Speaker 1: not China, that we not let China get control of it.
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  Speaker 1: If it's that deadly, if it's that powerful, we can't
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  Speaker 1: let China have control of it. We've got to stay
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  Speaker 1: way ahead of them. So that's the reason to keep going. Now,
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  Speaker 1: remember with the data centers, All the problems are slowly
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  Speaker 1: but surely going away. The electricity problem is being solved.
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  Speaker 1: They can use different things to solve that. The water problem,
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  Speaker 1: they've learned how to recycle the water. The only problem,
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  Speaker 1: the noise, the awful noise from those turbines that make
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  Speaker 1: it impossible to live within a half mile, even a
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  Speaker 1: mile of a data center. Well, Elon Musk is working
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  Speaker 1: on a new type of turbine that'll cut down the
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  Speaker 1: noise and the vibration. The size, the massive size of
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  Speaker 1: the data centers, well, they're going to start to get smaller.
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  Speaker 1: You remember the same thing with the computer. If you
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  Speaker 1: go back to the 70s, a computer was enormous. It
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  Speaker 1: was the size of a football field, an IBM computer. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this little iPhone in my hand is more powerful than
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  Speaker 1: that thing. So they'll get the data centers smaller and
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  Speaker 1: smaller and smaller. Speaking of Jay Clayton, remember we mentioned
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  Speaker 1: yesterday susie wiles the chief of staff white house chief
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  Speaker 1: of staff is most likely on her way out the
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  Speaker 1: president looking at removing her as chief of staff now
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  Speaker 1: she's been quite a part of his campaign and in
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  Speaker 1: the four years he was out of office she came
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  Speaker 1: in organized things ran things helped keep that campaign right
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  Speaker 1: on track who knows what would have happened without her
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  Speaker 1: and she's been great but there's uh i don't know
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  Speaker 1: there's there's friction there there's problems Her daughter is apparently
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  Speaker 1: running around making money off the Trump administration overseas, and
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  Speaker 1: they don't like some of that. There's things they don't like,
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  Speaker 1: but I know he's been asking everybody about removing her,
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  Speaker 1: getting opinions from everybody. And there's talk of who would
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  Speaker 1: replace her. Stephen Miller is on the list. Randy Levine,
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  Speaker 1: New York Yankee president. President Trump loves him. Very smart guy.
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  Speaker 1: Steve Witkoff. But you know who's now on the list?
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  Speaker 1: Jay Clayton. He's come to really love and respect and
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  Speaker 1: trust Jay Clayton. So he's the director of national security.
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  Speaker 1: He's the AI czar, but now being looked at as
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  Speaker 1: possibly the next chief of staff for the White House. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: Tiger Woods is working on, this is a new thing now.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to build golf courses with gated communities around them.
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  Speaker 1: This is what you do when you're old, when you
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  Speaker 1: get old in golf. First thing is you go on
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  Speaker 1: the senior tour. Instead of the regular PGA Tour, you're
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  Speaker 1: on the senior tour. And then when you're getting really old,
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  Speaker 1: you can't even play on the senior tour. You become a... Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's actually a bunch of real estate developers and builders.
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  Speaker 1: They do all the stuff. They hire you to pretend
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  Speaker 1: you're the guy. And they build golf courses. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a Jack Nicklaus golf course everywhere. The Jack Nicklaus
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  Speaker 1: golf course with resorts and houses all around the golf course.
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  Speaker 1: Real estate developers do this. So apparently... Tiger Woods is
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  Speaker 1: getting into this business. Blue Jack Ranch. is the follow-up
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  Speaker 1: to Blue Jack National this is the name I guess
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  Speaker 1: they're using and their golf course is designed by Tiger
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  Speaker 1: Woods their private clubs gated communities with homes starting at
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  Speaker 1: a million dollars around them and I mean really nice
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  Speaker 1: homes it's a Actually, they're spending about $ 3 billion on
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  Speaker 1: this whole deal. So Tiger Woods will get a huge
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  Speaker 1: chunk of that. But some of the homes on there,
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  Speaker 1: but 20,000 square foot mansion, pretty good looking stuff. But
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  Speaker 1: that's what Tiger's up to now. Now, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people be coming to New York now. It's, what's the
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  Speaker 1: date today? October 16th. All right, it's going to start
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  Speaker 1: right after Halloween, the tourist season. We get a lot
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  Speaker 1: of them in the summer. but it really gets bad
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  Speaker 1: in November and December. They come here for Thanksgiving. They
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  Speaker 1: come here for the parade. They come here for the tree.
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  Speaker 1: We have a lot of listeners around the country. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when you talk to somebody around the country and they'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about the New York, oh, I'd love to come
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  Speaker 1: see the tree. This is a big deal. They'll actually
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  Speaker 1: come here, spend thousands of dollars staying here to go
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  Speaker 1: look at this tree. The tree's right over there. It's
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  Speaker 1: like six blocks away. We walk by this thing every day.
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  Speaker 1: It's nice, but it's just a tree. It's a big Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: You know, actually, if you go around New York, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of better Christmas trees with better decorations on
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  Speaker 1: them than the Rockefeller Center one. Now, the other thing
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  Speaker 1: is they go to Radio City, the Rockettes. The Radio
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  Speaker 1: City Rockettes say it'll be a different type of show
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  Speaker 1: this year. It'll be more high-tech. AI's taken over there.
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  Speaker 1: It's the 101st birthday of the Rockettes. The technology gets
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  Speaker 1: better and better every year. You know now, They have
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  Speaker 1: microphones in their shoes. Their tap shoes also have microphones
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  Speaker 1: in them. So you can hear the taps. They're actually
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  Speaker 1: all mic'd up. There's new overhead cameras. It'll show you
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  Speaker 1: the precision. There's all sorts of new technology innovation coming in.
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  Speaker 1: But they say it'll be a darker show this year. Darker, moodier.
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  Speaker 1: Who the hell wants that? Why would you want the
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  Speaker 1: Rockettes to get darker and moodier? It's supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: a fun type show. New data. New study coming out. Marriage,
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  Speaker 1: less and less and less and less. Fewer than 25%
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  Speaker 1: of households with children have married couples in them. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it used to be a long time ago, if your
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  Speaker 1: parents were divorced and you were a kid that you
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  Speaker 1: went to school, you know, they would tease you about
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  Speaker 1: your parents being divorced. That was a problem. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you go to school and your parents aren't divorced, you
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  Speaker 1: get teased about that. Everybody's divorced. It's highly unusual for
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  Speaker 1: a kid to go to school and have both parents
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  Speaker 1: living with them. In fact, it looks like, here's one city,
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  Speaker 1: only 13% of kids have married parents. Only 13%. But overall,
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  Speaker 1: the whole country, it's 25%. Only 25% of kids have
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  Speaker 1: married parents. Now, it's different in the suburbs. It's a
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  Speaker 1: higher rate out in the suburbs. A lot less in
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  Speaker 1: the cities. But one major city, it's only 13%. Hey, remember,
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  Speaker 1: it was a week ago, Saturday Night Live, Shane Gillis
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  Speaker 1: did the monologue where he did those jokes about women
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  Speaker 1: dressing really trashy in the gym, how they look like
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  Speaker 1: whores or whatever. So everybody's been trying to cancel him.
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  Speaker 1: The crazy left-wingers have been trying to bring back cancel
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  Speaker 1: culture and cancel him for being misogynist. It's not working, though.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing's happened so far. People are defending him. Even Travis
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  Speaker 1: Kelsey came out to defend him. Other comedians coming out
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  Speaker 1: to defend him. So it was an attempt to bring
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  Speaker 1: back cancel culture. And it looks like a week later
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  Speaker 1: it is failing and will fail. So that's good news. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'll take some calls next. 800-321-0710 is the number. Give
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  Speaker 1: us a call, especially if you're a new caller. We
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  Speaker 1: always like to hear from new callers. The number is 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 2: 800-321-0710.