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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is seven to R Boy, The Mark Simoon Show starts. Now, Hey,
- 0:11Speaker 1: we got a lot to get to today. We'll get
- 0:14Speaker 1: to President Trump. He's leaving for China in a couple
- 0:16Speaker 1: of hours. We'll get to Iran. We'll get to the terrible,
- 0:21Speaker 1: awful antisemitic attacks that have been taking place in New York,
- 0:25Speaker 1: in London, but especially here in New York, and a
- 0:27Speaker 1: mayor that's doing absolutely nothing about it. Lots to get
- 0:32Speaker 1: to today. We'll get to prices are going to be
- 0:34Speaker 1: coming down on a few things. President Trump has given
- 0:37Speaker 1: Democrats a new name. You know, he's great at nicknaming
- 0:41Speaker 1: people Pocahontas and Sleepy Joe and low energy Jeb. He's
- 0:46Speaker 1: now calling them democrats, dum democrats. So let's all do
- 0:53Speaker 1: that from now on, just say democrats, not Democrats. Democrats.
- 0:57Speaker 1: President unleashing that yesterday on truth Social So from now on,
- 1:02Speaker 1: it's Democrats Democrats. And the poster boy obviously would be
- 1:06Speaker 1: Hakeem Jeffries, very very low IQ guy, and the minority
- 1:13Speaker 1: the Democrat minority leader. So he's going to leave for
- 1:19Speaker 1: China in a little while. Now, if you read the
- 1:21Speaker 1: fake news, follow the fake news, watch the fake news,
- 1:24Speaker 1: you are led to believe that he's going to China,
- 1:26Speaker 1: this is going to be a rough trip. He has
- 1:28Speaker 1: no leverage, and he's going to look weak. I've been
- 1:32Speaker 1: hearing that word weak. He weak in front of China.
- 1:34Speaker 1: No leverage weak, weak weak. The opposite is true. China's
- 1:40Speaker 1: economy is not very strong. It's it's a little bit
- 1:44Speaker 1: of trouble. Their economy is weak right now. Our economy
- 1:47Speaker 1: is booming, the stock market, earnings, corporations, jobs, everything. There's
- 1:52Speaker 1: a little spike in gas prices due to the Iran conflict,
- 1:55Speaker 1: but otherwise the economy is in phenomenal shape. We're taken
- 1:59Speaker 1: in more more money than ever before. We're pumping more
- 2:02Speaker 1: oil than we've ever pumped. We're now pumping more oil
- 2:05Speaker 1: than anybody in the world with the biggest exporter. The
- 2:08Speaker 1: economy is booming. China's economy is weak. It's fragile right now.
- 2:13Speaker 1: It's not, you know, in real trouble, but it's close.
- 2:17Speaker 1: It's close. It's not strong right now. And China's got
- 2:20Speaker 1: a problem with the Iran conflict. Half their oil comes
- 2:24Speaker 1: from Iran, so they've lost fifty percent of their supply.
- 2:27Speaker 1: So actually Trump has a lot of leverage. It's China
- 2:30Speaker 1: that really has no leverage right now. They need the
- 2:33Speaker 1: Iran conflict settled a lot more than we do. So
- 2:36Speaker 1: he's going to China. He'll leave this afternoon. The big
- 2:39Speaker 1: meetings to take them Today's Tuesday. You know, by the
- 2:42Speaker 1: time he gets there, it's tomorrow night, So the big
- 2:44Speaker 1: meetings are on Thursday. With them, he's taking with him
- 2:47Speaker 1: a lot of big CEOs. Tim Cook of Apple, Elon Musk,
- 2:52Speaker 1: the CEO of Boeing. One reason you take these guys
- 2:55Speaker 1: is you want to help them get business. You want
- 2:57Speaker 1: to help them get contracts. You want to help Boeing
- 3:00Speaker 1: sell a lot of planes over there in China. Tim
- 3:02Speaker 1: Cook already does a lot of business in China, but
- 3:06Speaker 1: so it should be a pretty successful trip. Hey, Bill,
- 3:09Speaker 1: O'reilly'll be with us later in the second hour. Now,
- 3:12Speaker 1: he went to China. He's been through this in the
- 3:15Speaker 1: last few months, so he can tell you all about
- 3:17Speaker 1: what it's like in China and what the problems are
- 3:19Speaker 1: when you get there. You can't bring your phone because
- 3:22Speaker 1: they'll embed stuff in your phone, you can't bring your computer. Well,
- 3:26Speaker 1: he'll tell us all about it. The surveillance they do
- 3:29Speaker 1: on you, it's really eerie. Anyway, we'll get to that
- 3:32Speaker 1: coming up. President Trump wants to call Ice nice. It's
- 3:38Speaker 1: Immigration and Customs reformed. That's why it's Ice. He wants
- 3:41Speaker 1: to add National Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Just change the
- 3:46Speaker 1: name instead of Immigration Customs and Enforcement national Immigration Customs
- 3:51Speaker 1: and Enforcement. And that way it would be nice and
- 3:56Speaker 1: the Democrats would have to call it nice. Now. The problem,
- 4:01Speaker 1: the only problem. I hear the people in Ice. The
- 4:03Speaker 1: officers don't want it to say nice on their hat.
- 4:06Speaker 1: They don't want it to say nice. You know, these
- 4:09Speaker 1: are tough warriors. They don't want to say nice on
- 4:13Speaker 1: the front of their jacket. But he's thinking of changing
- 4:16Speaker 1: the name.
- 4:16Speaker 2: I wanted to change the name of Ice, which is
- 4:21Speaker 2: a tough name, you know, to Nice, so that when
- 4:25Speaker 2: the fake news reports they said it was a nice
- 4:29Speaker 2: day with Nice.
- 4:32Speaker 1: Well, it would be good to do, just to drive
- 4:34Speaker 1: the left crazy, just to make them completely nuts. Now,
- 4:37Speaker 1: price of oil, it is up, but the President has
- 4:41Speaker 1: proposed a lot of stuff. There's things you can do
- 4:43Speaker 1: to lower I mean, as soon as the war or
- 4:45Speaker 1: whatever it is in Iran ends, the price will plunge.
- 4:50Speaker 1: It will plunge to it Probably the lowest point in
- 4:53Speaker 1: zillions of years. But until that point, you can you
- 4:56Speaker 1: can give some relief. You can remove the gas tax.
- 4:59Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna reduce until they. Let me tell you,
- 5:03Speaker 3: as soon as this is over with Iran. As soon
- 5:06Speaker 3: as it's over, you're gonna see gasoline and oil drop
- 5:11Speaker 3: like a rock.
- 5:12Speaker 1: Yeah. So he is talking about getting rid of the
- 5:15Speaker 1: gas tax for a while. It's about eighteen and a
- 5:17Speaker 1: half cents a gallon and it brings in about forty
- 5:21Speaker 1: billion in annual revenue, goes to the Highway Trust Fund.
- 5:24Speaker 1: But you could suspend it for a month or two.
- 5:26Speaker 1: That's not hard to do. So that's about eighteen cents
- 5:28Speaker 1: a gallon you're paying when you buy a gallon of gas,
- 5:30Speaker 1: you're paying about a dollar of it in taxes federal, state,
- 5:34Speaker 1: local tax. You know, despite what you think the oil companies,
- 5:38Speaker 1: they really don't make that much. Now, the gas station
- 5:42Speaker 1: on a gallon of gas, the net profit to a
- 5:46Speaker 1: gas station on a gallon is about five cents. So
- 5:49Speaker 1: out of that four bucks, the gas station is only
- 5:52Speaker 1: getting about five cents. They get a little more, but
- 5:54Speaker 1: I'm talking about net profit because their costs are really high.
- 5:59Speaker 1: You know, a gas station is huge, huge overhead costs.
- 6:03Speaker 1: The margins are high. Big overhead costs, you know, like
- 6:05Speaker 1: credit card fees, labor, transport, reduce their profit.
- 6:10Speaker 4: You know.
- 6:10Speaker 1: In many of those gas stations, the gas is actually
- 6:13Speaker 1: a lost leader. In many of those gas stations, the
- 6:15Speaker 1: station isn't even making a profit. They make all their
- 6:18Speaker 1: money when you go in. You know, it's a convenience
- 6:20Speaker 1: store too. It's when you buy something there where they
- 6:22Speaker 1: make most of their money. So if you just pull
- 6:24Speaker 1: and get your gas and leave, you're not one of
- 6:27Speaker 1: their favorite customers. If you come there inside and buy
- 6:29Speaker 1: some stuff, you're really helping them out. Now, the oil companies,
- 6:32Speaker 1: how much do they make on a gallon of gas? Well,
- 6:35Speaker 1: it depends on where you are in the country, but
- 6:38Speaker 1: it's about ten to thirty cents the oil companies, that's
- 6:42Speaker 1: the net profit. Now, remember their costs are very high,
- 6:44Speaker 1: you know, like it costs them like fifty percent of
- 6:48Speaker 1: the price just to refine the gas and all that stuff.
- 6:51Speaker 1: So on a gallon of gas, the oil company only
- 6:53Speaker 1: makes about ten to thirty cents and the rest of
- 6:56Speaker 1: that is mostly taxes, fees, all that sort of stuff.
- 6:59Speaker 1: So the president wants to cut the federal gas tax.
- 7:02Speaker 1: That'll bring some relief. And then the other thing, you
- 7:04Speaker 1: can release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. He was
- 7:08Speaker 1: talking about releasing fifteen million barrels. So far we only
- 7:12Speaker 1: released four million barrels four million. But the reason it's
- 7:17Speaker 1: going so the release is slow is we don't have
- 7:20Speaker 1: enough pipelines to get it all out there. We're limited
- 7:23Speaker 1: on the pipeline, so they're releasing it as fast as
- 7:25Speaker 1: they can. So you could release fifteen even forty million.
- 7:28Speaker 1: You could release forty million barrels. This talk of even
- 7:31Speaker 1: doing that flood the market with forty million barrels. Now
- 7:34Speaker 1: you can do it because the Strategic Petroleum Reserve has
- 7:38Speaker 1: over four hundred million barrels in it and this is
- 7:42Speaker 1: what it's for in a time of war if you
- 7:43Speaker 1: need it, so you can you could easily do forty million.
- 7:46Speaker 1: He's also going to lower prices on some other things.
- 7:48Speaker 1: You know, if you go to a steakhouse, and steak
- 7:52Speaker 1: was always high priced, you know it's steak fifty dollars.
- 7:55Speaker 1: Now when you go to steakhouse seventy five dollars, eighty dollars,
- 7:58Speaker 1: ninety five dollars, a hundre undred dollars for a steak.
- 8:01Speaker 1: And by the way, the restaurant is not gouging. In
- 8:05Speaker 1: most cases, the big fancy steakhouse and the steaks one
- 8:08Speaker 1: hundred dollars, they're not making any profit on it. Yeah,
- 8:11Speaker 1: believe it or not, they're costs. They're paying like ninety
- 8:14Speaker 1: three dollars for the steak, and then the rest of
- 8:17Speaker 1: that goes to staff, rent, all that sort of stuff.
- 8:21Speaker 1: So when you ordered one hundred dollars steak, they're really
- 8:23Speaker 1: not so thrilled. If you order the side order the broccoli,
- 8:27Speaker 1: then you're doing them a favor. The broccoli they can
- 8:29Speaker 1: charge you fifteen dollars for and it probably cost them
- 8:32Speaker 1: thirty cents. So all the profit now is in the
- 8:34Speaker 1: side dishes. But the reason the price of steak went
- 8:39Speaker 1: so crazy is the shortage of cattle. It's been a
- 8:41Speaker 1: huge cattle shortage. The cattle supply, the cattle herd is
- 8:46Speaker 1: down to a seventy five year low. Part of it
- 8:49Speaker 1: was record drought and higher production costs, and then there
- 8:53Speaker 1: were all sorts of disease and illness that went through
- 8:56Speaker 1: the American cattle. So the President is going to do
- 9:00Speaker 1: an executive order that will temporarily suspend all tariffs on
- 9:05Speaker 1: imported beef. So the first step, he's going to get
- 9:07Speaker 1: a lot more imported beef in here. That will lower
- 9:10Speaker 1: the price short term, allow a lot more imported beef
- 9:13Speaker 1: to come in. Long term, they're trying to increase the
- 9:16Speaker 1: herds right now. So he's rolling back all these crazy
- 9:19Speaker 1: regulations protection so the cattle people can start raising more cattle.
- 9:25Speaker 1: There's been another problem. The ranchers are forced to do
- 9:30Speaker 1: all kinds of things. They got to put electronic ear
- 9:32Speaker 1: tags on all cattle and all that stuff. There's problems
- 9:36Speaker 1: with the grass that the cattle graze on. They have
- 9:38Speaker 1: to all kinds of regulations. You're going to lift a
- 9:40Speaker 1: lot of them. But the other problem is extremely dry
- 9:43Speaker 1: conditions that drought reduce the amount of grass available for grazing.
- 9:48Speaker 1: So but the president working on it. He'll bring the
- 9:51Speaker 1: price of beef down. Price of eggs is already down.
- 9:55Speaker 1: He's got that down. And yeah, beef prices up almost
- 9:59Speaker 1: f fifty just in the last five years. So yeah,
- 10:05Speaker 1: so hey, the World Cup is coming to the United
- 10:11Speaker 1: States and everybody's already complaining about the prices, you know,
- 10:15Speaker 1: thousands of ticket and then but it starts June eleventh
- 10:18Speaker 1: in Mexico City and then it comes here. But people,
- 10:22Speaker 1: I'm looking at some of the things they're selling online.
- 10:24Speaker 1: You know, there's seats that are going for thirty three
- 10:28Speaker 1: thousand dollars July nineteenth, MetLife Stadium. There's some seats for
- 10:33Speaker 1: thirty three thousand dollars. So this is like sports meets
- 10:39Speaker 1: met Gala. Just preposterous, ludicrous, irrational prices. It's triple the
- 10:44Speaker 1: cost of the most expensive ticket ever sold before. Even
- 10:49Speaker 1: if you just want a regular seat, it's going to
- 10:51Speaker 1: be about two thousand and three thousand, absolutely ridiculous. I mean,
- 10:54Speaker 1: they'll probably get people to pay for it. So I
- 10:57Speaker 1: guess we're wrong. I guess they can get away with it.
- 10:59Speaker 1: They can get away with it. Hey, James Coomy, the
- 11:05Speaker 1: totally dirtiest FBI director ever, James Comy Big interview yesterday.
- 11:09Speaker 1: I guess where he chose for the interview, Yeah, MSNBC
- 11:13Speaker 1: or MS whatever the hell it's called now, And he
- 11:16Speaker 1: went after Trump, saying he has a bottomless desire to
- 11:20Speaker 1: gain revenge. He's using the DOJ to target his enemies
- 11:26Speaker 1: from the guy who set the all time record from
- 11:29Speaker 1: using the justice Department to target enemies. He started with
- 11:32Speaker 1: Trump and then they went after anybody anything with Trump.
- 11:35Speaker 1: He's the guy Komy that pushed that crazy, ridiculous Russia hoax.
- 11:41Speaker 1: He was the FBI director. He was so deep into
- 11:44Speaker 1: that Russian dossier that he knew it was fake. He
- 11:47Speaker 1: knew it was a fraud, he knew it was based
- 11:49Speaker 1: on nothing, he knew it was paid for by Hillary Clinton.
- 11:52Speaker 1: Yet he still went ahead on it and pushed that
- 11:56Speaker 1: Russia hoax and nothing. Then tried to blackmail the president
- 11:59Speaker 1: the first time he met him, showed him all this
- 12:01Speaker 1: disgusting stuff he had on him. Just a real Jay
- 12:04Speaker 1: Edgar Hoover, but actually worse Jay Edgar Hoover had a
- 12:08Speaker 1: limit on it on how much you would do this.
- 12:09Speaker 1: Camy a really, really bad guy. So the fact that
- 12:12Speaker 1: he's doing these interviews means he's trying to do some
- 12:16Speaker 1: damage control. I think I guess he realizes he does
- 12:19Speaker 1: have a problem. Hey, you know, sixty Minutes landed a
- 12:22Speaker 1: big interview with Benjamin Nett Yahoo, and sixty Minutes was
- 12:27Speaker 1: stunned when the new CBS News president Barry Wise stepped
- 12:31Speaker 1: in and decided the interview the big exclusive, big interview
- 12:34Speaker 1: with Benjamin Nett Yahoo would be done by Major Garrett,
- 12:40Speaker 1: not by the sixty minutes All Stars, not by Leslie Stall.
- 12:44Speaker 1: They were unbelievably livid. They were furious, they were fuming
- 12:47Speaker 1: at sixty minutes. She handed it to Major Garrett. Why
- 12:51Speaker 1: because he's more of a real, real journalist, more of
- 12:54Speaker 1: a real neutral sort of a reporter, would ask all
- 12:57Speaker 1: the good questions, all the legitimate questions. Remember, Leslie Stall
- 13:01Speaker 1: has a history of lying in interviews, rigging interviews. The
- 13:05Speaker 1: most famous one was the Trump interview where he talked
- 13:08Speaker 1: about their surveillance on my campaign in twenty fifteen sixteen,
- 13:13Speaker 1: and she neared screaming at him, that's not true, that's
- 13:15Speaker 1: not true. There's no evidence. Well, of course it was true,
- 13:18Speaker 1: and there was evidence of it. It was later proven,
- 13:20Speaker 1: so she was totally wrong. And every time she's interviewed
- 13:23Speaker 1: President Trump, he kind of enjoys it. He doesn't like
- 13:27Speaker 1: easy interviews, he likes those fake news. He likes fighting
- 13:30Speaker 1: with him. But every time she's interviewed him, she's made
- 13:32Speaker 1: up all kinds of crap instead of just trying to
- 13:35Speaker 1: get information out of him, to try to catch him
- 13:37Speaker 1: in things, accusing of things, so it's not a real interview.
- 13:40Speaker 1: You need Barry Weissee's absolutely right. So we can give
- 13:43Speaker 1: it to an actual, neutral, legitimate reporter anchor. So Major
- 13:48Speaker 1: Garrett will do the interview. The anti Semitic attacks will
- 13:51Speaker 1: get to that coming up. It's a real problem. It's
- 13:54Speaker 1: out of control in London, thousands of thousands of Jews.
- 13:58Speaker 1: Actually march was just good, good organizing demanding the government
- 14:03Speaker 1: do something about it. But it happened in New York.
- 14:05Speaker 1: It's happening in New York yesterday, out of control at
- 14:10Speaker 1: a synagogue in Brooklyn. The mayor, this is the number
- 14:13Speaker 1: one responsibility of the mayor to speak out, to do
- 14:17Speaker 1: something when stuff like this happens. He's nowhere to be found.
- 14:20Speaker 1: The police tried to do what they could, but you know,
- 14:24Speaker 1: sometimes they're handcuffed more than the criminals. And they got
- 14:27Speaker 1: to start. And the mayor's got to do this. If
- 14:29Speaker 1: you're going to have these kind of violent, crazy anti
- 14:32Speaker 1: Semitic and thanks Democrats for unleashing this crap on us,
- 14:36Speaker 1: but if you're going to have those kind of protesters,
- 14:38Speaker 1: you gotta the city has to enforce all this stuff.
- 14:41Speaker 1: You got to set up a barrier you know, if
- 14:43Speaker 1: the synagogue is here, the barriers over there, they're across
- 14:46Speaker 1: the street. They can yell and scream, they have the
- 14:49Speaker 1: right to protest, hold up their signs, yell and scream,
- 14:52Speaker 1: but across the street, so they can't menace, hurt, or
- 14:55Speaker 1: do anything to the people going in and out of
- 14:58Speaker 1: the synagogue. So may still silent on this. It's just awful. Anyway,
- 15:02Speaker 1: we'll get back to that. We've got a lot to
- 15:03Speaker 1: talk about. We'll take some calls next. Eight hundred three
- 15:07Speaker 1: two one zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred
- 15:11Speaker 1: three two one zero seven ten.
- 15:15Speaker 2: Get instant access to Mark by setting a pre set
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- 15:22Speaker 1: Now back to the Marks Dumon show on woor Hey,
- 15:28Speaker 1: what's going on here? A couple of open lines, Yeah,
- 15:31Speaker 1: there's a few open lines.
- 15:32Speaker 4: Call me.
- 15:33Speaker 1: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
- 15:37Speaker 1: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. Let's go
- 15:40Speaker 1: to Tom and Queen's Tom.
- 15:42Speaker 5: How you doing, Hey, Mark, Good morning Mark. Yeah, listening
- 15:47Speaker 5: to Bill O'Reilly and he mentioned he thinks that the
- 15:52Speaker 5: guest companies are gouging the consumers.
- 15:55Speaker 4: Could you ask him about that.
- 15:57Speaker 1: Well, I just I just gave you actual numbers. Those
- 16:00Speaker 1: are the numbers, all right.
- 16:03Speaker 5: But he's got his own thoughts about it.
- 16:05Speaker 1: You can have your own thoughts, but I just gave
- 16:07Speaker 1: you the actual numbers. That's that's the best thing you
- 16:09Speaker 1: can do. Okay, But I mean, the one thing you
- 16:13Speaker 1: could argue is they raised the prices to match the
- 16:16Speaker 1: worldwide prices when they don't have to. But yeah, but
- 16:20Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, if you if you made
- 16:22Speaker 1: them put it back down to what it should be,
- 16:24Speaker 1: they'll just they'll just drill less. They'll just pump less
- 16:26Speaker 1: oil and create a short and raise them that way.
- 16:29Speaker 1: But the numbers, I gave you the actual numbers and
- 16:31Speaker 1: on what they're making, and it's it's about usual. But
- 16:34Speaker 1: they did raise the price to match the worldwide prices.
- 16:38Speaker 1: So let's go to Joe and Elmwood Park. Joe, how
- 16:41Speaker 1: you doing, Joe? You're there. I hear you're breathing. Joe.
- 16:52Speaker 1: Oh there, we woke them up. Yes, go ahead, Joe, Mark.
- 16:56Speaker 6: I wean't to talk about the World Cup. I don't really,
- 16:59Speaker 6: I'm not a soccer but it's twelve fifty for a
- 17:02Speaker 6: ticket and our dummy says one hundred and fifty. But
- 17:05Speaker 6: now she's doing her favorites one hundred and five.
- 17:07Speaker 1: You're talking about the World Cup.
- 17:10Speaker 6: The bus tickets, okay, oh with the bus tickets, yeah yeah.
- 17:13Speaker 6: And one thing real fast, Alc, you have to stop
- 17:17Speaker 6: calling her a bartender. I don't think she has a
- 17:19Speaker 6: mentality be a bartender. It's an insult every bartender.
- 17:22Speaker 1: Well, that's true. You know, I'm thinking about this, the
- 17:25Speaker 1: arguing about the bus prices to get there. But if you,
- 17:29Speaker 1: as I said, the ticket to this MetLife tickets that
- 17:32Speaker 1: are thirty three thousand dollars, If you're paying thirty three
- 17:35Speaker 1: thousand a seat, I don't think you're taking the bus probably,
- 17:40Speaker 1: but well you might because it's a traffic nightmare getting
- 17:44Speaker 1: in and out of there. This is going to just
- 17:46Speaker 1: disrupt all of us all over in New York. Let's
- 17:49Speaker 1: go to Max in Manhattan. Max, how you're doing?
- 17:52Speaker 4: Mark Michael? You know I can trust you because you
- 17:57Speaker 4: take phone calls. I mean agree, you're but there are
- 18:00Speaker 4: a lot of a lot of talks as who are
- 18:02Speaker 4: not taking phone calls. I sit in the morning, Larry Caudlow.
- 18:05Speaker 1: I know, well anute. Now most morning shows don't take
- 18:08Speaker 1: a lot of phone calls. It's different when you're on
- 18:10Speaker 1: in the morning.
- 18:12Speaker 4: They can they can put at least decided five minutes
- 18:16Speaker 4: for the whole show for a couple of questions.
- 18:18Speaker 1: Okay, but I'll be honest, I don't take a lot.
- 18:21Speaker 1: I take calls one minute an hour, two minutes an hour.
- 18:23Speaker 4: Now, but look look at Minty in the morning with
- 18:26Speaker 4: with Curtis. They could use some phone calls to straighten
- 18:28Speaker 4: the mind.
- 18:29Speaker 1: Well they I gotta be honest. Well, they do their
- 18:32Speaker 1: own version, which is they do the what do you
- 18:34Speaker 1: call that talk back? So that's basically phone calls. It's
- 18:38Speaker 1: just you're tight for time in the morning.
- 18:40Speaker 4: So they I understand what you're saying.
- 18:42Speaker 1: But I've got to be honest. Your phone calls aren't
- 18:45Speaker 1: that exciting. Look at you? Did you have you said
- 18:47Speaker 1: anything of interest yet?
- 18:49Speaker 4: I think so, okay, you keep.
- 18:51Speaker 1: Thinking that, Yeah, we don't take a lot of phone
- 18:54Speaker 1: calls because uh uh, and we will love you. But
- 18:58Speaker 1: that's why you get a great call. But most of
- 19:00Speaker 1: the calls, I think the president should do this. I
- 19:03Speaker 1: don't think you should do this. I think you should
- 19:05Speaker 1: do this. It's like just a lot of opinions which
- 19:07Speaker 1: we try to stay away. Believe or not, we try
- 19:09Speaker 1: to stay away from opinions on the show. We just
- 19:11Speaker 1: try to give you information. Here's the facts, here's the
- 19:13Speaker 1: inside scoop, Here's what's going on. Phone calls. It's a
- 19:17Speaker 1: nice little touch because we do like to talk to you.
- 19:19Speaker 1: But and as far as the morning shows, they don't
- 19:23Speaker 1: really do phone calls ever in the morning. And you know,
- 19:25Speaker 1: on a talk radio morning show, because you've got a
- 19:27Speaker 1: million things going on. You know, we just have a
- 19:30Speaker 1: newscast at the top of the hour and at the
- 19:31Speaker 1: bottom of me that's about it. But they got traffic,
- 19:33Speaker 1: they got weather, they got sports, they got so much
- 19:35Speaker 1: they got to get into the hour. Let's go to
- 19:39Speaker 1: Let's go to Maria in Terrytown. Maria, how you doing him?
- 19:43Speaker 7: Mark?
- 19:44Speaker 8: You know, I am so worried about this president and
- 19:48Speaker 8: the entourage of people he's going to China with.
- 19:53Speaker 5: Are we like not?
- 19:54Speaker 8: We're under estimating the danger here. We have all these
- 19:58Speaker 8: capitalists and the president of and media and wouldn't the
- 20:04Speaker 8: Democrats just like to get ridom?
- 20:08Speaker 1: Yeah, but I know what you're saying, But you got
- 20:10Speaker 1: to remember he has a great relationship with President she
- 20:12Speaker 1: of China. We do a lot of business together. China's
- 20:16Speaker 1: economy is not very strong right now. They're pretty dependent
- 20:18Speaker 1: on us for things. And presidents have always traveled that
- 20:22Speaker 1: China's been going on since Nixon and Set nineteen seventy
- 20:26Speaker 1: one or whatever it was. So and they know what
- 20:28Speaker 1: they know how to protect the president over there. Let's
- 20:31Speaker 1: go to Greg and Long Island. Greg, how you doing.
- 20:34Speaker 5: Good morning, Mark. I just wanted to ask, with this
- 20:38Speaker 5: fuel prices the way they are, why doesn't Trump try
- 20:43Speaker 5: to pull the same kind rabbit out of the hat
- 20:46Speaker 5: that President Kennedy did years ago with the steel industry,
- 20:51Speaker 5: where they were going to raise steel prices even more.
- 20:55Speaker 1: Because as I said before, yeah, they don't have to
- 20:57Speaker 1: match the world price. They could keep the oil prices
- 20:59Speaker 1: here because we produce all our own oil. There's nothing
- 21:01Speaker 1: to do with the rest of the world. We could
- 21:02Speaker 1: keep it steady and you could do it. Kennedy called
- 21:05Speaker 1: in all the heads of the steel companies and pretty
- 21:07Speaker 1: much threaten them. You could do that to the oil companies,
- 21:11Speaker 1: but then they'll just drill less. They'll just stop drilling.
- 21:15Speaker 1: And right now we're producing more oil than ever before
- 21:18Speaker 1: we used. Under Biden, we produced four million barrels a day.
- 21:22Speaker 1: Right now, we're doing fourteen million barrels a day. So
- 21:25Speaker 1: if you do that to them, they'll just cut back
- 21:26Speaker 1: production and get the prices up that way. Let's go
- 21:30Speaker 1: to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing.
- 21:32Speaker 7: Good morning, Mark, Good morning Marriage. This is Uncle Vincent's
- 21:36Speaker 7: idea for bringing down your gas prices. A. Number one,
- 21:40Speaker 7: do not pay with your credit card because most pumps
- 21:44Speaker 7: there's like a tensience difference between if you pay with
- 21:46Speaker 7: your credit card and you pay with care if Number two,
- 21:51Speaker 7: if you want to see the World Cup and everything
- 21:54Speaker 7: and it's not being carried on American TV, go get
- 21:57Speaker 7: yourself for local TV and get yourself the Italian package
- 22:02Speaker 7: for ten dollars a month and you'll see all the
- 22:04Speaker 7: games you want. I did it the last time, all right.
- 22:06Speaker 1: Number three, Wait, I'm just thinking about this. See. I
- 22:09Speaker 1: like to pump my own gas. I hate and attendant.
- 22:12Speaker 1: So if I want to buy gas and I stick
- 22:15Speaker 1: my credit card and the pump, I pump my gas. Now,
- 22:18Speaker 1: if I want to pay cash, I gotta go inside.
- 22:20Speaker 1: It takes a lot.
- 22:21Speaker 7: Yeah, I know, it's it's a little bit more of
- 22:24Speaker 7: a hassle. But I never use a credit card when
- 22:27Speaker 7: I go buy gas or Vincent.
- 22:29Speaker 1: You got that role broccoli rubber band around.
- 22:33Speaker 7: It exactly, the Andy Boy broccoli, the pink one mark.
- 22:38Speaker 7: Another reason why most people don't notice that white beef
- 22:41Speaker 7: prices are so high. Joe Biden put the kebash on.
- 22:45Speaker 7: They were aside from the slaughter when they would bring
- 22:48Speaker 7: the cattle to the slaughter house before the cattle was slaughtered,
- 22:53Speaker 7: they would leave the cattle, the farmer's cattle on the
- 22:55Speaker 7: grounds for so many months to fatten it up before
- 23:00Speaker 7: were slaughtered. Then Joe Biden put the kebash because of
- 23:05Speaker 7: Gandhi on these places, because of so called cow flatulence.
- 23:11Speaker 7: So we don't have as many of these fat farms
- 23:15Speaker 7: as we used to have. The fatten the catalog. It
- 23:18Speaker 7: was Joe Biden who did that.
- 23:20Speaker 1: Good point, Vincent, excellent call, thanks for calling. Yeah, we'll
- 23:24Speaker 1: talk about this a minute. We're going to have John
- 23:28Speaker 1: Carney next to the editor Breitbart Business Digest, the smartest
- 23:31Speaker 1: guy on oil prices, on inflation. We'll get the real
- 23:35Speaker 1: story in a minute. That's coming up next on seven
- 23:38Speaker 1: to ten wo R.
- 23:40Speaker 2: He's got the whole city in your radio.
- 23:42Speaker 1: Marximo on seven ten, wr Well the brilliant columnist John Carney.
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- 24:23Speaker 5: Great, good Mark, thanks for having me.
- 24:25Speaker 1: Hey. I know, listen, there's a spike and oil obviously
- 24:28Speaker 1: as a result of Iran, but inflation overall, what the
- 24:33Speaker 1: numbers came out where we stand right now in inflation.
- 24:37Speaker 5: So this was a pretty bad report. Inflation was up
- 24:41Speaker 5: three point eight percent. A huge part of that, over
- 24:45Speaker 5: forty percent of it was driven by energy. That's try.
- 24:49Speaker 5: The problem is there's other elements in here that may
- 24:54Speaker 5: be sort of the higher gas prices passing through a
- 25:00Speaker 5: old prices were up furniture prices were up. One thing
- 25:03Speaker 5: that's definitely energy related. Airline prices are up. There's a
- 25:08Speaker 5: lot of there's food inflation in the here. So this
- 25:11Speaker 5: is not what the Trump administration was hoping for. The
- 25:16Speaker 5: last month we had high inflation. It was actually on
- 25:18Speaker 5: a month to month basis, even worse than So the
- 25:21Speaker 5: March report was worse. The April report was bad, but
- 25:26Speaker 5: not quite as bad in terms of the price the
- 25:29Speaker 5: price index jumping. The problem is it looks like in
- 25:33Speaker 5: this one, the prices the inflation is starting to spread
- 25:37Speaker 5: a little, and that's not reassuring. You know, back in March,
- 25:42Speaker 5: I can tell you, and I did tell you that
- 25:44Speaker 5: without a doubt. You know, this was mainly confined to energy.
- 25:49Speaker 5: This was you could see it all. I ran. Now
- 25:53Speaker 5: I'm worried that, you know, two months in what we
- 25:56Speaker 5: saw was the pressure from high energy prices starting to
- 26:02Speaker 5: push up some other prices.
- 26:03Speaker 1: Yeah, in other words, the price of gas. Everything is everything,
- 26:06Speaker 1: and every store is delivered by truck. That brings up
- 26:09Speaker 1: the price energy costs to run your business. So it
- 26:12Speaker 1: could just be.
- 26:13Speaker 5: The oil goes in, Remember, like petroleum goes into things
- 26:18Speaker 5: like like the dies and paints, we use products. It
- 26:21Speaker 5: goes into it, you know. I think our friend Larry
- 26:24Speaker 5: Tublo once you know, figured out that like ninety percent
- 26:28Speaker 5: of the economy is you know, directly linked to petroleum.
- 26:31Speaker 5: If you are looking at much higher petroleum prices than
- 26:36Speaker 5: they are. You know, I looked, we were down below
- 26:39Speaker 5: three dollars a gallon for gasoline back in mid February.
- 26:44Speaker 5: We're now up at four dollars and fifty cents. This
- 26:47Speaker 5: is a you know, this is going to put pressure.
- 26:51Speaker 5: It's also probably hurting some things. I noticed that the
- 26:56Speaker 5: price of new cars is death. That's probably because people
- 27:01Speaker 5: are buying fewer cars. You know, it's funny, right because
- 27:04Speaker 5: the gas price things only temporary. But if you look
- 27:07Speaker 5: through history, when gas prices go up by a lot,
- 27:11Speaker 5: people don't buy as many new cars because they think,
- 27:14Speaker 5: oh no, right, Like I just can't you know, I
- 27:17Speaker 5: can't afford right now to be putting money into the
- 27:21Speaker 5: road when I'm putting that much money into the tank.
- 27:24Speaker 1: So once things are settled and Iran, we think everything
- 27:28Speaker 1: will work out in the end, and then how long
- 27:30Speaker 1: before the prices come down? The presence says they'll drop
- 27:33Speaker 1: it round.
- 27:33Speaker 5: We should see we should see gas prices come down
- 27:37Speaker 5: pretty quickly. We're entering into the summer driving months, which
- 27:43Speaker 5: is a time when gas prices usually move up. People's
- 27:46Speaker 5: you know, we're just driving a lot more. They take
- 27:48Speaker 5: their families on road trips. The weather's nice, to the beach,
- 27:52Speaker 5: drive to the mountains. But so they'll come down. They
- 27:56Speaker 5: might not come down to where they were in February,
- 27:58Speaker 5: but they will come down. The problem is, I probably
- 28:04Speaker 5: said this four weeks ago, which was we really need
- 28:08Speaker 5: to get this problem cleared up in the straight of moves.
- 28:13Speaker 5: Oil needs to start passing through there. The tankers need
- 28:16Speaker 5: to pass through there freely. The place that's going to
- 28:20Speaker 5: hit the hardest right now is actually California. Their average
- 28:24Speaker 5: gas prices are above six dollars. Now that's a couple
- 28:28Speaker 5: of things. They have really high taxes out there, but
- 28:31Speaker 5: they also the climate change activists have prevented us from
- 28:36Speaker 5: doing something that we can easily do, which is build
- 28:39Speaker 5: a pipeline from the Midwest out to California. We have
- 28:43Speaker 5: all this oil we make, but it comes down into
- 28:46Speaker 5: the Gulf of America, and it used to be you know,
- 28:50Speaker 5: the Golf of Mexico. It comes down there and there's
- 28:53Speaker 5: no easy way to get it out to California. You know,
- 28:57Speaker 5: this is insane. One hundred fifty years ago we built
- 29:01Speaker 5: a transcontinental railroad. Right, we have the technology to get
- 29:05Speaker 5: over the Rocky mountains or through the desert, but we
- 29:09Speaker 5: for political reasons, we have been prevented from being able
- 29:13Speaker 5: to get that oil out to California. That's very bad
- 29:16Speaker 5: for them. The Californian environmental activists don't want it. You know,
- 29:20Speaker 5: the people all over America will show up if you
- 29:23Speaker 5: try to build one, try to stop you. And of
- 29:26Speaker 5: course the Biden and the Obama administrations just put the
- 29:30Speaker 5: law on their side and said you could into it.
- 29:32Speaker 5: And these things take years to build. So, you know,
- 29:36Speaker 5: if it's not enough for Donald Trump to say we
- 29:38Speaker 5: can build the pipeline, because the next Democrat that comes in,
- 29:43Speaker 5: we'll try to stop it. So Congress actually needs to
- 29:45Speaker 5: act and make it clear that pipelines are legal in America.
- 29:48Speaker 1: Yeah, people don't think about that. If you have to
- 29:50Speaker 1: have the pipeline to get all that oil out to California,
- 29:53Speaker 1: otherwise bringing it by truck or shit, it's very slow
- 29:55Speaker 1: and costly. What's the objection.
- 29:57Speaker 5: You won't believe what we do mark we actually ship
- 30:00Speaker 5: it either around Africa or around the end of South America.
- 30:07Speaker 5: For the most part, it actually can't go through the
- 30:09Speaker 5: Panama Canal because these tankers are too big.
- 30:11Speaker 1: Wow.
- 30:12Speaker 5: So so it's almost like we're living in like a
- 30:16Speaker 5: nineteenth century, you know, eighteenth century explorer world where you
- 30:20Speaker 5: have to go around Africa or around the Cape of
- 30:23Speaker 5: Good Hope to get oil from you know, from Oklahoma
- 30:30Speaker 5: to California. It makes no sense.
- 30:35Speaker 1: What's the environmental objection to a pipeline. It's not radioactive material,
- 30:38Speaker 1: it's not what's the hazard.
- 30:41Speaker 5: Yeah, there's not a good objection. Mainly, they really actually
- 30:44Speaker 5: want fossil fuels to be expensive. They're worried that if
- 30:47Speaker 5: we make it cheap to get oil to California, Californians
- 30:50Speaker 5: will use gasoline, and so they want to make it expensive.
- 30:54Speaker 5: They'll tell you, oh, we're worried about weeks, or we're
- 30:57Speaker 5: worried about you know, the the.
- 31:00Speaker 1: You know, the.
- 31:01Speaker 5: Spotted ferret or something whose habitat you're going to go through.
- 31:05Speaker 5: But those are all just phony. What they're really trying
- 31:08Speaker 5: to do is prevent us from building infrastructure that moves
- 31:15Speaker 5: fossil fuels. Across America.
- 31:17Speaker 1: Hey, John Carney, bright Bart Business Digest, make sure you
- 31:20Speaker 1: subscribe to it. It's the best business thing you can
- 31:24Speaker 1: read every morning. Bright Bart Business Digest. The President is
- 31:28Speaker 1: going to China, and if you read the fake news,
- 31:31Speaker 1: apparently their economy is booming. We're weak. That president has
- 31:34Speaker 1: no leverage. What's the truth about our economy versus their economy?
- 31:38Speaker 5: So China is actually in much worse shape. Everything we
- 31:41Speaker 5: just said about the oil prices. China is extremely dependent
- 31:48Speaker 5: on the Persian Gulf. They are having that. They have
- 31:51Speaker 5: a lot of reserves, so they have stacked it up,
- 31:54Speaker 5: but they are very dependent on that, so that puts
- 31:57Speaker 5: a lot of stress on them. They have a lot
- 32:00Speaker 5: of problems in that we have been buying a lot
- 32:04Speaker 5: less products from China. China is trying to find other markets,
- 32:10Speaker 5: but other places, Europe in particular, are waking up and saying, wait,
- 32:14Speaker 5: we don't want to have our industry destroyed by China.
- 32:17Speaker 5: We don't want to become dependent on China. So the
- 32:20Speaker 5: rest of the world is not being as open to
- 32:23Speaker 5: China's trade. So China's economy is definitely not doing that well.
- 32:28Speaker 5: They would like to make a deal with us we
- 32:30Speaker 5: would like to make a deal with them. The question
- 32:33Speaker 5: is can we do it in ways that will actually
- 32:37Speaker 5: work out. I've been skeptical for years that maybe someday
- 32:41Speaker 5: we may just have to realize we can't have as
- 32:45Speaker 5: much trade with China as we do that. I don't
- 32:48Speaker 5: like the idea that. Look, it'll be great for the
- 32:51Speaker 5: US if China agrees to buy a lot more energy
- 32:54Speaker 5: from the US. They should be buying natural gas from US.
- 32:57Speaker 5: They should be buying our oil. But I am but
- 33:00Speaker 5: if the cost of that is us allowing them to
- 33:04Speaker 5: destroy our auto manufacturing capacity by selling Chinese cars, you know,
- 33:09Speaker 5: Chinese electric vehicles here, I don't think it's worth it.
- 33:11Speaker 5: We don't want to become the energy and agricultural colony
- 33:14Speaker 5: to China's manufacturing and technology behemoth. We want to make,
- 33:21Speaker 5: you know, So that is not worth doing. It would
- 33:24Speaker 5: be worth it, though, if they say, well, they'll open
- 33:27Speaker 5: their markets to more of our products, and we're able
- 33:31Speaker 5: to prevent them from dumping their cheap electric vehicles into
- 33:37Speaker 5: our market.
- 33:37Speaker 1: Yeah, which is why Trump. President Trump's taking a lot
- 33:40Speaker 1: of business leaders with them looking for business.
- 33:43Speaker 5: I think that's very smart for him to do, because
- 33:47Speaker 5: those guys, China wants to play divide and conquer with America.
- 33:52Speaker 5: They want to say to the to business guys, you know,
- 33:54Speaker 5: whether it's you know Tim Cook and Trump called them
- 33:57Speaker 5: Tim Apple, or you know Elon Mosk or whoever. You know.
- 34:01Speaker 5: We know your president doesn't like us, but we'll do
- 34:04Speaker 5: deals with you.
- 34:04Speaker 7: Guys.
- 34:05Speaker 5: Showing up United actually will go a long way to
- 34:10Speaker 5: helping us get a better deal with China.
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- 35:49Speaker 8: You talking about everything you care about?
- 35:52Speaker 1: Marks and moons on WR Well, Hey, I'll be on
- 35:58Speaker 1: Greg Kelly Reports tonight on Newsmax. It's from nine to
- 36:03Speaker 1: ten I'll be on Cudlow tomorrow, which is on four
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- 36:18Speaker 1: Newsmax every night at nine o'clock. Good stuff. They're the President.
- 36:23Speaker 1: Those are two shows the President watches every day. TiVo's them,
- 36:27Speaker 1: DVRs them. Is there such a thing as a tvo anymore?
- 36:31Speaker 1: The same? I know what that means. That's an antiquated term.
- 36:35Speaker 1: DVRs them, and a lot of stuff that he likes,
- 36:38Speaker 1: the DVRs. And then when he gets home late at
- 36:40Speaker 1: night watches them. Then. So the President leaves for China
- 36:44Speaker 1: later today, taking a lot of business leaders with him,
- 36:47Speaker 1: Tim Cook of Apple and Elon Musk and the head
- 36:51Speaker 1: of Boeing and many other companies. So they'll go over there.
- 36:55Speaker 1: Interesting what John Carney had to say, China really needs us.
- 36:59Speaker 1: They need to to open up the markets for him. President. Obviously,
- 37:04Speaker 1: something will happen with Iran and these negotiations. The major
- 37:08Speaker 1: benefactor of Iran is China. Obviously, they have a lot
- 37:11Speaker 1: of influence over China. So I guess that's another some
- 37:18Speaker 1: people that we maybe shouldn't go till Iran is over. Now,
- 37:21Speaker 1: actually he should go. China has tremendous influence over Iran,
- 37:25Speaker 1: so maybe something will get worked out in the next
- 37:29Speaker 1: couple of days. As Sean Handy, as I said, we'll
- 37:31Speaker 1: be on the trip with him too, so he'll be
- 37:33Speaker 1: reporting for us live from China. Hey, we got another
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