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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is 710WOR, where the Mark Simone Show starts now. Whoa!
- 0:10Speaker 2: This is quite a week. This is like the final week.
- 0:12Speaker 2: I mean, this is leading right into Labor Day. I mean,
- 0:15Speaker 2: it's officially summer well into September, but this is really
- 0:19Speaker 2: the final week of summer for a lot of people.
- 0:22Speaker 2: Labor Day, I don't know how it got here so fast,
- 0:25Speaker 2: but it's here. We got a lot to get to.
- 0:28Speaker 2: President Trump renaming things again. This drives the left nuts.
- 0:33Speaker 2: They go crazy when he does this. Now, you remember,
- 0:36Speaker 2: these Democrats, these left-wingers, they renamed everything in America. They
- 0:41Speaker 2: renamed every military base. They renamed towns. Remember, they renamed
- 0:45Speaker 2: a mountain. Mount McKinley had to become something else. They
- 0:48Speaker 2: renamed 500 things without blinking a He renames one thing.
- 0:54Speaker 2: They're up in arms. They can't believe it. Who the
- 0:56Speaker 2: hell is he to rename anything? But Lake Ontario is
- 0:59Speaker 2: Lake America. You know who plays along with this is Google. Yeah,
- 1:03Speaker 2: if you look at Google Maps already, it says Lake America.
- 1:08Speaker 2: They're getting a lot of flack for being a little
- 1:11Speaker 2: too busy catering to the Trump administration. But Google Maps,
- 1:15Speaker 2: if you look on it, you'll see Lake America. Google
- 1:18Speaker 2: Maps arguing... that they have to go by whatever the
- 1:22Speaker 2: official government agency, uh, name is. And apparently president Trump
- 1:27Speaker 2: having control of that agency, uh, officially named it like America.
- 1:32Speaker 2: So Google will go along with it. Now there's that, uh, uh,
- 1:35Speaker 2: there's the, uh, the Canadian prime minister, but, uh, Ontario,
- 1:40Speaker 2: the province, these provinces like Ontario have premiers. So, uh,
- 1:46Speaker 2: This is Premier Ford of Ontario. He's the Premier. Then
- 1:49Speaker 2: you see the guy, and he looks like Ed Asner.
- 1:52Speaker 2: Most unimpressive looking guy. But he's all up in arms
- 1:55Speaker 2: about this Lake America.
- 1:56Speaker 3: It was like something out of Saturday Night Live when
- 1:59Speaker 3: he signed documents saying change to Lake America. No one's
- 2:05Speaker 3: going to call it Lake of America. It's been Lake
- 2:07Speaker 3: Ontario for hundreds of years. It's going to continue being
- 2:10Speaker 3: Lake Ontario. And it's just so disappointing.
- 2:15Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 2:15Speaker 2: Well, all right. We'll call it that for a few weeks,
- 2:19Speaker 2: just to annoy you. Just to annoy you. As I say,
- 2:21Speaker 2: Google Maps, it says Lake America. But apparently they can
- 2:24Speaker 2: do this. If you're in Canada, it'll still say Lake Ontario.
- 2:29Speaker 2: But whenever Trump does anything that's a Democratic thing, Democrats
- 2:33Speaker 2: rename everything. Everything constantly. Bases. They tear down statues. They
- 2:38Speaker 2: rename cities. They rename neighborhoods. But as soon as he
- 2:41Speaker 2: does anything Democratic, they go nuts. So it was interesting.
- 2:46Speaker 2: He visited NASA on Friday, and he's very interested in
- 2:51Speaker 2: the moon, which he'll probably rename. It'll be probably Moon
- 2:54Speaker 2: America or something, but he's really interested in going back there.
- 2:58Speaker 2: And he's right. We shouldn't have abandoned the space program
- 3:01Speaker 2: when we did. We just gave up on it. It
- 3:04Speaker 2: was a big part of the Kennedy administration. In 1960, 61,
- 3:07Speaker 2: he took office, and he said, by the end of
- 3:12Speaker 2: the decade, we'll land a man on the moon. It
- 3:15Speaker 2: sounded insane at the time. It sounded like something so
- 3:19Speaker 2: far in the future, but he did it by the
- 3:21Speaker 2: end of the decade, 1969. So the president, before he
- 3:26Speaker 2: leaves office, which is two years before he leaves office,
- 3:29Speaker 2: he wants to land a man on the moon. And
- 3:33Speaker 2: he thinks it's very important. Big speech at NASA on Friday.
- 3:38Speaker 5: From the very beginning, America has always been a frontier
- 3:41Speaker 5: nation and Space is the highest of all the frontiers.
- 3:46Speaker 5: Our manifest destiny is to explore and settle this great unknown,
- 3:50Speaker 5: carry forward the light of American liberty into the stars.
- 3:55Speaker 2: So, it's a great goal. You know, it was very
- 3:58Speaker 2: important that we landed a man on the moon in 1969,
- 4:02Speaker 2: and it led to important things if we landed a
- 4:06Speaker 2: man on the moon. I don't know exactly what. It
- 4:11Speaker 2: looked good. The pictures were fascinating. And then we sent
- 4:14Speaker 2: more men to the moon and well, they walked around,
- 4:19Speaker 2: they collected some rocks. Remember that one astronaut hit a
- 4:23Speaker 2: golf ball on the moon. Outside of that, I don't
- 4:27Speaker 2: know what the, they keep telling us that, well, we're
- 4:29Speaker 2: going to colonize it. We're going to have data centers there.
- 4:31Speaker 2: We're going to, I don't know how you're going to
- 4:33Speaker 2: do any of that, but it's a great goal.
- 4:35Speaker 5: Before the end of my term, American astronauts will return
- 4:38Speaker 5: to the lunar surface at We're looking forward to that.
- 4:42Speaker 6: We'll do it.
- 4:42Speaker 7: And we're then going to the next step.
- 4:45Speaker 5: And when we do, they'll plant this very important flag
- 4:48Speaker 5: to mark the site of the first permanent American settlement
- 4:52Speaker 5: on the moon. They're going to have a settlement. They're
- 4:53Speaker 5: building a settlement up in the moon.
- 4:55Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 4:56Speaker 8: All right.
- 4:58Speaker 2: I don't know who want to live there. You know,
- 4:59Speaker 2: some people move to Rockland County and say, well, that's
- 5:02Speaker 2: a little too far to commute. But can you imagine
- 5:04Speaker 2: from the moon? I mean, what does that mean? We're
- 5:08Speaker 2: going to live on the moon. What does that mean?
- 5:10Speaker 2: They'll have a Starbucks. They'll have a Costco. There'll be
- 5:14Speaker 2: a Chipotle. I mean, that's really all it means. So, hey,
- 5:18Speaker 2: this is fascinating. Now, you know, Jimmy Fallon is still
- 5:23Speaker 2: on the air. That's the Tonight Show. I mean, that's
- 5:26Speaker 2: the original late night show. It's hard to cancel that.
- 5:30Speaker 2: But Jimmy Kimmel is very close to being canceled. Remember,
- 5:34Speaker 2: his contract ended and they wouldn't give him a new contract.
- 5:38Speaker 2: They just put him on a one-year extension, which he's
- 5:40Speaker 2: on now. One-year extension, and he's taken the summer off.
- 5:45Speaker 2: That's kind of the Howard Stern model, and it led
- 5:47Speaker 2: to pretty much the end of Howard Stern, which we'll
- 5:49Speaker 2: get to coming up. But Colbert, fired, thrown off the air,
- 5:56Speaker 2: low ratings, and who would they replace him with? Well,
- 6:00Speaker 2: they decided to do something a little different. They turned
- 6:02Speaker 2: the time, the one hour on CBS at 11.30 a.m.,
- 6:05Speaker 2: over to byron allen he actually buys the time from
- 6:08Speaker 2: cbs and he does a late night show but it's
- 6:11Speaker 2: nothing like kimmel or colbert or found there's no political
- 6:15Speaker 2: jokes there's no angry politics it's just old-fashioned comedy it's
- 6:19Speaker 2: called comics unleashed and they have four comedians on every
- 6:23Speaker 2: show and byron allen interviews them but it's all it's
- 6:28Speaker 2: all pre-arranged they know uh you know what jokes the
- 6:31Speaker 2: guy has so every question is to lead into part
- 6:33Speaker 2: of his routine but it's very funny comics unleashed good
- 6:36Speaker 2: comedy show now here's the interesting part it is now
- 6:39Speaker 2: beating jimmy fallon on the tonight show it is now
- 6:43Speaker 2: beating jimmy kimmel live in the most important demo of
- 6:48Speaker 2: all that's 18 to 49 that's the key demo for
- 6:52Speaker 2: tv shows byron allen's comic comics unleashed now beating fallon
- 7:00Speaker 2: beating kimmel it's actually uh uh is it a two-hour
- 7:04Speaker 2: show Yeah, he's also on against Late Night with Seth Meyers,
- 7:10Speaker 2: and he's beating Late Night with Seth Meyers. So this
- 7:14Speaker 2: is interesting. This is old-fashioned comedy. This was the idea
- 7:18Speaker 2: of Late Night TV. You'd have a few laughs, something entertaining,
- 7:23Speaker 2: enjoyable laughs before you go to sleep. The idea was
- 7:26Speaker 2: not get all riled up and screaming about Trump and
- 7:29Speaker 2: hate Trump and get all mad and angry with Colbert. Uh,
- 7:33Speaker 2: so Byron Allen, I remember when first, first week, he
- 7:36Speaker 2: only had 600,000. Well, he's now beating in the key demo,
- 7:40Speaker 2: which is the most important. He's beating Fallon. He's beating Kimmel.
- 7:45Speaker 2: So that's big news. You're seeing a turning point there. So, uh,
- 7:50Speaker 2: as they're getting ready to dump Kimmel, ABC might be
- 7:54Speaker 2: looking at something like that. Let's just go to old
- 7:56Speaker 2: fashioned comedy. So, um, um, President Trump also ran. There
- 8:02Speaker 2: was action over the weekend. We bombed Larrick Island, famous
- 8:10Speaker 2: Larrick Island, which is important strategically for Iran. So we
- 8:16Speaker 2: took that out. And the president putting up an AI
- 8:20Speaker 2: video of the blowing up of Karg Island, a little
- 8:23Speaker 2: threat that we might just get rid of Karg Island,
- 8:25Speaker 2: which is their whole economy, And if that goes, that
- 8:29Speaker 2: means Iran not only has no economy, but could not
- 8:33Speaker 2: possibly have one for another 10 years. That's how long
- 8:36Speaker 2: it would take to rebuild all of that. Karg Island
- 8:38Speaker 2: is their entire oil storage, oil facility, their oil depots.
- 8:42Speaker 2: When it comes to transporting oil and all that, it
- 8:45Speaker 2: comes from Karg Island. So without Karg Island, there is
- 8:48Speaker 2: no more oil industry in Iraq, Iran. Now, the Strait
- 8:53Speaker 2: of Hormuz has been open. It's definitely been open.
- 8:56Speaker 8: We've had.
- 8:57Speaker 2: Something like 1,500 tankers come through there with many, many, many, many,
- 9:02Speaker 2: many millions of gallons of oil. So that's one reason
- 9:06Speaker 2: the price of oil has not spiked. It's gone up
- 9:08Speaker 2: a little, but there's no spike. Remember under Biden when
- 9:12Speaker 2: it was $ 110 a barrel? Right now, let me check.
- 9:17Speaker 2: It's gone up a hair. See, that's what I mean.
- 9:19Speaker 2: It just goes up just slightly. Right now, it is
- 9:24Speaker 2: $ 85 a barrel. Just up a little from what's normal. Hey,
- 9:28Speaker 2: you got Crazy Mom Donnie. We'll get to him coming up.
- 9:31Speaker 2: Kathy Hochul running against him, trying anything and everything. Do
- 9:37Speaker 2: you know that it was actually illegal to dance in
- 9:39Speaker 2: a restaurant in New York State? There was a law
- 9:43Speaker 2: against it. You're not allowed to dance in a restaurant.
- 9:45Speaker 2: It's an old law from the 20s or something, from
- 9:47Speaker 2: a million years ago. So she's so desperate for trying
- 9:51Speaker 2: to score points in any possible way. She's repealed that law.
- 9:55Speaker 2: You can now dance in a New York City restaurant.
- 10:00Speaker 2: All right. So she gets Kevin Bacon. Somehow, Kevin Bacon
- 10:04Speaker 2: gets suckered into this, doing a commercial with her. Now,
- 10:08Speaker 2: this is the problem with Kathy Hochul. She's sometimes not
- 10:12Speaker 2: very self-aware, doesn't realize how goofy she looks, doesn't realize
- 10:16Speaker 2: how dopey she is. doesn't realize how lame this commercial sounds.
- 10:21Speaker 2: This is her and Kevin Bacon. Consultants convince them that
- 10:25Speaker 2: this is cute. This is wonderful. You see the consultants
- 10:28Speaker 2: make money on the commercial. If you need to make
- 10:31Speaker 2: a commercial, they get a part of the production cost.
- 10:34Speaker 2: And then you got to air it, which means you
- 10:36Speaker 2: got to buy time. They get a piece of the
- 10:38Speaker 2: time by. So consultants make a fortune. Campaign consultants make
- 10:43Speaker 2: all their money off commercials. So they'll convince you this
- 10:45Speaker 2: is a good idea. And when it's done, they'll say, wow,
- 10:48Speaker 2: it's powerful. It's great. Take a listen to it.
- 10:51Speaker 9: New York, did you know that for years, dancing was
- 10:53Speaker 9: banned in many bars and nightclubs?
- 10:55Speaker 7: Banned?
- 10:57Speaker 1: You mean it was illegal to dance?
- 11:00Speaker 9: That's right, Kevin Bacon.
- 11:02Speaker 1: If I was to come into this club and wanted
- 11:04Speaker 1: to say salsa?
- 11:06Speaker 10: Nada.
- 11:07Speaker 7: Macarena? Macanono.
- 11:08Speaker 8: Whip? Nay-nay.
- 11:10Speaker 9: The state used to demand you get a license to
- 11:11Speaker 9: allow dancing, but we tossed that rule out. What do
- 11:14Speaker 9: you say to that, Kevin?
- 11:16Speaker 2: I say... Let's dance. Oh, God. Yeah, keep running that.
- 11:24Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman will pay for you to run that. He'll
- 11:26Speaker 2: pay for the cost of running that ad. That is embarrassing.
- 11:30Speaker 2: That is one awful ad. Hey, now, this is interesting.
- 11:34Speaker 2: You know, the fake news just lies. On NBC, CBS, ABC.
- 11:40Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, they slant the news to be anti-Trump.
- 11:43Speaker 2: If there's anything anti-Trump, they report it. If there's anything pro-Trump,
- 11:47Speaker 2: they don't report it. If there's anything, if the Democrats
- 11:51Speaker 2: do something horrible, they never report it. They never mention it.
- 11:54Speaker 2: So you got the slant, but they actually also out
- 11:57Speaker 2: and out lie. They just make up lies all the time.
- 12:01Speaker 2: You remember Trump put kids in cages? It's a total lie,
- 12:05Speaker 2: complete lie. Well, I saw the pictures of the kids
- 12:07Speaker 2: in cages. They were all from the Obama administration. He's
- 12:11Speaker 2: the one that put the kids in cages. They just
- 12:13Speaker 2: lie about it. So He's decided, President Trump, he's not
- 12:18Speaker 2: wrong about this. This might be a good idea. What
- 12:20Speaker 2: do you do about it? Well, all these TV networks
- 12:23Speaker 2: own TV stations and they need licenses to do that.
- 12:27Speaker 2: And they're FCC licenses. And it is a violation of
- 12:30Speaker 2: FCC rules to go on the air and just out
- 12:32Speaker 2: and out lie. You're not supposed to do that. So
- 12:37Speaker 2: Kristen Welker, NBC, Meet the Press, always broadcasting false information.
- 12:44Speaker 2: is talking about the primaries and how Trump endorsing candidates. Well,
- 12:48Speaker 2: she said he had a mixed record. Well, that's not
- 12:53Speaker 2: true at all. He had an incredibly successful record. Trump
- 12:57Speaker 2: made 313 endorsements, had a 96% success rate in GOP primaries, 100%
- 13:01Speaker 2: success rate in GOP Senate primaries, 98% success rate in
- 13:14Speaker 2: the House primaries, he had a hugely successful endorsement record.
- 13:18Speaker 2: So she's just lying when she said it was mixed results,
- 13:21Speaker 2: mixed results. Yeah, 98-2. It's not that mixed. So President
- 13:27Speaker 2: Trump has called for the FCC to take action against her,
- 13:31Speaker 2: which they can. They can go after NBC if you
- 13:33Speaker 2: deliberately broadcast false information. And what do you do about
- 13:37Speaker 2: this fake news, the press totally conning people left and right?
- 13:42Speaker 2: It's a dangerous thing If it were on either side,
- 13:45Speaker 2: trying to run a democracy when you've got fake news,
- 13:48Speaker 2: total fake news. So about the only thing you can
- 13:51Speaker 2: do about it is just go after them for lies.
- 13:53Speaker 2: Just get the law to come in and enforce this
- 13:55Speaker 2: and try to stop them. Now, she's yelling and screaming,
- 13:59Speaker 2: of course, but she did lie. She was caught lying. Hey,
- 14:03Speaker 2: I'll give you another example. President Trump is not going
- 14:07Speaker 2: to speak at the 9-11 ceremony. He's not coming to
- 14:11Speaker 2: New York. He'll speak on 9-11 at the Pentagon. He'll
- 14:15Speaker 2: be there for that ceremony, but he's not coming to
- 14:17Speaker 2: New York. And you may have read, you may have heard,
- 14:22Speaker 2: the reason he's not coming is they wouldn't allow him
- 14:25Speaker 2: to speak. That's the reason, because they're not going to
- 14:28Speaker 2: allow him to speak. Well, that's fake news, total fake news.
- 14:32Speaker 2: You can credit Maggie Haberman and the New York Times
- 14:35Speaker 2: for a totally fake, ridiculous, completely made-up story. That's not true.
- 14:41Speaker 2: That's not the reason. And President Trump pointing that out,
- 14:45Speaker 2: calling her a stalker. She really is horrible, just makes
- 14:49Speaker 2: up stuff all the time. Now, the fact is, nobody
- 14:54Speaker 2: speaks at the September 11th ceremony at Ground Zero. No
- 14:58Speaker 2: politicians speak. Now, the first couple of years, there were
- 15:01Speaker 2: some politicians that spoke, but in 2012, it was decided
- 15:06Speaker 2: that never again would they have politicians or anybody speak.
- 15:09Speaker 2: They would only allow the family to speak. The families,
- 15:13Speaker 2: they didn't want to distract from them. So it was
- 15:15Speaker 2: all about the families. So for the last 14 years,
- 15:19Speaker 2: there had never been any speakers ever at Ground Zero
- 15:23Speaker 2: and 9-11. And Trump has been to many of those
- 15:26Speaker 2: 9-11 ceremonies. And he said, I've been there over the
- 15:29Speaker 2: years many times. No one ever speaks. There's no such
- 15:32Speaker 2: thing as making a speech there. So Haberman just made
- 15:36Speaker 2: that up, just completely made it up. It's totally false.
- 15:41Speaker 2: Trump posting, she's a stalker. She should be forced to
- 15:45Speaker 2: turn over any and all money that she's made through
- 15:48Speaker 2: her reporting on me. That's actually a pretty good idea.
- 15:51Speaker 2: She just made up this whole fake story. And again,
- 15:55Speaker 2: it's tough to run a democracy when you get all
- 15:56Speaker 2: this fake information being broadcast. So we've got a lot
- 16:00Speaker 2: to get to. We'll get to Crazy Mom Donnie and
- 16:03Speaker 2: his schemes falling apart and a whole lot more. Mark
- 16:07Speaker 2: Simone here, 9 to noon. It's three hours now, 9 a.m.
- 16:10Speaker 2: to noon every weekday here on 710WOR.
- 16:14Speaker 1: Live from the WOR Life Facts Studios, Mark Simone.
- 16:22Speaker 2: Well, hey, this fall we're going to have one of
- 16:26Speaker 2: those El Nino shows. seasons you know el nino is
- 16:30Speaker 2: this pattern and the weather this solar whatever it is
- 16:33Speaker 2: that creates terrible storms around the world terrible torrential rains
- 16:39Speaker 2: now the good news for us is it warms things
- 16:42Speaker 2: up so it'll be at its height in the winter
- 16:46Speaker 2: november december but it'll warm the temperatures which means we
- 16:49Speaker 2: won't get a lot of snow if this pattern holds
- 16:51Speaker 2: so that's that's pretty good remember we didn't have any
- 16:54Speaker 2: snow for like three winters four winters and then This
- 16:57Speaker 2: past winter, two blizzards. So El Nino, it's a horrible thing.
- 17:01Speaker 2: We don't really want it around. But it may help
- 17:05Speaker 2: prevent those kind of blizzards from happening. It just means
- 17:08Speaker 2: a lot of rain. Hey, this crazy Mamdani gave a
- 17:15Speaker 2: great example of just how crazy he is. I mean,
- 17:18Speaker 2: he likes to demonstrate for you every so often how
- 17:20Speaker 2: crazy this guy is. So at Rikers Island, a prisoner
- 17:24Speaker 2: dies in Rikers Island. He dies. Mamdani finds out somebody
- 17:31Speaker 2: in custody, Rikers Island, has died. Now, it turns out
- 17:34Speaker 2: it's a maniac, disgusting, vicious killer who slashed people. Horrible,
- 17:39Speaker 2: horrible killer. And it was in, I think it was
- 17:42Speaker 2: in the Bronx. Yeah, Bronx laundromat. It was like three
- 17:47Speaker 2: in the morning or something. But this guy just went
- 17:51Speaker 2: and randomly slashed somebody doing their laundry. There was a
- 17:54Speaker 2: homeless guy sleeping there. just butchered them up. Now, this
- 17:57Speaker 2: is a vicious killer. This is a guy who had
- 18:01Speaker 2: nearly 30 arrests on his rap sheet. This is the
- 18:03Speaker 2: worst possible criminal. He was only 41, but he was
- 18:08Speaker 2: found dead in his cell at Rikers Island. Now, what
- 18:11Speaker 2: would you do if you're Mamdani? Well, Mamdani calls the
- 18:19Speaker 2: family of the prisoner to console them. Never calls the
- 18:23Speaker 2: family of the two people that he slashed and killed.
- 18:27Speaker 2: Never calls the families that were destroyed by this vicious killer.
- 18:30Speaker 2: He calls the killer's family to mourn with them. The
- 18:36Speaker 2: families of the victims obviously are outraged. They can't believe
- 18:40Speaker 2: how cold-blooded and awful this Mamdani is about it. However,
- 18:45Speaker 2: on the other hand, the families, one of them said
- 18:48Speaker 2: they're just grateful the guy died because they didn't want
- 18:51Speaker 2: to go through a trial. And if this guy had
- 18:53Speaker 2: gone on trial, they'd have to bring up the pictures,
- 18:56Speaker 2: the photographs, the details of how their loved ones were
- 18:59Speaker 2: slashed and cut up. So they're grateful not to have
- 19:02Speaker 2: to go through that trial. This is a guy who
- 19:06Speaker 2: was in state prison for only about a month when
- 19:08Speaker 2: police said he was released. He was only there for this.
- 19:13Speaker 2: You know, you thank Cuomo for his no bail, no jail.
- 19:16Speaker 2: Alvin Bragg for his don't lock anybody up for these
- 19:19Speaker 2: kind of people walking around. But thank God he's dead.
- 19:23Speaker 2: Thank God we don't have to go through a trial. Now,
- 19:25Speaker 2: here's the other problem we got is this Khalid Sheikh
- 19:28Speaker 2: Mohammed was to finally go on trial. He had confessed
- 19:32Speaker 2: at one point, but a military judge threw out the
- 19:35Speaker 2: confession over the weekend. This is going to delay the trial.
- 19:40Speaker 2: This is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who plotted, who mastermind the
- 19:45Speaker 2: 9-11 attacks. Now, when did we arrest him?
- 19:48Speaker 6: It was 2007.
- 19:48Speaker 2: That's almost 20 years.
- 19:50Speaker 8: Ago.
- 19:50Speaker 2: This guy's been sitting in Guantanamo for 20 years. I mean,
- 19:55Speaker 2: this guy, this is the mastermind of 9-11. He should
- 19:57Speaker 2: have just taken him out and shot him the first day,
- 19:59Speaker 2: but he's got to go to trial. And the military
- 20:04Speaker 2: judges ruled that his confession was, was, based on severe coercion,
- 20:10Speaker 2: you remember this was the Dick Cheney days of waterboarding
- 20:15Speaker 2: wasn't really torture. It seemed like torture, but it was
- 20:18Speaker 2: fake torture. But apparently there was real torture, from sleep
- 20:22Speaker 2: deprivation to very violent torture. Thank you, Dick Cheney. This
- 20:27Speaker 2: is the Dick Cheney Democrats have embraced over the last
- 20:30Speaker 2: few years. But it got the confession thrown out. They
- 20:33Speaker 2: think there's enough evidence maybe to go to trial with
- 20:36Speaker 2: this guy. But because of that, and they could appeal this,
- 20:41Speaker 2: but if they appeal it, these appeals in these military
- 20:44Speaker 2: courts can take years to work their way through the courts.
- 20:47Speaker 2: So this guy will probably die of old age before
- 20:50Speaker 2: he's ever actually put on trial. Prosecutors agreed not to
- 20:55Speaker 2: use the evidence from the torture interrogations on some other
- 20:58Speaker 2: cases and got them done. But they had planned to
- 21:01Speaker 2: use Muhammad's statements because they were pretty convincing. So I
- 21:07Speaker 2: don't know this could be years and years and years
- 21:10Speaker 2: before you see this this mastermind of 9-11 ever actually
- 21:15Speaker 2: come to trial just terrible hey what the hell is
- 21:19Speaker 2: Hillary Clinton doing all over the place as Hillary Clinton
- 21:22Speaker 2: is suddenly speaking everywhere she's on every panel she's popping
- 21:26Speaker 2: up everywhere I hate to break it to you Democrats
- 21:30Speaker 2: you got a problem she's running in 2028 she sees
- 21:33Speaker 2: a vacuum you know remember she's the most delusional old
- 21:36Speaker 2: crow in the world She's the old lady on Sunset Boulevard,
- 21:40Speaker 2: drunk all the time. So she's watching MSNBC or whatever
- 21:44Speaker 2: she's watching. And when they talk about Buttigieg, maybe the
- 21:48Speaker 2: front runner, she looks at him as this crazy kid.
- 21:52Speaker 2: She looks at all of these people as no talents.
- 21:56Speaker 2: One of the greatest things in life was that Hillary
- 21:58Speaker 2: Clinton never would be president.
- 22:01Speaker 7: Never.
- 22:02Speaker 2: This is what's killing her. This was the one thing
- 22:04Speaker 2: in life. She wanted to be president. She was the
- 22:08Speaker 2: first lady, then she was the senator, then she was
- 22:10Speaker 2: the secretary of state. And then that's it. She's on
- 22:16Speaker 2: her way to being president. It was great. Her moment,
- 22:19Speaker 2: she's finally going to be president. The goal of her lifetime.
- 22:23Speaker 2: And then a total rookie comes along. Barack Obama, been
- 22:29Speaker 2: in politics three weeks, wipes her out, takes the nomination
- 22:32Speaker 2: away from her. She can't believe that happened. How could
- 22:37Speaker 2: that have happened? Well, four years later, this is her moment.
- 22:41Speaker 2: Now she's going to be president. A total amateur. Guy's
- 22:45Speaker 2: never been in politics in his life. Donald Trump comes
- 22:47Speaker 2: along and just wipes her out. She can't believe it.
- 22:52Speaker 2: So she's got to try one more time. 2028, she
- 22:56Speaker 2: is running. That's why she's all over the place. You'll
- 23:00Speaker 2: notice Bill Clinton nowhere near her. Wants nothing to do
- 23:04Speaker 2: with it. You know, one of the reasons she lost
- 23:06Speaker 2: so badly both times is she wouldn't listen to Bill.
- 23:09Speaker 2: She cut Bill out, cut him out completely. I mean,
- 23:13Speaker 2: think about that. She's got Bill Clinton, probably the greatest
- 23:16Speaker 2: political consultant in the world, living in her house, and
- 23:19Speaker 2: she won't talk to him. She won't let him give
- 23:21Speaker 2: any advice. She won't let the staff get any advice
- 23:23Speaker 2: from him. I can do this myself. I can handle
- 23:26Speaker 2: this myself. Got wiped out both times, first by a rookie,
- 23:30Speaker 2: second by an amateur, completely wiped out. Hey, at 710WOR,
- 23:35Speaker 2: Mark Simone here.
- 23:36Speaker 11: To have a tourism management plan back in 1974. And
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- 24:58Speaker 2: Hey, we'll take some calls in a minute. 800- 3-2-1-0-7-10
- 25:02Speaker 2: is the number. Hey, speaking of going to the moon,
- 25:06Speaker 2: President making that a goal for the rest of his term.
- 25:10Speaker 2: By the end of his term, he wants to land
- 25:12Speaker 2: on the moon. But Friday, he also announced he's going
- 25:15Speaker 2: to build a space academy. You know, you got West
- 25:19Speaker 2: Point for the Army. You got the Naval Academy. You
- 25:21Speaker 2: got the Air Force Academy. He wants to build a
- 25:25Speaker 2: space academy. He said it'll be a top-line school. with
- 25:29Speaker 2: tough admission standards and a beautiful campus to train the
- 25:34Speaker 2: next generation of civilian and military aerospace experts. It's actually
- 25:38Speaker 2: a good idea because one thing about all these astronauts
- 25:41Speaker 2: and all the people they train, they do go into
- 25:44Speaker 2: the private sector and they do a lot of great stuff. Remember,
- 25:46Speaker 2: some of our greatest pilots were from NASA. He said,
- 25:51Speaker 2: we're going to have an academy for what people in
- 25:53Speaker 2: this room love the most, He was at the Johnson
- 25:57Speaker 2: Space Center. That's the headquarters of NASA in Houston. Now,
- 26:01Speaker 2: you know why it's in Houston. That's because Lyndon Johnson
- 26:03Speaker 2: was president at the time from Texas, so he put
- 26:06Speaker 2: it in Houston. But where's the Space Academy going to be?
- 26:11Speaker 2: President Trump's saying, I'm choosing a location now. He said,
- 26:15Speaker 2: I'll announce a location very shortly. I don't know where
- 26:17Speaker 2: he's going to put it. It'll actually be a good
- 26:21Speaker 2: training ground, too, for the United States Space Force. Air Force,
- 26:24Speaker 2: and a lot of civilian spaceflight people, you know, for
- 26:29Speaker 2: the spaceflight industry. But it'll attract, train, graduate the very
- 26:34Speaker 2: best of our nation. Listen, these astronauts are heroes. They're
- 26:39Speaker 2: great at what they do. You've got to admire these astronauts.
- 26:43Speaker 2: But would you want to do that? I don't find that.
- 26:48Speaker 2: I mean, it's a great thing that they do, but
- 26:50Speaker 2: would you want to be sitting in that capsule, locked
- 26:52Speaker 2: up in that little capsule? I don't even like to
- 26:54Speaker 2: go on an airplane, a regular airplane. If you're just
- 26:58Speaker 2: in a capsule in the dark, flying through the dark
- 27:01Speaker 2: for days on end, it doesn't seem like a lot
- 27:04Speaker 2: of fun to me. I mean, you watch Formula One,
- 27:07Speaker 2: you say, wow, I'd love to be driving that car.
- 27:09Speaker 2: Or you watch somebody, you know, hang gliding. Well, that
- 27:13Speaker 2: looks like fun, but... locked in this dark space capsule
- 27:17Speaker 2: for days on end. It doesn't look like a lot
- 27:18Speaker 2: of fun. Try it. Go in your closet, close the door,
- 27:22Speaker 2: sit there for two days. You bring enough food and everything,
- 27:26Speaker 2: and sit in your closet for two days in the dark.
- 27:28Speaker 2: See how much you enjoy this. And if you said
- 27:30Speaker 2: to yourself, this is fun, then maybe you'd want to
- 27:33Speaker 2: go to this space academy. Anyway, we'll take some calls.
- 27:36Speaker 2: 800-321-0710 is the number.
- 27:37Speaker 7: 800-321-0710.
- 27:45Speaker 2: Hey, there's the Iranian president. You got the IRG. You
- 27:51Speaker 2: got about 90 million people in Iran. This IRG, these
- 27:56Speaker 2: are this revolutionary army. These are all the lunatics. There's
- 28:00Speaker 2: 180,000 of them. But there's 90 million civilians. And then
- 28:06Speaker 2: you got this embattled Iranian president who runs the Iranian parliament.
- 28:11Speaker 2: Sounds very impressive, but they work out of a cave. uh,
- 28:14Speaker 2: a bomb shelter. Uh, but even the Iranian president is
- 28:18Speaker 2: admitting now that the U S sanctions are crippling the
- 28:21Speaker 2: country that, uh, Iran is closed, close to complete collapse.
- 28:28Speaker 2: President Massoud, whatever his name is. He confessed Iran's economy
- 28:35Speaker 2: has been dealt massive blows. And, uh, he said, we're
- 28:39Speaker 2: in a war situation. We got to treat it like
- 28:41Speaker 2: we're in a war situation. Uh, But he said they'll
- 28:47Speaker 2: fight on. They'll keep going. But even he admits very, very,
- 28:51Speaker 2: very close to collapse. Hey, speaking about collapsing, Howard Stern
- 28:57Speaker 2: at Sirius is getting towards the end. You know, he
- 29:01Speaker 2: had a contract. The last contract was $ 100 million a
- 29:04Speaker 2: year for five years, $ 500 million contract. In the good
- 29:08Speaker 2: old days, there were millions of people listening to the
- 29:11Speaker 2: Howard Stern channel. Now it's more like 150,000. What happened? Well,
- 29:16Speaker 2: he went woke, lost a lot of his audience that way,
- 29:20Speaker 2: made some Hollywood friends by going woke and becoming a
- 29:23Speaker 2: left-wing kook, but lost most of his audience. You know,
- 29:29Speaker 2: it was two channels. If you listen to the series,
- 29:30Speaker 2: there was Howard 100 and then Howard 101. It was
- 29:34Speaker 2: two channels. One had the new stuff. One had all
- 29:37Speaker 2: the older stuff. Sirius now shutting down... That's right. Shutting
- 29:43Speaker 2: down the second Howard Stern channel. They just took it
- 29:46Speaker 2: away from him. It'll become Andy Cohen Radio.
- 29:52Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 29:52Speaker 2: So they've taken away one channel. As far as the
- 29:56Speaker 2: remaining Howard Stern channel, well, he'll do one... show a week,
- 30:01Speaker 2: one show a week. That's it. Just one show a week.
- 30:11Speaker 2: And that's not all, all year. That's like 26 weeks
- 30:14Speaker 2: a year or something. So we have a vitamin shows
- 30:17Speaker 2: on the weekends that are on more than Howard Stern.
- 30:21Speaker 2: This is not good for him. And obviously that a
- 30:24Speaker 2: hundred million a year, it's, greatly reduced by about 9
- 30:28Speaker 2: billion percent. So he's very, very, very, very low salary
- 30:34Speaker 2: compared to the old one. Employees have been laid off.
- 30:37Speaker 2: He laid off 12 staffers the other day via Zoom.
- 30:42Speaker 2: They were sent home immediately following the call. They will
- 30:44Speaker 2: receive severance packages based on how long they served. So serious,
- 30:49Speaker 2: slowly winding down their relationship with Howard Stern. Let's take
- 30:54Speaker 2: some calls. 800- 3 2 1 0 7 10 is
- 30:58Speaker 2: the number. Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike, how
- 31:01Speaker 2: you doing?
- 31:02Speaker 13: Good morning, Mark.
- 31:03Speaker 2: Yes, Mike.
- 31:05Speaker 13: I had a very odd name pop into my head
- 31:07Speaker 13: over the weekend. Jerry Gerard. Remember him?
- 31:10Speaker 2: Jerry Gerard. He was the channel 11 sports guy, right?
- 31:15Speaker 13: He was a channel 11 sports guy. And that brings
- 31:18Speaker 13: me to two points. One, I noticed you haven't had
- 31:20Speaker 13: water on in a while.
- 31:22Speaker 2: Oh, well, Warren is a regular on the morning show.
- 31:25Speaker 2: He's here on our morning show every week.
- 31:27Speaker 7: Oh, okay.
- 31:27Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll try to have him on once in a while.
- 31:29Speaker 2: He's always good.
- 31:30Speaker 13: And.
- 31:31Speaker 10: And, uh, and, uh, and Kitey Tong had her last, uh,
- 31:34Speaker 10: broadcast on PIX, uh, over the weekend.
- 31:37Speaker 14: Oh, yes.
- 31:38Speaker 13: Yesterday, I guess.
- 31:38Speaker 2: She's retiring, Kitey Tong. Very nice woman, but, um.
- 31:42Speaker 13: Very nice. I was her stage manager on occasion.
- 31:45Speaker 2: Oh, you were? You worked at Channel 11?
- 31:47Speaker 6: Yes.
- 31:48Speaker 14: Oh.
- 31:48Speaker 8: Yep.
- 31:49Speaker 13: Larry met the stage manager on occasion.
- 31:52Speaker 2: All right, wait, I'm trying to remember. It was Channel
- 31:54Speaker 2: 11 Action News, and it was Pat Harper, Steve Bosch, right?
- 32:00Speaker 13: That was before my time. I was there when Tamsyn
- 32:03Speaker 13: Fidel was on. I was usually either on the weekends
- 32:06Speaker 13: or during.
- 32:07Speaker 8: The week on occasion.
- 32:09Speaker 15: But....
- 32:11Speaker 13: And so Tamsyn Fidel was on the weekends, and I
- 32:14Speaker 13: can't even remember now.
- 32:17Speaker 2: Nothing personal, but you can't compare.
- 32:19Speaker 13: It's not that long ago.
- 32:20Speaker 2: You can't compare Warner Wolf to Jerry Girard. Warner Wolf
- 32:22Speaker 2: was like the biggest sportscaster in local TV. He was
- 32:25Speaker 2: like a giant.
- 32:27Speaker 16: Yes, and Jerry was very low-key and very unconventional in
- 32:33Speaker 16: his approach to sportscasting.
- 32:36Speaker 2: Yeah, but he had the big Channel 4, Channel 2,
- 32:39Speaker 2: Channel 11, Channel 9. That was like nothing personal, but
- 32:42Speaker 2: that was like the roadshow kind of cast.
- 32:45Speaker 13: Oh, absolutely. Warner was the superstar, without a doubt.
- 32:49Speaker 2: And who else was there?
- 32:51Speaker 8: You had.
- 32:52Speaker 2: Sal Marciano, right, for a while?
- 32:54Speaker 10: Sal, yeah, I think Sal took over for, did Sal
- 32:59Speaker 10: take over for Warner?
- 33:01Speaker 8: Warner got fired.
- 33:02Speaker 13: At some point, somewhere along the line, somewhere.
- 33:06Speaker 2: And then you got Marvin Scott, who's like 112 years old,
- 33:08Speaker 2: still doing something. Oh, God, Marvin Scott, my favorite.
- 33:16Speaker 13: I would fix his tie before he went on just
- 33:18Speaker 13: to distract him. And then all of a sudden he
- 33:21Speaker 13: would be like, hey, I like this guy.
- 33:25Speaker 8: He was a very nice guy. And Mr.
- 33:28Speaker 10: G would come by where I would sit with the
- 33:31Speaker 10: program for the night. You got a joke for me tonight?
- 33:36Speaker 10: I always had a joke for him.
- 33:37Speaker 2: Very nice guy, Mr. G. In fact, if you check
- 33:40Speaker 2: out Mr. G's Instagram, he does videos every day now.
- 33:43Speaker 17: Yeah.
- 33:45Speaker 13: He was great.
- 33:46Speaker 15: All right.
- 33:46Speaker 8: Great guy.
- 33:47Speaker 2: Good call, Mike, as always. Thanks for calling. Yeah, Kitee Tong. Remember,
- 33:51Speaker 2: she was like a young junior starting at Channel 7,
- 33:55Speaker 2: and a lot of time has gone by. Kitee Tong,
- 33:58Speaker 2: retired Friday. Take a listen.
- 34:01Speaker 9: But it's time to move on. You know, I'm 80
- 34:04Speaker 9: years old now.
- 34:05Speaker 18: Nearly.
- 34:05Speaker 9: As you know, Shirley. 80 years young. I'm feeling it.
- 34:10Speaker 9: I'm tired. And it's time to make room for the
- 34:14Speaker 9: young bloods, right?
- 34:15Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. She's a very nice woman, Katie Tong.
- 34:18Speaker 2: But she looks great. Looks fine. I don't know. Maybe
- 34:21Speaker 2: she just wanted to get the hell out of there.
- 34:24Speaker 2: It is Channel 11 after all. But did she say
- 34:27Speaker 2: what's next?
- 34:28Speaker 9: But it's time to move on. You know, I'm 80
- 34:30Speaker 9: years old.
- 34:31Speaker 14: Move on.
- 34:31Speaker 2: What does that mean? Is she going to get another job?
- 34:33Speaker 2: She got something coming? You never know. You never know. Hey,
- 34:36Speaker 2: it's Mark Simone here. 9 a.m. till noon. We're three
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- 34:51Speaker 2: Got Jesse Kelly at 6. The very funny Jimmy Fallon
- 34:54Speaker 2: every night, 9 to midnight. That's all here. On 710WOR.
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- 35:18Speaker 2: I can't believe it, but we're heading into Labor Day weekend.
- 35:22Speaker 2: This is the final week. It's Labor Day weekend coming up. Now,
- 35:25Speaker 2: it looks like rain. It might be some rain today
- 35:28Speaker 2: in the afternoon. Rain possible. Good possibility of rain Tuesday
- 35:32Speaker 2: and Wednesday. But then it's okay. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Yeah,
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- 35:55Speaker 2: it's hour number two.
- 35:56Speaker 7: That's right.
- 35:57Speaker 2: We start at nine o'clock now. Hour number two. A
- 36:01Speaker 2: lot to get to this hour. Now, latest on Iran,
- 36:05Speaker 2: it might be Scott Besson that ends up winning this
- 36:09Speaker 2: war for us. We've done tremendous economic damage to them already.
- 36:14Speaker 2: And obviously, we've completely eliminated their military. They no longer
- 36:17Speaker 2: have an air force. They no longer have a navy.
- 36:20Speaker 2: They don't have much of an army left. They got
- 36:23Speaker 2: a couple of missiles and a few drones. That's all
- 36:25Speaker 2: they got. No military of any kind to speak of.
- 36:29Speaker 2: And then the economy is completely shut down right now.
- 36:33Speaker 2: No oil. We have oil coming in and out of
- 36:35Speaker 2: the Straits. We use the southern corridor along the coast
- 36:38Speaker 2: of Oman. But Iran, unable to ship any oil. And
- 36:45Speaker 2: the crackdown now begins trying to just shut down their
- 36:47Speaker 2: entire economy. Besant will order all the banks to no
- 36:51Speaker 2: longer do anything with Iran. And he's going to the
- 36:55Speaker 2: G20 summit where he'll talk to world leaders about putting
- 36:59Speaker 2: sanctions on Iran, freezing them out of the banking system
- 37:02Speaker 2: and everything else. The currency will collapse. Inflation is already 90%
- 37:07Speaker 2: in Iran. Besant, pretty good at this stuff. These jobs
- 37:11Speaker 2: are going to Americans. Now, when it comes to jobs,
- 37:14Speaker 2: that's the other thing. You get rid of all these migrants, illegals,
- 37:19Speaker 2: not immigrants, we like immigrants, but migrants, illegals that are here,
- 37:23Speaker 2: you free up a lot of jobs. Because these jobs
- 37:26Speaker 2: are going to Americans.
- 37:27Speaker 19: Like we have seen over 2 million jobs created for Americans,
- 37:31Speaker 19: and we've seen over a million illegals leave the workforce.
- 37:34Speaker 2: And guess what?
- 37:35Speaker 19: The laws of supply and demand still work. When you
- 37:38Speaker 19: take the illegals out of the workforce, working class wages
- 37:41Speaker 19: go up. When you send them back home, rents go down. Yeah,
- 37:45Speaker 19: there was always this myth, well, they do the jobs
- 37:48Speaker 19: Americans won't do.
- 37:50Speaker 2: That's not true. Americans did all those jobs for millions
- 37:54Speaker 2: of years. What they do is they'll do the jobs
- 37:57Speaker 2: for one-third the price and put Americans out of work.
- 38:01Speaker 2: So the jobs are back. The economy doing pretty good.
- 38:05Speaker 2: It's not the greatest economy in history, but the economy
- 38:09Speaker 2: is doing very well right now. Yet the media... trying
- 38:12Speaker 2: to convince everybody that we're in economic collapse, the economy's
- 38:16Speaker 2: on the brink, everybody's suffering. That's not true at all.
- 38:20Speaker 2: Inflation is relatively low. Employment is high. Income into the
- 38:28Speaker 2: average family is up like $ 2, 000. Wages are up. The
- 38:34Speaker 2: economy is doing pretty well. But you don't really have
- 38:37Speaker 2: actual news media anymore. They just try to slant and
- 38:40Speaker 2: distort everything. convince you. They did that with George H.W.
- 38:45Speaker 2: Bush in his final year. He was getting ready for
- 38:49Speaker 2: the race against Bill Clinton, and they just broadcast day
- 38:52Speaker 2: and night that the economy was in terrible trouble, the
- 38:56Speaker 2: economy was awful. And if you do this day and night,
- 39:00Speaker 2: it was easier back in 1999-2000 because there was no
- 39:01Speaker 2: real internet yet then. So you could convince everybody the
- 39:08Speaker 2: economy was terrible and they better vote. It wasn't true
- 39:11Speaker 2: at all. If you watch the CBS Evening News with
- 39:15Speaker 2: Dan Rather back then, every night they would open with
- 39:19Speaker 2: the headlines and they'd say, and coming up our feature,
- 39:22Speaker 2: economy in crisis. You'd see this every night. And coming
- 39:26Speaker 2: up our special feature, economy in crisis. Every night you'd
- 39:30Speaker 2: see this leading up to the election. Then one day
- 39:32Speaker 2: Bill Clinton wins. You never heard that feature again. That
- 39:35Speaker 2: night the feature disappeared. It was just to affect the election.
- 39:41Speaker 2: As I mentioned last hour, President Trump calling on the
- 39:45Speaker 2: FCC to go after Kristen Welker for broadcasting false information.
- 39:50Speaker 2: A lot of lies happen on those Sunday shows. A
- 39:53Speaker 2: lot of fake stuff is said. So, and you got
- 39:56Speaker 2: these guys like, take George Stephanopoulos. They try to convince
- 40:00Speaker 2: you they're news people. They're journalists. They're not. They're political operatives.
- 40:06Speaker 2: They're political advocates. They're pushing a political point of view.
- 40:10Speaker 2: They're propagandists. You know, this Don Lemon case. Don Lemon,
- 40:14Speaker 2: they're going to go after Don Lemon for, you know,
- 40:18Speaker 2: going into that church, menacing people, terrorizing people in the church,
- 40:22Speaker 2: coming after them. And here's the Attorney General Todd Blanch.
- 40:26Speaker 2: Now listen to Stephanopoulos. He doesn't say, could you explain
- 40:29Speaker 2: the case to us? He's advocating. He's arguing the case
- 40:33Speaker 2: against prosecuting Don Lemon.
- 40:35Speaker 1: So when do you believe that Mr.
- 40:38Speaker 5: Lemon crossed the line from reporting on what was going
- 40:40Speaker 5: on to criminal activity?
- 40:42Speaker 12: Conveniently missing from what you just showed, George, is the
- 40:45Speaker 12: appellate court and a judge on the appellate court who
- 40:47Speaker 12: said just a few days later there was clearly probable
- 40:50Speaker 12: cause and it wasn't even a close question. So, and
- 40:52Speaker 12: by the way, a grand jury, which is what our
- 40:55Speaker 12: system has set up to determine whether probable cause exists,
- 40:58Speaker 12: concluded that there was probable cause.
- 41:00Speaker 2: Yeah, so Stephanopoulos trying to con the audience. He tried
- 41:03Speaker 2: to make it sound like there was no reason to
- 41:05Speaker 2: go after this guy. It was just some crazy thing
- 41:06Speaker 2: you came up with. Convincing the audience. Why would you
- 41:13Speaker 2: go after, forgot to mention, A federal judge ruled on it.
- 41:17Speaker 2: A grand jury ruled on it. It's not Todd Blanche.
- 41:20Speaker 2: A court, a judge, a jury, grand jury. ruled there
- 41:24Speaker 2: was reason to go after Lemon. It looked like he
- 41:26Speaker 2: committed a crime.
- 41:27Speaker 12: But nobody in this country should feel comfortable storming into
- 41:31Speaker 12: a church while it's ongoing and disrupting that church service
- 41:35Speaker 12: and thinking that we're just going to stand by and
- 41:37Speaker 12: let that happen because there is a statute that does
- 41:40Speaker 12: not allow that to happen. It doesn't matter if you
- 41:43Speaker 12: happen to be a former CNN journalist. It doesn't matter
- 41:46Speaker 12: if you're a rioter. It doesn't matter if you think
- 41:48Speaker 12: you're peacefully protesting.
- 41:50Speaker 2: You are not allowed to do that. Yeah. Let's be honest.
- 41:53Speaker 2: Don Lemon wasn't there in Minnesota to report on anything.
- 41:56Speaker 2: He was there to advocate. He was there just to
- 42:00Speaker 2: push his crazy politics on people. Hey, in Michigan, you
- 42:04Speaker 2: got this Abdul El-Sayed running. So we know he's an anti-Semite.
- 42:10Speaker 2: We know he's anti-Israel. But he's been taking racist swipes
- 42:16Speaker 2: at Usha Vance, the second lady, wife of Vice President Vance.
- 42:21Speaker 2: He's been going after her. She's Indian American. And he's
- 42:25Speaker 2: really been hitting her hard, making fun of her. And
- 42:30Speaker 2: he said, so I guess Vance's father is no longer
- 42:35Speaker 2: with us, he said. But do we think J.D. would
- 42:39Speaker 2: take Usha with him back in time to meet Papa?
- 42:42Speaker 2: I guess that's what Vance in his book said he
- 42:44Speaker 2: called his father. So he's implying that... The father would
- 42:48Speaker 2: be repulsed that he married an Indian-American. It's all kinds
- 42:51Speaker 2: of racist nonsense from El-Sayed. But the good news is
- 42:54Speaker 2: it's backfiring badly in Michigan, where there are 130,000 Indian-Americans,
- 43:02Speaker 2: and they're crucial voters there in some districts. So they're
- 43:07Speaker 2: up in arms about Vance. And a lot of women
- 43:09Speaker 2: are turning on him. They don't like the fact that
- 43:10Speaker 2: he went after the wife and attacked her for her nationality.
- 43:15Speaker 2: Not a good look for Vance, so he's getting a
- 43:18Speaker 2: lot of pushback there. Now, this is a big state,
- 43:20Speaker 2: and it's very important to female vote there. Michigan, it's
- 43:24Speaker 2: a swing state. Third biggest when it comes to female voting,
- 43:29Speaker 2: female voter participation. Sixty-nine percent of women turn out in Michigan,
- 43:35Speaker 2: so he's got a big problem there. He's also got
- 43:39Speaker 2: a very, very tiny slight lead over Mike Rogers, but
- 43:45Speaker 2: that should evaporate pretty soon. But again, he's gone after
- 43:49Speaker 2: Usha a few times. Now, they're sending Vance to Michigan
- 43:53Speaker 2: to campaign against J.D.
- 43:56Speaker 15: Vance.
- 43:57Speaker 2: He's from Ohio. Ohio, Michigan, they border each other. It's
- 44:00Speaker 2: all the same place, although there's that Michigan-Ohio state rivalry,
- 44:05Speaker 2: but still, Ohio, Michigan, they're pretty much the same. So Ohio, J.D.
- 44:11Speaker 2: Vance is from there. He speaks the language. And he'll
- 44:14Speaker 2: be campaigning against El Sayed. And he probably will do
- 44:17Speaker 2: him a lot of damage when they're, you know, he's
- 44:19Speaker 2: also got the problems with all his Hassan Piker stuff,
- 44:23Speaker 2: who is an ugly, dirty, dirty anti-Semite. In fact, you
- 44:28Speaker 2: got Jamie Raskin was there trying to campaign for El Sayed.
- 44:33Speaker 2: Debbie Dingle, who's an old, old Michigan Democrat. They tried
- 44:37Speaker 2: to ask her about Hassan Piker, screaming at the reporter,
- 44:40Speaker 2: don't ask me about Hassan Piker. That's not what this
- 44:43Speaker 2: is about. Yes, it is. It's exactly what this is about.
- 44:46Speaker 8: It's what it's about.
- 44:47Speaker 2: This guy's perceived as a racist, an anti-Semite, hanging around
- 44:51Speaker 2: with anti-Semites. It's exactly what it's about. So the midterms,
- 44:56Speaker 2: I know, and this is the other thing, the media
- 44:57Speaker 2: will convince you that Democrats are way out in the
- 45:00Speaker 2: lead for the midterms. It's not true at all. The
- 45:04Speaker 2: way they do that, it's just like Stephanopoulos. They leave
- 45:06Speaker 2: out half the story. They'll give you some facts, but
- 45:09Speaker 2: leave out the other facts of the story. So you'll
- 45:13Speaker 2: see this all over the place. They do it all
- 45:14Speaker 2: the time on MSNBC. They'll put up Trump's poll numbers.
- 45:16Speaker 2: Look how low his approval ratings are. Look at that.
- 45:21Speaker 2: That is, look how low his approval ratings are. They
- 45:24Speaker 2: never mention the Democrats. The Democrats are much lower approval
- 45:30Speaker 2: ratings than Trump. Trump's approval ratings are a little low.
- 45:34Speaker 2: Democrats are the lowest approval ratings ever in history. They're
- 45:38Speaker 2: setting records in polls. for lowest approval rates. You know,
- 45:44Speaker 2: the only guy that does it is, believe it or not,
- 45:45Speaker 2: is this guy on CNN, Harry Enten, their pollster. Trump
- 45:48Speaker 2: even praising him over the weekend on Truth Social, saying
- 45:53Speaker 2: good for him. You know, he actually, actually gives him
- 45:57Speaker 2: a drop of credibility. He's the only guy that actually
- 46:00Speaker 2: reports all the poll numbers. They con you on everywhere
- 46:03Speaker 2: else that Trump's low, never mentioning that Democrats are a
- 46:06Speaker 2: hundred times lower So right now, it looks pretty good
- 46:10Speaker 2: for Republicans in the midterms. Also, remember, a guy like Trump, very,
- 46:14Speaker 2: very concerned about his legacy. He knows it's his final
- 46:18Speaker 2: two years. He knows when he leaves, they're going to
- 46:22Speaker 2: try to tear him apart. Legacy is important. So this
- 46:25Speaker 2: is a big thing for him, winning these midterms, because historically,
- 46:29Speaker 2: you always lose the midterms when you're president. You get elected,
- 46:32Speaker 2: and then two years later, You'll lose the midterms. That's
- 46:35Speaker 2: always the way. It happens to every Democrat, every Republican. Rare,
- 46:40Speaker 2: rare exception. So this is part of his legacy, to
- 46:44Speaker 2: defy the odds and win the midterms. So you're going
- 46:46Speaker 2: to see him. It hasn't really started yet. It's October. September, October,
- 46:51Speaker 2: you're going to see him really pour it on, really
- 46:54Speaker 2: hit the gas trying to win those midterms. And he
- 46:56Speaker 2: probably will pull it off. Now, you know, in Canada,
- 47:01Speaker 2: where they're all upset about Lake America.
- 47:04Speaker 2: In fact, we find out now that, well, Google has
- 47:07Speaker 2: already changed it to Lake America on Google Maps. But
- 47:11Speaker 2: we find out now that the White House has also
- 47:14Speaker 2: asked Apple to change it to Lake of America on
- 47:20Speaker 2: Apple Maps. Now, you say, well, that's crazy. They shouldn't
- 47:22Speaker 2: cave in. Well, you know, Google may be right. Secretary
- 47:26Speaker 2: of the Interior Doug Burgum explaining that when it comes
- 47:29Speaker 2: to these names, they're determined by the Department of Interior.
- 47:35Speaker 2: which runs the Board of Geographic Names. It's part of
- 47:38Speaker 2: the U.S. Geological Survey, and it's the official naming body
- 47:43Speaker 2: of the United States government. So if they declare it's
- 47:46Speaker 2: the Gulf of America or Lake America, well, then that's it.
- 47:50Speaker 2: It is officially. Now, you get a Democrat in, he'll
- 47:53Speaker 2: change it back, but apparently they've asked Apple, who's a
- 47:57Speaker 2: little late on this, Now, when it comes to Canada,
- 48:00Speaker 2: I know you feel bad. Why aren't you picking on Canada?
- 48:02Speaker 2: Where they're our most beloved ally? Eh, you know what? Oh,
- 48:07Speaker 2: they're okay. But they're pretty bad in Canada, too. You know,
- 48:12Speaker 2: the big network. They got one big network, the CBC,
- 48:14Speaker 2: the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The CBC. That's what everybody watches.
- 48:20Speaker 2: That's their nightly news. That's their Sunday shows. That's their
- 48:24Speaker 2: network for news, the CBC. Well, this came out. late
- 48:28Speaker 2: last week, that there was a memo sent to everybody
- 48:33Speaker 2: at the CBC. The CBC News Senior Director of Journalistic
- 48:38Speaker 2: Standards and Public Trust sent out a memo to everybody there.
- 48:45Speaker 2: September 11th coming up, there'll be a lot of reporting
- 48:48Speaker 2: on September 11th. They were all told in this memo,
- 48:52Speaker 2: here's the exact quote, Do not refer to the September
- 48:56Speaker 2: 11th attacks as terrorist attacks. That's right. That's how bad
- 49:01Speaker 2: the CBC is. They will not call September 11th a
- 49:05Speaker 2: terrorist attack. The memo from their Director of Journalistic Standards
- 49:10Speaker 2: and Public Trust. The memo said they are to be
- 49:14Speaker 2: described as hijackings that led to passenger jet crashes. Okay,
- 49:21Speaker 2: there was a hijacking, but it was not a, when
- 49:23Speaker 2: you say a jet crash, it sounds like it was
- 49:27Speaker 2: an accident, accidentally crashed. These were not accidents. These were
- 49:31Speaker 2: deliberate terrorist attacks. So that is about the lowest in
- 49:36Speaker 2: fake news that any network could ever sink Not calling
- 49:40Speaker 2: them terrorist attacks, but that's the CBC. So don't feel
- 49:43Speaker 2: a lot of sympathy for Canada. Hey, Caroline Leavitt stepped
- 49:49Speaker 2: down as White House press secretary. You know, she's only 29. Yeah,
- 49:54Speaker 2: she was the youngest White House press secretary ever. She's
- 49:57Speaker 2: only 29. She's from New Hampshire originally. Now, she's got
- 50:00Speaker 2: a standing offer to be on Fox News. She's got
- 50:04Speaker 2: all kinds of TV offers, radio offers. But she said,
- 50:08Speaker 2: not going to do that. She said she really did leave.
- 50:11Speaker 2: This is the first person in history, by the way,
- 50:13Speaker 2: you know, they always say I'm leaving to spend more
- 50:14Speaker 2: time with my family. This is the first person in
- 50:17Speaker 2: history who's actually telling the truth. She's got a two-year-old
- 50:21Speaker 2: and she just had a baby who's four months now.
- 50:24Speaker 2: And she really wants to spend time with her kids. Uh,
- 50:27Speaker 2: she's married to a wealthy guy. She's married to, to,
- 50:30Speaker 2: he's older. He's like, I think 25 years older, but
- 50:32Speaker 2: good guy. And, uh, She wants to be with her children.
- 50:37Speaker 2: She wants to raise her children. She's been invited by
- 50:40Speaker 2: The View to be a guest. The View never allows
- 50:44Speaker 2: any Republicans or conservatives, no Trump people ever allowed on
- 50:48Speaker 2: The View. This is a rare exception. Now, this could
- 50:52Speaker 2: be because the administration has been coming after fake news
- 50:56Speaker 2: and talking about the FCC going after them. So maybe
- 50:59Speaker 2: The View has been ordered to try to put a
- 51:02Speaker 2: little balance, just a drop of balance in there. So
- 51:05Speaker 2: maybe that's why they've invited her on there. I doubt
- 51:07Speaker 2: if she'll do it. Why do it? If you're going
- 51:10Speaker 2: to go do a TV show, at least go on
- 51:13Speaker 2: a classy highbrow show, not the low IQ show with
- 51:17Speaker 2: those old crows, those clucking hens sitting there. Hey, we'll
- 51:20Speaker 2: take some calls next. 800-321-0710 is the number. We'll take
- 51:26Speaker 2: some calls next. If you haven't called before, we love
- 51:28Speaker 2: new callers.
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- 51:33Speaker 7: No.
- 51:34Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show. Nine till noon weekdays. For Mark.
- 51:38Speaker 15: 710WOR.
- 51:38Speaker 2: Hey. Hey, nobody's calling. I've never had that happen before.
- 51:47Speaker 2: I gave out the number. Phones light up.
- 51:50Speaker 6: Look at that.
- 51:50Speaker 2: Nobody's calling. What's going on here? 800-321-0710 is the number.
- 51:56Speaker 2: We get calls from all over the country normally.
- 51:58Speaker 14: 800-321-0710.
- 52:02Speaker 7: 0-7-10.
- 52:03Speaker 2: So if you're one of those people, I can never
- 52:07Speaker 2: get through. Well, there's nobody calling right now. 800-321-0710. Give
- 52:16Speaker 2: us a call. Hey, happy birthday to Warren Buffett. He's
- 52:21Speaker 2: 96 today. 96 years old today. Warren Buffett still goes
- 52:26Speaker 2: to work every day. The only problem, he was just
- 52:31Speaker 2: a simple guy. He has a 12-year-old car. He drives
- 52:35Speaker 2: himself to work every day. He goes to McDonald's. He
- 52:39Speaker 2: has two orders. One is the Egg McMuffin. And then
- 52:45Speaker 2: the other, I forgot the other one. Flips a coin. Yeah,
- 52:49Speaker 2: Diet Coke all day and night. Now, the only problem
- 52:52Speaker 2: is at 96, his eyes aren't so good. He can't
- 52:55Speaker 2: drive anymore. Last time I talked to him, he said
- 52:57Speaker 2: that's the one thing. That's killing him. He's got to
- 53:00Speaker 2: have a driver now. He's a simple guy. He doesn't
- 53:02Speaker 2: like a driver. But McDonald's every day. He said he
- 53:05Speaker 2: has the diet of a 12-year-old. McDonald's, Diet Coke, candy
- 53:12Speaker 2: all day. Look at this. Now we've got 12,000 calls.
- 53:13Speaker 2: Now we don't have enough time for all these calls.
- 53:16Speaker 2: Let's go to Gene in Bacon, New York. Gene, how
- 53:19Speaker 2: are you doing?
- 53:21Speaker 6: I'm doing great.
- 53:22Speaker 8: You know, I wish that you and I could sit down.
- 53:25Speaker 7: For about an hour and just talk.
- 53:27Speaker 2: Oh, God.
- 53:28Speaker 6: Oh, God.
- 53:28Speaker 8: Yeah, that sounds great.
- 53:30Speaker 14: Huh?
- 53:31Speaker 2: But anyway— What would we talk about?
- 53:36Speaker 8: Well, about my father, who was a Democrat.
- 53:39Speaker 14: Fascinating.
- 53:40Speaker 8: Who came along in the— came along in the Depression.
- 53:43Speaker 8: He used to write legislation for Carter's lab.
- 53:46Speaker 2: Let me just explain something. Off the air, I never
- 53:49Speaker 2: talk about politics ever with anybody, ever. No politics. No politics.
- 53:53Speaker 2: So what else did we talk about?
- 53:55Speaker 8: Well, I do want to say something that I wish
- 53:58Speaker 8: that you and Donald Trump might talk about. The destruction
- 54:04Speaker 8: of the North Rim Lodge out in Arizona burned down
- 54:08Speaker 8: about a year and a half ago, and Has he
- 54:11Speaker 8: mentioned anything about the rebuilding of that building, of the lodge?
- 54:16Speaker 2: And what burned down? What kind of lodge? I don't
- 54:18Speaker 2: even know about this.
- 54:19Speaker 8: Well, the tourist lodge on the north rim of the
- 54:22Speaker 8: Grand Canyon. I was there years ago as a youngster,
- 54:27Speaker 8: and he would be able to rebuild that thing and
- 54:30Speaker 8: bring some creativity to it. It was a rustic building.
- 54:34Speaker 2: Yeah, but you got to remember, if he rebuilt it,
- 54:36Speaker 2: it's going to have gold all over it. It's going to,
- 54:38Speaker 2: you know. He might not be the guy for that lodge.
- 54:42Speaker 2: But it's a good point. Yeah, he should get on that.
- 54:45Speaker 2: But maybe let somebody else do the decorating on that one.
- 54:49Speaker 2: Let's go to Vic in Pennsylvania. Vic, how are you doing?
- 54:53Speaker 20: I'm doing fine, Mark. Mark, I just wanted to bring out,
- 54:57Speaker 20: when you were on the prior radio station, you were
- 54:59Speaker 20: on all the time. I think you set the Guinness
- 55:02Speaker 20: Book of World Records for being on so much. And
- 55:05Speaker 20: I would listen to you constantly. So three hours, I
- 55:09Speaker 20: want you to do another three hours.
- 55:12Speaker 2: Well, some days I fill in for Hannity, so that's
- 55:14Speaker 2: three plus three. That'll be six. All right, thanks. Yeah,
- 55:18Speaker 2: all of us here, Sean, Hannity, Rush, we were all
- 55:22Speaker 2: at the other station. What does Sean call it? Our ex-wife.
- 55:26Speaker 2: That's the other station. It was our ex-wife. Let's go
- 55:29Speaker 2: to Scrapper. Is that your name? Scrapper in Connecticut?
- 55:34Speaker 6: I'm here, yeah. You're an excellent show. You're excellent. They
- 55:39Speaker 6: don't seem to want to talk about the budget and
- 55:41Speaker 6: cutting the budget. That's the big problem. They avoid discussing that.
- 55:48Speaker 2: Who does?
- 55:48Speaker 6: The city of New York, especially.
- 55:54Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
- 55:54Speaker 2: Well, of course, they're going to avoid that. They're not
- 55:57Speaker 2: going to mention that. That's what they do for a living.
- 55:59Speaker 2: Spend our money. You know, that's the right. He's right.
- 56:02Speaker 2: He's absolutely right. That is the single biggest problem. You
- 56:04Speaker 2: could solve everything. In one second, just stop overspending. The
- 56:09Speaker 2: government overspends. You know, we pay like a thousand percent
- 56:14Speaker 2: more than everything costs for whatever it is, roads, potholes, subways,
- 56:18Speaker 2: a thousand percent more than you're supposed to spend than
- 56:20Speaker 2: it actually costs. The $ 108 billion city budget could actually
- 56:25Speaker 2: easily be $ 40 billion. And if you spent the money legitimately,
- 56:29Speaker 2: you'd have better service. Everybody's taxes could be cut like 65%.
- 56:34Speaker 2: Just stop wasting money with all the fraud, waste, bloat,
- 56:38Speaker 2: all of that stuff. Let's go to John in Long Island. John,
- 56:41Speaker 2: how are you doing?
- 56:42Speaker 8: Hey, good morning, Mark.
- 56:44Speaker 2: Yes, John.
- 56:46Speaker 8: Okay, just following up on something you brought up last week, Mark,
- 56:49Speaker 8: regarding the Kennedy Center and Trump. I'm an architect and
- 56:54Speaker 8: also a construction manager. And I think the best thing
- 56:58Speaker 8: is to tear it down because... When you start to
- 57:01Speaker 8: remediate something like that, I've worked on projects where you
- 57:04Speaker 8: spend half a million dollars just on a specious abatement.
- 57:08Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 57:08Speaker 8: Okay? And then, like, at the end of the day,
- 57:10Speaker 8: you wind up spending more on a retro building than
- 57:14Speaker 8: to tear it and rebuild it.
- 57:16Speaker 2: Well, it's kind of historic. It's got kind of a
- 57:18Speaker 2: landmark sort of a thing to it. You can't really
- 57:21Speaker 2: tear it.
- 57:22Speaker 8: Take part of it. Take part of it and just, hey,
- 57:24Speaker 8: there's a dedication to it. John F. Kennedy, and then
- 57:28Speaker 8: restore the rest of the thing.
- 57:29Speaker 2: Well, apparently the problem, because I've talked to the people there,
- 57:33Speaker 2: just to get to the bottom of it, it was
- 57:36Speaker 2: built section by section. They kept adding on to it.
- 57:39Speaker 2: And when they'd add on, they didn't quite connect everything right.
- 57:41Speaker 2: And there was a pipe system that was connected to
- 57:43Speaker 2: another pipe system. And the real problem, the reason it's
- 57:46Speaker 2: collapsing with what they called water intrusion, you know what
- 57:51Speaker 2: can happen when you've got leaks and water everywhere and
- 57:54Speaker 2: it just weakens everything. So this Parts of the building
- 57:57Speaker 2: close to collapse. That's why when they say they got
- 58:00Speaker 2: to shut it down, that's why it's two years. I mean,
- 58:02Speaker 2: they have to rebuild almost the entire building. Happened to
- 58:05Speaker 2: the White House at one time. In the late 1940s,
- 58:10Speaker 2: remember Harry Truman had a daughter who played the piano.
- 58:12Speaker 2: So they put a big piano up in the residence.
- 58:15Speaker 2: And as she's playing, it started to fall through the floor.
- 58:18Speaker 2: The whole floor of the White House residence started crumbling.
- 58:22Speaker 2: And they found out the same thing, that the whole
- 58:24Speaker 2: White House had to be Gutted, literally, the entire White House.
- 58:29Speaker 2: Truman had to move out for two years while they
- 58:30Speaker 2: rebuilt the entire interior. One more call real fast. Let's
- 58:34Speaker 2: go to Eric in the Bronx. Eric, how are you doing?
- 58:37Speaker 14: Hey, Mark. How are you doing? Long time listening to you,
- 58:40Speaker 14: especially when you were playing music. But when I was
- 58:44Speaker 14: listening last week when all these socialists were winning these
- 58:49Speaker 14: tickets in New York, Why can't we do what they
- 58:53Speaker 14: did in Buffalo when the mayor was running and the
- 58:56Speaker 14: socialists beat him and they did the write-in ballots? And
- 58:59Speaker 14: in the end, he ended up winning. Why can't we
- 59:02Speaker 14: do that here? Oh, right.
- 59:03Speaker 2: We're going to do it. You didn't say what it is.
- 59:06Speaker 2: What do we do?
- 59:06Speaker 14: Write-in ballots. These socialists run, so why can't we do
- 59:10Speaker 14: the write-in ballots?
- 59:11Speaker 2: Well, you can do a write-in ballot. You can do it.
- 59:12Speaker 2: It's just.
- 59:13Speaker 14: Yeah, but I mean, why aren't we doing a big,
- 59:15Speaker 14: massive campaign?
- 59:16Speaker 2: Well, one of the reasons, we don't have a Republican
- 59:18Speaker 2: Party in New York. I mean, there's a little one,
- 59:20Speaker 2: but it doesn't have any manpower. It doesn't have any
- 59:22Speaker 2: ground game. It doesn't have much staff. It's really, that's
- 59:26Speaker 2: the problem. The Republicans don't have a machine here in
- 59:28Speaker 2: New York. It's just... A bunch of clubs, the Republican
- 59:31Speaker 2: Club of this, the Republican Club of that. It's just
- 59:34Speaker 2: old ladies who throw cocktail parties, take pictures with celebrities,
- 59:37Speaker 2: post it on their Instagram. They don't actually do anything
- 59:39Speaker 2: to help any campaigns. Hey, when we come back, the
- 59:42Speaker 2: greatest columnist in America, Michael Goodwin. We'll talk to him
- 59:46Speaker 2: next on 710WOR.
- 59:50Speaker 1: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios.
- 59:55Speaker 2: Well, here's the best columnist in America, Michael Goodwin. You
- 59:59Speaker 2: can read his column every Sunday and every Wednesday in
- 1:00:03Speaker 2: the New York Post. And all of his columns are
- 1:00:05Speaker 2: up on the New York Post website if you want
- 1:00:07Speaker 2: to read them. And he's with us now. Michael Goodwin,
- 1:00:10Speaker 2: how are you doing?
- 1:00:11Speaker 15: Good morning, Mark.
- 1:00:12Speaker 8: Thank you.
- 1:00:13Speaker 2: Hey, I love this column about Hakeem Jeffries meets with
- 1:00:18Speaker 2: Jared Kushner. And apparently they have a long relationship. He
- 1:00:21Speaker 2: was their first term. So why would the Democrats melt
- 1:00:25Speaker 2: down over this meeting?
- 1:00:28Speaker 15: Well, there's no logical answer, Mark. It's really, I think,
- 1:00:33Speaker 15: just a sign of the radicalization of the Democratic Party.
- 1:00:39Speaker 8: Of course, the.
- 1:00:40Speaker 15: Progressive members are driving that, but the other members are
- 1:00:45Speaker 15: quaking in fear of it. And so when Jeffries dares
- 1:00:49Speaker 15: to meet with a the devil, the representative of the devil,
- 1:00:55Speaker 15: you have to erupt. You have to accuse Jeffries of
- 1:01:00Speaker 15: making a mistake because otherwise you're seen as being soft
- 1:01:04Speaker 15: on Trump and you're being mainstream and you're being establishment.
- 1:01:09Speaker 15: You're being a corporate Democrat and you're taking money from AIPAC.
- 1:01:14Speaker 15: All these things just fall off the lips of the
- 1:01:19Speaker 15: radicals and puts Jeffries on defense for simply holding a member,
- 1:01:24Speaker 15: holding a meeting with President Trump's son-in-law and advisor.
- 1:01:30Speaker 8: I mean, it's looting tunes.
- 1:01:33Speaker 2: Yeah, don't these guys, these Schumers and Jeffries and these types,
- 1:01:38Speaker 2: trying to appease them and bow down to them, don't
- 1:01:41Speaker 2: they realize these socialists, they're going to throw them overboard
- 1:01:44Speaker 2: at some point?
- 1:01:46Speaker 8: Oh, sure.
- 1:01:47Speaker 15: Look, I mean, that's the... I write about the justice Democrats, uh, email,
- 1:01:53Speaker 15: which talks about Jeffries and Schumer just being the old
- 1:01:57Speaker 15: mainstream corporate Democrats. And they want to throw them over. Look,
- 1:02:03Speaker 15: they don't have the numbers yet, but what they do
- 1:02:06Speaker 15: have in a, in our system is that you can
- 1:02:10Speaker 15: stymie the majority of either Democrats take the house and
- 1:02:15Speaker 15: Will the majority stick together, or will it be a
- 1:02:20Speaker 15: civil war in the Democrats? I mean, I think that's
- 1:02:23Speaker 15: what we're witnessing right now. Yeah.
- 1:02:28Speaker 2: You quote this podcast, Jared Kushner has no actual government job.
- 1:02:33Speaker 2: That's not true. He's the chief negotiator. That's a pretty
- 1:02:37Speaker 2: big job.
- 1:02:38Speaker 14: Yeah.
- 1:02:39Speaker 15: I guess he's not on the White House agenda. roster
- 1:02:45Speaker 15: of paid employees or cons from firms. I mean, the
- 1:02:49Speaker 15: president has lots of leeway. So, and obviously Jared Kushner
- 1:02:54Speaker 15: has his ear and it came out later and didn't
- 1:02:58Speaker 15: get much attention. But the meeting was because Kushner and
- 1:03:04Speaker 15: Jeffries had worked together on prison reforms in Trump's first term,
- 1:03:10Speaker 15: which is a big issue. For both, but the Democrats
- 1:03:14Speaker 15: quickly forgot that because Kushner is a Trump person, therefore
- 1:03:20Speaker 15: you cannot talk to him. I mean, even the crazy
- 1:03:22Speaker 15: James Carvel broke new ground in that front.
- 1:03:27Speaker 2: But, I don't know, these socialists, they just want, what
- 1:03:32Speaker 2: do they just want? Revolution, blood? What are they really
- 1:03:35Speaker 2: after if they don't want to talk?
- 1:03:36Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah.
- 1:03:37Speaker 6: Go on power.
- 1:03:38Speaker 15: It starts with power, right? And I think That's what
- 1:03:42Speaker 15: the Democratic Party has failed to reckon with. They tried
- 1:03:47Speaker 15: to meet them partway on some things. I mean, take
- 1:03:50Speaker 15: Kathy Hochul, for example, in New York, how the governor
- 1:03:55Speaker 15: has gone along with Mayor Montani, one of the socialists,
- 1:03:59Speaker 15: probably the highest-ranking socialist. And what has Hochul done with that?
- 1:04:07Speaker 15: She's ended up just doing dumb things That could backfire.
- 1:04:11Speaker 8: On her and her election. So if you.
- 1:04:14Speaker 15: Try to try to modify or work with the socialists,
- 1:04:19Speaker 15: they're going to just call out to you and you're
- 1:04:22Speaker 15: never going to be able to satisfy them. They don't
- 1:04:25Speaker 15: want to fix the system. They want to destroy the
- 1:04:28Speaker 15: system and that mainstream Democrats, what's left of them have
- 1:04:33Speaker 15: to come to grips with that reality.
- 1:04:35Speaker 6: Hmm.
- 1:04:36Speaker 2: Hey, when they talk about seizing the means of production,
- 1:04:40Speaker 2: As soon as they get a hold of the means
- 1:04:41Speaker 2: of production, all they do is collapse. I mean, these
- 1:04:45Speaker 2: grocery stores, Mamdani's grocery store, we'll never see these. Everything
- 1:04:49Speaker 2: he proposes never actually happens. How would they control production?
- 1:04:53Speaker 15: Well, that's the thing, because they don't want to build anything.
- 1:04:58Speaker 15: They just want to destroy. And that's why wherever socialism
- 1:05:04Speaker 15: has full power, people have starved, right? The decline of
- 1:05:11Speaker 15: living standards is remarkable. I mean, it's why so much
- 1:05:16Speaker 15: of the world is behind for a century of capitalism,
- 1:05:24Speaker 15: free markets, free ideas, free expression. Those are the things
- 1:05:30Speaker 15: that feed more people, that protect more people, get people
- 1:05:34Speaker 15: more opportunities. the land of opportunity, right? That's what America is.
- 1:05:39Speaker 15: And where are they coming from? They're coming from socialist
- 1:05:42Speaker 15: countries who do not have opportunity.
- 1:05:47Speaker 13: Yeah.
- 1:05:48Speaker 2: Hey, November, Election Day, don't you think the Democrats are
- 1:05:51Speaker 2: going to get a rude awakening that they went way
- 1:05:53Speaker 2: too far?
- 1:05:56Speaker 14: I don't know, Mark.
- 1:05:57Speaker 15: I'm not confident. I'm just reading the real clear politics,
- 1:06:01Speaker 15: and it's looking increasingly like the Democrats have the edge
- 1:06:08Speaker 15: going into the midterms in both the Senate and House races.
- 1:06:14Speaker 15: If that were to be the case, then I think
- 1:06:17Speaker 15: if they were to take both houses, that would make
- 1:06:20Speaker 15: for a very difficult two years for President Trump. And
- 1:06:25Speaker 15: there's no question that impeachment would be high on the list.
- 1:06:31Speaker 15: Investigations over and over. So I think there's a lot
- 1:06:36Speaker 15: at stake in this midterm elections.
- 1:06:39Speaker 8: And if you.
- 1:06:39Speaker 15: Recall, back in 2018, which was the midterm of President
- 1:06:45Speaker 15: Trump's first term, the Democrats, the far-left Democrats took over
- 1:06:51Speaker 15: the state Senate in New York, among other institutions, and
- 1:06:56Speaker 15: wrecked the New York. That's when all the taxes started
- 1:07:00Speaker 15: going up, the attack on energy. drove up fuel prices,
- 1:07:04Speaker 15: the green this, the green that. So there's a lot
- 1:07:07Speaker 15: of downstream results if Democrats make Congress.
- 1:07:13Speaker 4: Wow.
- 1:07:14Speaker 2: Well, everybody go read Michael Goodwin's column. It's up on
- 1:07:16Speaker 2: the New York Post website. You can read him every
- 1:07:18Speaker 2: Sunday and every Wednesday in the New York Post. Great stuff.
- 1:07:23Speaker 2: Michael Goodwin, thanks for being with us.
- 1:07:25Speaker 15: Always a pleasure, Mark.
- 1:07:27Speaker 8: Thank you.
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- 1:08:11Speaker 2: Well, it's hard to believe we're heading into Labor Day weekend.
- 1:08:15Speaker 2: That's right. You'll see the city get emptier and emptier
- 1:08:18Speaker 2: and emptier. People are taking a lot of time off
- 1:08:20Speaker 2: for this week. It's a big, big vacation week. Labor
- 1:08:24Speaker 2: Day weekend coming up. It's already, any time weekends, there's
- 1:08:28Speaker 2: football all over TV. I know, you go in the store,
- 1:08:32Speaker 2: there's Halloween candy, there's pumpkin spice. Yeah, you're right. They
- 1:08:36Speaker 2: did start it earlier than usual. Everybody launched a pumpkin
- 1:08:39Speaker 2: spice earlier than usual. Dunkin' Donuts, Starbucks, all started earlier. And,
- 1:08:45Speaker 2: I don't know why, but this pumpkin spice stuff, not
- 1:08:49Speaker 2: selling as well as usual. Maybe because they went too early. Or, Maybe.
- 1:08:54Speaker 2: It's possible. People realized it was cute in the beginning,
- 1:08:59Speaker 2: pumpkin spice, but do you really want your coffee to
- 1:09:01Speaker 2: taste like pumpkin?
- 1:09:03Speaker 14: Not really.
- 1:09:04Speaker 2: Pumpkin pie, that's it. Delicious. Pumpkin pie. That's about the
- 1:09:07Speaker 2: only use for pumpkin food-wise. You don't really want pumpkin milkshake.
- 1:09:13Speaker 2: You don't want pumpkin coffee. You don't want any of that.
- 1:09:17Speaker 2: So it's Labor Day weekend coming up. You're going to
- 1:09:19Speaker 2: see rain for the next few days. But then by Thursday,
- 1:09:22Speaker 2: that clears up. It should be a nice, dry, sunny weekend.
- 1:09:26Speaker 2: So it's hard to believe. But it was quite a summer.
- 1:09:31Speaker 2: Heat waves. Canadian wildfire. Hey, every time you think, why
- 1:09:35Speaker 2: is Trump being so mean to Canada? Just remember all
- 1:09:38Speaker 2: that smoke that was here for a couple of weeks.
- 1:09:41Speaker 2: You remember those days you couldn't go outside and you
- 1:09:43Speaker 2: couldn't breathe because of that Canadian wildfire smoke?
- 1:09:46Speaker 15: Good.
- 1:09:46Speaker 2: Let him... This is revenge. Let them put some tariffs
- 1:09:49Speaker 2: on them for all that smoke. Let them call it
- 1:09:52Speaker 2: Lake of America for all that smoke. Anyway, we'll get
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- 1:10:09Speaker 1: Now, more Mark Simone on 710WOR.
- 1:10:16Speaker 2: Hey, it's Monday already, the final week heading into Labor
- 1:10:19Speaker 2: Day weekend, so a lot to get to. Hey, Friday
- 1:10:23Speaker 2: was the funeral, Dolly Parton's funeral. Very, very emotional. Just
- 1:10:28Speaker 2: a small, small, small family funeral. Loved ones gathered at
- 1:10:31Speaker 2: the Nashville burial site just three days after her death.
- 1:10:36Speaker 2: And very, very touching of a funeral. And they were
- 1:10:40Speaker 2: all dressed up, beautiful in suits and ties and everything.
- 1:10:44Speaker 2: The gravesite was crawling with cops. Apparently they wanted absolute privacy.
- 1:10:50Speaker 2: So before anybody got there, police all over the place,
- 1:10:53Speaker 2: sealing off the area. It was a very small, very
- 1:10:56Speaker 2: private service, just the immediate family. She was buried next
- 1:11:00Speaker 2: to her husband of 58 years, Carl, who died in March.
- 1:11:05Speaker 2: He was 82. Parton's name was already on the tombstone.
- 1:11:12Speaker 2: It was all there, which it It's in a beautiful,
- 1:11:16Speaker 2: beautiful area of Tennessee, Woodland Memorial Park and Mausoleum, which
- 1:11:22Speaker 2: will be her final resting place. Her parents are buried there,
- 1:11:26Speaker 2: as I say, her husband, and a lot of great
- 1:11:28Speaker 2: country musicians are buried there, including Porter Wagner, who helped
- 1:11:32Speaker 2: launch her career, and her friend Tammy Wynette. She was
- 1:11:37Speaker 2: buried in a cotton dress. She requested that. because of
- 1:11:41Speaker 2: years of wearing those rhinestones. They were very uncomfortable. She
- 1:11:44Speaker 2: wanted to be buried in a soft cotton dress, but
- 1:11:49Speaker 2: she was buried with her stilettos on. She wants a
- 1:11:52Speaker 2: beautiful bed of plush cotton, because after all the rhinestones,
- 1:11:55Speaker 2: she deserves to be comfortable, she told her nephew, who
- 1:11:59Speaker 2: arranged everything. Hey, by the way, Tennessee will rename the
- 1:12:04Speaker 2: Nashville Airport Dolly Parton Airport. The governor has said they'll
- 1:12:09Speaker 2: do it. He put out a joint statement. The governor
- 1:12:12Speaker 2: and the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority, they will rename the airport.
- 1:12:18Speaker 2: That's great news. Hey, Scott Besant doing a lot of
- 1:12:21Speaker 2: great work. You talk about somebody for 2028. Keep an
- 1:12:26Speaker 2: eye on Scott Besant. But the Treasury is finally going
- 1:12:29Speaker 2: to crack down on these bad charities, the Soros-type stuff.
- 1:12:36Speaker 2: They went after the Southern Poverty Law Center, which for years, liberals, CNN,
- 1:12:43Speaker 2: MSNBC held that up high as the gold standard of, well,
- 1:12:47Speaker 2: they went after the Southern Poverty Law Center. They find
- 1:12:49Speaker 2: out it was all sleazy, dirty scheme, funding white supremacists,
- 1:12:55Speaker 2: deliberately starting riots. So they've gone after them. But now
- 1:13:00Speaker 2: they're looking at open society. These are all these George
- 1:13:03Speaker 2: Soros things. CARE, C-A-I-R, you know that group? That's the
- 1:13:08Speaker 2: group that blamed 9-11 on the U.S. supporting Israel. This
- 1:13:12Speaker 2: is the group that recommended bin Laden's writings be taught
- 1:13:15Speaker 2: in school. Horrible, horrible people. They spent a lot of
- 1:13:19Speaker 2: their time and money slamming Israel. That's not politics. It's
- 1:13:23Speaker 2: not political. So it's just political. But Besant is right
- 1:13:28Speaker 2: to go after them. They're not really charities. CARE has
- 1:13:31Speaker 2: also been.
- 1:13:34Speaker 2: Accused of having terrible ties to cutter and other stuff.
- 1:13:37Speaker 2: So go after them, go after open society, all those
- 1:13:40Speaker 2: George Soros things. They're not charities. They're political activist groups.
- 1:13:44Speaker 2: Shut them down one by one. It's a great thing
- 1:13:47Speaker 2: to do. Hey, speaking of, uh, sleazy charities, the Clinton foundation, uh,
- 1:13:55Speaker 2: is looking for an intern, but in this case, it's
- 1:14:00Speaker 2: Hillary Clinton. You'll be working for it's Hillary Clinton. It'll
- 1:14:02Speaker 2: be hiring. The intern needs, it says, a high level
- 1:14:07Speaker 2: of discretion. I would think so at that Clinton Foundation.
- 1:14:12Speaker 2: Not just for the shenanigans, but for where the hell
- 1:14:14Speaker 2: the money actually goes. But apparently Bill is not allowed
- 1:14:19Speaker 2: to have an intern and he's not allowed to be
- 1:14:21Speaker 2: involved in the intern hiring. You can imagine why. So
- 1:14:26Speaker 2: it'll be Hillary Clinton. Now she has an office on
- 1:14:28Speaker 2: Madison Avenue in New York City. For what? Nobody knows.
- 1:14:32Speaker 2: But It's an office, they got a desk, they got computers,
- 1:14:36Speaker 2: they got secretaries. Nobody knows what the hell they do
- 1:14:39Speaker 2: in there all day. But that's where the internal work. Now,
- 1:14:44Speaker 2: Bill Clinton's team at the foundation is looking for a
- 1:14:47Speaker 2: special projects associate to help with similar tasks that includes
- 1:14:52Speaker 2: drafting meeting agendas, editing briefs, helping to coordinate activities between
- 1:14:58Speaker 2: his office and the foundation. You might say, well, what
- 1:15:02Speaker 2: are these activities? Well, raising money, getting them donors to
- 1:15:07Speaker 2: write some checks. Well, what is this coordinating between him
- 1:15:10Speaker 2: and the foundation? Well, again, pay for everything. Pay for
- 1:15:15Speaker 2: my travel, pay for everything. That's basically all they do
- 1:15:19Speaker 2: in this Clinton Foundation. They fund themselves with it. You know,
- 1:15:22Speaker 2: they'll take these incredible trips. And Clinton's still got some
- 1:15:26Speaker 2: wealthy donors out there. big business guys that think he can, well,
- 1:15:30Speaker 2: he can help. You know, he's very popular with world
- 1:15:34Speaker 2: leaders all over the world. And if you're trying to
- 1:15:36Speaker 2: do business in India or someplace, you bring Bill Clinton
- 1:15:38Speaker 2: with you and he can walk you right into the
- 1:15:40Speaker 2: prime minister's office and get things done. Now, apparently Hillary
- 1:15:47Speaker 2: makes sure that it's all males working with Clinton. Remember
- 1:15:51Speaker 2: Leona Helmsley? Remember that awful Leona Helmsley? She went to prison.
- 1:15:55Speaker 2: And her husband, Harry Helmsley, was so sick he had
- 1:15:58Speaker 2: to have nurses around the clock. She made sure that
- 1:16:01Speaker 2: there were only male nurses. No female nurses were allowed
- 1:16:04Speaker 2: in the house. Only male nurses with Harry Helmsley, which
- 1:16:10Speaker 2: shows you that Harry wasn't completely dead there. Now, this
- 1:16:14Speaker 2: crazy Mom Donnie, everybody's upset about Mom Donnie. Oh, they
- 1:16:19Speaker 2: can't stand Mom Donnie. Everybody's afraid of Mom Donnie. You know,
- 1:16:21Speaker 2: I wouldn't worry about it that much, as nuts as
- 1:16:23Speaker 2: he is. He gets absolutely nothing done. You'll never see
- 1:16:27Speaker 2: these grocery stores. I don't think you'll ever see this
- 1:16:30Speaker 2: pied-à-terre tax. I don't think you'll ever actually get it
- 1:16:33Speaker 2: to happen. You know, he talked about his free child care.
- 1:16:37Speaker 2: We have it to a certain extent, but he's expanding it. Very,
- 1:16:40Speaker 2: very expanded free child care for everybody. Sounds good. All right.
- 1:16:46Speaker 2: But the providers say it's time for the child care.
- 1:16:50Speaker 2: School started. And they never got the money. Nothing ever happened.
- 1:16:55Speaker 2: Some of them went into their own pockets and spent
- 1:16:57Speaker 2: their own money on it. But this 2K pilot program,
- 1:17:02Speaker 2: apparently nothing's been done. Nothing happened. The Department of Education
- 1:17:09Speaker 2: blamed the bean counters and the comptroller's office for whatever,
- 1:17:14Speaker 2: for not registering the contracts. But whatever the reason, it
- 1:17:17Speaker 2: never happened. The money's not there. Nothing will ever happen.
- 1:17:22Speaker 2: Same thing, the free buses. You'll never see any free buses.
- 1:17:24Speaker 2: As long as you live, you'll never see any free buses.
- 1:17:27Speaker 2: First of all, the mayor doesn't even have anything to
- 1:17:29Speaker 2: say about buses. They're controlled by the state, by the MTA.
- 1:17:33Speaker 2: Grocery store, you'll never see one. It'll never actually happen.
- 1:17:39Speaker 2: You know, the other thing with the tenants, he's squeezing
- 1:17:42Speaker 2: the landlords with his rent freezers, with his this. Apparently,
- 1:17:47Speaker 2: as he's done this to the landlords, they've had to
- 1:17:49Speaker 2: cut services. If you start screwing around with the landlord's money,
- 1:17:53Speaker 2: they'll cut services. And that's caused a big surge, 25%
- 1:17:58Speaker 2: surge in complaints to 311. Big problems with the property.
- 1:18:03Speaker 2: So they're all complaining like crazy. And some people think, well,
- 1:18:08Speaker 2: that's the real plot. You get the landlords to be
- 1:18:12Speaker 2: so bad deliberately that the government can come over and
- 1:18:16Speaker 2: take over the housing. Well, when the government takes over,
- 1:18:18Speaker 2: you get the worst housing ever. You get really horrifying
- 1:18:21Speaker 2: conditions like the NYCHA, New York City Housing Authority, NYCHA housings.
- 1:18:26Speaker 2: They're the worst, absolute worst. So you might not like
- 1:18:29Speaker 2: these landlords, but there are a thousand times better than
- 1:18:32Speaker 2: NYCHA housing. Hey, you heard the story on the news,
- 1:18:35Speaker 2: the Met Gala for 2027. It's not till next year,
- 1:18:39Speaker 2: but the stupid, ridiculous Met Gala was to honor John Galliano,
- 1:18:43Speaker 2: the famous designer. And he's, just announced today he's out.
- 1:18:51Speaker 2: Intense backlash over his anti-Semitism. Now, this guy is a total, complete, vicious,
- 1:18:59Speaker 2: ugly anti-Semite. There was this famous incident in Paris where
- 1:19:04Speaker 2: in the bar he got, I don't know, something happened.
- 1:19:06Speaker 2: He started screaming anti-Semitic things. at Jewish patrons yelling at
- 1:19:11Speaker 2: them that Hitler was right. I mean, it's on video.
- 1:19:15Speaker 2: Really ugly anti-Semitic things. In fact, that incident got him
- 1:19:20Speaker 2: convicted of hate crime. He's actually been convicted in France
- 1:19:25Speaker 2: of hate crime. And he's got a history of anti-Semitic stuff.
- 1:19:28Speaker 2: He's got a history of saying racist stuff, anti-Asian stuff.
- 1:19:33Speaker 2: So they've decided not to honor him. Now, The big
- 1:19:37Speaker 2: question is, well, why the hell were you honoring? All
- 1:19:39Speaker 2: this stuff was known. Everything was known about. Why were
- 1:19:45Speaker 2: you honoring him in the first place? Now, they finally
- 1:19:47Speaker 2: decided to drop him.
- 1:19:49Speaker 21: Why?
- 1:19:50Speaker 2: Intense pressure from sponsors, advertisers, and apparently city council speaker
- 1:19:57Speaker 2: Julie Menon got involved. She's Jewish. She's the city council speaker.
- 1:20:02Speaker 2: That's as powerful as the mayor. She got all over them.
- 1:20:06Speaker 2: So the pressure got too intense, and they dropped him,
- 1:20:08Speaker 2: and they're acting like they're doing the right thing. But
- 1:20:11Speaker 2: they're not. They did the wrong thing by picking him
- 1:20:13Speaker 2: in the first place. They knew all this stuff, and
- 1:20:16Speaker 2: he was the honoree for months, months. They heard all
- 1:20:20Speaker 2: about the anti-Semitic stuff, and they decided to keep him.
- 1:20:23Speaker 2: It wasn't until serious political pressure hit them that they
- 1:20:28Speaker 2: decided to get rid of him. But it's a disgusting
- 1:20:31Speaker 2: thing that they would even even think of making this
- 1:20:34Speaker 2: guy the honoree, let alone made him the honoree. Hey,
- 1:20:36Speaker 2: we played this before. Heidi Tong retiring after all these years.
- 1:20:40Speaker 9: But it's time to move on. You know, I'm 80
- 1:20:42Speaker 9: years old now.
- 1:20:43Speaker 18: Nearly.
- 1:20:44Speaker 9: As you know, Shirley. 80 years young. I'm feeling it.
- 1:20:49Speaker 9: I'm tired. And it's time to make room for the young.
- 1:20:52Speaker 6: Bloods, right?
- 1:20:53Speaker 2: Well, she looks good. She sounds good. I don't know
- 1:20:56Speaker 2: why she's retired. The young bloods at Channel 11 are
- 1:20:58Speaker 2: in their 70s. But, hey, we were talking about Mr.
- 1:21:01Speaker 2: G before. I found this cut. Mr. G, great guy
- 1:21:05Speaker 2: on Kitey Tongue.
- 1:21:06Speaker 5: I always loved her, and ever since I saw her,
- 1:21:10Speaker 5: I thought she just captured me, but then I realized
- 1:21:13Speaker 5: she captured everybody.
- 1:21:15Speaker 9: Oh, gosh, more, more.
- 1:21:18Speaker 18: Who's next?
- 1:21:19Speaker 9: We love you. Oh, I love you all back. Thank
- 1:21:25Speaker 9: you so much. This has been amazing. I'm overwhelmed. I'm
- 1:21:29Speaker 9: trying not to cry.
- 1:21:30Speaker 2: All right, it's getting a little too mushy here. Oh, hey,
- 1:21:33Speaker 2: another reason. I forgot about this. Another reason you want
- 1:21:35Speaker 2: to love Scott Besant. Boy, did he tell off Elizabeth Warren.
- 1:21:39Speaker 2: You know, Elizabeth Warren pretends she's smart, pretends she's an
- 1:21:42Speaker 2: expert on stuff. So, I don't know, she was battling
- 1:21:46Speaker 2: with Besant about foreign exchange rates and all that stuff.
- 1:21:51Speaker 8: Besant.
- 1:21:52Speaker 2: And he put this in writing. He wrote it out
- 1:21:54Speaker 2: in a letter and sent it to her and said,
- 1:21:57Speaker 2: your attacks unfortunately reveal that you know even less about
- 1:22:01Speaker 2: foreign exchange markets than than you do about banking. You
- 1:22:04Speaker 2: remember she was pretending to be some sort of banking expert,
- 1:22:07Speaker 2: which she has absolutely no expertise, no knowledge of. And
- 1:22:11Speaker 2: then Besson writes, what is equally shocking, but not surprising,
- 1:22:15Speaker 2: is not a single member of your media mob has
- 1:22:19Speaker 2: a rudimentary enough level of financial market literacy to spot
- 1:22:23Speaker 2: your immediate error. And then Besson offered to give her
- 1:22:29Speaker 2: a foreign exchange for dummies tutorial.
- 1:22:32Speaker 13: Ha ha.
- 1:22:33Speaker 2: Now, nobody deserves this more than Elizabeth Warren. You know,
- 1:22:36Speaker 2: she's got the little granny glasses and the short hair
- 1:22:38Speaker 2: and she looks professorial and looks smart and sounds smart,
- 1:22:44Speaker 2: but is an idiot. So she was pretending to be
- 1:22:46Speaker 2: a banking expert, pretending to be an economics expert and
- 1:22:50Speaker 2: doesn't know a damn thing about it. Hey, this U.S. Open,
- 1:22:55Speaker 2: am I supposed to be interested in this? Is it
- 1:22:58Speaker 2: just me? I have no interest in this. It looks
- 1:23:02Speaker 2: like fun. Uh, if you go into any of the
- 1:23:05Speaker 2: major hotels in New York, I was in the Plaza
- 1:23:07Speaker 2: last night, this hotel, that hotel, they got incredible displays
- 1:23:11Speaker 2: for the U S open. Cause a lot of the
- 1:23:12Speaker 2: players are staying there, but you're supposed to be interested. But, uh,
- 1:23:17Speaker 2: every time I put on the news, this guy got
- 1:23:19Speaker 2: eliminated in a crank of Vic and Yoko Vic and
- 1:23:22Speaker 2: Hucka Vic and whatever Vic got eliminated. I don't know
- 1:23:24Speaker 2: who they are. And then they show you the food. Ooh,
- 1:23:29Speaker 2: they have incredible food there. They show you this, uh,
- 1:23:32Speaker 2: Chicken nuggets with caviar or something on it. It's like
- 1:23:36Speaker 2: $ 200 for each. I'm in the middle of Manhattan. We
- 1:23:38Speaker 2: got the greatest food in the world. Do I need
- 1:23:41Speaker 2: to go out to Flushing, Queens to get some? I mean,
- 1:23:44Speaker 2: there is good food in Queens. You got Utopia Bagels,
- 1:23:47Speaker 2: one of the best in the world. But speaking of bagels,
- 1:23:51Speaker 2: you've seen these pop-up bagels all over the place. These
- 1:23:54Speaker 2: were two guys in Connecticut. that loved bagels too. They're Jewish.
- 1:23:58Speaker 2: They grew up with bagels. They loved bagels. So they
- 1:24:00Speaker 2: started making their own at home, just in their kitchen.
- 1:24:03Speaker 2: They learned how to make bagels. And the more they
- 1:24:06Speaker 2: practiced making their bagels, the better they got. And their friends,
- 1:24:09Speaker 2: it was kind of like a Paul Newman thing where
- 1:24:11Speaker 2: all their friends loved it. You know, his salad dressing
- 1:24:13Speaker 2: was given to friends. These guys are given the bagels
- 1:24:16Speaker 2: that they loved it so much that word spread. Everybody
- 1:24:19Speaker 2: wanted them. So they started to sell them from home
- 1:24:23Speaker 2: Next thing you know, they called it, they created a
- 1:24:25Speaker 2: little pop-up, a little pop-up bagels. They put them in bags.
- 1:24:29Speaker 2: And then they grew this thing into, they're the hottest
- 1:24:32Speaker 2: bagel in the world right now. They're all over Manhattan.
- 1:24:37Speaker 2: They're all over, you know, major places. But hedge funds
- 1:24:40Speaker 2: saw what a great business this is. Hedge funds to
- 1:24:43Speaker 2: pumped in hundreds of millions of dollars. They're opening these
- 1:24:47Speaker 2: pop-up bagels all over America. They started in Connecticut. They're
- 1:24:51Speaker 2: all over Manhattan. If you're in the suburbs, you know,
- 1:24:54Speaker 2: you got one in Roslyn, Long Island. There's one about
- 1:24:56Speaker 2: to open, Walt Whitman Mall, Huntington. They're going to be
- 1:25:00Speaker 2: all over the place. The business, these two guys started
- 1:25:03Speaker 2: in their kitchen. It's now worth $ 300 million. Just a
- 1:25:06Speaker 2: couple of years later, hedge funds are pouring in more money.
- 1:25:10Speaker 2: You know, you used to have the great bagels, H &
- 1:25:11Speaker 2: H and Essa Bagels. Forget it. This Papa Bagels left
- 1:25:16Speaker 2: them in the dust. It's different. You can't slice them.
- 1:25:20Speaker 2: There's no slicing them in half. They're fluffier than regular bagels.
- 1:25:24Speaker 2: They're delicious. You rip them open and you dip them.
- 1:25:28Speaker 2: They call them schmears, but they're all different flavors. They've
- 1:25:31Speaker 2: got great flavors, dozens of flavors. And it's a smart business.
- 1:25:35Speaker 2: You have to buy three bagels. That's the smallest order.
- 1:25:39Speaker 2: A bag of three. You've got no choice. And they're
- 1:25:42Speaker 2: so delicious, you'll do it. Anyway, we'll take some calls next.
- 1:25:45Speaker 13: 800-321-7000.
- 1:25:45Speaker 2: 0710 is the number.
- 1:25:50Speaker 13: 800-321-0710.
- 1:25:51Speaker 2: Hey, we always love new callers.
- 1:25:55Speaker 8: 800-321-0710.
- 1:25:56Speaker 2: Mark Simone.
- 1:25:59Speaker 8: Mr.
- 1:26:00Speaker 2: New York.
- 1:26:01Speaker 1: Now three hours every weekday from 9 until noon on 710WOR.
- 1:26:09Speaker 2: Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Dave in
- 1:26:13Speaker 2: Rockland County. Dave, how you doing?
- 1:26:15Speaker 15: Hey.
- 1:26:17Speaker 10: Good, how are you?
- 1:26:18Speaker 8: Good.
- 1:26:18Speaker 13: Yeah, I was just asking about the groups in Germany.
- 1:26:23Speaker 8: Trump's pulling them out.
- 1:26:25Speaker 4: What's going on with that?
- 1:26:27Speaker 8: You hear anything?
- 1:26:28Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a big thing. I didn't hear one thing
- 1:26:30Speaker 2: he said. Your phone is breaking up. You got that
- 1:26:33Speaker 2: Rockland County cell service. Just say it again.
- 1:26:38Speaker 4: Would Trump and the troops in Germany bring in troops
- 1:26:41Speaker 4: for the EU issues?
- 1:26:42Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, we're bringing some troops back from Germany. We
- 1:26:45Speaker 2: don't need all the troops there in the EU. Let
- 1:26:49Speaker 2: them put up their own troops. You know, this EU,
- 1:26:51Speaker 2: all these things we're involved in, you know, we pay
- 1:26:53Speaker 2: all the money. They don't put in a penny. Let
- 1:26:56Speaker 2: them kick in some of that. Let's go to Frank
- 1:26:59Speaker 2: in Manhattan. Frank, how are you doing?
- 1:27:02Speaker 8: I'm doing fine. Greetings from flyover country.
- 1:27:05Speaker 2: Where are you?
- 1:27:07Speaker 8: I'm in Manhattan.
- 1:27:09Speaker 2: That's not flyover country.
- 1:27:12Speaker 8: Well, you're not thinking of the right Manhattan.
- 1:27:14Speaker 2: Oh, you're in Manhattan, Kansas?
- 1:27:16Speaker 8: I'm in Manhattan, Kansas.
- 1:27:18Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
- 1:27:19Speaker 18: All right.
- 1:27:19Speaker 8: I'm a native New Yorker, and you go by Mr.
- 1:27:24Speaker 6: New York.
- 1:27:24Speaker 2: And why'd you move to Kansas?
- 1:27:27Speaker 8: I went to school here.
- 1:27:29Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 1:27:30Speaker 8: Back in 1970.
- 1:27:31Speaker 2: So what happened? You saw a cornfield, and you said,
- 1:27:33Speaker 2: this is great. I got to move here.
- 1:27:36Speaker 8: No, it's the wheat state, okay? Get it straight. It's
- 1:27:38Speaker 8: the wheat state.
- 1:27:39Speaker 2: That's better? I'd rather have corn. What are you going
- 1:27:43Speaker 2: to do with all that wheat?
- 1:27:46Speaker 8: Make bread. All right.
- 1:27:48Speaker 2: So what do you do in Manhattan, Kansas?
- 1:27:53Speaker 8: I'm retired.
- 1:27:54Speaker 2: Oh, no wonder you're in your pajamas at 1130.
- 1:27:58Speaker 8: No, I've actually been out watering the garden and stuff.
- 1:28:02Speaker 8: I have a question. I've got a question for you.
- 1:28:05Speaker 8: Go ahead. You go by Mr. New York, right? Yeah.
- 1:28:08Speaker 8: And I just want to see if you're really Mr.
- 1:28:10Speaker 8: New York.
- 1:28:11Speaker 2: Go ahead.
- 1:28:11Speaker 8: So I've got a New York question for you.
- 1:28:13Speaker 2: Go ahead.
- 1:28:15Speaker 8: What is a two-sewer hit?
- 1:28:16Speaker 2: Say it again. What is a what?
- 1:28:19Speaker 8: A two-sewer hit.
- 1:28:20Speaker 2: A two-sewer hit was in stickball if you hit the
- 1:28:22Speaker 2: ball far enough that it went two sewers.
- 1:28:25Speaker 8: All right. That's good.
- 1:28:26Speaker 4: That's good.
- 1:28:28Speaker 8: Can you name two ingredients that are not in an
- 1:28:30Speaker 8: egg cream?
- 1:28:32Speaker 2: Well, there's hundreds of ingredients that aren't in an egg cream.
- 1:28:35Speaker 2: It's chocolate syrup.
- 1:28:36Speaker 8: Major ones what do you mean eggs are cream oh
- 1:28:40Speaker 8: yeah eggs are no cream.
- 1:28:42Speaker 2: Well that's true that's true all right you thought i
- 1:28:44Speaker 2: wouldn't know the stickball question i'm friends with curtis yeah
- 1:28:47Speaker 2: you can't hang around curtis and not know anything about
- 1:28:49Speaker 2: stickball he was like a stickball champion all right good
- 1:28:52Speaker 2: call frank okay thanks for calling let's go to uh Steven,
- 1:28:57Speaker 2: now there's a debate whether it's Mayo Pack or Mahopic.
- 1:29:01Speaker 2: Which is it, Steve?
- 1:29:04Speaker 18: Well, it depends if you're a liberal or you're an American.
- 1:29:09Speaker 2: Yeah, they actually fight up there about what their town's called.
- 1:29:11Speaker 2: They got nothing better to do. I always call it
- 1:29:13Speaker 2: Mayo Pack.
- 1:29:15Speaker 18: I protest for a little bit. I'm going after Mike Lauer.
- 1:29:20Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 1:29:20Speaker 18: I'm not going after him physically.
- 1:29:24Speaker 8: You're talking about Mike Lawler?
- 1:29:28Speaker 18: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm working my way up. I'm different.
- 1:29:33Speaker 2: You're definitely different. Not in a good way, but you're
- 1:29:36Speaker 2: definitely different.
- 1:29:37Speaker 18: I had four strokes. I'm a bereaved parent. When I
- 1:29:40Speaker 18: was three years old, my bullet got killed in the
- 1:29:42Speaker 18: car there. But I'm doing okay. The police tried to
- 1:29:48Speaker 18: take away my... What's that?
- 1:29:50Speaker 2: No, you sound good. You sound like you have a
- 1:29:51Speaker 2: good outlook on life, good personality.
- 1:29:53Speaker 8: All right.
- 1:29:54Speaker 18: Well, give me a question, please, so I can figure
- 1:29:56Speaker 18: you out.
- 1:29:56Speaker 2: What's the capital of Kentucky?
- 1:30:00Speaker 6: Oh, gosh.
- 1:30:01Speaker 15: Come on.
- 1:30:01Speaker 18: Give me something different.
- 1:30:03Speaker 2: That's a good question to ask people because nobody ever
- 1:30:05Speaker 2: gets it. It's Frankfurt. It's the one capital you'll never get.
- 1:30:09Speaker 6: Okay.
- 1:30:09Speaker 18: Give me something else. Give me something else that's different.
- 1:30:12Speaker 13: All right.
- 1:30:12Speaker 2: What's the capital of Guatemala?
- 1:30:13Speaker 8: Guatemala.
- 1:30:16Speaker 18: Oh, gosh. Stop asking me these questions.
- 1:30:19Speaker 2: It's Guatemala City. It's an easy one to remember. Use
- 1:30:21Speaker 2: that one, too, on people. Anyway, Frank.
- 1:30:24Speaker 18: In your whole life, when you were with Grandma, what
- 1:30:27Speaker 18: did she do to make you so happy?
- 1:30:29Speaker 7: What?
- 1:30:31Speaker 18: When we were kids, when you were with Grandma, what
- 1:30:34Speaker 18: did she do to make you so happy?
- 1:30:37Speaker 2: Oh, she was wonderful. She'd say, turn that TV down. Anyway,
- 1:30:42Speaker 2: thanks for calling, Steve. Let's go to... Mike in Manhattan. Mike,
- 1:30:46Speaker 2: how you doing?
- 1:30:48Speaker 8: Mark, how are you?
- 1:30:49Speaker 7: Good.
- 1:30:49Speaker 4: Mark, let me tell you something. It's been a weird summer. Yeah.
- 1:30:53Speaker 4: I could never get the date straight. I can't believe
- 1:30:56Speaker 4: tomorrow's September 1st.
- 1:30:58Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
- 1:30:58Speaker 8: I forgot.
- 1:30:59Speaker 2: I forgot that. Oh, my God.
- 1:31:01Speaker 4: It's unbelievable. And the Jewish holidays are next week. Usually
- 1:31:04Speaker 4: the last few years have been later than the years.
- 1:31:06Speaker 4: But I got to tell you something.
- 1:31:07Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:31:08Speaker 4: For the last 10, 15 years, after July 4th, the
- 1:31:12Speaker 4: summer's over. You go two days in the store, like
- 1:31:15Speaker 4: you're going to Target, and two days after, July 4th,
- 1:31:18Speaker 4: every shelf is all back to school, back to school this.
- 1:31:22Speaker 4: And a week later, two weeks later, Halloween stuff is
- 1:31:25Speaker 4: popping up.
- 1:31:26Speaker 14: They don't give you a break.
- 1:31:28Speaker 18: It's crazy.
- 1:31:28Speaker 4: Before you know it, you know what they've been doing
- 1:31:30Speaker 4: the last few years? They've been skipping Thanksgiving and going
- 1:31:33Speaker 4: right into Christmas. So come mid-September, you go to Lowe's,
- 1:31:39Speaker 4: Home Depot, you see Christmas trees in the window already.
- 1:31:42Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. Absolutely. Good point, Mike. Yeah, it's terrible.
- 1:31:49Speaker 2: What's that story? There's these stores that just sell Christmas stuff.
- 1:31:52Speaker 2: I actually saw one of them already open. One of
- 1:31:54Speaker 2: them is already open. We've got time for one more.
- 1:31:56Speaker 2: Michael on the east side. Michael, how are you doing?
- 1:32:00Speaker 21: Hey, I tried.
- 1:32:02Speaker 13: Sorry.
- 1:32:05Speaker 21: We used to make our own bagels. I'd do breakfast
- 1:32:09Speaker 21: and lunchtime catering. And I stopped by one of these
- 1:32:13Speaker 21: pop-up places. There were some young college kids there, and
- 1:32:17Speaker 21: they said, oh, do you want to try one? That
- 1:32:21Speaker 21: pop-up everything bagel is incredible.
- 1:32:26Speaker 2: It is. Pop-up bagels are amazingly good. Now, why would
- 1:32:29Speaker 2: you make your own bagels? You live on the east
- 1:32:30Speaker 2: side of Manhattan. There's a bagel store every two feet.
- 1:32:33Speaker 2: Why would you make your own bagels?
- 1:32:34Speaker 21: Yeah, a lot of them are crap.
- 1:32:39Speaker 2: Well, they're not good enough for the great Michael of
- 1:32:41Speaker 2: the Upper East Side, but you got H & H,
- 1:32:43Speaker 2: you got all the best bagels. Hey, that one in Queens,
- 1:32:46Speaker 2: they've been considered the best in Manhattan, the best in
- 1:32:49Speaker 2: New York City for years, Utopia Bagels. They finally opened
- 1:32:52Speaker 2: in Manhattan. There's one like 3rd Avenue, 52nd. There's one
- 1:32:56Speaker 2: on 34th Street. But that pop-up is everywhere. They're really
- 1:32:59Speaker 2: stealing their thunder. Pop-up bagels, pretty amazing. Hey, when we
- 1:33:03Speaker 2: come back, speak of the devil, the best food writer
- 1:33:06Speaker 2: and real estate writer, Steve Cuso. We'll talk to him
- 1:33:09Speaker 2: next about restaurants, food, Manhattan, how's New York City doing,
- 1:33:13Speaker 2: and rent and all that. We'll get to all that
- 1:33:16Speaker 2: coming up on 710WOR.
- 1:33:18Speaker 1: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios, the Mark Simone.
- 1:33:25Speaker 2: Hey, Steve Cuso, the great New York Post columnist. Nobody
- 1:33:29Speaker 2: better on Manhattan, New York City, restaurants, real estate. We'll
- 1:33:33Speaker 2: get to all of that with him. And he's with
- 1:33:36Speaker 2: us now. Steve Cuso, how are you doing?
- 1:33:38Speaker 8: Hey, good morning.
- 1:33:39Speaker 7: How are you doing?
- 1:33:40Speaker 8: Good.
- 1:33:41Speaker 2: There's a rumor that you've got a new book coming out.
- 1:33:43Speaker 2: That you've actually written a novel.
- 1:33:46Speaker 17: Well, thanks for mentioning. Not just a rumor, Mark, but
- 1:33:49Speaker 17: a fact. And I've written my first novel. It won't
- 1:33:53Speaker 17: be out until December 8th. from a company called Post
- 1:33:56Speaker 17: Hill Press, distributed by Simon & Schuster, and it's called
- 1:34:01Speaker 17: Consuela's Thrill.
- 1:34:03Speaker 7: And it's a thriller. It's an erotic, romantic thriller.
- 1:34:06Speaker 17: And I've said a lot of it, the whole last
- 1:34:08Speaker 17: third of the book, in Coney Island, which happens to
- 1:34:11Speaker 17: be one of my favorite subjects for my real estate column.
- 1:34:15Speaker 17: And there's so much going on there right now in
- 1:34:18Speaker 17: terms of development, new housing, etc.
- 1:34:21Speaker 7: It's really fascinating.
- 1:34:22Speaker 17: And amazingly, Mayor Mamdani, one of the few sensible things
- 1:34:27Speaker 17: he's done is to establish a Coney Island Business Improvement District.
- 1:34:33Speaker 17: And I don't know if he knows what that really means,
- 1:34:36Speaker 17: but it's a great thing for the middle class. It
- 1:34:40Speaker 17: means economic growth development aimed at sparring new retail businesses.
- 1:34:46Speaker 17: New apartments that are not just cheapest kinds of apartments, but.
- 1:34:51Speaker 7: Middle class, middle income places to live.
- 1:34:54Speaker 17: And one of the things I've done in this book
- 1:34:57Speaker 17: is to, I've imagined something that doesn't yet exist, but
- 1:35:01Speaker 17: might soon exist, which is a luxury condo tower. on
- 1:35:06Speaker 17: the Coney Island boardwalk overlooking the ocean. So as you know,
- 1:35:10Speaker 17: our friend John Katsimatidis has two beautiful rental apartment buildings
- 1:35:17Speaker 17: at the western.
- 1:35:17Speaker 7: End of Coney Island.
- 1:35:19Speaker 17: And I've imagined that he would, well, not him, of course,
- 1:35:23Speaker 17: but someone would put up a luxury condo tower next
- 1:35:26Speaker 17: to them. And he actually has the land there and
- 1:35:28Speaker 17: has always wanted to build. I think he needs a
- 1:35:31Speaker 17: zoning change. And so it's a setting that I think
- 1:35:36Speaker 17: makes sense for people who care about New York City
- 1:35:40Speaker 17: and anybody who loves Coney Island the way I do.
- 1:35:43Speaker 2: Yeah, but is this a good thing? You know, like
- 1:35:44Speaker 2: when you drove to Queens, it was Queens. Now when
- 1:35:48Speaker 2: you drive through Queens, it's high-rises, big glass, black glass
- 1:35:52Speaker 2: skyscrapers all over the place. It looks like a financial district.
- 1:35:56Speaker 2: It looks like Cleveland over there.
- 1:35:58Speaker 7: Is this good? I love those big glass high-rises. You
- 1:36:02Speaker 7: see them in places like Long Island City, Hunter's Point, Flushing,
- 1:36:07Speaker 7: other parts of Queens that.
- 1:36:09Speaker 17: Have been reserved over the years precisely to promote new development. No,
- 1:36:18Speaker 17: the buildings are not equally good. Yeah, some of them
- 1:36:22Speaker 17: can seem monotonous. If you take this No. 7 train
- 1:36:26Speaker 17: or the N train, out of Manhattan toward either a
- 1:36:31Speaker 17: funeral or a story or respectively, you're suddenly, Hey, what's
- 1:36:35Speaker 17: going on? You come out of the tunnel and you
- 1:36:39Speaker 17: see what's going on here. What are all these new buildings? Well,
- 1:36:42Speaker 17: people have made homes there and these buildings typically, you know,
- 1:36:46Speaker 17: they bring stores, they bring fitness centers, restaurants. So their
- 1:36:52Speaker 17: whole community is now in Coney Island. It's another story entirely.
- 1:36:56Speaker 7: There's no risk of.
- 1:36:58Speaker 17: Or promise, depending on how you look at it, of
- 1:37:01Speaker 17: Coney Island becoming anything like Flushing or Astoria or.
- 1:37:08Speaker 7: Places like that, Long Island City.
- 1:37:12Speaker 17: Developments are different, and they tend to be grouped along
- 1:37:17Speaker 17: Surf Avenue, which is.
- 1:37:19Speaker 7: One block in from Boardwalk. And they're good buildings. People
- 1:37:24Speaker 7: are moving there.
- 1:37:25Speaker 17: It's an exciting thing to see that middle-class people for
- 1:37:28Speaker 17: the first time have embraced Coney Island as a place
- 1:37:31Speaker 17: to live. And, of course, you have the advantages of
- 1:37:34Speaker 17: the amusement park, et cetera, the ocean, beach. You have
- 1:37:38Speaker 17: the disadvantages that there's very little shopping around there. It
- 1:37:42Speaker 17: isn't easy to get to or from from other parts.
- 1:37:45Speaker 7: Of the city. But it's all moving in what I
- 1:37:49Speaker 7: think is a good direction. trajectory. And, you know, we'll
- 1:37:54Speaker 7: see where it goes.
- 1:37:55Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, Steve Kuzo, when I talk to people all
- 1:37:57Speaker 2: over the country, you probably get the same thing. They'll say, oh,
- 1:38:00Speaker 2: New York, it's so dangerous. Is anybody still there? Did
- 1:38:03Speaker 2: everybody leave? Tell us the truth. People are actually coming
- 1:38:06Speaker 2: in like crazy, aren't they?
- 1:38:09Speaker 7: Completely ridiculous.
- 1:38:10Speaker 17: I mean, yeah, there are some, Mark, there are people
- 1:38:13Speaker 17: out there who hate New York City.
- 1:38:14Speaker 7: I don't know why. They've moved away years ago. They
- 1:38:19Speaker 7: have racist views of Manhattan.
- 1:38:21Speaker 17: And I know this because I get all these emails
- 1:38:24Speaker 17: every time I write about anything new in the city.
- 1:38:27Speaker 17: I get these horrible emails of people posting online. Why
- 1:38:32Speaker 17: would anybody want to live in this raffle and all.
- 1:38:34Speaker 7: This kind of thing? But the truth is that it's
- 1:38:37Speaker 7: the hottest.
- 1:38:38Speaker 17: Place in the world now. And prices of everything keep
- 1:38:42Speaker 17: going up. That's a good and also a bad thing.
- 1:38:45Speaker 17: But it indicates the extent to which there's great demand
- 1:38:52Speaker 17: to live here, to be here. And yeah, we know
- 1:38:55Speaker 17: the schools, the public schools stink. There are parts of
- 1:39:00Speaker 17: town that seem resistant to even the best efforts of
- 1:39:05Speaker 17: the NYPD to sort of tame the certain corners of
- 1:39:08Speaker 17: Brooklyn and the Bronx that remain difficult. But Police Commissioner
- 1:39:13Speaker 17: Jessica Tisch has done a phenomenal job And she hasn't
- 1:39:17Speaker 17: even been in the job that long, about a year,
- 1:39:20Speaker 17: reducing the number.
- 1:39:21Speaker 7: Of murders, crime.
- 1:39:22Speaker 6: We have the lowest crime, the.
- 1:39:23Speaker 7: Lowest serious crime rates in history. It's amazing.
- 1:39:27Speaker 17: Yes, there are problems with lower level crime, which I
- 1:39:31Speaker 17: grant you, it's not low level if.
- 1:39:33Speaker 7: You're a victim of a mugging.
- 1:39:36Speaker 17: Even so, those numbers are still coming down, not as
- 1:39:40Speaker 17: rapidly as for capital crimes, but they're coming down. People
- 1:39:46Speaker 17: compare them to the numbers prior to 2020. I don't
- 1:39:50Speaker 17: really see the relevance of that. Obviously, conditions were different
- 1:39:55Speaker 17: before the pandemic, but all I see is Wonderful things
- 1:40:00Speaker 17: happening all over town. And anybody who thinks that this
- 1:40:04Speaker 17: is a hellhole, they're just idiots.
- 1:40:06Speaker 18: All right.
- 1:40:07Speaker 2: But when you say that, you can actually back that up. Like,
- 1:40:09Speaker 2: for instance, we know apartment rental is way up there.
- 1:40:12Speaker 2: But what about leasing, leasing businesses, commercial space?
- 1:40:17Speaker 17: Right now, Manhattan office leasing, offices are mainly concentrated in Manhattan,
- 1:40:23Speaker 17: of course. And it has never been harder for companies
- 1:40:29Speaker 17: to find space or to expand than it is now
- 1:40:32Speaker 17: because demand is so great. All the new office buildings
- 1:40:37Speaker 17: fill up immediately. The greatest companies here continue to expand.
- 1:40:43Speaker 17: I write about this all the funds. Wall Street companies, media, tech, AI,
- 1:40:53Speaker 17: you know, Anthropic, which is one of the most in
- 1:40:56Speaker 17: the news AI-focused companies, recently leased an entire building of
- 1:41:02Speaker 17: 350,000 square feet on, I think, Hudson Street in the
- 1:41:06Speaker 17: Hudson Square area.
- 1:41:09Speaker 7: It's an amazing thing.
- 1:41:10Speaker 17: And this reality runs contrary to the, narratives that some
- 1:41:16Speaker 17: people are still putting out about how, I don't know,
- 1:41:19Speaker 17: New York has seen better days.
- 1:41:20Speaker 7: I don't know what they're talking about.
- 1:41:23Speaker 2: Yeah, and obviously, just walk around. Restaurants are mobbed. They're packed.
- 1:41:27Speaker 2: You can't get a reservation in a lot of places.
- 1:41:29Speaker 2: There's lines out the door for things.
- 1:41:32Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 1:41:33Speaker 7: It's a good and a bad thing.
- 1:41:35Speaker 2: Now, am I wrong? Are French restaurants making a little
- 1:41:38Speaker 2: bit of a comeback?
- 1:41:40Speaker 8: Totally.
- 1:41:42Speaker 17: We've never been without French restaurants, but In the recent
- 1:41:47Speaker 17: year or so, there have been a whole bunch of
- 1:41:49Speaker 17: new openings. And my colleague, Jennifer Gould, wrote about this
- 1:41:53Speaker 17: a few weeks ago. And there are new restaurants coming
- 1:41:59Speaker 17: that have opened recently downtown. Danielle Balloude is opening his
- 1:42:05Speaker 17: giant brasserie, Balloude. across from Lincoln Center in a few weeks.
- 1:42:14Speaker 7: And there were all.
- 1:42:15Speaker 17: Sorts of smaller restaurants as well that are opening. Claudette
- 1:42:21Speaker 17: is a wonderful restaurant down on Lower Fifth Avenue. It
- 1:42:24Speaker 17: closed for a few years and recently reopened. It's a
- 1:42:31Speaker 17: banner time if you love French cuisine in all its forms.
- 1:42:34Speaker 17: But it's also a banner time for people who love
- 1:42:38Speaker 17: Korean food and, and, um, uh, steakhouses.
- 1:42:42Speaker 7: Um, it's a phenomenal thing that we've seen recently.
- 1:42:45Speaker 17: And the only time I've resented is when I have
- 1:42:47Speaker 17: trouble getting a reservation somewhere, which happens more often than
- 1:42:52Speaker 17: you might think.
- 1:42:54Speaker 2: Hey, uh, before we run out of time, I loved, uh,
- 1:42:56Speaker 2: Shelly Fireman, the great restaurant tour, try to read a
- 1:42:59Speaker 2: Del Arte red eye grill, a bond 45, uh, Fiorello. Oh,
- 1:43:03Speaker 2: it was great. Did, Did you report that that company
- 1:43:06Speaker 2: was filing bankruptcy?
- 1:43:09Speaker 17: Yeah, they're in Chapter 11, and this happened a few
- 1:43:11Speaker 17: weeks ago. And they actually filed about a month ago,
- 1:43:15Speaker 17: but nobody noticed. And, you know, Shelley Fireman, founder of
- 1:43:20Speaker 17: that great company, passed away almost a year ago. And
- 1:43:24Speaker 17: I think that even before Shelley died, it wasn't quite right.
- 1:43:29Speaker 7: They had opened a few restaurants. It flopped.
- 1:43:32Speaker 17: But they have these great long-lived restaurants like Trattoria Del
- 1:43:35Speaker 17: Arte and Fiorello and Bond 45. Some of these restaurants
- 1:43:42Speaker 17: have been with us for 30 years. This is almost
- 1:43:45Speaker 17: unprecedented in New York City. Nobody has restaurants that are that,
- 1:43:50Speaker 17: as many restaurants that are that venerable. And I think
- 1:43:56Speaker 17: that they've had trouble because Their main restaurants are all very,
- 1:44:01Speaker 17: very close to or across the street from major entertainment venues.
- 1:44:07Speaker 17: And those have sort of during the pandemic, there was
- 1:44:11Speaker 17: no entertainment. So Bond 45 is on a block with
- 1:44:15Speaker 17: three Broadway theaters. Well, you know, there were no Broadway
- 1:44:19Speaker 17: theaters for nearly two years. So naturally, they suffered a
- 1:44:22Speaker 17: staggering loss of business, and they have yet to recoup that.
- 1:44:25Speaker 17: Same with Trattoria dell'Arte across.
- 1:44:29Speaker 2: From Carnegie Hall. I was there last night. We hope
- 1:44:31Speaker 2: they recover. That's a great restaurant chain. Hey, we're out
- 1:44:34Speaker 2: of time.
- 1:44:35Speaker 7: They're in business. They're all still going strong.
- 1:44:38Speaker 2: Steve Cuso. What's the name of the book again?
- 1:44:41Speaker 17: Oh, it's called Consuela's Thrill. And they're actually pre-marketing it
- 1:44:46Speaker 17: on Amazon, on Simon & Schuster website, Barnes & Noble.
- 1:44:51Speaker 7: So order now.
- 1:44:53Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody just go to Amazon. Just type in Steve Cuso.
- 1:44:56Speaker 7: As well as thrill.
- 1:44:57Speaker 2: Yeah, type in Steve Cuso. It'll come up on Amazon.
- 1:44:59Speaker 2: Pre-order it. Thanks for being with us. We'll do it
- 1:45:02Speaker 2: again soon.
- 1:45:03Speaker 7: Thanks a lot, Mark. Take care.
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