FULL SHOW: Great jobs report; Examining Pam Bondi.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, this is Mark Simon Show on sevent ten.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Woor Well, finally it's Friday. It's gonna be a great
day to day. You got opening day Yankee Stadium. Weather
will be fine. Doesn't look so great right now, but
the cloudiness, the drizzle go away, some will come out.
It'll be a great opening day to day. We'll get
to Pam Bondy and exactly what happened there. We'll get

(00:26):
to President Trump, no Kings, We'll get to NATO, we'll
get to Iran, we'll get to sixty minutes. Looks like
there's gonna be a massacre there coming. And we'll get
to Tiger Woods and a whole lot more coming up.
The job numbers came out this morning. You won't hear

(00:46):
about it very much because they were great. They were
not just great, they were spectacular. Do you remember there was
a month not long ago where the job numbers were
below what was expected. It was the lead story everywhere
every network news cast, New York Times, it was lead story.
Job numbers were lower than expected. Well, we've more than

(01:06):
made up for that. The job numbers were expected to
be sixty thousand. It was one hundred and seventy eight. Thousand.
It was fabulous job numbers, way above what was expected.
We're now at full employment four point three percent. So
you won't hear about this. It will not be the
lead story on the NBC Nightly News. As we told

(01:27):
you back then. I remember when the job numbers are
a little low, lead story on the nightly news, main story, everywhere,
lead story. Now you will not hear about this anywhere
all day long. You'll just keep it very quiet. So
we're learning more about Pam Bondy. She's out. Who's going
to replace her? Well, it'll be Todd blanche the acting

(01:52):
Attorney General. And actually, for the last few months he's
really been running things. He's really been the guy running things.
So nothing much will change over there. There's been a
lot of talk of Leezelden. He's become very, very very
well regarded in the inner circle of the Trump White House.
So it could be Lee Zelden. You can be sure.

(02:13):
Janine Piro is on the phone constantly calling. There are
people pushing for her. There are people. Now you're going
to hear some senator's names, Eric Schmidt, you've heard the
name's Mike Lee, a couple of other senators. There a
lot of people are saying that should be the pick.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
The reason for that there's people in the Senate that
the Senate would like to get rid of. You just
want to get him out of the Senate, so they're
pushing those names. Don't take that very seriously. There's Elena Habba,
but you know the problem is she's a little too
Pam Bondi ish. Now, there were problems with Pam Bondi
running things. The list is at the top of the

(02:52):
list Epstein Files disaster. She made a total mess out
of that, just a complete mess out of the Epstein files.
Nobody can figure out why it all started with this
supposed client list. Now, Epstein never had any kind of
a sex business. There were no clients for any sex
nothing like that. Epstein there were always a lot of

(03:13):
women around, and if you were one of his friends
and he came to his parties or his house, he
always had plenty of women to introduce you to. They
were older women, they were in their twenties, thirties, forties, fifties.
There were some underage women, but that's what Epstein personally liked.
He liked these underage women. And maybe a friend or
two of his a lot of people think Prince Andrew,

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But that was just a private thing. It had nothing
to do with clients. There was no lists. So it's
one thing for the public or you know, some fringe
groups online to start rumoring about a client list a
client list. But when you're in the Attorney General of
the United States, you should know what the hell you're
talking about. And she had the files that Biden Justice
Department had the files for four years. They went through it,

(03:57):
they read those files a million times. There was nothing
in their Trump there was nothing in there about a
client list. She should have known that. Yet way back
then she made things one hundred times worse by shooting
her mouth off claiming there was a client list.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Well, that really happened.

Speaker 5 (04:16):
It's sitting on my desk right now to review. That's
been a directive by President Trump. I'm reviewing that. I'm
reviewing JFKs MLK files. That's all in the process of
being reviewed because that was done at the directive of
the president from all of these agencies.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
So have you seen anything there? You said, Oh, my gosh,
not yet. Okay, well, we'll check back with you.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah, okay. That's one of the main reasons she's being fired.
There's no such thing as a client list for her
to say it was sitting on her desk. Obviously she
didn't know what the hell she was talking about, which
is fine, but don't shoot your mouth off on television.
And if you hadn't reviewed anything, don't be talking about
it on TV. So that's one reason. The other reason
is the failed prosecutions. Trump thought there was a pretty

(05:02):
good case against Letitia James, so did all most of
our great legal scholars and James call me. Those things
went nowhere. You could say, well, it's not her fault.
The grand jury wouldn't indict. But it's all about what
you present, and it's all about what you come up with.
There was plenty of stuff on Letitia James and call
me and all this. But so that's another reason. So

(05:24):
there were a lot of reasons, and she just had
to go. And she sort of knew that a few
couple months ago that she knew they weren't happy with her,
and she did a lot of stuff to try to
appease the president and win him back, and she thought
maybe she had succeeded at that, but the President on

(05:44):
Monday started talking to people about getting rid of her.
And then you know, they went to the Supreme Court
to sit in on the oral arguments. The President went
there and Pam Bondi went with him, and they rode
together and the limo it's a two mile ride, it's
not that long a ride, short ride, but they rode
to the Supreme Court and then sat in the here

(06:06):
and then came back. Now, apparently he told her, apparently
he fired her during the Lemo ride going there. You
think you'd wait till you were leaving her, not while
you're sitting in the car. And if you ever seen
that the Beast, the Presidential Lemo, you know, when you're
inside that thing, it's really tight in there. There's no

(06:28):
space in there because the reason the Beast is bulletproof
and bomb proof. The walls, the windows, the doors are
like a foot thick. They're so thick on both sides
that they take away like two feet of the interior.
So you're really crammed together in there. And he told
her his exact words, I think it's time, told her

(06:49):
she was out. They went to the Supreme Court, they
sat through the oral arguments. Apparently on the way out
after the A couple hours later, after the oral argument,
she asked him could she just stay till the summer.
Could she leave in the summer. She just wanted a
couple more months, and he said, no, you can't do that.
She had to go right away. She'll stay another couple weeks.

(07:11):
Need her for transitional stuff. The other thing is they've
told her they will get her a very very good
job in the private sector in Florida, very high paying
job at a law firm. She'll make herself a lot
of money. I'm make sure that happens.

Speaker 6 (07:29):
Now.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Who's going to replace her? Well, names are being floated.
People are pushing for Ron DeSantis. He'd probably be good
at that because in real life he's a vicious guy
behind the scenes. Great governor, done a phenomenal job as
governor of Florida, probably the best governor in America, but
behind the scenes, a nasty, vicious guy. So people are
pushing him, but he will not get it because two reasons.

(07:53):
Trump knows that he's a vicious guy in real life,
and everybody's ever worked with him or known him will
be calling Trump saying, don't give him the job. I
know some people don't like to hear this because he's
such a great governor, but behind the scenes he is
so vicious, so rude, so nasty to everybody he encounters privately,
that everybody will rush to stop that. And the other

(08:13):
reason Trump won't appoint him. He needs him to be
governor of Florida because Trump does a lot of stuff
in Florida, from mar A Lago to all of his price.
He's got a lot of property in Florida that he
needs a governor that's going to help him out. So
he will not remove him as governor. But the other
thing is he likes Todd Blanche, and Todd Blanche has
been running things for the last couple of months. Very

(08:35):
happy with Todd Blanch Blanche. So there may be no hurry.
There may be no hurry. And whoever you appoints going
to need confirmation, and those Democrats in Congress will hold
it up forever and ever, and that could take forever,
but that's fine. He's happy Todd Blanche is acting Attorney
General and he could stay that way. He'll be happy
to keep it that way for a long time. In

(08:58):
the middle of about eleven days, I think it's April fourteenth,
supposed to be a hearing Congressional Committee and Pam Bondi
scheduled to testify on her handling of the Epstein files.
So the Justice Department is saying, well, she's out, so
let's have Todd Blanche come testify. The Congressional Committee saying

(09:20):
absolutely not. It's Epstein's Bondie that we want to talk
about the Epstein files, which it's got to be her,
so she'll still have to do that hearing. But once
you're out, it's really kind of a meaningless so I
don't think anything will happen in that hearing. Hey, the
No King's Rally. These crazy Democrats now protesting things that

(09:43):
don't even exist, protesting things in their imagination. But the
No King's Rally. President Trump was asked about it. Did
they call me king?

Speaker 6 (09:52):
Now?

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Do you believe it?

Speaker 6 (09:53):
No King?

Speaker 7 (09:55):
I'm such a king. I can't get a ball room approved.
It's pretty amazing. I'm a king. If I was a king,
we'd be doing a lot more. I'm doing a lot,
but I could be doing a lot more if.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
I was a king.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
It's pretty good. Iran. Here's the latest we took out
their most important, finest, the most expensive, brand new bridge
they built. Yesterday we took out it's the tallest bridge
in Iran. It's a very important structure. It connects to
Tehran and Karaj. It was blown to bits, very very

(10:30):
very key infrastructure figure of Iran. We blew it up
and demolished it. Now this war has come down to
just one thing, will the will of the Iranians to resist,
and they believe we don't have the will to keep
going and finish the job. So that's their strategy that
we just don't have the will to finish this, that

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will give up and go away at some point. And
you got to admire the crazy nut job Iranian leaders,
the will they have. They'll just let the whole place
get blown up. So we're going to escalate slowly. We've
been a massive amount of bombing rains, quantity has been there,
so now they'll go for quality. They'll start taking out

(11:12):
more each day, more and more and more important infrastructure.
Hopefully that'll break the will of the Iranians. But this
is going to get to a point where there's just
not much left to go after and we'll see that.
You're gonna hear all the left wing fake news crowds say, well,
there's no way to finish it without ground troops. Well,

(11:33):
actually there is. You could. You can finish a war
without ground troops. Take a look at Japan World War two.
We were able to finish that and get a surrender
without sending in any ground troops. It's been done many,
many times NATO. There are some people wondering about these
NATO countries and these NATO leaders. It's as if they're

(11:54):
trying to get the US to pull out. I mean,
they have done things that there's absolutely preposterous. And NATO
partner's supposed to help you when you need help join
the fight. Well not only didn't they do that, but
even the most bare minimum things like let us use
the air base in Italy, no, let us use your

(12:15):
airspace no. So even the most untiniest, little bare minimum
things NATO has refused. So it's if as if they're
trying to get us to leave. And you've seen in
the Iaran battle, Israel right there side by side with
US and Saudi Arabia right there side by side with us.

(12:36):
We're getting help from Kuwait, We're getting help from Cutter,
nothing from NATO, not even bare minimum, little tiny things,
nothing from NATO. So it's kind of a no brainer
then just to pull out of NATO. Here's Marco Rubio.

Speaker 8 (12:50):
When we need them to allow us to use their
military bases, their answer is no. Then why are we
in NATO? You have to ask that question, why do
we have billions and billions of dollars, hundreds of billions
of dollars over the years, trillions of dollars and all
these American forces stationed in the region. If we can
only use we can we in our time of need.
We're not going to be allowed to use those bases.

(13:11):
So I think there's no doubt. Unfortunately, after this conflict
is concluded, we are going to have to re examine
that relationship. We're going to have to re examine the
value of NATO and that alliance for our country.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
I mean, if we're spending all first of all, the
financing of NATO, it's all us. It's mostly US financing it. Troops,
ground troops, you know, left wing claims I don't want
any ground troops. We've got ground troops all over Europe
and we can't count on NATO even for the tiniest
little thing. Probably is time to get out. Hey, here's
some good news. You know. Barry Weiss is taken over

(13:43):
at CBS and trying to clean it up, trying to
get it back somewhere towards the middle instead of far
left partisan. And word is she's going to shake up
sixty minutes, reshuffle producers, all this stuff, and the top
talent should get rid of these people. You got Leslie
Stall she's eighty four. Wow, Bill Whittaker, seventy four. Scott Pelley,

(14:06):
who's the nastiest guy on the air, a nice guy
in real life, but on the air, vicious, nasty, over
the top, crazy partisan. Do you remember that commencement address
he made? It was a commencement speech where he went
over the top anti Trump partisan. It's totally inappropriate for
a college commencement speech, but also extremely inappropriate for somebody

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who's supposed to be a neutral, unbiased news anchor. So
just for that speech, they should throw him the hell
out of there. But she says she wants to make
the show a tougher, harder hitting, investigative reporting, breaking news,
that sort of stuff. It's a good idea. It's also cheaper,
you know, the old sixty minutes where they do these

(14:51):
amazing stories. You know, they'd send to Mike Wallace to
Tibet to talk with the dolly somebody with a lama.
I mean that costs a fortune. You got to send
the whole crew for a month to Tibet. Then they'd
do another story on somebody in England. They'd send the
whole crew Toland. Cost a fortune to do that show.
But back then, sixty minutes with the number one biggest
show in television with fifty sixty seventy five million viewers

(15:15):
in a week, you could have spent that kind of money.
Now it's like two million, one million is hardly anybody watching.
You can't afford to tell those kind of story. So
breaking News, just sit there at the anchor desk and
just read it. It's a much much cheaper idea. Hey,
we'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three two one
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Speaker 7 (15:40):
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Speaker 2 (15:49):
Now back to Mark.

Speaker 7 (15:50):
Zimone on do woory.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Let's fix them calls. Eight hundred three two one zero
seven ten is the number eight hundred three two one
zero seven to ten. Let's go to John and paramus. John,
how you doing good?

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Listen? You know I've been a Springsteen fan from day one.
I've seen him many at times, loved his music and
everything else. But now, after reading the review yesterday in
the Times, you couldn't pay me to go see him.
He has really lost his way. Half the half of
the concert, he talks.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Well in his defense, in his defense, not just him,
but when you're one of these big superstar gods of
music seventies into the eighties, by the time it's thirty
years later, you can't get hit records anymore. You're totally irrelevant.
All you are is you can do concerts. That's all
you can do. You'll be the elder statesman doing the concerts.
But they can't. They all try to get back in

(16:47):
the game with a hit record or try to latch
onto something. Why were you a Springsteen fan back then?
What was it about this way?

Speaker 1 (16:54):
Because I was younger fifty years I was. I'm from Jersey,
of s fifty years ago.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
I loved him.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
He was great. I loved his music, old rock and
rolling but god, I mean, he goes on and if
you read the review, I told my wife, my wife
is going with her girlfriend. I wouldn't go. She's going
in April. Yeah, I said. Now, I'm definitely convinced I
wouldn't go. I wouldn't, couldn't.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
But even back then he was great musically. But those
songs Born to Run, jungle Land, yelling and screaming. What
the hell was he actually singing about? I still don't know.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
I don't know. It's just the way I was. It
was just my generation. I guess that's all right.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
But what was he singing about?

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Well, you have car I have cars and and girls
and working hard and work, you know, trying to get ahead.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Listen to the Beatles, I want to hold your hand.
I can understand that song, Michelle my belt, I understand that.
But down in jungle Land, what was he singing? What
that was that all about?

Speaker 6 (17:48):
That?

Speaker 1 (17:48):
Well, you know, the struggle, life's struggle, and he never
really he struggled a little bit, and then he hasn't
struggled in forty five years.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, what life's struggle. I don't know this. I mean,
all Rightssue. A lot of people love Springsteen back then
I never quite got it.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
But I tell you a lot of people I know
are really not happy with him at all. A lot
of people I feel the same way about I am
about the way he used to be.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
That come, there's that old expression. There's no fool like
an old fool. The booster boy for it. Yeah, that's
the other thing, you know. I guess when he started
and he wore those you know, those T shirts and
what's that stuff around his wrist, those wristbands and the
motorcycle boots and the jeans, and he was but back

(18:35):
then he was twenty five riding the motorcycle. He's now
an eighty year old multi multi multi millionaire. You don't
need to wear all that stuff, you know. He actually
he's about to jump on a motorcycle any moment, and
he need like an orthopedic seat on the motorcycle nowadays.
Let's go to Rich in Myrtle Beach. Rich How you doing?

Speaker 6 (18:53):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Thanks Mark? You know, he brought up a good point.
He were Bruce Springsteen. They're using a Bruce Springsteen song
Born in the USA for the ACLU commercials. I'm singing
on Fox News this morning on TV about protect birthright
citizenship and has shown all these immigrants who were born
in the USA playing his lousy music. And another band
that used to preach to everybody. I quit going to

(19:15):
see Corsy still Snash thirty years ago because all they
did was preaching, lecture you on being a lunatic and
stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Okay, that they were like Woodstock type hippies back then,
they're supposed to do that. But it's now twenty twenty six.
And Bruce Springsteen, I mean, be honest, did you've listen
to all those music? Right?

Speaker 6 (19:33):
Well?

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Can you understand half the things he's singing?

Speaker 6 (19:36):
No?

Speaker 1 (19:36):
I never got Bruce Springsteen. I never got Dave Matthews either.

Speaker 9 (19:39):
You know.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
I came from the Beatles generation, the Motown, I mean,
the sixties, seventies, early eighties was great music. And then
you know the old time country. This new country is brutal.
Tou that's no good? Yeah, but I know exactly. Here's
one remember this, Marcus Sopranos, when Chris's girlfriend Adriana has
her old high school boyfriend with his band and in

(20:00):
the studio playing the same drudge over and over again,
and then producers this, how come you can't play something
with a hook like I want to hold your hand. Yeah,
it starts with the hook, and you guys do something
about that.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yeah, well springs Thin could do it. Dancing in the
dark had a great hook and ye hey, and I
was a DJ. I remember we'd played jungle Land. You
know why because it was like twelve minutes. It was
a back then, it was a way to go to
the men's room. But thanks for calling. Let's go to
Mike in Florida.

Speaker 10 (20:30):
Mike, how you doing, Good morning, Mark, Yes, Mike, Let's
think all that botox is Robin Springsteen's brain.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
Why if people keep saying you have botox or plastic surgery?

Speaker 10 (20:40):
He look at him, he looks like he's stretched like
a drumskin stretched over a.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Think the guy. I think the guy's entitled to a refund.
He looks even older now.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
I think so.

Speaker 10 (20:53):
I had a quick sixty minute story when I worked
over at the CBS studios. Over there, every late in
the week in Jurisday, Friday night, did be a studio
set up all dark with an easel lit and that's
when they shot the clock. Yeah, they shot it live
every every week for the show on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yeah, well it was back then. It was a great show.
Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, who am I? Who else? Harry Reasoner,
Kenny Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (21:21):
You'd see those guys doddling around the studio every once
in a while. It would be like Loyalty walking by.
You know, everybody would be in hushed tones as they
walked by.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah, well, I love Mike Wallace was a great friend,
and he was one of our most a little crusty,
but yeah, all right, thanks for calling you. Mike Wallace.
He was one of our most regular guests on this
show for a million years. We used to have Andy
Rooney on all the time, although he couldn't stand me.
I don't know, I don't exactly why, but he'd always

(21:50):
yell at me.

Speaker 6 (21:51):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
And then Memory refused to come on the air for
a while, and then Mike Wallace convinced that he had
to come back on the air, and every timmy commanding him,
ohly here because Mike Wallace is, ma could we do this?
But they were great, I mean they were like legends. Now,
who's the guy? You don't even know who these people
are anymore, but gota remember back then it was the
number one show in television. It's like sixty five million

(22:12):
people watching it, and you could afford to send a crew,
you know, to Antarctica to do a story. If you
watch it now, you can see they've been cutbacks. It's
this tiny audience. So if they're doing a story, it's
about something in Nayak where the crew can drive up
there for an hour and come right back. They don't

(22:32):
have to spend money on planes, hotels or any of that.
Let's go to Bill in Pennsylvania. Bill, how you doing?

Speaker 6 (22:38):
Hi?

Speaker 11 (22:39):
Hi?

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Mark? Uh? Yeah, you know Charles.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
Mister a happy hour here?

Speaker 1 (22:43):
Huh.

Speaker 9 (22:45):
I'm sorry, I'm my throat's going out. I hope I
can speak. Yeah, yeah, I spent about a month working
with Charles grow out in North Carolina. Yeah, oh jeez,
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
That's okay, that's okay, that's that.

Speaker 6 (23:03):
Delight.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
Jim Beams got your throat. Yeah, go ahead, I said,
that's great.

Speaker 9 (23:07):
What he was drinking Jack Daniels, not me?

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, yeah. He was a Jack Daniels type.

Speaker 9 (23:14):
And anyway, he had two families, which was weird.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
That's right, I forgot about that. Turned out he was
a bigger mister. He used to do that feature called
on the Road where he'd go out on the road
and talk to Meantime, this guy had more activity on
the road. He would do stories about interesting people on
the road. She should have been doing a story about himself.
And what all the action this guy had going on?

Speaker 9 (23:37):
Absolutely, I mean it was. It was one of the
funniest guys in the world. He could drink a bottle
of Jack Daniels and give a word perfect speech in
front of gymnasiums full of you know, an audience, and
it was just it was a miracle.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
I couldn't figure it out.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yeah, well we can see where you got your training.
Although his tolerance, Yeah, thank.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
You, thank you for bringing that out.

Speaker 9 (24:00):
But the other thing that which is interesting, which I
was and I wanted to ask you, I would agree
with Larry Menzies this morning, which is about you know,
we have to watch these polls. Uh huh they're going
on because we want to see where the Democrats are
spending their money.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
All right, Well, you know, Bill, we got to go
talk to anybody else. But thank you, No, you're a
good caller. We love having you call. Enjoy happy hour.
Thanks for thanks for checking in with us. Ah when
we come back. Ed Rollins the Dean himself, the greatest
political analyst of all. What's going to happen in the midterms,
what happens when you fire a cabinet member. We'll get

(24:41):
to all of this stuff next on seven to ten WRN.

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The Mark Simone Show on seven.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
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Speaker 2 (25:00):
Well, let's talk to the dean himself, Ed Rollins, the
greatest political analyst that he's been in a lot of
white houses, run a lot of campaigns, and he's with
us now. Ed Rollins, how you doing, good morning? How
are you very good? Hey? What do you think getting
rid of Pam BONDI probably a good idea, A bit
of a bumbler.

Speaker 6 (25:18):
I think she obviously is too strident for the jobs.
She inlinated a lot of people and didn't do what
Trump wanted. The critical thing I think is the timing,
and I worry from a communications perspective, it's two hundred
and thirteen days to the election. I would not go
to another fight. I was the president of the President's team.

(25:41):
I just leave the number two.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
Guy in there.

Speaker 6 (25:44):
For as well as period as you can and straighten
things out as best you can. What you can't have
is every day taken away from your story. We're in
the middle of a war, and obviously the war has
gone all our side so far. But at the end
of the day, when you get into on battle, which
is what apparently the President wants to do or will do, Uh,
those are going to be fired back. We now have

(26:05):
We now have to uh two pot uts that are
down according to this morning's uh stories, and you know
what's gonna happen those guys. They're alive, but they're basically
going to be uh uh you know, I just think
it's important that the president speech here that night was
a disaster. He didn't didn't add anything to the to
the the dialogue. He could have done that speech anytime,

(26:27):
four weeks ago, four weeks from now, and it's just uh,
you know, we've got a week of which there is
sort of obviously a very important thing, the space program,
that we could be highlighting. Uh. It's Easter time, and
there's a lot of people that are aren't interested in
politics right now, and the critical thing I think is
to get get your message, to get your team, and
if you've got to change more people in the White House,

(26:47):
do it quick. Yeah, I mean, don't, don't drag it out.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
Problem with that speech, he's not a good teleprompter reader,
and you know, with no audience, it's not him. And
how does something like that happen to be with people
push him to do that?

Speaker 6 (27:02):
Well, no one had pushed this president. This president gets
to do what he wants to do. And you'ref to right.
When I worked for Ronald Reagan, you know, Ronald Reagan
got the sort of set, was a master speaker, could
read a teleprompter anywhere, but he took time to get
ready for it. The idea that you now have Pam
Bondy being fired at the same time, these are all
those tractions to the president. No matter how capable he

(27:24):
may be or not be, No one could basically take
all these pressures all at once. So I think I
think he was badly. You know, he could fire next week,
he could fire two leagues and now I no, won't care.
But at the end of the day, you've now you've
now stepped all over your stories. And I worry about
the communications. I worry about the Democrats, not not necessarily
getting the upper hand on communications. But they're going to

(27:46):
take the press that basically is not favorable to the
president right now and highlight these stories. And now now
today you have the budget which the president asked, what
an enormous amount of money for the Defense Department and
the end of the day, it may be necessary, but
he's gott to prove his case. She's not going to
get that money easily. So yeah, a lot of the

(28:07):
gendera a lot of agenda.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
Yeah, but when you get a guy who's not a politician,
not a professional politician, he's a billionaire, he's from the
private sector. You worked for Ross Perot, They're gonna do
what they want. They're not going to ever follow the procedure,
are they.

Speaker 6 (28:20):
Nope, I agree totally in Ross Baroi is a perfect example.
But uh, you know, Trump has had success though, and
I think the key things, you know, he has to
pick us, pick us battles carefully, especially the next two
in a days he loses, he's gonna he's gonna lose
the House. It may not be a be a massive loss,
but it's gonna be a loss. Uh, the senators now
in play. He loses those two things, those two entities.

(28:43):
The whole game chased the last two years. So he's
got to basically the next six months get what he
needs done, get an agenda out there, get a campaign
strategy that can can articulate what it is. Is the
last two years over about him.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yeah, but it's many many, many many months away. And
you know he can old rabbits out of his hat.
He is pretty good at that, isn't.

Speaker 6 (29:02):
He He's very He's very good at that. At the
end of the day, though, you want to be on
your agenda, not their agenda.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Yeah. So, and the idea of firing a cabinet member,
you're gonna hear all day and all weekend on the
Sunday shows this and indicates total chaos in the administrative
It's not unusual to fire cabinet member, is it.

Speaker 6 (29:22):
No, it's not. And certainly Trump had had a big
record of hiring people first term, and you know, you
remember back to cabin vers and fire forever. And at
the end of the day, what I would do is
just target is don't don't drag it out, don't don't
do uh one a week so you bet I change

(29:43):
and there are four or five people you're not satisfied,
get it done, do it sometimes next a couple of weeks,
and then basically the safest debts of all there the
picked senators or people with the senator will vote for quickly,
don't drive. Just as we've made the change with Beyond,
with the Homeland of Security, I got too quick. It's done.
We're moving forward. It's no longer an issue. This one's

(30:07):
going to be an issue. So I would just said,
holy acting the deputy there for as long as I could.
There's no there's no time restraint, and that that basically
go out and try and grab somebody right down, throw
them on the.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
Yeah, we're talking with Ed Rollinson. Let's let's talk about
New York Bruce Blakeman. I think he'd be a great governor.
I think he's got a real shot at winning this
campaign finance board. It looks pretty corrupt that too many
Democrats are on the board. They've denied him funding. What
what what do you do about a thing like that?

Speaker 6 (30:38):
You got to keep fighting. You got to basically get
out there and let people know. I think Blake would
be a great candidate. He's been a great county administrator.
Uh and at the end of the day. The race
is closer than people anticipated it being. We could win
this one. We're gonna do it right.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yeah, But she's got like twenty million in today's world,
like in the old days, you'd spend it all into
TV commercials. What is he to do with the money now?
TV commercials don't mean much. What do you do with
the money now?

Speaker 6 (31:06):
Well, you build a grassroots organization. You know. The key
thing here is is you've got to take the three
or four states, three or four counties that matter. Sure Westchester,
his county, Suffolk, some upstate and registered voters. Get sure
your voters are aligned to vote participating. But it's great
a grassroots Africa that you've got to do.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah, I think what the real problem? We don't really
have as much of a Republican party in New York.
I mean the actual infrastructure apparatus, it's not really there.
What do we do about that?

Speaker 6 (31:36):
Well, he's got to do himself. You can't get a
party in place at this point in time. We've had
the same chairman for an over years now, and it's
just worth too much in a mindset of losing and
self fulfilling prophecy. My sense is we've got a candidate
who's Bible, who's ticul that knows the issues well in
a very weak in comment. So this is his opportunity

(31:58):
for us.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yeah. So hey, Iran, Uh, what does the president need
to do now to wrap this up? What does he
need to do? Messaging wise?

Speaker 6 (32:07):
Well, message wise is very important. Uh. And as I
said this speech the other night, could have given any time.
But you know the reality is, if you're going to
get on the ground and you're going to go try
and do some of the things that they want to do,
you're going to have, unfortunately gonna have American skilled and
that changes the whole dynamics. If I was if I
was advising him at this point in time, which obviously

(32:27):
I'm not, I'd say get out. You've done what you
want to do. You basically said you're not You're not
going to make You're not going to make the change
in the in the government. Uh. It's and if you
put troops on the ground, you know there's a million
people in their armor, and there's two hundred fifty thousand and
there in their Republican Guard. He was, you know, the

(32:50):
sort of repeat of Vietnam. We bombed the hell out
of Vietnam and basically won't get on the ground or them.
They put a lot of up dead to the Americans.
If you started as Americans, who will lose support.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
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and we'll do it again soon. Thanks, thanks for being
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Speaker 9 (33:33):
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Speaker 6 (33:39):
Well.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
You know they had well this Easter Lunch at the
White House that was yesterday. It was the day before. Yeah,
it was the day before the Easter lunch where the
President speaks and they had a lot of invited guests
and dignitaries and VIPs there and the President spoke and

(34:01):
it was very funny. It's a private event. For some reason,
they videotaped it and then somebody at the White House
accidentally posted the video It was never supposed to be
seen publicly, and the President got pretty frank with everybody
and it became like a roast. He was kind of

(34:21):
roasting everybody with a lot of jokes. So it was
not supposed to go up online. They posted it. It
was taken down after about twenty minutes when they realized
the mistake, but a lot of the stuff leaked out
the footage. In fact, he started talking about the French
president Macrone, talking about he couldn't be here because his
wife beat him up. It was that he's still recovering

(34:42):
from the right to the jaw. He then mimicked Macrone's
French accident and started imitating him getting beaten up by
his wife. Charlie Kirk's widow, Erica Kirk, was there and
she's been the victim of all kinds of fake news crap,
and he's talking to her. He said, I would sue

(35:02):
their ass off. I would sue their blank off. At
one point he started talking about the Supreme Court justices
and the ones that he appointed, and he called them
stupid people. But again, it's a private lunch, nobody's supposed
to see. It's not supposed to be public. They act
somebody accidentally posted this. All this stuff leakscept Now, if
this were another president, this would have been horribly embarrassing.

(35:27):
This would have been a problem. Oh my god, look
what he said behind the scenes. Oh my god, look
at the jokes he makes behind the scenes. But luckily
it's Trump. And let's be honest. I mean, is there
anything there he wouldn't have said publicly? So that's the
great thing about being totally frank, totally blunt, totally honest
with what you think, no filter, say whatever the hell
you want all the time. There's nothing that can come

(35:48):
out behind the scenes. You don't have to worry about
anything being exposed. Look at Christy Nomes's husband with his
little bimbo fetish that comes out and it's just awful scandal.
Now there's word that the reason that got exposed, Christy
Nome's husband would use these sex workers that would dress

(36:12):
up they were bimbos. He would dress up as a bimbo.
Apparently they would do this on video. You know, they
have these what they call webcam models where you go
on a webcam and you're talking live to the webcam model.
And he was paying like twenty five dollars a minute
for them to talk dirty to him. How much is
how long do you have to talk? Well, let's say

(36:32):
it's ten minutes, that's two hundred and fifty bucks. All right,
let's say it's twenty minutes, it's five hundred bucks. But
apparently one of these sex workers was an illegal migrant
who did this sex work. The illegal migrant calls herself
Lydia Love. She remembers seeing Nome. She remembers the way

(36:54):
he was dressed, with the T shirt with the fake boobs,
the balloons underneath. But apparently it was on one of
the workers was an illegal migrant, and the illegal migrant
was not happy about Christynome and not happy about ice
and all that kind of stuff. So she realized who
this guy was, and she went to somebody who went

(37:17):
to Axios, the political website, and leaked it to them.
And apparently that's how it came out. From this illegal
migrant who happened to be a sex worker. You see,
that did do the jobs Americans won't do, like talk
to Christy Nome's husband will. Anyway, we've got a lot
to get to in the next hour. We'll get to

(37:37):
New York and how it's doing it's opening day to
day Yankee Stadium, big big day there. Weather should be
great by afternoon, the sun should come out. It should
be warm by afternoon, so that'll be great. That's today.
We'll also get to Tiger Woods in the next hour
and a whole lot more. Just ahead, Mark Simone here
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(38:00):
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Speaker 13 (38:17):
For being here, he s marks alone on sevent tenor.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Well, it's Friday, opening day at Yankee Stadium today. That's
a big event every years. It's gonna be nice. It
should be nice later today, sun'll come out. It should
be nice Tomorrow. Looks like rain on Easter Sunday. The
Easter Parade takes place on Fifth Avenue forty ninth to
fifty seventh Street, But it looks like it'll rain throughout
the parade on Sunday. So Iran is claiming it's shot

(38:51):
down a US fighter jet and that the pilot is missing. Now,
this has not been confirmed by anybody. This is Iran
claiming this. Put out a picture of the jet they
shot down, saying it's an F thirty five, but US
officials looking at it and say it's clearly not. They
can tell from the pieces it's an F fifteen. And

(39:12):
it should be pointed out Iran has a history of
claiming to have shot down US jets when they didn't.
So we don't know if this is real or not real.
And again Iran has light about it before. If it's
true the pilot is missing, Iran has said to their
public they'll pay a huge reward for anybody that can

(39:33):
find the American pilot and turn them in. The US
has launched a search operation inside Iran. Now, again, Iran
has a history of claiming to have shot down a
US plane when they haven't. But I would imagine that
our military knows where all their planes are, and I
would imagine they can tell if they've lost the plane

(39:55):
or none lost the plane. And they do say there
is a search operational underw so we'll keep on top
of that for you. Tiger Woods, Well, he got permission
to leave the country to go get treatment, big, big rehabilitation,
rehab treatment overseas, which will get him out of the spotlight,

(40:17):
he hopes for a long time. More and more coming
out about at the scene. The cops show up. They
know immediately who he is, and they talked to him.
They're going to do some tests, you know, you walk
the line and all that kind of stuff. But they
asked him to wait in the car while they go
do some stuff. And apparently at one point he got

(40:38):
out of the car and started wandering a little and
he wandered down the road and he picked you know,
he was on his phone. He was making some sort
of a phone call, wandering down the road away from them,
making this phone call. And then he wandered back and
as he got back towards the cops, they can hear
him saying into the phone, well, thank you so much.

(40:58):
All right, you got it. Bye, And he then said
to the cops, Wow, I was just talking with the president. Now.
Is that to impress the cops? I was just talking
to the President of the United States. That generally, I mean,
it's impressive you're talking to the president of the United States,
But in a situation like that, it's more confusing the
cops now, they don't know whether you're lying, what to

(41:19):
think of you? Why are you're telling him? This a
strange thing to say, really strange thing to say. But
if you look at outside of that, you look at
the bodycam footage, there's nothing really bad in there. At
one point where they put him in the car to
take them away, you can hear him say, this is fun,
all right. I guess he's being sarcastic with himself. So

(41:40):
he wasn't drunk. He took a breathalyzer. There was no
alcohol in his system, so it's not like he was,
you know, look really drunk. He did have trouble with
They give you this test. We got to walk a
straight line. Have you ever tried that? Go try it
totally sober. It's hard to do. He wasn't good on

(42:00):
the test, but those tests are very hard to do.
It's really tough. But we won't hear much about it.

Speaker 10 (42:08):
Now.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
He'll go overseas to some rehab center. I don't know
where it's going to be. He'll go away for months
and months. Who knows, maybe I'll never come back. But
he's going to try to just stay over there. As
long as possible avoid this trial, which could send him
to jail. And when you're on your third or fourth efense,
you most likely will go to jail. And then the
lawyers behind the scenes will try to try to work

(42:29):
out something. And we were talking about the ballroom before
President Trump. This was great. He was talking about no kings.

Speaker 7 (42:36):
They call me king. Now do you believe it? No king,
I'm such a king. I can't get a ballroom approved.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
So it is strange that he can't get this ballroom approved.
It's a great idea. Presidents have always wanted the ballroom.
It's kind of stupid that we don't have a place
to hold a big event at the White House. They
get if they do a big event, they got to
put a tent on the lawn and it looks like
a cheesy wedding and long eyees island. So the ballroom's
a good idea. And if you're going to do it,

(43:04):
you got it. You might as well do it when
you got the greatest ballroom builder in the world in
the White House.

Speaker 14 (43:09):
Part of his opinion.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
Now the court rules against it and says he has
no authority to do it, but he's got a good point. Here,
it's not a government expense. If the government were paying
for it, if he was going to use the government's money,
maybe then you should get congressional approval. But there's no
government money.

Speaker 14 (43:28):
Part of his opinion. But basically he's saying, I need
congressional approval, and he's so wrong. This is being financed privately.
It's a donation that's being given by companies, very rich companies,
very rich people. The ballroom is a donation. It's gotten
great reviews, people love it, and presidents for one hundred

(43:50):
and fifty years have wanted this ballroom to be built.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
So I guess the again, it's a crazy left wing judge.
He's got a bow tie on, he's got those bizarre eyebrows.
He's a weird looking guy, left wing, you know, an
NPR listening ms NOW type of a judge. So he's
just out to stop President Trump from doing anything. But
I guess the argument would be because the judge said

(44:14):
he doesn't own the White House, he's merely the steward.
So in other words, if I guess what he's saying is,
if you rent an Airbnb, you don't have the right
to remodel the house. While you're there building an addition
onto it. It's not your house. I guess that's what
he said. But who says Congress has the right over
the White House? You know, it's supposed to be a

(44:35):
separation of powers, three branches of government. Why would the
legislative branch be allowed to determine what the executive branch does.
The executive branch controls the White House, I guess, And
so the argument is to stop now. There have been
plenty of changes to the White House without congressional approval.

(44:58):
You know who it was, it FDR. Somebody decided they
want a pool, so they took one room and built
a swimming pool right in the White House, big swimming
pool without congressional approval, and a lot of stuff happened
in that pool. That's where JFK had those two hookers
come and swim with him, Pixie and Dixie or whatever
their names were. That's where Lyndon Johnson would swim. You know,

(45:20):
that's where Joe Biden would go swimming when he was
I think when he was vice president or president he would,
but he would this is kind of disgusting. Joe Biden
would swim naked and part of his Secret Service detail
where female, and they hated looking at him naked. It
was awkward, it was inappropriate. And you see how shriveled

(45:40):
up he looks on the outside. When an old prune
can imagine having a look at Joe Biden naked swimming
in the pool. President Trump comes in and has no
use for a swimming pool, and he has it covered up,
and he builds that the press room was not very big.
They didn't have a big press room, so he decides
to build a better one, and they cover up the

(46:02):
pool and build it over the swimming pool. Now, all
of this is without congressional approval. A lot of things
are done without congressional approval. You could argue, well, the
ballroom is different. It's so massive, it's almost the same
size as the whole White House. It's such a big change.
But again, if you're allowed to change stuff without congressional approval,

(46:22):
I think he'll win this in the end. He should
win this in the end to see you get these
crazy judges. I mean the kind of thing. I'll go
to the Supreme Court and it'll probably come down to
executive branch can do this without congressional approval. It's their building. Congress,
you know, changes things. Sometimes they'll make a big change

(46:44):
in the Capitol building. They'll build something new, they'll add
a wing, they'll change the entrance. They'll do it. They
don't have to go get executive branch approval. They don't
have to get approval from the president. So it should
work both ways. So now, who would you say if
you ask Sharon Stone? Now, think of Sharon Stone. She's
made a lot of movies with a lot of people.

(47:07):
If you asked her who was the greatest kisser in Hollywood,
who would she pick out of all her leading men?
Sharon Stone, Well, she was asked that on Radio Andy
podcast yesterday. Without hesitation, she said, Robert de Niro. She said,
Robert de Niro the best kisser in the business. He
was the greatest kisser. Sharon Stone, now sixty eight, said,

(47:30):
and Casino, there were a couple of scenes where the
kiss he gave her was unbelievable. It said, he just
kissed her right out of her shoes. In fact, there
was one where the kiss was unbelievable. And then Scorsese
said that's good, that's good, or do you want to
do another text? She goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, give me
another text, so, Hey, it's possible de Niro could be

(47:51):
the greatest kisser in how It's possible, not the brightest
guy in the world. But he's now eighty two. No
response from him yet. He also did say he was
an actor that I admired the most. He was the
actor I admired most and wanted to act with, So
she kind of idolized the guy. Sometimes the kiss is
better if it's a guy you happen to idolize that

(48:13):
that can make a big difference. Hey, you're going to
see crime numbers coming down, mom. Donnie will take credit
for that, and he deserves credit because he's figured out
a way to bring the crime numbers down. Change the
way you count them, changed the system for counting them.
It's like the antisemitic hate crimes. He brought the number
down by changing the way they count them. Used to

(48:35):
count them by whenever anybody calls nine to one one
because of an anti Semitic attack, that counts. Now he's
changed it too. There's a committee that will decide if
it was a hate crime or not, and they'll tell
you if it counts. Same thing with the crime statistics.
You can change the way they count them, and that
can bring the number down, but that doesn't stop from
bragging about it.

Speaker 12 (48:55):
Each of these numbers paint a picture of a safer,
more welcoming city for our fellow New Yorkers, and they
tell a story that statistics can never fully capture. Countless
subway rides, evening walks, and trips to the park that
ended exactly as they should have, boringly without incidents.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
Yeah, well again, Hey, crime is pretty good for if
you're out there in the suburbs or out there somewhere
in America. You're listening to think so it's too dangerous too.
Most of Manhattan is very, very safe. There's not a
lot of crime here. There is a crime in New York,
but it's contained mostly in eight precincts. If you're in
the middle of Manhattan, if you haven't been here in

(49:33):
the years, and you come into right here in Midtown
and walk around, it's absolutely fine. Looks like it looks
like it always looked. Mom, Donnie getting into a huge
fight with the city council. We got really lucky. You
get the craziest, most left wing kook of a socialist
mayor elected. We got really lucky that somehow the city council.
I mean, they're going to elect a Democrat to be

(49:54):
their speaker. It's always gonna be a Democrat. But we
got really lucky. They picked a moderate, common sense Democrat,
Julie men and she has stood up to Mom Donnie
on a lot of things. Mom Donnie wants to go
crazy raising taxes, raising property taxes. It's absolutely insane. All
you do is lose people and you lose revenue. Every
time you raise taxes and raise property tax you'll lose revenue,

(50:17):
people leave. You know, if you were one of these states, Texas, Florida.
There's a lot of states where they got rid of
all the taxes and all of a sudden they take
in twice as much money because everybody starts moving there.
Business booms, the economy grows. But when he wanted to
do this crazy tax raise, and he's got his army
ready to go to all billion push for it, City

(50:39):
Council Speaker Julie Menon stands up to him and said,
if you got a five billion dollar deficit in your budget,
which is out of one hundred and twenty eight billion,
you cut five billion and costs, you don't raise the taxes,
that'll just make you lose money, you cut costs, and
she proposed a whole bunch of it's easy to do.
Most of that budget is waste, fraud, bl You could

(51:00):
cut the budget in half easily without cutting any services.
It's just all the waste and fraud. So she proposed
some minor cuts and he went nuts. Mom Donnie made
a video, a bunch of videos. That's what he does best.
He's not a management guy, doesn't know how to run anything,
but he's he's an Instagram guy. He's a TikTok guy.
So he went out and made videos attacking this, saying

(51:22):
that it's a doomsday scenario. City services would be cut,
everybody's going to starve to death. But he put out
all these videos and then she just lashed out at him.
This is deeply misleading, potentially harmful. Even Democrats started to
attack Mom Donnie. He said, I thought this would be different.
I thought things would be better. So Mom Donnie got

(51:44):
a hell of a backlash even from Democrats for his crazy,
over the top videos. And even the Socialists aren't backing
him on this, so that's pretty good news. Even the
socialists have attacked him on this. Now the mayor, the
videos you put up got two and a half million views.
That's pretty good. But a council source also said, besides

(52:08):
the backlash, Mom, Donnie is burning a lot of bridges
with lawmakers. This is standard stuff. Budget negotiation is pretty standard.
You don't burn your bridges over this. Hey, Well, take
some calls. Next. Eight hundred three to two one zero
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Speaker 10 (52:33):
Now.

Speaker 9 (52:34):
Now back to the Mark Simone show on woor.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to uh Dominic,
North Carolina Dominic. How you doing?

Speaker 6 (52:46):
Yeah, Hey, good morning, Mark, Happy Easter. Listen. I love
your show, and I usually all love Ed Rollins, but
he always comes to things from a political perspective. I
would say there's more important things than just a mid
term election. Would think to lose it, but we got
to finish this thing in Iran. There's two important principles
at stake. Number one, we cannot let them have nuclear

(53:08):
weapons and number.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Two, well, I think we're kind of working on that
now as we speak. I think as we speak we're trying.

Speaker 6 (53:13):
To do it. Yeah, but I mean I don't. It
doesn't help, right.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
You got to calm down. You get yourself a little
riled up there. Calm down, Calm down. We're working on Iran.
We're doing everything we can do right.

Speaker 6 (53:21):
Now, and it may even take a little bit of sacrifice.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
People like to get mad, they like to be angry
like them. Well no, no, just take it easy. Calm down.
We're working on Iran as we speak. Let's go to
Dave in Chicago. Dave, how you doing.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
Good morning, Mark. I'm doing very well, Thank you. Mark.

Speaker 6 (53:40):
In regard to.

Speaker 15 (53:41):
Restaurants outside of the major holidays, I'm wondering where is
their main revenue center. I'd have to guess there would
be two things, the side dishes because everything's al.

Speaker 6 (53:52):
The cart, and probably alcohol.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
Yeah, that's it. Used to be alcohol. The profit margin
was much I are on alcohol than food, but that
was years ago. That was years ago. Once once the
alcohol changed, you know, once they were like twenty seven
fancy vodkas and nine thousand different fancy drinks, the cost
went up. So the profit margins pretty similar in food

(54:16):
or alcohol. So you can make just as much money
on food. Here's the thing when you go to it,
like a steakhouse today, because of the inflation and all
that stuff, a steak is a ridiculous price. You go
to a steakhoust the steak could be eighty dollars, eighty
five dollars. It's unbelievable, and you think the restaurant's greedy.

(54:36):
They're really not. That's how much they're paying for steak.

Speaker 13 (54:39):
Now.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
One of the reason it's not just inflation. One of
the reasons is there's a cattle shortage. So the restaurant,
if you order an eighty five dollars steak, the restaurant
is probably not making any money. Believe it or not.
The cost on that steak is so high they're not
making any money. But if you order a side dish,
if you order broccoli or spinach or mashed potatoes, that's

(55:00):
where they make a fortune because they'll charge you fifteen
dollars and the cost is like forty cents. So if
you go order the biggest steak on the menu, they're
not too thrilled with you. But if the person with
you doesn't order a main course and orders four side dishes,
they're thrilled with that person. Because that's now nowadays where
all the profit is. Let's go to Paul in Roslin,

(55:20):
Long Island. Paul, how you doing good?

Speaker 13 (55:23):
Mark? How are you today?

Speaker 2 (55:24):
I'm good. You got a great steak there, you got
Hendrix's tavern there?

Speaker 13 (55:28):
Right, you're right. Just a question about a different subject.
Have you watched the JFK Junior Carolyn Bissett series on
that ethics recently?

Speaker 6 (55:36):
Yes?

Speaker 13 (55:37):
And what do you think about it?

Speaker 3 (55:38):
Well?

Speaker 2 (55:39):
I knew the guy. I didn't know her. I knew
him pretty well. It's not entirely accurate. It's very well done,
very well done. This where the locations, everything is very accurate.
The acting is phenomenal, but they're leaving out a lot
of stuff. He was an incredible womanizer. He was, as
people used to say, a hit and quit it kind

(56:00):
of a guy. If he went through millions of women.
He was not the soft, sensitive guy they portray. They
left out that part of it. Also. He was ridiculously
reckless and careless with his own life in other people's life.
So did that come across to you in that series?

Speaker 13 (56:16):
Absolutely? And the other thing I noticed is that the
amount of smoking that she did was incredible. She's basically
has a cigarette in her mouth in every scene.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
Yeah, but that was a lot of people back then,
you know, you back then, everybody smoked everywhere in every restaurant.
Everybody's smoking. Go watch the like the Tonight Show from
nineteen seventy three, Johnny's smoking. Everybody's smoking. But that JFK.
You know, if you look back at that plane crash
to saying, oh, what a tragedy of the plane, it

(56:47):
was the most reckless thing in the world. Again, he
was a daredevil and reckless that plane, that flight. He
wasn't qualified to fly that flight. He wasn't certified to
fly in low visibility. He had a broken foot that day,
which meant he couldn't work the pedals on the plane properly.
No business making that flight. He was so bad as
a he'd been a pilot for about twelve minutes and

(57:09):
he's trying to fly through fog over the ocean. He
almost hit an American Airlines jet and when he took off,
he just didn't know what he was doing. He flew
into the air corridor of an American Airlines plane. Luckily
they were professional pilots and were able to evade him,
but otherwise he was just ridiculously reckless, killed his wife,

(57:29):
killed her sister. Just awful. Let's go to Chris in Bethpage. Chris,
how you doing, Hey?

Speaker 6 (57:36):
Good?

Speaker 2 (57:36):
Mark?

Speaker 10 (57:37):
Just about JFK. They said it was so bad he
thought he was flying parallel to the water when he
was actually flying straight down into it.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
That's what they crashed proof.

Speaker 10 (57:48):
So that was just insane.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
Yeah, it was a horrible, horrible, reckless guy. And the
National Transportation Safety Board report came out totally blamed all
of this him for everything. The family of the wife
used that report to sue the Kennedy's and they did
get I think twenty million in a settlement over it. Yeah, yeah,
all right, thanks for Colin. Let's go to Let's go

(58:10):
to Nolan in New Jersey. Nolan, how you're doing a good?

Speaker 13 (58:14):
Well?

Speaker 3 (58:14):
Thanks?

Speaker 16 (58:15):
I saw that Democratic governors like Mikey Sheryl they're going
to fight Trump on his new executive voter or on
mail in ballots that would require a Post office to
only send ballots to eligible citizens. What could their argument
be against Trump on this?

Speaker 2 (58:30):
Oh? Well, they will fight Trump on anything and everything.
If he says it's Friday, they will fight him on that.
They just fight Trump on anything listen to the words
of John Fetterman.

Speaker 6 (58:40):
Who do you think leads the Democratic Party today?

Speaker 2 (58:43):
Oh, we don't.

Speaker 11 (58:43):
We don't have one. I think the TDS. I think
that's the leader right now. You know, right now our
party is governed by the TDS.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
Trump derangement syndrome. That's all they got, That's what consumes
them obsessed than twenty four to seven. Let's go to
Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing.

Speaker 3 (59:04):
Good morning Macome, Okay, good morning, Mara. I have to
respectfully disagree with Ed Rollins what he said about Trump's speech.
I thought it was one of Trump's better speeches. It
was very concise, he hit all the bullet points. And
also because of the time difference between New York and

(59:26):
in the middle of the country, people were just sitting
down to have their dinner and they heard Trump's speech
and all the reasons why we're there, mainly to save
our children and grandchildren from those maniacs flying intercontinental missiles
into our cities and everything. And I think Trump is

(59:48):
going to win on this whole ballroom issue because, as
you pointed out a number of years ago, about twenty
years ago, I went to it and was very the
people had money and everything. They weren't easy. I went
to an outdoor wedding out in Long Island. They had
those tents and canopies, and when the sun cam went down,
the flies came out, the mosquitoes they were eating people alive.

(01:00:13):
They were everywhere. I mean, uh, it was horrible. I
mean you want to compare that with in Europe and
especially in Italy and France, when they have these state
dinners there there you were huge, huge ballrooms, you mongish
beautiful palaces and everything, and you're gonna have people the

(01:00:33):
stupid judge in Washington. You're gonna have people going and
porter sands on the lawn where women wearing full length
gowns and heels and people dressed to the nine. What's
the matter with this judge just because he looks like
some pig from uh MPR, MPR and PBS with that
bow tie on, and it's all can't Donald Trump just

(01:00:55):
ignore that autum up?

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
Well, he's gonna appeal It'll go to another cart Vincent,
great call, thanks for calling. He'll he'll appeal it. Yeah,
that's another Vincent makes a great point there when you
the White House doing these massive dinners out on the
lawn in a tent. You're right in the summer. It's
too hot, it's too windy, it's raining, there's flies everywhere.
It's ridiculous. Hey, Steve Cuzo, the great New York Post columnist,

(01:01:19):
writes about restaurants and real estate. How's New York doing?
How's the real estate situation? How's the restaurants? We'll get
told of that coming up next on seven to ten
w R.

Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
You're listening to Mark.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
Them, Well, we're gonna get I want to talk to
Steve Cuso, the great New York Post writer. He writes
about real estate, he writes about restaurants. And you know,
all these people tell you everybody's leaving New York. Everybody's fleeing.
New York is dying, it's empty, everybody's getting killed. The

(01:01:53):
restaurants are Well, let's get to the let's get to
the expert and get the real story.

Speaker 6 (01:01:57):
Here.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
You can read Steve Cuso's columns in the New York Post.
They're all up on the New York Post website. Steve Cuzo,
how you doing?

Speaker 1 (01:02:04):
Hey, good morning, Mark, How are you doing very good?

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
Now you go around New York, you're stuck in traffic
is the sidewalks, the crowded. It's not dying, is it
not exactly?

Speaker 1 (01:02:15):
Yeah, I hope you guys can hear me. I'm downtown
and there's like all sorts of construction and traffic and
yeah like that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
That's another thing. These real estate guys are building like crazy.
So obviously we have a good future, don't we. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:28):
I live on the Upper east Side, or as I
like to call it, the Upper cheap Side, which means
First Avenue, and you know, First Avenue, second Avenue, third Avenue,
is like a building going up on every corner, it seems.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
Yeah. Also, you got massive skyscrapers, real tall, but going
up Park Avenue in the fifty third of this yeah,
fifty eighth. So everybody's investing in New York. And what
about some of these empty office buildings converting them to apartments?
Is that going to actually happen?

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
Yeah, I mean it's unbelievable. I mean, there are so
many buildings that are being converted to apartments.

Speaker 6 (01:03:05):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
When this trend started some years ago, it was mostly
you know, these old, antiquated, beat up, old buildings down
in the Wall Street area that they were antique. Nobody
wanted them anymore. But now this has spread way uptown,
all over Midtown. There are buildings that aren't even that
old that are being turned into apartments. For example, one

(01:03:30):
thirty five East fifty seventh Street, corner of Lexington Avenue.
That's a modern, modern building. It went up in the
late eighties and it's being converted to apartments. So there's
plenty of that going on.

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
Yeah, and these guys wouldn't do that if they didn't
have people demand. So, and it's rental apartments are going
crazy right now, isn't that true?

Speaker 1 (01:03:50):
Yeah? I mean they're crazy if everybody's complaining, Oh, you
can't get an apartment for less than four thousand a month. True?
True enough, to which tell I say, half tongue in cheek,
take a second job, you know, quit whining.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
Yeah. So, hey, the dining outdoor dining began this week.
They're allowed. Now are these sheds going to come back
all over the sidewalks?

Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
I've lost track of what's going on. They're back. No,
first of all, I haven't followed this that closely, but yeah,
they're sort of back, but not not that many restaurants
applied for the outdoor seating. Not nothing like you know,
a couple of years ago during COVID, and people haven't

(01:04:35):
applied for a number of reasons. You know, you need
all kinds of city approvals. There's all sorts of reasons why.
First of all, the city will tie you up in notch.
You have to deal with nineteen different agencies. It's supposed
to be the Deparliament of Transportation that's in charge, which
it is, but they have to interact with the you know,

(01:04:56):
with the fire Department, with the U Help Department, all
these agencies. So there's a lot of hesitation on the
part of restaurant owners. They don't want to have to
go through this again. But meanwhile, you've got the Hospitality Alliance,
my friend Andrew Ridgie pushing for even more, you know,

(01:05:17):
and city council people want to have year round outdoor seating.
I don't think we need that, but yeah, you'll be
seeing some of these. It's a moot point. Unless the
weather gets any better. It still feels like winter today.
I don't care what the forecast said. And we're going
to Florida on Tuesday and I can't wait to get

(01:05:38):
out of here.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
Oh look, where are you going to Florida?

Speaker 6 (01:05:42):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
The usual round, you know, the usual milk from Palm Beach,
Delray Beach, and Miami Beach. Okay, three beaches.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
Now Palm Beach has got a million restaurants opening, but
they're all from New York. They're all from the Hamptons,
they're all from the.

Speaker 1 (01:05:55):
Well, not all of them. The big place down there
now is called Polo something, Polo Lounge. Polo.

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
Yeah, it's a guy that worked for it's a guy
that worked for Ralph Lauren. He gave him a permission
to use the Polo name down there.

Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
Is that right? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:06:10):
Anyway, I'm looking forward to going because everybody says it's
the hottest place and food's great, YadA yadaxl and the watch.
We'll get down there and the weather will stink, but
when you travel, that's that's photo black.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
Hey, Steve Kisa, you wrote this cameo. A certain food
just comes to New York, goes viral. It's a big deal.
You wrote about sushi. Push Pops explain that.

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
So there's a new place called Suka Sushi. It's a
little storefront. It's on Lexington Avenue in twenty fifth i think,
and they have a gimmick everybody's got a gimmick. Now,
there's all sorts of weird things going on, and this
one is pop up sushi roll So you get a container,
you get a cylindrical container containing the sushi rolls, and

(01:06:55):
there's a thin tube attached to it, like the tubes
that you take board with that's filled with soy sauce.
And you start by you're supposed to break the skinny
tube off from the big tube, and then you pry
the lid off the thick tube, and then you pour

(01:07:15):
the soy sauce from the skinny tube into the thick
tube with the sushi rolls. And then you're supposed to
take the excuse me, the thin tube and stick it
into the bottom of the thick tube and push it up.
And what happened is, and I did a video about this,
you can see it online on the New York Post website.

(01:07:37):
You push up the sushi rolls, which actually taste pretty good,
and out they come on top. It looks ridiculous, and
it is ridiculous. And the big problem with it is
that I made a mess, and most people are going
to make a mess with it too. You've got to
be very nimble fingered not to spill everything all over yourself.

(01:08:00):
And to make it work. There are no chopsticks, there
are no utensils, so you basically have to eat the
damn thing with your mouth as you walk. Now, it's
not like eating a hot talk or a slice of pizza.
That's easy. We all do that. This is this is
a new level of you know, skill that you need. Yeah,
so good luck.

Speaker 2 (01:08:19):
Well it's but there's a lot of these things that
come along, they go viral, they're great for Instagram and TikTok,
and then they're gone in a year.

Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
This will be Yeah, it's all about TikTok.

Speaker 2 (01:08:27):
Yeah, yeah, hey, what is this? Every restaurant now, you know,
used to have like a guy like Danielle would open
Danielle Great restaurant, John George would open John George and
that was. But nowadays every restaurant guy, no matter who
it is, has to have fifty places, seventy five places.
What caused that trend?

Speaker 1 (01:08:45):
Well, it's been ongoing for years. A lot of people
love restaurants all over the world. You have celebrity chefs
and who may be great chefs like excuse me, like
Danielle Blue, and you have others who are just big
names even though they're not that good. And you have

(01:09:05):
these companies very often it's Wall Street money, hedge funds,
guys like that want to invest in restaurants. It's fun.
They see an opportunity to expand to a whole bunch
of cities, and if they can pull that off, they
can get very rich. The catch, of course, is that

(01:09:25):
just because a restaurant has the name of a certain
famous chef or a restaurant you like a Carbone or whatever,
doesn't mean that the places that have that name in
you know, in Hong Kong, Chicago, wherever it may be,
will be as good as the ones you know that
started out in New York.

Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
Also, if you got if you're a great restaurant guy,
great chef, let's not mention any New York nas Let's
pick a foreign name. If you're Gordon Ramsay and you
got one restaurant in London, it's the greatest restaurant. You
make sure it's a great. But once you have one
hundred and twenty five restaurants, they all become kind of mediocre.
You can't keep an eye on everything.

Speaker 1 (01:10:02):
Yeah, absolutely, I mean they make the they make the
pretense of oh I'm always there. I come around every week,
but that's physically impossible. And again, some of them give
a better account of it than others. I've never been
to a Danielle Balloon restaurant anywhere that wasn't at least good.

(01:10:22):
I've never been to a restaurant that carries Jean George
von Garrichton's name that isn't really good. So yeah, again,
it's up to how what commitment the chef is willing
and able to make.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
But now, if you're John George, you spend all day
in a car driving from restaurant to restaurant to restaurant.
You gotta go to thirty places.

Speaker 6 (01:10:41):
A day, and they do.

Speaker 1 (01:10:43):
In Manhattan, absolutely, they do.

Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
Well. Have a good trip in Florida. And are you
going to Miami too?

Speaker 6 (01:10:52):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:10:52):
Yeah, we're gonna make the whole East coast, right.

Speaker 2 (01:10:55):
So I look at Miami restaurant's Instagram. They look spectacular,
is food wise they're not any better than New York?
Are they?

Speaker 1 (01:11:03):
I'm sorry which ones mark?

Speaker 2 (01:11:05):
Any all the top Miami restaurants they look spectacular, but
food wise.

Speaker 3 (01:11:09):
Some of them are.

Speaker 1 (01:11:10):
Some of them are really good. I mean, I've been
to not Carbone, but the other restaurant owned by the
same people, Major Food Group in Miami last year. It
was just wonderful. It's an Italian restaurant. I just can't
remember the name. So you know with Vales and the
restaurants in Las Vegas are mostly all terrific.

Speaker 2 (01:11:29):
Yeah, all right, well, great stuff. Everybody reads Steve Cuzo
in the New York Post. His columns are all up
in the New York Post website. And Steve Cuzo, thanks
for being with us.

Speaker 1 (01:11:38):
Thanks Locke, always fun.

Speaker 13 (01:11:40):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:11:40):
Take care. Now. Right over there, as you go over
to Seventh Avenue, there was rosy O Grady's. Remember that
it was a big, big, enormous saloon. It's like the
whole block long it was, and it closed. Everybody was
upset about that. It was a big place. So apparently
that's going to become a Sarafina at the Italian Restauran,
but not the regular Serafina, a concept kind of restaurant.

(01:12:03):
And Michael Lomonico, the great chef, he had one of
the best steakhouses in Columbus Circle Time Warners Center. He's
going to run it. So that's great news. But you
see That's what I mean. When Rosio Grady's closed, and
that was a big tourist place. Everything you see New
York is dying. It just well now it's about the

(01:12:25):
reopen is an even more incredible restaurant. So every time
something closes, something else opens. You got massive skyscrapers going
up everywhere. You got all the top restaurant guys opening everywhere.
New York is booming. All these real estate companies wouldn't
be buying up properties, building skyscrapers if they didn't believe

(01:12:45):
in the in the future of New York. Hey, don't
forget Curtis Lee. What is back? He's here now every
morning with Larry Menti. It's Curtis and Larry every morning
six to ten, here on seven to ten w R.

Speaker 12 (01:13:00):
In every show, Mark simone on seven ten wor.

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
Well, you know the stock market, it's been up and down.
And Mark Zuckerberg, there was one day the stock market
went way down. Was last Friday. I guess went down
five percent. Mark Zuckerberg that day lost twenty billion dollars
in one day and didn't even blink. It didn't mean
anything to him. You know, when you were worth three
hundred billion, he lost twenty billion in one day and

(01:13:35):
it meant absolutely nothing. So it'll all come back. Stock
market will come back bigger than ever. Hey, the latest
on Iran that the President has been briefed. Iran claims
it shot down an F fifteen Strike Eagle plane and

(01:13:56):
that they saw the pilot eject, So they're searching for
the pilot in Iran. They've offered a huge reward to
any Iranian that can find that pilot and turn him in.
The US has obviously launched a big search operation to
find him.

Speaker 6 (01:14:14):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:14:14):
Iran has a history of claiming to have shot down
a plane when they didn't. But we're now hearing the
President is being briefed on this. So I would assume
it's true that a plane was shot down, and I
would assume the US can keep track of all their planes.
So it looks like it looks like it's turning out
to be true and F fifteen has been shot down.

(01:14:35):
They're looking for the pilot as we speak now. As
Ed Rollins on the show was saying earlier, as soon
as you start to lose lives or they get a
hostage or something, it changes everything on this. So we'll see,
we'll see what happens. We'll keep you posted with whatever
we hear. Otherwise, Today's a big day Yankee Stadium opening

(01:14:58):
day today. That's great news. I know it looks bad outside,
the weather will clear up. Kamala Harris is getting a
lot of flax. She's announced to tour of the south
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Arkansas. Those are big important
states for Democrats in an election. People in the Democratic

(01:15:19):
world upset. They think that means she's going to try
to run again. She was a total disaster as a candidate.
She was the worst vice president ever. They want to
get rid of her. They've had enough of her. If
she jumps back in the race, it just screws up everything.
So a lot of Democrats very very upset about this. Now,

(01:15:40):
normally you're a former vice president, you get a book deal,
you get this deal, you go on and make a fortune.
Look at al Gore, who became a weather profiteer with
that climate change stuff, went out to make two three
hundred million. She had not been able to do that.
So they're worried that she'll get back in the race
just looking for attention. Sometimes you get back in the
race because those Democrat they got a lot of big donors,

(01:16:02):
and if you get back in the race and they
don't want you, they'll got one of those big donors
to give you a huge, high paying job and buy
you out of the race. So that may be what
she's up to. Hey, we're out of time. I'll be
back Monday ten to noon. And remember, if you can't
listen ten to noon, just get the podcast. That way,
you can listen anytime you want, day or night. Remember,

(01:16:23):
if you're a podcast listener, there's an extra show every weekend.
There's a bonus show for the podcast listeners. So I'll
see a Monday at ten. Have a great weekend seven
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