FULL SHOW: Affordability Rally; Dems double standards.

President Trump launched his nationwide campaign rally focused on affordability and his economic agenda last night in the Pennsylvania Poconos. According to his administration’s finance team, Trump’s proposed tax cuts are designed to put more money in Americans’ pockets. Meanwhile, Democrats continue to use the term “affordability” as a way to dismiss the President’s economic plan. Mark interviews Monica Crowley, the Chief of Protocol of the United States. Monica discusses keeping pace with President Trump’s energetic and fast-moving agenda. She shares that many deals and strategic initiatives are being developed behind the scenes to help Make America Great Again. Additionally, she mentions that renovations have shaped the Kennedy Center's appearance. Some shoppers have admitted to stealing from self-checkout lanes, which may be prompting stores to gradually phase them out. Mark also wonders: Do young people know the classic Christmas songs that have stood the test of time? Mark interviews author Ann Coulter. Together, they discuss the so-called affordability crisis that Democrats claim is plaguing New York City, noting what they see as double standards from the left. They also speculate about whether former Presidents Biden and Obama could be implicated in shipping cartels or drugs to other countries.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now on the Voice of New York The Mark Simone
Show on seven tenor.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
May.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
We got a lot to get to today, Well, and
it's another cold date. It's a little better today, you know,
I think everybody's complaining some cold. Yesterday so cold. I
think I'm gonna take up smoking because I've noticed that
if if you smoke, they don't even feel the cold.
It could be ten below zero. As you can walk

(00:31):
towards this building, the smokers are all up front smoking.
You know, they all sneak out they have a cigarette.
Could be fifty below zero, ten feet they're still out
there on the sidewalk smoking. So what's today, Wednesday? When
we're almost through this week, we got a lot to
get to. We'll get to the Somali community and the
billions missing in Minnesota. We'll get to affordability, We'll get

(00:55):
to that crazy brad Lander, and we'll get to you know,
congestion Pricing is now celebrating it's one year anniversary. It's
coming up on one year. The yelling and screaming about
it has died down a bit. I guess people just
starting to accept it. It's probably going to be here forever.
It doesn't go away. You know, it's like when they

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raise the symptimes, they don't raise your maintenance or your
property text. It's what they call an assessment to fund something.
A little assessment while we need it never goes away.
These things never ever go away. President Trump went to
Pennsylvania last night for the rally. He's been in the
White House now for about eleven months, and a lot

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of times they start to do these things for two reasons. One,
you're not getting your message across because the media is
so corrupt, and they've focus grouped prices, and that's how
they came up with the word affordability. It tested the
best in focus groups, so Democrats used it successfully in

(01:59):
the elections in November, and the media just goes crazy
attacking Trump on affordability. It's all a bit of a
hoax because the fact is in the eleven months that
he's been there, prices have come down quite a bit.
Inflation has been cut in half, which is pretty good
in ten months. He always said it would take a year,

(02:21):
year and a half to get it down. Now, remember
the big beautiful bill that he passed with all the
tax cuts, all that stuff has not taken effect yet,
although they got it passed this year. It doesn't kick
in until January, so you'll see a huge change in January.
Everybody will be getting more money in their paychecks in
January because the bill will begin January first. The tax

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cuts now again, prices are already down. Inflation hit nine
percent at one time under Biden. The average under Biden
was five percent. It's now two and a half, so
he's cut inflation in half. Already. Food prices are down.
They'll point to a couple of things, like beef prices.
What about beef, that's the reason for the beef prices

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being way up. You can thank Joe Biden and the
Democrats for that. I don't know if you remember, but
about two years ago they started this war on cows,
claiming that cows caused climate change. I forget how they
came up with that or how they explained it, but
they went after the cattle industry in the Green Scheme,
and as a result, the cattle industry had to cut

(03:28):
back the size of herds and all that stuff. So
there are less cattle, less cows, less beef. Now they
have to get that back. It's just like with oil,
where they cut back drilling. There was less oil out
there and made the price go up. And the same
thing with cattle. We got a lot less cattle than
we usually have. So Trump administration has changed all that.
It'll take again, it takes more than a few months.

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It's going to take a year to get the cattle
herds back up to where they were, and that brings
down the price. So it was in Pennsylvania to do
the rally to get the message out about afford But
wages are up since he took office. Wages are up,
prices are down. You got to get that across, although
it's tough because fake news will just keep yelling that

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there's a terrible affordability crisis. It really isn't. It's a
lot better. I mean, if you call this an affordability crisis,
what did you call two years ago when it was
five times worse. So now the other reason you do
the rallies is a president who's a great speaker, great performer.

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When he gets elected. Now he goes into the White
House and he's in the White House and that's it,
and he speaks. It's in a room with a podium
to people he knows. And after a while you start
to get well it's like your caged animal. You need
to get out there. They saw this with Reagan and
they realized they had to get him out there. Let him,

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give him a big audience, give him thousands of people
out there, Let him do rallies, let him do speeches.
It's like a great actor, performer, comedian, singer. You gotta
let him go out on stage. You gotta let him
get out there. So they started to do these rallies
for Reagan for no reason, just because he needed it.
He needed the energy from the crowds, needed to get
out of the White House, get back in touch with

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the people. So every couple of weeks they set up
something for Reagan, usually close by so he could get
there fast and get home fast. And then not California, nearby, Maryland, Pennsylvania.
So they need to do this with Trump. He needs
to get out there, get back on stage, get back
to performing for audiences. So you'll see more of these.

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He did an hour and a half last night. I
know the fake news will tell you he's got no energy,
can't stay awake. He did an hour and a half,
a lot longer than he's supposed to do. He was
kind of all over the map, so he didn't. You know,
always say you got to stay on message, and well,
Trump's not going to do that. The coverage of it,
of course, is bad because that's the way they do things.

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He talked about affordability, He talked in great detail about
what he would do about it, and a couple of
times he made some jokes. So if you're watching the
fake news, all they would say is he ridiculed affordability.
He made fun of the problem of affordability. Was totally
inaccurate portrayal of what happened. So you'll see more of
these rallies. Hey, yesterday had some special elections. The interesting

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one was Miami mayoral election. Special election had a runoff.
The Democrat won. Now that's unusual. Usually it's a Republican
in Miami. It's the first time a Democrat has one
in thirty years in Miami. So if you're watching the
fake news, they'll tell you this is a bad sign
for the midterms. This is a bad barometer what's going

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to happen in the midterms. The fact that the Democrat
won in Miami, of all places where Democrats never win,
this is a bad sign for a Well, I think
you got to look at more detail at this race,
nobody showed up to vote. There was no turnout. The
total votes thirty six thousand, which is unheard of. That's

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incredibly low. So nobody showed up to vote. That's how
the Democrat got in. Now, as we've talked about here
in New York, they got the same problem in Miami.
There really is not much of a Republican party machine.
One thing about the Democrats. They have a strong party
with infrastructure, lots of bodies and what they call the

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ground game, which is crucial. Boots on the ground that
get turnout, get people out to the polls. You know,
door knockers, people working phone banks, people you know, knocking
on doors. You need this kind of stuff. Democrats have
that same thing we have in New York. Same problem
in Miami. Republicans nothing public party is there, three people,

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part time nothing. Democrats have a massive amount of people
on the ground to get turnout. So it was a
tiny little turnout and Democrats once said, don't take it
as much of a sign of anything. Hey, Jimmy Kimmel,
last Night special guest David Letterman is returned to late
night TV, and he looked like the old Letterman with

(08:07):
the suits and the tie and those shiny socks and
the loafers, and but still with the white beard. You know,
if you're a kid watching Jimmy Kimmel, you know, you
wouldn't know who Letterman is. And with that beard, you
must have thought this is Santa Claus or something coming up.
Although if you're a kid, you're not going to be
watching Jimmy Kimmel. These late night shows. Average age of

(08:29):
the viewers is sixty three years old on the late
night shows now most of them just talk about politics
these late night shows. Instead of fun stuff. It's all
political and when you do that, you get a much
older audience. Average age of msnbcviewer I think is sixty
seven now. But Letterman on Kimmel, you know, he was

(08:50):
very big in late night TV on CBS, in fact,
beating Jane Leno at times. But then about halfway through
his run on CBS, Letterman started to get political and
it was pretty obvious he was a very left wing guy,
so he lost half his audience. If you remember, he
was doing very well on CBS against the Tonight Show,
and then as he got political and went far to

(09:11):
the left, he started to lose audience, and it went
way down and started dropping and dropped almost in half
after a couple of years. So that was the end,
and that's when New it was time to go, and
CBS started looking around. But they made the mistake of
going with another left wing guy. You want a guy
in the middle. You know, if you kind of make
fun of everybody, you can do very well, as Greg

(09:33):
Guttfeldt proved by getting bit. He has more viewers than Kimmel,
Fallon and Colbert combined every night. He's the king of
late night now. So but the point is, Letterman came
out and he went really crazy with the Trump derangement syndrome.
I mean really going after Trump with a hysterical, hyperbolic,

(09:54):
vicious attacks on him. Now, the other thing he did
he came out and congratulate Jimmy Kimmel. He said, you
have just been re signed. You know, they tried to
throw you off the air, they tried to get rid
of you. They're pushing together, can get you fired. Yet
you just signed. You signed a big new contract. And
the audience cheered and went crazy for this big new contract. Well,

(10:16):
they're totally conning the audience. Kimmel did not get a
big new contract, and he fact, he got the most
insulting contract literally in the history of late night TV.
Every contract to re sign your late night host, it's
always five years, always five years. In case of a big,
big name like a Carson or in Oprah, it'd be

(10:39):
a ten year contract. Kimmel was re signed to a
one year extension, which is the worst insult. That's when
you really don't like somebody or you really don't think
you're gonna keep a one year extension. They tried to
do that to Carson in ninety one, and that's the
reason he left. That's where he made the decision it
was time to go and quit because he realized what

(11:00):
an insult that is. So Kimmel has not been resigned
to a big new contract. The reason they'll only do
a one year extension. This is the way they're not
stuck with you, and if they have to fire you tomorrow,
they don't have to pay out very much. They do
only have to pay out for eleven months or ten months,
which they would do anyway. So it's basically not even
really a renewal, huge insult to Kimmel. Letterman knows that

(11:23):
and was just totally conning the audience with his nonsense. So, hey,
Brad Lander, you know that is he was the controller,
a real left wing cook. He's no longer the controller.
His term is up and he's going to run for Congress.
He's trying to win Dan Goldman's seat.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
Now, this.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
Doesn't make any difference to anybody. Dan Goldman also a
far left cook. So if it's Lander Goldman, who cares.
But Lander is trying to run on something. Accomplishments. He
tries to in this commercial list his accomplishments. He doesn't
have any. So what could he possibly come up with. Well,

(12:07):
he mentioned the fact that he got arrested fighting ice.
That's the accomplishment. Remember there was an ice proceeding going
on in the courtroom and Lander tried to burst in
and they told him he can't come in right now,
and he didn't listen, and he came in and they
had to arrest him and take him out. He was
being disorderly. He was totally guilty of disorderly conduct. Governor

(12:27):
Hokeel was called and ran right down to the courthouse
and got him released in her custody. But he's just
a clown, just a silly guy, far left guy. He
is one of the reasons we have Mom Donnie as mayor.
He worked hard to get Mom Donnie elected. You remember,
there was a primary and Lander was running against Mam Donnie.

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But then at some point he decided to join the
Mom Donnie team. They got together, they pulled their voters,
he endorsed Mom donn. He got him through that primary,
and so they were very close. There were teammates on
this whole thing. And then something went wrong there and
Mom Donnie cut off Lander. After all this happened, you

(13:08):
figured Brad Lander bei a big part of the administration.
They had some kind of breakup, some kind of fight,
and Mom Donnie cut Lander off completely. So apparently Lander
too represhensible even for Mom Donnie, so he was cut off.
Now he's running for this seat. He's a big blowhard showboat.

(13:30):
He's like a George Santos, kind of one stunt after another,
trying to get publicity. Problem mcdan goldman. Besides being a
far left kook, he's kind of a quiet guy. I
don't think he can compete with all the stunts. So
who knows. Lander may have a shot against him. You know,
the most fascinating thing is Minnesota, the Somali community where

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this fraud took place. Whenever, whenever Democratic leaders start yelling
about programs for the homeless, money seems to disappear. You know,
the great thing about the green scheme, the climate change,
it was billions in contracts to hand out billions. So
that's why Democrats love that climate change green scheme stuff.

(14:16):
That's what it's called the Green steam scheme. You give
out massive contracts to companies in exchange for huge donations
and whatever you needed.

Speaker 4 (14:25):
Well, a lot of.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
Democrats, especially locally mayors and those sorts, I've realized the
homeless scheme is much better. The problem with the Green
scheme when you give out a contract, it's to a
company in Colorado that makes windmills or something, and they
found with the homeless, the money doesn't leave the community.
You're still giving out massive contracts, but you're given them

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out right in your neighborhood to people you know. So
the money comes back to you in a lot more
ways and a lot faster. So you remember, Build de
Blasio and his wife set up this crazy program when
he was mayor called Thrive NYC. And it was helped
the homeless. And if you actually asked him, well, what
exactly show me the program. Well, it's yoga for homeless.

(15:14):
Yoga for homeless. Literally, that was one of the programs.
So a billion dollars was handed out. After it was
all over, everybody looked for the money or what happened,
and they couldn't They couldn't find it. Even the missus
Deblasio and the husband admitted they don't know where the
money went. They can't find it, they can't keep track
of it. Well, you got Minneapolis, you got the Somali

(15:38):
leaders as elon Omars, these types they set up the
same thing. Programs are the homeless. And if you were
running a homeless type program, they would give you money
out of all these funds, government funds, taxpayer funds, federal funds.
And they started passing out money and it's all gone.
Nobody can find it. And it looks like first a billion,

(15:59):
then they said it's probably two billion. Now they think
it might be as much as eight billion has been
stolen from taxpayers has disappeared into this homeless scheme. And
this is one of the great great scandals of the
news media. Fake news. You'll notice you're not seeing any
coverage of this. If we had legitimate actual media, if CBSABC,

(16:21):
NBC were legitimate, they'd be all over this. They would
dispatch a whole team of reporters, go to Minneapolis, don't
leave until you found out what happened, get to the
bottom of this. The New York Times, the Washington Post.
They'd be sending reporters. There's no coverage, no mention of it.
They don't want you to know about it. So this

(16:41):
is what democrats do. Now, they've got these homeless schemes
where you get to hand out money left and right. Now,
Mom Donnie gets elected, what's he talking about setting up
a homeless program, setting up a massive program to handout
massive contracts on the So we had imagined it's the
same exact scheme, and that's what will happen here. And

(17:04):
we've already got some good homeless programs. He's canceling them
because they basically don't hand out massive contracts to anybody.
So it's going to be interesting to see what happens now,
Mom Donnie takes over. I know you're hearing everybody's fleeing,
everybody's leaving New York with this not true. I'm sure
you can find somebody that's leaving New York. But the
best thing to do is look at real estate sales.

(17:25):
As far as apartments condos, sales are up up dramatically
in the last month. Now, sometimes that always happens year end,
but you had eight hundred and seventy six contracts signed
the last month. It'll take the super high end, very expensive,
multi zillion dollar apartments. You had nine contracts signed last week.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
That's a lot.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
And the better thing check the rental market. That's people
coming in. Rentals in New York City are through the roof.
In fact, right now, it's very tough to rent an
apartment because rentals are going crazy, so people are moving
in despite Mom.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
Donnie.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
Anyway, we've got a lot to get to. We'll take
some calls in a moment. Eight hundred three to two
one zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
Let's get back to the Mark Simone show on wr.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
Hey, Let's take some calls.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
Eight hundred three to two one zero seven Tennis, Peter,
Peter and Harlem. He's always angry about something, Peter, what's
going on?

Speaker 5 (18:29):
I'm not angry.

Speaker 4 (18:30):
They're always angry about something.

Speaker 5 (18:32):
Wait, let me say somethingience Number One, you didn't tell
the audience are two questions are a hang up, you
didn't tell the audience who's written those expensive apartments and
the fact that they might even be red Chinese or
our enemy. Secondly, well, we got to go.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
Super super luxury apartments in New York very often are
a lot of Chinese people, a lot of Arab you
know people, a lot of the Middle Eastern people, a
lot of Russians. One of the reasons is, especially China
and those places, they don't trust their own government, and
they got to park money somewhere just in case they

(19:11):
have to flee, so they'll buy like a one hundred
million dollar apartment in New York. That way, they got
an asset. It's there. You know, if they have to
leave China, they can sell it. And you know, they
bought up all the apartments in New York that way,
and then they ran the apartments to buy. That's one
reason you cannot buy a rolex right now. If the

(19:33):
certain watches Paddock Philippe and the rolex, there's like a
three year waiting list because a lot of the same
people they had to park their assets somewhere, so they
start buying up every watch in the world too. That's
why there's a massive waiting list. Let's go to Phyllis
in Brooklyn, Phillis. How you doing all right?

Speaker 6 (19:51):
Good morning. I was just wondering conversation you had with
Saudius today. You know about the documentary this scen your
Enterprises was preparing. I believe you were part of it.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Now, Oh, you're talking about it's actually Fox News or
Fox Nation. It's a big, massive Sinatra documentary. They interviewed
everybody in the world. Yeah, I'm on it too. Have
you seen it? Do you know where it is?

Speaker 6 (20:14):
No?

Speaker 5 (20:15):
I don't.

Speaker 6 (20:15):
That's why I'm calling.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Well.

Speaker 4 (20:18):
I remember when I did it.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
I said once it's coming out, and they said in
the fall, I don't think it's out yet, but it's coming.

Speaker 7 (20:22):
Soon and it will be out again.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
It's not out yet, it's coming out, but it's a
These guys that did this documentary, they were younger guys,
but they really knew what they were doing. And I
know they went to Patsy's and interviewed everybody there, and
they interviewed me for like three hours, and they were
I was telling them everybody who would know everything about

(20:46):
Sinatra's given them all the names to interview. Every time
I mentioned anybody that we already did them. We already
did them. We just got done. So they interviewed everybody.
They were very thorough. Big Sinatra documentary. I don't know
if it's Fox News or Fox Nation, but it'll be
coming out soon. Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike,
how you doing.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
Good morning, Mark, Yes, Mike.

Speaker 6 (21:06):
That's not your thing.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
Should be great. You know.

Speaker 8 (21:10):
Thomas Saul, the famous economists, once said affordable housing is
housing you can afford. And it sounds kind of flippant,
but that's the truth. I mean, nobody could afford to
live in Manhattan.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
You know, or any big city.

Speaker 8 (21:23):
It's expensive to live there. And I think it's great
that the president is out making his case, but where
are the other Republicans? You know, where are those months?

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Why aren't they speaking up?

Speaker 5 (21:33):
I mean Trump speaks every day to.

Speaker 8 (21:35):
The media and makes his case every day for hours
on end, you.

Speaker 4 (21:38):
Know, every every new you know.

Speaker 8 (21:39):
Every every day, see another news conference from the from
the office there, and you know, where are the other
Republicans out there?

Speaker 4 (21:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (21:48):
Well, it's Trump is right about the hoax. He doesn't
explain it that well. But the whole thing is especially
affordable housing. You know, there's places where you're not gonna
have affordable housing because they're very well the areas, and
you can yell and scream. You know, if you went
to Southampton, right on the water on what's that lane there, whatever, lane,

(22:12):
metal lane, further lane, whatever it is right on the
water in Southampton, every house is like eighty million dollars.
You could stand there and say why isn't there affordable
housing because it's not.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
Supposed to be.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
If you go to the next town up, if you
go to Riverhead, there's plenty of affordable housing. It just
there's very, very very expensive neighborhoods. There's very poor neighborhoods,
and there's everything in between. Speaking of the Hampton, there's
an affordable housing crisis fight out. I'll tell you about
this the next start. It's a good illustration.

Speaker 4 (22:42):
But if you go to.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
Long Island, you go anywhere in Long Island, you go
to Garden City, it's expensive. They don't have any affordable housing,
but they don't need to because you go ten blocks
that way, you're in Hampstead and there's plenty of affordable housing.
You're not supposed to have affordable housing everywhere. It's okay
to have a wealthy neighborhood, a middle class neighborhood, a

(23:03):
poorer neighbor It happens. So we'll get into this in
the next hour when we come back. Our old buddy,
Monica Crowley, now the Chief Protocol Officer of the United States.
We'll talk to her next on seven to ten w R.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
Mister New York. He's on the case the mar Simon Show. Seven.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
Well, Hey, we knew her when she was just Monica Crowley.
She is now the Chief of Protocol of the United
States of America. She is the Ambassador Monica Crowley, Madam Ambassador.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
How you doing.

Speaker 7 (23:39):
Hi, Good morning, Mark. I'm doing well, although I have
to say keeping up with President Trump is quite the project.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
Oh I don't know.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
I was reading the New York Times. Apparently he's cognitive. Whatever,
he's falling asleep. He can't find it.

Speaker 7 (23:55):
I mean, you know, the propagandaize coming from the mainstream
media just never stop. It is the exact opposite. You know,
you would think that if they wanted to lie about
President Trump, and they have for the last eleven years
since he became a leader and a candidate and a president.
But you would think that it would have like some

(24:17):
semblance of believability. This is like President Trump literally never sleeps.
He is going around the clock. There is no such
thing as a day off, There is no such thing
as a weekend. It is NonStop with him. And it
is all geared to the American people, to bringing America back,
making America great again, getting our economy back on track,

(24:40):
which is why he was back doing a rally in
Pennsylvania yesterday. It is about securing peace around the world,
to make sure that conflicts around the world are minimized
and ended, which brings greater prosperity to their regions, to
the world, and to the United States. The man never stops.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
If they weren't so corrupt, it's a more fascinating story.
They could be reporting that no president ever behaved like this.
Usually it's a press conference two weeks from Monday. Nobody's
ever had four hundred press conferences a day, or just
events around the clock. But and do you sometimes not
even know where you're going to be, what city. The

(25:21):
way he moves and keeps moving.

Speaker 7 (25:23):
It is nonsense. Every day I wake up, Mark, and
I'm like, Okay, what kind of adventure is going to
be coming out me today? And it really is an adventure.
Every day is a blessing. But I have to say
at the end of last week, I, in the space
of seventy two hours, Mark, I went from dealing with
the President of Rwanda to the president of FIFA and

(25:47):
FIFA legends to Jane Simmons of.

Speaker 4 (25:50):
Kiss Yeah, tell us about it.

Speaker 7 (25:54):
Really in seventy two hours, It's just extraordinary.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
Yeah, tell us about the Kennedy Center. It looked really great.
That's Sunday night ceremony.

Speaker 7 (26:03):
Oh, absolutely amazing. So on Thursday last week, the President
presided over Peacedale between the presidents of Rwanda and the
Congo and that conflict has been going on for thirty
five years, so he brokeer that peace deal and we
did that, and then on Friday at the Kennedy Center,
we hosted FIFA for the twenty twenty sixth final draw

(26:25):
for the World Cup next year, which President Trump heroically
brought to the United States back in his first term.
So we did that on Friday, and then all weekend
we celebrated at the Kennedy Center for the Kennedy Center Honors,
which was taped on Sunday, and it's going to air,
I believe, on December twenty third on CBS, so the

(26:48):
rest of the country will get to see what we
saw live on Sunday night. And it was just magical.
We had so many acts that are just purely American
CONTs like George Street and Kiss and Gloria Gaynor, Sylvester Stallone.
It was just absolutely magical to see all of these

(27:11):
phenomenal acts get their due. Michael Crawford of course, get
their due with tributes and then tribute performances. So I
encourage everybody to watch on December twenty third on CBS
because you will love the show. But really, Mark, that's
another project that President Trump has taken under and turned around.

(27:32):
He has saved the Kennedy Center, which is one of
America's great cultural institutions. He has saved it.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
Yeah, you know, a lot of stuff is going on.
People don't realize. Apparently the infrastructure was crumbling at the
Kennedy Center. He had to fix that. He's fixed up
every inch of the White House, the entrance, the this,
the that, not to mention the ballroom and all that.

Speaker 4 (27:52):
But the boy.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
He doesn't get any credit for that.

Speaker 7 (27:57):
He really, no, he doesn't, but I'll tell you he will.
He will because he really believes said our capital city, Washington,
d C. Should be a sparkling gem. And that is
why he is moving on all fronts to turn our
capital city into that shining city on a hill that

(28:18):
Ronald Reagan talked about when he talked about America. But
President Trump really believes that the entire country will follow
suit if our capital is cleaned up and made safe.
And that's why we have the National Guard on the streets.
And we had that horror happened right around Thanksgiving where
we had two National guardsmen shot and one unfortunately passed away.

(28:42):
One is struggling for his life still. But he has
actually ratcheted up the National Guard present since that horrific shooting. Washington,
d C. Now is incredibly safe, much safe for them
where you were now sparkling and it does extend who
are institutions as well, like the Kennedy Center. He has

(29:04):
done all of that while turning the US economy around,
while brokering peace deals around the world. Again, the man
never stops for good.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Hey, Now, Monica Crowley as chief of protocol. All the
world leaders come to the White House, they first meet
with you, and we see you greet them, and you're
sitting with them and you're talking with them. What do
you notice they all have in common, all the different
world leaders, as far.

Speaker 7 (29:31):
As that's a really yeah, that's a really interesting question. Mark,
thank you. Yes, I mean my office and I've got
an absolutely phenomenal team. I cannot do any of this
without them. They are just incredible. And what we do
is manage the diplomatic engagements for the President, the Vice President,

(29:52):
and the Secretary of State. So I am I am
obviously hooked to the President and these world leaders. And
I have to say that most of them, not all,
but the vast majority of these world leaders. First of all,
they when they come in, they all have a sense
of awe of the President and the White House in America.

(30:16):
They all understand where they are and even if they're
meeting with the president elsewhere, like President Putin of Russia
met with President Trump in Alaska, so not in the
White House, but there is a fundamental understanding that they
are dealing with the world's superpower. And President Trump is
one of the few presidents in recent history to understand

(30:38):
the importance of American leverage and knows how to use it.
He knows he's sitting atop the world's superpower militarily, economically, diplomatically, politically, culturally,
and he leverages it, and he knows how to leverage it.
This is why, you know, coming out of his business
background is so invaluable. But these were leaders understand, and

(31:01):
I would say almost all of them have said to
me and to others, you know, even if we disagree
with President Trump on policy, even if we have serious
policy differences with the administration with the United States, we
all appreciate a strong American president. They all appreciate that

(31:24):
he is strong and that he tells them the truth. Now,
they may not like the truth, they may not like
what they're hearing from him, they may disagree right, and
they may want to counter it, but they all understand
that having a strong American hand in the White House,
sitting atop the country, they know exactly where they stand.

(31:48):
They don't have to waste time guessing what does the
president believe, where's American policy going. They know exactly where
they stand, and then they can operate from there. And
they all appreciate that more.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Than you know.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
Wow, well, hey, we only got about thirty seconds left.
You got the most important, glamorous job. But tell the truth,
you miss us, You miss New York. You miss the
radio and TV, don't you.

Speaker 9 (32:11):
Well.

Speaker 7 (32:12):
I am so blessed to be in this job, and
I thank God every day, and I thank the President
for having the confidence in me to do this job.
It is incredibly important and I'm just so grateful. But
I am a New Yorker. So while I'm in DC
doing this job, while President Trump is in office, as
long as they will have me, I am still a
New York girl. And I pray and hope that we

(32:33):
will survive the Mondommie years, and that he will he
will moderate, because you know, New York City is the
capitalist gem, the cultural gem of this country, and it
cannot go the way of a San Francisco or a
Seattle or Portland. It cannot be gutted. And so I
hope him pray that while you're all there, you guys,

(32:55):
every New Yorker will work hard to save our city.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
All right, Well, Monica, keep up the great work. Hey,
next time we'll talk about this coming year. You got
the biggest events and coming this next year. But great job,
Monica Crowley, Ambassador Monica Crowley, Chief of Protocol of the
United States. You're doing a great job. Thanks for being
with us.

Speaker 7 (33:14):
Thank you so much much, Mark, and Merry Christmas.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
All right, Merry Christmas. Take care, Hey, don't forget. Coming
up at noon, it's Buck Sexton and Clay Travis with
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Speaker 3 (33:54):
Well, Hey, we got to to get to it in
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Speaker 10 (34:08):
Mark Somemo the issues you really care about on seven
ten wor.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
Well, it's a little better today, it's not quite as
cold as yesterday. We got a lot to get to
this hour, the affordability crisis, we got Mom Donnie to
talk about, and Christmas and a whole lot of stuff.
When you're in the supermarket more and more, have you
started using the self checkout or you still? It depends

(34:44):
if your cashiers. They always have like seven lanes and
only three cashiers. And I've never seen have you ever
been in the supermarket? We're every single aisle, every single
lane has a cashier and it never ever, ever, why
do they do? Like when you go to the bank,
they have twelve windows. There's always two tellers. Why did
they build twelve windows. There's never been twelve tellers working

(35:07):
at the same time ever in a bank. So when
you go to the self checkout, it's pretty easy unless
you got stuff that's got to be weighed, and then
it gets a little tough. Now, be honest, did you
ever steal anything at the self checkout? You know, you
don't have to run every single item right by that scanner.

(35:30):
You run one or two. You got your bag set up,
you're throwing them in the bag, be totally honest. Did
you ever maybe one item you didn't ring up or
two or thin? Well, it happens a lot. There's a
couple of chains that got rid of self checkout because
of that exact problem. They were losing too much to theft.

(35:52):
Now there's been a study done about this apparently, Now
who would steal like that from the self checkout? Wealthy
Americans apparently are stealing much more from self served checkouts
than anybody else. A sizable forty percent forty of wealthy
Americans have admitted to not scanning an item in a store. Now,

(36:12):
sometimes you try to scan it, it doesn't scan, or
sometimes it's bananas or something. You got to weigh it,
and the damna know you know, know how to you
just throw it in the bag. If you break it down.
By sex, men steal far more than women do, almost
more than double the rate. Well okay, I mean, it's
pretty obvious men do more bad things than women do. Generally,

(36:35):
many of those surveys said they feel justified in stealing
some minor items. Thirty percent say the store is too
large and profitable. They don't feel the petty theft will
do anything to them. Thirty five percent. So they feel
that having to scan the items in self checkout is
unpaid labor, and this is compensation for it.

Speaker 4 (36:58):
It's kind of true.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
Remember Amazon opened those stores. They had one in time
Warner's Center, they had one near Grandson. Remember Amazon tried
doing stores, these little stores where you could walk in,
grab a little shopping cart thing and take whatever you
want and leave because each item had some little tag
on it that as you walked out, the door would

(37:21):
click and it would build your Amazon account automatically. Now
whatever happened to that? Why can't I guess it's tougher
for a supermarket to do it, But that's the best
system Amazon tried that. I noticed those stores are all
gone now, but it was a great idea walk in,
grab whatever you want. Everything's got a little tag that
like a little Bluetooth tag on it. It'll when you

(37:43):
walk out, you go through a scanner, it'll see exactly
what you took and charge you for It makes perfect sense.
Luigi Mangioni, The hearing's going on, and I keep reading
all these things about how good looking he is. Do
you find him really good looking? Luigi Mangioni, There is
something about him women like I don't know, they like

(38:03):
his eyes, they like as this, I don't know, they
like those big enormous eyebrows whatever, and a good looking
I don't know, he kind of look. If you're making
a movie about Lenny Bruce, I could see hiring him
to play Lenny Bruce. He kind of has that look
about him. But Lenny Bruce was like a good looking guy,
but kind of ratty looking, a little scruffy looking. So

(38:25):
I don't know. But there's more and more of this
where on the left they just idolize any kind of criminal.
You could be an illegal alien, you could be a
narco terrorist moving drugs. You could even be an assassin.
To hear a criminal, The left loves you. They're out
there fighting for you. And even these candidates Brad Lander

(38:47):
talking about fighting for immigrants, they're not immigrants. They're illegals.
They're illegals that broke into the country. There's nothing more
insulting to immigrants than putting illegal, well illegals across the
border illegally into the same category with them. It's just
a awful awful thing to do, but it's happening more

(39:10):
and more.

Speaker 4 (39:11):
So.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
There's also a movement right now to get rid of you.
No more cell phones in the classroom. Kid comes to school,
got to lock up his cell phones for the day.
When he leaves, he gets it back. But now there's
more and more of a movement to take it away
from kids in general, like no more cell phones, no
more social media for a kid. And this is both

(39:35):
sides of the aisle. Republicans talking about it, Democrats talking
about it. You may have seen the ram Emmanuel I
don't know why he thinks this is a big issue
for him. He wants to run for president in twenty
twenty eight. All over the airwaves now talking about no
more social media for kids, keep it away from them.
Even Lara Trump on a show said they got three kids.

(39:56):
They got one iPad for the kids, and they lock
it up most of the day. They want their kids
reading books. Well, okay, but this has gone on forever,
this debate. You know, you got a kid now he's
spending too many hours looking at his phone, looking at
social media, looking at this. But it is the same

(40:16):
thing years ago when you were a kid, only it
was television, it wasn't social media. You know, your parents
would yell at you stop watching TV all day, Go
outside and play, go do your homework. Why you don't
just sit there and watch TV? And you might think
that's not as bad, but it was just as bad.
What were you watching on TV? Nothing Worthwhile you're watching
Gilligan's Island reruns, you're watching The Monsters every day. I mean,

(40:39):
it wasn't anything great you were watching. You probably learn
more on TikTok than you did back then watching The
Monsters every day and reruns or I'll leave it to
Beaver was a show with some substance to it. So
there's more and more of this movement to get kids
to read books. But you kind of need the phone
to read a book, your kindle there to read it.

(41:01):
But I guess you could still read actual books now.
But we'll see where this goes. So Tucker Carlson, people
keep asking about this. What the hell happened to him?
You know, Tucker Carlson was a pretty respectable, legitimate figure
when he was on Fox News. There he was discussing
issues with great American politicians. Now you see the guy

(41:24):
and he's like a raving maniac online and he's got
this anti semi creep weirdo on he's allowing this guy
to have his say on his show, and then what
was it earlier this week he's in cutter talking about
how he's moving there. Just one wacky thing after another,

(41:45):
and then you see a bunch of these people doing that,
Megan Kelly, all these people acting like wacko lunatics, and
what it is they've all been fired. They don't work
anywhere anymore. You know, if you're on the Fox News
channels's got millions of viewers, and if you do a
show that there, millions of people will see you. Now
if you get fired and you're doing a podcast out

(42:05):
of your bedroom and you're not on a network and
nobody sees you. So the only way what do you do?
How do you get attention? Well, you got to do
some crazy thing that goes viral, even if it's on
the left, left wing stuff, you know, the left wing
sites start attacking you like crazy. At least it gets
your attention and publicity. So that's why Megan Kelly became

(42:26):
a total wacko. Also Tucker Carlson, Now there's a few others.
It's kind of like you remember Alex Jones, who you know,
normal people didn't pay attention to him. But all the
rednecks and hillbilly's and wackos and all they love this
Alex Jones and they went crazy with him. And he
made a fortune, made hundreds and hundreds of millions of

(42:46):
dollars to doing So that's Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, there's
a few others like that. They just have to act
totally nuts, outrageous. They're trying to become the new Alex Jones.
You know, you would think Tucker would know better, but
apparently he would not know better than that. So now

(43:09):
here's Charlie Kirk was a different case. Now Here was
a guy who had a huge audience, didn't have to
do wacky things. He was preaching great stuff, and he
was preaching a lot of stuff you'd want somebody to
try to get across to younger people, you know, take
more interest in religion, go into church and read the Bible,

(43:30):
and I mean, this is all fine stuff. But the
left wing went after him like crazy. It led to
his assassination. He apparently had written a book before he died,
and his wife has now put out the book and
it's going around promoting it and it's riled up these
left wing nuts again. Here's a left wing podcaster, Jennifer Welch,

(43:54):
And there's Trump derangement syndrome. There's Hagsith derangement syndrome. There's
Charlie Kirk derangement syndrome.

Speaker 4 (44:02):
Her.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
Here's another one who went viral with this wacko stuff.
It's about Charlie Kirk screaming and wildly unhinged rants. He's
a racist, he's an opportunistic grifter. The wife is a grifter.
This woman should be kicked to the curb. She goes
just like Donald Trump, just like her unrepentant, racist, homophobic husband.

(44:26):
Is no truth to any of this. It's just lunacy.
You saw Letterman doing the same thing last night when
he was on Jimmy Kimmel. Listen, we got a lot
of people we don't like, we don't like Mom Donnie.
But I don't see anybody go nuts about him. It's
not derangement syndrome. And we just can't stand Mom Donnie.
But if you listen to people, they'll say, you know,
he's only thirty four, he's never even run anything, he's

(44:48):
never even had a job. Okay, well that's a legitimate argument.
And things he said are anti semitic. He's been quite
anti semitic in some of the things. Yeah, okay, that's
a good seems to be very pro criminal. Yeah that's true.
But we don't go on and on and on screaming
that he's a thief. There's no ranting and raving and not.

(45:09):
I don't know what it is. Psychologists have studied this.
It's and they say it's not just about Trump, it's
about other things in their life. They hate their father.
It's daddy syndrome. I mean, if there's all these explanations
you can read online from psychologists, they're seeing things in
Trump that set them off about other things in their life.
They just get it's they get childlike, childish. You know,

(45:32):
if you said, yeah, I really don't like that, mom, Donny,
I don't like anything he's saying. I don't like what
he stands. Okay, that's fine. But if you start ranting
and raving and screaming about it's just childish. And you
look at these people doing it about Trump, it's just
out of control. It's just childlike. It's you know, it's
been going on for ten years now, and ten years

(45:53):
ago we thought, well, all right, it'll get better. After
a few it's this has gotten worse and worse and worse.
It's never gonna stop. We're gonna have to live with
this disease for the rest of our life. Hey, Judge's
ordered the release of the Epstein case grand jury transcripts.
So this is the other thing with the left. They
always think they got Trump. They got him now on something.

(46:16):
This is a big deal. They've got him on this.
They're going to Judge is ruled the grand jury transcripts
from the Epstein case have to be released now. Again,
if you talk to people that have seen everything, they've
seen these grand jury things, they've seen the full Epstein files.
You talk to people in the US Attorney's office that
saw them. If you talk to even Alan Dershwitz, who

(46:38):
was the attorney for Epstein and or Yeah, he was
Epstein's attorney for a while, so he saw everything. People
have seen everything. Tell you there's absolutely nothing in any file,
in any grand jury transcript, there's nothing anywhere in any
of these documents that would tell you anything you haven't
heard already. All the names that are in there, you've

(46:59):
already heard. Oh, there might be one or two little names,
unknown people, but there's every major name that's in there.
You've already heard about it if you talk to them, Well,
what's in those Epstein faults. It's basically just witness transcripts
of witness interviews. Nothing to outrageous. But remember the same
thing with the MRI. They we're trying to get Trump's MRI.

(47:21):
The Left went nuts trying to get that MRI. Well
they finally got it, and the same thing, Eh, it
was nothing. There one thing I like about Christmas all
these artists you get to hear. You know, obviously you
can walk around in the world today and hear Taylor
Swift all the time and Dua Lipa, But how often
you get to hear Elvis nowadays? So every Christmas, if

(47:44):
you're in your teens or even in your twenties, every Christmas,
who the hell is this guy? And then it's your
only exposure to Elvis? And then I don't know, maybe
I would think a lot of them. If you get
interested in the guy, Oh, this guy's pretty interesting. They
start googling him, youtubing him and start to hear his
other hits. Like if you're twenty six, you're never in
your life heard of this guy bing Crosby. Who the

(48:05):
hell is this guy? And they have no idea that
from like nineteen thirty to nineteen fifty, this guy was
the single most famous singer in the world. This guy
was the biggest figure in entertainment for like twenty five
years before Sinatra took over. This guy was the voice
of America for decades. Looking back on it, well, you

(48:27):
admit you were nuts listening to this Still you still
so you hear all these people now, you would never
hear nobody would ever hear Andy Williams today if it
wasn't for Christmas or Perry Como. I love Perry Como
lived right there, right in Long Island, lived in Sand's Point.
Earth a Kit that's one of the biggest Christmas So
I love earth a Kitch. She was one of the
greatest singers I know.

Speaker 4 (48:46):
Her daughter.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
Her daughter has a kit Shapiro store in Westport, Connecticut.
Clothing store actually put out a perfume called Eartha if
you want a great perfume. And I hate to break
it to you, but there's a lot of kids today
who really wouldn't know who the hell Paul McCartney was
of another The Beatles broke up fifty five years ago.
I mean, there's a lot of wouldn't known, so one

(49:09):
great thing about Christmas. Hey, we'll take some calls. Next
eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten. Is
the number? Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
Mister me Yors, Mark simoune wr.

Speaker 4 (49:28):
Let's take some calls. Let's go to Jean in Florida. Jean,
how are you doing Florida?

Speaker 11 (49:33):
Mark?

Speaker 12 (49:33):
I love you down here and I love you in Connecticut.

Speaker 4 (49:35):
Where are you in Florida?

Speaker 12 (49:37):
A bureau beach?

Speaker 3 (49:38):
Oh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 12 (49:40):
The other day, President Trump took the time to honor
the Blessed Mother on the fifty the assumption it was beautiful.
He gave a beautiful speech. I have not read one
thing about that in the in the papers. And I'm
just wondering if you can comment why there's been no
coverage of when he honored the Blessed Mother last week.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
Gotta be honest, doesn't sound like the most exciting story
in the world to yell about my mom dog. Hey,
you talk else, You got a lot of energy. You
talk very fast. You know, if you don't want to
be in Florida, you can't talk like that. You got
to learn how to talk slow, to talk in Florida.
You're not a year round resident.

Speaker 5 (50:19):
I can tell no.

Speaker 9 (50:20):
Six months.

Speaker 3 (50:21):
Yeah, because you still got that Northeastern energy about you get. Yeah,
that's good. Don't don't end up like those Florida people
that end up talking slow and everything. Well, Jean, great call,
thanks for calling. Let's go. Let's go to Blouvelt, also
in Florida, Blouvelt.

Speaker 4 (50:38):
How you doing.

Speaker 11 (50:40):
Good morning, Mark Simone, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (50:43):
Hey, everybody in Florida listens to us. Will you admit
that's because you missed New York? You al wish you
were back here?

Speaker 11 (50:48):
Oh God, I missed from New York. So the first
thing I do when I land, Man, we'll go to
the Wordia. I go right to the city and right
down a Lombardi's on Spring Street. Yeah, that's my favorite.
That's my favorite joint down there. Hey, two things, and
I haven't heard too much about the first thing. When
I ask him out affinity Devin Night. He had this
story about the Omar how she had like she was

(51:12):
worth sixty five thousand dollars two years ago and now
she's worth ten million dollars.

Speaker 4 (51:17):
God bless America.

Speaker 11 (51:19):
Yes, God, bless America. And another question is how come
Donald never sits back in a chair. He always leans
forward and got his hands on his knees.

Speaker 9 (51:29):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (51:29):
That's just because he's like a lion. He's like a tiger.
He's like ready to pounce. He never sits back.

Speaker 5 (51:35):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
No, it's real, it's really that's the reason he never
sits back. He's ready to spring up and go into
action at any moment. You can learn a lot watching
that guy about how to be here.

Speaker 11 (51:45):
I do.

Speaker 3 (51:46):
Yeah, all right, thanks for calling. Let's go to uh
Joel also in Florida, Joel, how you doing.

Speaker 13 (51:53):
Good morning, Mark, Yes, Joey, Florida. Okay, when I when
I was in college my undergraduate studies and take the
learning psycho sociology, Pressy used to tell us that many
people in their pre teens and teens used to look
at successful parents as being too authoritarian and they had
a resentment for that. Well, it seems that this is
what's causing the Trump's arrangement syndrome.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
Well, yeah, actually a mother number of psychologists have come
on this show and have written that it's daddy issues,
exactly what you're saying. That's one reason they absolutely, Hey, Trump,
not everybody has these issues, and that's why not everybody's
liked that. Let's go to Hey Vincent and Brooklyn Vincent,
how you doing.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
Good morning, Mark Marco? Okay, good morning Mara Mark. I'm
gonna say this every time they get on the phone.
This so called unaffordability crisis is caused mainly by blue
state mayors and blue state governors. The previous call of
a young lady from Vero Beach, she got her Catholic
holidays mixed up. The Feast of the Assumption is August fifteenth,

(52:54):
and the other day was the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.
That's December eighth, and in fact, in Italian we call
it la CONCHECIONI Okay, that being said, what's the next
thing these crazy democrats are gonna do? When you go
to the dealership, They're gonna and you go to buy
an Audi, a Porsche or a BMW. Whe are they

(53:16):
going to pass the lord to city council and says, hey, uh,
that person over there only could afford a Volkswagen Golf.
So we're gonna put a twenty five percent tax on
the on the sticker price of your your Porsche or
your Audi. So we're gonna put this money in a
pool so those people could buy better cars. And you

(53:37):
you're buying a filet mignon in the supermarket. No, while
your neighbor's buying hot dogs and job meat. You're gonna
have to pay a twenty five percent tax on it.
Where does this nonsense end? You live where you could afford,
You eat what you could afford, and if you can't
live in New York City, get the hell out. My

(53:59):
girlfriend had to say secretary of years ago that when
this woman got divorced from her husband, she had two kids,
she figured out between the alimony and the salary she
was making, she could no longer live in New York City.
She went someplace in Pennsylvania and is living a very
very good life normal.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
Hey, a lot of people in New York City could
not afford to live in Monte Carlo.

Speaker 2 (54:23):
I just, oh, well, you can't. A lot of people
can't afford to live on Park Avenue was some place,
so they go live someplace else. This is a bunch
of leftist democrat bs.

Speaker 5 (54:36):
That's all.

Speaker 3 (54:37):
That's a good point, Vincent, excellent call, Thanks for calling.
You know, we'll talk to and culture. Next up Bat,
I'll ask her about this. This is a good topic.
We'll get to an Culter next on seven to ten
wo R it's.

Speaker 7 (54:49):
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of course follow her on Twitter and substack. Even better,
she's got interviews and videos and podcasts, all sorts of
stuff on substack. You go to and Culter dot substack

(55:16):
dot com and Culter.

Speaker 9 (55:17):
How you doing fantastic? How are you Mark alone?

Speaker 3 (55:21):
Well, I'm good, I'm good. I love the Christmas season.
It seems to make the left wing cooks even more miserable.

Speaker 4 (55:28):
I enjoy that.

Speaker 9 (55:32):
I love it too. You remind me we have to
go see the tree in Rockefeller Center.

Speaker 3 (55:36):
Yeah, I'm gonna walk by it every year. I walked by.
I'll walk by it later today. So, uh, this whole
thing about affordable housing, you know what they said, we
don't have affordable housing. Well you really not gonna ever
have any. On Park Avenue and there's certain areas that
are gonna be expensive and other areas well, where did
this thing come? Everywhere in the world has to be affordable.

Speaker 9 (56:01):
Well, rents are very high in New York. I'm glad
you mentioned afflordability. What what what causes unts rents and
purchase prices to be so high in New York? As
as anyone in econ one oh one class will take impact,
you don't even have to take econ one o one
on my financial illiterate reduce the supply of something, Prices

(56:22):
go up. Rent control every place in the universe, it's
ever been tried. They could try it on Mars. Suddenly
you'll have massively unaffordable housing. And oh my gosh, we
need the government to build affordable housing. Just just let
the market cut loose. Developers build more stuff that I
obviously want to build a quote affordable, that is to say,

(56:44):
less expensive housing. You know, Sam Walton has done pretty
well by providing affordable products to people. It's not like
in the market people are only going to build fabulous
places on Fifth Avenue. No, quite to the contrary, But
they don't build those now because they'll be subject to
rent control. And as you and probably your listeners. So

(57:05):
a lot of landlords in New York have been forced
to just walk away from apartments because their fees, their taxes,
their costs of repairs are higher than what they're being
paid in rent. So what are they supposed to do,
you know, carry these people for the rest of their lives. No,
you just need the market. And of course one other issue,

(57:26):
there is no there's no problem under the sun that
has not helped by mass deportation of illegals.

Speaker 4 (57:33):
Well, you know, I believe or not.

Speaker 3 (57:34):
In the Hamptons, in East Hampton, there was a movement
because in East Hampton they didn't have low income housing,
affordable movement to get some and the whole town rose
up and said, it's the hamp that's not supposed to
be any affordable housing that's in the next time that
very funny.

Speaker 9 (57:50):
Yeah, No, the affordable housing has to go in the poor,
middle class neighborhood. Let's screw those people.

Speaker 3 (57:56):
Yeah, but all your life, you know, your parents are driving.
You see, you're in the car, you're driving the look
at these mansions. What a beautiful thing. You keep driving
and driving. Next thing you know, you're in a really
bad neighborhood. That's that's always been that way. You can't
equalize everything, can you.

Speaker 9 (58:10):
No, that's a really good point. Actually, one of the
one of the wonderful things Trump did. What was the
name of it. There was this insane program under Obama
and Biden. Oh, it's on the tip of my tongue.
I can't think of it. But anyway, it was basically
doing exactly the madness you're describing. If someone couldn't afford

(58:33):
a family, couldn't afford to live, you know, in a
more expensive neighborhood Fringde Connecticut or like you say, the
Hampton Park Avenue, under law, we had to subsidize them
to allow them to live in homes where they couldn't
afford the neighborhood, which is crazy. That's you can they

(58:57):
can find housing. They can find plenty of housing. Housing
in neighborhoods they can they can afford. It's just like
you know, affirmative action at colleges. No, you can get
into a college, uh and have roughly the same SATs
as everyone you're competing against. But no, we're going to
elevate you to a college that's going to make you
feel stupid for the rest of your life.

Speaker 3 (59:16):
Yeah, but these crazy left wing Democrats, you know, the
double standards unbelievable. Remember they dropped those illegals in Nantucket.

Speaker 9 (59:28):
Martha's thinking about that.

Speaker 3 (59:30):
They got rounded up and taken out of there so
fast that I didn't see any due process there.

Speaker 5 (59:36):
Did you?

Speaker 4 (59:37):
Did you see any hearings before they got carried out
of there? No?

Speaker 9 (59:40):
I was thinking about it because, and by the way,
I salute you, I've been so trying to ignore this.
You know, Venezuelan narco traffickers, whom Democrats are wildly in
favor of it. It's the new pet seal on the left.
But I was thinking a test should round them all
up and send them to.

Speaker 4 (59:59):
Martha's viney, Yeah, that would you know? You're right?

Speaker 3 (01:00:04):
Actually, in that little harbor, I'd love to see those
Narcos speedboats coming in at one hundred and eighty miles
an hour.

Speaker 9 (01:00:10):
It's right, just move them in both, build be affordable
housing up there and put the Narco terrorists there.

Speaker 4 (01:00:17):
All right?

Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
But how if you're NBC News, if you're the New
York Times, and the boat clearly has four outboard super
high speed outboard motors that cost almost two hundred thousand
dollars and it's going one hundred and eighty miles an
hour through the water in the middle of the night.
How could you claim that's a fishing boat.

Speaker 9 (01:00:38):
How could they claim that Tucky Williams was, you know,
a hard working student. Frame for killing a cop or
Mumia Abu Jamal. This is their nature. You find a
predator on society and oh my gosh, we must start
a fundraiser for that person. I think they've moved on
from the fishermen. Well, this is what I'm writing about

(01:01:01):
this week. They have a scrolling series of preposterous arguments
in defense of narco terrists, whom I'll give you one
one little highlight. Last year was the last year we
have we have figures four cocaine, which is absolutely one
hundred percent being shipped. It goes from from Colombia to Venezuela.

(01:01:23):
Venezuela sends it to Mexico and then it comes Mexicans
truck it up to the United States. Back before the
media felt like it had to lie about this, this
was written about about once a year in the New
York Times. This will all be covered in the column
going up later today, But in any event, twenty twenty three,
thirty thousand Americans died of overdoses from cocaine. Nine to eleven,

(01:01:46):
three thousand Americans died, and we went to war in
two countries for twenty years. But thirty thousand Americans, Oh, no,
we can't do anything in our hemisphere. You have to
go seven thousand miles away. Then we don't mind for innocence.

Speaker 3 (01:02:01):
Well, you know, for years they tried to think of
what to do about these cartel smuggling drugs, and we
maybe set up a commission to talk to Mexico. And
then I like the Trump approach to watch a bomb
just hit the boat and blow it right out of
the water.

Speaker 9 (01:02:15):
I mean, besides the joy of blowing up drug dealers,
you're absolutely right through through Republican administrations, Democratic administrations. US
attorneys keep indicting. I mean all of all of Venezuela.
The only the only product they have is drugs, shipping drugs.
They're sitting on the largest reserve of oil in the world.
They can't get it out of the ground. Socialism works great.

(01:02:38):
So the entire country, right up to about the government,
the military, law enforcement, it is a drug cartel. This
is a country that is a drug cartel. So Obama Trump,
they've all indicted Maduro, the head of intelligence. The indictment
they indict them, they accuse them of shipping cocaine to
the United States. Yes, your precious little Obama did this

(01:03:00):
New York Times. And then you know, maybe we'll get
an extradition. A couple of them have finally been caught
and gone to prison, and then some other somebody else
becomes a head of intelligence event in Venezuela. Indicting people
in Abstentia is not working. What Trump is doing is working.
Therefore liberals are going nuts.

Speaker 3 (01:03:19):
Yeah, so hey, also a Democrats, boy, they love Tariff's Democrats.
You know, they call it a corporate tax, but it's
a tiff that teriffing business is left and right, which
any time you put a tax on a corporation, that
raises the prices.

Speaker 9 (01:03:33):
So uh, that's a good point. I don't mind that.
You're right.

Speaker 3 (01:03:37):
So hey, we just about at a time if somebody
wanted to give a Christmas present, what book of Years
would you recommend?

Speaker 9 (01:03:43):
Because that's a good Oh, that's a good question.

Speaker 8 (01:03:45):
Book is a great Christmas all my children?

Speaker 9 (01:03:49):
You know, the last book Resistance is futile it is.
It is exactly what's happening right now. Liberals just have
lost their minds with with Trump. The point of the
book is because because they hate Trump so much, they
can't make they can't make serious, solid arguments, and they
just keep helping him with their with their lunatic hysterian

(01:04:10):
I go through several examples of that. So that's a
great one. And Trump we trust also great now that
he's being the man I wrote the book about.

Speaker 4 (01:04:18):
Which okay, good drive here, approve.

Speaker 9 (01:04:21):
Adios America of course, which which set off the phenomenon
that is the Trump.

Speaker 3 (01:04:28):
Yeah, so we recommend this for a lot of authors.
You could go to a store, a lot of stores
look for to get people books. It's a great gift.
It's nobody can complain. It's a it's a very important thing.

Speaker 4 (01:04:41):
A books.

Speaker 3 (01:04:41):
So uh go to and culture on Amazon you can
get a book as a gift. And of course follower
on Twitter and substack it's and culter dot substack dot
com and culter thanks for being with us.

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Speaker 4 (01:05:31):
Well, it's the middle of the week. It's uh, what's
the day today?

Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
It is the tenth, So you got fourteen days till
two weeks till Christmas Eve.

Speaker 4 (01:05:42):
Two weeks from today.

Speaker 3 (01:05:44):
It's almost New Year's normally, you know New Year's Eve,
what a time for celebration. But remember New Year's Day.
You're gonna have Mom Donnie sworn in. On New Year's Day,
you're gonna have a new mayor. It'll be all right, though. Listen,
you got through eight years at Doublasio, Get through Mom Donnie,
all right, it'll it'll just be to blase you all
over again. It wasn't good, but you got through it

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