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ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis, reportedly has a 50/50 chance of avoiding legal trouble due to his job title. Meanwhile, the House of Representatives has passed a three-year extension of the Obamacare subsidies. Mark interviews Roger Friedman from Showbiz411. The film "Marty Supreme" has enjoyed an impressive run at the box office in 2025. Roger also shares his perspective as a close entertainment insider on the legal issues surrounding Rob Reiner's son, Nick Reiner, and his convictions and charges. Additionally, singer Bruno Mars has announced a major stadium tour across the USA. Julie Menin, a Jewish leader and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, has been elected as New York City Council Speaker and will be working alongside Mayor Mamdani. In other news, Luigi Mangione, accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, may avoid jail time depending on upcoming legal proceedings in New York City. Mark interviews Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman. Bruce is running in this year's New York gubernatorial race. He shares updates on his campaign, discusses the state of upstate New York’s economy, and talks about how collaboration could help unite New York City's Republican Party to win more political seats.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now on the Voice of New York Case the Mark
Simone Show on seven tenor Hey it's Friday. That's good.
Got through the first week of twenty twenty six. We'll
get to Minneapolis, We'll get to Portland, We'll get to CBS,
We'll get to I ran the ayatolem may be fleeing

(00:22):
at any moment. We'll get to Mom Donnie. We'll get
to a whole lot more coming up this morning. It
is the end of the first week of twenty twenty six.
We made it through all of this. I see dead
Christmas trees all over the sidewalks in New York. People
just toss them out there in the garbage and they're
lying around all over the place there. So it's going

(00:44):
to be warm today, but the rain starts later. It's
going to be a very rainy weekend. But whatever snow
there's left out there somewhere is going to get washed
away this weekend. So President Trump, let's go over everything
from this. Minneapolis, they've started to identify the ice officer

(01:05):
who fired the shots, his picture, his face, his name
all over the internet. Now you know how the poor
woman who got killed, they would say, well, she was
a mother of a six year old. She was a poet,
she was a wonderful woman. Was also driving a car
right into a bunch of law enforcement officers, trying to

(01:26):
terrorize them all day. It's not just at that moment,
but she'd been there apparently all day, trying to block them,
trying to interrupt them, trying to troll them, going after them.
I could see protesting if you're really upset about something.
I could see getting a sign and standing there waving
your sign and yelling something. But could you imagine ever
getting into a big suv and terrorizing the agents. Could

(01:51):
you imagine would you ever have the nerve to do that?
And when I say terrorizing, I mean she's driving into them,
around them. And if you watch, they don't show you
this really when they show these videos right before the incident,
it all started. When the ICE agents are in a
caravan of cars SUVs, they're coming down the street. Right
before all this, she takes her SUV, gets in front

(02:14):
of them and turns the car sideways so that it's
blocking the whole street. Now, usually when you see that happen,
there's a couple of Blue Bloods episodes where you see
that where they're trying to stop Danny Reagan from taking
that witness into court. One suv turns sideways blocks the road.
Another gets behind the caravan blocks them in, so they're
boxed in, and now they start shooting at them. So

(02:36):
if you're these Ice agents and you see this car
ahead of you turn and just sideways block the whole
street so you can't move, your first thought is you're
going to get ambushed. Here there's going to be another
car blocking you from behind. I mean, if I were them,
I would have just rammed right through her and knocked
her car of the way, but they instead stopped. They

(02:57):
got out of the car and try to approach her
to see what it was all about. And that's where
all this started. Now you got all these people yelling
and screaming. You got Mamdanni and of course it can
always count on him for the left wing kook response.
And he's yelling murder, murder, murder. And you got the
Minnesota mayor, who's not the same thing their own Mamdani
yelling murder. You got Tim Waltz, the governor. He wants

(03:20):
to try this cop there. And now there's a couple
of things. If you just go over the facts. Fact
number one, this cop will never ever ever get convicted
of anything. He's totally legally covered, justified. We can go
over the reasons why in a moment, absolutely total legal shooting.
Now here's the other thing. If you talk off the
record to every great law enforcement person, police commissioners, all

(03:46):
sorts of top top police people, they'll tell you when
they've studied this, it's legally justified. It was legal in firing.
But they'll also tell you off the record, he shouldn't
have fired. He didn't have to fire. He did hit
him with the car. He was in front of it.
She was coming at him. She then tried to turn away,

(04:06):
so you can legally fire at her. But they all
said the same thing. If you were a much smarter cop,
you would have gotten out of the way. You didn't
have to fire, So you don't shoot and kill her.
You just either get the local police to capture her later,
or you chase her and capture He didn't need to
fire the shots. Now, he's legally covered because she did

(04:30):
hit him with the car. You can see that in
the videos from the front. And also if you're watching
Stephen Colbert, you wouldn't know any of this last night.
He did this whole thing about her. He just shot
her from the side of the car. He was on
the side of the car shooting at her. Now, actually
he was in front of the car for the first shot.
Because the first shot, and this is the key to
everything if it ever were to go into a courtroom,

(04:50):
the first shot goes through the front windshield. And that's
impossible to do if you're on the side of the car.
If the first shot goes right through the front windshield.
And that's because he was in front of the car.
If you look at the other videos, which they'd never
show you, from the front the car hit some reason,
he's on the side. The car hit him and knocked
him to the side. But again, he's legally justified. He's

(05:14):
legal in the shooting. But off the record, every law
enforcement guesses, you didn't have to fire those shots. You
could have just let it go. But he will get
a federal investigation. They will not convict him. Even the
biggest Trump hating prosecutors, the Andy McCarthy types, will tell
you it's a legally justified shooting. They can't convict him

(05:35):
of anything, but fed's will go after him. Now, the
Minnesota officials, the crazy left wing mayor and Waltz. They
want to try him, they want to put him on trial,
they want to go after him. It's good for them politically,
it's a good issue for them to latch onto. That's
the other problem with this. It's a terrible incident, tragic, awful,
even though it's legal. It's probably unnecessary, but it's legal.

(06:00):
But if you're a Democrat and you hate Trump and
your whole life is trying to get Trump, this is perfect.
You can use this for the next year, and you
got midterm elections coming up. So if you're a Democrat,
this is great. This footage the cops shooting the woman.
If you read these articles in the left wing news media,
she was a poet, she was a mother, she was

(06:22):
how could they shoot her? But again, if you're a
poet and a mother, you generally wouldn't be the type
would you to be taking your suv and trying to
run over cops or try to bust up a police operation.
That's highly unusual behavior. But these Democrats, with the rhetoric,
these Colberts and Stephanopoulos's and all the media and all

(06:44):
the Democrats and all they've riled up these people, They've
inflamed them. They've weaponized these white liberal women with their
liberal arts degrees to go crazy. But Tim Waltz, who's
had withdraw from the guvern his race in total disgrace,
this might be a turning point for him. Maybe you
can save himself. That's why he wants to do the investigation.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yesterday, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension the BCA, spent
the day yesterday attempting to get that accountability. We have
learned that the Trump administration has now denied the state
that ability to participate in the investigation. And I always
want to make this as clear as possible to everyone.
Minnesota must be part of this investigation.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
Right now.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Gotta give this guy credit for the first ten seconds.
Boy does he sound.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Official yesterday the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the bc ooh,
the bc.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
Other, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal and Apprehension. It sounds impressive.
Then he said, well, wait a minute, you just had
eighteen billions stolen right under your nose. You didn't even
know it, and now that you know it's stolen, you
haven't done a damn thing about it.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
A spent the day yesterday attempting to get that accountability.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Accountability, that's that's his middle name, accountability. Again. Eighteen billions stolen.
He didn't notice, he didn't see, he didn't look. Now
that they know it was stolen, and you'll never hear
a word about it from him. He'll never mention. It
looks the other way. So it's it's just silly, it's
just ridiculous. So we'll see what happens. There will be

(08:12):
a federal investigation. Now you got the Portland incident on
top of that, and again it's the same thing. You know,
people weaponizing cars, trying to drive into you don't wherever
there's a shooting, a gun incident, they always call for
banning guns. You've had people use cars now as weapons.
We'll see what happens. Car attacks, now here's here's one

(08:33):
reason the ICE agents are really really on edge over
this attacks with people using cars to run down ICE agents.
Car attacks on ICE agents over the last year are up.
They have spiked up thirty two hundred percent in one year.
Thirty two hundred percent in one year. There's a massive

(08:56):
number of incidents. The one reason this cop was so
quick to fire was months ago he was in another
incident where a car tried to run him down and
the car he got caught with his arm in the car,
and the car dragged him for hundreds and hundreds of feet,
almost tore his arm off. In fact, he was seriously injured.

(09:17):
He had something like forty five stitches and his arm.
He still hasn't gotten full use of his arm. So,
you know, the victim who was shot, you'll hear about
what a wonderful she was, a mother, she was this Well,
you could do the same thing with the cop. Everybody
describes him as a wonderful man, a really kind, wonderful neighbor,
a guy who went to church all the time. And

(09:39):
he's married to an immigrant. You know, he's not an
anti immigrant guy. He's been on the Ice Force for
twelve years. He was, for that, a war veteran, So
I mean, a model citizen. But this will continue, You know,
it doesn't matter what the real deal is. Democrats are
running for midterm a linetions. They need to use this.

(10:01):
They want to destroy Trump should they take office. They
want to impeach them. This would be perfect. Are they
going to play this up like crazy? You're gonna hear
all about this. You're going to see more rioting now.
We hope this doesn't turn out to remember the last
time we had the riots start, it went on for
an entire summer, all through the election year, and this
will be an election year, so you know, you've got

(10:23):
a couple other things going on. The Affordable Care Act
is it turned out this Obamacare, they call it the
Affordable Care Act, but it's not affordable. It turned out
to be a total disaster. Drove the cost of healthcare
up like crazy. So to fix that, the government has
to give you subsidies. It's so unaffordable you have to
get huge government subsidies to pay for it, and those

(10:45):
have expired. That's what the shutdown was all about. So
we're headed to another shutdown in two weeks. About those substies, well,
yesterday this week Congress started to pass the patch for that.
We thought they'd do like a a one year patch
continue the subsidies to give everybody time to figure out
how to fix the system, but instead it was three years,

(11:08):
so for three years the subsidies will continue. Now this
is bad for Democrats in the midterms because if the
whole thing expired, healthcare costs would have gone way up.
It would have helped Democrats run for the midterms, but
they've lost this issue now by putting in this patch.
So apparently what Democrats want to do is they want

(11:29):
to use these incidents with Ice as the big midterm election.
They'll try affordability. But the problem is, and I think
they kind of know this, as we head into the summer,
prices are going to come way down. Inflation has been dropping.
Everything is. Prices have been dropping, and the economy has
been picking up steam. The tax cuts from the big
beautiful bill now kick in starting this month. People will

(11:51):
be getting more in their paychecks. So affordability economy, that
might not be the greatest issue, but they're going to
use ice as the midterms issue. So in fact, they're
talking about maybe another government shutdown over ice, over getting
rid of ice. There'll be a defund the ice movement coming,

(12:12):
so keep an eye out for that. Hey, Iran is
an amazing situation. You know, you've always wanted to get
rid of this iatolem. You always thought, maybe, you know,
if you stir up a rebellion revolution in Iran, maybe
that will put Well, we didn't have to do a thing.
It already rows up on its own. The people of
Iran are rebelling like crazy, protesting all of this. It's

(12:36):
gotten so out of hand that Iran has shut down
their internet as a way to stop that. You see
signs now death to the Ayatola, which usually would get
you killed in a second, but the revolution is so
bold right now. They've got these signs up. And apparently
the Ayatola, who's very old, is making plans. He thinks

(12:58):
there's a good chance he may have to flee the
country and leave that the revolution may be successful if
the Iotola leaves. Apparently he's planning to go to Russia
where they will take care of them. And he's got
about twenty people he wants to take with him inner
circle family, so that would be fascinating. He leaves, and

(13:18):
then the revolution, if it's successful, you get a normal government,
normal some kind of sort of democratic government. So you'll
have that in Venezuela, you'll have that in Iran. If
President Trump keeps going on the path he's going on,
you'll probably end up with some kind of democracy in
Cuba Columbia. He'll bring down these dictators. Now, the meeting

(13:40):
is today with all the oil companies. The president wants
the big oil companies to go into Venezuela and fix
the oil drilling, the infrastructure. It's all decayed and gone. Venezuela,
believe it or not, has twenty percent of the world's oil.
Seventeen trillion in oil is under the ground there three

(14:00):
hundred billion barrels. They've got more oil than the Saudis do.
So the problem is they don't have any oil industry.
They let all the wells, the infrastructure totally decay. They
can't get it out of the ground. But you send
these oil companies in there. They know how to fix
that stuff. Take a while, but they'll fix it. Get
the oil pumping, and then Venezuela could not only be
a democracy, it could be the most wealthy, booming economy

(14:24):
as it was way back when before the socialists came in.
Now here's the only catch. President has the oil company
executives coming in today to talk to them about going
down there and fixing everything. Now, they would love to
do this because you can make a lot of money
pumping all that oil. But and they're gonna be very
careful with the President. They're not going to really come

(14:44):
out and say this. They're going to kind of stall
for time because they don't really want to go in there.
Here's the problem, and they're not wrong about this. It'd
be great if Trump's in office. They will go down there,
fix the oil infrastructure, oil beflow, everything be great. But
they got to think to them, so, well, what if
the Republicans lose Congress in November, what if Democrats take over?

(15:08):
They won't pack us up. We won't get the protection
we need, the money we need. And then they got
to think, what if a couple of years that Democrats
take the White House, if it's a democratic government, they'll
be stuck down there in Venezuela without the federal backup
and protection. So they're not too crazy about going in
there right now. So, hey, we got a lot to
get to this hour. Oh we'll get to CBS that

(15:29):
Barry Weiss, the new person running it, is cleaning things up,
that Evening News now is a little more balanced. And
apparently she's all over sixty minutes stopping some of their
stories because they're totally unbalanced, letting some of their stories
go if they agree to put in both sides. This
has got CBS people very upset. So we'll get to

(15:52):
that in a lot more coming up. We'll take some calls. Next.
Eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten is
the number eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Now back to the mont Simone show on WR.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
Hey, let's take some calls. Eight hundred three to two
one zero seven ten is the number eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten. Let's go to Shelley in
Long Island. Shelley, how you.

Speaker 4 (16:19):
Doing, Hey, good morning, Mark. Loved the show. Mark. We
have not seen one high profile arrest. Day after day
we see governors, mayors threaten the president and I and
no one gets arrested. It's so fatiguing arrest the.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Governors and mayors and I can't arrest them. They're allowed
to be idiots. It's not a crime to be stupid.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
So why are we going to see a high profile
arrest any any time?

Speaker 1 (16:47):
I think you saw on Saturday, Maduro that was pretty
high profile.

Speaker 4 (16:51):
Well, I mean in the United States.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Well you've seen the Letitia James. She's beaten the last
couple of charges, but they'll get her eventually.

Speaker 4 (17:00):
All right, Okay, you think you're saying positive. I'm trying
to stay positive here, but I don't know. I feel
like we keep getting defeated.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
But I don't know. Who do you want arrested? I mean,
look at look at Ice. They've arrested something like three
hundred thousand illegals.

Speaker 4 (17:13):
That's pretty good, right, I don't know. I guess these mayors,
these governors.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Who are But you can't arrest somebody for being an idiot,
for being crazy. You can't arrest them. But thanks for calling.
Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike, how you doing,
Good morning, Mark, that's Mike.

Speaker 5 (17:32):
One of the things I always find interesting about these
stories like the Minnesota shooting is well, first of all,
the Democrats lovet is. Jane Fonder reminded us. They love
these kinds of things because they can make hay from it.

Speaker 6 (17:43):
But it's also the takes people have that it's like
some random event, like she was out looking for a
loaf of bread and she got lost and she was
shot by this you know, by this rogue cop.

Speaker 5 (17:53):
You know, these the cops.

Speaker 6 (17:54):
Have intel, they know what's going on the other side.
Is there for reasons? And I wouldn't put it past
the Democrats in the left the hope that somebody gets shot,
because then they have fodder for their you know, like
you said, riots all summer, you know, and that unnerves
the voting public.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
And I said again, if you're a left wing crazy
uh liberal, that's fine. And if you want to get
a sign and go protest Ice and put a sign,
call on them all kinds of names. If you want
to scream at them, that's great, that's fine. But who
think I'll take my big SUV and just drive right
into them.

Speaker 6 (18:29):
I'll block their up exactly exactly. And and like you said,
there's been an uptick of three thousand percent, so it
is a planned saying.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
All right, well, thanks for calling. Somebody put out a
book called how Not to Get Shot by Ice. It's
one page. The one page says don't run your car
into them. It's pretty much that simple. Let's go to
Bob Montvale, New Jersey.

Speaker 7 (18:53):
Thanks Mark for taking my call. But this Minnesota thing
is interesting because it brings into play like child's care.
The reportal is in the post, so that the childcare center,
it was like the meeting point for this group. Interesting,
isn't it? So here for their childcare is bogus and
the other half is tainting little children.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
And yeah, well in their defense. The childcare centers had
no children in them. They were empty, so I might
as well rent them out to crazy left wing protesters.
Do something with them. Let's go to Michael in beautiful
Oyster Bay. Michael, how you doing?

Speaker 3 (19:28):
Oh good? How are you?

Speaker 1 (19:29):
I'm good.

Speaker 8 (19:31):
Twenty thirteen, there was a shooting at the Capitol. I
don't know if you remember. The woman who hit a
Capitol police officer near the White House, kept driving towards
the Capitol.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
Yeah, get a baby in the car.

Speaker 8 (19:41):
They sat here dead.

Speaker 6 (19:42):
No, no, no cluestion.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
De Yeah, Well, it depends if you're a Democrat. It's bad.
It's good a republic and it's bad. It depends. You
got to d buy your name. You get a democratic
community on those things. Let's go to sewn in New Jersey. Sean,
how you doing, good morning?

Speaker 9 (19:58):
Mark, very well.

Speaker 3 (19:59):
See.

Speaker 5 (20:00):
I don't know why we keep using the word that
this was a tragedy.

Speaker 6 (20:04):
It's terrible.

Speaker 5 (20:05):
We never want someone being killed or shot, but this
wasn't an innocent person.

Speaker 10 (20:10):
If a bystander, if a protestant that's just standing there
holding a sign.

Speaker 6 (20:14):
Like you said, got shot and killed, that's a tragedy.

Speaker 9 (20:17):
If I took my car out right now and try
to run over a police officer and I got shot.

Speaker 5 (20:20):
No one would say it's a tragedy.

Speaker 8 (20:22):
This is not a tragedy.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Again, it depends are you a Democrat, are you a Republican.
If she's a Democrat, it's a tragedy. If you're a publican,
if you're Ashley Babbitt.

Speaker 6 (20:32):
Good exactly.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
Hey I'm not exaggerating, by the way, go look at
my Twitter. We found these Keith Oberman tweets. When Ashley Babbitt,
the war veteran, was shot for no reason by a cop.
Oberman is tweeting justice has been done, but with this
case murder a Yeah, that's psycho Keith Oberman. He's still
out there, but he sometimes tweets from the unemployment line

(20:57):
and puts those crazy things up. Yeah, it's just I mean, listen,
it's one thing to rile up your base. It's one
thing to weaponize these angry white liberal women with the
liberal arts degrees, with the nose rings. It's one thing
to rile them up. But to get them to start
using their SUVs they're soccer mom SUVs to run over

(21:17):
police or try to drive right into the middle of
a police operation and bust. It's insane, it's crazy. And
again these suv trying to hit the police. Those incidents
are up thirty two hundred thirty two hundred percent in
the last year. Hey, when we come back, some entertainment news.
Actually we'll talk to Roger Friedman. I got a lot

(21:38):
of things to talk to him about. We'll get to
Nick Reiner, and we'll get to Marty Supreme and a
whole lot more coming up on seven to ten WR.

Speaker 4 (21:48):
This is to the Mark some Moon show on seventen WR.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
Well, we'll talk to Roger in a moment. We're hunting
for them as we speak. Little controversy yesterday the Health
and Human Services, you know the Robert F. Kennedy and
doctor Oz was there Brooke Rollins for this thing. They
redid the food pyramid. I don't know if it's good
or bad. But do you know anybody actually looks at

(22:17):
this food pyramid? Do you know anybody that follows the
before you eat these say, let me check that food pyramid.
So they want you to eat more protein. The good
part is less sugar. That's the good point. We'll get
back to that anyway. But Roger Friedman, the Great entertainment
reporter his website. You should check it every day. There's
always great stories. Showbiz for one one dot com, Showbiz

(22:37):
for one dot com. Roger Friedman, how you doing. I'm great,
Good morning. How are you good? Hey, we haven't talked
in a couple of weeks. I got to catch up
on a few things. One Okay, Marty Supreme. They talked
about it as the biggest movie of the year. It's
doing okay, but it's doing great. Did you see that I.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Used your picture? Yeah, and I featured you.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Know, and it was great. I actually knew the real Marty Supreme, who,
by the way, had nothing to do with this movie.
He was the ping pong champion. But this stuff that
they was.

Speaker 11 (23:09):
Inspired by him, the idea movie is inspired by him.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yeah, but with the chasing, the women, the gangsters, the shootings,
the car chases, none of that really happened with him.
He was actually a pretty boring guy in real life.
But I'm looking at the box office, it's always like
number two or three. It's not like number one.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
Every week.

Speaker 11 (23:29):
Well, you know, Avatar is out, so that's like the
big commercial movie at the moment. But Marty Supreme is
up to like sixteen million dollars. I think after just
a couple of weeks, that's great.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
Are you kidding? Okay, that's wonderful.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
It's a great movie. Yeah, I mean it's a great movie.
Everybody should go see it. When does it start streaming
because some people wait for that.

Speaker 11 (23:52):
Oh it's not. It's a sixty one million. That's fantastic
after twenty days, and the first few days were not
really they were just in two theaters. No, it's doing great.
It won't be streaming for a long time. It's got
to get through the award season. You know, Tomorrow Sunday
night is the Golden Globes. This past weekend was the Critics'

(24:15):
Choice Awards, which he won Timothy Challame, and then we're
gonna have the Golden Globes. Then we're gonna have Oscar nominations.
Then we're going to have things like the SAG Awards,
and then finally the Oscars on March fifteenth. I don't
think you'll see Marty Supreme streaming until after March fifteenth,

(24:35):
but that's not bad. It Eventually it'll get there. But
the two big movies of this Oscar season are Marty Supreme.
In one battle after another, and they're going to battle
for the Oscar, and I think one battle will win
the Oscar and Timothy Chilly will win the Best Actor Award.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
It is guess it is a great movie. Everybody should
go see Marty Supreme. You love it.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
It's a great movie.

Speaker 11 (25:01):
And it's funny because after you said you knew him
and you had pictures, a few other people turned up
in the papers saying that they had known him also,
and one of them was Tina Brown, whose husband, Harry Evans,
the famous editor, was sort of like my mentor. And
I had no idea that Marty Riceman had written a

(25:22):
second book that was never been published, and he wanted
Harry Evans to publish at a random house. So he
kept going to and Harry put a ping pong table
in his basement on fifty seventh Street, and Marty was
going over there and playing ping pong to the disgust
of Tina Brown, who didn't like him and didn't want
him in her house. But Harry loved it, and all

(25:45):
they did was play ping pong night and day.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yeah, he was an incredible ping pong player. Otherwise kind
of a dull and annoying sort of a guy, kind
of a little sweepie.

Speaker 11 (25:57):
You could sort of see that in the movie. Actually
concerneracy as he got older, this would wear thin, you know.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
Yeah, it was. You know that the behavior is cute
when you're twenty two, when you're fifty two. Right that
cut right now. The other thing we haven't talked about it.
Tell us about what you know about Nick Reiner, Rob Reiner,
the whole situation.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
I don't know anything more than you do.

Speaker 11 (26:18):
It's such a tragic story because Rob Reiner, who I knew,
and his wife Michelle, who I also knew, were just
the greatest people. And apparently they were living with this
incredible catastrophe in their house and didn't really know what
to do, and they were doing the best they could,
and they thought, well, just you know, keep giving him

(26:39):
money and love and it'll turn around. And obviously the
kid was really sick.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
So now he's lost his lawyer. His lawyer withdrew.

Speaker 11 (26:49):
From the case this week and he's going to have
a public defender. And the lawyer didn't say why, but
my guess is that the brother and sisters would not
pay for the defense. This lawyer, his name is Alan Jackson,
probably costs one thousand dollars an hour or whatever. And
if you it's a tragic thing. Can you imagine that

(27:10):
your sibling kills your parents and then comes to you
and says, will you pay for my defense?

Speaker 3 (27:15):
And what are you going to do? You know?

Speaker 11 (27:17):
And I think that probably they've decided they're not going
to pay for the defense anyway. He's going to wind
up in a mental hospital some kind and they're going
to plead insanity and and it's horrible.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
He's ruined all of their lives.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Apparently, apparently he's officially been diagnosed with being a schizophrenic.
And a couple of criminal lawyers told me, you have
to withdraw because you can't deal with schizophrenics as a lawyer.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
Also, you need two lawyers.

Speaker 11 (27:43):
Actually, right, is it.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
Too soon for jokes?

Speaker 1 (27:52):
But now apparently the family has said they do not
want the death penalty. They've asked the DA and the.

Speaker 11 (27:59):
D about the death penalty for their brother.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yeah, but the DA has said the wishes of the
family will be a paramount to his decision, so they
will not seek to death YCTY.

Speaker 11 (28:09):
No, he's going to go to jail for the rest
of his life, and he'll probably he'll die in jail,
and maybe it'll be a hospital jail, because he's you know,
obviously very very very sick guy. But what he's done
is just it's unforgivable. They'll never be able to forgive
him for this, and it must be the winding down
of any state when a person is older is a

(28:31):
very difficult thing. That you realize that Rob Bryer was
at the height of his careers, so this must be
for these kids to have to deal with this now
is just the worst thing ever. It's unimaginable.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, hey, let's talk about Bruno Mars. It was always
a very big deal, but somehow he got hotter than
ever and now he's announced he's going to play stadiums.
How did he get so much hotter all of a sudden.

Speaker 3 (28:54):
No, he's been hot for a while, you know.

Speaker 11 (28:56):
He had this huge hit with Lady Gaga over the
last year.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
It's a massive hit. It's called Die with a Smile.

Speaker 11 (29:03):
It's a ballad and it's actually the biggest record of
the last year and a half, so that really helps him.
He also had a hit with one of the young
women from Black Pink in the Korean pop so it
really reignited. These two things really reignited him. So he's
made a new album that's coming out of February twenty seventh,

(29:23):
and last night he dropped a new single, and he's
apparently in a fight online with one of his fans,
who said on Twitter. The fan said, this guy puts
out the same song all the time and no one
ever says anything, and Berto bar has attacked him personally
back on Twitter, which was hilarious.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
But I have to say the song.

Speaker 11 (29:47):
Which I can't remember, I think it's called It Just Might,
and it's a dance song and it's fun. It sounds
exactly like Leo Sayer's You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
se exact same song. And this is not the first
time Bruno Mars has done this. He did their song
early in his career. I can't read the name of it.

(30:08):
It sounded like the Police, which sing Every time I
started playing, you thought, oh, this is the Police. Bruno
Mars is very good at sort of copying other people's
styles and then adding a little bit of something else
to make it sound new. But he's fun, you know,
he's a fun guy. He has a great voice, and
I don't mind him doing that and sting say at

(30:29):
the time, I don't care, do.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
Whatever you want.

Speaker 11 (30:32):
I don't know what Leo Sayer will say when he
hears this, but I played it. It dropped on Spotify
about twelve thirty last night, and I said, I'd better
listen to this, and I'm like, this sounds like something I.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
Know very much.

Speaker 11 (30:44):
So but he's but Bruno.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
Let's see, is he I'll tell you right now. Is
it a hit?

Speaker 11 (30:48):
Probably it's probably number one, because you know his people
don't even know who leos Aya was.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
Yeah, you know his fans, they have no idea.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
No, he had a bunch of hits mid seventies. Is
he still alive? I assuming, of course he is.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
You know, I'll tell you.

Speaker 11 (31:01):
I'll tell you something about Bruno Mars that is smart.
They booked him this big tour. It's number six. They
booked him this big tour. But he's not going out
on his own, which is really smart. He's going out
with four other R and B stars Let's go Away
and Leon Thomas. And this is what you have to
do now because people cannot fill these stadiums at these prices,

(31:26):
so the tickets are so jacked up and You've seen
a lot of calamities of tours where you know there's
like large empty areas of stadiums. So I think that
it's Bruno Marster. I really want to see it at
this Bruno Mars tour. I think it's going to be great.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Well, you could have large empty areas if you're met life.
Jets are used to it. Giants are used to it.
A lot of empty areas in the.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
Well the giants.

Speaker 11 (31:50):
Maybe you're picking up some esteem though, aren't they.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
That's when you know you're bad. When when when you
go four and thirteen they think it was a great season,
you know you're in trouble.

Speaker 11 (32:00):
So you know you're only good as you're only as
good as your last game.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
Yeah, well, Roger Friedman great stuff. Check out his website.
And then there's new stories every day Showbiz four week.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
I just put up a story.

Speaker 11 (32:12):
I just put up a story about the Golden Gloves,
which are this Sunday, and how it's changed. There's used
to be all these great Golden Globe parties and of
course it's all everything is diminished now And if you
want to read, I think it's a pretty fun story
to read about all the Golden Globe Stories, Golden Globe parties.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
I've been to all.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
Right, Yeah, go to Showbiz four one one dot com.
Showbiz four one one dot com. Roger Friedman, thanks for
being with us.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
Thank you.

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Speaker 12 (33:04):
York Marximo on seven ten WR.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
Well, hey we got another hour, Togo. It's Friday. We
made it through the first week of twenty twenty six,
and that's that's pretty good. Now, it's gonna be rainy
all weekend, but it's gonna be warm. If you got
any snow left, If you're right in the city, there's
no snow. But if you're out there in the suburbs
or further out you got then it'll all be gone
by Sunday. Warm temperatures, lots of rain. It's gonna be

(33:32):
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Speaker 8 (33:49):
Wo Now more Marximo on seven tenor.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
Hey, luckily it's Friday already, first week of twenty twenty six,
done and lots to get to this hour, we'll get
to Bruce Blakeman. He should be the next governor. We'll
talk to him coming up later this hour. Kathy Hokeel
will look like she will head to the left, far
to the left, trying to get the nomination. She's closing

(34:23):
up to Mom Donnie. She's somehow decided that to win,
she's got to be over there with Mom Donnie, get
his support his voters, which might be fine in New
York City, but I don't know, you've got a lot
of them up state. Remember, Bruce Blakeman just won a
big election in Nassau County second time. And if you
look at the makeup of Nassau County. It's very similar

(34:44):
to the makeup of New York State demographics, party, all
that sort of stuff. So excellent shot. He's far more
qualified to be governor than Kathy Hokle is. So we'll
talk to him later this hour. By the way, he
gets inaugurated for the second two on Monday, big inauguration ceremony,
Mom Donnie of course, just being Mom Donnie. He's doing

(35:08):
lots of interviews. I don't know if he does any work.
There's no sign of him actually doing anything as mayor.
The good news about Mom Donnie. People have said, I
don't want to say who, but they've said a couple
of things. One, he doesn't really do anything. It's all talk.
He just gets out there and he talks, and he
talks a mile a minute, and he does one interview
after another, and it's pointing people and they talk and

(35:30):
he talks and they talk, but nobody ever actually does anything.
The other thing is people say they believe he's not
a very courageous person. He's basically kind of a coward.
So these big, big controversial things he's proposing, he may
never actually pull the trigger on and may never actually
do any of them, But he does love to talk here.

(35:51):
I never saw guy do so many interviews. Yesterday he's
talking a good morning, good day in New York. Hello, Schenectady,
He's talking to New York want anywhere and everywhere, talking
about anything and everything.

Speaker 13 (36:03):
For too many years, the relationship between Albany and City
Hall has been defined by dysfunction and discourse, by feuds
and by factionalism. Petty grievances have interfered with the work
of serving the people.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
But again, it's just talk. You just get up there
and you talk, and for too many years you talk
like this, and you sound like you're making some important
point and nobody's listening, and meantime you're getting nothing done.
And then of course there's all his left wing stuff.

Speaker 12 (36:30):
Obviously that's not an opinion that I share.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
And oh, Ally, you.

Speaker 8 (36:34):
Know what this is.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
This is he appointed this woman to run housing, real
left wing cook. Now you just have to accept this.
Mondonie is basically the third term of Deblasio. And it's
the same as Deblasi. You point a bunch of left
wing kooks who just say left wing kookie things, and
everybody looks at their Twitter from three years ago and
they can't believe the things that they said. And this

(36:56):
woman he appointed to run housing. You go back and
look at her Twitter. I think she took it down
a couple of days ago, but when people looked at
her Twitter from two years ago, three years ago, she's
tweeting all kinds of nonsense. She said, owning a home
is white supremacy. Nobody should be allowed to have private property.
I mean, all this Unamerican nonsense, crazy stuff. So Mom
Donnie was asked about her.

Speaker 12 (37:17):
Obviously, that's not an opinion that I share. And I
made the decision to have her as our executive director
of the Mayor's Office to protect tenants, not because of
her comments, but because of her work. She is someone
who has won significant victories for tenants, not just in
New York City, but across the entirety of the state
formative part of what was an upstate downstate coalition, and
we've seen her already hard at work in this past week.

(37:37):
She's someone who has been a core part of our
efforts to coordinate rental ripoff hearings across the city, as
well as informing tenants of their rights in a city
where oftentimes they're not made aware of them.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
Yeah, So that's all you got to do, is if
you want to be a Mom Donney type of mayor,
you just talk very fast and you sound like you
know what you're talking about, and you say things like,
she has made incredible strides since she's she's gotten so
much accomplished with housing. Well, if that were true, you
wouldn't have the housing problem. You just ran saying it's
all out of control and terrible. So what strides did
she make? But you ask Mom Donnie. He can talk

(38:10):
for an hour on any subject, two hours if he
happens to know something about it. But here he is
on Venezuela. He called the President.

Speaker 12 (38:17):
Well, I wanted to make clear to the President directly
that these were the thoughts that I had, and they
were also the thoughts that I was about to share
with the world. And this is not just an action
taken by a federal administration abroad. It's also an action
that then implicates New York City because right now, Nicholas
mother Roa is here in New York City, and my
job as the mayor of New York City is to
ensure that any federal action has a limited impact, if

(38:37):
any on the day to day lives of New Yorker.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
You really don't. I'm looking at the window right now
and mid tam Manhattan, and all these people walking around.
They don't seem to be worried about Maduro. Here's in
New York. He's actually in Brooklyn and the Brooklyn Detention Center.
He's in federal custody, in the federal system. Again, I'm
looking at everybody else. There's a million people walking around
out there. They don't seem concerned about it. They don't
seem to be worrying about it. Now, here's the good

(39:02):
news about this whole mom, Donnie Mesk. The city council
Speaker's in charge of the city council really has a
lot of power, at least as much as the mayor.
And some would argue the city council speaker has more
power than the mayor. Well, with the crazy left wing,
kooky mayor, and of course you got a lot of
crazy left wing cooks on the city council. Somehow they

(39:25):
just elected a normal, moderate, common sense woman. Her name
is Menon. She is the new city council speaker. She's
not a left wing cook, very normal, very sane, very rational,
And again, the city council has at least as much
power as the mayor. Some would argue more, but here
she is. We obviously now she's also Jewish. With the

(39:47):
anti Semitic mayor, you've got a Jewish City Council speaker
who will do everything to protect the Jewish community.

Speaker 14 (39:53):
We obviously need to protect the First Amendment right to
peacefully protest. That is sacri but what we cannot have
is a situation which we've had in New York, and
we saw it at Parky Synagogue where people were trying
to worship that evening and they felt intimidated and harassed.
We are going to be doing legislation to create safe

(40:13):
perimeters around all houses of worship and around schools so that, yes,
of course people can peacefully protest, that's sacricying. But what
you cannot do is intimidate and harass people as they're
trying to go to school, go to their house of worship.
So we're really going to be aggressive about that.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yeah, So in a way things might be better right
now than with Deblasio, because with the Blasio you had
a left wing kookie mayor and you had a left
wing kookie city council speaker. But now yeah, half of
the half of the duo is saying rational and somebody
alike men and is the new city council speaker. Now,

(40:51):
as I said, Mom, Donnie's like the third term of Deblasio.
And one thing about the Blasio it was bad, but
we got through it just fine. It wasn't survivable like
Deblasio and de Blasi was the same way, kind of lazy,
didn't really do anything, love to talk a lot, was
greate at speeches. Remember to Blasio never came to work.

(41:12):
He would wake up and go to Brooklyn to that
Jimmy Like. He'd be in that gym for a couple hours.
Then there was a little cafe coffee shop. He'd go
in there for a couple hours. He would show up
at city Hall about four o'clock, take a nap for
half an hour, and then leave and that was about it. Mom,
Donnie likes to be at city Hall and he loves
doing interviews, and he talks real fast and just keeps answering.

(41:32):
You can ask him anything, and then they come up
with these ideas. The one thing about these left wing types,
these Mom Donnie, They've got a million ideas from a
program for the homeless. They got a program for this,
they got pre k, they got daycare, all these ideas,
nothing ever really happens. They just talk about it. The
universal pre k.

Speaker 13 (41:52):
Not only when we make pre k truly universal, but
expand this care to include all two and three year
old across the city. As the governor said, we will
deliver two care by working in partnership with childcare providers,
especially home based providers.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
Yeah, they're cheering and chit it love that universal pre k,
not just pre K, universal pre k, and they get
all excited. And then just like in Minnesota, whenever they
do this stuff, these left wing Democrat programs a couple
of years ago is by an ALVII billions missing, billions
of dollars missing in pre k. Remember the the Blasio

(42:36):
Thrive NYC to help the homeless. A billion dollars went missing.
And of course the media is a Democrat. They never
looked to see what happened to it. Yeah, it's Minnesota.
That's why they're going crazy. Another reason they're going crazy
over this shooting. It gets that Somalia childcare, daycare, eighteen
billion missing, gets it out of the headlines, gets it
out of the news. Everybody forgets about it for a minute.

(42:58):
Luigi Manngioni going to court today, the big day in court,
there'd be a big fight, and his attorney's well, the
first thing you're trying to do is get the death
penalty off the table. That's the one thing.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
Now.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
The other thing is they think they can get some
of the evidence tossed out that got him arrested, although
I doubt that. Now here's the problem. A lot of
these experts that hunt for fugitives say, this kid was
really stupid about a lot of things. You know, it
was right out there, look out the window, right across
the street. Right there, that's where he shot the guy,
right across the street, the New York Kilton. It's on

(43:34):
the corner where the New York Kilton is, and we're
iHeart right here across the street. But you know, on
that corner in Manhattan, there's a surveillance camera everywhere, every inch.
It's true of all of Manhattan, all the New York City.
They got surveillance cameras everywhere. So if you shoot a
guy on that corner, there's going to be video of
you from every angle shooting the guy. So they got

(43:56):
him there. The other thing is if you're a fugitive
and you're on the lamb, if you're like a David
Jansen fugitive, if you're a Harrison Ford fugitive fleeing and
you're in these little small towns, you're supposed to go
into these little mom and pop places if you got
to get some food. You're not supposed to go into McDonald's.

(44:16):
And he made a huge mistake. He wasn't thinking if
you go into a McDonald's. This is a big national chain.
You know, you can go to any McDonald's anywhere in
They all look the same. And one thing they put
in all the McDonald's is extremely tight surveillance. They've got
cameras everywhere, every angle, so you can it's easy to

(44:37):
be on surveillance cameras if you're in McDonald's. You go
into a little mom and pop general store, they're probably
not so sophisticated tech wise. But he went into McDonald's
where there was a ton of surveillance cameras on him,
and you know, he's using a credit card every so
it just did make sense. It was easy to catch him.
The locals caught him. The people in McDonald's thought he

(44:58):
looked like the shooter, you know, with that one big
unibrow eyebrow, and the he's kind of a distinctive looking guy.
So they called the police. The police came arrested him.
So they're trying to get that tossed out and that
somehow he was illegally arrested or that he had the
wrong evidence. I don't know what they're gonna argue, but
they're gonna try. Hey, by the way, the Vice President

(45:22):
of Great press conference yesterday, Vice President Vance. But they've
also announced, you got this Somali fraud and it looks
like it's going to be even worse in California, even
worse in Illinois. So they've announced the Department of Justice
is creating a whole new Assistant Attorney General whose only
focus will be on this fraud. Start with Minnesota, go

(45:43):
after them, then go to California, then go to these
other states. So he'll be one attorney general assistant Attorney
general just focused on this fraud, on doing something about
it and try to stop it. And by the way,
we would, Ma'm donnie. You know, he went after Trump
like crazy on Venezuela, attacked him. Trump was asked about it.

(46:04):
He's done a lot of interviews, as he did a
great hour on Hannity last night. You'll probably hear it
on the Hannity Radio show today here on WOR he
did a New York Times. I don't know why he
does this The New York Times. These people hate his guts.
But he brought him into the Oval office game a
couple hours of his time. But they said, what about
Mam Donnie attacking you like crazy on Venezuela? And he

(46:26):
actually said, you know, the guy was here. We got
along great. I was really nice to him. And Trump says, quote,
he's got a great personality. He's a nice guy. His
policies are not good, but who knows, maybe he changes.
But he said the way he attacked me, I thought
the guy would wait at least three or four weeks
before going after me. We just had a great time together.

(46:47):
I thought it would take him a few weeks before
he goes But nope, he didn't wait at all. Went
right after him. Now you know who Jamie Diamond is.
He's the chairman of JP Morgan Chase. He's considered the
best CEO in America, top CEO. He's the greatest CEO
obviously in banking guess what he made last year. What

(47:11):
would you pay a guy like that? They had a
great year JP Morgan Chase. What do you think they
pay him? Well, last year he made seven one hundred
and seventy million dollars. Seven one hundred and seventy million dollars. Nah,
that sounds like a lot, but hey, after taxes, it's
only five hundred million. So now, actually there's a big
asterisk on this. They didn't pay him that. He made

(47:32):
about I think twenty five million in salary, which is
normal for a big CEO of a major corporation. You know,
if they trust you with a eight hundred billion dollar
company and you've got to run it, that's what you
get paid. And most of this money was he had
stock options. You know, if you really want to be fair,
pay the guy with stock options. That way, if he

(47:54):
makes the stock go up, he makes money. If he
screws up and the stock goes down, he loses money.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
Well.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
JP Morgan Chase had the greatest year ever. I think
they were the biggest stock in America, up thirty four
percent for the year, major stock up thirty four percent
for the year. So that's how he made that money. Now,
what would that mean JP Morgan Chase going up thirty
four percent? I don't know. I mean, I don't have
the numbers in front of me. But let's say that

(48:21):
means an extra three hundred billion. So if you made
somebody three hundred billion, hey, I guess you could get
paid seven hundred and seventy million. So I know you're
supposed to get mad at them. You know, in California
they hate these people. They in fact, they want to
have a five percent tax on all these billionaires, a

(48:42):
one time In other words, they would take five percent
of their money, not their income, all the money they
have in the bank, everything just sees five percent of it,
a one time tax, five percent. They're trying to get
this passed now. Some billionaires have already left. Six billionaires,
major figures, Peter Thiel, others have moved out of the state.

(49:06):
They've left because they don't want to pay Let's say
you got twenty billion your tax there would be uh
one billion. You'd have to hand over write a check
for one billion. So they're rather than pay it, they're
leaving six of them. There's a couple of staying. The
Navidia chairman said he has no plans to leave the

(49:27):
big another billionaires, a real estate guy, Sobrato. He's staying put.
But he said he doesn't expect this, but this thing
to pass. He doesn't think it'll pass. Hey, now, the
other things if you leave, like all these guys just
left right now, they're going to pay this. They're saying,
when they pass this tax, it'll be retroactive. Even if
you left, you still have to pay it. However, good

(49:47):
luck trying to collect that if the person is gone. Hey, well,
we'll take some calls.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
Next.

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Now back to Mark Damon on woor Hey, let's take
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Speaker 3 (50:18):
Doreen.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
How you doing fine?

Speaker 8 (50:21):
Mark?

Speaker 9 (50:21):
How are you today?

Speaker 1 (50:22):
Good?

Speaker 9 (50:24):
I have a question. Yesterday I went to renew my
license and they have a new procedure. They asked you
if you want to change your voting party or or
you register to vote there. Question is with all those
illegal licenses at one California and all over. I was
wondering how they did it.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
Yeah, I don't know. Did you have to show any
kinds of ID or anything?

Speaker 9 (50:45):
Or I had my ID there. And then another time
when I was in the Bronx, I got a pamphlet
that was already checked off for the Democratic Party and
they asked me to sign it and mail it in.
But I'm a Republican. So they have other ways been
seating with the voting registrations there and everything else.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
It's true now when you say go to the motor
vehicle department, that's like a nightmare. If you're in the
middle of New York City, you have a waiting line
for ten hours, there's sixty thousand people. But you're in
Dutchess County, right, there's probably no line. It's a quiet,
little Andy Green.

Speaker 9 (51:14):
No, it's changing, Mark, No, it's changed. Oh, really saying
all over there's that urbanization all over. Now, that's what
Trump said that they wanted to do, and they did it.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
Where are you in Dutchess County. Oh, I don't know
what that is, but it sounds fine, it sounds one.

Speaker 9 (51:30):
It's all oh, well, there you go.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
It's by Beakman. Well that place all right, Thanks for
calling now, it sounds nice. Thanks for calling.

Speaker 3 (51:40):
Take care.

Speaker 1 (51:41):
Let's go to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you.

Speaker 15 (51:44):
Doing, Good morning, Mark, Mark. I'm okay. I heard the
clip you played of Julia mennon uh speaking about protecting
the houses of worship. That's part of a larger interview
that she gave with John Kats and Matit. He's on
his Ball and show yesterday, and he directly asked her

(52:04):
about the real estate and that the real estate community
is really worried and the reason why he mentioned it,
and she totally avoided the question. She's a co sponsor
along with counselwoman Nurse, who came up with this law
that you have to offer it to the nonprofit first

(52:27):
and then secondly, and I don't know how you're going
to go to contract with a private buyer. After you
go to contract, you have to then re offer it
to them. And she totally avoided the question because she
is the co sponsor of that law. And Michael Goodwin

(52:48):
a couple of weeks ago before she was inaugurated, Michael
Goodwin talked about that and he said he was hoping
that Eric Adams. What she didn't do with a veto
vito the law because it wasn't veto proof they didn't
have enough votes. But he says, I doubt that because

(53:10):
she's a co sponsor of the law. So I heard
her wiggling scream, you know, I wish you the best
and special, especially with the houses of worship and the
anti Semitic activity uh going on in this city. But
she avoided the question.

Speaker 1 (53:28):
All right, she's a slimy politician, but she's more more
of a centrist than you usually get.

Speaker 15 (53:34):
Oh no, definitely that other one, well, was it Adriana
Adams who? Yeah, well she was a cut off the
old Uh, she was a chip off the old man.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
It's been a long time since we had a normal middle.

Speaker 3 (53:49):
Of the road. It's good. It boats well, yeah, all.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
Right, Vincent, thanks for calling. It's just a good especially
when I'm Donnie in office. You want a a centrist,
moderate city council speaker, and she is like a not
as good as Peter Valone, but like that sort of person.
So hey, there's a lot of restaurants opening all over
the place. Things are booming in New York. Buildings are

(54:13):
going up skyscrapers everywhere. But we just lost one of
the great landmark theater restaurants Broadway Times Square Cafe Un
d'utois been there fifty years. A lot of famous faces
in there, a lot of people in the theater district.

Speaker 12 (54:28):
You know.

Speaker 1 (54:28):
The big, big, big Broadway restaurants were Joe Allen Ors
Sardis and that one it's closing. It doesn't say exactly why,
just says too expensive expenses of skyrocketed rent is very
very very expensive. Employees also added the ones hopping lunch
business has dried up since the pandemic. A lot of

(54:51):
people not going back to the office, so they go
back like three days a week. So it wasn't enough
to keep them going. But a lot of people went
there through the years. Hey, when we come back. Bruce Blakeman,
best county executive in America and the next governor of
New York coming up. We'll talk to him next on
seven to ten w R seven ten wrs. Mark Simon, Well,

(55:15):
Bruce Blakeman, I think will be the next governor of
New York, and he's the most qualified person to be.
You couldn't have a better choice for the next governor
of New York. He's the Nassau County executive. He's the
best county executive in America. And that's basically being a governor.
It's the same kind of job. And he's with us
right now. Bruce Blakeman, how you doing, Hey, Mark.

Speaker 8 (55:35):
It's always to be with you, your dear friend, and
it's always great when we get together, whether we're in
person or over the phone on the radio. And I
appreciate everything.

Speaker 3 (55:46):
That you do.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
Yeah, I'll see a Monday, because Monday is inauguration day
second term.

Speaker 8 (55:51):
Yes, so again, then i'll see a year from now
for the next inauguration.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
Oh, that's right. So it's like three inaugurations with you
in this short period of time exactly. If people want
to help you with the campaign, donate, help, volunteer, what
can they do?

Speaker 8 (56:06):
Blakeman for New York dot com. That's my website on there.
You can volunteer, you can donate, you can send us suggestions.
You can about all of the stupid rules that we
have in New York State that make it so difficult
to do business. We're the most overregulated state in the

(56:27):
United States. You can complain about your tax bill because
we are the most highly taxed state in the United States.
I would love to hear from you, and we could
use all the support out there. And we feel very,
very comfortable that we have the momentum and we have
the issues on our side, and we need a governor

(56:48):
that actually cares about New Yorkers. It puts New Yorkers first,
and someone that will make New Yorkers happy because most
New Yorkers are miserable with Kathy Hoche's leadership.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
Yeah, hey, it comes to the ice shooting or whatever
the issue. She seems to go very far to the left.
Is she making a mistake going so far to the left.

Speaker 8 (57:07):
Well, she makes one mistake after the other. Let me
let mean an example. Market weeks ago, we had a
robbery in Nassau County of a jewelry store and through
good police work with our Nasau County Police Department, who
are the best, and working with our international law enforcement partners,

(57:28):
we were able to track down the perpetrator and this
person was arrested. And that's what we found when we
arrested this individual, that this individual was remaining had an
Irish passport, came to America from Mexico through Arizona with

(57:51):
the Biden Harris policy of open borders, made their way
to New York and then they engaged in a spree
larsony and stealing from businesses and people here in the
whole metropolitan area. So we arrested this guy and guess
what a he had a New York State driver's life

(58:16):
under Kathy Hoche's leadership, somebody who could have been vetted
by just sending out a request from international law enforcement
for a warrant search. We would find that places like
the UK and other places had arrest warrants out for
this guy. But we don't get that in New York.

(58:38):
We give it to illegal aliens. We give it to
people without a background chap. If we fingerprinted this individual
before giving them a driver's license, we would have been
able to apprehend them. And here's the worst part. When
we arrested this individual, if Nassau County didn't have a
comprehensive agreement with ICE, this guy would be back on

(59:00):
the trip. Because of cashless bail, a judge wouldn't be
able to hold an legal migrant with international lawrence, and
this person would be released back into community to commit
crimes against the people in the metropolitan area. But because
we had the agreement with Ice, we were able to qualize.
They picked this individual up and this individual is now

(59:23):
on his way back to Mexico or Romania or Ireland
or wherever he came from.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
Wow, that's one less Kathy Hochel voter. You've taken time exactly.

Speaker 8 (59:34):
That's why they're doing it.

Speaker 1 (59:35):
Hey, the election is a long way away, but you
are working hard already. I know you wanted to see
the Buffalo Bills game, but when you were up there,
you did a lot of meeting with people, voters. They
got out there with people. What did you think of
upstate New York.

Speaker 8 (59:48):
Well, you know, the people up there are very warm.
I spent a lot of time up there, not just
in politics, but you know, I've been in business for
many years, not only is a warrior, but but also
as a consulting I've represented some of the largest companies
in the United States. I was involved in the transportation industry,
so I know the state very very well. And one

(01:00:10):
of the things that was really disappointing to me was
the fact that so many people were miserable. And when
you ask them why they they're miserable, they say, first
of all, our communities are no longer safe, and there's
no economic development, nothing going on upstate except for a few,
you know, a few different areas. There's a couple of

(01:00:31):
projects going on. One is in the Onondaga County, but
other than that, there's nothing going on. And we have
one of the largest national natural gas reserves in the
world in the southern tier of New York State, and
we don't allow any drilling. We don't allow any fracking
of that natural gas. So we have an energy shortage.

(01:00:54):
We have expensive energy. Here's cheap energy right in our state,
and we can't do anything. Across the border. In Pennsylvania,
they allow fracking. They have businesses set up that are
getting this natural gas out, making cheaper energy and creating

(01:01:14):
prosperity and jobs for the area. In one side of
the border on Pennsylvania, they're driving brand new Cadillacs. On
the New York side, they're driving out driving around with rusty, old,
five year old pickup trucks. So we need economic development
in this state. We need to create job, we need
to create prosperity. That's how you make it more affordable,

(01:01:35):
putting more money in people's pockets so they can make
choices on how they want to spend money.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
Yeah, well Bruce Blackman would be the best governor. You
can go to Blakeman from New York dot com if
you want to help. Blakemanfromnewyork dot com. Now they talk
about affordability, yet the MTA just raise the fair which
is upset a lot of people. Congestion, pricing, all that stuff.
But you know how the MTA works, isn't it just
a lot of waste Instead of raising fares, can't you

(01:02:00):
just cut the costs.

Speaker 8 (01:02:02):
Of course, you can cut the cost you can make
it more efficient, and you make it work for people.
There's something going on here that you know, basically is
a scam. The MPa gets three revenue sources lotly four.
They get federal money, they get money from sales tax revenue,

(01:02:25):
they get money from employer a roll taxes. And they
have the revenue streams in addition to their fares. And
they're always broke. They have a system that's broken. They
have railroad stations here on Long Island that are falling
into terrible disrepair. Nobody's riding the subways because unsafe. They

(01:02:51):
want to cut back on things like having two conductors
on a subway train, when two conductors on a subway
train would bring more people into the subways because they
would feel safer. And they don't invest in their equipment.
They don't invest in their railroad and subway stations, and

(01:03:11):
they are bloated bureaucracy with these big revenue streams and
where does the money go. And Governor Hopell can't explain
that it's her job to make sure that our transportation
system runs efficiently. But people don't want to go on
the subways because they're not safe. People out on Long
Island or in the Hudson Valley, they don't want to

(01:03:32):
use the railroads because the stations are falling into terrible disrepair.
And we have to have a governor who understands transportation
like I do. Understands that you have to market these
transportation sources. They have to be safe, they have to
be clean, they have to be inviting to people. Otherwise
people are just going to get in their car. Yeah,

(01:03:54):
and that's why we have a traffic problem the way
we do in the metropolitan area.

Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
And Bruce Blakeman has done all this stuff that county's
it's basically being a governor. When you're a county executive
and he's cleaned up everything, crime and budget, all that stuff.
Now we only got like a minute left. What a
chance does the Republican have to win? What was the
demographic makeup and party makeup of the state.

Speaker 8 (01:04:15):
Yeah, so I won reelection in a county that's larger
than eight to ten states in population, with one hundred
and ten thousand more Democrats, which meetings. In order for
me to win, I have to depend on not just
Republican and conservative voters, but independent voters and crossover Democrats
what I call common sense Democrats. We want in the

(01:04:38):
landslide and the last election because we built a coalition
not based on what we disagree upon, but what we
agree upon. Everybody wants safer communities. Everybody wants more jobs,
everybody wants more pay, everybody wants better benefits and healthcare,
and they're not getting it from our date. So they
like what I've done here in Nassau County. It's the

(01:04:59):
safety county in America. Each magazine said we're the most
desirable place to live in New York State. I can
take those principles and bring it statewide, including the City
of New York, and make it an affordable place to live,
place where you're safer and a place where your kids
and your grandchildren are going to want to stay here
and raise there.

Speaker 3 (01:05:19):
This here.

Speaker 1 (01:05:20):
Yeah, well, Bruce Blakeman would be a great governor. I
can't think of anybody better for it. If you want
to help, and you should go to blakemanfronew York dot com.
You want to donate, volunteer, whatever you want to do,
go to Blakeman for New York dot com. Bruce Blakeman,
good luck, congratulations on winning the last election. Andy. I'll
see you Monday.

Speaker 8 (01:05:41):
Mark, thank you so much. Happy New Year.

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
Make God bless you all right, Mike, thanks for being
with us. Take care. That's a Bruce Blakeman who I think,
I know he should be the governor. I think he
will be the next governor of New York. Hey, don't
forget tonight Jimmy Fayala excellent show. Have you heard it?
If not, you should start listening nine to midnight. Great
every night here on seven to ten wor.

Speaker 10 (01:06:04):
Marximone on sevent TENR.

Speaker 1 (01:06:09):
Well, it's Friday, end of the week, so this weekend
you can already see the Sunday shows. It'll be all
over ice murdering people left and right. The media trying
to spin that every which way they can. So Vice
President Vance did a press conference yesterday where he talked
about that.

Speaker 10 (01:06:25):
What is I'm sorry, guys, what's going on here? You
guys are meant to report the truth. How have you
let yourself become agents of propaganda of a radical fringe
that's making it harder for us to enforce our laws.
You just asked me a question that presumed that the
reason why this woman died is because she was engaged

(01:06:45):
in legitimate protests. She tried to run somebody over with
her car, and the guy defended himself when that happened.

Speaker 3 (01:06:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:06:51):
Now, once again, let me repeat. If you talk to
the top finest people in law enforcement off the record,
they've all kind of said the same thing to me.
The shooting is justified, it's legal. But they also said,
you didn't have to fire those shots. I mean, you
can legally, and it's borderline, but a really, really, really

(01:07:14):
good cop might have even though he got out of
the way of the car. Just let it go. We'll
catch her later. But if you do fire, it's totally
legal and justified. He was in front of the car.
They don't show you the videos from the front where
you see the car hit him.

Speaker 3 (01:07:30):
You see the videos.

Speaker 1 (01:07:31):
Where he's on the side firing into the side. But
if you watch the video, it's up on my Twitter
if you want to watch it. In the video from
the front, the car hits him and knocks him to
the side, and the first shot he fired went through
the front windshield, which means he was in front of
the car. She was heading right at him. You couldn't
fire a shot through the front windshield if you were
on the side of the car. So there'll be no

(01:07:54):
criminal problem for him. But you're going to hear about
this all weekend long, and they'll keep doing this for
weeks and weeks. It gets rid of the Somali story
and other stuff. Hey, we're out of time. Don't forget.
If you're a podcast listener, you get a special bonus segment.
You get like another show on the weekends. Otherwise, I'll
be back Monday ten to noon. I want you to

(01:08:15):
have a great weekend. Thanks for listening, Thanks for everything.
See you Monday on seven ten wor