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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now this is the Mark Simon Show on seventoor.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Okay, well it's Thursday. Lots to get to today. We'll
get to the mayoral race, a lot going on there.
We'll get to President Trump and the shutdown. We'll get
to the Yankees. In the news. You got a horrific
anti Semitic terrorist attack in Manchester, England on a synagogue.

(00:29):
Got a crash last night, a fender bender on a
runway at La Guardia Airport. Two planes that one of
the tail hits the nose of the other. Lots of damage.
Not good, not good at all. It's Yom Kapoor today,
although a little less traffic today. Restaurants packed last night.
I don't understand that they're supposed to be empty last night,

(00:51):
but I was a lot of restaurants in the world
jammed last night. So the shutdown nothing will happen today.
I don't know if it's part well, in part the holiday,
but also just nothing. Is today. The next vote on
the shutdown on fixing this is tomorrow, Friday, eleven am.

(01:12):
It's not going well for the Democrats. There's a lot
of pressure on Schumer to just turn around and get
out of this ridiculous position he's put himself in. The
problem is, well, you got two problems. One, we've had
a lot of shutdowns, they happen all the time, but
this is the first time we've had when we got
two real ridiculous figures running the Democratic side. You got

(01:37):
Schumer and Hakeem Jefferies. Now, the problem is they're both
from New York, they're both from Brooklyn. They both come
from a liberal, far left echo chamber, and that's all
they know. These two have no contact with actual America, normal, regular,
normal Americans. They just know left wing Brooklyn, that's all

(01:58):
they know. Left wing Manhattan, that's all they know. So
that they exist in that bubble, and they look at
it with that perspective, which is not helping them. Schumer's
problem is he's old, tired, desperate, frightened. He's at the
end of the line. His political career is over. He
realizes it. He's going to get wiped out if he
ever tries to run again. So he's catering to the

(02:19):
left right now, or he thinks he is, in an awkward,
klutzy sort of way the way he does everything. And
the other problem is you got Hakeem Jeffries who's a
total humorless stiff, just a ridiculous guy who's not an
effective leader, just speaks in these stiff proclamations. He doesn't
look good on camera, he doesn't seem real. He just

(02:41):
looks like a mannequin. Trump has gone after him and
Schumer with the sombrero memes, which are hysterical. If you
haven't been watching, he's check my Twitter. Most of them
are up on my Twitter. It's Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries with
the sombrero and the mustache and the Mexican music. They're
miracle and very funny. Everybody's laughing at them. And Hakeem

(03:05):
Jeffries made a huge mistake the first day or two.
He just got pompous and so serious. And it's a
disgusting video.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
And we're going to continue to make Claire biggotree will
get you nowhere.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
It's a meme, it's funny, they're hysterically. Nobody can watch
them and not laugh. And then the fake news tried
to play it up, you know, with Civan, I'm not
s JD Vans JD Vans and so what about you,
you're biggot memes.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
Well, I think it's funny. The president's joking and we're
having a good time. You can negotiate in good faith
while also poking a little bit of fun at some
of the absurdities of the Democrats positions, and even you know,
poking some fun at the absurdity of the Democrats themselves.
I mean, I'll tell Hakeem Jeffries right now, I make
this solemn promise to you that if you help us
reopen the government, the sombrero memes will stop.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
But they're very funny. Take a look at it. They're
up on my Twitter. You can see them. Somebody must
have gotten a Hikim Jeffries or a bunch of somebodies
and said, will you lighten up? Will you stop with
this pompous act you're doing? You look ridiculous. So now
he's trying to fight back with his own memes against Trump.
Maybe it was Gavin Newsom. Newsom has become very good

(04:16):
at that. He's become the king of fighting Trump fire
with Trump fire. Whatever tactics Trump uses, he'll use him
right back. Now. I guess you know, you could say,
you know you're not supposed to be if you're the
president of the United States, you're not supposed to be
like a kid putting funny memes up on TikTok. Well, yeah,
maybe that's the nineteen ninety nine rule or even the

(04:38):
two thousand and six rule, but it's twenty twenty five.
The game is being reinvented. And Trump, for all his
great stuff he can do as president, he is and
you can argue whether it's right or wrong, but he
is like a big kid. He's like a kid having fun.
He's still a private sector guy. He's not a you know, reformal,

(05:00):
you know, government politician, Washington formal, none of that false
Formality's just himself. And this is what business guys do.
You know, This is what Wall Street guys are famous for.
It passing jokes around, memes around, laughing. You know. So
Trump has brought that sensibility to the White House, and
that's that might be the problem. He you know, Trump

(05:22):
is a cutting edge guy, leading the way ahead of
the curve. The problem with Schumer is he still looks
like it's nineteen ninety three. Even when he makes those
videos it's him on the Capitol steps with the Capitol behind.
It looks so old and how dated and stiff. The
whole fight now is Republicans have reduced it to Democrats

(05:42):
want health care for illegals, And they'll argue and argue
and argue, it's not true.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Donald Trump and Republicans have shut the government down because
they don't want to provide healthcare to working class Americans.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Now, of course that's not true. So you got lives,
you know, going all over the place, those two lies,
they'll tell. Trump wants to get it to working Americans,
and the way one way you do that is get
the illegals off off the rolls there because they're draining money.
And then the other big Democrat lie they always do
is he wants to throw them off and use the

(06:18):
money to hand the money to his billionaire. If nobody's
handing any money to any billionaires, the last thing the
billionaires need is government handing them any money. But does
it provide health care for illegals? Yes, absolutely, absolutely, Even
Jake Tapper, you can't get more fake news, biased left
wing than Jake Tapper. Even he last night had to

(06:40):
admit on the air that he's carefully read it all.
It does give health care to illegals. Now it doesn't.
Trump is exaggerating when he says it hands them a
Cadillac plan that there doesn't do that. It doesn't do
that at all. But if they do get health care,
if they do go to the hospital, they will the
hospitals everybody does get reimbursed, and that would be paying

(07:02):
for illegals health care. So the fight will I don't know.
Friday eleven am is the next vote. It might be
over then there. I don't know who's going to be
bugging Schumer all day and night to get off this position.
He's in a weird, weird position. Everybody thinks he's totally frightened,
scared that AOC is going to wipe him out in

(07:22):
the next election, and he's terrified of AOC, and that's
why he's catering to them. And here's what she had
to say. There is one reason and one reason. Well
here's Mike Johnson.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
There is one reason and one reason alone that Chuck
Schumer is leading the Democrats off this cliff. He is
trying to get political cover from the far left corner
of his base. He's afraid of a challenge for his
Senate seat by AOC.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
He's worried he's going to get a primary challenge from AOC.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
He is afraid of AOC over a clean sard.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Chuck Schumer is afraid of his own shadow.

Speaker 6 (07:55):
And I actually think that shadow's name is AOC.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, now, one at AOC. What did she say about it?

Speaker 7 (08:01):
This is so not about me in this moment. If
those senators think that we're having a shutdown because of me,
they're free to enter my office and negotiate, because what
we're not going to do is allow all of millions
of people in this country to not be able to
afford their insulin, their chemotherapy. So come strike a deal
with me, if that's what they really think.

Speaker 8 (08:22):
Is going on.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
The real answer, yes, he's afraid of AOC. The problem
is he's at the end of his ropes, end of
the line. He can't get re elected. He's finished. He's
another Jerry Nadler. He's done. The Democrats hate him, they
don't want him. He's out. If AOC decides to run
for Senate, be easy as can be. She'll be able
to fund. The one secret of Schumer is his fundraising.

(08:46):
Nobody is bigger with taking care of billionaires and donors
than Schumer. That's all he does. Donors service, and that
means billionaires special interests unions. He takes care of them,
as they'll all the billionaires will tell you, even the
Republicans one that Backschumer. They'll say, I could wake this
guy up at two in the morning. He'll do anything
I want. They all have his cell number to get anything.

(09:06):
Now they have to give massive donations in exchange. So
he's always been the king of fundraising. That's why he
was never scared of an opponent. But AOC could be
a fundraising machine. She could raise a ton of money
very very fast. So he's terrified to her. If now
it's a way off, it's a year and a month

(09:27):
from now. By early next year, Schumer may realize there's
nothing he can do. It's over. He would announce, then
he's not gonna seek reelection, and then he'd be free
to go back to the old Chuck Schumer from forty
years ago. Just act on principle, but don't count on it.
Don't count on it. Hey, the mayoral race, here's the problem.

(09:49):
The election is thirty three days away. Only thirty three
days till the election. Here's a bigger problem. It's only
twenty three days till early voting begins. Three days the
debate is two weeks from tonight, two weeks till the debate.
That could change things. Mom Donnie's very good in debates.

(10:11):
He ducks questions. It's not like he gives you solid answers,
but his manner. You know, he talks very quickly anytimes,
like he really knows what he's talking about. And if
you talk a little quicker, you can sound very smart.
And he's got a wonderful tone that makes him sound
like he's trying to help you. And Curtis is an
excellent debater. He's the only professional debater in the race.

(10:31):
He's been doing it for thirty five years. Cuomo talks
so slow. He's a bad debater, and he's a horrible debater.
That's why we have Mon Donni. If it hadn't been
for Cuomo, you would not have Mom Donnie. Cuomo gave
you Mom Donnie democratic debate, both of them, two of them.

(10:51):
Cuomo was so weak and old and tired and talks
so slow, and Mom Donnie was able to easily wipe
him out, and that's how he got the nomination. So
this could be in two weeks a bad, bad night
for Cuomo. Mam Donnie's great in debates. Curtis's great in debates.
Cuomo will talk so slow that he'll look so Cuomo

(11:13):
could wipe himself out in two weeks. Now you're gonna say, well,
he's going to prepare and prepare and train, and they'll
give him right, all kinds of lines for him to you. Well,
when he got wiped out in the first debate, they
did that for him in the second debate. And no
matter what he hit when Mom Donnie with Mom Donnie
just pounded him into the ground. So uh, now, hey,
the commercials are running. Mom Donnie's got very sharp looking commercials,

(11:38):
very sharp, very well done. Mom Donnie is heavily financed.
You know, he keeps talking about these billionaires. Meantime he's
got billionaires all over the place back in him, big
money commercials. Cuomo has a new commercial which looks a
little silly. It looks like a very expensive commercial. It's

(11:59):
about the commercial says, I don't know how to do
a lot. There's a lot of jobs I might be good,
And then it shows him working at a car wash.
Then it shows him hanging off a skyscraper as a
window washer, and then it shows him driving the subway
train all these different looks very expensive, all these things. Well,
it turns out it was Ai and it's very well

(12:21):
done with Ai. Looks very real, but it shows him
in all these different sort of jobs. And then it
comes to but there's only one thing I know how
to do, and that's run government. But it's kind of
a silly commercial. I don't know. Now there's one that
Curtis has a lot of good commercials. They're not attacking

(12:42):
Mamdanni so much. They're more pro Curtis and the latest
one half the commercially he's got the Bereton. Half the commercial.
He doesn't have the Bereton. But they're very good commercials.
Mam Donnie and Curtis definitely the best commercials. Cuomo's look
a little silly, hey, by the way, You know how
they always say Omo never apologize. You know, he killed

(13:02):
ten thousand seniors, He killed people's grandparents and nursing homes,
and a lot of the critics say that's his main problem.
He's never been able to apologize. He can't admit to it,
he can't apologize, and that's been the case. But he
made a video apologizing to the Jewish community, the Orthodox

(13:23):
Jewish community. He made this video and distributed it just
within the private Orthodox community. You could find it online
if you're looking for it. But he apologizes to them.
He said, I sincerely apologize. He apologizes for the lockdown
and what he did and how he locked everything down,
and he said, I didn't realize how he was interfering

(13:44):
with some religious practices of yours and some important cultural
traditions of yours. And I sincerely apology was very, very
sincere apology, but just for this one group. And the
problem is is that starts to leak out the seniors
that were killed, all the people that had people killed, robbed, raped,

(14:06):
or became crime victims as a result of Cuomo's no bail,
no jail. They're all gonna say, where's our apology, where's
our apology video? How come we didn't get it? Hey,
speaking of which, great speech by Ray Kelly yesterday for
our Police Athletic League lunch and Ray Kelly the greatest
police commissioner ever. But you know, Mamdani, everything he proposes

(14:26):
is a complete hoax. I'm gonna make free, the buses
will be free. He has no power to make the
buses free. It's the MTA or whatever he's proposing, he
has no power to do it. Now, one of the
big proposals, I'm gonna have social workers answer domestic violence calls. Now,
you know, any copp will tell you the most dangerous

(14:47):
thing you can respond to is these domestic violence calls.
That's where there's a gun and knife, a bat. It's
really dangerous. So he keeps talking about that we don't
need to send the cops and will send in social workers.
So Ray Kelly points out, now, nobody knows policing and
law enforcement better than Ray Kelly, and he's been doing
it for years and years and years. Points out, and

(15:09):
I didn't realize this. The police department, the NYPD has
tried that dozens of times over thirty years. They've tried
it a number of times. They've tried it over and
over and over again. A doesn't work and b ends
up in a total disaster for these healthcare workers. Also,
one of the reasons they have a problem with it,
the social workers won't do it. They don't want to

(15:31):
go into it. One of these the most dangerous police
call there is without police with them, they don't want
to do it. So he also pointed out Memphis just
tried it and it ended in total disaster. It never
ever ever works. But that's a Mamdani theme. Socialism, whatever
doesn't work everywhere it's tried. That's what I'm proposing. Hey,

(15:51):
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.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
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Speaker 2 (16:14):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Victor in Pennsylvania. Victor,
how you doing?

Speaker 9 (16:20):
I'm doing great. First thing is I just heard this
morning that Leticia the idiot James is suing Trump again.
When is she being brought up on.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Her yess getting closer. It's getting closer. She will be
charged with mortgage fraud in Virginia. You got a new
US attorney who's in there working on it. She will
be charged. And look for Adam Schiff to be on
the list. Look for John Bolton to be indicted. He's
in real trouble. Let's go to Joe in New York City. Joe,

(16:52):
how you doing?

Speaker 8 (16:54):
Good morning, Mark, Mark some people do not want to
vote because they think their names we put on your
jury duty listen, they don't want to do jury.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yeah. No, let's just point out that's a total myth.
Maybe that was true fifty years ago. They get the
list from drivers' licenses, from rent rolls, from taxpayer rolls.
It has nothing to do with them, nothing to do
with voting, nothing to do with no connection. They use
every list imaginable now, so that that's an old myth.
Let's go to Richard and Bayshore. Richard, how you doing.

(17:25):
I'm doing well, Mark, good morning.

Speaker 10 (17:26):
You know right now, forty five percent or so of
MTA bus passengers are not paying their fares anyway, it's
through law enforcement, nullification of the law, let's say, by
the mayor if it's made public.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
That true. Excellent point. You know this crazy MTA Jano,
liber and Hockel. They've decided to raise the fare on
the subways and buses, and there is an actual, formal,
actual study that's come out showing that half the people
are not paying the fare. They're just not paying and
nobody's enforcing it. And the what they claim they need

(18:00):
with the fare increase, could you could easily get much
more if you just started enforcing the fares so and
it's easy to do, you can stop turnstile jumping in
two weeks. Ray Kelly did it, Bratton did it, Giuliani did.
It's easy to do. You just start enforcing it where
it gets around real fast and nobody jumps the turnstile anymore. So,
no need for that increase that they're they're going to

(18:21):
push on us. Let's go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent,
how you doing.

Speaker 11 (18:26):
Good morning, Mark, Mark. I'm okay. Mark. You forgot to
mention the fact that also yesterday, with these fare increases,
they're raising the easy passed holes in everything.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Oh yeah, yeah, you're right now, all the bridges, tunnels,
everything exactly.

Speaker 11 (18:40):
So Gee, I thought the congestion pricing was supposed to
take care of all of this. I guess it's not so.
Mark AOC was crowing about if Trump doesn't sign this
Hakeem Jeffreys healthcare bill, this budget bill, people are gonna
go without their cancer tree. People are gonna be dropping

(19:01):
that in the streets. Well, hello, I hope the Supreme
Court revisits the case about people showing up at the
er with no health insurance and making the state and
the city have to pick up the tab because when
and you'll remember this, when Bill Deblasia was running for math,

(19:22):
there was a hospital of my neighborhood and he actually
got arrested. He went in front of the hospital and said,
there's no way you're going to close this hospital, this,
that and the other. Right, Okay, Bill de Blasio got elected.
The hospital was losing twenty five million dollars a month
because when you would go into er and I knew

(19:43):
a god that was working in the ear, it looked
like the Bowery in there. It looked like bum's row. Right,
So it was losing twenty five million dollars a month,
and a lot of the hospitals in New York City,
downstate Beth Israel, a lot of the same things. Instance,
they closed exactly because all these bums shown up at the.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
Now, that's what that's what that's what really is in
the fight that you want to Democrats say it's not
going to cover health careful. It absolutely does. Absolutely these
fact checkers, all these fake fact checkers, it absolutely does.
That's where it covers it. It reimburses the hospital for
all those costs.

Speaker 11 (20:19):
And exactly, but there is a lot of costs. Like
for example, yesterday I had to go and see a
new orthopedic surgeon. I wasn't in the system, so I
had to So when they when I made the appointment,
the secretary told me you got to bring your insurance god,
and you got to bring positive ID. You got to

(20:41):
bring a driver's license or a passport unless you're not
going through the front door, because they want to know
that if you don't pay, if some something is not
paid out on, they want to know where to bill you.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Vincent, great call, thanks for calling. Always great.

Speaker 12 (20:58):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
By the way, oh, we have to have a driver's license.
Well they've come out with a new driver's license now
with no name on it. It's a it'll actually say
where the name is. It'll say no name given. You
can have a blank driver's license with no name. This
is not a joke. Remind me. We'll get to it
in the next hour. But when we come back, Steve
Moore will be with us. The brilliant economist coming up

(21:20):
next on seven to ten wor.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Mark Simon.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
We're looking for Steve Moore. What a shot, hun Now
he'll turn up. I'll bet you we find him. You know,
then I don't want to predict, but I bet you
we'll find him. So, hey, if you want a luxury home,
how much you have to spend a luxury home? What's
considered a luxury home? How much? A million dollars? No,

(21:53):
that won't do it anymore. It used to, but according
to realtor dot Com, millillion dollars will no longer buy
a luxury home in America anymore. A new analysis shows
one point three million, at least one point three million
starting point for a luxury home, and that they could

(22:13):
what they call luxury home is if it's in the
top ten percent of the home listings. But to get
in the top ten percent, you now need to spend
one point three million. Just ten years ago, it was
eight hundred thousand. Now if you want to get in
the top one percent, got to be five and a
half million. And obviously geography is a factor. It's different

(22:37):
in different areas, so prices, and you know, prices keep
going up here in New York. I know, the birthing small.
Everybody's gonna flee if Mom Donnie comes in, and it's
going to cause a real estate crash. Prices are going
up every day, for rentals, for sales everywhere. Well, we
got Steve Moore, the great economist. Get his book, The
Trump Economic Miracle. Check out. He runs the committee Unleashed Prosperity.

(23:01):
Go to the website sign up for the daily briefing,
best news and analysis. Just go to Unleashed Prosperity dot com.
Steve Moore, how you doing well?

Speaker 13 (23:11):
Hey? Mark, good to be with you. And are terrible
because you know the I just can't sleep at night
because the Labor Department and Education Department are closed down.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
I mean, how am I going to go forward? Yeah?

Speaker 13 (23:21):
Hey, don't you know we've got thousands, hundreds and hundreds
and hundreds of thousands of these quote non essential you
know that's their term, non essential government employees, and we've
got we've got an enterprise year that's losing two trillion
dollars a year. Hmm. Maybe Russell Bob is right. Maybe
we just do away with all these non essential people
and we can move to a balanced budget.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
Yeah, you know, people forget we have a government shutdown
every week, five o'clock Friday night, they shut down for.

Speaker 13 (23:46):
Two days exactly. Well, you know the funny thing is,
I guess it's funny, but you know, every I think,
as you know, Mark, every Friday morning, the first Friday
of every month, at eight three in the morning, I'm
with Maria about roma who does the jobs report? You
know when the big jobs number comes out. They're not
going to do it tomorrow. Did you know that? It's

(24:08):
I've been told that there will not be a jobs
report because they can't I guess count when the government
to shut down. So well, we will see about that.
But look, if this is this is the Schumer shutdown.
You're there in New York, so you've got a lot
of New Yorker voters there. Schumer wanted the shutdown. I
said this a couple of weeks ago, that Schumer was
going to shut the government down. That's exactly what he

(24:29):
has done. But it's not working for the Democrats. I
don't think Mark. I mean, I'm talking to his normal
people all the time. They're like, why are the Democrats
doing this? Is it really because they just want to
provide free healthcare the legal immigrants.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
Now they'll say that's a lie, it's a Republican lie,
but tell us the truth. It does.

Speaker 13 (24:45):
But it's not a lie. I mean, is I read
the text of their version, and it repeals the provision
in the Republican budget that says you are not permitted
that Medicaid dollars can only go to people who are
either legal citizens or legal immigrants in the country. So
that pretty much leaves illegal immigrants out.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
But I was watching Morning Joe, and according to him,
you guys, you're just all to give money to billionaires.

Speaker 13 (25:15):
That's only right, like though he doesn't say the billionaires
are playing more of the taxes than ever before in
American history. The top one percent pay a larger share
of the tax of income tax than anytime ever since
we invented the income tax and back in nineteen thirteen.
So those are those are just talking points from the Democrats.
But I just don't get it. I mean, I think

(25:37):
Schumer's kind of thing is is back learning. He lost,
as you know, he lost three Democratic Senators in the
vote that happened before that, and I think if you
had another vote, he'd probably lose another three or four.
And again I want to make sure people understand this
mark because you know, we have Byzantine rules in Washington,
so people say, well, look, the Republics don't call the

(25:57):
House the Senate and the White House. Why is the
government shut down? It's because it takes sixty votes in
the Senate, sixty out of one hundred to pass the budget.
And all the Republicans and three Democrats voted for that,
but that only brought us to what fifty five or
fifty six, So that's why there's still five votes are short.
But I bet if they had a vote tomorrow, I
think you've been getting close to sixty because the Democrats

(26:20):
are getting hammered on this. Nobody understands what it is
that they're after here. It's just show voting and trying
to embarrass Trump and trying to get more money. And
by the way, I'm very pro immigration. I think immigrants
are great, but no, you can't let all these people
come into the country and then go to the go
and use our healthcare services and you and I pay
for it.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Yeah. No, we love immigration. We just don't like illegals.
I mean, I love far exactly, I love pharmacists, but
I don't like you illegal drug dealers, I mean legal exactly.
Apparently there is a vote tomorrow eleven am. That's when
they may vote again tomorrow, Okay.

Speaker 13 (26:56):
And I'll bet you I don't know if they'll get
to sixty, but they're going to get close because the
Democrats are feeling the anger of the American people. And
by the way, this does cost money. That's the other
thing that rush Bott is saying is like, well, you know,
when we have these non essential people not go to
the office, did you know.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
They get paid? Yeah, everybody, they.

Speaker 13 (27:16):
Still get paid. Showing on for not having to work costs.
I wish my boss had said that you can I
show up for the office tomorrow, but I'm still going
to pay you. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
Hey, Steve Moore, let me ask you something. You're a
brilliant economist. We've got great economists, you, Art Laugher, Larry Cudlow,
Steve Forbes. Then you got forty thousand other economists. They
never know what the hell they're talking about, and they're
always wrong. Why is that?

Speaker 13 (27:40):
Yeah, well, we had something in our hotline this morning
about that, and if you want to get that for
free focus go down leash prospirty dot com and sign
up for free. But we looked at the forecast of
all the blue chip economists, all the smartest economists at all
the big you know, banks and investment firms and so
on the ones that are paid a million dollars a
year to come up with these forecasts, and they are

(28:01):
the blue chip. All the blue chip forecasts, there was
almost no exceptions. They all basically, Oh, we're gonna have
one and a half percent economic growth this year, blah
blah blah.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
Guess what.

Speaker 13 (28:10):
Both in the second and third quarter we had a
closer four percent growth. How could they be more wrong?
I mean, I would take it's almost like playing pin
the tail on the donkey with the blindfolded person and
you know, trying to put I mean their their projections
have been completely wrong, and the economy's done much better
this year than almost all of the economy. Remember Paul

(28:31):
Kruman over that one, he said, oh my god, we're
gonna have a second great depression of Trump goes back
into office. Well, I don't know. I looked at the
stock markets doing pretty well well.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
You know, I could understand the New York Times hiring
a total sleazy, biased economist. But if you're a big
Wall Street from you got to get it right.

Speaker 13 (28:49):
How can we got it all wrong? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (28:51):
Don't you have to fire the economists to get I mean,
baseball manager gets fired if you losees too many games.

Speaker 13 (28:55):
Exactly.

Speaker 11 (28:56):
No.

Speaker 13 (28:56):
But that's the thing about you know, the the economics
and power it takes it. It doesn't matter how much
many times you're wrong, you know. I mean people have
written whole books about Paul Krupman about almost every prediction
he ever made. You know, he remembers he said Internet.
That's just a passing fab remember that one.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
The dumbest guy ever. Doesn't he have a Nobel prize.

Speaker 13 (29:18):
He does, he has a Nobel Prize in the economic
So that's you know who deserves. By the way, since
this is Nobel time, you know the guy who really
does deserve the Nobel Prize, who's probably the most influential
living economy. I mean I don't think probably, I think
certainly is the most impactful economists over the last you know,
twenty five years all over the world is out there

(29:39):
laugher and he still doesn't have a he doesn't have
a Nobel prize yet.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
Well, he's got to be Trump bashing and he's got
to be much.

Speaker 13 (29:48):
He did that, he'd get that Nobel Prize in five minutes.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Well, Steve Moore, great work. Now he runs the Committee
to Unleashed Prosperity. Go to Unleashed prosperity dot com. You
guys have the best daily briefing and analysis of the
news every day. It's free. Come right to your email
Unleash prosperity dot com. Steve Moore, thanks for being with us.

Speaker 13 (30:08):
Okay, Mark, you have a great weekend.

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Speaker 1 (30:30):
Welcome back to the Mark Simone Shownoo.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Well, hey, we're gonna have to get to in the
next hour. Jimmy Fayala will be with us in the
next hour. Always funny, always great. Now you know he
does the show here every night nine to midnight. You
should listen to it nine to midnight, every night here
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They're on right after me at noon noon to three
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(30:59):
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Speaker 1 (31:15):
This is Marmon Show. I'm seventen wor.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Oh, we got a lot to get through this hour.
Now let's start with Wheel of Fortune. So there's a
woman from Connecticut who's the contestant on Wheel of Fortune.
Her name is Christina d John drender Jet but whatever
it is. But she's from Stamford, very nice looking, beautiful, energetic,

(31:47):
great personality. She's thirty four years old, she's engaged, and
last night she won a million dollars. You know, they
have this secret. You open the envelopes, see how much
you want if you get at this puzzle. And Ryan
Seacrest courses the host to Wheel of Fortune.

Speaker 8 (32:04):
What happens if you win a million dollars?

Speaker 14 (32:08):
I may be putting in my two weeks, but we
won't tell her that yet.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
Well, I thought it was a pretty easy puzzle. You know,
even I could have solved it. But there was a
not too tough a puzzle, and she got it right,
and she won a million dollars. Living things.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
That is the category.

Speaker 14 (32:27):
You'll have ten seconds to try and solve it.

Speaker 7 (32:30):
Christina staring at me, good luck, pack of coyotes.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
Yeah, so she won a million dollars. Now she is engaged,
and apparently she never told her her bo that she
won a million dollars. She kept it from him. Now
you see these headlines, it sounds like something's wrong with
this relationship. Y didn't she tell them? Well, you know

(33:08):
they do film They record these Wheel of Fortune episodes
way way at months in advance, and you're sworn to secrecy.
You have to sign a document and you might not
get the million dollars if you tell anybody. You have
to sign this agreement to keep it secret. And she did.

(33:28):
Now they again, they do these Wheel of Fortunes months
in advance. So she signed the agreement and she didn't
want to risk losing the million dollars, so she didn't
tell him. He just found out she's one million dollars.
So that's great. She lives. Doesn't say we're in Stanford
single thirty four could be Harbord point. She got that
look about her. But that's great news. Now let's get

(33:51):
two business news. Business news. All right, I'm not exactly
a Liz claiming here, but a couple of things going on.
Starbucks is having real trouble. You know, they were having
real trouble. Anyway. They got rid of the CEO and
they brought in the CEO from Chipotle, which has been booming.

(34:11):
No fast food chain has gotten bigger, faster, done better
than Chipotle, so they got the Chipotle CEO to come over.
He thinks Starbucks needed a lot of change. So if
you notice every time you look at the Starbucks, they've
closed it down for two weeks to rebuild it, and
they all got this different look now instead of all
these different cases where they sell mugs and they sell

(34:34):
coffee makers and they sold again, it's just a long
counter and it's just coffee. He also streamlined the menu.
Instead of seventy five things, it's just the twenty most popular,
even the food that condensed it. So he's been doing that.
But apparently they're going to close lots of Starbucks, and
they start doing it without any warning. They're closing hundreds

(34:54):
and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds, four hundred stores around
the country. They're closing dozens right here in New York. Yeah,
fifty four coffees shops Starbucks. Fifty four are closing in
New York, and some in what you would think would
be prime locations. Upper east Side, Upper West Side, Financial District,
Midtown Manhattan. One right over there, fifty second near sixth

(35:17):
between six and seven. That one's closing. They were underperforming,
but they just closed them just like that. You remember
how Starbucks would always tell you what a wonderful company
they are, how they take care of everybody, their employees
are like family. Well, these are closing these stores no notice.
People show up, stores closed, You're fired. That's it, you're going.
They'll just literally put signs in the windows overnight. Didn't

(35:39):
tell landlords, didn't tell building managers. Newmark Retail vice chairman
said there was no warning, no heads up, and he explains,
you know, retail tennis will always let you know, well
in advance, they'll reach out to the landlord and to
negotiate concessions. But this was quick, this was instant. It says,

(36:01):
underperforming stores. I mean, this guy, I guess you gotta
do that. If you see it always kind of cold
about it. Underperforming stores got to go that's it. Now
speaking to coffee, Maxwell House, you know the name Maxwell
House coffee. It's like one of the oldest. It's very
good coffee, but one of the oldest. You know, even

(36:21):
if you're eighty years old, you remember those commercials as
a kid. Maxwell House. They're changing their name. This doesn't
sound good at all. They must have hired the marketing
team from a cracker barrel. Maxwellhouse changing the name to
Maxwell Apartment. No, I'm not kidding. They're actually changing the

(36:44):
name of the It's going to be called Maxwell Apartment.
This is the it's been one hundred and thirty three years.
One hundred and thirty three years they were in Maxwell House.
Now it's going to be Maxwell Apartment. They say, we'll
have the same taste, aroma, quality, and ingredients. The rebring
end is to represent the reality of today's consumers. Why
nearly a third of Americans are now renting smaller places.

(37:08):
They're not purchasing full size homes. The coffee giant wants
to reflect that with a rebrand. Two thirds of American
adults drink coffee every day two thirds, yeah, seventy percent,
seventy five percent, and head of Coffee Marketing said they

(37:29):
tend to be younger, tend to live in apartments. So
Maxwell Apartment. That is the dumbest name I get. All right,
let's just predict right now, this is the next Cracker Barrel.
They're going to have to change it back. They're going
to have to go back to the old logo, the
old name, and it's supposed to imply that if you're
drinking Maxwell Apartment, it will help you save more to

(37:54):
buy a house more quickly. What again, just will predict
right now, it's October two, by December, by the end
of the year, by January first, the name will have
to go back and again this is the new Cracker Barrel.
It's amazing. You know, people, before you go out and

(38:14):
hire these marketing companies, they are the dumbest people we've
ever seen. You know. Here at iHeart, not just or,
but we got Power one O five over, they got
Z one hundred, you got Light FM, you got the
biggest radio stations in the world. Upstairs is the network
where you got Sean Hannity and Buck and Cley. The
biggest advertising operation there is iHeart. If you're an advertiser,

(38:38):
if you want to advertise, come here because you can
reach everybody. Just on this floor, all these stations, I
think we reach like twenty two million people every day.
Upstairs at the network, I think they reach twenty eight
million people every day. But so we do advertising all
the time, and I can't tell you how many times. Now,
if you come here to advertise, we'll help you. We'll
show you how to word the commercial, how to fix

(39:00):
it up, what to say. And we do that all
the time because these companies come here, even the big
companies with the worst marketing, and you look at the copy.
Who told you to say this? What's our new marketing company?
Watch out for these marketing companies. They're not always there's
a couple of good ones, but there are a lot

(39:22):
that are not so hot. Let's say Zora and Mam Donnie. Uh,
every you know, he's been very careful last couple of weeks,
Mam Donnie has been extremely cautious answering questions. He dances
around these answers. Hey, by the way, Mam Donnie is
a Starbucks. Mam Donnie's out there fighting for the Starbucks baristas.

(39:44):
He's doing some kind of protest or something.

Speaker 14 (39:46):
This is a city, and this is a movement that
deserves a mayor who isn't staying at home and calling
billionaires for donations. This is a city, and this is
a movement that deserves a mayor who knows exactly what
a picket line looks like as well as a practice
picket looks like.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
What mayors who's staying home calling billionaires? Not Curtis, it's
not really Adams, now Adams, Oh, he's talking about Cuomo.
Cuomo actually does that. If you're one of those billionaires.
That's the whole secret of Cuomo. Everybody hates him. The
public hates him. He's creepy, he's weird, public can't stand
and he has the highest unfavorabilities. But as soon as

(40:24):
he got run out of office and he fled in
disgraced from Albany, he descended on Southampton and the Upper
east Side and Palm Beach and he wooed those billionaires
who are the most starstruck people ever, and he went
to all their dinners and their dinner parties, and uh,
that's how that's where the donations came from. They're all
backing him. And remember that crowd, whoever they back always loses.

(40:48):
They're always wrong about everything. But that's who he's talking about, then, Mom,
Donnie's talking about picket lines.

Speaker 15 (40:55):
And absolutely the point of this position is to stand
up for the people of the city, and this city
would not be what it is without organized labor, without unions,
ensuring that workers have a dignified life and they deserve
a Mayoro's going to stand with them on the picket line.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
Gota admit, he's a good talker. He talks real fast.
You know, if you talk fast, you sound very smart.
When you talk that fast, people think you must know
what you're talking about. How else could you talk that fast?
Then you get Cuomo, who talks like deuce. Now, also,
besides being very careful dancing around questions, he's trying to
he's got a big problem with the anti Semitism. I mean,

(41:29):
let's be honest, this guy is anti Israel, anti Semitic.
He's horrible. But he's trying to be a little more
cautious with him.

Speaker 16 (41:35):
And so to be very very clear, of course I
condemn hamas of course I have called October seventh what
it was, which is a horrific war crime. And of
course my belief in a universality and international law is
also the same set of beliefs that have led me
to describe what's happening in Gaza as a genocide.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Yeah, you see, he puts on that very sincere voice.
He talks fast in that sincere voice. He lowers his tone,
and he throws in that of course I would never,
of course I would never. Of course I would never.
He was probably cheering on October seventh. Now here he
is on Trump.

Speaker 16 (42:06):
This is a moment where we have to address the
administration for what it is, which is authoritarian. It's going
to require us to do everything in our power to
fight back, not to coordinate like Andrew Cuomo's done being
on the phone with Donald Trump, or collaborate like Eric
Adams is done by welcoming ice into the city.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
Authoritarian. They love this. He's a fascist, He's authoritarian. Now,
what Donnie is proposing is socialism, which is authoritarian. As
you can get. He has come out with some dangerous positions.
I mean in the past obviously, but even recently. Now
here's another one. A lot of police officials have talked

(42:43):
about this mom Donnie. He's now proposing that he take
power away from the NYPD commissioner and give it to him.
And one place he wants to do. That is on discipline.
You know, when an officer has to be disciplined, Mom,
Donnie wants that to no longer be the power of
the police commissioner. It will be the power of the mayor.

(43:04):
This is very dangerous. You want it to be the
police commissioner. The NYPD's largest union is warning. Police Benevolent
Association is warning this is dangerous. Now, what he wants
to do is have the Civilian Complaint Review Board have
the final authority on discipline. Now, the problem there is
that's a board where everybody would be appointed by Mamdani.

(43:29):
So on his Civilian Review Board, it'll all be a
cop hating, crazy left wing kook who hate the cops.
You know, no bail, no jail, crust, so they will
go after every cop. Now, what happens if Mamdani gets
in and he does that, he's the final say on
the discipline. His review board is the final say. Well,

(43:51):
the damage will be unbelievable. Police officials have said privately,
it'll be unbelievable what this will do to crime because
what will happen is the policeman or woman will be
afraid to intervene in most situations because they could end
up discipline fired by this Mam Donnie review. And if
Mom Donni has the final decision. The one thing about

(44:13):
the police commissioner, at least you know, you'll try to
stand up for you. If you watch Blue Bloods, you
remember how many Blue Bloods episodes or the mayor for
political reasons says you got to fire that cop right now,
you got to indict that in the police commissioner says
that he was just doing his job. And if this happens,
no cop will want to approach any situation that's questionable

(44:38):
in the street. They'll have to just let it go.
You know, one thing Cuomo did he took away the
qualified immunity the cops have, which is protection, legal protection.
He took it away from them. That's why a lot
of cops had to stop approaching certain situations because the
person could then sue them, and they weren't covered for
lawsuits by the department. He could sue them personally. This

(45:00):
is what Cuomo did to them. It's just awful, so
a horrible proposal. Hey, Forbes magazine, you know they do
the rich Who's the Richest Person list? Bloomberg does it.
A lot of people do. The best one is Forbes.
That's the most accurate, that's the best one of all.
Forbes now saying Elon Musk will be the first person

(45:22):
to hit five hundred billion dollars, he'll be worth half
a trillion dollars. That means he'll be a trillionaire. He'll
be the world's first trillionaire probably within ten years. Musk
hits five hundred billion. Second place Larry Ellison three hundred
and fifty billion, which means Musk can look at this

(45:46):
guy with three hundred and fifty billion and say three
hundred and fifty billion, that's nothing. Zuckerberg in third place
two hundred and fifty billion. Jeff Bezos found it falls
to fourth place two hundred and thirty three billion. You know,
if you see a guy with two three billion dollars,
you go, wow, he's a billion or two three billion.

(46:07):
These guys now look at him like they're a welfare cases.
At five hundred billion, can you imagine that? Could you
imagine that? You couldn't spend this if you tried, if
you just put it in the in the right in
the right fund, it would generate forty billion a year
in interest, forty billion a year. You could just live

(46:28):
off that. You didn't never have to work again. Just
invest this, collect forty billion a year in interest. You
couldn't spend that if you tried, you could not. It's impossible.
You couldn't spend it if you tried. Hey, we'll take
some calls. Next eight hundred three two one zero seven
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Speaker 2 (47:00):
Let's take some calls. Let's go to Katie in Chappaquaw Katie,
how you doing?

Speaker 12 (47:06):
Hi?

Speaker 11 (47:07):
Mark?

Speaker 6 (47:07):
Oh, thank you for taking my call, and also for
explaining what happened to our Chapa Claw neighborhood Starbucks.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
Oh it's gone, it's gone.

Speaker 6 (47:18):
I went away for a few weeks. A few days
I came back and the store was closed, And my
neighbor told me that nobody knew she had spoke. She
had seen a sign. It was basically almost overnight. It
was a sign in the window, and then the next
day they were they were closed, and even the employees
couldn't explain what happened.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
Did you ever run into Yeah, did you ever run
into Bill c? Bill Clinton? Did you ever see him
in that?

Speaker 13 (47:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (47:45):
I used to be there a lot.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
Yeah, I'm sure he was there a lot. Hey, how
are you? You know who I am?

Speaker 8 (47:52):
That's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
Yeah, I apparently like to walk around Chapka.

Speaker 8 (47:56):
Hello, how are you he did?

Speaker 6 (47:59):
Yeah, we haven't. I haven't seen him lately.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
Well, don't chinx it?

Speaker 10 (48:04):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (48:06):
What do you do there in Chappaqua?

Speaker 15 (48:09):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (48:09):
You know, it's funny because Starbucks is one of the
few places we could hang out. It's mostly nail salons
and realtors, just like three nail salons the Korean you know,
spas and and then realatuors okay, and you know, and
Chappaquaw was it was a chain and we have everything
else is individually owned except for there's a Walgreens.

Speaker 13 (48:32):
And a Talbot.

Speaker 6 (48:33):
But I mean there's really hardly anything there.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
You're right next to Armand, aren't you. Yeah? Yeah? Armand
you got the Modern Barn. That's a great restaurant. I
love that place.

Speaker 13 (48:43):
It's great, it is, it's excellent.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
All right, Well, thanks for calling, Katie. Let's go to
Nick and Mount Vernon. Nick how you doing, Hey, Mark,
great show. Thanks, two quick questions.

Speaker 11 (48:57):
President trumpet said he wanted to eliminate daylights time.

Speaker 8 (49:00):
Is that going to happen?

Speaker 2 (49:03):
I don't know. It's like back burner issue. It'll be
great if they do that, because look, it's terrible now.
It's already dark at six thirty. Uh yeah, well hopefully.
Well that'll be a that's the next year thing. That's
a next year thing.

Speaker 9 (49:14):
We have a second question for you, please, Yeah, what
are the best professional headphones?

Speaker 1 (49:21):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (49:21):
Depends what you want. If you want to listen, uh,
just listen, nothing else. The new AirPod, the brand new
AirPod Pro three, it just came out. Those are really
really good. Beats are really good now. But you're talking
about big headphones, like studio headphones you'd wear in the studio. Yes, yes,
Oh well, it depends what you want. You want real crispy.

(49:42):
A lot of people like those Sony ones. Wait, hang on,
I got to take off my headphones. Oh audio Technica.
I love these. They're not so they're not so tiny
and crisp. Audio Technica go check. That's all right, Thanks
for Colin. Let's go to Neil in Brooklyn. Neil, how
you doing.

Speaker 13 (50:00):
All right, Yeah, you know, Maxwell Apartments works very good
from Manhattan, but maybe northern California they just have Maxwell.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
Tent or.

Speaker 13 (50:13):
That's a very good idea, and they could do it
by different areas, you know.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
All right, thanks for calling. What we're talking about is
it's the stupidest thing since Cracker Barrel, Maxwell House changing
the name of the car. It's going to be Maxwell Apartment.
That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. But I
like that. I actually make it Maxwell Condo, Maxwell coll.
It doesn't make any sense at all. It's like Cracker Barrel.
You know, the problem is these marketing companies. They all

(50:42):
think you got to change the name, change the logo, change.
It's all about the product. Let's go to Marlow in
New Jersey. Marlow, how you doing.

Speaker 12 (50:51):
Yeah, Hi, it's Mario here in New Jersey.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Mark.

Speaker 12 (50:55):
Hey, listen regarding that Maxwell House saying, do you know
that Missus Dash that's been around for the longest time
is changed in name. It's now just Dash. Can you imagine?

Speaker 2 (51:07):
Okay, you can't say missus anymore?

Speaker 12 (51:10):
No, I guess I went to buy some at the
local Supermark a couple of months ago looking for Missus Dash,
and I did see and I was confused. Then I
saw Dash and I thought, well, this is the same,
must be the same. Part up, they.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Changed it, So what is the deal? Miss Remember that.

Speaker 12 (51:25):
Dash was actually a detergent years back.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
That's right. Well maybe miss missus Dash went trans or something.
She's not a missus anymore. Maybe maybe maybe it's day
now call all right, thanks for calling. Yeah, stop changing
the names of everything. Just make it you know what,
you can hire a marketing company, hire like the greatest
chefs or whatever. Make the product taste better, make it delicious.

(51:51):
If it's delicious, if it's unbelievable, nobody cares what it's called. Hey,
when we come back, Jimmy Fayla will be with us.
Let's talk to him about everything going on in the world.
Next on seven to ten WR.

Speaker 15 (52:02):
Mister New York Marksimon on seven ten WR.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
Hey, Jimmy Fayla, the great hosts. You got to listen
to him every night. He's on w R every weeknight
now nine to midnight, excellent show, Interesting, funny, nine to
midnight every night, and he does the best late night
show on television every Saturday night ten pm on the
Fox News Channel. Jimmy Fayla, how you doing?

Speaker 13 (52:30):
It's better? Now?

Speaker 17 (52:33):
I was watching Mom Donnie on the View this morning.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
Now I didn't see it.

Speaker 17 (52:40):
So the best part is like during the during the
View itself, he's in one of the commercials for the
Golden Bachelor, you know, the show The Golden Bachelor, and
those actually, oddly enough, those marriages actually work out the
best because on the Golden Bachelor, till death doest part
isn't his law.

Speaker 11 (52:56):
You know.

Speaker 13 (52:57):
It's like when they two year olds get married on TV.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
You know they got they gotta make it a long time.

Speaker 13 (53:03):
But I'm watching Mom Donnie and he's given his speech.

Speaker 17 (53:05):
About the Golden Bachelor and giving people the Rose, and
I'm like, wait, this is the guy that supports legalized prostitutions.

Speaker 13 (53:14):
Why are you wasting your time on a gating show?

Speaker 2 (53:17):
Well, uh, is that a bad thing? Legalized prostitution?

Speaker 13 (53:21):
Well, well not if he wants to get Bill Clinton's endorsement.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
But hey, how are you coping with the government shutdown?
How is it affecting your life?

Speaker 11 (53:33):
Well, it's not.

Speaker 17 (53:34):
It's not me I worry about it's you know, there's
a lot of drag shows in Latvias that.

Speaker 13 (53:38):
Aren't being funded right now.

Speaker 17 (53:40):
I mean, think think of the poor kids in Iraq
that wanted to get out of bed this morning and
watch a transgender sesame Street, but our government had to
shut down, so now they're not paying for it, you know, Yeah,
to think about the other people.

Speaker 13 (53:53):
Mark, But the whole thing is ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
Yeah, when they say non essential, don't you say, wait
a minute, you have non essential workers. Why why are
we paying for that?

Speaker 13 (54:03):
It's such a good such a good point.

Speaker 17 (54:06):
It's like, you know what, every once in a while
you go over the credit card statement and go like, oh,
we paid twelve ninety nine for this, why are we
doing that? But in the government, it's like, we pay
twelve billions for this, why are we doing that? Hey,
somebody else has to look at their master card statement? Yeah,
go ahead, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
Oh no, you say, as a great comedian, could you
give Hakeem Jeffries some advice on how to take a joke.
This guy's the biggest stiff I've ever seen.

Speaker 17 (54:31):
Oh, I know, And it's funny because he's obviously like
a karaoke Obama. You know, he's an Obama pumper band.

Speaker 13 (54:40):
That's totally what he is.

Speaker 17 (54:41):
And you know, to Obama's credit, like the media never
gave him a hard time, but he at least had
a bit of a personality.

Speaker 13 (54:48):
Hakeem Jeffries.

Speaker 17 (54:49):
It's weird. He almost reminds me more of Hillary, and
that the octaves in his voice never change, you know,
like if Hillary was the lead singer a Kiss, you'd
be like, I want to rock and roll all night
and the party every day.

Speaker 13 (55:03):
And you're like, woll you don't sound that enthusiastic about it, Hill,
And that's kind of Jefferies. There's no passion. So he
wants to be Obama.

Speaker 17 (55:11):
But to Obama's credit, he could at least get out
there and sell you the bs that he was pedaling.

Speaker 13 (55:15):
Yeah, nobody buys a king. Like if I was a king, Jeffreys,
I would want.

Speaker 17 (55:19):
Trump to be accenting all of my videos with mariachi's
and hats and mustaches.

Speaker 8 (55:24):
Because it gives them some life, you know.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
And what about Schumer, he's like from nineteen eighty two,
He's just so a relic updated sort of guy.

Speaker 11 (55:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (55:35):
The problem with Schumer is and they Democrats always give
us that speech about how we're the Party of the
youth and they're like we're the Party of the youth.
This you know, this country needs new blood. From looking
at Schumer, I assume they actually mean new blood like transfusions.

Speaker 8 (55:52):
You know, he looks like a.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
Villain on the Simpsons.

Speaker 17 (55:55):
And I don't ever know what to make of him,
because there's the problem with being in Washington, Keith. Seriously,
Schumer has been in Washington since Washington, you know what
I'm saying. And it's like, there's not going to be
a position you don't contradict yourself on. So we've all
heard the clips of him in the nineties in the
early aughts being like a legal immigration it's all a
scam for Medicare benefits. There's all these illegals.

Speaker 13 (56:17):
That's where we can't let him in.

Speaker 17 (56:18):
And now we could obviously on the complete opposite side
of himself that every Democrat could just debate themselves.

Speaker 13 (56:24):
You can get like a hologram of like here's you a.

Speaker 17 (56:26):
Year ago, and you can just have that debate.

Speaker 2 (56:30):
And who told Schumer these classes look good on you,
those big clunky glass k classes.

Speaker 17 (56:38):
Listen, I'm not going to have you insult Schumer's stylist
or his seeing idols.

Speaker 2 (56:42):
That's not nice. That's what he looks like. Yeah, he
looks like he needs a dog with those glasses. So
uh good. Hey, I'm sure you're thrilled that un week
is over. That was pretty bad, wasn't it. That un
General a man.

Speaker 17 (56:56):
Wasn't the best part though, that macrone had to get
out and walk across town because they had the one
street blocked off. And I was saying on my show,
you know, it's a real slap in the face to
a world leader when you got to get out and walk.
But luckily mccron's used to getting slapped in the face
by his wife.

Speaker 13 (57:12):
Do you remember that plane video?

Speaker 17 (57:14):
She beat him up on the plane and he had
to get off like it was cool, dude.

Speaker 2 (57:19):
We all thought, man, yeah, I remember the day had
that video Trump and Millennia in the fight on the
helicopter and they were trying to go after But then
the lip reader said it was Trump yelling at her.
So he wasn't getting slapped around apparently.

Speaker 13 (57:32):
No, no, no, they're not going to beat him up.

Speaker 17 (57:34):
No, McCrone looks like he's into it.

Speaker 13 (57:36):
Let's be honest.

Speaker 17 (57:37):
He looks like one of those people I would drive
around in my taxi because That's thing about New York
tells you is the traffic's the worst on earth. But
it's also the most lucrative week of the year if
you're a cab driver, because there's a lot of people
that have to get around street closures and get to
embassies and York they kind of will hire you for
that knowledge. And you know a lot of these people

(57:57):
I'm talking about get paid in singles and wear very
high stiletto heels.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
You're taking up what I'm putting down.

Speaker 13 (58:04):
Yes, And that's the part of you.

Speaker 17 (58:06):
One week I miss as a driver is you know,
you're driving some some guy in a dress named Cinnabuns
over to some embassy because there's a weirdo diplomat waiting.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
That was the part I enjoyed. Well, you haven't driven
in a while. I don't think it's singles anymore, is it. No, No,
you're right, you're right about that. It's it's all kind
of hunter. Biden changed the game.

Speaker 17 (58:29):
That was wire transfers coming in from multiple entities, whole
New World.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
Hey, uh, you were a cab driver. He's not kidding,
he was a cab driver. Tell us the truth. Does
the driver want to be stuck in traffic and run
up the meter or does he want to get the
ride over fast so you can get a new fare.

Speaker 17 (58:46):
Turnover, you want to r you want a faster ride.
I'll tell you the reason why. Every fair that gets
in you're getting the search charge. And maybe it's at
night you're getting that differential. So if you ran the
meter for an hour right now, it might generate eighty
two bucks, but if you turned over four fares, you're
going to be around forty before you even take the

(59:07):
rider get tipped. So unequivocally, you'd rather have four mid
length fairs, five mid length fairs in an hour, turnover
as your friend, and every fourth or fifth person uses
you as an affordable therapist if you're outgoing, and tips
you extra money. So that happens, And that was definitely
my strategy too. The reason guys want the long Fair

(59:28):
like the airport Fair, is at JFK and the taxi
lot there is a massive gambling ring like for real,
for real, what where they play this pie gal poker
game and they like to play this Middle Eastern domino game.

Speaker 13 (59:40):
I'm not making it up.

Speaker 17 (59:41):
And a lot of guys because when you go to JFK,
you wait like an hour and a half for your
next fair, and a lot of guys gamble. It's like
a card game basically. It's you know, it's almost like
a recreational card game. But there's a lot of money
at stake. And anytime you're driving to Central Taxi at JFK,
if you see that massive lot of cabs, the reason
nobody's in them is half the guys are exercising, the

(01:00:01):
other half are gambling. Okay, that's like a thing, and
it's a funny, you know, it's a recreational thing, but
it's pretty funny. It's like the new OTB. Instead of
off track gambling, we have off road gambling.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
That's actually fascinating. But why would why would as a driver,
why would you ever want to sit and do nothing
for an hour and a half when you could be
doing twelve fares?

Speaker 17 (01:00:18):
Well, okay, because the thing is that JFK fair that
you take that you take back is usually pretty lucrative,
and it's for some guys drive. They exclusively do hotels
and airports. What I mean is they have a guy
at a hotel, They have a guy to hotel that
they give twenty bucks to at the beginning of the shift,
who's going to give them the first airport fair? Then
they're gonna wait and come back to that same hotel

(01:00:40):
when they drop off. And the reason they do that
is it actually minimizes the amount of driving in a
shift and the money is comparable, meaning they might not
always make as much some day as they'll make more
depending on who they're dropping off with the hotel. But
the big thing is it's just highway back and forth
as opposed to the you know, vehicle or combat that
I'm engaging in across town for twelve hours a day.

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
This is actually fascinating stuff. There's a book in here
or a Netflix documentary or something in this somewhere this.

Speaker 17 (01:01:08):
Wee, well, it won't be Netflix because I'm not trans
but if I decide to make a move, well but great.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
Hey, Jimmy Faylor, what's on the tonight show at nine o'clock? Here?

Speaker 13 (01:01:20):
It's all coming up.

Speaker 17 (01:01:21):
We got Steve Hilton, he's gonna be the next governor
of California. And my wife, Jenny Fayala making a rare
in studio appearance. She's trying to have an intervention with
me based on some things that have happened on the.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
TV show in the last week and a half.

Speaker 17 (01:01:36):
I don't know what that means. She just said she's
showing up as standards and practices, so I don't know
what that means. I might be single this time tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
Lee's I think she's great. You've got like your own
joy Philman there, it's great.

Speaker 17 (01:01:48):
Yeah, she's is, she's got she's got real chops and
she does, thankfully. She does have a sense of humor.
And everybody's always like, oh, how did you get her?
And I'm like, what do you mean? Women don't want
to marry an overwhe cab driver who has no health insurance.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
That was a buckie forty grand. Come on, man, well,
be listening tonight nine to midnight, every weeknight nine to
midnight on WOR. It's a great show, and make sure
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(01:02:22):
thanks for being with us. You're the man. Marcos you
soon all right, take care, hey, and don't forget buck Sexton,
Clay Travis. Right after this show, they'll be here right
after the news at noon on seven to ten wor.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
Now more Mark Simone on sement ten wr.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
Hey, so it's the day today, October second, it's the
second day of October. Now it's actually where in autumn
it's fall. Doesn't feel like it's beautiful and sunny out,
and it's gonna be a really nice weekend. Remember last
week I said this will be like the last summer weekend.
I take that back. This will be like the last
summer weekend. It's gonna be near eighty and bright sunshine
Saturday and Sunday. It's going to be a beautiful weekend.

(01:03:04):
Daylight Saving Time is not that far away evan as
far as ending, like going back to standard time, that's
gonna be well, not good, not good. But now tomorrow
eleven am looks like that might be the next vote
on the shutdown. Government is shut down. I keep mentioning
that because nobody would notice. Otherwise who would notice? But

(01:03:25):
it looks like tomorrow eleven am something could happen. Even Democrats,
I think they've come to realize. Schumer Hakeem Jeffreys, the
two biggest stiffs, the worst faces you could put on this,
the worst representatives, the messaging from them is just absolutely awful.
It's not working. Republicans have got their act together as
far as messaging solidarity, so they may cave in tomorrow

(01:03:49):
on the shutdown. If not, it'll probably end over the weekend.
That should be the end of it. Hey, Yankees tonight, right, Yeah,
somehow the Yankees won last night. The series now tied.
Tonight is the deciding game, six o'clock. Everybody should be
watching that Yankees tonight at six. Anyway, we're out of time.
I'll be back tomorrow ten to noon. Tomorrow's Friday. That's

(01:04:11):
the good news too. I'll be back tomorrow ten to noon.
And remember you can also listen to the show and
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