FULL SHOW: Controversy of the oil tanker; Where did the money go?

President Trump has announced that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. This action has sparked concern among Democrats, who are raising alarms about security risks with other countries and the potential impact on the global oil supply. Additionally, Trump is reportedly considering action against Colombia due to concerns about drug trafficking and the possibility of narcotics entering the United States. Mark interviews economist Steve Moore. With a new Federal Reserve Chair set to take over next year after Jerome Powell, Moore discusses the state of the economy. He argues that the economy is currently strong and questions Democratic claims about an affordability crisis. New York City is allegedly up to $8 billion that has reportedly gone missing from funds intended to address homelessness. There is speculation that Mayor Eric Adams might skip Zohran Mamdani's inauguration in January. Meanwhile, NYC Comptroller Brad Lander has launched a congressional bid, drawing attention for his style, which some say is reminiscent of Mr. Rogers. Mark interviews WOR weeknight host Jimmy Failla. They share some laughs about post-holiday party antics and discuss concerns about safety in New York City, especially with Zohran Mamdani set to be sworn in as mayor in January 2026.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is seven to tenor boy, the Mark Simoon Show starts.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Now.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Oh well, hey, I got a lot to get to today.
We'll get to the tanker. We'll get to Tucker, We'll
get to Mom, Donnie, We'll get to Luigi. We got
a lot of stuff to talk about today. So that
you might have seen on the news that the United
States of America seized a Venezuelan oil tanker. It looked
pretty impressive, the military operation with the planes and fighter

(00:32):
jets and helicopters and our military repelling down onto the deck,
seizing this massive oil tanker with thousands and thousands of
gallons of oil on it. It was about seventy million
worth of oil. It was a Venezuelan ship. The whole
thing was illegal because it was violating our sanctions. And

(00:53):
of course you had all the fake news all up
in arms. Here's that old weather beaten old hag.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
Martha Radtts telling ABC News it was headed for Cuba,
capable of carrying up to two million barrels of oil.
Today's seizure marking the first time the US has overtly
interfered with oil exports, Venezuela's main source of revenue.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Until now, the US.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
Has been targeting boats they say are carrying drugs, striking
at least twenty two boats and killing nearly ninety people,
including two survivors.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Now this old Martha rat, it's this old hag looks
like Granny on the Beverly Hillbillize, you know, not quite
the mother on Golden Girls, but she's getting there. But
you notice her language overtly interfered with Venezuela. Now, if
you were watching this, you must think this is the

(01:46):
most awful thing. Why would we overtly interfere with a nice, little, peaceful,
little oil shipman. Why would we see? Well, she forgot
to explain that the ship was in total violation of
US sanctions. Now, let me just explain. When it comes
to sanctions, they're never enforced. You know, we have sanctions
at times where you're not allowed to buy Russian oil,

(02:08):
you're not allowed to buy Iranian oil, or you're not
allowed to ship oil to this country or to that country.
These are sanctions. Now, they've just never enforced. Biden was
the king of this. You know, remember Russia did they
invaded Ukraine or at one point when Russia did something awful,
Biden big press conference, He said, I am placing six

(02:30):
hundred and fifty sanctions on Russia, and the fake news
applauded and said, wow, look at him stand up to Russia. Well,
they never told the audience that there was already twenty
seven hundred sanctions on Russia that weren't being enforced, and
these six hundred weren't going to be enforced, and they're
never enforced. It's the silliest thing in the world. Can

(02:53):
you imagine if cops when they pull you over for
a speeding ticket, never enforced them, If you throw it
away and you didn't go to court, nothing, whatever, you'd
never enforced them. Well, nobody would stop speeding. So President
Trump decided, let's actually enforce one of these sanctions. Let's
actually do what we're supposed to do and enforce one.

(03:16):
So they seized the ship, took the oil. She said,
a couple of million barrels. It's seventy million worth of oil.
And reporters, of course went nuts asking them about it.

Speaker 5 (03:29):
We've just seized a tanker on the coast of venezuela
large tanker, very large, largest one ever sees. Extra and
other things are happening.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, okay, they cut the clip here. But the reporter said, well,
what are you gonna do with the oil? And he said,
but I don't know. I guess we keep it. You know,
he hadn't thought about that's just simply enforcing the sanction.
And then when he said I guess we keep it,
of course fake news went nuts, how they can't keep
their oil. Well, what would you do with it? It's

(04:06):
a sanction you're supposed to enforce. You're supposed to seize it.
That's okay, despite what the fake news tells you. Now
that you've seized it, what do you do with the oil?
If you don't keep it? What do you do with it?
Do you give it back to somebody? You send it
back to? That wouldn't make any sense. So what do
you do with the oil? You could put it up

(04:27):
on eBay and sell it. You could go sell it somewhere.
You keep it, I guess. Now. The price of oil
went up a little yesterday the seizing of a tanker,
but not much it was it went only went up
one percent. And what this means is if he continues
to do this kind of stuff, the countries may actually

(04:49):
start obeying the sanctions. They may stop violating sanctions. Can
you imagine such a thing? What's next? And he n
hinted there's other things coming now. You know, he's got
talking about going into Venezuela, knocking out all their drug facilities,
stopping all that. You know, if he stops all their
oil shipments, they're just going to go broke. They got
a billion dollars in reserve, but at some point they'll

(05:11):
go broke. But he was also hinting it going after
Columbia next.

Speaker 5 (05:14):
Columbia's producing a lot of drugs. They have cocaine factories
that they make cocaine, as you know, and they sell
right into the say so he better wise up or
he'll be next.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Now, I don't know what this could do to people.
You know, if you go after all the fentanyl, if
you go after all the cocaine, at some point there
could be a tremendous shortage of drugs. I don't know.
I mean, you know, it can have all these drug
agents running around try to arrest all the drug dealers,
but that we've been doing that for a thousand years,
it never seems to get that much done. If you

(05:48):
actually made the supply of drugs dry up, that could
be interesting. First of all, it would drive the price
way up. So it's interesting. But now, of course you're
going to see Chuck Schumer with his glasses all fugged up,
yelling and screaming about how dare you seize an oil tanker.
You're going to see all the craziest senators, you know,

(06:08):
the blooming dolls and the Chris Murphy's yelling and screaming
and huffing and puffing about it. But it's a great thing.
It's a great thing, and you see all these experts
explaining this stuff.

Speaker 6 (06:18):
Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserve in the world,
so it's fourteen trillion dollars worth of oil and it's
a primary means of the regime funding.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, so you're stopping the primary funding of that awful regime.

Speaker 6 (06:31):
It is a significant escalation, but this might be the
start of a campaign. With all that naval power, the
US can certainly stop oil tankers from leaving Venezuela, which
could completely cut off their ability to sell their own
Krugle world.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah, now that's your thing. You might not have to
fire too many shots after after a while. I would
think if you're a narco terrorist in one of those speedboats.
You might not really want to go on one of
those missions and go, you know, through the water anymore.
And if you're one of these tankers, if it's going
to get seized, you may not want to send one
of these tankers out. So it all might just stop.

(07:08):
So we'll see what happens. Schumer, of course, yelling and
screaming about everybody and everything. They're still on Pete hexath
hexit arrangement syndrome continues. They want him gone. He's not
going anywhere.

Speaker 7 (07:22):
Hey.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
By the way, watch the video of this mission, the
seizing of the tanker. Real impressive precision military mission. You
got to remember under Hexith, the military has pulled off
some pretty amazing missions, the bombing of the Iran nuclear facilities.
The seizing of this tanker's pretty good. Doesn't impress Chuck
Schumer though, plan to demand Secretary Hegseth.

Speaker 8 (07:44):
Give the total unedited videos of what happened in the
September second boat strikes. I will demand of Rubio and
Hegseth what the hell is going on in the Caribbean Venezuela.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
What are their plans good for Schumer? This is what
he does best, talk mix speeches, yell and scream. He
never actually does anything. You remember all those fake Sunday
press conferences with all those issues he was fighting for.
Soon as the press conference is over, he'd throw the
index cards in a waste basket and forget about it.
Same thing here, he's demanding he better or else, or

(08:23):
that's all he does. He just talks and then leaves.
He wants the videos. Every second, unedited videos must be released.
He hate that he got these big new glasses just
to watch these videos. But you'll never he'll yell and
scream about it. Now, what democrats generally do is they
start this stuff, they go crazy, it becomes a major issue.

(08:43):
Then they keep focus grouping it, and then after about
a week or two, they say, huh, it's not registering,
it's not working on people. Then they throw it right
in the waiste basket. Find something else. They don't really
care about any of this stuff. Affordability that seems to
be working, that has registered, even though there's not that
much of an affordability crisis. There was a terrible affordability
crisis under Joe Biden, where of inflation went nuts the

(09:07):
highest level in fifty years, and for the middle class,
the highest level ever. It was horrible under Biden. Trump
has brought it down almost in half. It's going to
take another six months to bring it down the other half.
But so it's Biden's affordability crisis. They never mentioned that part.
But even on CNBC, which is the most left wing slanted,

(09:28):
Even on CNBC yesterday, Jay Clayton, who's the US attorney,
he's the former SEC chairman, very knowledgeable guy financially on
the economy. All that's very not brilliant guy, very good guy,
Jay Clayton, he was the guest. But even the CNBC
panel had to admit that this affordability crisis was all

(09:50):
the fault of Joe Biden.

Speaker 9 (09:51):
Li the affordability issue is but from the twenty two
percent increase in prices in inflation under Biden, there's.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
This full stop right there. That's the affordability issue.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
And you got to be able to explain.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
That, right, that's right.

Speaker 10 (10:05):
And look, I think that with the economic team President
Trump and the economic team led by Scott Dessant, you
have people who very much understand this and it was
a they were thrown you know what, I would say,
the worst economy for the average American in my adult
lifetime in terms of the like you said, the incredible

(10:29):
increase in prices at the household.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Now, so this affordability thing seems to work. If you
just keep yelling at screaming this affordability crisis, people start
to believe it and hold it against Trump. Now. They
did this exact same play years ago against George HW.
Bush and it worked. George H. W. Bush, Bush Senior
was running against this unknown young governor, Bill Clinton, and

(10:54):
they hadn't got the word affordability yet. That came out
of focus groups a few weeks ago. Focus groups found
the best word was affordability. But it was back in
ninety two Bush versus Clinton, and they kept talking about
the economic crisis. They made it look like it We're
in the worst with the economy. It was having problems,
but it wasn't the worst economy. They made it sound
like it was, and it helped Bush Senior lose to Clinton.

(11:17):
And back then, the big newscast was the CBS Evening
News with Dan Rather and every night you can go
back and watch the videos of this all through the campaign.
Every night the CBS Evening News did the special feature
Economy in Crisis, Economy in crisis. They would open with
that and then rather had to do the actual news.

(11:40):
But before he did it. Now coming up, we'll get
to our special feature, the economy in crisis or is
a crisis in the economy? And every night they would
do this special feature, but the economy in crisis. Well,
on November fourth, the election came and Clinton won, and
that night they dropped the feature. There was no feature,

(12:02):
no economy and crisis, no crisis in the economy. They
never mentioned it again. As soon as Clinton won, they
dropped the feature and never used it again. But it
helped kill Bush. So they've brought this play back. And
sure enough, if they keep yelling and screaming about affordability, affordability, affordability,
everyone thinks is a crisis. Now the president has not

(12:23):
been on top of this. He needs, you know, he
keeps saying, you got to do better messaging. But it's
it's tough, you know, if every time anybody turns around,
they see affordability crisis. So he's got to get back
out there in the campaign trail. He did the first
one this week in Pennsylvania. There'll be more of them coming,
and he's got to talk about affordability I have no higher.

Speaker 11 (12:43):
Priority than making America affordable again.

Speaker 7 (12:45):
That's what we're going to do.

Speaker 11 (12:46):
They gave you high prices, they gave you the highest
inflation in history, and we're giving you we're bringing those
prices down rapidly, lower prices, bigger paychecks. You're getting lower prices,
bigger paychecks. We're getting inflation, we're crushing it, and you're
getting much higher wages. I mean, the only thing that

(13:07):
used it's really going up big. It's called the stock
market and your.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Four oh one k. Yeah, yeah, stock market has been
on fire all year now. When the stock market goes crazy,
goes way up. Well, of course it helps the big
hedge fund guys, billionaires, Goldman Sax, those kind of guy.
Of course it helps them. But it helps every working
man and woman in America because they got a four
oh one k pension and the pension's invested in stock.

(13:33):
So it's driving up your pension, driving up your four
oh one k. But of course the media will never
mention this. The president gets no credit for it. You know,
the smartest guy is Larry Cudler, the best economist, and
if you watch Cudlow every day four o'clock Fox Business network,
Especially the first five or ten minutes, Larry Cudler will
go over the exact most important statistics on the economy,

(13:56):
laying out how much better the economy is doing. He'll
give you a data, it'll put it up on the
screen and it's fascinating. Then they'll right away go to
the top economists in the world, Art Laugher, all of
this stuff, and if you watch that, you'll understand exactly
how good things are. The economy was bad under Biden,
but it's getting better every week, and you'll give you

(14:17):
the exact figures and data. Well, not everybody watches Cutlow
every day. You know, most people are watching Sherry Shepherd,
they're watching the prices right, They're watching entertainment. You know,
they're not watching that. So you gotta remember, for a
lot of people, they don't follow this stuff. They don't
listen to talk radio, they don't follow this closely. They

(14:38):
watch you man, We'll just check the evening news at
six point thirty. We'll watch that for ten minutes. That's
their news summary. So if you get these fake news
idiots like this Martha Raddatz.

Speaker 4 (14:49):
Sources telling ABC News it was headed for Cuba capable
of carrying up to two million barrels of oil. Today's
seizure marking the first time the US has overtly inter
they election.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
That's all you think. What they overtly interfered with a
country trying to ship some oil. She never mentions. It
was in total violation of US sanctions. It was an
illegal ship, and illegal ship. She never mentioned it. So,
if you're just watching the ABC and evening news, what
are you supposed to think you're supposed to I think,
slowly but truly, one by one, people are starting to

(15:23):
realize you can't trust these people. President Trump saying the
New York Times should cease publication. Well, I'm going to
cease publication. New York Times actually doing pretty well. You
can make a lot of money with this fake news.
In fact, subscriptions. You gotta remember, with the newspaper, the
print edition means nothing anymore. It's just a money loser.

(15:44):
The New York Times print edition probably has one hundred
thousand people. But it's online where people read the newspaper
and you subscribe online subscriptions. New York Times just hit
twelve million. It's pretty impressive, twelve million online subscription. So
you can make a lot of money doing this fake news.
But there should be some Federal Trade Commission something stepping

(16:06):
in n labeling. You know, if you falsely label a product,
they can step right in there and stop you. You know,
if you say this product can definitely cure that you
well they can. They can make you change that label
and you'll have to put in there that doesn't actually
cure it, it could reduce symptoms. You know. So when the
New York tempts calls it a newspaper or that they're

(16:27):
printing news or here's the news section, Federal Trade Commission
can step in there and say, you're not labeling this correctly.
This is a political agenda. You're pushing a narrative. You're
not really reporting the news as is. Anyway, we've got
a lot to get to. Speaking of the great economists.
We'll have one in just a few minutes, so we
can get the actual facts on how the economy is doing.

(16:48):
We've got a lot coming up. We'll take some calls next.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Get Mark on demand by setting up preset for his
podcast on the iHeartRadio app Now back to Mark Simon.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
On w R.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to John in Florida. John,
how you doing.

Speaker 12 (17:16):
I'm morning, Mark and Holidays. They should take that oil
and fill up the always at that.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
They'll take the what.

Speaker 12 (17:23):
You know from that the oil y.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yeah, that's a good idea. Throw it in the oil reserves.

Speaker 12 (17:31):
And also about Martha Graddish strick news stations, these advertisements
and you'll cut these please people and start advertising with
them and they will change their tune. You hit them
in the pocketbook.

Speaker 13 (17:42):
No, they got to change tool.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
No they won't. They won't all they won't.

Speaker 12 (17:48):
Okay, you know better, boy, No.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
They won't. For a second. They actually don't make any
money on the news or the Sunday shows. It's uh.
I mean, they sell commercials, but it's not a big
part of their revenue. It's just on principle they do it.
The Sunday show makes no money, it has no viewers,
but it's fake news and they love it. Let's go
to Kay in Manhattan, k How you doing.

Speaker 14 (18:12):
Hi, Mark, I'd like what I'd like to say these
voters who are who are thinking about voting for Democrats
because of the economy. But they remind me of a
woman who has a boyfriend who batters her and abuses her,
and then she meets a really nice guy and he
forgets her birthday, so she goes back to the first guy.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (18:36):
I can't even believe these people would think about voting
for Democrats after what this country has been through.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Well, it happens, It happens. Hey, they voted for mom Donnie. Hey.
By the way, remember I was mentioned before, nobody reads
the print edition of a newspaper. Nobody. It's tiny, the
circulation of a print edition. It's all subscriptions now, So
if you're the New York Times, all your money is
off subscriptions, twelve million subscribers. Now. Well, one thing that

(19:06):
did is and they found, you know, in the print edition,
is you turn the page as a full page ad. Wow,
you'd see this ad. What they found with the people
that read the paper online is they don't pay any
attention to the ads. They don't even look at them,
and they don't The only way they make money is
if you click on the ad. Well, nobody clicks on
the ads online on a newspaper, so all the revenue

(19:27):
is from the subscriptions. Now and not from advertising. And
that's one reason the New York Times and other publications
have been able to go crazy left wing, totally slanted partisans,
because they're no longer depending on advertising revenue. So the
New York Times, Washington Posts, they can go totally nuts.
All the money is subscriptions, no longer advertising. You don't

(19:48):
have to worry about advertiser backlash anymore if you're in
a newspaper. Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave, how
you doing.

Speaker 7 (19:55):
Good morning, Mark, I'm doing very well. Thank you. Mark.

Speaker 15 (19:58):
I have a question about the autopen during the Biden administration.
What exactly will President and Trump do or has he
done regarding pardons?

Speaker 3 (20:09):
Well, good question. He has said if it's an autopen pardon,
they're going to probably cancel it because it wasn't actually
signed by Biden and the technically the president has to
sign it. Apparently there is some way you can tell
if it was the autopen or a real signature. Let's
go to Joe in New York City. Joe, how you doing?

Speaker 7 (20:27):
Those crazy sig Democrats saying jingle bells is racist? That's nonsense.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
Mark.

Speaker 7 (20:34):
He went to three stooges. Did jingle bells.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
There you go. Well, I told you we have the
most incredible high end audience in the world. There are
some exceptions, there's a few. Now, what he's talking about
is this crazy Joy Reed, who got fired from MSNBC
yelling and screaming yesterday that jingle Bells is racist. Jingle
Bells is racist. I don't know what the hell she's

(21:05):
talking about. She claims it was written by a Confederate
soldier who wrote jingle Bells and he was making fun
of black people, and that it has its origins in
bigoted minstrel shows that were popular. Theme. Well, that doesn't
make any sense. It was a song. But Joy Reid
claiming jingle Bells is racist. However, this makes her look

(21:25):
pretty hypo critical. I found out she made a recording
of the song years ago. I found this is Joy
Reid singing jingle bells. Pretty good. It's not bad. Actually,
let's go to Jeffrey and Queen's Jeffrey, how you.

Speaker 13 (21:45):
Doing, Yeah, Mark, good morning?

Speaker 3 (21:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (21:48):
Listen to the single affordability as well. I'll pay you
the truth. You go to like ten twenty different supermarkets
and you fish them up the piss through the little
especially the one ton by caps from the dds, thestids
and the other ones. The prices are through the roof.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
Well, I always find the gristities prices are pretty good.
There's different supermarkets, but you got to remember you can't
compare like a Manhattan supermarket. If you really want to
test affordability, you got to get out of New York City.
Things cost a whole lot more in Manhattan because there's
all kinds of costs to a supermarket. They don't have

(22:27):
your things. You don't think about. You know, if you
run a supermarket, a million trucks have to show up
every day and deliver your food. So if you got
a supermarket in Long Island or in Westchester, you got
a big parking lot and the trucks come in and
deliver your food. If it's in Manhattan, the trucks have
to double park. They get ticketed like crazy. So if
you're a supermarket, you're paying like half a million a

(22:49):
year in parking tickets, things like that that you're paying
congestion pricing to. You're paying all kinds of taxes. So
the supermarket that brings up the price is paying millions
expenses they wouldn't be paying if they were in the suburbs.
So again something with gas, don't you know, don't look
at a gas pump in New York City and think
that's the price around the country. It's not. Hey, when

(23:10):
we come back, one of the greatest economists in the world, Now,
what is the real story with affordability. We'll get to
that next Steve Moore, we hope coming up next on
seven to ten wor seventeen warms. Well, let's turned to
one of the great economists in the world, Steve Moore,
and he runs the committee to Unleash Prosperity dot com

(23:30):
and every day they put out the best daily news
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right to your email. Just go to Unleash Prosperity dot com. Hey,
make sure you get his book, The Trump Economic Miracle.
What a book it is. And he's with us now,
Steve Moore, how you doing.

Speaker 7 (23:47):
Hey, Mark?

Speaker 16 (23:48):
I'm doing really well. I think the economy is doing
really well. I think America is doing really well. And
you know, I love Trump's speech the other night about
how well the economy is doing because it is it
happens to be doing really well in terms of wages,
in terms of job opportunities, in terms of four wen
K plans. It's all looking very positive to me.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
Oh, I don't know. I got the New York Times
right here says we're in the worst affordability crisis ever
in history though. But yeah, their focus groups came up
with this word affordability. They what do you do about
the fact they're just drilling this into people's heads and
people are falling for it.

Speaker 16 (24:23):
Well they are, I mean, and by the way, there's
a difference between an increase in prices and an increase
in inflation. So what's happened is, you know, prices are
still rising by about two and a half percent, but
that's down from like five and six percent increases and
prices under Biden. In fact, as you know, the ninety
percent of the inflation that people are complaining about and

(24:45):
the higher prices happened.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
Under who Joe Biden?

Speaker 16 (24:49):
Yeah, exactly. So why is it that people are so
obsessed with Trump on this?

Speaker 7 (24:55):
Now?

Speaker 16 (24:55):
Look, the things that are really rising in prices right
now are be prices, and you know, people are angry
when they buy a steak at the grocery store. The
other thing that's going through the roof. By the way,
is healthcare costs mark? We just got our healthcare statement
for twenty six and our insurance premiums are you ready
to are going up twelve percent? So you know what

(25:15):
is going on. I thought fifteen years ago we passed
the affordable Care rat Well, yeah, not so affordable to me.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
But you've been writing about this in the hotline. Yeah,
the whole thing needs to be totally busted up. And
when the government gets involved, nothing works, right. But like
a simple test, a cat scan or something, it's one
hundred dollars, but the insurance rate is twelve hundred dollars
or eight thousand. Yeah, you got to stop all this.

Speaker 7 (25:41):
How do we do you need?

Speaker 16 (25:42):
Well, one thing, one thing we need is healthcare price transparency,
so everyone knows. You know, have you noticed we as
Americans we always ask you know you've taken you know,
you buy a book, an airline flight, you ask how
much it's going to cost? You go to the grocery store.
How much is that ice creamium cost? Everything that we
buy a restaurant, everything we asked, see how much is
it going to cost? Except for one thing healthcare. You know,

(26:04):
when you go to the doctor, at the hospital. We
never asked what things cost, and that's one of the
reasons prices are completely out of control. I mean, my
old friend Philogram used to say, if we paid for
groceries the way we pay for healthcare, he said, I'd
eat steak and lobster and drink champagne every night.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
Yeah. So there's no way to do this though, get
government completely out of health care, is there? It can't happen.

Speaker 16 (26:27):
Well, you know we could if you could not take
a dumber way to pay for healthcare right now than
what we have right now. And incidentally, under the Democratic
plan that you can have an income over half a
million dollars and the Democrats want you to get subsidies
from the taxpayer for millionaires. Practically, I mean, it does
not make any sense. By the way, there are twenty

(26:49):
one states that have refused Trump's demand to tell us
make sure that the people are signing up for Medicaid
and all these obamecare substies, going to make sure that
they actually have legitimate Social Security numbers and their eltible
for the programs. Twenty one states, including New York and
New Jersey, have refused to comply.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
Yeah, now they'll be Democrats yelling, well, what's the Republican
plan on healthcare? What is the Republican plan?

Speaker 16 (27:11):
I have two words answer? Ready, yeah, free enterprise, free markets. Well,
let's pay health care now. People should have catastrophic insurance
or you know, if you have you know, if you
get cancer God forbid, or have a terrible accident and
you have hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical expenses,
you want to make sure you're covered for that. But
why do we need you know, healthcare coverage for active

(27:33):
visits and all these other things that are routine expenditures.
So that would make that would put the patient back
in the equation. And incidentally, you know I have an
item in the hotline today. Mark that the in Canada
now they have seven, eight, nine, ten, twelve, fifteen, in
some cases twenty six weeks delay and waiting lines to

(27:53):
get any kind of medical procedure. But free.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
Oh well, do.

Speaker 16 (27:59):
You remember that?

Speaker 7 (28:00):
Do you remember the famous scene in the movie Beetlejuice
where the beetle Juice is in the waiting room and
they're serving number number three and he looks at his
number and he's like, nine hundred thousand, that's our.

Speaker 16 (28:12):
Help there's system both. It's free if you can get it.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Yeah. Hey, so the FED a slight reduction yesterday. This
is the most useless Fed ever? Will this get fixed?
Will we get a new FED chairman? Will ar?

Speaker 16 (28:25):
Yeah, well it's going to be one. Yeah, yep, We're
going to get one of the two. Kevin's either Kevin
Hassett or Kevin worsh you know both of them. I
know both of them. I think they were both the excellent,
excellent choices. They would restore the value of the dollar.
They would make sure that interest rates are as low
as they possibly can be. And so I'd like both

(28:45):
of those picks. And as long as we get rid
of Jerome Powell, I'll be very happy.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
Will he'll be replaced a chairman? Will he step down
from the Fed like he's supposed to?

Speaker 7 (28:56):
I hope.

Speaker 16 (28:57):
So he's the guy who let prices go up by
twenty percent of the last four years. He's a total failure.
He's got to go. And we got to get somebody
in there who depends a dollar, restores us to price stability,
and gets the inflation rate back down to two percent
or beloup. Yeah, I gotta run out, but I hope
you have a great, great day. And my god, I
gotta do some Christmas shopping, all.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Right, get me something nice? You want my sizes? Yeah,
you're right exactly. Yeah, takes care. Well. At least he
showed up. He had to run, but at least he
showed up. That's pretty good. So it's enough Christmas. I'm
a long ago Christmas. What's the date today? Let me

(29:37):
it's eleventh. That's thirteen more days of this two weeks.
I can't take it. I don't feel good. Yeah, it's overeating.
It's these Christmas parties. You just eat like crazy. You know.
The good thing is today I'm walking around the whole
sixth floor here, there's no buffets anywhere, thank god. Today.
Yesterday there were these face in front of Elvis Durant

(30:02):
Studio that was the most incredible buffet Italian this and
and then down there by Jim Kurr studio buffet of
these incredible cakes and pastries. This went on for miles.
That's in the morning. Then in the afternoon. Who's that
buffet yesterday? At lunch here that big another Italian yeah
whatever that was called?

Speaker 16 (30:21):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (30:22):
And then from that I leave and then I go
to all these Christmas parties. You know, they've got a
lot of afternoon Christmas parties. That's a big thing now,
afternoon Christmas parties. They're one of those. And then night.
The last Christmas party was Pea Pack which is one
of the most prestigious, finest private banks in America. You
hear them on w O R PA Pack Private Doug

(30:45):
Kennedy the chairman. What a great party that was. But
the food was amazing. Now I can't even move today,
So it's got to stop. It's got to stop these
Christmas parties. And then next week it gets any work
much worse. There's like three, four of them a day.
It's too much. It's too much. You're gonna come up

(31:06):
with something besides food and parties. Hold the Christmas party
at a gym, no food, just gatorade or something like that.
It's tough to deal with. Hey, coming up, you got
Buck and Clay at noon today with a great show.
Then you got the most listened to radio show in America,
Sean Hannity at three, Jesse Kelly at six. Hey, Jimmy
Faylor does a great show here every night at nine o'clock.

(31:29):
In fact, he'll be with us he'll be our guest
here in the next hour on seven to ten wor The.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Mark Simone Show continues on seventor.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
Whoa, hey, So you got Tucker Carlson going nuts again?
What is yelling about? Now? You know that Olivia Nuzzy,
the crazy reporter who was sexting and texting and with
the RFK Junior and the text came out. That was
a little bit of a scandal. And now you got
this crazy Tucker was it's all in Israeli plot to
take down Trump. It was a deep state Israeli plot

(32:04):
to take down Donald Trump. So now, yeah, I ex
playing this yesterday. You just got to forget about Tucker Carlson.
Just forget about it. You know, when you get fired,
you're not on a network, you don't have a real platform.
When you're producing a podcast out of your living room,
how do you get anybody to see it? You got
to get attention. So he's a very smart guy and
a very sophisticated guy, but he's saying these crazy, outlandish things.

(32:29):
Megan Kelly the same thing, Candace Owens, the same thing.
They don't they don't work for anybody. They're out of work.
They're doing a show out of their house. So to
get attention, they say the craziest things to go viral.
So they want to be the new Alex Jones or whatever.
Just ignore them, just don't pay attention. Hey, Jimmy Fayalo
will be with us in the next hour. We've got
a lot to talk about. We'll get to it right

(32:50):
after the news on seven to ten. Worse the Marks
among show on seven tenor well, hey, two weeks so
Christmas is Christmas Eve? Two weeks from tonight. I'm not sure.

(33:15):
I think Christmas Day, so yeah, Christmas Eve is a Wednesday. Yeah,
so this is Thursday. It's two weeks from Christmas Day already,
and then three weeks from New Year's Day. Now, the
problem is New Year's Day, you get a new mayor.
It's inauguration Day. You're gonna get a new mayor on

(33:38):
January first. Guess who it is. Yeah, it's Mom Donnie
with his homeless camps everywhere.

Speaker 17 (33:42):
Mayor Mom Donnie ensures that we connect those New Yorkers
with actual housing. We have to look at the efficacy
of the Adams Administration's policy on this. It is a
policy that did not connect a single New Yorker to
permanent housing in an entire year. That cannot be a policy.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
We continue now. He's very much like a brilliant college professor.
He speaks beautifully and he uses words like efficacy. We
have to look at the efficacy of what we're doing.
I don't know what the hell efficacy is, but we're
going to look at it. And it sounds great and
like any good college professor, sounds brilliant, but in reality,
cannot execute a damn thing, can't get anything done, has

(34:24):
no experience actually doing anything, just talks about it. He's
looking at the efficacy and meantime, can't actually do anything,
doesn't know anything, has no practical experience of any kind.
The other thing we find is that when Democrats get
on this homeless thing, they come up with programs to

(34:44):
do something about it. Deblasio had that Thrive NYC to
help the homeless. A billion dollars is poured into it.
Not one homeless person ever got helped, and they can't
find a billion dollars. They still don't know what happened
that billion dollars. Remember, he put his wife in charge
of the program. And of course you can always count

(35:06):
on fake news in the media to never ever ask
anything about the billion dollars and went missing. Can you
imagine going to Channel two, Channel four, Channel five, Channel seven,
go to the New York Times and saying the mayor
set up a program for a billion dollars and it
went missing. Nobody can find the billion dollars, And all

(35:27):
of them say to you, what's for lunch today? They
don't even care that any want to know about it.
If Donald Trump lost a quarter, they'd send a thousand
reporters to go cover this story. They don't want to
know a damn thing about it. Look at Somalia community,
Samalian Community, Minnesota. Same thing that elon Omar, that wacko well,

(35:48):
actually might not be as stupid as you think. Because
eight billion went missing. They think it's up to eight billion.
It was first it was a billion, then it was
two billion, other saying up to eight billion might have
gone missing. Same thing. They set up a program supposedly
was taking care of the homeless. Meantime, nobody can find
any homeless got taken care of. Nobody can find any
hint of the money ever going to where it was

(36:09):
supposed to be. Billions, literally billions missing. New York Times,
ABC NBCCBS no interest. They don't even mention. It's not
a story eight billion missing. Eh, We've got other things
to talk about, the Trump affordability. So of course, when
you lose eight billion in tax pair of money, or

(36:30):
in Manhattan or in New York City, when you lose
a billion in tax pair of money, taxes go up.
So that's the problem. So you got Mom Donnie talking
about the homeless and he wants to set up a
program to help them. Well, you're going to see another
billion go missing. It's it's not that these people well
I don't know, but it might not be that they're
putting the money in their pocket, Dablazi or Mom Donnie.

(36:52):
But it's contracts to hand out. It's like that green scheme,
the climate change, the reason they pushed that so hard.
It's billions and billions and billions in contracts you can
hand out. Now, if you're not so honest, some of
the money ends up in your pocket. But if you're honest.
You know, a guy like Chuck Schumer or something like that,
I don't think he's personally crooked. He's a dirty, sleazy politician,

(37:14):
but I don't think he's you know, personally crooked. But
what you do is your hand out contracts to donors,
billions in contracts. And every time you hand out one
of those contracts that donor owes you, you can call them
every few weeks. I need fifty thousand, I need one
hundred thousand, I need two hundred and fifty thousand. These
guys get these calls all the time, and when they

(37:35):
say they need the money, it's for the campaign for
the senator's pack. So the billionaire, you know, you can
pick up the phone and these type of politicians, the
billionaire can call this guy. He's got his cell number.
You can call him at midnight. I need a favor,
I need to change of regulation, I need a permit,
I need this. You can call him anytime. It'll get

(37:56):
done just like that. But they'll have a guy called
you every couple of weeks. Can you do fifty? Can
you do one hundred? Yeah, I can do it all right.
We'll call you back, tell you who to write the
check to, and they'll call you back. Write the check
to the super pack this or this, and you keep
writing these checks, and those packs pay for anything the
senator needs as far as campaign expenses or staff or

(38:19):
consultants or anything like that, advertising whatever they need. So
that's the racket, that's the green scheme. They handed out
billions in contracts and ten to twenty percent of it
came back to these politicians. Same thing with these homeless programs.
They'll hand out these contracts and the money will come
back to them in various ways. The Momdanni transition team,

(38:40):
for instance, has already raised like five million bucks a
transition team. All they do is they need a conference room.
You know, if you really your transition team needs a
few offices in a conference room. They got the big
business guys who are donate. You know, charities do that
all the time. They call the big business guy, the CEO.

(39:01):
Hey we need the conference room, Sure, come over, use
it for six hours. We'll lend it to you. We
do that here at iHeart. We got beautiful conference rooms.
If there's a big charity we're trying to help, you
need to use our conference room, Come use it. We
got one that holds like two hundred people. You can
use that one. They do it all every company, every
major corporation does that. It's free. You don't need to

(39:22):
raise four million for your transition team. Five million but Mom,
Donnie just did that in the last couple of weeks.
So this is good news. By the way, that he
turns out to be just as slippery and greedy and
as money making as everybody else, so that it means
the big business guys may be able to keep him
in line in various ways. Hey, the inauguration, as they say,

(39:45):
is New Year's Day. Eric Adams is the current mayor, obviously,
and he's saying now he might not go to the inauguration.
That would be quite a slap in the face to
Mom Donnie. He didn't say he wouldn't go. He just
said he hasn't decided. Well, you're supposed to go, obviously,
you go, says he hasn't decided if he'll go. Uh,
you know that idiot. Brad Lander left wing, very left wing.

(40:09):
He was the controller. You can get away with being
a controller because nobody knows what the hell of controller
does controller, controller, controller, You can say either one controller
is perfectly acceptable. And generally they're guys who have no personality.
Remember Scott Stringer, very nice guy, Scott string He wasn't
a coup just a nice guy, but cute, A cute guy,

(40:31):
but not a lot of personality. Brad Lander the same way.
He's more he's not so cute. He's more of a
silly guy with no personality. Even in his campaign, it
just sounds like people kept saying, he sounds like mister Rogers.

Speaker 9 (40:42):
I love the people who make this city what it is.
So I'm running for Congress because the challenges we face
can't be solved with strongly worded letters or high dollar fundraisers.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
Well, it's certainly forceful. Hey, I'm running for Congress. You
know why. I'll tell you why. Everybody kept telling him,
just sound exactly like mister Rogers, and I guess he
had to answer that.

Speaker 18 (41:07):
But a mister Rogers that stands up and fights Ice
and bites Trump and fights Muss and fight clubbed across
and fights a back and said this was.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
Our neighborhood, okay, that's even worse. Hey, But I stand there,
I fight Trump. I find I find just sounds terrible.

Speaker 18 (41:27):
But a mister Rogers that stands up and fights Ice
and bites Trump and fights mus and fight clumb dacross
and fights a bath and said this was our.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
Okay. But on the other hand, you know, Mike Tyson
has got to be the toughest guy ever. Mike Tyson.
You ever hear him on the radio? Hi, Mike Tyson.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Right.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
Can you imagine if you got a fight with a
guy on the phone and he said, you can't talk
to me like that, and you didn't know it was
Mike Tyson. You just heard this voice. What are you
gonna do about it? I'm coming down, Yeah, you come
down here. Then it's Mike Tyson. But he's got to
run against Dan Goldman, Who's Now, this is a race
that doesn't matter either way because Lander is a very

(42:12):
far left wing kook, but so is Goldman, so it
doesn't matter who wins that thing. But Lander's going after Goldman.

Speaker 9 (42:18):
I mean Democrats choosing not to support the Democratic nominee
for mayor.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
Of New York City in a general election.

Speaker 9 (42:25):
Yeah, I think that was a failure that showed that
we need something different.

Speaker 3 (42:30):
He does sound like it sounds like Charles Nelson Riley
without the without the charm. So Goldman going after him.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
Now, I welcome Brad to the race. I'm not really
thinking about this right now. I'm in Washington really focused
on making sure that healthcare can will not be taken
away from millions of people. We are focused on the
immigration dragnet that Donald Trump is sweeping the country with.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
Yeah, here's the problem, Goldman. There's a much better looking
guy than Lander, and he's got a much better voice.
So he looks good, he sounds good. You get in
a debate and Goldman's talking to Mile a minute, we're
gonna do this in this and then we at Lander
talks like this, it's not going to work out too well.

Speaker 9 (43:13):
I love the people who make this city what it is,
so I'm running for Congress.

Speaker 3 (43:18):
I'm running for Congress. And then Goldman talks like this.
I think Goldman wins that debate easily. He does sound
like mister Rogers. I don't hear it this again. Let
me no, that's the same one. Uh yeah, it's gonna
be a problem for him. He's not gonna do well,
Brad Lander, but he's gonna be like the next Scott

(43:40):
Stringer where these controllers. That's the problem of that job.
You end up running every four years, every two years
for anything and everything, and it goes nowhere. You always
lose every time. Hey, that Luigi Mangione got caught in Pennsylvania,
goes to McDonald's and they're starting to release all the material.

(44:01):
You know, he's in McDonald's. This is kind of crazy.
He's in McDonald's. You know, a chain, a fast food,
big chain like that, McDonald's. You got to figure they
got security cameras everywhere, they probably got video over every
inch of the place. And he's just sitting there eating.
He's not wearing sunglasses, he's not wearing a hat, he's

(44:21):
not trying to disguise himself. So if you listen to
the nine to one one calls from the manager, she says,
a lot of people eating her. Many of our customers
think he looks like the CEO assassin from New York.
So they recognized him even in the middle of nowhere
in Pennsylvania. And if you look at the interviews with

(44:43):
these people, it was the eyebrows. You know, he has
these unusually thick, big, bushy, weird eyebrows. So they said
that was the first thing he said he looked like him.
And then they saw the same exact eyebrows, which are
very unusual, and that's why they knew it was him.
So the guy's not that bright. So you get those
big eyebrows, put on some sunglasses. So people can't see him,
or you know, dye your hair a different color and

(45:08):
shave off the eyebrows, or cut him down, you know,
get rid of the eyebrows and your dye your hair
looked at. You know, even David Jansen in The Fugitive
new to do that. So or you know, wear a
hat and sunglasses when you're going to be sitting in
a McDonald's with a lot of people around. So he
got himself caught. But again, you know, he wasn't I

(45:30):
guess the brightest assassin in the world. You know, it's
right across the street from where we are now. We
can go over that window and see the spot where
he did the shooting. And it's sixth Avenue and fifty
fifth Street, and it's got surveillance cameras over every inch
of it. So when you do anything there, there's gonna
be video of you doing it. So I don't know
how any chance of beating the case. It's all on video.

(45:54):
So hey, Time magazine, You remember Time Magazine? Anybody remember
that they still do this thing called Time Magazine. I
don't know who sees it or why, but they still
do the Man of the Year, the Woman of the Year. Well,
now you got to call it the person of the Year,
Person of the Year this year, the architects of ai AH.
And then there's a picture of eleven guys who you

(46:15):
never heard of or you don't know. Apparently they created
ai so but it's Time Magazine. Twelve people see it,
eleven of whom work there at Time Magazine. Hey Rosanna Scato,
Good day New York. We love Rosanna Scatto. Her family
owns a wonderful restaurant called Fresco. It's on fifty second Streets.

(46:36):
One of the great Italian restaurants in New York. It's
a lot of famous faces. I was there yesterday. It's
a great restaurant, Fresco. You know it. It's been there
for I think thirty years now. Well no, well actually
more than I remember going to the thirtieth anniversary party,
and that was a couple of years ago. So they're
in the news today because they had a woman who
I guess is the accountant, the bookkeeper, and it looks

(46:57):
like this bookkeeper was stealing money. You know, when you're
the bookkeeper for a big thing like that, you can
make you can embezzle you. And it looked like she
took some money that was meant for tips. It looked
like she wrote checks to herself. It looks like she
siphoned cash out of thing. Well, how much did she get?

(47:18):
How much could you embezzle? Look at this? Two point
five million dollars was embezzled. Now this is over a
seven year period, but still that would be about three
hundred and fifty thousand a year that she was embezzling.
Pretty good. Well, they must make a lot of money
at this restaurant if they didn't notice a two point
five million missing. But they caught her. Finally, she's been

(47:40):
turned over to the DA Alvin Bragg will prosecute her.
Looks pretty bad for her. The embezzled funds, it says,
paid for her lifestyle away from work, including one hundred
thousand she used to buy a house in Pennsylvania with
her husband. So prosecutor's got all this. They caught her.
She here's the pick. They don't recognize her, shouldn't look familiar,

(48:02):
very heavy. She might have been rating that refrigerator there too.
Some food might be missing. I would take a look
at that, but they got her. I don't see how
she gets out of this. This is pretty bad. Hey,
we'll take some Jimmy Faylor will be with us in
a few minutes. We'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred
three to two one zero seven ten. Is the number?
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Give WR A bree said on the iHeart Radio app
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Speaker 3 (48:39):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Pam and Patterson. Pam,
how you doing?

Speaker 7 (48:46):
Hey?

Speaker 14 (48:47):
Just two things I thought they said, the New York
accent is dead, earl.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
Yeah, yeah, that's why I couldn't understand that guy. Now,
the New York New York accent is everywhere. It's it
doesn't go away. You know, you go to Long Island,
go to Long Island standing in the American and you
see the most beautifully dressed woman, so elegant. You walk
up and say, hey, how are you and she says,
Holli Yale And the accident is right there.

Speaker 14 (49:13):
Yeah really, And.

Speaker 7 (49:16):
What's Curtis?

Speaker 2 (49:17):
We?

Speaker 7 (49:17):
What up to?

Speaker 14 (49:18):
Is he going to be on your show soon?

Speaker 10 (49:19):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (49:19):
Yeah, we got to have Curtis back. Yeah, We're gonna
have him back. Definitely. We'll hap him back very very soon.
We love Curtis. I don't know what he's been. You know,
this guy has a schedule of like a ten thousand
events a day, parties, meetings, speeches, all the time. Yeah,
he's we had him on was it a week or
two ago? We'll have him back very very soon. We'll

(49:40):
get Curtis back here. Let's go to Randall in Maryland. Randall,
how you doing good?

Speaker 7 (49:47):
Mark?

Speaker 19 (49:48):
You made a great point earlier about ming in the
economy on Bush killing Bush about the time. I remember
back then people run around.

Speaker 12 (49:58):
Saying, oh, couldn't get much worse, couldn't get much worse?

Speaker 19 (50:02):
And I said, really at that time, which what do you.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
Want to tug boat? Where are you right now? I
hear all this noise back there.

Speaker 19 (50:11):
Actually I'm in Delaware.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
But stop ragging? What are you doing? What are you
doing in Delaware? I sound like the irishman? What are
you doing in Delaware?

Speaker 20 (50:21):
I believe.

Speaker 3 (50:23):
Place?

Speaker 7 (50:24):
Huh?

Speaker 3 (50:24):
What I would?

Speaker 19 (50:26):
I would rather be in Maryland. That's where I'm headed.

Speaker 3 (50:28):
Well, why are you in Delaware? Okay? You don't want
to say, all right, you don't have to answer. You've
got a little what are you making a little house call?

Speaker 7 (50:35):
There?

Speaker 3 (50:37):
I got it, I got it all right, you know,
don't answer. Thanks for calling. Let's go to uh Marco
and East Hanover Marco. How you doing.

Speaker 7 (50:48):
Good morning, Mark? Just quick question, what do you think
New York City is going to look like in a
year from now?

Speaker 3 (50:53):
It'll look like after the first year at the Blasio.
It's going to be the same as Deblasio, which wasn't good,
but you got through it. You got through eight years
at de Blasio.

Speaker 21 (51:02):
But will all the crime in the seventies under Beam
and Kotch and Vinacan's I mean right now, in a
year from now, I think New York City, short of
a blackout and a serial killer on the loose, is
gonna catapult the right back to nineteen seventy five.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
No, it won't. It'll you got remember you got a
lot of the All these top people in the Mamdania
misters are all from the Deblasio administration. So they'll do
what they did there. Hey, one thing about these crazy socialists,
they do tend to put in an okay, police commissioners.
You know, remember when Deblasio came in, he did bring
in Bill Bratton, you know, he kind of restricted him
a little, but you had a decent police commissioner, and

(51:38):
you're gonna have Jessica Tish here. She'll be there at
least the first year. And if if she leaves, I
saw who his next choice would be, and it's not
a bad choice. It's a I don't forget his name.
He's Suffolk County Police commissioner. He was with the NYPD
for years. So it'll just be like the Deblasia administration,
which wasn't good. It was bad, but we got through

(52:01):
it all right. Let's go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent,
how you doing.

Speaker 20 (52:05):
Good morning, Mark, Good morning Marra. Mark speaking about this
accounting who built the restaurant for two and a half
million dollars and affordability. Yesterday I was talking to Marra
about a conversation I had about thirty five years ago
with a wise guy that I knew who in his Lady.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
Listen, I can't believe you would associate with a known criminal.

Speaker 20 (52:31):
Well, anyway, I'd like you. This guy in his later years,
when he was young, he was the enforcer for one
of the families, and then he went into loan shocking
and in later years when he was an old man.
He had a bar and a restaurant. So one night
and he was a friend of the family. So one
night I'm in his restaurant having drinks, and he was

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telling me that even in the fifties there was this
difference in affordability. He was telling me the accountant for
one of the families who had a big legit accounting agency.
Now you remember what Michael Corleoni said when he left
New York. He said that when he went to Vegas,
he said, in ten years, the Corleone family will be

(53:16):
mainly legit.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
So they say that nothing personal say.

Speaker 20 (53:21):
So Anyway, this guy was, this exub forster, was telling
me that the accountant who had this big agency, he
lived back in the fifties on Cuttain Place, and he
told me back then the rents were three hundred dollars
on some This is in the fifties. And meanwhile, in

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the rest of New York City you could get an
apartment sometimes even with gas and electricity, for fifty dollars.
But since this guy had to keep up the air
and the look of legitimacy, he lived on some place
that income in quality that summer, what it's.

Speaker 3 (54:03):
Supposed to be that way, you got very expensive neighborhoods, you.

Speaker 20 (54:06):
Got very interesting exactly my point.

Speaker 3 (54:08):
Mark, Well, Vincent, we got it.

Speaker 20 (54:10):
And that's what I was telling Mara, having this idea
of everybody's got a fod.

Speaker 3 (54:15):
No, no, you're supposed to have a very expensive neghbor
it's Vincent. We gotta go, We gotta gotta do the news.
But great call is always when we come back. Jimmy
Fayla will be with us next on seven to ten
w R.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
Now more Marks alone on seventeen w R.

Speaker 3 (54:31):
Well, you know, the great Jimmy Fayla is now on
wo R every weeknight, nine to midnights. That excellent show,
very funny, very interesting, nine to midnight tonight every weeknight. Hey,
make sure you watch this Saturday night show on the
Fox News Channel, best late night show, funniest monologue in television.
It's Saturday night's ten o'clock on the Fox News Channel.

(54:52):
Jimmy Fayla, how you doing.

Speaker 7 (54:55):
I'm doing good. I will have you know I wrote
in the Fox Today and the Long Island Railroad with
two of your biggest fans.

Speaker 3 (55:01):
Oh oh so they were great.

Speaker 7 (55:03):
They were Long Island people. I did not get names,
but I did take a picture and they they said,
we just want to say we love you on Saturday
night and we love that you put your wife and
your kid on TV. But I have to tell you
we always listen to you on Mark Simone. I go, well,
today's Thursday, and you don't look like you have a
radio on you And they died laughing. So their perfect

(55:24):
attendance might have dropped today, but they were manned. Were
they all over you? Like? In all honesty, if I
would have met them earlier in the train, they probably
would have bought my ticket. So take a bow, Simone,
take a bow.

Speaker 3 (55:35):
You're a big star to me. Phel What are you
doing riding on the train.

Speaker 7 (55:40):
Last night? Was the Hawks? The Fox News Christmas party? Yeah,
and I was told I should not be operating heavy
machinery for at least forty eight hours after what went
on at that open bar.

Speaker 3 (55:53):
So yeah, I've been going to all these Christmas parties.
It really gets to you after a while. You how
much can you eat? How much can you drink? What
do you give people advice on how to get through
these Christmas parties?

Speaker 7 (56:04):
Well, this is the truth thing you need to do
because everybody's like you know, etiquette at Christmas parties, go
and have fun. Don't worry about, you know, having a
drink or two. That's not the issue. You just don't
want to be the person that everyone's talking about the
next day. You know, every company Christmas party ends with
people going, hey, did you see so and so last night? Okay?

(56:27):
And if you don't know who so and so is,
it was you, Okay, So sing all the Christmas carols
you want. Just don't be the guy with the Rudolph
antlers on standing on top.

Speaker 3 (56:36):
Of the bar, and you'll be fun. Hey. You know,
in three weeks, mom Donnie gets inaugurated. What the hell
are we going to do?

Speaker 7 (56:46):
Oh, that's why the Statue of Liberty is wearing a burkelet.

Speaker 3 (56:49):
I was confused.

Speaker 7 (56:50):
I'm kidding confused. What are we going to do? This
is the truth, man, Okay. My biggest concern as a
New Yorker is always going to be for the cops,
because they're doing the most important job, and I'm concerned
with their morale. In terms of policies. He really can't
do anything.

Speaker 3 (57:08):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (57:09):
Yeah, we're gonna see a lot more tense on sidewalks
because he's not gonna sweep the homeless encampments, so it's
gonna be like we're living in Colder Portland. We're gonna
chase the New York's name to Colder Portland for four years.
But I think, and that's why I'm happy Blakeman got
in this week too, is that puts enough pressure on

(57:29):
Hochel that she really can't sell out to all of
the tax things and far left things he would need
her to do to implement his agenda, which might just
save the city. Just those two being in the race
this early have to make her a little more self
conscious about blowing it.

Speaker 3 (57:46):
So that's my home.

Speaker 7 (57:46):
I don't know who's gonna win, but they might have
saved us.

Speaker 3 (57:49):
I don't know that phrase. Hochel can't sell out. Yeah,
you underestimate her ability to sell out.

Speaker 7 (57:54):
I do you remember? Do you remember when they were
floating congestion from thing and she goes, hard working New
Yorkers deserve a break. That's why we're charging you an
extra nine dollars instead of an extra fifteen. Oh no, no, no,
that's not a break. A break would be we're not
gonna do congestion pricing. But instead, no, she raised it

(58:15):
by nine bucks. Yeah, she's as big as a scam
as there is. No one deserves to lose an office more,
you know, and that it kills me. So hopefully, you know,
the Republicans get their act together, because if we can't
win now with forty percent of the state you know
is down in Florida right now putting plastic over a sofa. Okay,

(58:36):
if she's not held to account for that, the Republicans
are never gonna win a statewide election.

Speaker 3 (58:41):
Yeah. Hey, I'm looking at this. I'm just watching this
that's on the screen right now. The big self driving
cars in instead of uber drivers, you're gonna have a
self driving uber all this stuff. You know, I don't
even trust that rumba vacuum cleaner doing it by itself. So,
but you used to a driver cab? What you got

(59:01):
to have a driver, don't you?

Speaker 7 (59:04):
One hundred percent? Uh?

Speaker 13 (59:06):
There?

Speaker 7 (59:06):
And it's it's for things people forget about other services
cab drivers offer. Okay, if you get in a cab
at two in the morning and go, hey, where can
I find a little action around here? You know, the
WAIMO doesn't know how to get the AOC's district, But
the cab driver, does you know, you know those wonderful stories.
At least once a year a girl gives birth in

(59:27):
a taxi because the driver happened to be a licensed
part surgeon in Syria. But he can't, you know, work here.
That ain't happen in a weai moo. And as I
was telling the Lovely Carly Shimkis on my show last Saturday,
they say, the AI is so real, real now that
it's developing human feelings. Do you really want to be
a girl in a waymo that's now in love with you?

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And is it going to let you out? You got
to explain that you're late for the meeting because my
car was putting the moves on me.

Speaker 3 (59:55):
Come on, man, hey, Trump arrangements in it just gets
worse and worse and worse. Like Rosie O'Donnell, What the hell?
She doesn't shut up? If she hates him so much,
why does she keep talking about him?

Speaker 7 (01:00:08):
It's killing me. So she does this interview with Jim Acosta,
and the hardest part of the interview is figuring out
which one's Rosy and which one's Acosta. See they have
the same glances on and they're sitting there, you know,
hooting and hollered about Trump. If the point of moving
to Ireland was to get away from him, you should
be done talking about it. But obviously we all knew

(01:00:31):
that was a stunt. But here's a pro tip for
everybody listening. If if you are able to move out
of the country depending on who wins the election, you're
doing fine in life. Most people listening right now don't
have the luxury to just pick up and switch country.
You got up money to do that, you know what
I'm saying. So at least she held on to some

(01:00:52):
of the royalties. She didn't give them all to her
XANAX dealer.

Speaker 3 (01:00:57):
Hey, Jimmy failis on w o R every weeknight now,
it's an excellent show nine to midnight. What do you
got on tonight show?

Speaker 7 (01:01:05):
Well, we got Kennedy coming by, which is gonna be great.
And I believe you're gonna hear a cameo from my wife,
Jenny Fayla. It is her birthday today, and you know,
booking her on TV and radio is way cheaper than
buying her a gift Mark. Come on, man, let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:01:19):
Well, she seems she seems great, but why keep having
your wife? Wouldn't be great, isn't it. Don't you want
to get away from the wife. I've never seen such
a happy.

Speaker 7 (01:01:27):
Marriage the way the way my life works with radio
five nights a week on O R and all the TV.
They make me do it Fox, and then I go
on the weekend. I won't usually doing stand up at
a feeder somewhere. The actually is the only time I
see her as if I book her on TV.

Speaker 3 (01:01:41):
So it works out for me, you know, and it
does a great show every Saturday night on the Fox
News channel ten to eleven. It's at the best monologue
that is the best monologue on TV. How long does
it take you to do? You don't write that all
in one day.

Speaker 7 (01:01:55):
Do you?

Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
I do.

Speaker 7 (01:01:56):
I read it all myself, but I spend the whole
week putting it together, meaning, you know, figuring out which
stories rise to the level of everyone in the country
will know them. And once I've figured out which stories
kind of have the altitude, you just sit down and
piece it together. It's your own little narrative. And it
is the most fun I'll ever have in show business
doing that because it's just you. There's nobody there to

(01:02:17):
save you. There's no panelists to get out of trouble.
And again if it's you're a live TV A lot
of these nights, if a joke don't work, you gotta
save it, you know. And it's one thing to save
it in a comedy club when you're just talking to like,
you know, one hundred screaming drunks in a bassilaurette party
drinking out of you know, Genitalia straws. But it's another
thing when there's a couple million people watching and you're
on the biggest channel in the world. I love it.

(01:02:38):
It's a very very high wire thing to do, so
I'm glad you appreciate it.

Speaker 20 (01:02:42):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:02:43):
Yeah, it's the best monologue in television. He writes it himself.
Stephen Colbert does a week week monologue and I look,
he's got fourteen writers. What the hell do these fourteen
guys do?

Speaker 7 (01:02:53):
Yeah, that is the second biggest scam behind those Somalians
who got the billion. Actually think I held the Somalians
in higher regards than Colbert writers, because that's technically a
bigger rip off.

Speaker 3 (01:03:07):
Oh that's a good point. So you gotta listen to
them every night, nine to midnight. And now your wife's birthday,
what do you do for her. Were you gonna get
her something? You're gonna take her out?

Speaker 7 (01:03:16):
You know what, she is going out. We're gonna go
out to dinner on Long Island. She wanted to see
a play, so I got tickets to see the Michael
Jackson play. Apparently this Michael Jackson is so realistic. People
keep their kids away from him. I can't stop it.
Then we'll go eat some We'll go eat some Italian
food on Long Island.

Speaker 3 (01:03:33):
It's gonna be great, very good. All right, it sounds
like a great way to celebrate. And tonight nine to midnight,
you having fun doing the radio show?

Speaker 7 (01:03:41):
Right, Oh, it's so great. I love OAR because it's
my people, you know what I mean. So it doesn't
even feel like a radio show. It just feels like
you're talking too much at your aunt's house. Great, so
great because it's our people, you know, New York. We
live in our own energy, you know. And there's so
many great people in the city Staten Island. And I

(01:04:01):
love like, on the rare occasion that I'm on the railroad,
I will always meet an o R listener that has
something to say about you and me. And it's my
favorite figure We're like a road you We're gonna have
to start playing Atlantic City seem like a Martin Lewis
or something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:14):
Definitely anytime. Well, if you haven't listened, Jimmy fayl is
on nine to midnight tonight every weeknight, nine to midnight.
It's an excellent show. It's very funny. You love it
nine to midnight. And make sure you're watching him on TV.
Best late night show on TV. He's on Saturday nights
at ten o'clock on the Fox News Channel. Of course,
follow him on Twitter and Instagram and all that stuff.

(01:04:34):
Jimmy Fayla, thanks for being with us.

Speaker 7 (01:04:37):
You're the man Mark Off take care.

Speaker 3 (01:04:40):
Yeah, excellent show, nine to midnight. Don't miss it. It's
tonight on seven to ten. Wo R plugged.

Speaker 1 (01:04:48):
Into Everything New York on the Voice of New York
Mark Simone on sevent ten WR.

Speaker 3 (01:04:55):
Okay, look at this AOC, the Socialist look at her
and Puerto Rico. Fifty thousand dollars spent on very luxurious
hotels and meals spent fifty thousand in Puerto Rico. No
affordability crisis for AOC. Of course, that's your money, that's
taxpayer money. Donations, donor money. Hey, we're out of time.

(01:05:19):
I'll be back tomorrow ten to noon, every weekday ten
to noon or remember you can listen to the show
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any place you get podcasts. So I'll be back tomorrow
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