FULL SHOW: Former Trump lawyer Alina Habba is resigning; Bruce Blakeman is running for governor of NY.

President Trump’s ambitious “Big Beautiful Bill” aims to boost Americans’ finances by introducing significant tax cuts. As part of a nationwide push for affordability, Trump is visiting the Poconos today to kick off a campaign rally focused on easing financial burdens for citizens. Mark interviews streaming host Bill O’Reilly. The political landscape is heating up as Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman announces his gubernatorial bid, setting up a potential contest with U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik. O’Reilly weighs in on whether Blakeman’s alliance with Trump could impact his chances in the 2026 race. Affordability has emerged as a pivotal issue for the GOP in the midterms, prompting President Trump to focus on economic concerns by launching campaign rallies nationwide, beginning today in Pennsylvania. As Americans grapple with rising prices, the GOP’s prospects may hinge on delivering tangible improvements. Mark discusses the ongoing bidding war between Paramount and Netflix for the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., sharing his belief that Paramount will ultimately emerge victorious. He also comments on the increasing challenges President Trump faces from left-wing judges and criticizes the Senate tradition of the blue slip, echoing the President’s view that it’s an outdated and ineffective practice. Mark interviews Sal Scognamillo from Patsy’s Italian Restaurant in New York City. In honor of Frank Sinatra’s birthday week, they reminisce about Sinatra’s deep love for Patsy’s, share stories about his favorite meal, and reflect on the statue dedicated to him in the restaurant. The conversation explores Sinatra’s lasting impact on entertainment and how his legacy serves as a source of inspiration for both Mark and Sal.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You just heard the news.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Now you'll find out what it all means. Hey, smart
simone on seven teno long. Okay, we go a lot
to get to today. Jimmy Kimmell gets the biggest insult imaginable.
We'll get to that. We'll get to the way. Do
you hear what the Democrats are gonna unleash on President Trump? Next,

(00:22):
we'll get to that. We'll get to the Ukraine, We'll
get to CBS News a lot of changes. We'll get
to Bruce Blakeman big announcement this morning. Have a freezing
cold outside, colder than Hillary Clinton's smile out there. It
is freezing. But you got to give credit to those smokers.
I don't care how cold it is when I come there.

(00:44):
They are in front of the building out there, going
out there to smoke, standing out there in the freezing cold.
You see the smoke coming out of their mouth and
they haven't even lit the cigarette yet. It's just the
freezing cold. So let me just tell you this before
anything else. Here's what you're gonna hear the couple of days.
They're getting ready to unleash this. The Democrats are going
to go after President Trump for mortgage fraud. They think

(01:09):
they got him on mortgage fraud. I don't know, maybe
they got some who knows. But they've uncovered documents from
the nineties. They had to go back thirty years to
find this. But apparently at the time, in the mid nineties,
President Trump had mar A Lago then and he was
spending a lot of time in Palm Beach, and he

(01:31):
started to buy houses near mar A Lago as they
came on the market. A couple of nice houses came
on the market, and he bought two of these houses,
and he got mortgages from Merrill Lynch and apparently he
declared them his primary residence. They would both be his
primary residents. So Democrats, they can't investigate anything. You could

(01:52):
steal eight billion dollars in fraud in Minnesota, in that Somalia,
the fraud homeless scheme. They won't investigate it. The New
York Times won't even mention it. NBC, abccbist, they won't
even look at it. They won't. But these Democrats have
been going through every document in the history of Donald Trump.

(02:14):
They went back to the nineties to find these mortgage documents.
They think they got them on mortgage fraud. Exactly the
same thing as Letitia James. I don't know. I don't
think so. Merrill Lynch, which is now owned by Bank
of America, it's been contacted by the Democrats and asked
for copies of this mortgage, and they said it's forty

(02:38):
years ago, now thirty years ago. It's thirty years ago,
thirty two years ago. They said, we don't even keep these,
we don't keep the documents thirty two years we don't
even have to have. So, well, you're gonna start hearing
about this mortgage fraud by Donald Trump. Let's see if
this amounts to anything. Let's see if the documents are real.
Let's see if any of this actually pans out. The
President will be going to the Poconos today. Why is that.

(03:02):
I think there's a casino there. He's going to he's
going to talk about affordability, He's going to talk about
the youet to remember the one thing that's really going
to make a difference, ce Ebyody. Are these tax cuts,
biggest tax cuts in history. And they haven't kicked in yet.
They don't start till January. So everybody because of the
tax cuts gets a huge wage increase starting in January,

(03:24):
a smaller tax bill. It'll make a huge difference in
the economy. Now, if this is right, what we're going
through right now, the economy is pretty good right now,
It's actually pretty good. Don't buy the fake news. Wages
are actually rising all year long. Wages have been rising
at a much faster pace. Prices have been going down
all year and that's what you want. That's how you

(03:46):
get back to normal. Remember, you had the worst inflation
under Biden, worst inflation in fifty years. Actually some say
the worst inflation in history for middle class consumers. So
you can't expect that to get fixed in ten months on.
It could take a year and a half to fix that.
But great progress has been made again, Wages are rising fast,
prices are coming down. So if right now what we

(04:10):
got is an affordability crisis, that means we had five
times the affordability crisis under Biden, and the same media
never mentioned it, never even brought it up. But he'll
uh one of the things who told you about this
last week. One of the things they've decided is that
the president has to go back into campaign mode. He's
going to need to do that a lot in twenty

(04:31):
twenty six for the midterms, but they've decided he'd better
start doing it now. One of the problems is he
redid the White House, and it's beautiful. If you look
at the Oval Office, he made it so palatial and
so ornate, with the gold all over the walls and
just incredible. It looks like Versailles. It looks incredible, and

(04:51):
it's good because when you bring in foreign leaders, this
is the impression you want to make. You don't want
it to look like a cold municipal building. You want
it to look really impressive because these foreign leaders, they
work in palaces, they work in the most unbelievable luxurious place,
So you can't have them come here and think you're
working in this dumpy building. So that's why he did that.

(05:11):
It makes sense. But there's been a side effect to
this psychologically. You know, people always thought of him as just,
you know, kind of the blue collar billionaire. You know,
you remember him on the garbage truck during the campaign,
remember him working in McDonald's. Even the rallies, they were
always in a blue collar sort of aerials areas. You know,
they're at in the middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania. They're

(05:34):
in Wildwood, New Jersey. They weren't in fancy places, so
he looked like a real man of the people in
those settings. But now all you see is him in
this gold Oliver or Nate gold Oval office. It makes
him look it's king like the setting. So they decided
he'd better get back on the campaign trail. People better
see him back in these regular settings, blue collar settings,

(05:56):
you know, out there with the people. So he goes
to the Poken around six o'clock tonight, he'll make a
speech there, casinos there. I so imagine it's going to
also focus on no tax on tips, which will make
a huge difference for a lot of people. So that's
tonight he'll you'll see more of that coming up. Pete
hag Ziff, I think that's I think they're starting to

(06:18):
figure out that's going nowhere. I think they're starting to
realize it's not going to work. It's not going any place.
You can look at the you know, they keep fighting
to release the video. It seems like the Epstein files.
There's always something the Trump administers holds back just to
taunt these people. You know, it's like a little baby
hold something in front of him and as he reaches,
you pull it away. It's what they're doing to the

(06:40):
Democratic Party. They chase this Epstein files. There's nothing in
these Epstein files that you don't already know. And the
same thing with this video. There's nothing in the video
you don't already know. And the problem is, if you
look at the video, Democrats look ridiculous with their fishing boat.
Theory fishing boat. I'm looking at the video. This boat
has four of the most powerful outboard motors on the

(07:02):
back of it, and those four would cost about one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars. And when you see the
video with the four outboards, super high powered outboards going,
this boat is going like one hundred and eighty miles
through the water in the middle of the night. That's
not a fishing boat. No fishing boat needs to go
one hundred eighty miles an hour. It just looks ridiculous.

(07:23):
It's clearly a drug boat. So they'll fight for these videos.
Eventually they'll get released, and then the Democrats will look stupid.
And I think they realized the hecsis stuff. They've tried it.
It's not going to work. It's going nowhere. They keep
asking Trump whatever hecks wants to do. Is okay with
He now says it's under review.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Are you ordering the secretary to release that full video?

Speaker 4 (07:41):
Whatever he decides's okay with me. So every boat we
knock out of the water, every boat we saved twenty
five thousand American lives. That was a boat loaded up
with drugs. I saw the video. They were trying to
turn the boat back to where it could float, and
we didn't want to see that.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
No, I remember everything they accused Trump of, every horrible,
awful scandal thing they find. It's common practice for every president.
Obama was blowing up people all over the world with
his drones and in the process killed a lot of
innocent civilians. If you go to my Twitter, you will
find video up there today. It's Obama making a speech.

(08:21):
Apparently it was slict a little flack about all the
civilians he was blowing up while going after Narco terrorists.
He was, you know, you can't help it, You're gonna
hit some civilians. Remember once even bombed a wedding. So
it's a video of Obama saying, look, it's terrible that
civilians are getting killed during these bombings. He said, something

(08:41):
will haunt us for the rest of our lives. But
it has to be done because we're saving millions of
lives by and if we have to lose a few
citizens in the process, it's going to have So now
this is Obama. Remember he said Democrat, So this was
considered very noble of him. He was so noble to
say this. Now Trump does exactly the same thing. He's
a war criminal, He's a Nazi. He's this that. Hey,

(09:04):
Bruce Blakeman announced he was on Fox and Friends. It
was said that he would announced today. He should have
known that he's going on Fox and Friends, that he
would do it there. I think he surprised everybody. We're
expecting an announcement later today, but this morning on Fox
and Friends, the biggest most watched morning show, Blakeman announced.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
I'm very honored and proud that I'm going to be
on Fox and Friends with you right now to announce
that I'm running for governor of the state of New York.
I'm seeking the Republican and Conservative nominations. We want to
put New York first. We want to make it more affordable,
we want to make New York safer, and we want
to make people in New York happy again.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Now, Blakeman is the greatest county executive in America by far.
County executive is like a governor. He's the governor of
the county, so he's obviously extremely qualified to be governor.
He'll do a phenomenal job. He's proven that in the
last four years. All he's got to do is the
same exact thing for the whole state. And that's what
he was talking about. We're going to win.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
We're gonna win because in Nassau County, which is a
mirror image of New York State, the demographics are.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Almost the same.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
I got almost a third of the African American vote,
when most Republicans only get like nine percent. I got
fifty six percent of the Hispanic American votes. I got
independent women, I've got independent men, crossover democrats. We won
by thirty six thousand votes in a county with one
hundred and ten thousand more Democrats.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah. Now people will sit well, at least the phonic
you knows, great, at least the funds. She's a fighter's yeah, yah,
she is. But Blakeman has a track record of actual,
real accomplishment as a governor of Nassau County. Real accomplishment.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
I'm ready for the fight, and I'm going to fight
for New Yorkers. I'm going to make sure that we
do have economic prosperity. I'm fighting for your children and
your grandchildren so that they have a bright future. We're
going to create prosperity. We're going to make New York safer.
We're going to make it the Empire state again.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, I was watching. He was on a bunch of
TV shows this morning. One of these shows they thought
they had him. You know, you sailed to fix the state.
You'll do better than care. What would you do that?
Kathy Hokal hasn't done name one thing. Well, he rattled
up like twelve right away that were all great, I'll
get rid of the no bail, no jail, I'll do this.
I'll do that. Now what does Trump do? President Trump

(11:14):
has been backing a last staphonic for this. But he
loves Bruce Blakeman, and well he's asked about it.

Speaker 5 (11:23):
At least is among those who is running for near governor.

Speaker 6 (11:30):
Bruce Blakeman, who you also know, are you planning on
making any endorsements.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
He's great and she's great.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
They're both great people.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
We have a lot of great people at the Republican Party.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah. Now Trump loves them both, but he's known Blakeman
a lot longer. And let's put it this way. If
he didn't know these two people, if he had no
idea who they were, and Trump was the CEO and
had to hire somebody to run New York and he
brought these two strangers, and he would go with Blakeman.
He would look at their records and say, well, they're

(12:01):
both good. But you're a legislator, and you are brilliant
at the legislating and at hearings in the Congress. You're great.
But Blakeman is a manager, he's a governor, and he's
got a track record. He's got the experience doing exactly
the stuff this job needs. You don't at least defined.
So that's I don't know what he does. Because the

(12:24):
other problem is they've promised at least deefonic all sorts
of stuff over the last year. You know, do this,
do that, and we'll you know, we'll So he's got
a problem there, but Trump will figure it out, and
I would assume in the end he's going to back
Bruce Blakeman. So anyway, we'll get back to that now.
The other thing is the Republican Party. There's a New
York Republican Party. They say, well, it's at least dephonic,

(12:47):
we're not having a primary. But this Republican Party, they're
very nice people in New York. But the party is
like a little tiny thing with three people in it,
and they don't raise much money and they're not much
of a force New York at all, as you saw
in the mayoral race. They're not much of a force.
So Blakeman has a Republican Party in Nasau County that's
actually raised more money than the state Republican Party, that's

(13:10):
probably more powerful. So that's going to count for a lot.
Uh ooh. Jimmy Kimmel, Now this is supposed to make
him look good. You know, there was tremendous controversy. He
was suspended, he was going to get fired. They were
getting rid of them. They were going to fire him.
They didn't fire him, They kept them. ABC brought him back.

(13:31):
Everything's great, you're back. Well, this the whole idea of
this thing now was to make it look like Jimmy
Kimmel is all set. You're going to see the headlines
all over the fake news late night host Jimmy Kimmel
has been re signed signs a big new contract with
ABC to continue as the late night host. Now you're thinking, wow,

(13:57):
everything's great, they re signed him. Not really, not really,
This is one of the greatest hoaxes ever. Fake News
not reporting this. They signed them to the most insulting
contract in the history of late night. Nobody has ever
been insulted like this in late night TV. When you
sign a contract, a television contract, it's always five years.

(14:20):
It's a five year contract. If sometimes it's ten years,
like in the case of Oprah, it would be a
ten year deal. When you're really big and established for
years like Regis would get like a ten year deal,
but it's always a five year deal. Network always wants that.
It protects them too, because if you get you know,
when you're really big, well for five years, you got
your salary locked in. You won't be able to hold

(14:41):
them up up for more money. They just resigned Kimmel
to a one year extension. It's not a new contract,
it's a one year extension. That is the most insulting
thing you can do to somebody. It's really insulting. Nobody
has ever had this happen in late night it's always
a five year contract. Now, once in a while, you

(15:01):
get a host who doesn't want five years, he'll beg
for a three year contract. That way, he's got a
little flexibility. But the only other time this ever happened
in the history of late night TV was Johnny Carson,
and it's the reason he left the Tonight Show. He
was so insulted by it he left the Tonight Show.
It was nineteen ninety one. Carson every five years would

(15:23):
sign a new contract, and it was a ritual. Every
five years, he and his manager, Ed hook Stratton, his agent,
would go to a nice restaurant in Beverly Hills called
the Grill, which was a big business lunch kind of place.
They would go to the Grill, Hook Stratton and Carson
and have lunch with the NBC executives who would bring
the new five year contract. They would sign it, have

(15:46):
a cordial lunch, and that was it. And that's all
he had to do with NBC every five years. Well,
in ninety one, they went to the lunch to sign
the new five year contract and the NBC executive said, Shannie,
what would you think of a one year contract, and Carson,
with decades of experience in show business, knew exactly what

(16:09):
that meant, and he calculated real fast in his head
that this was the biggest insult. They were trying to
push him out, which is actually kind of what they
were So, without blinking, without hesitating, he said, well, to
tell you the truth, we actually came here to tell
you I'm resigning. I'm leaving the Tonight Show. Hookstratton stunned,
but he played along quickly. He goes, yes, that's why

(16:30):
we are here to tell you we're leaving, which really
shook up the NBC executive. But Carson said, yeah, that's it.
We decided this, and we came here to tell you
I'm going to leave the Tonight Show. If you want
me to do this final year, we'll do one final year.
But he left because there was nothing more insulting than
a one year extension instead of a real contract. So

(16:50):
Kimmel has received the biggest insult you can receive. Carson
quit over it. Kimmel will not have the courage or
the principle it over it. So but it is insulting. Anyway,
we got a lot to get to today. We'll take
some calls in a moment. Eight hundred three two one
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how you doing?

Speaker 6 (19:29):
I was watching the movie Channel the other night. You
know that an actress who was nominated for Best Supporting
Actress eighty years ago is still alive.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Let me guess.

Speaker 6 (19:42):
I'll give you the movie. You what the movie?

Speaker 2 (19:44):
I can't guess. Go ahead, tell me.

Speaker 6 (19:46):
Great and Blythe for Mildred Pierce. She was good in
the thing. She's ninety seven two more Mark all right.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Now for the younger people out there, they don't know
Mildred Pierce. It was a great movie with Joan Crawford,
but they remember and Blythe because she did the host
this Twinkies commercials in the seventies.

Speaker 6 (20:03):
Well another one, Mark two more. The other one is
she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in nineteen fifty two,
and she's still alive and she didn't win it in
nineteen seventy five. Her name is Lee Grant. She just
turned one hundred.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Oh that's right, I knew Lee Grant. When she was
let's say twenty years ago. She've been in Josh, you've
been in eighty.

Speaker 6 (20:21):
Then she won first for Shampoo in nineteen seventy five
and the last one as.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Le Grant did an incredible appearance in the second Colombo
episode the Columbo movie. Yes, she did the Ransom for
a Dead Man. She there's phenomenal in it.

Speaker 6 (20:37):
Very very good. Last one Mark nineteen fifty four, and
she won for on the Waterfront eight. What's your name again?
Ava Maurice Saint. She's still alive. She's one hundred and one,
so wow, thanks Mark, Merry Christmas to you.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
All right, great call Eva Marie Saints. She was in
north By Northwest with Carrie Grant. Wow, still alive, one
hundred and one. Yeah. Lee Grant is in And before
Colombo became a series, they did a movie. It was
made for TV movie that didn't take off as a
serious so two years later they did a second movie.

(21:11):
This time it started Lee Grant, who was one of
the best Colombo villains because there's a great scene where
she just looks at him and she said, you know, Colombo,
you're almost likable in a shabby sort of way. He
goes you Les, you say, saunter her in here with
your shop worn bag of tricks. It's a great speech.

(21:32):
Let's go to Alan yonkers Al. How you doing good? Mark?

Speaker 8 (21:36):
Nice speaking to you, Mark. You know I wanted to say,
like yourself, I think Bruce Blakeman is a great county executive.
When he won three four years ago, he was an upset.
He wasn't supposed to win. The only thing is I
don't know. I'm going to vote for him if he runs,
if you know, if he goes to that Pye mariy.

(21:56):
I just don't know if it's detrimental that he represents
such a wealthy county.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
It's like any other county. There's very very poor areas,
there's wealthy areas. It's quite a mixture. In Nasau County.
It's just like Rick State. You know, you said Garden City, right,
you say that's wealthy. Okay, two feet out of Garden
City in Hempstead and it's not so wealthy. I mean,
it's a it's a perfect blend of every income level

(22:24):
in Nassau County.

Speaker 8 (22:26):
No, I agree with you, and I just told he
was able to get that upstate Republican vote. You need
that like Governor Pataki to get over the top.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Well, he'll do pretty well. Bruce Blakeman's for you know,
we'll ask, We'll ask Nasau County resident Bill O'Reilly next
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Speaker 7 (23:12):
I'm cold? Uh oh breezy here in the Big Apple correct.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yeah, but yeah, those people in Florida they don't appreciate
any sunshine because they have it all year. Winter makes
us appreciate everything and it's beautiful.

Speaker 7 (23:28):
So I like, you know, the change of weather. If
you go to Florida, it's either going to be hot
and humid or rainy.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Hey, you're a Nassau County resident. What do you think
of Bruce Blakeman running for governor?

Speaker 7 (23:44):
Long shot? Done a nice job with the county, no
doubt about that. Organized county law enforcement's excellent here. He's
kept taxes, hasn't dropped them, but no expansion of them.
So that helps retirees and people with property tax situations.

(24:08):
So he's got a record to run on, no question.
Tough because he tied into Trump and New York State
is not, you know, friendly to the President at this point.
But look, I applaud anybody who wants to improve the
situations of Americans. So we're going to watch it closely.

(24:32):
It's gonna be interesting with Stephanic because she'll run two
I hope they don't carve each other up.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
Yeah. Hey, President Trump's going back into campaign mode. He's
going to the Poconos today. Now, you met with him
last week. Did you tell him he should get back
into Yeah, I did, Yeah, tell us about that.

Speaker 7 (24:51):
It wasn't an extensive it was Look, he was mad
at me for analyzing the price situation in America, and
I looked at him and said, listen, my job is
to tell the truth, not to root for any political
party or ideology. And I've done that for fifty years
and that's why I'm successful. There is an audience that

(25:14):
all I want to hear is what they believe. I
understand that, but I've never done that ever in a
million years would I do it. So the deficit that
President Trump has now is that the perception is the
country is too expensive. And he has been through this
before in seventeen when the Republicans got waxed in the midterms.

(25:39):
So all I said was on the air and off
the air. The Trump administration has got to be very
specific in how it is going to try to bring
prices down. That's it. And I reiterated that I'm looking
out for him by telling him that because that is

(26:00):
the over arch big issue. Nothing else is going to matter.
Immigration's under control. That is what is going to make
or break the midterms next year.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah. Now, he redid the Oval Office with the gold
and I understand why he did. It's a great thing.
But when people see him in this ornate, sparkling gold,
it makes him look very elite. It was better when
they saw him on the garbage truck or in McDonald's.
So does he realize he should?

Speaker 7 (26:26):
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, look, stunts are stunts.
He did the redesign of the White House and it's magnificent.
I have to say, I'll be going there for twenty
five years. Best I've ever seen it was last Wednesday,
and at Christmas decorations were great. But he was to
send a message that we are the top of the chart,

(26:47):
that everything that we have is excellent, if you want
to use that word. And you walk into the White House,
it's stunning. It's so clean, everything sparkles. The improvements that
he may putting up. The presidential portraits in the Rose
Garden area are terrific. So I understand the psychology. And

(27:11):
you walk into anybody's house, if it's overwhelmingly nice, you're impressed.
And it's also a power signal that we are, you know,
a very prosperous nation. And now you're in the big time.
You go to Yankee Stadium, you're in the big time.
You go to Sacramento Stadium, you're not. Okay, that's as

(27:35):
clear as I can make it.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah, Hey, Bill, O'Reilly. This Minnesota fraud billions literally billions missing.
If you want to see how faked the fake news is.
Where's the investigation on this? Why aren't they looking into this?

Speaker 7 (27:52):
Well? The irony of this whole thing is that what
President Trump said in the beginning of the immigration controversy,
is all coming true. He and this is harsh. He said,
there are certain people who come here that hurt the country,
and why should we let them in? Why should they

(28:13):
stay if they're hurting the country. So Somalia, if you
don't understand, the country is really not a country. It's
run by tribes, it's run by terrorists. And we accepted
millions of Somalis the United States to give them freedom
and a chance of a good life. And they turn
around and it's all Somali in Minnesota and steal a

(28:36):
billion dollars. So I'd be a little cranky too if
why we're the president. Yet when he calls him out
on it, he's a racist. That's how the president spends it.
Because Somalis are black. No, he's telling the truth. Truth
is harsh. As Jack Nicholson once said, you can't handle truth, Okay,

(29:02):
So to me, I want this kind of exposure. And
here's the kicker, this fraud, massive fraud. A billion dollars
in a state of only six million people, that's all.
There are more people, okay, in New York City than
in the entire state of Minnesota. Wow, Okay, so who

(29:26):
broke the story. Colonel is from the Manhattan Institute, not
Wall's the governor, not the attorney general. They wouldn't let
it go on forever. They weren't even looking. And don't
tell me they didn't. No, come on, So Minnesota is

(29:46):
the second most generous, if you want to use that word.
With our money, simone's money, in O'Reilly's money, our money,
tax money goes to Minnesota, where more than half the
population is on with some kind of welfare. There's second

(30:07):
in the in the country on welfare payments, behind Massachusetts,
even more than in New York City in California. It's insane,
but this is the system. They want government dependence, and
that's what Minnesota hats.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
Wow, nateware just about out a time, Bill O'Reilly. Somebody
wants to do their Christmas shopping. You got your books
are the huge bestsellers, great gifts. What can they get
at Bill oreilly dot com?

Speaker 7 (30:35):
Well I did this for a reason. You know. We
use the money that we get in the Bill O'Reilly
dot com Christmas store to get bonuses to my staff.
All right, yeah, and we keep the prices artificially low.
I think We're the only corporation in America that does that,

(30:56):
because most of my viewers and listeners are working people.
So I put together a bundle of fifteen books thirteen Killing,
two Confronting for a very low price. You buy fifteen books,
you got fifteen gifts. All right, all right, just do
the math. You're saving hundreds of bucks. I appreciate you

(31:20):
mentioning them, Mark, Thank you.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
So these books are like the Costco hot dog, which
is the finest hot dog in America. Costco takes a
loss on it because it gets people in the store and.

Speaker 7 (31:29):
Something like that. But I already have millions of people
in the door. I don't need any more in the door.
I'd love to have them, but that's not where we are.
But when the people spend money on Bill o'reiley dockround,
the money goes to my employees, and they're well paid anyway.
But you know, these are younger people. They're trying to

(31:49):
amass some money to buy a home and things like that.
So that's how I designed the thing. I got enough money,
and I'm not a money guy anyway, you know me.
I'm not stritting around Ferrari and all lad I don't
care about any of that.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
No, it's a Lamborghini, but that's okay.

Speaker 7 (32:05):
No Lamborghini, but footy years ago. Now I don't. I
have a ten year old catalanc That's what I drive.
It's the best car in the road.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
Yeah. No, it's good. You do a lot of you're
also very generous charities all that stuff.

Speaker 9 (32:21):
But thank you.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
If you want to do your Christmas shopping, go to
Bill Oreilly dot com. Fifteen books for a great price.
It's they're all great bestsellers. And of course the TV
show everything's at Billoreilly dot com. Bill O'Reilly, thanks for
being with us.

Speaker 7 (32:34):
All right, Mark, thanks for having me, and I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
All right, take care, Hey, don't forget tonight. We got
a great new show every night at nine o'clock, Jimmy
Fayala every night at nine right here on seven to
ten wor seven ten wrs. Mark Simon, Hey, a lot
to get to the next hour. Big shake up coming
at CBS News and uh oh, who's gonna end up

(32:58):
buying Warner Brothers. We'll get all of that just ahead,
and Jake Tapper going nuts, and a whole lot more
coming up in the next hour. Remember I'm here every
day ten to noon, or listen anytime. You can get
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Speaker 7 (33:15):
Mark Simone on sevent ten WR.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Well, another freezing cold data today. It's just I like
to walk outside. I like to walk for miles outside.
But it was not easy yesterday or today. You can
hear now. It's good. You get used to it. It's
a fun walking out there in the cold. Your nose
goes crazy and you can't take anywhere. And I saw

(33:41):
Sean Hannity yesterday. You know, he's in Florida now, but
he came to New York and they get that Florida look.
He's got that Florida look, which like the perfect sun
tan and you know the peop they look more relaxed.
I guess that's good. I don't know. I don't want
the perfect sun. I don't want to look that relaxed.

(34:02):
I like to have that New York you know, that
freezing cold face, and yeah, all riled up, kind of
New York attitude. But he looked great, and of course
you can hear him here today three to six on
w R. Let's see now in Chicago, they got snow

(34:23):
and everything, so ICE agents were there going after a
dangerous criminal who's an illegal alien. He got in under
Biden and he was, in fact in the Biden reministration.
They actually did have this guy was so bad and
such a criminal. They did arrest him at the border
and he had entered the country illegally. This is twenty
twenty three in the Biden years. But the Biden deministration

(34:45):
released him. They released them. They even granted him temporary
protected status. So he's a dangerous criminal gang member. He's
from that TDA trend to AGUAD. He's a gang, I mean,
the most violent, awful gang. He's a member of the gang.
So he's in Chicago. They're there to arrest him. They
got him on a traffic stop. ICE was going to

(35:07):
arrest the guy at this traffic stop. So what he
did was he smashed his car into one of the
ICE agency vehicles, which made it carene into a tree.
I mean, this is like a blue Blood's chase scene.
He then fled on foot after the crash. ICE agents
chased him. He barricaded himself into a stranger's apartment. Now,

(35:31):
if you didn't know, I think you could tell this
as a criminal. You know, normally on a traffic stop,
you stop. This guy instead drives his car right into
their car and makes him crash into a tree. He
jumps out of his car, runs runs into a stranger's
apartment and barricades himself in there. I think you could
be pretty sure this is a criminal. So ICE is

(35:52):
trying to go after this guy. But it's Chicago, and
a large crowd forms outside and starts throwing things at
the ICE agents start throwing rocks, snowballs, other projectiles. Well,
but you do have the police in Chicago that says
local police refuse to assist or do anything. That's Chicago

(36:14):
for you. This is the Democrats of today. And you
know if that were your neighborhood, this guy's may remember
the most dangerous gang. His behavior on a traffic stop
gives you an idea what he's like. Wouldn't you want
that guy removed from your neighborhood. Would you want him
to still live around the block from you. No, But
they're fighting the ICE agents to stop them from taking

(36:34):
this guy away. You know President Trump got you didn't
get the Nobel Peace Prize that he's so deserved, but
he got the FIFA World Cup. FIFA Peace Prize. They
decided to award him one that's nice, not for CNN.
Jake Tapper goes on CNN yesterday attacking, viciously attacking FIFA,

(36:56):
calling their peace prize a joke, ridiculous, legitimate. This guy,
this Jake Tapper, who tries to occasionally pass himself off
as a journalist, tries to pretend he's doing some sort
of a news show, going into a tirade denouncing FIFA,
attacking their peace prize. What does this have to do

(37:18):
with doing the news on CNN. I don't know. But
CNN is part of Warner Brothers and Discovery at the
company that's going to be taken over by Netflix, but
probably not. Netflix won the bidding at almost thirty one
dollars a share, which means it would take over Warner Brothers,

(37:40):
which includes CNN, includes HBO, includes the biggest movie studio
in Hollywood, all sorts of stuff. But I don't think
Netflix is going to end up with it. I think
this deal is going to fall through and paramount the
original bidder who had been too low. I think in
the end they'll end up with it. I think they'll
end up with it because Warner Bros. Might have agreed

(38:04):
to the Netflix takeover, might have signed off on it,
but that was the people that run it. That wasn't
the shareholders, and the shareholders are upset. They felt it
should have gotten a higher price. They still think it
should have been more like thirty five dollars this year,
not thirty. So they're pushing to have this deal undone.
Shareholders have a big say in this. President Trump has

(38:26):
indicated he'd rather have Paramount. He's close to friends with
the Paramount CEO. The Ellisons also friends with the Netflix.
But Netflix the bid was too low. That may have
to increase it, but it may also just go to Paramount.
They may end up taking it over. Now, how can
you do that when they already made an agreement with
the other Well, they would have to break the Netflix agreement.

(38:48):
And there's a penalty clause of two point eight billion.
But if Paramount agrees to pay the penalty, then that
solves that problem right there. And you're talking about a
eighty five billion deal, So two point eight billion is
just a tiny percentage. So I think they're going to
I bet your Paramount ends up with it. Now there's
all fake news is going after Paramount saying they've made

(39:10):
some sort of deal with Trump promised to make radical
changes at CNN. Well, first of all, CNN is a tiny,
little nothing part of this company. It's not doesn't make
any real revenue for the company. It gets no ratings,
it has no viewers. And by the way, if anybody
bought the company, the first thing you would logically do

(39:31):
is make radical changes at CNN. You'd look at it
and say, wait a minute, you're in last place and
you have no ratings. Of course you got to make
radical You can't do what you can't keep doing what
you're doing. You're in last place and nobody's watching. You've
got to make changes. So any logical owner would have
to have to make some changes there. Hey, over at
CBS News, they're getting rid of the anchors on the

(39:53):
nightly network News. It's Maurice du Bois and who's the
other guy, John Dickerson. Guys, they're very the competent, but
they're not major league anchor people. They're not you know,
Brian Williams, they're not David Muir, they're not in that league.
Maurice du Bois with the local Channel two anchor John

(40:14):
Dickerson is like a third string face the nation, kind
of a host. So they're gonna they've they've already picked
a guy. It's somebody from CBS News whose name I
can't remember. He's on one of they. I think he's
on the morning show. He's a very good looking anchor.
He said. I think they've decided let's copy David Mewir

(40:34):
because that's the number one show on television, the ABC
Evening News with David Muir, number one show in all
of television, primetime everything. Why, well, it's different from the
other evening news shows in that it's slicker. It's really
fast moving at desk keeps moving. It's not that political.
It's political, but there's a million other things. It kind

(40:55):
of looks like TMZ or Entertainment Tonight. It really moves.
And the anchors just a really handsome, good looking guy.
It's very you know, slick, It's much slicker. So I
think they've decided to go in that direction. So they
got a new anchor whose name I don't remember. I
could look it up, but what's the difference. You're not
gonna remember his name either, But he looks very good.
He looks like David Muir. So they'll probably get some

(41:17):
producers in there, could make it faster, tighter, good looking anchor.
So the little copy of David Muir. That's a good idea.
It makes sense. Barry Weiss is now running CBS News
is going to slowly but surely change everything there. They're
going to change all the sixty minutes people. She wants
to get rid of what they call the programs older correspondence.

(41:40):
They're all like eighty five years old, so expect them
all one by one to get taken out. Scott Pelly,
Leslie Stall, Bill Whittaker, so they'll all go. And now
she's already made a big hire ABC News Matt Gutman,
you know, the reporter Matt Gutman. She's very high on him.
She wants him to take quote a major role at CBS.

(42:07):
He'll be the new host of forty eight hours. Well
she hadn't said host, but she'll be the big part
of big star of forty eight hours.

Speaker 9 (42:14):
Now.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
Matt Gutman's reporter with a lot of experienced international correspondent,
all sorts of stuff, but his real thing is he's
a crime expert, real crime. And he hosted that podcast,
True Crime podcast that was top rated, and I think
that's what she wants for forty eight hours. You know
when it comes to all these podcasts, well, now there's

(42:34):
a million big podcasts, but you know, in the beginning,
the biggest podcast were those crime podcasts. Remember that's what
everybody would listen to. They would tell you, well, you
gotta listen to this. It's a ten part series about it.
I remember the killing by the River in Utah ten
years No, I don't, but they would listen to this
ten part podcast on it. So that's what this guy

(42:54):
specializes in. She thinks forty eight hours should be doing that.
She's probably right. So he'll be Matt Gutman of ABC
and his big, big major higher but slowly but surely,
she'll change everything over there at CBS and get rid
of all those people over there. Let's see the Ukraine.

(43:15):
Zelensky says he is not interested in giving up any
territory at all. Well, that throws a huge monkey wrench
into the peace talks, because that was the big part
of it. Both sides have to make some concessions. One
is Ukraine would have to concede a little territory. But uh,
he says, absolutely no. This is all probably just negotiating.

(43:37):
In the end, you'll have to give up something. It's
going to take longer than we thought. A lot of
people thought it might get done by the end of
the year, but that's not going to happen. Hey, Alina
Haba has to step down as the US attorney. You
know the way this works because you hear this all
the time when the fake news gets in the middle
of it because a Trump appointed judge ruled that, or

(43:57):
the a Trump appointed US attorney. Well, when you hear
a Trump appointed judge, it had nothing to do with Trump.
He didn't know the judge. He didn't pick the judge.
What usually happens is even with US attorneys, it's normally
the case that I mean, sometimes Trump will pick a
US attorney, you know, like the Southern District here in
New York. But most of the time when you need

(44:17):
to pick judges or US attorneys, the local senators, the
state senators picked the person. The two senators of the state,
they recommend them the president ninety eight percent of the time,
the President goes along with it. Very rarely do they object.
It's called a blue slip. The senators of the state
have to pick the person so they didn't pick Alina Habba.

(44:38):
The Senate will not confirm her. That's why it's not
going to work. And Trump talked about this dumb blue
slip thing they have. You've got a blue slip thing.
That's horrible. It's a horrible thing.

Speaker 10 (44:49):
It makes it impossible to appoint the judge or a
US attorney.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
And it's a shame.

Speaker 10 (44:55):
And the Republicans should be ashamed of themselves that they
allowed us to go on because I can't a US
attorney that's not a Democrat.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
Yeah, I mean sometimes it makes sense because Trump would
know any of these people, and he's so far removed
from the state or whoever the president is. He's you
let the local people recommend. But it's a problem if
you got like a sleazy, slimy Chuck Schumer doing the picking.
Or look at Connecticut, you got the two dirtiest, sleaziest senators,
Chris Murphy and that lying, rotten bloomenfal Can you imagine

(45:24):
leaving up to them to pick a US attorney. But
that's the system.

Speaker 4 (45:28):
I think I know why they did that to protect
their ass Okay, and that's why they did that, but.

Speaker 10 (45:35):
It should be done away with.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
I want to be able to.

Speaker 10 (45:37):
Appoint great that most highly educated, the most respected people.

Speaker 4 (45:42):
They can't keep that Jebs.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
Yeah, No, he may be right. That's why they always
are careful who senators want to pick.

Speaker 11 (45:47):
It.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
They pick somebody they know who will never come after them.
And that's the idea. So fake news goes after Elena Hobbit.
This is there's no experience. He's never been a prosecutor. Never. Well,
that's pretty normal for US attorneys. Chris Christy was the
US attorney. He'd never been in the courtroom in his
life when he was appointed US attorney. Never wasn't a
prosecutor when he was appointed. He's a big, big campaign

(46:10):
donor in Bundler. So as a reward, they made a
US attorney with no experience as a prosecutor. Haba was
a major partner to major law firm where she did
it was civil litigation, but a lot of that was
about white collar crime, fraud, that sort of stuff. So
Haba actually qualified.

Speaker 7 (46:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (46:27):
Alena Habba says she's stepping.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
Down as US Attorney for the District of New Jersey
after the courts disqualified her.

Speaker 5 (46:33):
Do you have any comment on that?

Speaker 10 (46:34):
And she's not disqualified you've got a blue slip thing.

Speaker 4 (46:37):
That's horrible.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
It's a horrible thing.

Speaker 10 (46:39):
It makes it impossible to appoint a judge or US attorney.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
And it's a shame.

Speaker 10 (46:45):
And the Republicans should be ashamed of themselves that they
allowed us to go on.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
You know, fake news does that a lot if they
don't like so if they don't like Pete Heggs, if
you hear that a lot. And he was never qualified
to be Secretary of Defense. You hear these senators, these
low lifes on these talking heads. He shouldn't have been
appointed in the first place. He had no qualifications. He
has more qualifications to be Secretary of Defense than half
of the secretaries of Defense we've had. Many of them

(47:12):
had no experience. You know that Chuck Hagel was a
congressman all his life and less asphen He was a
college professor when he was appointed secretary to most of
these secretary defenses don't have a lot of exits. Had
a lot of military experience when he got appointed. So
Matt Lower wants to more talk about this comeback than

(47:34):
Matt Lower come back. Now he's apparently it's the girlfriend
pushing this. The girlfriend is also a publicist, so she
wants him to come back, and since she's a publicist,
she knows how to plant all these stories all over
the place, trying to engineer this comeback, come back for what.
I don't know what. He's going to come back to
the Today Show, I don't think so he can't take

(47:54):
him back there. I mean, it's a cuomo trying to
make a comeback. You left in disgrace, you left under
a cloud of terrible scandal, and in the case of
Matt Lower, it was real scandal, real sexual harassment stuff,
real problem. So who's going to bring him back? And
for what reason? You know? You know, if it's like

(48:15):
Lewis c k well, you know there's a the reason
to bring him back. Guy, the guy was funny. He
was really funny and a lot of stuff, had a
lot of talent. So maybe he's a question mark on
this guy, but boy was he good. Let's bring him back?
Or Kevin Spacey, you know, why would you bring this guy? Well,
because he was pretty talented. Watch him in what's the

(48:38):
TV show? He did House of Cards or other stuff.
Guy's really talented. No, let's maybe you've been the rule
that he'll bring him back because he's really talented. Case
of Matt Lower. You can't say he's really talented. He's
I mean, he was a pleasant guy. He was nice looking.
You know, he's older now he's not so hot looking anymore.
And he's basically he would the teleprompter. I mean, he's

(49:02):
not a talented guy. I mean, there's no Matt Lower
videos going viral because he was so brilliant. I mean,
to bend the rules for him, I don't think so.
I don't know. We'll take some calls in a minute.
Eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten is number. Oh,
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Speaker 11 (49:38):
Hey.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
It'll take some calls. Eight hundred three to two one
zero seven ten is remember. Let's go to Joel in Florida. Joel,
how you doing.

Speaker 5 (49:46):
Good morning Mark again, Good morning Vincent, Good morning Marret.
Just have a question for you Mark. Over the weekend.
Rosie o'donald while in Ireland said that he believes that
President Shrump should be taken out, and there are other
Democrats that have said the same. Given the fact that
he's going to be going back on a junket with
going to other cities or the areas. Has the Secret
Service greatly extended to be able to cover all these

(50:09):
visits to these various locations.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, he get Remember he was a candidate.
That was candidate level of security. Now it's presidential security.
In fact, if you watch the videos of the motorcate
even going from mar A Lago to the golf course,
it's like twenty five cars. It's amazing. It's enormous protection.
He's going to be traveling today to the Pocono's. They're
not saying how he's getting there, which means it's probably

(50:32):
not Air Force one. Sometimes when it's not that far,
they'll take Marine one the helicopter, so it'll be a
whole bunch of helicopters heading there. Let's go to Bob
and Bridgeport. Bob, how you doing.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
I'm well, Mark a big fan, long time.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
Thanks.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
In the course of your career, did you ever work
with SUPI Sales?

Speaker 2 (50:51):
Yes, a million times.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
He seems hilarious. I watched some of his old stuff
on YouTube. Did he just do that whole thing by himself?

Speaker 2 (51:02):
Well, yeah, he was a very funny guy. He was
a regular guest on this show for years and years
and years and years. In fact, remember I used to
do that Saturday Night Oldie Show.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
His final I do remember that show.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
That was his final public His final public appearance was
on that show, and then we lost him. But he
was a very very funny guy. I remember he did
a radio show for years w NBC. Remember it was
I remember that Soupy from ten.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
To two lunch at the Commissary.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
Yeah, then it was Soupie and then Howard Stern. That
was quite a lineup back then. But he was He
was a great guy. His wife is still with us, Trudy,
who was a great dancer and performer. Anyway, yus go
to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing.

Speaker 9 (51:45):
Good morning, Mark, Good morning Joe, Good morning Mark. I
loved that Saturday Night Oldie show used to do. I
would be cooking Saturday night. Didn't listen to it. I
loved it. Mark. First off, I would like to apologize
for during the course of this past years, I groused
that Trump wasn't doing enough to get rid of congestion pricing. Well,

(52:08):
at the end of last week in the Post, they
had a full page article detailing about Kathy Hockel's corrupt
judges are putting the kebash on the Trump administration's efforts
to roll back the congestion price and Trump said that
he's taken back to consent agreement that Joe Biden did,

(52:31):
and the judges saying he can't. So I apologize.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
That also right now they want to leave it there
because it's going to be a factor that works against
Kathy Hochle on reelection.

Speaker 9 (52:41):
Well, you saw yesterday in the papers they had this
whole article on the front page story the Post of
how certain police officers are using up official vehicles to
go through the tolls even though they're going home to
evade the tolls.

Speaker 11 (52:56):
Mark.

Speaker 9 (52:56):
This puts me to my next thing. Zoramandan. He was
on i think on social media or on video whatever
with this message to the illegal migrants how to avoid
ICE agents, what to do in case you're confronted by them,
and saying this is what a warrant looks like. Mark,
this is a big conflict of interest for Jessica Tish.

(53:21):
What is she going to do when there is a
major confrontation where police like what happened in Chinatown last week,
have to be called to help ice agents out just
to get out of the building or something where they're
being attacked by in Chicago, what is she going to do?
She's he is playing her mark. She should get out.

(53:45):
She should follow her brother's lead. Zora Mandani is get out.

Speaker 2 (53:51):
Listen. She's not Ray Kelly. She's not the greatest police
commission the world. But she's pretty good.

Speaker 9 (53:55):
I know.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
If she gets out, you want Mamdani to pick a replacement.

Speaker 9 (54:00):
Well, you'll watch this. But she's gonna ruin her future mark.
She already she did a bad thing. She apologized on
behalf of your brother if I ever did that.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
But listen, her future is her ambitions. Every I think
she wants to be mayor. She she's not gonna be
that great a candidate. She's not exactly the most exciting
dynamic speaker in the world. And she doesn't have a
great record as police, which is a good record, but
it's not a great.

Speaker 9 (54:25):
But she's she's she's doing good. But this is gonna
hurt her. You do you think a lot of Jewish
voters they're gonna see a flip flopping. What are you doing?
I mean it's like, uh, you're.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
Gonna say some flip flopping. But we don't want to leave.
She's a good police commissioner and we don't want to.

Speaker 9 (54:41):
Lose, all right, Mark, I'll you know, maybe you know something,
Maybe you know something.

Speaker 2 (54:47):
I don't know, By the way, I just know she's
tough as a very wealthy. She doesn't need anybody's money,
so she's not going to cave into any special interests. Uh. Listen,
if if mom Donnie picks his own guy, that guy's
gonna do whatever he's told by Mom Donnie. You don't
want that, all right?

Speaker 9 (55:04):
Well, I'm just talking about the appearance of conflict. By
the way, Mark, when are they going to get rid
of Andrea Mitchell at NBC?

Speaker 11 (55:13):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (55:13):
You know the problem is that you know she's like
ninety seven and a half. You know, Well, he's gonna
drop that in any second. I mean, why why worry
about it?

Speaker 9 (55:21):
Because you were talking about them getting rid of all
the old fossils at the other.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
Netwell that's CBS. Well, CBS brought in a sane person
to run.

Speaker 9 (55:30):
I know, but Andrew Mitchell fits that category, doesn't she Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
But at MSNBC is still crazy, still nuts. Anyway, thanks
for calling, Vincent, great call. Hey. When we come back,
we'll talk about Frank Sinatra next and other matters with
the owner of Patsy's, the great landmark restaurant. Sal from
Patsy's in a moment on seven ten wor He's more
Mark's the Mark Simone Show on seven ten wor Well,

(55:58):
you know patsy Is the landmark restaurant fifty sixth Street
between Broadway and Eighth It was Frank Sinatra's favorite restaurant.
And there's a lot to talk about with Frank Sinatra.
It's that time of year, oh not Christmas. It's Sinatra's
birthday this week. And with us right now, the owner
of Patsy sal Skygnamillo Sal, How you doing.

Speaker 11 (56:18):
Hey, Good morning, Mark, Happy holidays, Merry Christmas, buddy.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
You too, Frank Sinatra's favorite restaurant. Where do we even start?
Tell us Frank Sinatra's favorite meal? What like if you
went to Patsy's and said to you make me Sinatra's
favorite meal, what would you make?

Speaker 11 (56:34):
He liked it the auditchok reaganot appetizers, and then he'd
have some kind of short pasti the pen of rigatonio
sperali with the tomato basil sauce, which is onions, no garlic.
If I made a glic sauce for him, sometimes you
have the clams in the garlic sauce. It will be
the whole garlic. We brace it in the olive oil
and take it out. You see, you had the flavor

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and then the edge of tomatoes and clams and white
wine and all the spices. And we love to form
the main course the veal and chicken milonnaise. It's a
scallapini beat, very fine flour, sea egg and seasoned bread
from fridaytoll Is Chris, a littill rouble at tomato salad
and most importantly red wine, vinegar, nobal sonic fan.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
Well, that's a very good meal. But if you go
to Patty look at the menu, there's probably twenty five
better things to order there.

Speaker 11 (57:20):
What U, that's just well, my favorite I like, I
like pasta with cheese, so my favorite is rigatoni sonino
with the tomato basil. Regard to Milton Mozela, Palmachan, all
the Pamgan's and Gueeny with the clam sauce popular anything
with fish locks the Friday Owl. I think it's spectacular,
makes a great dish and you know, just a lot

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of great Southern Italian classics. The heart of the menu
the same. Only three chefs all these years was my grandfather,
squal Patsy Scott, the Millow, my dad and myself. It's
over eighty one years now and in this Friday would
have been Franks hundred and tenth birthday and we always
celebrate his birthday at the restaurant with a beautiful muncheon.
From a twelve to three. It's going to be halted

(58:02):
by Adriana Trigiani. She's a very samous author. She's written
I think twenty seven books. Her latest book was A
View from Lake Crmo, which we actually had the book
signing and our restaurant was just sold out, so much
sold out we added a second event and so popular,
great stuff. We're gonna have some video tributes also, you

(58:22):
are not in person, but video tributes who have Michael
Billblay and Robert Dobby, Steve Longame's son David, beautiful because
they love to play too, and Gene Kelly's wife, Patricia
Kelly beautiful stuff. And the latest, the real surprise guest
we just added is Frank Sinatra's granddaughter, A. J. Lambert
is going to be there, and it's just so exciting.

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She's such a such a sweet woman. That's Nancy's daughter,
and we're going to be so happy. We've got Steve
Maglio who performs at the Carnegie Club the Sinatra tributes
all the time.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
That, yeah, that's this Friday, Sinatra's birthday the.

Speaker 11 (59:01):
Twelfth, so you can Friday is the birthday?

Speaker 2 (59:03):
Can people go to this Sinatra luncheon?

Speaker 11 (59:05):
Yes, we have about five seats left. They can call
the restaurant two one two two four seven three four
nine one two one two two four seven three four
nine one includes all this great entertainment and of course
h Frank's favorite meal as betweet on. Some things we've
talked about and it's gonna be a great time. We always, uh,
we always love remembering him, Hony people.

Speaker 2 (59:28):
How much is it to go to this Frank Sinatra luncheon?

Speaker 11 (59:30):
It's a one ninety five plus taxi.

Speaker 2 (59:32):
Tip one yeah, yes, well that includes music and the
food and the whole thing.

Speaker 11 (59:39):
Music, everything, the whole nine yards, and it's it always
sells out. This this year, we just had a few
few seats left. It's always so much fun and everybody
enjoys it. It's just a wonderful remembrance of such a
spectacular man. And I know how much you loved him
and how much you know about him. You're definitely an
encyclopedia Frank Sinatra. But you just take a look at

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the wall of all the photos we have, and almost
everyone could be traced back to Frank Sinatra, like he
brought in Jackie Gleese, and who brought in the Rosemary Coon,
who brought in George Corney, you know, And and then
Jerry Stilla was very close friends with Nancy Sinatra, and
of course they brought their son, Ben Stilla. He wrote
the phot Nancy and the Sinatra wrote the forward to
my first cookbook, and Ben Stilla wrote the forward to

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my second cookbook. And we sell, you know, during the holidays,
we sell a lot of that as a gift. If
you don't know what to get anyone, we have apasta sauces, mariinada, frodiallo, tomade,
basil and vodka sauce. You can get the cookbooks and
we have a little gift box at some pasta and coffee.
If you don't know what to get anyone, you go
to our website, which is Patti's without the apostrop p

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A T S y S dot com. And like you said,
it's our only location. Where on took the between Anst.
And Broadway by Conneie Hall.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
And when you go to Patty's, do not rush right
into the restaurant. When you walk through the or stop
and look at the pictures on the wall. These are
all the customers through the years, all famous, famous faces.
Look at all the pictures and look carefully the end
of the bar. There's a beautiful statue of Frank Sinatra there,
so that one we got.

Speaker 11 (01:01:14):
It was commissioned by Tina Sinatra. I think there's only
a nine hundred limited edition. We have that for many
many years. And then on the upstairs we have a
smaller statue of Frank Dean and Sammy the rat Pack.
A great, great remembrance. Is great fun. We're is so
lucky because even like last week, my wife is a
big country music fan. And Kenny Chesney came in and

(01:01:38):
he said the first time he came here was seeming
like thirty years ago because he heard it was Frank
Sinatra's favorite place. So you can't ask for a better
pr guy than that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
All right, now, let me ask you an important question.
Let's Sinatra would always pick up the check. Let's there
was a whole bunch of people to check. Was one
thousand dollars? What would Sinatra tip on that?

Speaker 1 (01:01:56):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (01:01:57):
He was easily thirty thirty five percent without and that's
not including the hundreds he threw out everybody when a
hundred dollars was a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
Yes, he was.

Speaker 11 (01:02:06):
He was so generous. I mean, he just was in
every way, I mean with his philanthropy, with his help,
and the most important point and I know you know
this mark was he wanted to be anonymous. He just
wanted to do it because he wanted to do it,
not to get his name in the paper. And that's
just such a wonderful quality. The man was so ahead
of his time, even with civil rights though you and
I don't have to tell you all those stories.

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
Now when he was in the restaurant, He's big tipper
ended out hundreds and that was like thousands back then. Also,
how many times would he pick up the check for
other tables.

Speaker 11 (01:02:38):
Oh, so many times. There's so many times. The most
famous one, I think I probably told you New York
Yankees were in they won the World Series. He introduced
to each other and at the end of the night,
Sinatra left and Billie Martin was the manager back then.
He says, all right, now that Frank left, we can leave.
He says, give me the check. He says, too late.

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
Frank paid for you, for the whole team, the entire Yankee.

Speaker 11 (01:02:57):
There was one time, I don't know if I told
you this story. One time when he said to my father.
He says, me and Barbara and another couple were coming in. Yeah,
I know, it's okay for the other man to pay
the check. And Ty came to pay the check. He
gave him his gold American Express card. It was denied.
It wind up that that was the president of American

(01:03:18):
Express and his goal call is denied. He thought Sinatra
was playing a practical joke on him.

Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
And he was. I don't know how he pulled that off,
but that was Jim Robinson, right, the chairman of America Express.
Somehow Sinatra got his card to be denied.

Speaker 11 (01:03:30):
Yeah, they were friends. They lived close together on pom Springs.

Speaker 2 (01:03:34):
Yeah, it was so.

Speaker 11 (01:03:35):
I was the one time because he said, I don't
want I don't want to have owe anyone anything, you know,
because when he was down and out, nobody wanted to
talk to him. When he came back, he says, now
I don't want nothing from nobody. So God bless him.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
Well, if you want to celebrate Sinatra, this Friday is
the birthday of Frank Sinatra. It's December twelfth, and they've
been doing this every year for a million years, the
Sinatra Birthday Party. And it's at Patsy Used. They'll be
live music, singing and some well known people there. And
so what now what do people do if they want
to come, you make a reservation.

Speaker 11 (01:04:05):
Please please give us a call at the restaurant. It's
two and two two four seven three four nine one
two one two two four seven three four nine one
and so the products and everything else. You go to
the website. It's patsys dot com, p A T. S
y s No apostrophe dot com. And it's it's always
such fun. It's it's such a great event. I know

(01:04:26):
w O R has been there many times. Yeah, you've
been there too as well.

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
Make sure you follow Patsy's on Patsy's Italian Restaurant on Instagram.
Very good pictures, all sorts of stuff there. We only
got a few seconds left. Sinatra always brought a lot
of people to dinner. What's the biggest aunto rush you
ever came in with? Oh?

Speaker 11 (01:04:44):
He was there when he when he did for the
seventy fifth birthday of James Cagney, he took over the
whole upstairs and it was it was probably probably about
eighty or eighty five people came time to sing Happy
Birthday to James Cagney. Ian Martin was singing, Sammy Davis
was doing a saft shoe and Sinatu was just about

(01:05:05):
to join him to sing Happy Birthday Jancagney. My father said, wait, wait, Frank,
you can't do this, and Frank Sinatra got mad. What
can I do? My father said, I can't afford this
kind of entertainment here.

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
But if you want to see and again, when you
walk into Patsies, don't rush in stops thros. You come
through the door and look at the pictures on the wall.
They're amazing. Of all the celebrities were there, and he's
called Patsy's follow him on Instagram Patsy's Italian restaurant sal
great stuff. Thanks for being with us, always a pleasure.

Speaker 11 (01:05:34):
God bless you happy and healthy to you and your family.

Speaker 2 (01:05:37):
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Speaker 7 (01:06:21):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
Hey, the big news this morning Bruce Blakeman announced he's
running now. At least Stephonic is great, but I think
Blakeman is better. Stephonica is great, she's a great legislator.
She's great fighting on those committees. But Blakeman's a governor.
That's basically what he does in Nassa County, the governor
of the county, and he turns out to be the

(01:06:43):
number one best county executive in America. So it's exactly
what you want for a governor. So we'll see what
happens now. You could have a primary all of that,
but good problem to have when you got a lot
of good candidates. We're out of time, don't go away.
Buck and Clay are coming up next there. They'll be
here from noon to three. I'll be back tomorrow from
ten to noon and I'll talk to you then right

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here on seven ten Woir