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President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, appeared in a New York court today, entering a not-guilty plea following his indictment over the weekend by the US military. This development is causing a significant reaction among left-wing networks and Democrats. Mark interviews Boston radio host Howie Carr. Howie shares the latest updates from Mar-A-Lago. During a party, President Trump auctioned off a painting, with proceeds going to charity. Additionally, there are questions about Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s real estate background. Mark provides the latest updates on CBS’s rebranding. Tonight, a new national news anchor was scheduled to debut, but that may be postponed. Mark also discusses how the US military is currently well-positioned to respond to any emerging crises. Mark reflects on a memorable interview he conducted a few years ago with the late, great actor Rob Reiner, discussing Rob’s life and his family’s well-being.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now seventor presents the Marks Emosha.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Well, I'm back, finally back. It's a long vacation. It
was like two and a half weeks, and I actually
love not working. I mean, I have a lot of
fun and plenty to do, but but that's enough vacation.
I can't take it anymore. It's good to be back.
I missed you. I hope you missed me, and Curtis
did a great job filling in. Everybody loved him. I

(00:35):
have not everybody. I would say it was ninety nine
percent favorable. All the comments and mail and everything we got.
People love Curtis and hopefully he'll be back here soon.
He did attack a few people there who are all
friends of mine, so but listen, he's got a right
to be a little upset with some people. But did

(00:59):
you notice I was listening here and there is he
For two weeks. I don't think he had one guest on, right.
I think his wife was on once, but that doesn't count.
For two weeks, not a single guest. That's impressive. That's
a sign of a great host. You can always tell
how good a host is by how many guests they
have on. If they open the show by telling you
twenty seven guests that are coming on. You know, it's

(01:20):
not that great a host. They can't fill the time
on their own, their guest dependent. As soon as the
guest is done, our next guest is they got to
get somebody else. The guests have to do all the talking.
So you really got to be good at this to
do two hours, five days a week and not have
a guest on. So yeah, we have guests on, but
once an hour for a few minutes, just to break

(01:42):
it up a little. But we're not you know, it's
the whole first forty minutes of the hour, there's no guests.
We don't you don't want to be guest dependent. By
the way, coming up in our second hour, our guest
will be Rob Reiner. I found, you know, he was
a regular in this show for many years, so I
found an interview or two of them, but we'll play
that out in the second hour. It's interesting to listen

(02:04):
to him because I know he was crazy, insane with
his politics, angry, crazy over the top nuts with the politics.
But it's interesting. He was a great guy in real life.
Here and I were friends. We got along really well,
and Dad never talked about politics, So let me talk
about we talk about Joey Bishop or old show business
or old comedians, but I just you can hear the

(02:24):
real hymn. We'll get to that in the second hour.
And it's a good lesson to learn because you probably
had the situation over the holidays with your family at
Christmas parties or whatever. Your uncle, your cousin. They're great people,
but when they talk about politics, they're like childish, insane,
crazy nonsense, childish, ridiculous. You know, this Maduro stuff is

(02:49):
a great example. For the last ten years, Democrats, all
of them, Chuck Schumer, Biden, that idiot Chris Murphy from
all of them, have been demanding that somebody do something
about Maduro, that they get rid of Maduro. You know,
in Trump's first term, all the Democrats attacked him for

(03:11):
not doing anything about Maduro. And it's all over Twitter.
You can see the videos, you can see the statements
from them. If you don't believe this, they all went
on camera on Twitter saying Trump is obviously in bed
with Putin because otherwise he'd be getting rid of Maduro,
who's Putin's puppet. They demanded that he get rid of Maduro.

(03:33):
Schumer Hakeem Jeffries. All of these people this video all
over Twitter. You can watch with them screaming and yelling,
gotta get rid of Maduro. So Trump gets rid of
Maduro like that. They turn on a dime. It's unbelievable.
They're just going nuts defending Maduro. What happened at No

(03:53):
Kings Remember No Kings seventy seven days ago there was
no Kings. Well this one we like, you shouldn't gotten
rid of this, and so it's absolutely insane behavior. But
it's really what it is, it's just being childish. They're
just like little children, screaming and yelling. Hey, you remember,
for the whole year that've been telling you over and

(04:14):
over and over and over and over again that Pete
Hexath is not qualified to be the Secretary of Defense.
All of them, all the Democrats in politics, all the
Democrats on television, have been telling you he's the least
qualified secretary of Defense. Hexath is not qualified, He's the
most unqualified. Well, for the last year, he has flawlessly

(04:36):
executed the most complex military operations anybody ever has dozens
of them, from the bombing the Iran nuclear reactors to
the ticking out the drug boats, to the seizing the
oil tankers, to capturing a world leader in his bed
in the middle of the night and getting him out
of the country and doing the whole operation in three hours.

(04:56):
Not qualified. This guy has been unbelievable at the military
operations he's run. Nobody's ever run these kind of operations.
Look at the last guy, Lloyd Austin, Biden's Secretary of Defense.
One operation just withdraw everybody from Afghanistan. Turned it into
a chaotic nightmare. Hey bungle it up so badly. Hegsath

(05:17):
has been unbelievable. Now, of course the media stays quiet
about that. They don't mention a word about it. I
don't say anything about it at all. Now we got
the same thing with the Minnesota fraud, the Somali fraud
in Minnesota. It looks like it that number might hit
eighteen billion. That's been missing. Tim Waltz just moments ago

(05:38):
announced he will not seek reelection. So if he had
any doubts about that Minnesota fraud being real, being more
extensive than we thought, if he had any doubts about
how big and how real that whole thing is, Tim
Waltz just announced he will step down from his campaign.
There will be no campaign. He will not seek reelection. Now,

(06:01):
this is a guy who was definitely going to run
for a reelection. He was on his way or in
his crazy brain to twenty twenty eight being candidate for president.
But his political career is now over. It's over. He
cannot seek reelection. He's admitted that he's dropping out of
the race. He is giving up politics. Hey, by the way,

(06:22):
keep an eye on Gavin Newsom. This affects him because
everybody says that as bad as this fraud is in Minnesota,
it's far worse and much much, much bigger in California.
So this will start to come out next and that
will be the end of Gavin Newsom's twenty twenty eight bid.

(06:43):
He's going to have a problem President Trump.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Can you imagine there's still eight billion Dallas.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
That's just what we're learning about Peters in California's horse,
Illinois's horse, and Santaday new worse.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, So wait till it get to California. That'll end Newsome.
And then if they find it in Illinois, well that's
the end of Pritzker. Now when he says New York
is well, that's because a mom Donnie and all of
this stuff. You and ever you get a socialist or
a left wing kook like this, a Deblasio type, money
goes missing. It happens every time. While they yell and

(07:20):
scream about the billionaires, meantime, billions go sideways and no
one quite knows where it goes. You know, And you
got the most corrupt media ever in the Deblasio administration.
A billion dollars went missing in this fake program he
and his wife set up. It was called Thrive NYC.
And it was supposed to take care of the homeless

(07:41):
and it actually had this is not a joke. It
had programs like yoga for the homeless, that kind of stuff. Well,
a billion dollars went into it, and nobody knows where
it went, and it's gone, it's missing. And of course,
the totally corrupt media Channel two, Channel four, Channel five,
Channel seven, New York Times, all that corrupt media never
ever looked into it. Oh, they mentioned it for a second,

(08:03):
but they never looked into it. There should be reporters
all over the place tracking down that money, hunting for
that money. So whenever one of these left wing kooks
gets in, one of these socialists, money goes missing. And
the other thing that happens is who suffers under them,
the homeless, the lower economic classes. They're the ones that

(08:24):
get hit the hardest by this nonsense. You know, Venezuela
is a great example. It was one of the most
booming economies in the world. It was thriving. It has
more oil than anybody on earth, just the oil revenue.
It was booming. Their economy was on fire. Everybody was
doing great in Venezuela until they went socialist. When they

(08:44):
went socialist, when Chavez came in with his underling Maduro,
and then Maduro took over, they went socialist. Suddenly nobody
has any money. Everybody's in poverty. That's what happens with socialists.
We look at them Poland it was just the opposite.
Under socialism, no money broke, the world's worst place to live.
Then they convert to capitalism, and now they're one of

(09:05):
the biggest economies in the world, huge economy, his biggest Japan.
It's booming and everybody is living better, doing better. That's
what happens. So now the good news in New York
is Mom Donnie as nuts as he is, as terribly
as we don't know what he'll be able to get done.
If anything, A lot of people think it'll just be
the third term of Deblasio, third Deblasio term. We got

(09:29):
through that. It wasn't good, but we got through it
to we'll get through this. He had his inauguration, as
it called it, a block party. It was a great
block party. But if you want to just take a
look at what exactly are his management skills, look at
the block party. It was considered the worst party ever thrown,

(09:50):
just as far as managing it, the worst setup ever.
The block party was held in like minus five degree weather.
I had fifty thousand people to stand there and there
were no food trucks, no food of any kind, no bathrooms,
no anything, and they were asked to wait. It started late.

(10:10):
It started like three hours late, so he had to
stand there. It was just horrendous. You know, you could
go to Times Square in New Year's even at least
there's a food truck every ten feet, there's a bathroom.
Well not a lot for that, but this was a nightmare,
an absolute nightmare. That's the way mom Dannie runs things.
And of course the totally corrupt media gives him a

(10:32):
pass at all times. His anti Israel nonsense. He killed
some executive orders to protect Israel, protect people from being attacked,
antisemitic attacks. He got rid of those. Now he claims
they'll replace him with somebody else, But who would trust
him on that? And he talks about the protecting Palestinians.

(10:52):
There's never been an attack on a Palestinian anywhere in
New York. The Palestinians have not been attacked. It doesn't exist.
Anti Semitic attacks by the thousands, vicious, violent ones all
over New York. That's where the protection is needed. He's
just crazy about this.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
Protecting Jewish New Yorkers is going to be a focus
of my administration. And I also know that a number,
as you said, of leading Jewish organizations have immense concerns
around this definition. And so what we will do is
actually deliver on our commitment to protect Jewish New Yorkers
in a manner that is able to actually fulfill that.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah, you go, nobody's fatality said. But he speaks well.
And you know, if you talk really fast, if you
talk very fast, everybody thinks you must be very smart. Otherwise,
how could you talk that fast? But meantime, he's not
saying anything and then this is the line that frightened
everybody when they say democratic socialist? Is he really a communist?
Is he? I mean? Does he want us to live

(11:46):
in like a communist a collective? Think? Well, listen to this.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
We will draw this city closer together. We will replace
the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.
If our campaign demonstrated that the people of New York
yearn for solidarity, then let this government foster it.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Well, if it wasn't real, it'd actually be pretty funny.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
We will draw this city closer together. We will replace
the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Now, what the hell is he talking about? The rugged
individual individualism, the frigidity rugged individualism. I guess he's talking
about Warren Buffett or Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or frigidity.
I know they don't look cold. That last time I
saw Bezos, he's on a yacht in St. Barts. He

(12:41):
look pretty warm. The frigidity, But the warmth of collectivism, Well,
if you go look at people in the Soviet Union
when it was all socialists, they didn't look like they
were so warm. They looked they were freezing to death
and they were waiting in line twenty seven hours for
toilet papers. So it didn't look warm to me. But anyway,
the now, it's interesting as far as capturing Maduro. If

(13:03):
you're not sure if it was a mistake not a mistake.
Look at who opposed it. It's the biggest idiots on
the world. Mam Donnie opposed it. Mam Donnie was totally
against it. Hokeel was against it. Schumer was against it,
Hakeem Jeffreys, Kamala Harris, Chris Murphy. Well, if they're against it,
then it must be the right thing to do. And
Mom Donnie calls President Trump to just voice his objection

(13:28):
to it. You gotta give the guy credit. You got
to give Mam Donnie credit for just out of controlled,
delusional ego thinking the President of the United States, Donald Trump,
wants his input on this tough foreign policy matter. As
if the President in the middle of those cabinet meetings,
listening to Hexith and Rubio and all those voices, said

(13:52):
to himself, I gotta know what Mam Doney thinks. So
Mam Donnie called him, and Trump took the call. Trump's
very gracious in situation something like that. And he took
the call and he, you know, pretended listening very intently,
but you know, I guarantee he was rolling his eyes
with everybody in the room, holding the phone away from
his head while the guy yapped away. But Mambonnie was

(14:13):
so proud that he called Trump.

Speaker 4 (14:15):
I called the President and spoke with him directly to
register my opposition to this act and to make clear
that it was an opposition based on being opposed to
a pursuit of regime change, to the violation of federal
international law, and a desire to see that be consistent

(14:36):
each and every day.

Speaker 5 (14:37):
And what was his response to you?

Speaker 6 (14:39):
Conversation?

Speaker 4 (14:41):
And I registered my opposition, I made it clear, and.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
We left it at that. There you go, waste of
a phone call. Anyway, Well, I'm back. We got a
lot to get to today. I did call Curtis by
the way over the weekend and thank him for filling in.
He said he had a lo lot of fun. He
said he was really love being here. He thanked all
you guys in the control room there. He said it

(15:06):
was great people to work with. I got a ton
of email about him and comments all over the place,
But it was I'd say ninety nine percent favorable. People
loved him so and I'm sure he'll be back here
doing all kinds of stuff here. And let me just
clear up one thing. He kept going after my friend

(15:26):
Greg Kelly. Greg Kelly and I are very very close friends.
And he said, Greg listens to this show every day,
you know, looking for things to take, ideas to take,
or points to take. Yeah, that's probably true, but Curtis
wasn't aware of which I called. I told him I
listened to Greg Kelly every day and I take just
as much stuff from his show. And he and I

(15:46):
are very good friends with In fact, we talk on
the phone at night. And said, you know, he's got
a lot of info of sources, so sometimes he'll give
me stuff he got. I'll give stuff I got, and
then the next day you'll hear it on both shows.
But it's not anybody stealing from any buddy. We actually
collaborate on. I do that with a lot of hosts,
and a lot of people listen to this show every
day who host their own show that Sean Hannity told

(16:08):
me he listens every day. I know Buck is one
of our listeners. I was out at the conference the
other day and Chris Ruddy, was a chairman of Newsmax,
was a speaker. They said, what do you listen to
when you get up in the morning. He said, well,
first I listened to Mark Simone. I learn a lot
about what's good to a lot of people, a lot
of hosts, a lot of media people. And that's true
of a million other shows. Hey, we'll take some calls next.

(16:28):
Let me know what you think. Eight hundred three to
two one zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred
three two one zero seven ten. Lots to get to
today right here on seven ten wor.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
If you're listening to Mark on the iHeartRadio app, save
time and tap the preset button. Now now back to
the Mark Simone show on woor Oh.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
It's good to be back. Actually, I'm tired already.

Speaker 7 (16:59):
You know.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
You get out of shape. I used to do two
hours every day. There's like nothing now twenty minutes like
so you know it. Take it. You can run six
miles on the treadmill, then you don't go to the
gym for a few months. You come back, you can
barely do half a mile. Let's go to Mike in Florida.
Mike how you doing.

Speaker 8 (17:16):
Hey, good morning, Mark, welcome welcome home. Thanks hope you
had a great vacation.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
I did.

Speaker 7 (17:24):
So.

Speaker 8 (17:25):
You know, I was reading online that Mondani doesn't want
Maduro arrested, but he's going to arrest be being net
in Yahoo. So here you go kind of a little
bit of a.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
Very good point. Excellent point. There you go the the
hypocrisy Democrats are famous for. Let's go to Bob Montvale,
New Jersey. Bob, how you doing.

Speaker 9 (17:51):
I'm doing great?

Speaker 2 (17:52):
How are you work? I'm for taking the call and.

Speaker 9 (17:55):
Just want to report here. It is New Year's New Jersey,
Bergen County on the Rockland line, and the crime has
shifted from New York City to Rockland County and Upper
Burden County. You go online and there's violent crime Spring Valley,
New York.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
What is there? What is there to steal in Spring Valley,
New York?

Speaker 10 (18:16):
Oh, Mark, the Jewish Folks Borough Park have really moved
into this area, and they actually do a good job of, like,
you know, policing themselves. It's it's really the crime is tremendous.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yeah, well, you know, it's definitely going to be a problem.
That's one thing. The number one thing you have to
keep an eye on with Mom Donnie. Now he's left
Jessica and as police commissioners, she'll do a great job.
You got two other things going for you. As far
as the New York crime if it's a start to
get out of hand, there's a great US attorney in
the Southern District, j Clayton. He's a little busy right

(18:56):
now trying Maduro and Luigi Mangione and all thebo he
has said, and he can do it. If there's a
crime problem, he'll step in with federal officers and arrest
criminals on the street. In fact, that's actually better because
if the NYPD arrest them, they go to New York
City local courts where left wing judges all let them out.

(19:16):
If the US Attorney arrest them, they go to federal
court where the most likely really get locked up. Let's
go to Sam Greenwich, Connecticut. Sam, how you doing Yes?

Speaker 6 (19:26):
I like to comment on the three phony elected at
picts we have here aon Connecticut, Murphy, Hymes and Bloomintal. Yeah,
there are all over the news today talking about the
legal action, the war going to war with Venezuela. I
guess they haven't heard of the Wars Powers hacks.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Well, yeah, you know, it's funny. Connecticut is a wonderful place.
I go there on the weekends. I love Connecticut. Connecticut
is a wonderful place. But you've elected the slimiest, dirtiest
senators Balloomenthal Murphy, sleazy, dirty, disgusting Murphy for ten years,
is tweeting away. You've got to get Maduro. We've got

(20:08):
to remove Mduro. Trump is obviously crazy not to take Outmduro.
So as he takes him out. This is the worst
thing that ever happened. They keep yelling about this War
Powers Act. This is all of forest. The War Powers
Act has no connection to this incident. Nobody went to war.
If you did a quick three hour military operation, it
doesn't have anything to do with the War Powers Act.

(20:29):
If you blew up a drug boat, the War Powers
Act is not involved in any way. Let's go to
Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing.

Speaker 7 (20:37):
Good morning, Mark, Mark, great to hear your voice again.
You know. Donald Trump, while when he made his speech
Saturday morning, alluded to the fact that most of the
oil companies in Venezuela and the refineries, those were American
businesses that were stolen by Javes. While I have a
story when Javis was coming to power. I was in

(21:01):
my office late one night years ago and in the
middle of practically after twelve o'clock, I get a phone
call and I said hello, and the person on the
other end called me by my childhood Monica, and I
immediately knew this was a buddy of mine. I said,

(21:21):
I recognized the voice that I says. What can I do?
What's going on? He said, Vincent, He said, Javis's people,
the goons life over here like BLM and Black Lives Matter.
We're going through the neighborhoods. Robin marauding and my buddy
lived in a villa very very doing, very very well,

(21:44):
had him and said he's had domestic help. And he says,
then he didn't even mention my name. He just said,
I got a run out. I got to get here.
I'm running for my life. He grabbed as much jewelry
he could in the house, cash he got in his Mercedes,
and they knew that soon they were going to start
the PA.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Well that's pretty bad. But exactly what did this scarfaced
friend of yours do down there for a living?

Speaker 7 (22:09):
It was he was a business man. But I'm sure
he was so with the money, the cause, and the jewelry.
He didn't go. He didn't fly out of Caracas. He
took his car and drove it to Columbia and used
whatever he had on him, his car, the money, and

(22:30):
the jewelry.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
Well, it's a tragic his way out of the tragic,
tragic story. The poor Hyman Roth type guy. What he
went through to get out of there exactly before we go?
Uh hey, people tell me Curtis was on for two weeks,
taking a lot of calls. They said, you didn't call
for two weeks. Any reason? You're not a Curtis fan.

Speaker 11 (22:52):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (22:53):
I don't want to go there, Mark, No, okay, I
don't want to go there.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Mark. You what did you do? Good New Year's Eve?

Speaker 7 (23:01):
Excuse me?

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Do you have a good New Year's Eve?

Speaker 12 (23:03):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (23:04):
I had? I had a great I got a great holiday.

Speaker 11 (23:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (23:06):
I had a great New year Year's Eve, great Christmas? No,
I uh look, I don't want to go there, man.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
All right, subject changed. So aren't you glad all the
tourists are going? We got that, we have we have
New York.

Speaker 7 (23:22):
Yeah, yeah, everything everything is good, you know. Uh Hey,
we're back to life is normal. You're back on the air.
That's the most important.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
Thing every Vincent. No, I know, but we got to
go do the news. Vincent, thanks for calling. Uh we
got to Uh yeah, it's we'll talk about this next hour.
But these tourists, we had more tourists than ever. It
was impossible to even move here on the sidewalk anyway. Anyway,
we'll get to that later when we come back. Howie
Carr will be with us. He was at mar A

(23:52):
Lago Uh during the last couple of weeks. He'll tell
us what went on down there and more. We'll get
to lots of stuff next on seven to ten WR He's.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
More marximone on seventeen wor.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
Well. Howie Carr one of the great talk show hosts
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Just go to Howie carsshow dot com. Howie Carr, how

(24:30):
you doing.

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Speaker 2 (24:50):
That's good. Hey, you were at mar Lago last couple
of weeks. You know, it's a fascinating place. It's like
a vacation resort. It's like a country club. But you
go in one room and there's like a podium in
a press conference room. You go in another room, there's
like a cabinet meeting war room there. It's quite a
place at Christmas, isn't it right? And they get that.

Speaker 13 (25:08):
They got the little bar. And one night we're there
for my daughter's birthday, and we could we could look
right in there, and he was he was preferring in
the in this bar, and they got a big picture
of him looking like, you know, he's a squash player
from from Penn back in the nineteen sixties. It's really
a funny picture.

Speaker 11 (25:28):
And no, it was.

Speaker 13 (25:29):
It was great. I mean, I'd never seen bb Nut
Yahoo in person before before New Year's Eve, and you know,
he was working the he was working the pool circle,
you know where they have the bars and the or
ther set up, you know, lobster tailed caviar, really really posh,

(25:49):
posh spread. And then the dinner it was it was
really good, and especially when you think about what was
going on at the time, it was just it was
just great. And then to watch these Democrats yesterday, you know,
I figured out the way you know they're really they're
really shameless, mark is when they say this is all
of this is a distraction from the Epstein file. I mean,

(26:13):
this could be lamer than the Russian collusion hoax. You know,
how many years did they have the Epstein files all
to themselves and they couldn't find anything apparently, or they
weren't looking because they had to come up with all
these pony baloney scandals. But they keep going. I mean,
even Schumer and Jeffries don't do it anymore, you know,

(26:34):
I mean, it's really the most shameless of the Democrats
who bring it up. And then how about the ones
that all they all these all these videotapes of them
from twenty twenty and twenty nineteen denouncing Trump for not
getting rid of Maduro. And now they're saying it's it's
the end of democracy everywhere to get rid of Maduro,
who stole an election. I mean, and they after they

(26:56):
said he's stole an election, you know, in twenty twenty four,
they said he stolen election. It's just remarkable what's going
on and now and now Tim Wallas is sleeping with
the fishes, apparently in Minnesota in about an hour and
a half.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah, hey, so I'm reading the crazy left wing sites
like media ee. It says things like Maga world torn
apart over the invasion of Venezuela. You were at mar Lago.
Did they seem torn apart in that dining room there?

Speaker 7 (27:28):
No, No, not at all.

Speaker 13 (27:30):
I mean I was thinking when I saw when I
saw bab and uh and uh and Trump work in
the room, work in the pool. I guess I was
thinking of you know, like the you know movies like
you know The Godfather too. You know where they're they're
having all this nice party and everything that Michael Corleoni
tells Hymon Roth, Well they're going to win because you know,
they care more and they blow themselves up. But I

(27:52):
was thinking, this is like the reverse of math. They're
having a they're having this huge party and we didn't
know it at the time. They're preparing to invade Caracas.
There are all these riots the street, the the UH,
the the Iatola is getting ready to flee to Moscow
and join Basher assade, you know, the UH in the

(28:13):
UH band dictator's neighborhood of Moscow. I mean, it's it's
It was just amazing, the you know, the the energy
in the field. And Trump was in this great mood.
He he was. He was the auctioneer for this painting
that you saw that this woman put together in ten
minutes of abusus sold for two point seventy five million dollars.

(28:37):
And he was just a he was just in a
fantastic mood. I mean, he wasn't at all nervous about
the fact that you know, they were they were the
clock was ticking on the the invasion. They were just
waiting for the cloud cover to clear. Yeah, rockets, he wasn't.
He wasn't at all concerned about it.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
Now, apparently its supposed to happen last week, but the
weather wouldn't let up. So hey explain that, explain that
auction because he decided in the middle of the party
to do a charity auction raise money for a charity,
and he auctions off a painting and in that.

Speaker 13 (29:06):
Crowd, Yeah, she does a she does a paintings, uh
you know, spirit paintings. I guess she calls them. And
she's pretty good, you know, I mean she's not she's
not she's not the Rembrandt or Vermier, but she's she's
pretty good. And so he said, we're gonna raise some money.
We're gonna we're gonna try to. We got we got
more money than than we know what to do with

(29:26):
in this in this room. So we're just going to
try to have an auction. She's gonna they had, they
had they put some sound up. She was dressed in
a very attractive woman and she said, you know, he said,
she's going to do it in ten minutes from start
to finish. So she she does the whole painting with
you know, Christian music in the background, and it's just

(29:47):
you know, in between the the o Jays and Uncle
Cracker or whatever or whoever he was, and then they
have a big band playing and they they it was
just part of the festivities. And then and then Trump
Trump gets the uh gets the you know, you know,
the microphone, and he's he's the auctioneer. It's like he's
you know, it's like he's given out uh you know,

(30:09):
golf annual golf prizes at one of his one of
his clubs. You know, he's just he's just totally in control.
And then he you know, and then he's and then
he's acting, you know, like I've always seen him act.
At mar A Lago that the night my daughter had
had a birthday party there, you know, just we had
just a bunch of people there the day after Christmas,

(30:30):
and he comes by and he says, oh, this is
a fine looking table, especially the women. I mean, it's
just perfect. It's like he's running a roadhouse, you know,
nineteen sixty, you know, and he's just he's the president
of the United States and his second term and he's
just and he and he's still you know, taking care

(30:50):
of business. It's just it was just great. It was
it was a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
You're right, He's like he's like Jules Puddell running the
copa Covanda Santall to the table. But let me ask
you a question. The fact that he in the middle
of this room, he auctions off a painting. It's just
a nothing painting for two point seven million. How do
you think that made Hunter Biden feel watching this?

Speaker 13 (31:13):
That's that's exactly what I was thinking for the time.
You know, no wonder he's so mad at his father,
And why didn't my father ever auction up one of
my kids for two million? The most I ever got
was a half a million.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah, this is something. The idea of a president taking
the vacation at Christmas. You're supposed to go away somewhere
quiet and decompress and relax, somewhere quiet, a beach something.
The idea of going to mar A Lago, where's a
thousand times more hectic than the White House. What does
that say about him?

Speaker 13 (31:44):
Well, I mean, well the other thing too is I mean,
most of these people I don't know. Going back to
George Bush, I mean he used to go to his
own place, but Obama never had his own place. Biden
really never had his own place that he went, so
he went to Nantakat or something.

Speaker 12 (32:00):
Act.

Speaker 13 (32:00):
You know, I mean, at least this guy, at least
this guy owns his own property. That's I was thinking
about that. With Walt's. You know, Walts doesn't own any property.
He's sixty something years old, the two term governor, former congressman,
and he has no he has no real estate. I
mean it's I know people don't have real estate, but
I mean, I what's he been doing with his whole life?

Speaker 7 (32:22):
You know?

Speaker 13 (32:23):
I mean he's made a lot of money, he owns nothing.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Yeah, as far as making money, we don't even know
the extent. Who knows what what he's made with all
this fraud going on.

Speaker 13 (32:34):
I already predicted him my herald column for New Years.
I said, he's going to be he's not going to
be running for re election, and he's going to go
to the Kennedy School of Government as an adjunct lecturer. Wow,
and you know, I so my big my first big
prediction in my New Year's column is already coming through.
And my other prediction is he This means he'll just
he can walk to pick up the profiles and courage

(32:56):
awarded may Well.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
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Sounds like a very good deal. Go to howiecarshow dot com,
howiecarshow dot com, Howie Carr, thanks for being with us.

Speaker 13 (33:54):
Thank you, Mark, I was appreciate it. Happy New Year,
you too.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Take care. How long do we say Happy New Year? Well,
allowed for the rest of the week till Friday. Then
that's the deadline, so hey. Coming up in the next hour,
Rob Reiner will be our guest. He was a regular
on the show for years, so I just want you
to hear the real hymn. It's interesting, it's very interesting.

(34:18):
We'll get to that in the next hour. Also, we'll
get to CBS News. Some dramatic changes might be happening.
We'll get to Tim Waltz being out. We'll get more
back to more of Maduro and mar A Lago, and
a whole lot more coming up on seven to ten.
Wr Mark Simo Show on seven ten. Well, I'm back. Yeah,

(34:39):
too long a vacation, way too long. Although Curtis did
a great job filling in. Everybody loved him. He'll be
back sure here, I'm sure and doing more stuff here
in the next hour. We got a lot to get to. Hey,
the new anchor of the CBS Evening News was to
debut tonight, but because of the Maduro stuff, he had
a move up the debut and he did it on Saturday.

(35:02):
But it was pretty interesting. What happened might signal big
changes at CBS. We'll get to that coming up the
next hour. Also, we'll talk with Rob Reiner. Yeah, a
classic interview with him coming up. Hey, I think everybody's
back today. Buck and Clay, great show, they're back today
at noon. Sean Hannity, you've all been gone two weeks

(35:23):
Sean will be back at three o'clock today, and then
Jimmy Fayla tonight and a whole lot more So I'll
be back after the news another hour ago, coming up
on seven to ten WR.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
The Mark Simon Show on SR.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Well, I'm back way too long a vacation. Every host
was gone for two weeks. That today everybody back to normal.
Everybody's back. You know, it's nice to get away a nice,
quiet vacation. As I was saying, the President of the
United States, Donald Trump, very unusual. Normally a president takes
a break, a vacation. Bush would go to the ranch,

(36:07):
the ranch, quiet, peaceful, roaring fire, quiet on the ranch.
Joe Biden, would you know some billionaire oligarch would lend
him the house on Nantucket and he goes sit there
on Nantucket. Is it Martha's vineyard? Even quieter? Martha's vineyard,

(36:30):
roaring fire, snow outside, quiet, trump on vacation goes tomorrow, lago.
That place Christmas Week is a billion people all crammed
into It's the most crowded, chaotic, noisy place you've ever seen.
It's just a total circus going on there around the clock. Now,

(36:53):
that's the way he is. In fact, after two weeks there.
I watched him last night fly back to the White House.
The helicopter land on the lawn and he walked into
the White House. And the White House for him is
getting away. The White House was peace and quiet for him,
compared to the unbelievably chaotic mar A Lago, just packed

(37:14):
with people. You hear all these people, you see them
on Instagram. Who went to mar Alago for the New
Year's Eve party or for Christmas dinner? Or you see
him there in the dining looks so nice and beautiful
and you think, what a wonderful Hey, where do he
actually go there? You know, you know, just pull up
to the door and get out of the car and

(37:34):
the valley whisks your car away. It's not that simple.
You pull up, like four blocks away to a checkpoint
where the Secret Service, the FBI, guns big massive machine
guns in their hand and dogs everywhere, take your car
apart for twenty minutes. You have to open the hood,
you have to open the trunk. They have to look.

(37:56):
They literally look through your engine. They inspect every inch
of your car inside. They even get under your car.
They have a long pole with a mirror that they
slip under your car, they look at everything. This takes forever.
This is not to mention frisking you, searching you, checking
all your identity. This is like a forty minute process.

(38:16):
It makes TSA at the airport look like a breeze.
This is just to get into Borrow Lago. It's just
it's a crazy place. But we're glad everybody's back. So
the CBS Evening News has a brand new anchor and
tonight was supposed to be his big debut. But then
Saturday night, the Maduro capture takes place. This is big

(38:39):
breaking news. So they decide the new anchor, I tell
you his name, but who the hell can remember it?
And why remember it? The last three anchors of the
CBS Evening News actually pay for the last five of them.
Nobody remembers anyway. But he decided he would anchor the
Saturday night Evening News, that he would move it up
and that would be his debut. And it was quite shocking.

(39:03):
You know, they got this new Barry Weiss, who took
over CBS News, claimed she's going to clean up the
corruption it is. CBS News is the dirtiest, most corrupt, slanted, partisan, misleading,
biased news organization. She claimed she would clean it up. Well,
there was evidence of that. Saturday night, the CBS Evening

(39:23):
News with the new guy, I think his name is
David something, who the hell knows, but he took over
and the big story that consumed the whole half hour
newscast was the Maduro capture. And of course it's CBS News,
you know the way they write the news there, it's
kind of slanted, implying that this was something that shouldn't happen,
this Maduro capture. But then he said, with us live

(39:47):
now is Secretary of Defense Pete. Hegsyth and then he
put hexethon and let him talk for seven minutes. They
had to do commercial. He said, can you hold on
and come back with us? And then they brought him
back in the next segment for seven minutes, and then
at the end they said we have to go, but
for commercial, can you hang on again? And he hung
on through the second commercial break and was back for

(40:10):
a third segment. Now, this is the major spokesman of
the Trump administration on this matter, the Secretary of Defense.
So this is quite a change for CBS News to
give him airtime and let him give his point of
view and the administration's point of view for about twenty minutes.
You never would have seen that on the old CBS News.

(40:30):
So if this is an indication of change, if this
guy tonight is going to keep doing that, make it
actually a fair unbiased newscast, that'll be interesting. See what now,
it could be a formula really works. It'll take a
while for word to get around that it's not so
corrupt anymore, but who knows, it may take off in viewership.

(40:52):
And now the other thing is apparently Trump knew that
they're going to clean up the CBS Evening News because
the Maduro raid took in the middle of the night
and it was secret. Congress nobody got told about the raid.
It was total secrecy when it happened. But CBS News
was given the story first by the administration. They broke

(41:14):
the story before anybody because the administration gave it to them.
That's a pretty big thing for a news organization to
be handed that big story before anybody else. But the
President did it, so apparently he has some faith in
CBS News. Now, the Sunday Morning shows, they went right
back to total corruption. They went right back to putting

(41:34):
on people you shouldn't put on. Chuck Schumer has no
business being put on any Sunday morning show. He's not
going to run for reelection. He's totally irrelevant. He's a sad,
tired old Willie Lohman kind of an old politician on
his way out. But there he was huffing and puffing
on the morning shows.

Speaker 14 (41:51):
If they want to do what's good for the American people,
it should not be some escapade in Venezuela. It should
be focusing on lowering the cost of livings are struggling
with every week and tell us it's the most important
issue they face.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
Well, actually, he has been lowering the cost every week.
The actual statistics back that up. And an escapade getting
rid of this drug terrorist kingpin narco terror. It's not
an escapade. And we do have video. I think it's
up on my Twitter if you want to look at it.
For the last few years, Chuck Schumer has been demanding
we get rid of Maduro. He's been screaming that we

(42:26):
have to get rid of Maduro. The whole thing is comical. Now,
the other thing they tried arguing is this process argument
that because it is legal, it's totally legal. You can
go in there and seize Maduro. We did it with Noriega,
we did it with in fact, let me see, there's
a whole list here, how many times every president, every

(42:46):
single president, has run these sort of operations. You don't
need there's nothing to do with the War Powers Act.
You don't need to get congressional approval. You don't even
need to notify him. You can go through the whole list.
Jimmy Carter Iran nineteen eighty Remember the operation in the
middle of the night landing the helicopters going in to
capture the hostages and get them back. That was Jimmy

(43:06):
Carteron didn't notify Congress. Ronald Reagan bombing of Tripoli, bombing
of Benghazi, you didn't have to notify Congress. George H. W.
Bush Panama invasion, Iraq airstrikes. You didn't need to get
any approval or notify them. Bill Clinton did it in Bosnia,
he did it in Iraq, he did it in Kosovo.

(43:29):
George W. Bush launched drone strikes at invasions in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia.
Didn't have to inform Congress. Barack Obama did it in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen.
Joe Biden did it in Syria, Somalia and Yemen in fact,
are still there with the airst See, you don't need

(43:50):
to inform anybody, You don't need to deal with Congress
on it. You don't. The War Powers Act was created
in the seventies by a bunch of left wing people,
and basically it says you can do whatever you want
for ninety days. After ninety days, you're supposed to inform us.
Schumer again, I.

Speaker 15 (44:05):
Still have not been briefed. We've had some contact with
the administration in that we've asked them for the Gang
of Eight briefing and the oil Congressman and all senators briefing,
but we've gotten no information from them.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
Who the hell would brief you? Why would he be
brief you? Who would even talk to you? Was to
look at you? And it was not an invasion, you
know the CBS and ABC though Sunday Morning shows it's
an invasion of Venezuela. Rubio just fought back.

Speaker 5 (44:31):
It wasn't necessary because this is not an invasion. We
didn't occupy a country. This was an arrest operation. This
is a law enforcement operation. He was arrested on the
ground in Venezuela by FBI agents, read his rights and
removed from the country.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
Yeah, President Trump, Congress says a tendency to leak. This
would not be good.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
If they leaked, General, I think it would have been
maybe a very different result.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
Yeah. Could you imagine briefing? Can you imagine would you
trust Hakim Jeffries. You remember when Pete Hexath went on signaling,
he said, this is dangerous discussing an upcoming military operation
on signal. Why somebody could find out what would be
more dangerous putting on signal chat or telling Hakeem Jeffreys
about it. But remember, the Democrats have demanded four years

(45:15):
they have demanded. You can go to my Twitter the
videos all up there of all the Democrats demanding the
Trump removed Maduro.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
I did have conversations with him, and I said.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
And he also, he didn't just remove me. He gave
Maduro many, many, many chances to leave on his own.
He gave him plenty of the exit packages that were
quite profitable for him, but he turned them all down.

Speaker 3 (45:36):
I did have conversations with him, and I said, uh,
you got to surrender. And I actually thought he was
pretty close to doing so but now he wished he did.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
Yeah. Now here's a couple of things. You know what's interesting,
all the Democrats, of course, being just children. They're all
just childish knee jerk. You know. Whatever Trump does, they
hate it. They start screaming and whining and and they
did that. All you know who didn't say a word
about this Maduro thing. You know who's not even mentioned it.
Gavin Newsom, who is appears to be the leading candidate

(46:12):
in twenty twenty, and he's kept quiet about it. He
knows to stay out of it. Now he is going
to be the big guest. If you're a left wing kook,
this is a big night for you, because tonight they're
announcing it all day long tonight on Rachel Maddow. Exclusive.
It says right there on the screen right now, it

(46:34):
says exclusive interview with Gavin Newsom. Exclusive interview with Gavin Newsom.
I can't go five minutes without seeing Gavin Newsom on
a radio show, a podcast, a TV show. He's on
forty thousand shows a day. But this is an exclusive
with Gavin Newsom. Now let's see if she asked him
about Maduro and he's forced to comment about it. Now

(46:55):
here's the problem. Tim Waltz is, as Howie Carr said,
sleeping withies. Tim Waltz is dead politically, he's gone. He
will not seek reelection. He announced that an hour ago.
He will not seek reelection. He can't run for reelection.
His political career is over because of the Somalia fraud,
which is massive. Everybody says Gavin Newsom has the same

(47:20):
problem about to explode in California. And if that's the case,
he'll suffer the same fate that Tim Waltz suffered. He
will not be able to run and that'll be the
end of him. So this is going to be interesting
to keep an eye on. Now when it comes to Venezuela.
The only scary part when the Trump adminstration says, well,

(47:41):
we'll run Venezuela and everybody's, oh my god, this is
a rack all over again. This is a rack. We're
going to get bogged. Now, there's a lot of differences here,
many differences. First of all, it's not a rack. This
country does not resemble a rack. When we took over
a Raq, we had destroyed every inch of government. Was
nothing there. In the case of Venezuela, the government is

(48:03):
still fully functioning government still exists. We just took out
one guy. We did not touch the government. It's still there,
still functioning. The other difference is Iraq, the chaos came
from the warring factions, the different tribes, the different groups
all fighting with each other, the civil war. This is
not the case in Venezuela. There's only one group of people.

(48:26):
There aren't different tribes. There's unity in the population. That's
the other now. The other difference is people in Iraq,
believe it or not, they loved Sadam Hussein. People in
Venezuela hated Maduro. They're all thrilled that he's gone. The
other difference is in Iraq, we were there on the
ground occupying the country. There's no such thing. In Venezuela.

(48:46):
We are not there. We don't have a single soldier
on the ground there. We're doing it from offshore on
lots of ships. We got lots of planes, drones, missiles.
Also that we can do whatever we need to from there.
Who are not on the ground. You remember they always
all weekend they're bringing up the pottery barn rule. That
was Colin Powell that started that. When we went into

(49:07):
a Raq, you know, or we invaded. He always said,
you gotta remember the pottery barn rule. You break it,
you own it. If you break it, you own it.
He kept talking about this pottery barn rule. It was
all a myth. He just made that up. There's no
such thing, you know, if you go into pottery barn
today and accidentally break something, you don't have to buy it.

(49:30):
There's no pottery barn rule that if you break something
in the store you own it. The rule's false. It
never ever ever existed. Hey, the Giant season is over.
The Jets season is over, thank god.

Speaker 13 (49:42):
Now.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
I don't know how I got swept up in this,
but everybody kept talking about the Bills Jets game yesterday,
New York Jets, Buffalo Bills. Bruce Blakeman, who should be
the next governor. He's the best choice for governor, Bruce Blakeman.
I'm watching his Instagram. He's I'm flying up to Buffalo.
I didn't realize he's such a big Buffalo fan, has
been for years. In fact, he was wearing this Buffalo

(50:03):
T shirt that his sun bought him years ago. He
was such a Buffalo fan. But he flew up there
for the game, and all these people telling him to
the Buffalo Bills and the New York Jets. Big game. Yes,
I'm all hyped up. I can't wait to watch as well.
I got home late. I had to miss the first
half of the game, so I put it on quickly. Oh,
I want to watch this game. I forgot it's the Jets.

(50:24):
What the hell am I rushing home for. As soon
as I put it on in the middle of the game,
it's like thirty eight nothing, Buffalo Bills are head. It's
the Jets. They're not gonna what game. There was nothing competitive.
I think by the end, I think the Jets got
one touchdown. It was like seventy five to two or something.
This game the Jets the worst team in the world.
Woody Johnson is a wonderful guy. He's a great guy.

(50:46):
I know him. I love Woody Johnson. Worst owner in
the history of sports, single worst owner ever in the
history of sports. I've never seen anybody so bad at
running anything at Woody Johnson and the Jets. It's just horrible.
And there are plenty of people saying a mechanism needs

(51:09):
to be created in the NFL to take a team
away from an owner if he's ever this bad. And
taking away would mean force him to sell, which is fine.
You know, he paid six hundred million for the team.
It's now worth like nine billions. So if he took
it away and made him sell it, great, he'd make
a great profit, be better for everybody. And then the
Giants they're a little better. They didn't have a good season.

(51:32):
Where were they four and eleven and four and thirteen
or something like that, but they won the last couple
of games. Big mistake. They should have lost them deliberately
because now you would have had a first choice in
the draft. Now you got like fourth choice in the draft.
So anyway, we'll take some calls. Next eight hundred three
to two one zero seven ten is the number. Eight

(51:52):
hundred three two one zero seven ten.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
Mark Simoni's back on seventeen.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
Well, so the left wing going nuts anything Trump does.
They're like little children. They just yell and scream and
whine and pout whatever he does. Let's say he had
a crime problem, it was out of control, and he
offered to send in troops to help police the streets
help clean up the crime. Well, they get mad and
scream and yell and pout and throw things. They go
to court, and they get a left wing judge to

(52:23):
ban the National Guard from coming in, and then they cheer,
They cheer that they're gonna have less security. Now, once
in a while you got a left wing guy who's
like sane rational for a moment or two of Bill
Maher or Dave Chappelle. Dave Chappelle. You know all the
left wings screaming and crying and yelling and pouting that
the National Guard came into Washington, d C. But listen

(52:47):
to Dave Chappelle went to Washington, d C. He's been
going there for years, but he went back. Now the
Trump said in the National Guard? And what did Chappelle say?
And I came here mad, ready to fight. But when
I drove to this they looked clean. Guys, I gotta
tell you. I gotta tell you look clean a lot

(53:10):
better than the last time I was here. They left
wing crowd going nuts. Let's go to doctor Bob in
Long Island. Doctor Bob, how you doing.

Speaker 11 (53:20):
I'm good, Mark, welcome back, he were dearly missed. I'll
say that two things. Number One, I think that we
have our the we have instead of uh Madammie being
the mayor, he really is the first Nightmare of New York.
That's his should be his official title number two. My
take on CBS News that new anchor was a little

(53:42):
bit different because he was he was kind of tough
on Peter Heiksa and his his intonations were, we're not
that friendly.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
But also they I think you missed the point. Of course,
of course they always they always do that. But he
gave him three four segments. He left him on the
air for twenty minutes to talk. That's never been done.
That's a big, big, big, big, big change for CBS News.
Normally just beat up the guests for twelve seconds and
throw them off. They gave Hegsa three full segments to answer.

(54:14):
Let's go to Alan yonkers Al.

Speaker 11 (54:16):
How you doing, hey, Mark, Good health to you in
the new year.

Speaker 13 (54:20):
I wish you the best.

Speaker 16 (54:21):
You know, Mark, I just wanted to say, back in
the summer of seventy seven, I lived right near David
berkle Witch, the son Sam, and I've always been interested
in true crime, had a lot of members of my
family who were retired.

Speaker 11 (54:35):
Law enforcement officers, and the point.

Speaker 16 (54:37):
But I just wanted to Yeah, I just wanted to say,
it looks like they've finally identified who the Zodiac Killer was,
who terrorized the San Francisco It looks pretty accurate.

Speaker 11 (54:48):
Did you see that?

Speaker 2 (54:50):
Well? Actually no, well look into it, but no, I
was on vacation. I have not been following the Zodiac Killer.
But it's fascinating these cold cases that they solve a
million years later. Let's go to lou In Queen's lou
How you doing.

Speaker 17 (55:06):
Hi, Mark, Welcome back, by the way, I had a
lot of laughs. Listener, Chris van holl In, the Senator
from Maryland going no war for oil? Does he realize
that oil is under fifty nine bucks a barrel? Which
brings it back to January twenty twenty. And the other
thing is you broke my heart. Timothy Waltz not running

(55:28):
for the president. Where are the last gonna come from?

Speaker 2 (55:32):
Oh, don't worry. These are Democrats. They'll find somebody just
as dumb as Tim Waltz. They'll find somebody even dumber.

Speaker 6 (55:39):
You know.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
The problem was you have to when you pick a
vice president, pick somebody worse than you, somebody dumber than you.
That's one of the reasons Obama picked Joe Biden. You
don't want a guy that's smarter than you, that looks
better than you, sounds better, and shows you up. That's
why Biden picked Kamala Harris. Now, the problem is, when
Kamala Harris announced she was going to run, a lot

(56:01):
of political insiders said, where's she going to find somebody
dumber than her? That's not going to be easy. Well,
they go meet with Joshapiro. He's got an iq A
like one fifty. He's talking a mile a minute. So
that was the end of him. Then they find Tim Waltz.
They couldn't believe it. They found a guy dumber than her.
Now the problem is if he runs if he can't now,

(56:24):
but if he was gonna run, who the hell could
he find dumber than him? That would I mean, you know,
you'd have to go like the zoo to find somebody.
But Waltz's finished, his career is over. He announced he
will not seek reelection. That's the end to him. You
will not see him in politics anymore. I think you'll
see him try to start some sort of a TV career.

(56:45):
I'm sure he'll do a lot of MSNBC. Hey, by
the way, this Marjorie Taylor Green who always looked nuts
you know, she always looked nutty has been attacking Trump
left and right. Well it's paying off. He's getting the
start of a TV career. Now you know she's willing
to attack Trump and call him names, and they'll put
her on anywhere. She was on Meet the Press? Can

(57:06):
you Meet the Press? Spent the last few years telling
you that Marjorie Taylor Green is a complete idiot to
a totally useless mora. Now they put her on like
she's a great spokesperson, a brilliant guest. They shower with praise,
so you're going to see more of her. It's a
great occupation, just Trump bashing. You can actually find work
in television doing it. Hey, when we come back, a

(57:30):
conversation with Rob Reiner. I've been gone for the last
couple of weeks, but I did go through some old shows.
He's been a regular guest on this show for years.
He was a friend of mine. I love the guy,
Rob Reiner. I mean he's completely insane politically, completely nuts
childish as when it comes to politics. But aside from that,
he was a brilliant director, producer, and a great I

(57:54):
used to just he's like me, just studies old show
business and all the great old comedians and shows. That's
mostly what we would talk about. But when we come
back a conversation with Rob Bryan, if you want to
hear the real hymn, you'll hear it next on seven
to ten. Wr in Mark.

Speaker 1 (58:10):
On Demand by setting a preset for his podcast on
the iHeartRadio app. Now back to Mark Simone on war.

Speaker 2 (58:20):
Well, the terrible tragic Rob Reiner situation. So it happened, Well,
I was on when it happened that week, so I
guess that's three weeks ago, this horrible situation. But Rob
Reiner in real life a great guy. Now, a lot
of these people that are completely nuts when it comes
to politics, I mean raving lunatics, and Rob Reiner became

(58:44):
one of them. They just it's like in your own family,
you know, when you get together for Thanksgiving, a Christmas,
the whole family gets together, and you got an uncle
or a cousin or somebody who's a crazy left wing
and you get into these fights with them. But aside
from that, they're normal, nice people that you like a lot.
But when it comes to politics, they're crazy. They're just childish,

(59:05):
just nuts, the over the top crazy when it comes
to politics. So Rob Reiner used to be a regular
guest on the show. We lost a lot of regular
guests when Trump came along. We don't need to mention
all the names, but there were a lot of people
that were regular guests on this show. But that kind
of stopped in twenty sixteen Donald Trump took over. That

(59:28):
was the end of those guess a lot of them
we just couldn't put on anymore, or they got so
mad at us that they wouldn't come on anymore. So
that was the end of that. But Rob Reiner, I
just want you to hear this interview. This I just
went back and found an interview from a few years ago,
just right before Trump. But a good guy in real life,
and again, take away the politics. He was a normal,

(59:49):
nice guy. He was a brilliant director, writer, producer, actor.
So here is a conversation with Rob Reiner. Well with
us right now. Is what a talented guy, What a
career he's had. I'd call him a legend, but he's
way too young for that. But what a brilliant director,
a writer, performer. Rob Reiner is with us and it's

(01:00:10):
great to have him on the show. Rob Reiner, how
are you hi?

Speaker 12 (01:00:13):
Mark, Thank you very much, and thank you for calling
me too young.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
Well, you know you're one of those guys. Years from now,
when you're an old guy, you're gonna be the living legend.
They're gonna be doing these tributes to you. And well
you know what I mean.

Speaker 12 (01:00:25):
Yeah, Well I'm in my sixties, so I consider myself
a very very young old person.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
Yeah, but years ago, sixty was an old guy. Today
it's nothing.

Speaker 12 (01:00:35):
Oh I love I love hearing that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
So or it's either Rob Reiner. The new movie is
called Flipped. There's no better subject ever than that first love.
And you obviously when you made this, so somebody was
in your mind, some first love of YOURSLF.

Speaker 12 (01:00:50):
Well it was, I mean when I when I was
twelve going on thirteen, it was Kathy Schrilloh, and she
she was adorable. She looked like Hayley Mills and the
old parent trap. You know, she had the blonde, curly hair,
kind of a tomboy. And we exchanged id bracelets. And
I remember when I went to first kiss her, she
hit me with a hair brush. And see that That's

(01:01:10):
when I knew it was true love because I was
willing to endure pain in order to get a kiss.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
You ever go in like Facebook to see what where
Kathy Schrillo is today.

Speaker 12 (01:01:18):
No, I haven't done it, you know, but I do
pass by her house every once in a while. It's
about two blocks from where I work now, and it's
actually just to remember that time when I was in love,
and you never forget that. You never forget your first love.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
So you're not curious to see if she now looks
like Madeline Albright or something there.

Speaker 12 (01:01:35):
Oh my god, you don't do that to me.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
You know, no kid wants to learn anything in school,
but the one thing we all wanted to learn was
how to talk to a girl. And it's one thing
no one ever.

Speaker 12 (01:01:45):
Could teach you, I know. I mean I think that,
you know, to this day. You know, even as adults,
men are just totally clueless when it comes. I mean,
we spend our entire lives trying to figure out, you know,
what we should be doing with women, and hopefully they're
trying to figure out what to do with us, because
you know, it just doesn't get any easier. I don't think.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
Yeah, no, it's tough, you know, like even a guy
like you in Hollywood, it must have been tough as
the young guy. And then even if you get to
all in the family year though, on the biggest stars
in the world. It was no easier to approach a woman.

Speaker 12 (01:02:14):
It never is. It never is. And I, you know,
I keep making the same film over and over again
trying to figure it out. I mean, essentially, the girl
is always so much more mature, she has much more
of a sense of herself and very settled with her.
And the boy is always running around like an idiot
trying to figure out what's going on, and he's usually dragged,
kicking and screaming into maturity by the girl.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
So and Rob Ryner, look at these films. If you
had just made any one of these, you'd be your legend.
But from a few good men to Misery to when
Harry met Sally and stand by me, now, Misery, what
were you reflecting on there?

Speaker 12 (01:02:48):
Well that, you know, oddly enough, it sounds weird for
me to be making a film like that. But at
the time, you know, I when I became a director,
the people from television just were not full of as
being movie people. We were looked down upon like second
class citizens, and you know, the lesser of you know,
the lesser show business people. And so it was hard

(01:03:09):
for me to make the transition to become a director,
and I related to the guy in the in the
movie who was a success doing one kind of thing,
who wanted to do something else and was being held
down by these fans that wanted to keep him trapped
in that one, you know, one area. So I kind
of related to that character.

Speaker 2 (01:03:25):
I gotta be honest. There are scenes in Misery I
cannot watch certain moments. I can't look at it.

Speaker 12 (01:03:30):
I mean, you have a problem with that ankle break.
I can't what you are you a wos Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
How did you look at it? Take after it takes? Oh?

Speaker 12 (01:03:39):
No, well, you know, I mean wow, because I know
what went into it. I know we didn't actually break
his ankle, so I but it is. It is pretty gruesome,
and most people have When we first screened it, people
were just whoa, They was crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
Rob Briner one of the great directors in the world.
What's tougher to direct a guy like Jack Nicholson or
one of these kids in the.

Speaker 7 (01:04:01):
You know.

Speaker 12 (01:04:03):
Jack's gonna kill me Jack? No, they're both. They're all professionals.
I mean, oddly enough, these two kids were as developed
as any adult I've ever worked with. So you know,
when I did Stand by Me, it was it was
tougher because the kids were not as experienced and some
of them hadn't never acted before. But in this case,

(01:04:23):
the kids were. Their craft was as developed as any
adult I've worked with. So I would say, even even
between Jack Nicholson and the kids.

Speaker 11 (01:04:30):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
But so you've got such a track record of the
guys like you. Very few, but guys like you who
everything they pick, every project, it's brilliant, it's great, it's this.
And then you get other guys who even top stars,
who one movie's great, one movie is just ridiculous. You
wonder what made them even do it? What does that
all come from?

Speaker 12 (01:04:48):
You know, it's just instinct. You have an indet listen.
I've had some flops too, you know, everybody does. You know,
it's just an instinct. You go with what you think
you like and hopefully the audience like. And you know,
I've been lucky more often than not that the audience
did like what I liked.

Speaker 2 (01:05:04):
Now we're talking with Rob Reiner. Let me ask you
all in the family question. We were arguing about this before.
It was a revolutionary breakthrough show is brilliant, but what
we were saying, was you couldn't do that show today,
you would never get it on the air.

Speaker 12 (01:05:16):
No, No, We're living in two PC a world for
that for that to happen. And I think also attitudes
have changed. I mean it's not to say we couldn't
have a show where there was the issues of the
day debated. You know, we are living in a very
divided country, you know, red state, blue state and all that.
But I think the arguments would not be there would
be a little bit more PC. I mean, the racism

(01:05:38):
has not completely gone away, but obviously we have elected
a black president and so things have changed dramatically since
the early seventies, but they raised, you know, the arguments
would be much more muted. I think.

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
Yeah. And even if normally we're trying to use Archie
Bunger to expose what was wrong today, you'd have sponsored boycotts,
you'd have everything.

Speaker 12 (01:05:58):
Oh yeah, no, no, you couldn't. You couldn't have that.
And people don't really talk like that now. I mean
it's changed a lot. I mean people may still feel
those things, but they are at least smart. Unless you're
Lawa's Lessinger. Then then you don't know that you shouldn't
talk like that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
Who's that doctor Laura?

Speaker 12 (01:06:15):
Yeah, don't you remember I know her last name?

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
Yeah, doctor Laura yea yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:06:19):
No, she pulled the N word out of the hat
there and and basically joined a long line of people
who have destroyed their careers.

Speaker 15 (01:06:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:06:28):
She seemed like a combination Archie and Edith Punker all
at once. There you go, hit makes you one with
it because you we're talking about your judgment you're great at.
And so this this company you formed, castle Rock. Yeah,
every time I see something brilliant, even Seinfeld, there's that
name castle Rock at the end of it.

Speaker 12 (01:06:42):
Yeah. We named it actually after the town in stand
By Me, which was Stephen King's creation.

Speaker 7 (01:06:48):
You know.

Speaker 12 (01:06:48):
It was the stand by Me was taken from a
Stephen King novella called The Body, And so I loved
making that movie. It meant so much to me, like Flipped,
and they're very similar in that way. And so we
named our company that And we've been around the twenty
three years now. We've made like over one hundred movies.

Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
Wow, and you're in part responsible for Seinfeld.

Speaker 12 (01:07:10):
Yes, that was our That was our TV show that
we that we produced and we you know, We're very
proud of a lot of the films. I mean, we
had Shoushank Redemption, which was one of our favorite films
that we've done, and it's been, you know, on all
these top ten lists, and so we've done. We're very
happy with what we've done.

Speaker 2 (01:07:26):
Wow, amazing career. And I guess it runs in the
family too, because normally, when there's a great a guy
like your father, the son's never quite as good.

Speaker 12 (01:07:34):
But in this case, yeah, you know, it's funny that
you mentioned that because I've had this conversation with Michael Douglas.
You know, on a number of occasions, are very few
you can count them on one hand of the children
of very successful people in show business who you know,
achieved at at a very high level, whose children have
survived and done well. I mean it's a small, small list.

Speaker 2 (01:07:56):
Yeah, I mean, usually it's more I hit to say it,
like a Frank Sineuder junior kind of deal. And so
you must have worried about that, the comparison I did.

Speaker 12 (01:08:04):
I mean, you know, it's it's a tough road to
hoe and but I my dad tells this story all
the time and I don't remember it, but he tells it.
When I was eight years old, Apparently I went up
to him and you know, I said, Dad, I want
to change my name. And he got all worried. He thought,
oh my god, this poor kid is worried about having
to live up to the you know, to Carl Reiner

(01:08:24):
and all this stuff. And so he said, well, what
do you want to change your name to? And I
said Carl. Basically, I love being a Reiner and I
just wanted to be like him, you know, I just
I loved him so much, and I looked up to
him so much. I just wanted to be him.

Speaker 2 (01:08:39):
So now, you know, you have to have a child
that's going to take over the family business.

Speaker 12 (01:08:42):
Well, I don't know. And I have three kids, and
you know, I don't know what they're going to do.
But whatever they choose, and as long as they're happy
in doing what they like, I'm I'm happy.

Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
Well, Well, Rob Reiner, congratulations on an absolutely amazing career,
and keep up all the good work.

Speaker 12 (01:08:56):
Thank you so much for having me Mark.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
All right, take care, Okay, bye bye, Rob Reiner. A
couple of years ago, do you hear that part at
the end, we're talking about his kids. So he said,
I have three kids. I don't know what they're gonna do.
WHOA Anyway, the son, Nick Reiner in custody. He'll go
to trial. They both sides have asked to delay it.

(01:09:20):
So normally be happening this week. It's going to be
towards the end of the month they'll start. Nobody knows
what the sun will plead. Could be not guilty, could
be insanity. You know these drugs they put kids on
that have all kinds of mental troubles the side effects,
and it says right in the side effects these psychotropic drugs,

(01:09:42):
it says could cause homicidal behavior, suicidal behavior, could cause
all kinds of stuff like that. So they may go
after that use that as the defense that it was
the drugs that did this to them. But we'll see.
Today's the anniversary one year anniversary of congestion pricing. You know,

(01:10:02):
the Democrats yell and scream about affordability, then they hit
you with congestion pricing, which affects a lot of people working.
People the drive trucks or cabs or stuff like that,
or need to commute in the middle of the night
or something like that. So a year anniversary and today
the MTA tolls go up. Fair hike, MTA fair hike

(01:10:24):
begins today. So this is of course typical you know,
democratic left wing socialist definitely, you know, totally hypocritical, yelling
about affordabilding and then raising the price on everything. Now,
where's Mumdani on this? Why has he gotten rid of
the congestion pricing? Why is he speaking of about this
toll increase which affects everybody, you know, the MTA raising

(01:10:48):
the tolls. It doesn't affect a lot of billionaires. It
really doesn't bother them at all. It's people that are
working hard or struggling, that's who suffers from this. But
not a word from Mamdani about it. His inauguration a mess.
Hey Curtis was there at the inauguration. Chuck Schumer was
there but left in the middle. Typical rude Chuck Schumer

(01:11:12):
just left right in the middle. Mandy Patinkin performed there.
If you love Mandy Patinkin, think twice about it. Nobody
worked harder to get Momdannie elected than this lunatic Mandy Patinkin. Anyway,
we got a lot to well, we'll wrap it up
in a moment. Bucking Clay are back. They'll be here today,
and Sean Hannity back at three, Jimmy Fayla back tonight,

(01:11:34):
coming up on seven to ten.

Speaker 1 (01:11:36):
WR you're ahead of the game just for being here,
he s marks alone on sevent tenor.

Speaker 2 (01:11:49):
Well, we're out of time. Not bad first show back.
I think I got the hang of it. I think
we'll be okay for the rest of the week. Anyway,
we thank Curtis for filling in for a couple of weeks.
It's that, you know, everybody was gone for two weeks,
all the hosts radio television, everybody vanished for two weeks.
Everybody should be back today. Buck and Clay do a

(01:12:10):
great show. They'll be coming up next. I think they're
both back today. Then the most listened to radio show
in America, Sean Hannity three o'clock. He'll be back, and
Jesse Kelly at six and Jimmy Faylor will be back.
That's you should listen to that every night. It's a
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(01:12:30):
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