FULL SHOW: More details emerge about the Epstein files; The U.S. lost money.

The longest government shutdown in U.S. history has finally ended after weeks of partisan deadlock, primarily over Obamacare. With the shutdown now over, what are the next steps for Congress and the administration? Mark interviews economist Steve Moore. What did Minority Leader Chuck Schumer gain from shutting down the government, and what are the broader economic impacts? The U.S. reportedly lost about $56 billion during the shutdown. Steve also weighs in on inflation, attributing much of the current rise to the Biden administration. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is assembling his team, which is expected to include many members from former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration. Mamdani is also in talks to retain Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. Mark interviews WOR weeknight host Jimmy Failla. They discuss whether New Yorkers are leaving the city because of Mayor-elect Mamdani. Democrats appear frustrated by the reopening of the government, especially as they tried to sound the alarm on expiring healthcare subsidies. Will Republicans have a plan to fix the healthcare subsidies before they expire and premiums rise?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now seor presents no marks emotion.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Well, hey, shutdown is over. We'll go over the details.
We'll get to the Epstein files and the hoax that's
taking place. We'll get to Chuck Schumer, We'll get to
Bruce Blakeman, We'll get to Mom Donnie. There's more to
learn about this guy. It's not good. It's not good
loss to talk about today. So the shutdown was the

(00:30):
longest in history, forty three days. A year from now,
nobody will remember it. Longest one before that was thirty
five days. That was in the first Trump term. Nobody
remembers that the shutdown ended. Trump was a big dinner
last night, business leaders dinner in the East Room of

(00:51):
the White House. Big dinner taking place. But while that
dinner was going on, the vote took place. They ended
the shutdown. Took the president a while, about an hour
to get out out of that dinner, get to the
Oval Office where he had the Cabinet, some of those
business leaders, and announced the end of the shutdown, signed
the legislation that brought it all to an end. It
was a great moment. He was very happy about that.

(01:15):
He pointed out that this little stunt the Democrats pulled.
This whole shutdown ended up costing America one point five
trillion dollars. What do you call it, their little escapade,
They're a little endeavor. He called it something like that
cost one point five trillion dollars. Was one of the
reasons for the shutdown was to try to damage the

(01:36):
Trump economy, just wreak a little havoc there, especially leading
up to the election. They thought it would help them,
especially in Virginia where a huge percentage of voters are
government workers. So they thought it would help in Virginia,
New Jersey and other places, just to have the shutdown
going on, just to rile up Democrats. So you got

(01:57):
to admit it did work. The down is over now. However,
this extension only goes till January thirty first, so it's
like two months before we have to go through this again,
and we'll see what happens. The fight over the Affordable
Care Act, which is obviously not affordable since you need

(02:17):
a subsidy to have it, you have to subsidize it,
it's obviously not affordable. The President will come up with
a better plan by the time January thirty first rolls around,
and he'll put that plan out. One of his ideas
is to give it costs so much money for this Obamacare.
The government has to spend astronomical amounts of money on it.

(02:40):
And he figured out that you could it be easier
just to give people the money and let him go
buy their own health care. That way, they could pick
whatever they wanted and get a much better plan than
you'd get from the governor government. The problem is big
one for Democrats. The reason they don't like that. You
might say, well, it makes perfect sense, that sounds like
a much better one. The real secret of Obamacare is

(03:01):
the money goes directly to the insurance companies, not the consumer.
Insurance companies love that they get paid massive fees by
the government under Obamacare. That's one of the reasons Schumer
was fighting to keep it the way. It is not
just Tim but other congressmen and women, including some Republicans,
because by paying off these insurance companies directly, it means

(03:25):
massive donations to them from the insurance companies. They're big, big,
big donors. So Congress was trying to keep this in
place where the money just goes direct to the insurance companies.
Now the President's going to try to end that and
give it direct to the consumers and let them pick
whatever kind of plan they want. So that's what this
fight was about, in large parts, affordability thing. Affordabilities has

(03:53):
been drilled into everybody's head. That's how propaganda works. You
just repeat something i'd nauseum from every direction. If you
keep hearing it all day and night, you start to
believe it affordability crisis. It's not a crisis because inflation
is down dramatically from Joe Biden's presidency, where it hit
nine percent at one point round two percent. Now it's

(04:15):
way way down. Energy prices are down. Now people will say, well,
what about healthcare. That's sort of said, well, that's that's
not an inflation factor. That's insurance. That's all caused by
other reasons. That's not inflation driving that up. Even here
in New York City, you didn't see the gas prices
come down that much. All around the country, gas prices

(04:37):
are way down, but not so much here or California. Well,
the reason for that is state, local taxes, fees, penalty,
all kinds of stuff on the gas that's keeping it up.
So it's not an affordability crisis. Prices are down and
going down. I think this is President Trump talking to
Laura Ingram about it.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Look at the price of gasoline going from four to
fifty to two fifty or two seventy, it's going to.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Be two dollars. Guess people want affordable. Well the answer
me is my thing. And we have the greatest economy
in history. Are Republicans not selling it?

Speaker 2 (05:09):
For Republicans don't talk about it?

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, so they need to do a better job on
Capitol Hill. The tags I'll give.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
False talk and the Republicans, and I say it all
the time, Republicans have to talk about the fact that
prices are down.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, that with the costco Walmart. Walmart just put out
that big study the price of a Thanksgiving dinner will
be twenty five percent less than less than last year.
So you got all those kinds of things. But you're right,
Democrats have to talk about it. You can drill something
into people's heads and they believe it. You remember, you
all through the election from the beginning, all you kept
telling is Curtis can't win. Curtis can't win, No way

(05:45):
Curtis can win. Well, of course there is. He was
as good as candidate and probably a better candidate in
many ways in the very beginning. But if ten months,
if Curtis can't win every time, everywhere you look, Curtis
can't win. Curtis can't win. Curtis if you just hear
that four million times, actually they start to believe it,
and people start repeating it. They're like parrots, just repeating
what they're told to repeat. So that's the affordability the

(06:08):
State of the Union speech. The President will make that
in January. That's where he's got to fix all this.
That'll come before the next shutdown vote. That's where he's
got to get through and really communicate all this to
the public. Hey, let's get to this Epstein stuff for
a second. These Epstein files, they want them released. There's
nothing that dramatic, and there's nothing about Trump in the files. Nothing.

(06:30):
And remember those files have been in the hands of
a lot of people. It was here at the US
Attorney's Office Southern District. They all saw the files. I've
talked to a lot of people that have seen those files.
It's nothing about Trump and there's nothing There's stuff about
other people in there, but nothing as dramatic as you think.
There was never a client list Epstein never had any

(06:50):
sex clients. He had a client list, but it was
for a wealth management fund. As far as the sexual
stuff the girls, it wasn't a business. He didn't charge
any There were no clients. I mean if he came
to his house, there were women there of all ages.
By the way, he's the one that liked the young
women's It looked like a Prince Andrew like young women too.

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But here's another thing to remember. Joe Biden had the
Epstein files in his hands for four years. For four years,
Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, James Cobe, Clapper, Brannan, all these
people had the Epstein files. It belonged to the Biden
Justice Department for four years. They were trying in every

(07:34):
way to stop Donald Trump. At that point, they were
coming up with every scheme to stop Donald Trump. You
can be sure they looked through the Epstein files. Had
there been one word in there damaging the Trump, they
would have released it the next day. They would They
have a million people that know how to leak it
to the press. It's real easy to do. Had there

(07:54):
been anything that would hurt Trump, they would have used it.
The lead up to the election and during the election,
they would have used it if there was anything in there.
There's nothing in there about Trump. Now, yesterday, earlier this week,
they put out this again. They leaked it. They liaked
it to reporters. There's victim number one says Trump was

(08:19):
in the house, that she spent a lot of time
with Trump. Victim number one. That's all they put out.
Victim number one said she was with Trump in the
house and on the plane. Well, they didn't say what
they could have said. Victim number one was Virginia Gouffrey
because the reason they withheld her name. She did multiple

(08:41):
interviews with law enforcement. She was interrogated and interviewed millions
of times by law enforcement. In every single interview, she
said absolutely nothing happened with Donald Trump. He came to
parties and things at the house, and she said he
was always a total gentleman and very friendly. Nothing ever happened.
She's no longer with us. She died, but she did

(09:02):
write a book, a long book about everything, and in
the book she says nothing ever happened with Donald Trump.
Nothing ever. So they kept that from you. If you're
watching nightly news like NBC, boy, you really got conned
by them last night what a fake story. Victim number one,
So she spent a very dealar time with Donald Trump.

(09:24):
Somewhere at the end of the piece they inserted it
in real quick just for a second. Virginia Govery said
nothing happened with Donald Trump, but for ten minutes they
made it sound like something bad happen with Donald Trump.
So a complete total hoax. Now, the guy who they've
also has been dragging in this is Michael Wolfe, who
is the lowest form of journalism. I wouldn't even call

(09:49):
it journalism, a gossip column He's the lowest form of
gossip columnist. He is the most disgusting, creepy guy in
the world. He's put out a couple of books. His
whole business model is just bashing Donald Trump, and he
he'll say anything and everything, most of it not true.
He's been caught in a million things that are not true.
But because he's bashing Donald Trump, they'll put him on MSNBC,

(10:12):
He'll be on Meet the Press, He'll be on the
ABC Sunday Morning Show. He is the sleaziest, dirtiest gossip columnist.
Don't believe anything he says. Now, Apparently Epstein at one
point was emailing back and forth with this guy. So
they're starting to release all these emails Epstein and him were,
but if you really read the emails, it looks like

(10:34):
this lowlife, Michael Wolfe, this creepy lowlife, was coaching Epstein
on how to damage Trump and at one point suggested
blackmailing Trump because Epstein said he didn't have much of
anything on Trump, and he said, well, if you said
you did, you might. You could use it as leverage
and then take it back, and then you'd have he'd

(10:55):
owe you a favor. He was talking about actually blackmailing
Trump with Epstein. It's really embarrassed in this. It's interesting
the Clinton stuff. You know, obviously the Clinton's, the Obama's
all busy with Epstein. But somewhere in there, Epstein reveals
he had a fight with Clinton. He broke up with
Bill Clinton. He doesn't exactly say what it was, but

(11:18):
he said to Clinton, I guess Clinton was supposed to
do him some sort of favor, and he swore to
me that he did it, but he forgot. He swore
the exact opposite only two weeks before. So he's supposed
to do something for him and didn't do him. Now
The other thing is this Epstein seemed to be very
cozy with the New York Times financial journalist, this lowlife

(11:42):
Michael Wolf. So it's really the journalists that we're dealing with. Epstein,
New York Times finance journalist emails back and forth, you
can tell their real buddies, and he's relying heavily on Epstein.
What the hell is the New York Times doing all
tangled up with Epstein? Now, the guy that should be
the most embarrassed is Larry Summers, who was Bill Clinton's

(12:03):
Treasury secretary. He was one of Barack Obama's chief economic advisors.
You'll remember he was the president of Harvard. Larry Summers,
who tries to be this distinguished guy. If you look
through the emails, apparently he was very close to Epstein.
And Larry Summers, a married man, was meeting with various

(12:25):
women all over the place, Not young girls, but women
who he's trying to do something with, and apparently was
having trouble. He was getting rejected left and right by women,
and he's constantly emailing Epstein for advice, and there's emails
back and forth. He's like a teenager Larry Summers right

(12:46):
in Epstein. Well, here's what she wrote. She texted me,
can't I'm busy. I'll call you next week. What does
that mean? And then Epstein is emailing him back, He's
just play it cool, don't whine, don't look don't look good.
And then apparently supposed to spend a weekend with one
woman in London and she canceled and what does that mean?

(13:07):
How can I get any And Epstein is coaching him.
Don't say this. Say that's quite pathetic on the part
of Larry Summers. He should really be embarrassed. He you
know Ozzy Osbourne, we lost Ozzy Osbourne. Sharon Osbourne finally
revealed this for everybody to hear. She didn't really know
Donald Trump. Well, I mean not really, but he got

(13:30):
her number and he left her a voicemail. This is
Donald Trump leaving a voicemail for Sharon Osbourne.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
Everyone will know.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
I Sharon is Donald Trump, and I just wanted to
wish you the best in the family. Have great Ozie
was amazing.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
He was an amazing guy.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
I met him a few times and I want to
say that he was unique in every way and talented.
So I just wanted to wish you the best, and it's.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
A tough thing.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
I know how close you were, and whenever I can do,
take care of yourself, say loo to the family.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Thanks by Well, now they're playing it with Sharon Osbourne.
There you see her tear up listening to it. It's
very nice. He does that all the time for people.
You're not supposed to know about that, because the press
would never ever report that. Hey, we'll get to Bruce Blakeman.
Apparently he's taking it seriously this run for governor. He's

(14:24):
gonna even go on a little tour upstate, which is
a good idea. That's what a smart guy does. You know,
you go test the waters.

Speaker 5 (14:30):
You go.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
You don't just sit there and decide should I shouldn't I.
You go up there and you meet voters, you see
how it feels, You get a feel for things. That's
that's what a smart manager would do. But we'll get
to that coming up. We'll get to mom Donnie, his transition,
what he's working on by even the Washington Post, even
the Washington Post bashing Mom Donnie talking about how phony
he was, this smiling, happy and you know candidate and

(14:54):
then that angry, ugly victory speech election. But we'll take
some calls. Next eight hundred three to two one zero
seven ten is the number. Eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
Now back to the Mark Simon Show on WR.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Hey, let's take some calls. Eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten is and then'm let's go to Bob
in Montvale, New Jersey. Bob, how you doing good? Mark?

Speaker 4 (15:23):
Thanks for taking my call. And just as an awareness,
I hope everybody's okay on the Red Cup. But Thursday
there's a big rally in Brooklyn later on today, course
they're on strike.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 4 (15:35):
Union? No coffee?

Speaker 6 (15:37):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (15:37):
Starbucks? Oh, I hope it's going to be extra angry
libs out there today. Be careful please.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
Oh but what would you say, Red Cup?

Speaker 4 (15:47):
It's today?

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Is there?

Speaker 7 (15:48):
Red Cup?

Speaker 4 (15:49):
Thursday day that they kick off their holiday and the
baristas are on strike? Yeah, of course, I guess thirty
dollars an hour isn't enough and they don't.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yeah, that's good point. You know. I gave up on Starbucks.
Actually since we moved into our new place here because
the kitchen is right down there, we got like twelve
different coffee machines and make you any kind of coffee
you want, it's free. They got like forty seven different
brands of coffee you can choose. And I imagine a
lot of people where they go to work in a nice,
big office, but the coffee's free. Why would just stand

(16:22):
in line at Starbucks and pay twelve dollars or something?
And it's like getting coffee from the motor vehicle department.
You're wait in line. Finally you get up there, you
place your order. Now they say, all right, now go
over there and wait in that line to go get it.
It's like motor vehicle, here's your temporary coffee. You'll get
the real coffee in that line over there. It's absolutely ridiculous.
And you always get in the line behind that one

(16:44):
guy with the most complicated order, and it takes forever.
And you know, and they have food at Starbucks. But
you notice the food case got smaller. It used to
be like the whole counter. Now it's like a little
tiny section. And it's avoid Starbucks. There's you know, there's
all these other places springing up. What's the one over there?

(17:08):
I can't remember. There's one right across the street, blank Street.
Blank Street is a great one that they're springing up
all over the place. Gregory's coffee is pretty good. Hey,
and dunkin Donuts. Dunkin Donuts has much better coffee than Starbucks.
It tastes much better than Starbucks. I mean I wouldn't
exactly hire their decorator. I mean, they're the most depressing
looking stories you've ever seen. But the coffee is great.

(17:31):
It's probably the best coffee you yet dunkin Donuts. It's
one tenth the price of Starbucks. And everybody that works
there looks like they're gonna kill themselves as soon as
you leave. They don't look too thrilled. But but it's
much better coffee. Let's go to Aaron in Indianapolis. Erin,
how you doing, Good.

Speaker 5 (17:49):
Morning, Mark. I'm sure you saw some of the clips
of Gavin Newsom partying with the indigenous folks in Brazil.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Well, listen, let the guy enjoy himself.

Speaker 5 (18:01):
Well, my point is that I think he should return
the favor and treat them to the French laundry.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
Well, that's a famous Thomas Keller restaurant out in California
in the middle of the pandemic when you were not
allowed to go to a restaurant. He was seen at
the French Laundry, which is it doesn't sound very good,
the French laundry, but it's one of the most expensive,
one of maybe the ten best restaurants in the world.
And there he was. Now this other problem is his
campaign director got caught embezzling funds a quarter of a

(18:31):
million dollars. It's not his fault, Gavin Newsom, and there's
no governor or candidate goes line by line over the
accounting stuff. But it's the guy he picked, so reflects
on him. Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave, how
you doing.

Speaker 6 (18:49):
Good morning, Mark. I'm doing very well. Thank you. Mark.

Speaker 8 (18:52):
We all know that.

Speaker 9 (18:52):
Chuck Schumer's career was over, as well as his fake
Sunday press conferences.

Speaker 5 (18:58):
So I have to ask, first of well, if.

Speaker 9 (19:00):
He writes a book, will he go on the liberal
networks to promote it? Secondly, will he get hired as
a commentary And when people touches him and Kamala Harris
write books, are they artificially inflated for The New York
Times by having people buying thousands of copies?

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yes, that can be done. All good questions. If Chuck
Schumer writes a book, nothing will happen. Nobody will buy it.
We just tested that about six months ago. Remember he
wrote that book, what's it called anti Semitism. Here's the
guy who looked the other way when the worst anti Semitism,
the most frightening anti Semitism, was taking place on our
college campuses in his district, and he looked the other way.

(19:42):
He left town, ran away. Then he has a gall
to write a book called anti Semitism. It didn't sell.
He's a disaster. No, he cannot get a job as
a TV commentator because he's an old, depressing, fossil old
dinosaur who just sounds awful talking. That's why he always
reads everything off these index what's the other question? If

(20:02):
he leaves, you know, if he leaves as bad as
he is, you gonna get somebody worse. Is a senate
to minority leader. You're gonna get like a Chris Murphy,
that real dirty, you know, lying, thieving, rotten Connecticut senator.
And then spig in the Connecticut you guys got Richard Blumenthal.
He's your Chuck Schumer. Just depressing old man. Let's let's

(20:25):
go to Jimmy and New Milford. Jimmy, how you doing.

Speaker 10 (20:30):
Thanks, Good morning Mark, Mark. You know the way you
were saying that every time it turned around, people were
saying that Curtis can't when Curtis can't wain, Curtis can't win.
You know, I love w All and I love the DJs,
but the problem is, I think when they always have
to repeat well every bad you know, the nuts are

(20:51):
saying about Donald Trump. You know you got to say,
uh is they have to say it to the lad
ain't know anything bad. They have to be paid to
make the point. You know, whoa, Look at what they're saying.

Speaker 11 (21:05):
Whoa.

Speaker 10 (21:06):
But I'm so shicky. What are you talking about?

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Oh? Do you know what he said? I don't know
what he said. He's sound to good. He's got a
good voice. It said something catchy about his way. You
like listening to him. But I have no idea what
you're talking about. But and did he say? The DJs
at w R. I think the last DJ here I'm
trying to remember, well, it would have been somewhere John Gambling.

(21:31):
I think he used to play music. Gene Claven used
to be here in the afternoons. He played music, But
I think that was in the late seventies, So I
don't think we've had a DJ since then. When we
come back, we'll see if we can talk to Steve Moore.
I think he'll show up. Steve Moore, the Brilliant Economists
will be with us next on seven to ten w
o R. Welcome back to the Mark Simone Show, seventen

(21:56):
wo R. Hey, the great economist Steve Moore. Make sure
you get his new book. His latest book is The
Trump Economic Miracle. It's an excellent book. Also, make sure
you sign up for his daily briefing. It's called the Hotline.
You go to Unleash Prosperity dot com Unleashed Prosperity dot
com and you'll get the best daily briefing, news analysis.

(22:18):
It's free. It comes right to your meil. Just sign
up for it Unleash Prosperity dot com. Steve Moore, how you.

Speaker 12 (22:23):
Doing, Hey, Mark, Good to be with you now. I'm
not doing well. I spent so much time in the
last four days at the airport. This flight castle, that
flight castle, you know, delays. It's just been a complete havoc.
And now I hear that it's probably going to go
on for even another two weeks, even now that they're
finally about to reopen the government. It's just been chaotic.

(22:45):
And by the way, Mark, what exactly did Chuck Schumer
achieve from this? I mean really nothing? I mean it
was fifty six billion dollars of lost taxpayer money cause mayhem, turmoil,
frustration for people on the country and he got nothing.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Well, did he get nothing? Or was the whole idea
just to screw up the Trump economy a little, maybe
screw up the old Well.

Speaker 12 (23:09):
Maybe that would be a very nefarious motivation, you know,
if he intentionally sabotaged the economy to make Trump look bad.
But I guess that's what politicians do this these days.
And you know, shame on him because it really did
ruin our whole weekend. My wife and I were gonna
have a little retreat, you know, get away for three.

Speaker 6 (23:26):
Or four days.

Speaker 12 (23:27):
We spent half the weekend in the airports and people
were so angry all over, you know, everywhere went And
what a way to score political points is to is
to inconvenience people all over the country.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Well, if you look back fourteen shutdowns, no party has
ever gained anything from a shutdown. The shutdown caucuses, oh
for fourteen, isn't it it? Never does anything.

Speaker 12 (23:50):
Well, that's right, and what and by the way, you
know what what what Chucky Schumer wanted was to you know,
allow of the legal immigrants to get help care benefits,
to add one hundred and fifty billion dollars a year
in cost to the federal government when we're already running
two trillion dollar deficits. I mean, it was outrageous demands
and he was basically holding the government hostage until in Trump,

(24:15):
to his credit, did not blink. Here he said, you know,
screw you. We're we're not going to cave into your blackmail.
And I think Americans should be very angry about what happened.
And that's fifty six to sixty billion dollars billion with
a B that was lost to taxpayers because of the
cost of the shutdown.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Now, Steve Moore, am, I right, Obamacare is a total failure.
If it wasn't, why would you need If it's affordable,
why would you need subsidies?

Speaker 12 (24:42):
You know it is It would be hard to come
up with something stupider than what we have today. And more,
it's so expensive we pay through the WAHOO with all
of these costs. And since we passed Obamacare, which was
supposed to be the Affordable Care Act, the coast of
health insurance is doubled and tripled for most Americans. You know,

(25:04):
it's costing the average family now thirty thousand dollars a
year for healthcare. That's a lot of money. And so
we've got to figure out a better way to do this.
Trump has some very good ideas. I mean, you know,
let's just move to more of a catastrophic insurance model,
where you would you know, for the first say, five
thousand dollars of costs, you know, you just pay out
of pocket, but you're not going to pay thirty thousand

(25:25):
dollars a year for insurance, and everybody would come out ahead.
I mean, when you go to the doctor or the
hospital mark, you know, do you ask what it's going
to cost?

Speaker 2 (25:36):
No, nobody does, and then you're in there for five
minutes and the bills forty thousand dollars.

Speaker 12 (25:42):
Yeah. I mean, can you imagine if we all went
to the grocery store and didn't pay for it? Yeah,
I'd have lobster and steak and champagne every night.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Yeah. But the real reason for this is Obamacare, and
the reason Democrats fight to keep it. The money goes
directly to the insurance companies from the government. Yes, so
what do we do about that? How are you going
to break that model?

Speaker 6 (26:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (26:03):
The insurance companies have become the real villains here. So
when they know they wanted these expansions of Obamacare subsidies,
which is going to cost hundreds of billions of dollars,
guess where seventy percent of.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
The money goes. Insurance companies.

Speaker 12 (26:17):
Yeah, insurance companies. They just put in the bank. They're
making so much money, hand over fists, and they were
the chief lobbyert. They were the group that, more than
any other group on Capitol Hill was lobbying for these
extensions because they have made a fortune off of Obamacare,
whereas there's no evidence that Obamacare has had any positive

(26:38):
impact on people's health.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Yeah. Hey, Steve Moore, let me ask you another question.
If you are watching TV, listening to radio, reading stuff,
going to the news sets, and all you hear about
is the affordability crisis. This is all you hear a
thousand times an hour, You're going to start to think
there is an affordability crisis. It propaganda works that way.

Speaker 12 (26:58):
Well, there is an affordability crisis. There's no question about it.
I mean, prices are up, you know, thirty percent since
Joe Biden was present. Thirty percent. It's unbelievable. Now, guess
what twenty five percent of that thirty percent was under Biden.
I mean, you know, so I'm angry about the cost
of groceries. I'm angry about the cost of you know,
buying things today. It's health insurance costs, housing cost, grocery

(27:21):
costs up up, up, up up. But folks, remember the
vast majority of this insurance, of this inflation and higher
costs and higher interest rates was under Biden because he's
spent about five trillion dollars we didn't have with this
massive spending spree. So we are seeing costs come down.
I mean, you know, the rate of inflation come down.
It was remember when it hit nine point one percent

(27:43):
under in place under Biden. That was in I think
twenty twenty one, twenty two. You know, now it's down
to about two point eight percent, which is still too high.
You know, we'd like to bring it down some more.
But Trump is doing that. The inflation rate is coming down.
But remember, you know, he's only been in office for
nine months and Biden, we just blew a hole in

(28:04):
the budget in the inflation rate, and it's going to
take some time. But by the way, I was traveling
last week, as I mentioned, and I was in the
Midwest for a couple of days. Two sixty nine a
gallon for gas. Yeah, that's the last time you saw that.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah, we don't see it in New York at California.
But in between, gas prices are wordy now. And I mean,
it's just a mess. But inflation is down since Trump
took over, and you always said it is done. You
always say it's going to take him a year or
so to really fix the problem. So we're only about
halfway there, right.

Speaker 12 (28:38):
Right, And but look, we have the numbers and what's
happened to people's real income. In other words, when you
take inflation into account, people, things are more affordable today
for most people, not less affordable. So the average family
has about twelve hundred dollars more after inflation income. Another
point I want to make about this is that you know,

(28:58):
the big beautiful tax though we passed, most Americans have
not felt the effect of that yet because they didn't
change their withholding on their taxes. So what that means
and Trump has made this point, you know several times.
Next year. Next year people are going to see a
big reduction and the taxes withheld from their paychecks because
they didn't do it this year. So you know, relief

(29:20):
is coming folks.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
Yeah. Hey, Steve Moore in Florida, Ron Desantus, he's talking
about getting rid of property tax, and he's saying that
everybody should, everywhere, every state get rid of property tax.
And he makes the point, it's your land, you own it.
How's the government taxing you on this? But then what
do you do to make up for that needed money?

(29:42):
You have growth?

Speaker 12 (29:43):
You know, I mean Florida has imported one trillion dollars
of capital from and disposable income from other states. And
guess where most of that money is coming from. No,
I don't tell us New York, New York, New York
and California. And so they have so much money coming
in that they're able to cut their you know, Florida
has no income tax, and now they're cutting their property tax.

(30:05):
They've cut this tax, that tax. The only tax that's
kind of high in there are sales tax, but everything
else is pretty low. It's a very affordable state. That's
the other thing about the affordability issue, Mark that you
were asking me about. Yeah, if you live in New York,
everything's expensive. If you move to a red state, things
cost a lot less. Why because they have high taxes
in the Blue states, they have high regulations, they have

(30:27):
you know, energy costs are much higher in the Blue states.
So if you want more affordability and you want your
paycheck to go further, move to a red state.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
I'm not leaving. I'm staying right here.

Speaker 12 (30:39):
How do you I know you're not. You know, we
need you there in New York and that in Northeast.
But a lot of people are and the problem is
that that tide will increase dramatically at a piece of
New York Post on this the other day that you know,
if mom and Dami does what he said he's going
to do and continues to raise the tax rate, you know,

(31:01):
I think sixteen percent they want, Well, you can go
to Florida or Texas pay zero. You know, people don't
get rich by being stupid, right, and then that stupid
if they see, hey, I could pay sixteen percent in
New York or zero in Florida. What do you think
you'd do, especially if you're a billionaire. I could save
one hundred million dollars a year by moving to you know, Florida. Unfortunately,

(31:21):
a lot of the billionaires are going to leave. And
then who's Mondomie going to get the tax money from.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Well, at least he's going to solve the traffic problem.
The good luck will be there. Well. Steve Moore, great stuff. Everybody,
get his book, The Trump Economic Miracle. You really love
this book and sign up. You put out this that's
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(31:49):
Steve Moore, thanks for being with us.

Speaker 12 (31:52):
Okay, Mark, have a great weekend here.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
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Speaker 1 (32:14):
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Speaker 2 (32:18):
Hey, we'll get to mom, Donnie, We'll get to the
governor's race. We'll talk to Jimmy Fayla and a whole
lot more coming up on seven ten WO.

Speaker 13 (32:26):
Mister New York Marximon on seven ten WR.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Well, we'll get to Mom, Donnie and uh Moore. Coming
up this hour, Letitia James, who's facing serious criminal charges
James Comy, facing serious criminal charges, are now in court
trying to get the US attorney disqualified. Lawyers for Comy

(32:55):
and Leticia James are arguing today the criminal cases is
against them should be tossed because President Trump's hand pick
prosecutor is illegitimate. Illegitimate, they say, Now, of course, this
makes absolutely no sense. They're claiming they've been targeted by
Trump because of their past investigations into Trump. Well they're claiming, See,

(33:18):
that's not going to work. If they're claiming they've been
targeted because they targeted him, that doesn't really hold up.
It doesn't pass the Laft test. They both pled not guilty,
and they'll try to it said, this is a pretty
good indication that they don't have a strong defense if
they're trying to get the prosecutor removed, trying to claim

(33:40):
they are political targets rather than argue the case. It
means it's a pretty good case against them. So the
zorin Mam Donnie is back from Puerto Rico where he
was at that Democratic I don't know what you call
that thing. It's a conference after every election all the
Democrats in New York they head to Puerto Rico for conference.

(34:05):
But as Curtis would call it, whining, dining, pocket lining,
all the lobbyists happened to be there at the same time,
all the special interest groups happen to be there at
the same time. So you do the math. But Mamdani
is back. He's got a chief of staff who's a
crazy socialist. He's got a first deputy mayor. That's the
most important thing. First deputy mayor is the guy that

(34:27):
actually runs or gal or guy or runs city hall.
Adams had a woman first deputy mayor, but the current
one is Dean full full Land. He was Deblasio's first
deputy mayor for years and years and years. Now there's
four other people that have already been chosen that are

(34:48):
from the Deblasio administration. So it looks like you're going
to get pretty much what you got during the Deblasio administration,
which was not good, but we got through it all right.
I mean, you know, you remember those eight years. It
was eight years of Deblasio. Crime went up a little
and went up in certain neighborhoods, and there were problems
here and there, but we got through it just fine.

(35:10):
And now the only problem is you got a crazy
city council. The election was not good city council wise.
You got more wacko left wing kooks than the city council,
just as you have in the state legislature. And the
problem is this Mamdani first Deputy Mayor Dean Fullane. One
of the reasons he might have been chosen. He's a

(35:31):
big guy with the legislature. He's the most connected, plugged
in guy with that legislature up there in Albany. So
if they want to get some tax increases or something past,
this guy's got a good shot at getting it done.
So that's the only big problem with this guy. Now,
the free buses all that stuff, of course, that was

(35:52):
just silly and people fell for it. Mamdani promising free busses.
The mayor has absolutely no control over the buses. They're
run by the state, by the MTA. Mayor has nothing
to say about it. Hockel said, you can't just take
away this revenue. We need it. She's not going to
do it. Now, you got to always be mad at
Kathy Hockle, who's always screwing in you up. If she

(36:14):
was going to tell people that you can't have the
free buses, it's not going to happen. Why didn't she
tell us during the campaign. Why did she wait till
after the election? Well, because it's you know, that's what
a hack Democrat does. Mom Downey was asked about this,
but you're not going to get the free buses.

Speaker 13 (36:30):
I think the governor and I share a belief that
in making buses free, we have to replace the revenue
for the MTA. We cannot simply demand that they do
so without covering the amount of money they would raise
from fares. And that's the cost of about seven hundred
million dollars a year.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
So yeah, if you're not going to get rid of
the fair you're going to have to replace it. With
it all comes down, you're gonna have to pay seven
hundred million one way or another. Will he meet with Trump?

Speaker 13 (36:54):
Do you plan to call President Trump? I will be
reaching out to the White House and as we prepare
to actually take office, because this is a relationship that
will be critical to the success. So it wasn't just
a hypothetical scenario on our debate stage.

Speaker 6 (37:06):
They're actually going to call him.

Speaker 13 (37:08):
What will you say, Well, I'll say that I'm here
to work for the benefit of everyone that calls the
city home, and that wherever there is a possibility for
working together towards that end, I'm ready, and if it's
to the expense of those New Yorkers, I will find it.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Yeah, So, now what does that mean? He won't call Trump.
He'll call the White House. He'll get some kind of meeting.
Most likely he'll be chief of staff Susie Wilds. She'll
meet with him. Then they'll see how that goes. If
it goes really well, maybe maybe there'll be a phone
call between the Trump and Mom Donnie. I doubt there'll
be a meeting because I don't think either of I

(37:40):
don't think either one of them wants a picture with
the other guy. It's not going to help Mom Donnie
to have a picture of Trump, certainly not going to
help Trump have a picture of Mom Donnie. But you
never knows. He's meeting with Susie Wiles. You never know
what Trump will do. He might just pop into the room. Ah,
there he is, my little communist. He might he might
try to come in and win him over. But I

(38:02):
think they'll let somebody meet with him first and see
how it goes. Now, will he keep Jessica tiss She
was asked about this again.

Speaker 13 (38:08):
I continue to be confident in the decision I've made
to retain her, and I look forward to the conversation
that we have. And the reason for my confidence is
that I see, amidst whatever disagreement there may be, there
is a common shared goal of delivering on public safety.
And even earlier when you were asking me about the
potential of the National Guard, you know, the Police Commissioner
said very clearly, we do not need the National Guard

(38:29):
in New York City. The NYPD is here to create
that public safety and working together to deliver on her
record of reducing crime and accompanying that record with the
creation of a Department of Community Safety, these are the
things that excite me.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
Now, it was pretty clear he didn't say, well, I
might keep her.

Speaker 13 (38:46):
He said, I continue to be confident in the decision
I've made to retain her.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
Now that's pretty specific. I've made the decision to retain her,
so that means she's staying. However, you got to put
a big asterisk on this. She's the police commissioner. If
he interferes with her, she'll leave. And also there's a
deputy mayor that's called the Deputy mayor of Public Safety.
That deputy mayor oversees the police commissioner. So if he

(39:12):
puts the wrong person in there, who Jessica Tish does
not want to work for or take orders from, then
she'll leave. So he says he's made the decision to
retain her, but there's things he could do that would
make he knows would make her leave, make her quit.
And she's one police commissioner that does not need the job,

(39:32):
does not need the job. She could leave at any time.
So as far as the police, when.

Speaker 13 (39:37):
We're talking about a response time that's closer to sixteen
minutes than when just five years ago it was closer
to ten. That is also something that is related to
us asking police officers to respond to nearly every crisis
we can think of. And it's time that we understand
the retention crisis is being related to a crisis where
we're asking police officers to respond to homelessness, to mental
health calls. It's time to actually allow them to be

(39:57):
police officers.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
Now, we talked very fascinat He talks about a retention
crisis in relation to the retention crisis and the relation
of THEO, and you don't always know what he's saying.
But I don't know what Elly just said. He's still
on this idea of And first of all, did he
say response time is sixteen minutes? That's a long time.

(40:20):
I don't know. I was watching Blue Bloods last night.
A guy a woman called, there's a man with a gun,
but we'll be there in about sixteen minutes. It was
more like sixteen seconds on TV. But he's still on
this idea that you don't waste police responding to domestic
violence calls now, as cops will tell you, those can

(40:41):
be the most dangerous of all those domestic violence calls.
That's where you get there's real physical danger. You got
a raging maniac husband with a gun and knife. He
can't have social workers going there. And the important thing
to remember, the NYPD has tried this about forty different
times over the last thirty years. They've tried it. It

(41:03):
doesn't work. Social workers end up getting injured killed. First
of all, the social workers won't do it. They will
not go on these calls because they've seen what's happened
in the past and they've all said they won't do
it unless the police come with them. So if the
police are there, you don't need the social worker. But
it's not gonna work. His mom downy on hokl.

Speaker 13 (41:22):
You know, I look forward to the relationship that we're
building to serve a common set of constituents, deserving.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
Pleased to change her mind on buses.

Speaker 13 (41:29):
I'm excited, just as I was in October twenty third
about'm making buses fast and free.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
Fast and free. Right, How are you gonna make the
buses fast? How do you do that? They're stuck in traffic.
They can't go any faster than the cars in front
of them. I don't know what he's talking about. You
know who hit out during the whole election, Kirsten Gillibrand
do you remember her? Jilibrand anybody remember her? She's the
other senator in New York. You never see her.

Speaker 14 (41:53):
You know.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Schumer is scheming and scamming to get on every TV
show he can she's in hiding. She's in witness protection.
He ever sees her during the whole election. She was
in hiding. Did not want to talk about it, but
she was asked about Mom Donnie.

Speaker 15 (42:05):
I mean to make sure that I protect this city,
protect the mayor and the governor from whatever assault President
Trump tries to put on the people of New York City,
and we will stand united to fight against whatever President
Trump throws at us.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
I'm gonna protect, I'm gonna protect. I thought she was
talking about against Mom Donnie. It's against Trump. So she's
kind of useless. You know. Schumer, he's on the way out.
He'll be gone pretty soon, if not from if not
stepping down from the Senate, he'll he'll definitely not be
the minority leader anymore. He's been doing that fake Sunday

(42:37):
press conference for years and years and years and years.
It's an old trick from the seventies, eighties, and nineties.
It doesn't work anymore, but he hasn't figured that out.
In the good old days, on Sunday, nothing happened, there
was no news, nothing happened, and Sunday night they still
had to do a six o'clock news and eleven o'clock news,
and the newspaper still had to put stories into nothing

(43:00):
was happening. So Schumer would do this press conference and
announce something, and it would get in the paper and
it would get on the newscasts because nothing else happened
on Someday, they were forced to use it. If he
did the press conference any other day of the week,
it wouldn't even pay attention, it wouldn't even show up.
But it worked for years. But it doesn't mean anything anymore.
There's media twenty four to seven, seven days a week.

(43:21):
Media is going NonStop, even if it's Twitter, even if
it's online, even if it's social media. So the Sunday
press conference means nothing. Oh yeah, you'll still get on
the six o'clock and eleven o'clock news, but nobody watches
that anymore. Local TV viewership is down like ninety percent
over the years, so it's kind of pointless to keep
doing that Sunday press conference. Hey, Bruce Blakeman definitely is

(43:46):
considering running for governor. He's the best county executive in America.
He'd be a great governor if we had to pick
one person to be the governor of New York. He's
the perfect pick. I like at least Stefanic, but Blakeman
would be better. He's a governor now, he's the governor
of Nassau County. He does a great job. She's a legislator.
But he's going to do a tour of upstate New York.

(44:09):
He's going to actually first he's going to do I
think Albany, Westchester, Yeah, Hudson Valley. He'll go up there,
tour the place, speak to voters, do some events. Then
he'll go up to the North Country, which is where
Alice Stephonic is from. And then he might be saying, well,
that's a little pushy. No, No, it's a smart thing

(44:31):
to do. It's a very smart thing to do. He
just won a big reelection victory, very convincing, a re
election victory twelve points, won by twelve points. But if
you're not sure should he run for governor? Could he win?
A smart executive? If you're not sure, you go test it.
You go test the waters. You go upstate and talk
to voters and meet with them, and see how you

(44:52):
get along with them, see how they get along with you,
see what the reaction is to you. If you're going
to make a decision, and that's what a good manager does.
Goe the waters to you, go there, feel it out.
So that's what he's going to do. And he's said
he'll make a decision in the coming months. I think
he had to decide by February. The Republican State Convention

(45:13):
is in February. Said, I'm looking forward to meeting people
up there, hearing from them, seeing what we can do.
Smart thing to do. Now, Blakeman something would be the
underdog because Stephanic is better known for the Republican primary
and upstate. Also, she's got a lot of support from
GOP officials, the donors like her. Republican Party Chairman Ed

(45:35):
Cox likes her. But now, I mean, she'd be great.
We love Eli Stanic. Blakeman would actually be a better governor.
But we'll see what happens. Jack Schlossberg he's the latest
really disastrous Democratic candidate. He's the grandson of JFK. He's
the son of Caroline Kennedy. He's a real whackle. You're

(45:58):
going to start seeing the videos all over the place
that he's put on YouTube. They are I think I
have one on my Twitter. Yeah, go check that out.
Or his TikTok his Instagram just a complete creepy, weirdo
wacko and a lot of people point out he's had
some weird fixation on JD. Fans's wife Usha, making creepy

(46:18):
comments about her. And there was one time where even
he did a poll on his Twitter Who's hotter? Whosha
Vance or Jackie Oh, which was kind of strange to people.
Is jack Jackie Oh? Jacqueline on Nassis is his grandmother?
Who does a poll on how hot his grandmother is

(46:39):
very very weird then, I mean, he's just had a
series of wacko, ludicrous tweets and posts. There was one
where he claimed Alan Dershowitz murdered his wife yeah in February,
or ranting ridiculous and accusing Alan Dershwitz of killing his
own wife. Dershowitz threatened the defamation lawsuit again. There was

(47:01):
another series where Schlosberg shared naked pictures of himself as
a kid. I mean, he's just a complete nutjob wacko
sleeze Paul. There's another one where he talked about his
recipe for jew blood. His words, jew blood. The recipe
includes two ounces of jew blood Ashkenazi, not sephardic, four

(47:21):
cups of mail. I don't want to say the word
baked at three hundred degrees until totally dry like your wife.
This is Jack Schlosberg. Now he's running these ads online
as he wants to run for Jerry Nadler's seat. And
in the ads he's dressed nicely and he speaks very properly,
and he says, I want to do what I can

(47:42):
to hold him. I don't know. You can be very
formal now, but the internet is forever and all these
videos are going to emerge. You're going to see them all.
He is a complete and total nutjob wacko. Hey, Jimmy
Fayley will be within a few minutes. We'll take some
calls next. Eight hundred three to two one zero seven
ten is the number. Eight hundred three two one zero

(48:04):
seven ten.

Speaker 1 (48:05):
Set up said on the iHeartRadio app to wo R
to hear Mark live. That another for Mark's podcast to
hear him any time. Now back to Mark Damon on
wo R.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Hey, let's take some calls. Eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten is the number. Let's go to doctor
Bob on Long Island. Doctor Bob a great surgeon, doctor Bob.
How you doing?

Speaker 16 (48:28):
Thanks? Mark? Yes, O good? Thanks Mark. You know, I
think it's terrific that we've got two fantastic candidates with
Blakeman and a last Stephonic. And I think that you're right.
Blakeman is better as an executive to be governor. And
what about the fantastic and brilliant Stephanic is a tremendous legislator.
Have her go into the senatorial position. We have two

(48:52):
losers representing New York at this point.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
Yeah, that's a good idea. Blakeman would be the better governor,
although we'd be happy with Stephanic, but Blakeman is a
governor all in Long Island. Stephanic would be a great senator.
Very good, Thanks for Colin. Let's go to Linda in
Long Island. Linda, how you doing?

Speaker 5 (49:10):
Hi?

Speaker 7 (49:10):
Mark?

Speaker 12 (49:10):
Yes, I.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
Matter you sound a little depressed.

Speaker 16 (49:17):
I am.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
Hello Mark.

Speaker 11 (49:21):
Okay, So I saw Schlatsburgh and you know he is
really creepy besides being dumb like his mother. But at
least a mayor looks good. Did you see him?

Speaker 2 (49:38):
Who looks good?

Speaker 11 (49:38):
Slats mayor looks good?

Speaker 2 (49:41):
Mayor?

Speaker 12 (49:42):
Mom, Donnie, well, he looks good?

Speaker 10 (49:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (49:45):
Are you talking Donny slots. Yeah, it looks good, right,
am I the only one that got lost in this conversation.
Where are you in Long Island?

Speaker 6 (50:01):
It's the secret.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
The mental Institution? No, where do you live in? Long Island?

Speaker 12 (50:08):
Park?

Speaker 2 (50:08):
Floral Park?

Speaker 11 (50:09):
Right? The mental Institution, Laurel Park.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
That's almost Long Island. It's sort of half Queen's half
Long Island.

Speaker 11 (50:15):
Right, that's right, that's right exactly.

Speaker 2 (50:17):
That's where North Shore Towers is right, Yes, all right,
you're right on the border there. All right, thanks for
calling Linda. Let's go to Tom and Queen's Tom.

Speaker 8 (50:27):
How you doing, Hey, Mark, good morning. I have concern
with what you're saying about the Blasio versus Mandamie. At
least with the Blasio, he was lazy and he's definitely
liked to set off smoke detectives. With Mandami, I think
he likes. I think he's got a real agenda that's
gonna work.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
Yeah, that's the argument that Deblasio was a lazy guy
who never even came to work and did nothing. But
that means his team ran everything. So we saw what
they'll do, and you got the same team running things
now with Mom Donnie, and I think man Donnie's not lazy.
These socialists are all like that, Okay, right, I gotta
go back and watch the Blasio campaigning. I see if

(51:09):
he was. You know a lot of times these Deblasio
was a socialist. Remember he spent his honeymoon in Cuba.

Speaker 11 (51:15):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
I gotta go back and watch him campaign. Was he
campaign the same way man Donnie was, with all these
promises and the fast talking. You gotta go see what
how he campaigning? You know, Mam Donnie most likely a
con man. And who knows, maybe he was counting the socialists.
Who knows. He could be like that. But Delasi, he
just doesn't show up for work. Let's go to uh

(51:36):
Vincent and Brooklyn Vincent. How you doing?

Speaker 14 (51:38):
Oh, Mark? You're making me cracked up. Mark, Zora Mandami,
according to me, looks like Bucky Beef or Alvin the Chipmunk. Mark.
I've been going to Milan in Italy for years and
years and years. Anyway, Milan at night they have actually
de facto free And I say this because the subway

(52:02):
system shuts down from about eleven thirty to five in
the morning, but they have bus lines that paralleled the
existing subway route, so that if you get out of
work and your train is shut down. You could take
a bus. But when the bus goes by all the
places where there's the clubs, where all the there's all

(52:24):
the nefarious action going on, the kids come on the bus,
the guys come on the bus, and nobody pays. They
actually have tickets. So sometimes the controllers they go on
they're like they're like bud friends in safety offices, like
what Mandami wants to replace the cops with. And they
go on the bus and they check your ticket to

(52:45):
see who paid. There are times when the ambulance has
to come to get the ticket controller to take them
off the bus because the people becoming sense they need
to beat up the ticket controller, or if they really
get crazy, they go beat up the bus driver and
they go beat up the guy who will get tics check.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
Yeah, you're not exactly cheering us up here. This doesn't
sound good.

Speaker 14 (53:11):
No, but that's what we're gonna have a fun Tommy
gets his way.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
Thanks for cheering us, So now I know I know
you're right a man of the world. You're right, all right, Well,
good call, thanks for calling. Hey, when we come back,
Jimmy Fayla will be with us next lots to talk
to him about in just a moment on seven to
ten w R.

Speaker 1 (53:32):
Now more Mark Simone on sevent ten w.

Speaker 2 (53:36):
R Well, Jimmy Fayla, great talks your host, brilliant comedian,
and he's on w o R Now every weeknight, nine o'clock.
We'll get him back nine to midnight. Jimmy Fayler. We
lost him, We'll get him right back. He's on nine
to midnight every night and it's an excellent show. If
you haven't got a chance to listen yet, you'll love

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this show. It's not only interesting, but very funny. Every
night from nine to midnight. He also does a great show,
a late night show on Fox Saturday nights at ten o'clock.
Excellent show. Do we get him back? Yes? No, Oh,
we got him. We got him. But Jimmy Fayler, make
sure you watch him also every Saturday ten o'clock on Fox,

(54:18):
a great late night show. It's the best monologue in
television every Saturday night. Jimmy Fayla, How you doing?

Speaker 6 (54:25):
Yeah, I'm good.

Speaker 12 (54:26):
I have.

Speaker 7 (54:27):
I got a lot of family that are getting ready
to visit New York before we defund the police. They're
trying to come before them with Mom Donnie stuff kicks.
And he's actually good for tourism right now because everybody's
making a bonus trip this week and next.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
You know, so far he tired everybody from the Deblasio administration.
We got through eight years at Deblasio, didn't we.

Speaker 7 (54:51):
No, I's by we you mean Florida real estate agents. Yes,
they were so busy, but they did get through.

Speaker 6 (55:00):
It's don't ever forget build.

Speaker 7 (55:02):
De Blasio made our number one restaurant chain a place
called this Space for rent. Oh, that was a very
big place underd Blasio.

Speaker 6 (55:13):
So I don't like it.

Speaker 7 (55:15):
Well, yes, we're gonna have fun. We're New Yorkers, and
that's the one thing about us. If you live here,
I always say, New York is a spiritual dominatrix. If
you're gonna live here, it's because you like getting beat up.

Speaker 6 (55:27):
In a roundabout way.

Speaker 7 (55:28):
Anybody listening on Long Island right now who drives into
the city every day like I do, you have to
like the beating on some level to keep showing up
and taking it.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
No, it's not that bad. You know, Hey, you work
at Fox. You walk out of Fox. It's so beautiful.
There's Radio City there's Rockefeller Center, there's the Tree. It's
still New York, Isn't it still the greatest city? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (55:51):
Yeah, No.

Speaker 7 (55:51):
The truth is there nothing that can compare it. You know,
even if it takes a dip under Mom dying, The
truth is, you know, Stefanic announcing she was going to
run when she did is a real check on anything
Mom Donnie wants to do. Because Hokeel doesn't want to
get that radical, knowing she's gonna be in a tight race,
and she's you know, Hochle already has her limitations. I mean,

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she's basically governor because she was the only woman in
Albany that was too annoying for Andrew Cuomo to hit on.

Speaker 6 (56:20):
You know, had she'd.

Speaker 7 (56:22):
Been a little bit easier to deal with, he probably
would have got me to her too, and she'd be
out of there, and god knows what would have happened.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Uh. You know, these people leaving New York, they moved
to Florida, they moved to North Carolina. What's the first
thing to doing. I read the New York Post. They
still listen to New York radio. But they they'll all
be back at one point, won't they. They'll all be back.

Speaker 7 (56:42):
Yes, they will try, because that's that is actually what happens.
Every one of my friends who has moved to Florida
tells me about how they you know, we're gonna we
gotta find a pizza place. Then we're gonna go to
the bagel place.

Speaker 6 (56:55):
Oh my god. So you're just doing this with more humidity.

Speaker 7 (56:59):
You know, that's all you're really doing in the over
all scheme of things. And I know they were perks,
but if you're from here and you've spent enough time here,
you're not supposed to leave. Like you know those stories
mark about how someone smokes every day till they're ninety
and never gets sick, and then they quit smoking and
drop dead.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
In like three weeks.

Speaker 7 (57:20):
Like at some point, the bad adverse things we do
become like standard operating procedure for some of us. I mean,
it's there's no way of really knowing. But New York's one.

Speaker 6 (57:30):
Of those things.

Speaker 7 (57:31):
If it's ingrained in who you are, you're not going
to be right if you leave it behind.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
Yeah, well no, it's it's still the greatest thing in
the world. Hey, mom, Donnie's already done one great thing.
You got rid of Cuomo. Don't you think we won't
see Cuomo again as a candidate, will we?

Speaker 7 (57:46):
I mean, listen, save for an upcoming appearance on season
fifty two of Dancing with the Stars. I do think,
I do think it's over, you know, old handsy Andy.

Speaker 6 (57:59):
But Curtiss will be back. I think you already launched.

Speaker 7 (58:02):
I think Curtis already.

Speaker 6 (58:03):
Launched his next campaign. I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 2 (58:05):
Yeah, well Curtis, But hey, the shutdown, the Democrats certainly
accomplished a lot. Could you tell us what that was?

Speaker 7 (58:14):
Well, you know, we did break a record for margaritas
an airport bar Okay as a nation, those those flight delays,
the TGI Fridays broke a Potato Skins record.

Speaker 6 (58:28):
I mean, nothing else went on.

Speaker 7 (58:29):
Nobody, nobody could get, Nobody got off the ground. You know,
it was such it was such.

Speaker 6 (58:35):
Silly posturing by them.

Speaker 7 (58:38):
And you know it's clear now they really didn't even
know why they did it. You know, they said obamakay.
You know, well, you know healthcare and healthcare was too expensive,
but they passed the healthcare bill.

Speaker 6 (58:48):
It was their healthcare bill.

Speaker 7 (58:50):
So how do you blame us for healthcare being too expensive?
You know I mentioned this on TV the other night,
I said, if the Democrats saying healthcare is too expensive,
it's like Bill Cosby saying the drinks are too strong.

Speaker 6 (59:00):
I'm like, dude, you made it.

Speaker 7 (59:03):
You made the beverage there. You've no legs to.

Speaker 6 (59:06):
Stand on here.

Speaker 2 (59:08):
So, yeah, this Affordable Care Act, if it's so affordable,
what the hell does it need a subsidy? If it's affordable,
they've never explained now and if yeah, if the fact
that they keep talking about it means it's not working. Otherwise,
if it was working, it wouldn't be an issue. Yeah,
that's that's the.

Speaker 6 (59:23):
Point, you know.

Speaker 7 (59:24):
And everybody who got duped into this, you know, under
the auspices of you know, well it's gonna be cheaper
and we're gonna help more people out and blah blahlah blah,
those people are very silent, Like you know what I mean,
Like Obama is it's his bill, it's Obamacare. You don't
see him out there defending this thing right now. He's
you know, calling Trumpet authoritarian and everything in between. But

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nobody who was involved with the original.

Speaker 6 (59:49):
Passage of this thing. You know.

Speaker 7 (59:50):
It's like if you were the captain of the Titanic,
you're not really.

Speaker 6 (59:53):
Going to brag about the course you charted.

Speaker 7 (59:55):
You know a lot of people go left, you know
when they get to Nova Scotia.

Speaker 11 (59:59):
But not me.

Speaker 6 (01:00:00):
And nobody wants to own it.

Speaker 7 (01:00:02):
And that's my favorite thing about right now is they're
pivoting to everything. But who passed the bill to begin with?
Sending with a shutdown? And you know this, Oh, the
Republican shutdown. Ah, the Republican shutdown. These evil Republicans shutdown
the government. In the midde of the government opened, They're like,
how dare they open the government?

Speaker 6 (01:00:19):
Republicans?

Speaker 7 (01:00:20):
What kind of monster?

Speaker 6 (01:00:22):
They're not? Various people.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
Well, everybody should listen to Jimmy Fayler every night nine
o'clock nine to midnight on w o R and watch
them Saturday night. I love your Saturday night show ten o'clock.
Best monologue in television. Now.

Speaker 7 (01:00:36):
Thank well, nobody's having a better time than us, man, Like,
for real, we're having we are having a great time.
It's like the world's on fire. We're just roasting marshmallows.

Speaker 6 (01:00:43):
I mean that's what.

Speaker 7 (01:00:44):
I'm doing tonight tonight at nine o'clock on w o R.

Speaker 6 (01:00:46):
Yeah, yeah, oh, nine pm.

Speaker 7 (01:00:50):
Tonight's actually a pretty pretty hot show.

Speaker 6 (01:00:52):
Coming down the pike. So what happened?

Speaker 7 (01:00:54):
Nicole Parker is a former FBI agent and she's involved
in some type of deep state Shenanigan.

Speaker 6 (01:01:00):
She's going to tell me about.

Speaker 7 (01:01:02):
The truth is is and you know this, Okay, I'm
not deep state. I'm more like deep dish. You know,
I could talk to you about pizza, she could talk
you about the deep state. But it's going to be excited.
I can't wait to hear it. And I'll probably have
to google half of what she tells me because there's
like a six hundred point IQ gap between her and me.

Speaker 6 (01:01:18):
But that's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
Yeah, that's tonight nine to midnight on seven ten WOR.
It's a great show, and the Saturday night show excellent.
But you know these late night hosts. I'm watching this
interview with Kimmel and his wife, who's I didn't realize
runs his show, and they're so angry, and you know,
our job is to stop Donald Trump. Our job is
to get Donald Trump tell would you tell them what

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the job of a late night host is? Isn't it
just to entertain?

Speaker 7 (01:01:43):
The job of a late night host is? You are
the last thing people are going to watch before they
go to bed. So your job is to put them
to bed with a smile in their face, take away
the tension from the day's torments, and kind of unite
the country through that need to escape.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 7 (01:01:58):
Instead they're turning on Kimmel at eleven thirty and being
told the facets are here, Hitler's in charge. Good night,
everybody have a night dream Like oh man, well sounds crazy.
The compass is broken. You know what I know when
she said her family members, you know, if they vote
for Trump, they're voting against Jimmy Kimmel because he argues

(01:02:19):
with Trump every night. The idea that she thinks people
should be voting not based on the economy or the
safety of their community, but on whether or not it's
gonna hurt Jimmy Kimmel's feelings, Like when you love to
be that detached from reality that you can just cruise
through the world thinking you were right about every you know,
weapons grade stupid thing that came out of your mouth.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
Well, you gotta wat watch Jimmy Faylor's show Saturday nights
at ten. You will love it. Best late night show
there is, and make sure you're listening to them tonight
and every weeknight. He's on nine to midnight on w
R with a great show. It's very funny, entertaining, informative,
nine to midnight tonight and every weeknight. Jimmy Fayla, thanks
for being with us.

Speaker 6 (01:03:01):
Get the best.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
March seven, I take care. Yeah, you'll love the show
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any place, the iHeart app, or just go to our website.
Seven ten WR dot com sevenrs Mark so Well shutdown
is over longest one ever forty three days. The President
signed the new funding bill last night. Now, all this
does is extend things till January thirty first. That's like

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two and a half months away, So you have to
go through this again in two and a half months.
But hey, I'll be off tomorrow. I'm taking tomorrow off.
I'll be back on Monday. But don't forget if you're
a podcast listener, there's always a bonus segment on the weekend.
Tomorrow you'll get a bonus segment of this show you
can listen to otherwise. I'll be back on Monday ten
to noon, so I have a great weekend. I'll be

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back then. Talk to you then on seven ten Woo