FULL SHOW: President Trump's speech; New Year, New Changes.

Mark breaks down President Trump’s speech to the nation from last night. Ronald Hicks is announced as the new archbishop, replacing Cardinal Dolan in New York after Dolan’s retirement announcement. Mark interviews economist Steve Moore. Steve analyzes the new economic reports, noting that November’s consumer prices rose at a 2.7% annual rate, lower than expected due to a delayed report. Moore discusses how President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” could bring historic savings for many Americans, affecting their tax statements and paychecks. The New York Times put out a new article claiming no evidence of a connection between President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, but some aspects of the article are controversial. In two weeks, Zohran Mamdani will take office as New York City’s new mayor. Jay Clayton from the U.S. Attorney’s office announces a focus on tackling crime in Manhattan and supervising Mamdani’s administration. Mark interviews WOR weeknight host Jimmy Failla. The Oscars will be broadcast on YouTube instead of on TV. Jimmy shares stories about driving a cab on New Year’s Eve. The two have a Discussion on recent public appearances by former President Biden and speculation about his activities.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now on the Voice of New York Kates Mark Simone
Show on seven tenor.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Well, hey, there's a lot happening. We'll get to Cardinal
Dolan is leaving. That's very bad news. We'll get to
Brown University that presidents should be leaving. Just horrible job
she's done. We'll get to President Trump. We'll get to
the speech last night, a bit of a dud, but
we'll get to something else he did yesterday that is

(00:32):
going to upset everybody. It's not the right thing to do.
You shouldn't do it, but it's good that it just
drives these democrats in the media absolutely crazy. We'll get
to that, We'll get to Nick Reiner, and we'll get
to Jack Smith and a whole lot more. Hey, this
just breaking this morning. The Oscars scene on ABC TV

(00:54):
for decades decades, Oscar Sunday Night, ABC Oscars Channel seven,
ABC TV for decades and decades. And I think before that,
in its first few years, was NBC. I think I
think that's why Bob Hope was the host and Johnny Carson,
but it moved to ABC where it's been for decades. Well,
they lost the Oscars, They've got it for the next

(01:16):
two years, but then it moves to YouTube. YouTube got
the oscars. Now, YouTube is really taken over television. You know,
as a network, TV completely dies and has fewer and
fewer viewers every second. You think that Netflix and the

(01:38):
streaming services are taken over, but it's really YouTube that's
capturing the biggest share of the television audience. YouTube is
going to be the biggest thing. Now, this is a
big step getting the oscars. We always assumed Amazon or
Netflix would get the NFL or Major League base Keep
an eye on YouTube. Now the Oscars on YouTube. Is

(01:59):
it a good idea? Well, one thing it's gonna do.
It's going to bring families together because when the Oscars
are on YouTube, you're going to get those frantic calls.
You're gonna have to go to your mother's house. You're
gonna have to go to your grandmother's house and show
them how the hell to find YouTube. You know what,
you might as well plan on watching the oscars with them,

(02:20):
because no matter how much you show them, you're going
to get that call right before the oscars, I can't
find it, Well I lost it? How do you find it?
So you're gonna have to show them what the hell
YouTube is. But it's a big, big development. So the
Trump's speech last night was not great. It was let

(02:40):
me give you the inside story here. This was not
his idea. He didn't want to do this. This was
the staff pushing it, mostly Susie Wiles pushing this. You
know a couple of reasons. One when fake news and
the Democrats start coming up with a with a hoax,
with a mi and they start pounding it into people's

(03:02):
heads twenty four to seven. Everywhere you turn, it's all
you hear affordability crisis. Affordability crisis, affordability crisis. When you
hear it day and night, you actually, this is how
propaganda works. You actually start to think, oh my god,
this is an affordability crisis. There isn't We had one
two years ago, three years ago under Biden, you had
a terrible crisis. Prices were crazy, gas prices, everything was

(03:24):
going nuts. Now Trump has brought it down. He's still
got a ways to go, but in his first year
he brought it down dramatically. Biden had inflation at nine
percent one point, the highest in fifty years. When he left,
his average inflation was five percent. Trump has it down
right now to two point seven percent and falling. So

(03:46):
that was one reason for the speech, to try to
fight back on this myth that has been created. And
then you got a lot of great stuff that's going
to happen in the economy. The big beautiful bill has
big tax cuts for every so your paycheck will be
bigger every week because you'll be paying less tax. Now
it hasn't kicked in yet, it starts in January, so

(04:08):
everybody's going to get a huge race starting in January.
So he's talking about how much you got done this
year and what's going to happen next year. But it
wasn't a great speech. It was a teleprompter speech. Trump
is great with an audience, you know, he knows how
to perform for an audience, but reading a teleprompter is
not what he should be doing. And in an empty room,

(04:29):
he's just in a big empty room. And it's that
room where you know, they've been doing Christmas parties every
night at the White House, sometimes two a night, sometimes three,
and they have so many people to invite, like twenty
five thousand people to these White House Christmas parties, so
you have to do them every night for three weeks.
In fact, there's another one tonight. They just keep doing

(04:51):
these Christmas parties, and it's the same procedure every night.
The guests all come whatever amount they can do a night,
five hundred, and they all walk around the Red room,
the Blue room, the Green room, the Yellow room, this
room to that room, the map room, the Treaty room,
and then they wander around and at some point they
come and assemble in this one spot where there's a podium.
The President comes down and makes a Christmas Party speech.

(05:14):
And he's made this speech every night for three weeks,
the same speech, so you know, if you do it
too much, it gets stale. And it had that kind
of look last night. So basically the same situation, but
without an audience, just alone reading a teleprompter. So he
read it too loud, and he read it too fast,
and he kept talking like this, and it was too
fast and it was too loud. He was rushing through

(05:36):
it like this. I think that's because he didn't want
to do it. He was complaining off camera just before
he went on that Susie Wilds and everybody else pushed
him into doing this, so it's not what he wanted. Now,
the good news is because it was a well written speech.
A lot of people will just see it in print.
They'll read about it, and they'll see it in print.
In print, it looks great. But his delivery was like this,

(05:58):
and it was rushed and he was yelling, I'm just
trying to get through it. So it was a bit
of a dud. Here's someone the tariffs.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
My favorite word, tariffs, which for many decades have been
used successfully by other countries against US, but not anymore.
Companies know that if they build in America, there are
no tariffs, and that's why they're coming home to the
USA in record numbers.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
It's a little too loud. You know, when you're alone
in a room, you don't talk like this. Hear how
I'm talking. I'm yelling a little. If I'm on TV,
I can talk like this because on TV people are
usually about twelve feet away from the TV set. They're
over there on the couch. You can talk to them
like this. But when you're on the radio, you're usually
talking out of the speaker, which is like a foot away,

(06:46):
so you can't yell at them. You got to talk
like this. So if there's an audience, you can talk
like this to them. But if you're in an empty
room and you're just alone, you can you can talk
more intimately to people. So and he knows this kind
of stuff. I don't know why he didn't do that.
I guess because his heart wasn't in this speech. He
didn't want to do it. You know, when they do,

(07:07):
there reporters in the room and start asking questions. He
doesn't talk like this to them. You know, he talks
in a real voice. So it was too much yelling.
Now he's going to get criticism for blaming everything on Biden.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
This is what the Biden administration allowed to happen to
our country, and it can never be allowed to happen again.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
We had men playing in women's.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Sports, transgender for everybody, crime at record levels.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Now everybody can So why does he keep playing Biden?
Why does he have to keep enough with Biden? Biden's
not president anymore. Why does he have to keep because again, Democrats, media,
fake news, you're creating this whole fake scenario that he's
got an affordability crisis. It was an enormous affordability crisis
under Biden, and under him it's been dropping steadily and quickly.

(07:58):
You know, it got a ways to go, but it's
been dropped like crazy. So that's why he keeps having
a remind everybody, because he's trying to contradict a lie
that's been out there day and night for months that
somehow he's created an affordability cress. It has nothing to
do with it. In fact, he's been lessening it every month.
So now here's the other. This is going to be

(08:21):
another Trump problem, but maybe it won't be. I don't know.
This is so outrageous that it might be too much
even for fake news. You know, when Rob Reiner died,
he put out that tweet which I went back and
read it. It's not as bad as they're making it
out to be. The tweet starts off very nice, talking

(08:42):
about Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner and what a terrible
tragedy this is and how awful, and he talks about that,
and then if you'll go to the very end, he said,
may they both rest in peace. So that's very nice.
It's in the middle where he says, you know, Rob
Reiner was a guy filled with rage and hate speech,
which is true. He was. He was, go check my twitter.
We have documented all of this, the stuff Rob Briiner

(09:06):
was saying putting up online. It was just the ugliest, vile,
crude hate speech against Donald Trump, raging. You know, And
again I knew Rob Briner when you were with him.
He was the warmest, sweetest, nicest guy. So when you
read his tweeting and his things he was saying about Trump,
you can't believe this same guy could get so ugly

(09:29):
and vile and crude and cursing, and it's just very
Jeckyll in Heights. It makes you wonder. So that upset
a lot of people. And of course, you know, people said, well,
you shouldn't do that. You're the president. You have to
stay you know, graceful and dignified. And yeah, of course, okay,
so now they have. When you walk to the Oval Office,

(09:50):
you walk along the colonnade there along that wall where
he's put up all the portraits of the presidents, used
to be just an empty white wall. And when you
think about, he's right, that's where you greet the world
leaders in one part of the White House. Then you
go out side and you walk down this a long
colonnade to get to the Oval Office, and it's just empty. Wolves.
You see, he just said, let's line this with pictures

(10:12):
of all our presidents and beautiful gold frames. It was
very very nice, great idea. And now when it came
to Biden, he put instead of Biden's face, he put
an auto pen in there. All right, it's a little joke.
You shouldn't do that, but you can get away with it.
All right, it's not you know, it's not that bad.

(10:34):
But now he unveiled this yesterday, and again they're all
gonna go nuts over this. They're all gonna go crazy.
Although it hasn't exploded like I think it would. He
now put it, unveiled it yesterday. Under many of these
presidents he put plaques underneath saying things, and they're very
very insulting. So under Biden, and it's a beautiful, you know, gold,

(10:57):
very very ornate plaque like you'd see on a building
with the inscription on it. But the one er Biden says,
sleepy Joe Biden was by far the worst president in America.
And it goes on and on to talk about what
a crook he is, how he opened the borders let
twenty one million people in his Afghanistan disaster. I mean,
it's the worst stuff about Biden. It's a long but

(11:18):
I'm skipping through the nickname both sleepy and crooked Joe
Joe Biden was dominated by his radical left handler. It
goes on and on, and you could write this, and
you're not supposed to put it on the wall of
the White House in a gold plaque. So now, of
course any other president when they come in will take
this down. Under Bill Clinton, it's not as bad yet. No,

(11:45):
it's mostly good about he approved NAFTA. It's mostly good
about Clinton. But at the end it said President Clinton's
wife Hillary lost the presidency to Donald Trump. Now the
one for Obama, the Reagan one is just high praise
for Reagan, wonderful praise for Reagan. The one under Obama

(12:05):
was the first black president, a community organizer, a one
term senator from Illinois. Okay, you can get away with that.
He created the ineffective Unaffordable Care Act. Well, that's true,
but you're not supposed to put that on the wall.
His party losing both Houses of Congress. Under Obama, it
gets worse and worse. He crippled small business with crushing

(12:28):
regulations and an environmental red tape. Well, this is actually true.
You could make this case. He spied on the twenty
sixteen presidential campaign of Donald Trump. It's all. You could
go into court and prove this stuff true if you
had to, but you're not supposed to put it on
the wall of the White House. But again, it hasn't

(12:50):
exploded yet all over the news. But we'll see, we'll
see if they demand he'd take it down. Maybe it's
so over the top outrageous that they're afraid to go
after for it. They know it's some kind of trap.
I mean it's I mean, Howard Stern wouldn't have the
nerve to put this stuff on the wall. So hey,
the very bad news. Cardinal Dolan is leaving Cardinal Timothy Dolan,

(13:10):
who everybody loved sixteen years here as the cardinal. It's
nothing personal. The rule of the church is at seventy
five you have to resign. You have to resign at
seventy five. It's mandatory, and you put in your resignation. Now.
For Cardinal Dolan, that was last year. But sometimes they'll

(13:31):
delay accepting the resignation. And remember last year the pope died,
so that put a holt on everything. Nothing happened, and
then a new pope took over, and he obviously needs
many months to get settled and organized. So he's done that.
Now he's decided to accept the resignation and pick a
new cardinal for New York. And it's Ronald Hicks, who's

(13:56):
from Chicago, has a lot of connection to the pope
who's also from Chicago. Their careers overlapped a few times. Hicks,
He's not, you know, Dolan is a big, larger than life,
big life of the party personality. Hicks is more of
a quiet, gentle sort of a guy. But he's a
warm guy. He's got a good sense of humor. Here

(14:18):
he is accepting I want to do the will of God.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
I asked him to tell the Holy Father that I
say yes with great humility and that I accept this
appointment with an open heart.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
So he's here in New York today with the cardinal
being shown around.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
And my name is Ron Hicks, and I have now.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
First of all, he's got to call himself Ronald, this
Ron Hicks. It doesn't sound like a cardinal. When your
name is Ron Hicks. Sounds like you work at the
William Morris Agency. Sounds like you're a car sales But
here's my card Ron Hicks doesn't sound like a Cardinalnald
Hicks will sound better, make more sense.

Speaker 4 (15:02):
It did New York about ten times in my life,
and every time I have visited, I have said to myself,
I love it. I love the culture, the food, the energy,
the plays, the neighborhoods, but especially I love the people.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
Okay, okay, sounding like a bit of a tourist, but listen,
that's all the Cardinals. You remember Dolan, you think of
them as such a New Yorker. I remember when he
came here sixteen years ago from I think it was
Saint Louis. You have Saint Louis. He was the same thing.
He was new to New York, he didn't know his
way around, and of course he became a big, big,
big part of New York. So Ronald Hicks, Wilton, the people.

Speaker 4 (15:44):
From all over the world who call this place home.
And every time that I visited, I've always said I
look forward to returning. And this time I'm returning not
only as a visitor, but I'm going to be returning
to stay.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
So all right, now, he'll be good. He'll be good.
One of the reasons Dolan stayed a little longer than
is supposed to Catholic Church with the you know, the
sexual abuse and scandal and all that. They had to
clean that up. There was nothing to do with Dolan,
wasn't his fault, but you had to clean it up.
He's the one that worked out it like a billion

(16:23):
dollar settlement, and they had to settle all these lawsuits
and raise the money to settle it. And that's what
he's been doing for the last year. It's mostly done. Now,
he'll notice very quietly, the Catholic Church here in New
York has been selling a lot of it's very valuable
real estate. Just this week they finally sold over there
at the Palace Hotel. They the whole ground lease. They

(16:46):
just sold that for about four hundred and ninety million dollars.
So they've raised all the money that's been settled. And
Ronald Hicks, he made that joke. Every new cardinal makes
the same joke. I already made that joke this morning.
Nice speech, and he says, but I do have something
very controversial to say. I'm still a Cubs fan. So

(17:09):
Dolan did that when he came here to I'm still
a Cardinals fan. But now the only if there's a
bad side to the Hicks can be a little left
wing a little woke, but all right, that can be cured.
But we wish him very well, and we got a
lot to get to today. We'll take some calls. Next.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.

(17:31):
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten in Mark.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
On demand by setting up preseat for his podcast on
the iHeartRadio app. Now back to Mark Simon on woor.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
Hey, let's take some calls. Eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten is the number. Let's go to Chris
in Manhattan. Chris, how you doing?

Speaker 5 (17:54):
I'm good?

Speaker 6 (17:55):
Thanks Mark. First, let me just say I wish you
a very happy holiday season and they'll you have a
great vacation.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Nice.

Speaker 6 (18:01):
Second, the about Trump, I think what he's doing he's
wait wait, oh wait, can I talk. I think he's hand.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Think you're gonna you're gonna start whining. Why does he
have to do?

Speaker 6 (18:17):
But I am whining. I think he's Everything he's doing
that's good is going to be turned turned be undone
by the Democrats. I think he's handing the election to them.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Well, I mean he's not running for election. He's not what,
he's not running for anything.

Speaker 6 (18:31):
No, I know he's not. But they're going to vote
against his policies.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
The Demo. We don't know that because that's a year away.
It's a year from now, so the landscape will change many,
many times.

Speaker 6 (18:40):
Well, do I know things are more expensive. I know
it's not his fault.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
But you live in Manhattan. Gases now two dollars a gallon,
but if you're in New York it's still four or
five dollars.

Speaker 6 (18:50):
I know it's under three in some parts of Long Round.
I know, but but food is expensive.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
And again that's New York City.

Speaker 6 (18:58):
Mark talk have a vertiplication.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
I love the guy, but he's always why does he
have to Let's go to Mike in Ulster County. Mike,
how you.

Speaker 7 (19:08):
Doing, Hey, Mark, Merry Christmas? First ball.

Speaker 8 (19:12):
I did watch the speech last night. He did. The
President did look uncomfortable because it's not his venue. But
it's a speech that had to be made because the
media and the Democrats are playing on the fact that
for the most part, the American people are very impatient.
They want instant gratification.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
And well, don't blame them now. As I said earlier,
they've been had this fake narrative drilled into their head
that we are suddenly in an affordability crisis when the
economy has actually greatly improved un last year. So he
needed to make the speech. It was a bad setting.
This was all designed by Susie Wiles and the staff.
And she's great, but she, you know, as far as
media skill, she's still in nineteen eighty three with Ronald Reagan,

(19:56):
where you get a podium and you read the teleprompter.
It doesn't work anymore.

Speaker 9 (20:00):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
And Trump, Uh, I think you'll see it was a
dud the speech last night. It looks good on paper,
It was well written, but the delivery wasn't great. So
he'll never allow that to happen again. Next time, he'll
get some modern day communications people to come up with
a better setting and a better way to do that.
Let's go to Don in New York City.

Speaker 5 (20:18):
Don.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
How you doing?

Speaker 7 (20:20):
Yes? Mark, listen, Mark, are you familiar with the song
Till after the holidays?

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Tell what?

Speaker 7 (20:28):
Till after the holidays?

Speaker 9 (20:29):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Till after the holidays? Am I familiar with it?

Speaker 7 (20:33):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (20:33):
Not?

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Really? Was this like Al Jolson in the twenties? Huh?
Who said Garlands sang it? I know I don't remember it?

Speaker 7 (20:46):
What?

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Why?

Speaker 7 (20:48):
Oh? Because I heard it recently on the radio.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
Uh and who was playing at al Jasbo Collins. I'm kidding.

Speaker 7 (20:56):
I was on WABC.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
Oh okay, well it must be good then. Well, you know,
she recorded some beautiful, beautiful New Year's Christmas ballads. That's
probably one of them from the late fifties.

Speaker 7 (21:08):
Very sad. It's something like whatever Happened to Christmas?

Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yeah, all right, I'll check it out. You know, that's
one thing she was good. She would do these touching,
sad ballads. She was brilliant at it, being a great actress.
She was one of the great singers of the late
fifties and early sixties. In fact, to listen to her
live album at Carnegie Hall, one of the greatest albums ever.
Let's go to Joe in the Bronx. Joe, how you doing?

Speaker 10 (21:31):
I'm doing better than I deserve.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
And I hope you I'd agree with that. You don't
deserve to do this?

Speaker 10 (21:35):
Well, knowing you no, because it's good this way, I'm
not bitter.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
Well that's good.

Speaker 10 (21:42):
So anyway, I was thinking about a way to help
on for the mid terms. Yes, and I came up
with something good. In one of my plays, character says.

Speaker 9 (21:54):
You know, yeah, it sounds good.

Speaker 10 (21:59):
What's a bad America?

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Well, that's good.

Speaker 10 (22:02):
They don't need the wooden Horse because they have the
Democratic Party.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
That's great. How'd you come up with that's pretty amazingly. Oh, phenomenal. No, no,
it's excellent. Yeah, no, anyway, thanks for coming up with that. Anyway, Hey,
I forgot to mention one great thing in that speech
last night. You know, the tariffs. Some people love them,

(22:29):
some people don't. But the tariffs have brought in zillions
of dollars. Money is just flowing in from the tariffs.
So one thing he announced was every he called them warriors,
every military man and woman will get a thousand dollars
bonus this year, and he said they'll deliver it before Christmas.
So all of our great military soldiers one thousand dollars
bonus from the tariffs. Hey, when we come back, we're

(22:51):
going to talk to one of the greatest economists in
the world. We've got a real expert to talk about
the economy, affordability, inflation, the speech last night, it's all
of that. Next on seven to ten wo R with
Steve Moore.

Speaker 11 (23:03):
We hope it's more Mark Mark Simone on seven ten
wor Well, Steve Moore a great economist, one of the finest.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
In the world. You should get his latest book That
Can You Need a good Christmas Present for somebody? Excellent.
Get his book The Trump Economic Miracle. Excellent book. Also,
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(23:38):
Steve Moore, how you doing.

Speaker 12 (23:40):
Good Mary Christmas? And boy, we got a nice Christmas
present this morning with that low inflation number waves below expectations,
and we're now down to about two point six percent
inflation under Trump, which is, you know, half of what
it was under Biden five percent, So you know enough
about this affordability crisis. Prices of inflation has come down

(24:01):
a lot in just the last six months.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
Well, yeah, but it's an upsetting number if you're a Democrat.
They were looking for three, weren't they not two points?

Speaker 12 (24:10):
Yeah, exactly, that's a big, big error. And incidentally, you know,
the most recent numbers, you know, for the last couple
of months were really low. That means that, you know,
we're looking at an inflation rate that will stay low
now for the months to come. I'm extremely bullish on
twenty twenty six. I think we're going to see I
liked what Trump had to say last night that the

(24:30):
best has yet to come. He's exactly right about that.
So feeling good about things. And you know, I can
even now go out nice and Christmas presents and with
what six days the shop left?

Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah. Hey, but it's a great technique they've come up
with the left and the Democrats, the media combined. You
just drilled something into people's heads and thousand times a day,
affordability crisis exactly, and they start to believe it.

Speaker 12 (24:53):
So why didn't they use that? Why didn't they use
that term when Baden was president and inflation went up
to nine percent?

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Me guess he was a Democrat.

Speaker 12 (25:05):
It's unbelievable because you know, we've seen we're not bringing
inflation down as quickly as I'd like, but we're seeing
big improvement. And what about gas prices?

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Now?

Speaker 12 (25:15):
Look, I know you're there in the New York area
where you still pay what three four dollars a gallon,
but in most places, the price of gas is now
down to about two seventy nine a gallon, which is
really you know, remember it hit five dollars. Remember that Biden.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
Oil is fifty five dollars.

Speaker 12 (25:32):
Now amazing, Yeah it was. It was eighty dollars when
he came into office. Now it's fifty five. So that's
what about a thirty percent reduction in the price of oil.
And by the way, when the energy price goes down
like that, mark everything. It's sort of the lead indicator
where prices are headed because energy is a component of

(25:53):
everything way by, from toys to food to you know,
rent and housing. So look, it's a good economy. Trump
was right about that last night. Now, I know people
are hurting. I know people get angry when you say
that because they want to value ground bee for a sake,
and they get angry because it's really expensive. And my
wife is among those people who complains every time she
comes back to the grocery store. But no, we're cooking.

(26:16):
We got a good, decent jobs report, we got a
really good inflation report, and so it's going to be
a good Christmas Christmas Day for people. And twenty twenty six, Wow,
I just wait, the messes yet to come.

Speaker 7 (26:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
You know, the price of beef went up because the
Biden administration did everything they could to reduce the amount
of cattle we had. Remember they thought cows caused.

Speaker 12 (26:39):
Yeah, we have a record number of cows. You know,
if you reduce the number of cows, what do you
think is going to happen to the beef prices? Simple economics, right,
you know.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
The President rattled off all these things, inflation way down,
wages up for construction, all these different things. But if
you watch like the NBC Nightly News, the way they
phrased it is the President claimed to the reduced inflation
the present claim to How did they get away with
that kind of language.

Speaker 12 (27:05):
Well, one mistake Trump made, and a lot of us
make this mistake. Trump said, oh, I'm going to bring
prices down now, you know we in fact, you don't
want disinflation. Disinflation is even worse than inflation, and I
mean we had disinflation throughout the Great Depression in nineteen thirties.
What we want is price stability, and we want to
bring that inflation right down to the that target of

(27:27):
two percent, and.

Speaker 13 (27:29):
We're well on the way.

Speaker 12 (27:30):
But that means that you know, prices will still rise,
but at a much lower rate than they did Underbiden. So,
you know, I saw this poll the other day. This
is a perfect example of how the media is the
source thing. They said eighty six percent of American people
say prices are everything's more expensive than ever. Well, that's true.
I mean prices are more expensive today than they were

(27:52):
fifty years ago, you know, and everything gets more expensive
over time. The point is that right now, the most
important measurement is our price is rising faster than people's
wages and salaries. And the answer to that is no.
Right now, wages and salaries are rising faster than inflation,
which means we have more after tax after inflation income,

(28:15):
which means we have more affordability. Now, look, I understand
housing is really expensive for young people. I understand Bee physics, somonthsom.
Healthcare is out of control. And that's a mystery because gee,
I thought we passed the Affordable Care Act. How could
help care prices be out of control?

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Yeah? Now, Steve Moore, you're the expert economist. In one year,
President Trump cut inflation in half, took it from five percent? Yes,
is there anything? Is there any way you could have
done more than that? I mean, you don't. You can't
bring it down any faster than that, can you.

Speaker 12 (28:45):
We could have, I mean we could have. I mean, look,
there's no question that the terroriffts did cause some inflation.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (28:51):
And you know we saw a perfect example of that
is coffee prices rose a lot because we've put a
big tariff on you know, coffee beans coming in from
from Colombia and Brazil and so on. But it's been
a good it's been a good year for the US economy.
How about the fact that the economy has been growing
at three and a half to four percent for the

(29:11):
last nine months.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
Now, yeah, Now, the Big Beautiful Bill.

Speaker 12 (29:14):
That's a high growth number.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
Yeah. Yeah. The Big Beautiful Bill doesn't kick in for
taxpayers until January. And I'm told they'll get a reduction
in their taxes more in the Patriot. Yes, yeah, I'm
told the amount is going to shock people how much
of an increase they'll get.

Speaker 12 (29:29):
That's exactly right. So the people come up to me
on the street and say, hey, well, you know you
were helped to pass that big beautiful bill. Where's my
tax And I said, just wait, it's coming in January.
You know, the no tax on tips, the no tax
on overtime that you know, people will change the withholding.
So most Americans will get a boost in their paychecks
starting in January. And that's going to be equivalent of

(29:51):
about two thousand dollars for the average family. That ain't
that ain't nothing.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
No. Now, the only mine land mine out there that
could go off is this Affordable Care Act. Healthcare costs.
What are we going to do about that?

Speaker 12 (30:06):
Well, with one good way to start is to make
sure that we don't pass more Obamacare subsidies, which keep
feeding the beast of the healthcare system. By the way,
most of that money if we pass the increase in
all those subsidies, you know who gets about sixty cents
of every dollar of the increased subsidies health insurance companies.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
So but we have to extend. We have to give
an extension till we figure out a plan. I mean, right,
we're going.

Speaker 12 (30:37):
To look, it's a disaster. The healthcare system is a disaster.
They've ruined it, they've ruined it Mark and you know,
it's it's unbelievable because it's the one thing we never
have how much it's going to cost? Right, we never
ask when you know when you go to the doctor
or the physician or the hospital and they say you
need an MRI, do you do you ask see how
much that's going to cost?

Speaker 7 (30:57):
Yeah, nobody does.

Speaker 12 (31:00):
That's like you know, going to the grocery store and saying, oh,
I'll take that and that and that and not looking
at the price tag. So we got to get the
consumer back in the market here, so everybody becomes and
that way, you know, uh, you need insurance for your
you know those rare really expensive things like if you
get cancered out forbid, or break your leg or you have,
you know, a chronic disease, you want to be covered.

(31:22):
But you know we've got to put the patient back
an equation and why not.

Speaker 7 (31:26):
How about this?

Speaker 12 (31:26):
This is an idea Trump is paid for. If you
were to pay for some of these medical procedures, but
with cash, you would pay twenty five to thirty percent
less less. There are some places, by the way, an
MRI literally in Washington, c one hospital charge with eight
hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
For an MRI.

Speaker 12 (31:42):
The other one costs you five charge you five thousand dollars.
What yeah, I mean, it's the pricing is unbelievable. We
need price transparency. That's something Trump's been really good at.
So anyway, I am I'm very optimistic.

Speaker 7 (31:55):
Are we going to be on next.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Week at all? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (32:00):
Oh well, I have a merry, merry Christmas.

Speaker 12 (32:03):
I have a happy, happy New Year, and we I'm
not going to get a pay raise for my weekly
segment with you next year.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
We're giving you a triple triple next year. Triple what
you getting?

Speaker 12 (32:14):
Wait, triple zero is still zero?

Speaker 2 (32:16):
All right, quadruple. You are a great negotiator.

Speaker 7 (32:20):
All right.

Speaker 12 (32:21):
So anyway, Mark, have a great, great Christmas, and you
can't wait to talk to the end of new year,
and good things are to come. Bunks, and Merry Christmas
to all your listeners, and get the hotline.

Speaker 7 (32:31):
It's free.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Yeah, that's a great present for yourself. It's free. Just
go to Unleash Prosperity dot com and for somebody else
gets Steve Moore's book, The Trump Economic Miracle. Be a
great Christmas presents, really good book. Steve Moore, thanks for
being with us. Talk to you next year. Thanks Perry
Christmas by take care. Yeah, I'll be uh. Actually, today's
my last day of the year. Ken Rizzotto will be

(32:53):
here tomorrow. But then next week, in the week after.
For two weeks, Curtis Sliwa will be filling in every day.
That'll be fascinating to hear what he's got to say
about the mayor race, the new mayor and everything else.
And don't forget Buck and Clay, they'll be here at
noon today right after this show. And then you got
Sean Hannity Most listened to radio show in America at three,

(33:15):
Jimmy Fayla, great show every United at nine, and he'll
be with us in the next hour here on seven
to ten WR.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
It's the Mark Simone Show on sevent ten workay.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Well coming up in the next hour, Jimmy Fayla will
be with us. That'll be great. Also, we'll get to
the crazy New York Times and their fake investigations. We'll
get to Brown University, We'll get to the incoming mayor.
There's some good signs of things that might happen. We'll
explain in the next hour. Don't forget. I'll be off

(33:48):
for the Christmas break. Curtis will be filling in for
two weeks. That'll be great. Back after the news seven
to ten WR, the Mark.

Speaker 11 (33:56):
Simone Show, delivering the news before.

Speaker 6 (33:59):
It is on seven ten wr.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
Well that's today Thursday. It's one week until Christmas is
a week from today. Unbelievable. It's almost time for New
Year's resolutions. It's almost time for look back of best
of twenty twenty five? Can you believe it? The year
just flown by. So Nick Reiner was in court with

(34:27):
no tell that was he had on. It's they call
it a suicide vest. It's a weird blue thing covering up.
He had shackles on, and obviously a very very dangerous,
troubled guy. He's being held in isolation. He's on suicide watch.
They brought him into court basically only said one thing.

(34:47):
He only spoke once when the judge said they agreed
to delay until January the arraignment and all that stuff,
and then she said, are you okay giving up your
right to swift and he said, yes, you're on it.
It's the only thing he said in court that day.
This attorney has Jackson is one of the top top

(35:09):
top Los Angeles criminal attorneys. Handled a lot of big,
big cases. It's say, if you want to hire this
guy on a murder charge and get defended by him,
it's about a million bucks. So I would assume the
family is paying for it. Here's the attorney.

Speaker 14 (35:25):
Afterwards, You're set for January seventh, foreign arraignments.

Speaker 9 (35:29):
That's the next court date.

Speaker 14 (35:30):
And that's all I have to say at this point.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Well, so the kid will be locked up until then, dangerous,
dangerous kid.

Speaker 14 (35:38):
We asked that during this process you allow the system
to move forward in the way that it was designed
to move forward, not with a rush to judgment, not
with jumping to conclusions, but with restraint and with dignity
and with the respect that this system and this process deserves,
and that the family deserves.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Very well said, but be honest, I'm gonna rush the
judgment on this one. I am going to definitely jump
the conclusions with this deranged psycho kid. I will rush
the judgment on this one. But that's what you do
for a million dollars. You sound good and you make
these speeches, but I really don't know how they I mean,

(36:19):
you know what, I would assume in the end, they're
gonna have DNA evidence that will absolutely convict this kid
through a hard DNA evidence. Although it is Los Angeles
where they have screwed up more cases. You remember, the
OJ case was lost because they didn't properly secure the evidence.
Remember they had the blood all over him, do you remember,
oj He had blood on his golf hand glove, He

(36:41):
had blood on his socks, He had blood in his bedroom,
he had blood in his washing machine. The blood was
every place, but they collected it and then they didn't remember.
They didn't secure the evidence properly. Remember that detective was
his name, Van Adder. How's that for a memory? Had
to admit under oath that he put it the test
tube with the blood. He the edit in his sport

(37:01):
coat pocket for a week before he vouch it or
something like that. They just screwed it up. So anything
can happen in Los Angeles. Now, in the Brown University shooting,
it turns out this Brown University has got one really bumbling,
stupid president. Her name is I forget what her name is,
But in fact there's talk now of hauling her in
front of Congress and making you testify about how badly

(37:24):
run Brown University was. You know, I kept pointing out
the security director. I don't like his resume. He's got
twenty thirty years of school safety. But you know, somewhere
else he was a director of security at a school
somewhere else. He was a patrolman, but on a school
a security force. You know, you'd like to get a
guy from real law enforcement, a real ex I would

(37:47):
hire an next NYPD captain or something like that, or
somebody with some real law enforcement experience, because if you
look at Brown University, they have no clue as to
what happened here. They can't give you a video of
the guy. All they got that video you see is
somebody's ring doorbell thing from three blocks away. What the
hell kind of campus does not have surveillance cameras everywhere?

(38:11):
The restaurants have them everywhere. We have, look at we
got them all over the hallway. Look around here, go
down the hall, turn the corner. That's like you got
to pass twelve security cameras. How does the university with
a bunch of crazy kids, how do they not have
surveillance cameras? They just don't. This Brown president and Brown University,

(38:32):
her name, I forget her name, and then she's blaming
the gun violence, gun violence, gun we have. The gun
didn't cause the problem. The shooter did. And you don't
have surveillance cameras, so we can't get a picture of
the guy.

Speaker 15 (38:44):
The shooter is responsible horrific gun violence, took the lives
of these students and hospitalized others. And it's deeply sad
and tragic that schools across the country are targets of violence.
Brown is no exception.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
She's gonna get hauled in front of Congress, and I
have testified on her oarth. She's get three million a year,
three million a year and doesn't have a proper head
of security, does not have surveillance cameras, all the necessary equipment.
Her background, well, she's an economist. Well there you go.
An economist, not the good kind, not the Steve more kind.

(39:20):
This is like the academic economists. You know, they're just
sitting in a university somewhere and never make contact with
the real world. Oh, actually she did. Look she was
at Princeton. An economist at Princeton. Okay. New York Times
is this New York Times is the most incoonfident, bumbling
partisan disturbing details from the New York Times stunning Trump investigation,

(39:47):
Trump Epstein investigation. This is The New York Times published
its most comprehensive investigation yet into President Trump's relationship with
Jeffrey Epstein. Now there's not much of a relation. They
knew each other for a couple of years when he
was a first a zillionaire and he came to Pond
Beach and was throwing money around. He joined mar A Lago.
And whenever you run a resort, a hotel, a club,

(40:11):
if a new guy in town's got zillions of dollars
and he's spending like crazy at Coortia, and he becomes
a memory of club, of coursing over, you say hello,
You go to his parties and invite him to stuff.
Perfectly normal happens all the time. Times they had to
admit in the little fine print, all the Times found
no evidence implicating Trump in Epstein's sucks trafficking crimes. But

(40:32):
but they did so. Their investigation reveals a social and
personal relationship far beyond what has been acknowledged. Now, what
are they based that, Well, they based this on They
were going through Epstein's stuff, and he had a copy
of Trump's book, The Art of the Comeback, very good book,
by the way, one of his best. It's out of print,

(40:53):
but it's a great book. But in the book, which
was nineteen ninety seven, that's how long ago Trump knew Epstein.
He broke up with him right away. He found the
guy was creepy and got rid of him. But in
nineteen ninety seven he gave Trump a book and he
inscribed the book. He autographed it to him. And this
is what the New York Times is basing this on,

(41:17):
that he was much closer than we think, because he
wrote in the book. Guess what he wrote to Jeff,
you are the greatest. Donald ha ha. They got him,
you are the great Well, I hate to break it
to you. I got a copy of the Art of
the Comeback from nineteen ninety seven, and guess what he
wrote in my book, the same thing, you are the greatest.

(41:40):
I hate to break it to you, New York Times.
I could show you twenty letters I have from him
through the years where that's what he writes at the end.
I got a million notes from him that he always writes,
you are great or you are the greatest. It's just
standard for him. It doesn't mean anything. It shows you
absolutely nothing about their relationship. You go back to the nineties,

(42:01):
where you know, I'd m see a dinner forum or
and he'd send you a note you were a great MC,
thank you so much and then underneath it would be tight,
but underneath you would write with the big sharpie, you
are the greatest Donald. It's just standard. He does that
for everybody. So of course the New York Times never
really investigates, or they would have checked that out and

(42:22):
gotten to the bottom of that and realized they had
nothing there. You remember the kiss cam at the Patriots Stadium,
the kiss cam scandal. It was Coldplay the concert and
the big CEO is out with an employee. They've gone
to a concert, and that kiss cam just you know

(42:47):
how many people in that stadium, fifty thousand, It just
zooms around and picks out somebody. What are the odds
that it would land on these two who are having
an affair, cheating, not supposed to be out there and
are holding each other arm in arm and she had
to resign. I guess he had to resign. Well, she's
finally speaking out for the first time ever. She's finally

(43:08):
speaking out, and she spoke out and gave an interview.
I'm reading the interview. I don't really know what how
she's saying. It's kind of vague. She said the sixteen
second public display of affection with her. Then boss left
her She says it left me as a meme and unemployable.
She had not been able to get another job. She says,

(43:30):
what does this mean? I made a bad decision. I
had a couple of high noons and danced and acted
inappropriately with my boss while admitting he was her big
happy crush. What does that mean I made a bad
decision and had a couple of high noons. Does that

(43:50):
mean she was like Gary Cooper getting in a gunfight
or what does it mean? Does it mean high noons?
Does that mean in the middle of the day they
went to a like a motel or something. I don't know.
I guess that's what supposed to mean, and it's not nothing.
I took accountability. I gave up my career for that.
That's the price I chose to pay. I don't think
she chose that. I think that's how it ended up.
But coming forward, I don't know why. I guess is

(44:14):
she going to have a book deal? Does she want
to get on the view? She says, I'm not a celebrity.
I'm just a mom from New Hampshire. Even if I
did have an affair, it's not anybody's business. It has
been like a scarlet letter. People erased anything and everything
I've accomplished in my life and achieved in my career.
This can't be the final word. Okay, I guess what

(44:38):
it is. She hasn't been able to get a job,
So this is she's going to And she's not wrong.
You know, everything else fails. Go public, get a lot
of attentions. You can get a job out of it,
she said. Instead, I became a meme and unemployable. I
was the most recognized. Oh no, I was the most
maligned HR manager in HR history. Yeah. Actually, if you're

(45:01):
the HR manager, aren't you supposed to be watching for
this kind of thing and stopping it, not doing it yourself. Yeah, Hey,
Mam donnie. Two weeks from today is that New Year's Day? Yeah?
Two weeks from today takes office, the last two weeks
of Eric Adams. Two weeks from today, Mam Donnie is

(45:23):
sworn in. Now. The biggest thing everybody's worried about, obviously,
is crime number two would be these homeless camps all
over the place. Uh, here's some good news, some good news.
The US Attorney Southern District, that's the most powerful US
Attorney's office. The current US attorney's a guy named Jay Clayton.
He's great, really great Jay Clayton. He has quite a career.

(45:48):
You know, he was the SEC chairman in Trump's first term.
Donald Trump likes him a lot, talks to him constantly.
And Jay Clayton as the US attorney. You know, in
the Southern district, they're usually going after some big fraud case,
or they're going after some big corporation, some big drug
trafficky whatever, big big stuff. But Clayton has said he

(46:11):
and his office, and this is good news with mom
Donney company said he in his office will focus on
street crime. And they can do this. They can do this.
They can do a great job. And these federal guys
are even better. Sometimes they'll go after drugs, they'll go
after guns, they'll go after violence, they'll go after all
kinds of crime. Reason I say they're better. NYPD is great.

(46:34):
But problem with the NYPD. They'll do a great job,
but then it goes into a New York City court,
a New York City judge and New York City jury,
and you know, he goes to Alvin Bragg Local DA
and all these people do is let the criminals back
out in the street. Now, in the case of Clayton,
it's federal. It goes to a federal prosecutor, and they

(46:55):
don't let everybody go. They'll actually lock them up. And
as Clayton said, the one thing we do know is
if you keep letting the criminals back out, you're going
to have a crime wave. If you'll lock them up
and keep them locked up, crime drops dramatically. He says,
we know from studies repeat violent offenders, continuous custody is
the thing that reduces crime the most. Rudy Giuliani did

(47:19):
a little of this when he was mayor. They used
to have one day a week would be Federal Day
where the cops would go out there and have federal
officers with them, so the cops would break the case,
find the criminal, and then hand him over to the
Feds because they could make sure he got locked up,
unlike locals here with the das that we have the
crazy ones. So that's very very good news, and apparently

(47:41):
Trump is on board with this. So if it does
start to have if there is starting to be a
crime problem, you'll see if the Feds step in on
the streets in New York and start arresting criminals and
making sure they don't get out. Very good news. Dan
Bongino is going to leave as FBI Deputy Director. It's
been confirmed. The replacements are a couple of guys. They're

(48:05):
just you know, career FBI guys. So, but Bongino has
already cleaned out his desk. He will officially stay until
January and then he'll leave. President Trump said Dan did
a great job. I think he wants to go back
to his show. Yeah, I don't blame him. You know,
the problem is being the deputy director. Basically you're just
running day to day operations, which if you're in that business,

(48:28):
it's a great job. But if you're you know, I
gotta be honest with you, it's much more fun doing this,
you know, going on TV and being on the radio
and doing broadcasting. It's a lot more fun than sitting
in an office all day doing FBI business. And for
a lot of these guys that leave, I don't know
how they do it, you know, I mean it's fun,

(48:49):
you know, it's great. All you do is have fun
all day in broadcasting. So Bongino wants to get back
to that. Hey, you know this assisted suicide thing where
you can just you want to die and get the
medical aid and dying. You know, it's like doctor suicide.
You can do this in Canada, did it? They legalized
it in twenty sixteen. In fact, within five years, doctor

(49:12):
assistant suicide became one of the top five causes of
death in Canada. So they're pushing this in New York
and Kathy Hochel surprised everybody by getting on board with this.
You want to commit suicide, you want to die, you
can go to the doctor and have him suicide. You
Kavorki in you Now, why would Hochel suddenly get it?
Why would she want to be Well, the insurance companies

(49:37):
are pushing this like crazy. In fact, they've been spending
a lot of money, spending a ton of money donating
to politicians. They want this because it'll save them a fortune. Now,
who would want to go commit suicide? Well, somebody who's
got a terrible illness that's going to require, you know,
catastrophic medical care. Well, if you don't want to go

(50:01):
through that, you'd rather just commit suicide. It's you know,
for you, you think it's better for the insurance company. It's
a hell of a lot better. You know that your insurance.
Medical bills could be ten million bucks by the time
you're done twenty years later. So the insurance company would
love to have you just go away. So they've been
bribing and donating and paying off politicians like crazy. And

(50:23):
guess who's suddenly on board Kathy Hokele. Well you do
the math. That's why she suddenly is on board with this. Hey,
we'll take Jimmy Fayalo will be with us in a
few minutes. We'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three
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Speaker 2 (50:55):
Hey six some calls. Let's go to Mike and Florida. Mike,
how you doing? Mhm, Good morning, Mark, Good morning, Mike.

Speaker 16 (51:03):
I want to wish you a very pleasant vacation.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
That a great vacation, just a pleasant one, a great
with you you have a pleasant.

Speaker 16 (51:19):
You know, the President looked p O last night and
I think he feels like he's in person alone, you know,
even even supporters, you know, and who are analysts and pundits.
You know, they can't come ight out and support him.
They always have to dump on him before they say
anything positive about him. And I think he's frustrated by that.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
Well, no, he's okay. The reason he was a little mad,
like he did not want to do that last night,
that was the staff pushing that. Susie wils pushed it,
and right before he went it in front of the camera,
he said, she's making me do this. The last thing
he believes in is a formal speech, reading a teleprompter
at a podium, all alone in a room.

Speaker 16 (51:53):
That's like, I agree, but she's influenced by all these
pundits who say he.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Has to talk to very good chief of staff. But
she's too old school, old fashioned. This is the kind
of thing at president went do in nineteen eighty six.
It made sense.

Speaker 16 (52:07):
It's not the age of Reagan anymore.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
You're right, Yeah, it's too old fashioned. You know, thanks
for calling Mike the fact that she's so old school,
old fashioned. It's a very good thing when it comes
to running the office and discipline, but when it comes
to media communication. I think he realized last night, don't
listen to her on that stuff. Let's go to Vincent
and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing.

Speaker 5 (52:28):
Good morning, Mark, Good morning man, Mark. I'd like to
wish you a merry Christmas and a happy twenty twenty sixth,
and to thank the Woor family and staff for another
great year of radio and especially your technical crew is great.
The fade ins and fade outs a flawless unlike the

(52:51):
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Speaker 2 (52:52):
You know most people glad you said that most people
don't pay attention to the fade ins.

Speaker 5 (52:57):
Ah Man, your staff is really on the other station
up the dial. I'm not gonna.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
Measure any it, but you can't. You know. See, we like,
we like use a lot of contemporary music. Every other
station right here, it's all songs from nineteen eighty three.
It's all the old stuff.

Speaker 5 (53:15):
But not only that, Mark, they're faded in and out,
and a lot of times they get cross talk, they
get two programs playing at once. I mean, you're going
what am I in the twilight zone?

Speaker 7 (53:26):
Mark?

Speaker 5 (53:27):
That being said, I know you're going to be attending
a lot of parties which you already have been attending,
and I know you're gonna probably speak to President Trump,
will maybe even go party, which for President Trump friends
in Italy that sent me a package.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
First off, what do you mean they sent me a package?
What does a.

Speaker 5 (53:49):
Package for mealy? And they told me they couldn't even
put all the stuff in there that they wanted because
of the kind of package. So anyway, Mark, I can't
get so any I'm told that it's being held up
for customs. All Mark, Well, put in a good word
for me, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
You know, if I were customs, if something came from
your friends in Italy to you, I I want to
check that package too, you know, Come on, Mark, No, no, well,
we'll see what we can do.

Speaker 5 (54:17):
Well, hey, man, have a great vacation, you know, you know,
as Donald Trump would ride at the bottom. No, you
are the best, and thanks for a great great Thanks.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
You're one of the stars of the show. People come
up to me all the time though you're one of
the first things they mentioned.

Speaker 5 (54:35):
Well, it's all it's all because of you and the
wor family and your staff. I wanted once again, your
crew did the best, man right.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
Mart Vincent, thanks for calling hey. When we come back.
Jimmy Fayaler he's on every night here at nine o'clock
excellent show. We'll talk to the great comedian Jimmy Faylor
next on seven to ten w o R.

Speaker 11 (54:58):
Mister New York marks on seven ten WR.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
Well Jimmy Pala, the great comedian, the excellent talk show host.
You can hear him now every night at nine o'clock
right here on w R every night nine to midnight. Hey,
and don't miss his Saturday night show, Fox News Channel's
the best late night talk show, finest monologue in TV,
Saturday nights at ten Fox News Channel A w R

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every weeknight here at nine, Jimmy Fayla, How you doing?

Speaker 13 (55:28):
I'm doing?

Speaker 9 (55:29):
Man?

Speaker 12 (55:29):
This is it last week.

Speaker 9 (55:32):
Of normalcy before Mom Donnie takes over. Isn't that crazy?

Speaker 2 (55:37):
Two weeks from today he actually has an inauguration day.

Speaker 9 (55:40):
Yeah, that's that's the exact day. So I was explaining
this to people from out of town. I'm like, you know,
you still get sidewalk stantas till about the thirty first,
but then they go home and you get Mom Donnie.

Speaker 13 (55:51):
Asking for money instead.

Speaker 9 (55:53):
It just changes seasons just like that.

Speaker 2 (55:57):
Oh god, hey, I feel all fat, bloated and these
I can't go to like four hundred Christmas parties in
two weeks, so you have the same problem.

Speaker 9 (56:05):
Oh, buddy, it is so bad because the food right now,
Like I'm not even halfway into what I'm what I'm
committed to eat between now and Christmas, and I already
have the wardrobe department chasing me with an ozembic needle.
So I'm in a tough spot here, Simon. Like i
come pulling sick to a Christmas party. I've never done

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that before.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
No thousands of my at one buffet. You know I didn't.
I forgot you could actually eat sitting down. I didn't
even know you could do that anymore. So, hey, what
do you think of this? The Oscar. It's been on
television for a million years, ABC for decades, It's going
to YouTube. What does that signify?

Speaker 9 (56:46):
Well, we had always knew the show was too long,
and know how they would say it was too.

Speaker 13 (56:52):
Long, and they're worried about.

Speaker 9 (56:53):
Advertising and stuff. I don't know that anybody even cares.
Like they have fallen so foreign prestige, Like you think
about that, okay, Like the Oscars used to be like
the classiest, biggest spectacle in the history of the of
the country every year, Like that was the night like
the one night. Now they're gonna be co headlining YouTube

(57:14):
with a dog riding a skateboard, you know, some guy
teaching a blow up doll how to salsedan. Like it
doesn't seem like a fall in class, a little bit
a fall from grace maybe.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
Well yeah, but you're right. They used to have to.
You know. They were yelling to wrap it up by
eleven o'clock for the news YouTube. They can take five
hours if they want so, it'll it'll, yep, totally get
out of control. So New Year's Eves that's the worst
night of the year, isn't it. It's a really annoying night.

Speaker 13 (57:43):
Oh buddy.

Speaker 9 (57:44):
If you are driving a cab, which is how I
started out in New Year's Eve, everyone should do it once.
It's like going to watch the ball drop in Tonker.
You should do it once, you know, if you could,
you can do it once.

Speaker 13 (57:54):
Nobody I know does it twice.

Speaker 9 (57:55):
I don't know a cab driver who has driven multiple
New Year's eaves. They've driven wall okay, and they've seen
everything you'd expect to see. Okay. It's like a well
dressed Saint Patrick's Day parade.

Speaker 13 (58:07):
You know, Saint Patrick State Parade.

Speaker 9 (58:08):
All my drunk relatives come into the city marching the parade.
Than they're hammered and screaming and breaking up and crying.
And that's pretty much New Year's Eve. Yeah, except you're
trapped in a small vehicle with them instead of a
bar with a jukebox.

Speaker 13 (58:20):
It's intense.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
Well in New York s e. When you make more money,
when you make a fortune on New Year's Eve as
a cab driver.

Speaker 9 (58:26):
Yeah, but you wind up giving half of it to
the guy at the garage who has to clean all
the substances out of the back.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
Okay, Hey, Joe Biden, he seems to be showing up
in public more and more, making more speech. What the
hell why is he suddenly out in public everywhere?

Speaker 5 (58:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (58:44):
I don't like, I don't get what's going on with that,
because you know, we watched him last week when he
said the United States of Ameer got it?

Speaker 13 (58:51):
Do you remember that again?

Speaker 9 (58:52):
With the United States of America got it? And you
know I always tell you this. He makes me feel
bad for the sign language and interpret you know, because
that guy finally got a break after four years of
having to make up sign Now Biden's back out on
the road inventing words. Look, if you're the sign language
interpreter guy, you don't have a symbol for ameragot it.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
You know, that's a good point. Hey, Trump's President Trump's
speech last night. I don't know. I don't think he's
going his best reading off the teleprompter, do you no?

Speaker 9 (59:25):
And it was funny because he delivered the speech like
he had ten thousand people screaming in an arena, which
made it look a little weird in a dry room.

Speaker 13 (59:35):
You know, he was kind of like overperforming.

Speaker 7 (59:37):
And somebody was telling me, well, like we.

Speaker 9 (59:39):
You don't understand the network's only gave him fifteen minutes.
I get that, but it doesn't mean just because you
have fifteen minutes, you need to squeeze in two hours
and ten minutes worth of material like he was. You know,
that was a runway stream and he made a lot
of good points, but like, you don't necessarily process them
all when they come at you that quick. So the
one thing I took away though, as I.

Speaker 13 (01:00:01):
Was saying on Twitter, he gave money to the troops.

Speaker 9 (01:00:04):
So we've got a president who gives money to the troops.
The last president gave drag shows to the troops, so
I think we're in a better place.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Hey. Also, he was missing all the bells and whistles.
Usually when you do a speech, you know, you have
all the cabinet around, you're shaking hands after you're done
or something like that, or like a little pregame. They
didn't do any of that, did they. Everybody else was gone.

Speaker 7 (01:00:23):
Yeah, it was the state it was.

Speaker 9 (01:00:25):
It was the state of the Union minus the Union.
But he he came out.

Speaker 13 (01:00:31):
You know, he's very forceful, uh.

Speaker 9 (01:00:34):
And you know he made points. But the thing is,
it's we do one thing about Trump, like if it's
on his mind, it's on your television, it's on your
Twitter feed. Like he doesn't necessarily have the bedside manner
of like good evening and happy holidays. It literally opened
with like Joe Biden has dementia. He routined the country

(01:00:54):
we were about to die. I turned it around and.

Speaker 13 (01:00:58):
Happy holidays, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
Hey, Dan Bungeeo, Dan Bungino's leaving the FBI. And I
was saying before I can understand you would know it's
fun to do a TV show, it's fun to do
a radio show. Who would give that up to go
sit at a desk in FBI headquarters and it's the
most boring job in the.

Speaker 9 (01:01:16):
Early You're not the only one who's asked yourself that
question because you want to know what he probably was
killing him too, is you know when he was in
the podcast space, he could say whatever the hell he wanted,
none of it needed to be true. And you know
he was selling merch like Epstein didn't hang himself, Like
that's what he was doing. But then when you get into.

Speaker 13 (01:01:37):
That job, you got to rein it in a little bit.

Speaker 9 (01:01:40):
And it also sucks because things that you say can
be disproven, Like remember when he had to go on
TV and go I know I used to say he
didn't hang himself, but trust me, I saw the evidence
he hung himself. And what I loved about that video
is if you looked close, you could see the CIA
person pointing the gun at him from behind the curtain.

(01:02:02):
It's nice, nice the way they do that, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
But you know, all of our Fox buddies, like I
don't know, Sean Duffy, whoever, would you rather be doing
a TV show than the transportation secretary meeting with railroad
union exit? Who the hell wants to do that? All day?

Speaker 13 (01:02:17):
Yeah, Well, I would rather.

Speaker 9 (01:02:18):
Be doing TV than anything because if I had a
cabinet job, they would run a background check and that'd
be the end of all of it. You know, my
twenties who But I get it. It's it's a cool
thing for a minute, though, because it's the one for
a minute. A lot of people for a minute. A
lot of people who work in news don't want to
cover the story.

Speaker 13 (01:02:36):
They want to be the story.

Speaker 9 (01:02:38):
So if you get one of those jobs, for a
little while, you're the story. But then what you've come
to realize is, you know, being the story gets old.

Speaker 2 (01:02:46):
Yeah, and I think.

Speaker 13 (01:02:48):
Where we're at now.

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
Hey, Jimmy Faylor is on w o R every night.
It's an excellent show. It's very funny, entertaining, good formative
nine to midnight every weeknight. And what do you got
tonight on the show?

Speaker 13 (01:03:00):
Oh, it is all going down.

Speaker 9 (01:03:01):
We actually have the founder of the Manhattan Comedy Schools
who has been in stand up you know, he started
Caroline Networks, Gotham Comedy Club, and we're coming to talk comedy,
actually comedy over the holidays and how it can.

Speaker 15 (01:03:14):
Save you.

Speaker 9 (01:03:17):
If you don't get along with So it's kind of
like we're doing an interview.

Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
Yeah, America, Well we urge everybody to listen because all
of you who start telling jokes and think you're actually funny,
listen to professionals give you some guidance on how to
do it. That would be great.

Speaker 9 (01:03:32):
You're gonna charge you, man, that's the least we could do.
At least we could do.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
Hey, listen tonight at nine. Also make sure you watch
He's got the best late night showing TV Saturday nights
at ten o'clock every Saturday night ten o'clock Fox News Show.
A little too early to know what you're going to
do Saturday night though, right, Oh, I have a.

Speaker 9 (01:03:51):
Good idea of what's coming down the pipe belt we have.
This is a whole when Neil deGrasse Tyson is coming on,
which is a big deal because it's not every day
the guy who runs this planetarium hangs out with the
kids who got stoned on the school trips for the planetarium.
You know what I mean. It's a nice touch, but

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we're excited. It's gonna be a good one.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
All right. That's Saturday nights at ten. And also he's
got the best, the funniest monologue in TV. Saturday nights
at ten Jimmy Fayla and a very funny entertaining show
tonight nine o'clock on w OR Jimmy Fayla. Great to
talk to you every week. Have a great Christmas. I'll
talk to you in the new year.

Speaker 13 (01:04:32):
Damn right, Hell ho home Man'll see you soon, all.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
Right, take care. Yeah, I'll be off for two weeks.
Actually I'm off tomorrow. Ken Rizzotto be here tomorrow, but
for the next two weeks after that, the final two
weeks of the year, Curtis Sliwa will be filling in
for me. That should be interesting. And it's that time everybody.
It's not just me, I know down the hall, Elvis
Durant taking two weeks off over there, Charlemagne taking two weeks.

(01:04:56):
It's the Christmas break. Everybody kind of disappears. But we'll
have the best fill in. Curtis Sliwa will be here
every day ten to noon on seven to ten w R.

Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
Here's more mar Simone on seven ten WOR.

Speaker 9 (01:05:12):
Whoa.

Speaker 2 (01:05:14):
Yeah, I'm going to be off for the rest of
the year. I'll be back in January. Christmas break, so
but you can follow me on Twitter. You can follow
me on Facebook, Instagram, all that stuff. We'll keep in
touch that way, and that'll be good. Let's go one

(01:05:34):
more thing before the day is done. I got an
mc a luncheon for the police athletically. George Pataki will
be our speaker. Great, you know, think about this, he
was the last great governor. Well, David Patterson was a
great governor, but me really was George Pataki the greatest
governor of our recent lifetime. Think about it. He just

(01:05:54):
left when he wanted to leave. He decided to move
on and after three terms and run again. David Patterson decided,
you want to do something else, didn't run again. Outside
of that, the last couple of governors left with the police,
Jason them, I remember Spitzer Cuomo, all like driven out
of office and scandal. So our last great governor Pataki

(01:06:16):
and always there to help out with the charity stuff.
What else. Christmas parties, Yeah, there's a few more of them.
I can't take any more Christmas parties.

Speaker 7 (01:06:25):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
That you just overeat and overeat and overeat and over
and then you work here and every time you turn
around there's six more buffets out there down there. Just
can't take it anymore. Anyway, I want you to have
a great holiday. I'll be back right after New Year's
Day and Curtis will be filling in for two weeks.

(01:06:46):
Ken Rizotto tomorrow, but then two weeks if Curtisy were
filling in. So be listening and I'll talk to you
in the new Year. Thanks for everything, Take care. Seven
to ten WR