FULL SHOW: Shocking tragedy as actor Rob Reiner and his wife are killed, plus Frank Sinatra tops the charts!

Actor Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were tragically killed over the weekend by their son, according to reliable sources. Mark provides the latest updates on the Bondi Beach shooting in Australia. Mark interviews political strategist Ed Rollins. With the midterm elections approaching, Republicans are expected to campaign aggressively to make their case for reelection. The GOP faces criticism for failing so far to stop the rise in healthcare premiums, which could affect their chances in 2026. Ed also shares insights on what aspiring Presidential candidates should be doing now to prepare for 2028. For the first time since 1967, a Frank Sinatra song has reached number one on the Billboard charts! Meanwhile, the NYC real estate market is booming, with a surge in new closings and rentals. Mark interviews journalist Steve Cuozzo. Steve challenges the myth that NYC isn’t creating affordable apartments. Mark and Steve also discuss the vibrant nightlife in the city, with bars, restaurants, and nightclubs packed with patrons.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fly from Midtown Manhattan. Here comes the Mark Simone Show
on seven O.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
All.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Well, oh, we got a lot to get to today,
a lot of things happening. We'll bring you all the
latest on Rob Reiner, on Brown University, on Australia, and
then we'll get to you, of course Trump, the political stuff.
We'll get to all of that coming up. We'll get
to New York, we'll get to the tourists, we'll get
to Epstein, we'll get to twenty twenty eight, and all
sorts of stuff to talk about. The Rob Reiner well,

(00:35):
you know, it's the whole weekend was strange. It wasn't
much of a big news weekend, and then all of
a sudden you had Australia the terrible shooting. Then you
had Brown University the terrible shooting, and you have these
two things just taking everybody's attention, and then all of
a sudden the Rob Reiner situation. Here's the latest on
Rob Reiner. He lives in Brentwood. This is a about

(01:00):
a mile and a half from Ojay's house where Nicole
Simpson was killed and almost stabbed. Wasn't she decapitated? So
this is another stabbing in Brentwood in the same neighborhood. Now,
Rob Reiner has a big, huge house in Brentwood, but
it's sort of a compound, and on the grounds is

(01:22):
another couple buildings. One is a guest house. And Rob
Reiner had three kids with the wife Michelle. But remember
he had previously been married to Penny Marshall, and he
had another child. He had a daughter with Penny Marshall,
and that daughter lived in the guest house. And the

(01:44):
police are not revealing much of anything right now, they're
keeping very quiet. Later today they'll have a press conference
and maybe explain some of this. But here's what I've heard,
again not confirmed, but the daughters in the guest house.
This is yesterday. It's a Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon, and
she hears incredibly loud arguing in the main house, real arguing,

(02:09):
and at some point later she goes over to check
and finds Rob Reiner, her father, and her stepmother dead.
Calls police immediately they show up. There's recording these nine
to one one calls that I think there was a
fire department of something that responded first, calling for more
back up, and then the police show up. She tells

(02:32):
them about the arguing. She believes it was the son Nick,
son of Rob Reiner, who's thirty two years old. Now,
this son is a very very troubled son, drug addiction, mental,
all kinds of mental problems. He'd been so bad with
the drug addiction. Seventeen times in rehabit didn't work. He

(02:55):
ended up homeless on the street and Texas, homeless, in Maine,
homeless all over the place. I knew Rob Briiner. I
didn't know the kid, but if you look at any
picture of the kid, his eyes look a little psycho,
a little crazy. And I don't know the situation how
this all started, with the drugs and everything, but he
just spiraled out of control and it was so hopeless.

(03:16):
There was absolutely no saving this kid. I'm sure Rob
Briiner tried, and at one point he came back to
Los Angeles. They thought they straightened him out, and he
made a movie about his drug addiction and about his
rehab and all of that stuff. But I guess this
went crazy again and there was no hope for this kid.

(03:37):
So it looks like he was the one in this crazy,
loud argument with the parents and then stabbed them and
slit their throats. Again, this is a mile and a
half from where oj slit the throats of the wife
and Ron Brown. But now from what I've heard the police,

(03:58):
this is not confirmed, but police have taken the kid
into custody. He's thirty two. The son's name is Nick.
They have earlier an hour or two ago taking him
into custody, So that would indicate they have the evidence
they need, or they think they have the evidence that
he's guilty. So it was a terrible scene at the
home yesterday, Police all over the place to crime tape

(04:21):
up close. Friends of Rob Brner, Billy Crystal, Larry David
was seen coming to the house leaving crying upset. So
there'd be a press conference of some kind. They'll announce
something later today. But apparently the son is in custody
and we'll see what happens. So you got that going on.

(04:42):
You also got Brown University terrible situation.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Now.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
The first reports indicated it was some sort of something
to do with anti Semitism, anti Semitic attack, small Jewish
community at Brown University, but a lot of people there
are also saying it was a very small conservative bunch
of people at Brown University. Students and some are not

(05:06):
so sure this was anti semitism. It might have been
anti conservatism. One of the people shot turns out to
be the president's student, but the president of the Republican
Club at Brown University. So it could be anti semitism
as a motive, but there could also be an anti
conservative attack. We'll see. It's the Providence police Department, not

(05:27):
the sharpest police department on earth, and Brown University very
prominent university. I'm not a big fan of their security director.
You know, a lot of times you're a university, when
you hire a security director, you hire somebody with incredible
law enforcement experience, ex. Police, XFBI, something like that. This guy,

(05:50):
his whole life was campus security. You'll see somewhere in
his bio he was a policeman, a police captain. It
was campus police forces. So he's not a guy with
any real law enforcement experience. He spent his whole life
in campus police departments, then becoming a campus security director
other universities, and Brown hired him a couple of years ago.

(06:11):
So he's the security director. And you know, it may
not have been anything. There might not have been anything
anybody else could have done to protect this campus. But
you got that going on, then you got the awful,
horrific Australia shooting. It was a Muslim terrorist attack. The
shooters a father and son, both Muslim terrorists, at this

(06:32):
beach in Australia, using one of those assault rifle you know,
you know the kind that the Chuck Schumer and the
others yell about. Remember whenever there's a shooting with one
of those rifles, all they do is scream for more
gun laws. They act as if gun laws would prevent shootings.
Now nobody has tougher gun laws than Chicago, and they

(06:53):
have more shootings than any place in America. The problem
with the thinking gun laws as a solution is shooters,
criminal maniacs, criminals who don't follow laws. They don't get
a law book and look it up to see if
it's okay to do what they're doing. So in this situation, nobody,
nobody in the world, no country had tougher gun laws
than in Australia. They've been passing gun laws since nineteen

(07:16):
ninety six. Huge gun laws, tremendous gun laws. So it
has nothing to do with stopping shootings. It was a
horrible situation. You got one guy who was a hero
who hid between two parked cars, waited for the right moment.
The video is amazing. He runs out, tackles the shooter

(07:36):
with the rifle, somehow wrestles the gun away from him
and stops the shooter makes him lie down. However, remember
there was a second shooter, the Sun, who sees what's
going on and shoots the hero, hitting him twice. But
the hero has just had surgery. It looks like he'll
be okay. He's doing well. It looks like he'll survive

(07:57):
and be just fine. So an incredible hero in Austria,
an amazing act of bravery. He said to he was
with somebody else and he said, I'm not going to
survive this. He decided he would go tackle this shooter
and stop and he said, I'm not going to come
out of this alive. Tell my family this. And that's
a but an amazing, amazing situation. So things could develop

(08:20):
this morning. There's going to be press conferences in La
more details about Rob Reiner. But from we know the
Sun is in custody, it looks like he is the stabber.
It's a horrible, horrible situation. I knew Rob Reiner. He
was a very nice guy. I know he was a
crazy left wing nut politically, but I had a million

(08:42):
conversations with him. Never once talked about politics. We loved
We would talk about old show business and old comedians
and Sid Caesar and Dick Van Dyke Show and that
kind of stuff. But he's like a lot of Hollywood people,
he just got into the cult. You know, they sit
there and they watch MSNBC all day and they believe
everything they're hearing. They think all this crazy stuff is true.

(09:03):
You know, it's like people who listen to those flying
saucer shows in the middle of the night, which are great,
they're entertaining, but these people start to believe it. They
think there's flying saucers everywhere. So it's the same thing
with the MSNBC crowd. And then they got all these
echo chambers where you know, it's reinforced from MSNBC. Then
they watch Colbert, they watch the crazy ABC Sunday shows.

(09:27):
They think Trump is a crook, a maniac, a dying,
he's a lunatic, he's a dictator. They start to believe
all this stuff. Listen, there's stuff you could not like
about Trump. I understand that, but you know, if they
ever stepped away from all that and got out of
the echo chamber. These Trump derangement syndrome idiots, they might

(09:48):
realize Trump is actually one of the most fascinating guys
in history. You know, there's a at a party yesterday,
a left wing nut, very prominent left wing nut, comes
over to me and he said, you know, I was
I remember you. It was at dinner party a couple
of years ago, and you were telling everybody Trump is
the most successful man in history. And I thought you

(10:11):
were crazy. I said, well, but I laid it out.
He conquers the business world. He then conquers publishing, he'd
be four best sellers. He goes into television, a total
amateur conquers that as the number one show on television.
He goes into politics. You know, usually a total amateur
tries to run for mayor, or this guy tries to
run for the president. Total amateur wins, beats the Clinton

(10:35):
machine and the Bush machine, to go on and on listing.
I said, you can't name another guy, anybody who's conquered
like all six of these things. And the guy said, well, yeah,
you might be. I don't know, you might bear so anyway,
And then I tried to explain to him. I said,
you know, if you guys would stop hating him, going
nuts with your rage, and start studying this guy, he

(10:56):
could learn stuff from him. You really could learn a
lot about how to succeed, how to do well. It's
a more interesting story besides making up stuff about he's
dying or he's a mania, he's a crook's. Instead of
making up all this stuff, it's actually a fascinating story
to cover. We've never seen anything like this. A president
that works like nineteen hours a day, a president that

(11:19):
holds like seventeen press conferences a day, a president that's
flying all over the place, having a million it's fascinating.
And just to study this guy's whole life and how
he did things, how he got so successful at everything.
You think back a year and a half ago. The
guy's on trial in four different cities. Can you imagine

(11:39):
if you were on trial. Imagine if you had been
brought into court they put you on trial, you wouldn't
sleep at night, you wouldn't be able to you'd be
in there so much. This guy's in four trials in
four cities. Looks like he's going to go to jail. Forever.
He's going to get convicted six thousand times. Guy didn't
even blink, didn't even flinch, fights right through that. Can
you imagine you're standing there in all It hits you

(12:00):
in the head, takes part of your ear off, and
all he can think to do is jump up and
pump his fist and y'll fight. I mean, it's a
guy to study. You could hate him, but study this guy.
You could learn a lot from this guy. What else
James Comer. They're having these hearings in Congress about Epstein.

(12:20):
They've allowed some people to submit written statements about what
they had to do with Epstein. In the case of
Bill Clinton, he's demanding that Bill Clinton come testify in person.
Hillary and Bill. I don't think Hillary knows much about Epstein.
Other you might know something, but it's Bill that was
really involved. But the Clintons apparently are adamant they will
not come and testify, and they may have to at

(12:42):
some point, but they're going to fight this like crazy
not to come and testify. They know it's a circus.
It's a theatrical show to get it. You know, camera's
there to get Bill Clinton under oath testifying. So they
they don't want to do that. Now, remember, left wing
media will not show Clinton testifying. They'll show you one
second clip. You know, there's a deposition in the Monica

(13:05):
Lewinsky case. You can go on YouTube and see it.
A deposition where they go into graphic detail, graphic detail
about the sex he had with Monica Lewinsky. You wouldn't
believe the detail. And Clinton's right on camera having to
talk about this. You know, left wing media, they never
showed it, never showed it. If that was Trump, you'd

(13:26):
be seeing it all day and night. It'd be primetime specials. Clinton,
they buried it, So if he testifies, they'll bury this testimony. Now,
he could try to avoid testifying, but remember the last
two guys that tried that were Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon,
and they were sent to prison for not showing up

(13:47):
in person to testify. So the last two, now they
were Trump people, but they were sent to prison. So
that's the precedent that's been set. So Clinton had better
show for his testimony. We're kind of keeping the secret,
but I just saw a press release went out. I'm

(14:08):
taking the last two weeks of the year off. Next
week I'll be off and the week after two weeks
I'll be off. It'll be the Christmas break. I know,
I hate to take that much time off, but you
get you know, you have all these vacation days. You
got to use them. So I'll be taking the last
two weeks off. It'll be the Christmas break. I guess
I can say it. There's a press release that went out.
It's been announced. Guess who's going to fill in for

(14:28):
me for two weeks. Curtis Lee. Well, Curtis will be
here for two weeks doing the show. That'll be great.
He hasn't been heard on radio in a while. He
had to go off the air courts to run for mayor,
and he's mad at his old station. I don't know
what will happen there, but you'll be able to hear
Curtis next week and the week after two weeks he'll

(14:52):
be filling in for me. You know, for many, many,
many many years he had the number one morning radio show,
morning talk show in New York City. So that'll be
great to hear them again. That's coming up. Hey, if
you're saying I gotta get out of New York, who
the hell wants to live here anymore? It's too cold,
the snow. It's awful here. Maybe I'll move to Florida.

(15:13):
Maybe I'll move to North Carolina. Go walk around the
streets of New York in the next week or two
and look at the tourists. Normally I'm not here on
the weekends, but I was here yesterday. I had to
go a lot of Christmas parties. But all over the
place yesterday, the tourists are everywhere, and they've paid a
fortune to come to New York. You know, if you
come to New York right now at Christmas time, hotel

(15:34):
rates are huge. You can't even get a hotel room
right now. But watch these tourists, Watch them with their kids,
Watch them walking around looking at everything we take for granted.
Watch them look at it with just their eyes light up.
They can't believe the things they're seeing, stuff they've only
seen on Instagram. Not just the tree, but all the
great restaurants, hotels, stores, the streets. They just they paid

(15:59):
a fort to come here, So don't take it for granted.
Don't get it's terrible. It was freezing cold yesterday, wash snow,
black ice. They were walking around so thrilled to be here,
thrilled to be here. Don't take it for granted. You
should really be thrilled that you're in the middle of

(16:21):
New York City. You know, people take things for granted.
I got a friend who's a big comedian. He's appearing
on cruise ships, luxury cruise ships. They pay him a
lot of money, and when you're the star performer, they
give you the most beautiful stateroom. Everything is free, meals everything.

(16:41):
This is going on for weeks, he's on different ships.
Calls me must to kill himself. Once I got to
get out of it. It's the worst. I can't stand that,
I said. You know, everybody else in the ship saved
up for years to afford this cruise. It's the dream vacation,
and you're complaining that people start to take things for granted.
Friend of mine's a travel agent, you know, and you're
a big travel agent. The top hotels of the world

(17:02):
will fly you over there. They call it something site
inspection or something super luxury hotel in Europe. You have
to go stay there for a few days. They fly
you on the finest first class airline, biggest hotel. They
take it. All the top restaurants, so you know, as
a travel consultant. You can tell everybody they call me

(17:23):
from there. Oh God, I got to go to another hotel.
H I just want to go home. I just this
is a dream vacation for you, and they're complaining about it.
So it's the same thing with New York. Stop complaining.
Go out today and look at all the tourists and
the wonderment in their eyes as they look around in
New York. Hey, we'll take some calls. Next eight hundred
three to two one zero seven ten is the number
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Speaker 1 (17:46):
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Speaker 3 (17:51):
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Speaker 3 (17:56):
Hey, let's take some calls. Go to Liz in White Planes. Liz,
how you doing?

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (18:02):
Hi, Mark, I'm great. Before I start, I just want
to say, have a great two weeks off. You will
be missed for sure.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
Thanks.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
You know, I often hear you talk kind of brag
about Jimmy Fayle's show. Yeah, and I was thinking I
didn't want to listen to three hours of company, but
he has a great political show.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yeah, it's on every night nine o'clock. You're on seven
ten W nine o'clock.

Speaker 5 (18:24):
Really really a great show.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
People should know this nine o'clock tonight, nine to midnight,
every weeknight on w o R. It's a great, great show.
Let's go to Vince in Florida. Vince, how you doing.

Speaker 6 (18:37):
Good morning.

Speaker 5 (18:38):
You know the two shooters I just read in Australia
which is almost impossible to get a gun owned guns legally,
which reminded me of the story that happened here in
Fort Pierce. I just moved down here. I'm at a
gun store and he tells me the shooter, Olmar Matene,
the guy that killed the fifty kids in the nightclub,
went to that gun store tried to buy guns. They

(18:58):
overheard him on the phone and they selling him guns.
They gave the owner his background information. The owner called
the FBI two weeks before the shooting.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
This was Yeah. You hear a lot of these guys
came down there. You hear a lot of these kind
of stories where they could have caught the guy. They
didn't catch the guy.

Speaker 5 (19:13):
They didn't catch them, and the FBI denied anything.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
In the other they call the FBI for you, Hey, yeah,
you got you got a lot of crazy people down
there in Florida. And nothing personal, but you know what
I mean, I don't know if it's no heat or
what it is. Yeah, no, no, I'm just saying, you
got a lot of crazy people down there in Florida. Yeah,
how many? Per cappity? You got more crazy incidents there
with guns and things than anywhere else. Let's go to

(19:37):
Virginia in massive Peakua Virginia.

Speaker 7 (19:39):
How you doing, Hye, Mark Mary Christmas? And I'm so happy,
Oh my god, I'm so excited.

Speaker 6 (19:46):
I'm sorry about me.

Speaker 7 (19:47):
I'm so happy to hear the Curtisy. I'm a new listener.
I'm actually a new listener. Yes, I'm happy about you too.
I am a new listener. I used to listen to
w w ABC for Curtis. We were only and it's
because he's just he's funny, he's on points about everything.
He's a sworn man and driving to work this morning.

(20:07):
Like I said, a new listener, I've been listening about
a week and just to hear the Curtis is coming
on to w R which people have been talking about online.
It's just like the best early Christmas gifts ever.

Speaker 6 (20:18):
And uh, well, you got to.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
Hear lots of lots of Curtis. He'll be filling in
for me for two weeks. Yeah, oh wait a minute,
December twenty second through. I think I'm off Friday. That
might be Ken Risotto. But next week you'll get Curtis.
Next week you'll get Curtis for two weeks.

Speaker 7 (20:35):
It's just it's really good because I know that he's
you know, you guys will maybe he'll find a spot
or whatever. I really like the station. I'm enjoying everything
that I'm hearing, and it's just really refreshing to have
people of station that doesn't insult their listeners and cold
the morons, and the fact that Curtis is going to
be on and you know.

Speaker 6 (20:53):
This minute, I call people morons, you know, I mean
there are people deservedly.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
I only call morons morons. I don't care regular people.
But no, I know, we're glad to have you as
a listener. Thanks, thanks for coming on board. Be listening
for Curtis next week. Let's go to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent,
how you doing.

Speaker 8 (21:12):
Good morning, Marc, Good morning Mara. As you pointed out
earlier in the show, there's no country in the world
that has more restrictive gun world. No perhaps New Zealand
where you can't even own a p shooter. This demonstrates
that when you restrict guns like that and to the people,

(21:34):
the legal people, like they did in Australia. They even
confiscated rifles in Australia and in the NRA magazine they
showed you this mountain, this pile of all the guns
they confiscated. Then only the criminals could get them, because
criminals have a different mindset. Legit people, when they can't

(21:55):
get something, they can't get a gun, all right, that's it,
the end of the story. But crim those they will
find one way or another to get a gun. And
I heard a commentator used to come on your show
last night saying that there've even been studies that show
when the more legal guns there are in a town

(22:18):
and a place, the less crime there is. This poor
soob had to jump the guy with his bare hands
and he managed to pull the gun away from him.
Imagine if that guy, the shooter was a little bit swifter,
he could have turned around and killed that guy who
took the gun out of his hand. That's why I

(22:39):
hope now they get rid of Australia's president. Get somebody
who's got common sense like Donald Trump, because even though
their prime minister is a conservative, the guy's out of
his mind for doing what he did. Any criminal. I mean,
if I wanted to get Doug, please, don't let me
talk if.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
I want no, no, no, don't say it, Vincent, don't say it.
You know, I mean a good point though what I mean,
I know what you mean. But Vincent, excellent to have
all All right, Vincent, great call, Thanks for colling. Oh
when we come back, Ed Rollins will be with us. Hey,
if anybody says to you, well, what's gonna happen next year,
who's going to win the midterms? It's a totally invalid question.

(23:21):
We'll go into why coming up next on seven to
ten w R.

Speaker 7 (23:26):
You're listening to the Mark Simone Show on.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
Well, let's turn to the dean himself, the greatest political
consultant of the hall, Ed Rollins. He's run more campaign
successful campaigns than anybody, Ed Rollins, How you doing, good morning, Mark?
Are you I'm good? Hey? You probably get this all
the time people say, Oh, what's gonna happen in the midterms?
Who's gonna win the midterm? Predicting that is like predicting
the twenty twenty eighth Super Bowl. I mean, the landscape

(23:54):
is going to change between now and then, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
It's going to change dramatically. And then I think, here's
what does happen. Though, I can sort of go through
a fifty year his street members go home and the
holidays and their family gets all together, and they basically
they do I really want to do this for another
two years or four years, devating them ambitious or eden

(24:17):
senators do I want to do? Do you want to
run for another re election? So oftentimes in January there's
a number that's say thank you very much, I've had
left of this, or I'm going to run for something else.
As of right now, they're fifty three members who announced
that they're not going to run for re election. Forty
three of those or House members, the other tenor US senators.

(24:38):
And I think to a certain extent that the recruitment
is going to go on now is because Democrats do
think they're going to win this House easily and there's
a possibility and they're going to win the Senate. They're
out there recruiting anxiously. What we're trying to do is
that the president team has to do is to sort
of make sure that the vulnerable incomes are getting ready
to run for reelection. It's the year long since it

(25:01):
seems like a year is a long time, but it's
not in politics. And so they leave Christmas. You'll probably
see in January an other ten or fifteen members decide,
thank you very much, I've had a nice career, and
they started became a retirement, and then you fill on
the blanks and you begin begin in February to start
running and running hard. The President's agenda ahead of him
is an aggressive one and it's a tough one getting

(25:23):
the budgets through and what have you. And the origins
are so small that he has both the House and
the Senate. But his task is tough.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
Yeah, So when you say some people may leave Congress,
I don't need this anymore. Let me leave. What do
they do? Then they can make a lot of money,
right lobbying or something like that.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
So some can some very few members go back home.
They all promise they're going to go back home. Some
you know, people say, well, you know, when you decide
to quit, come work for me, and some just you know,
decide this is not what. It's not what I want
to spend my time. This sort of been a very
frustrating year. If you were bubbled in to be in

(26:00):
Congress and you get the big bill best which obviously
normally you have lots of builds that you passed, but
they combine it all on one thing, so there's not
a lot of activity, and you know they want to
they want home for a period of time. They getting
beat up for that a certain extent. So so I
would say when I was the chairman of the Congression
Committee co chairman, people said say, why don't you run

(26:21):
for Congress? I say, thank you very much. I might
be behind the scenes. I don't want to. I don't
want to spend my day arguing with four hundred thirty
five other people every day. And I think to a
certain extent, that's that's where a lot of members may be.
Once that numbers changed and altered in the sense we
know how many running, and then the race is going
to begin.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Hey, ed Rellands, if the healthcare if they don't fix
the healthcare situation, put a patch on it or something,
healthcare costs are going to go nuts. It's the fault
of Obama and Obamacare. But isn't aren't there Republicans going
to get blamed for it?

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Oh? Yes, absolutely, there's no question Republicans are going to
We've not had a cause asistant healthcare plan in twenty years.
You used to have some real experts on it when
Bob Dole was the leader, because of his only personal
healthcare problems over the years, he knew a lot about
health care. He had a chief of staff, Sheila Burkeer
was a nurse, to do a lot about healthcare. We

(27:17):
don't have a lot of experts now. And you know
our premise of you know, let's have statius accounts to
what have you? If I gave you a two thousand
dollars savings account, which is what the new Gingrish plan was,
you'll go from that real quick, first time you can
to a doctor, and if there's anything that happens to you,
you know the astronomical. So not only will twenty two

(27:40):
million people be affected by this, the reality is their
costs will go up dramatically. Those who can afford a
lot of America's going to say I can't afford it.
I'm just not gonna and that creates a real chaos.
The best court Republicans can do is extend this thing.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
For a year.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Subsidies. Democrats aren't going to do that because obviously they
want they want to get to the next election with
the rise and prices and what have you. So I think,
to a certain extent, we've got we've got a couple
of months here real chaos with those those heer solutions.
I would say this point in time, we're not We're
not going to the healthcare is not going to get
fisted a short period of time.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
Well I'm not an expert, but uh, just common sense.
I would think if you let the government take over healthcare,
the cost is going to go way up. It wouldn't
that be true?

Speaker 2 (28:26):
Absolutely well, to a certain extent, the government does pay
them the past. If you are to health care today
and it's you know, I don't I don't think that
Kennedy is ready to do that. Start care of Hills
to the unis versus President. I don't think it's order
to do that. I think the President's got a lot
a lot of less play, I think, to a certain extent,
but most Americans are going to suffer measurably about it,

(28:49):
because even if even if you have health insurance today
been a private company because of the burden of I mean,
twenty two million people from the Obamacare program. He's going
to find there or preach A're gonna GOP. Healthcare rates
are not going down. They haven't gone down a long
long time. And it's an expensive entity and there's a
a lot of people that are experts on it who

(29:10):
are not very happy with what we have.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
Yeah, Ed Rolins, if you want to run in twenty
twenty eight, Gavin Newsom or whoever, if you want to
run in twenty twenty eight, what should you be doing now?
Is there anything you can really do now for that?

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Sure, you can raise money, you can line up your supporters,
your line up your team. I mean there's four or
five of them that are running right now. And what
you try and do is you tap into easy advantage
of the midterm elections to go out and made friends
around the country in key states. You know, I didn't
get Gavin Newson's going to do is just continue to
beat up on Trump and by with Trump, and that

(29:44):
seems to be working for him. He is a mess
of the state in California. No one's talking about the
best in California everybody's talking about whateverreat job he is doing,
beat up by the president. Yeah, the same thing in Illinois.
So my sense is those are going to run. It's
going to be four or five at least. Uh, some
new governors that maybe will have some political ambition beyond
the where they are. It's gonna be a full field.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
Yeah. In the old days that Reagan came from California
and one, but nowadays it's been a one party state
for so long. Guys like Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, they've
never been tested in two party states. So aren't isn't
anybody from California gonna have a problem trying to run nationally?

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Well, but you move out, You moved out of the California.
Why you haven't had any competitions in California is they
basically created a system. Instead of a Republican or a
Democrat winning the nominations and running against each other, the
top two get nominated. Uh. So it could be two
Democrats runing against each other, uh, and two Republicans. It's

(30:44):
never happened that way. But the reality is as kinds
the one party system. So the reality is he doesn't
want to talk about California. He wants to talk about
nationally what what Trump has not done as opposed to
what he has done. And he's, you know, he's I
don't get it, but he's a charismatic figures. Got a
fifty four to fifty five percent of Bowery in California,

(31:04):
which is pretty mess and whose California has not been
in play since, you know, since Bush and eighty eight.
You know, it's it's a hard stage for us to win.
And I think to a cird extent East an easy
state force.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
Well, and Robin's brilliant as always, keep up the great
work and we'll talk again soon.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
Had a wonderful holiday and have the honka to all
your business out there.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
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(31:50):
seven to ten wor.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
Mister New York. Hey, that's marksimone seven ten woor.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
Well, we got a lot to get to in the
next hour. Looks like the FBI has foiled a terrorist
attack for New Year's Eve. We'll get to that coming up.
We'll get to the latest on Rob Reiner and all
these terrible shootings this weekend. We'll get to Frank Sinatra
and a whole lot more coming up in the In
the next hour, we'll get to New York and how
it's doing and how it's gonna do under Mom Donnie.

(32:22):
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Another hour to go right here on seven to ten.
W oh, welcome to the Mark Simon.

Speaker 5 (33:09):
Well.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
As I mentioned, FBI has arrested four terrorists, a radical
pro Palestinian terrorists. They're accused of plotting New Year's Eve bombings.
Now it's La it's not New York. Identified as members
of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, whatever the hell that is.
But they're Muslim terrorists. They're radical pro Palestintinian extremist group

(33:33):
plotting New Year's Eve bombings for Los Angeles. The FBI
has caught them. You know, Paris is not really Paris anymore.
They same problem, open borders, illegals flooding in and these
migrants have created terror all over Paris. And every year
in Paris they have an incredible New Year's Eve celebration

(33:54):
on the Chanz Oflyse. It's like our Times Square kind
of celebration where like literally a million people will show up.
They've canceled this year's celebration. Usually a million people show up.
They have concerts and all this stuff. They've canceled because
of the migrant crisis in Paris. There's too much crime,
too much terrorism, and instead they're going to have a

(34:16):
pre recorded video that people can watch from home. They
don't want people showing up, so they've had to cancel
their New Year's Eve traditions in Paris. They'll still have
the fireworks over the Arcta Triumph when it's midnight, but
they don't want anybody there in person enough to watch
that on television as well, so it's just not the same.

(34:40):
The Chans of lysee, the most beautiful boulevard in the world.
Because of all the illegals, all the illegal migrants, has
been a center of violence lately, throngs of young Muslim
migrants streaming in at night just looking for trouble, looting,

(35:00):
brawling with Parisians and police. This is Paris, it's not
the parish you once knew. Again illegal migrants have destroyed Paris.
It's just awful. So nothing new on Rob Reiner since
the last hour. At some point there'll be a press
conference with the LA Police and they'll announce things. But

(35:20):
remember it's three hours earlier there, so I imagine that
press conference won't happen for another hour or two. What
we do know is it looks like his son stabbed
him and his wife slit their throats. The son, who's
just a very very very troubled kid, years of drugs, alcohol,
mental craziness, homeless, has been taken into Custody's thirty two.

(35:48):
Reiner has three kids with the wife, but with his
previous wife, his first wife, Penny Marshall, he had a
daughter and the daughter lived on the property in the
guest house. Well, she heard incredible argument, screaming and at
some point went over to check and found them both dead.
Called police and they she said, you got to look
at him. She said she believed it was him the sun.

(36:13):
So they've taken him into custody. We'll see what happens there.
Brown University, they did have a shooter in custody, but
they've since let him go. It's the Providence police department.
We love Providence, but it's not the sharpest police department
in the world. And we'll see. And now again, it

(36:33):
may not be anti semitism. If this could be an
anti Republican shooting, it looks like this small group of
people all they were also the conservative group on campus.
One of the people shot, the student was the head
of the Republican club there, so we'll see what it
turns out to be. But the Rob Reiner situation that's Brentwood,

(36:54):
and Brentwood is actually part of Los Angeles, but they
try to act like they're a suburb. They don't want
to be part of Los Angeles. They formed their own
town council, they have their own little police department. But
Brentwood is a part of Los Angeles. So it's really
Lapd in charge of that Brentwood. Yeah, where Oj stabbed
the wife and Ron Goldman. So it's only a mile

(37:15):
and a half from Rob Reiner's house. If you live
in the middle there. Twice you've had these awful stabbings
for people's throats were slit on either side of you.
It's a terrible situation. What else Frank Sinatra number one
on the Billboard charts. How about that Frank Sinatra. It's

(37:38):
actually nineteen sixty one. He recorded I've Got My Love
to Keep Me Warm. It's a great song. It's sort
of become a Christmas song and it gets played at
Christmas time. So Pentatonics got the master tapes where you
can isolate just Sinatra's voice. His recording has a beautiful

(37:59):
big band and you know Johnny Mandel arrangement, but they
isolated just his voice, took just his voice, and they
did a whole new arrangement, a whole new single, and
it's It was number one last week on the Adult
Contemporary chart. They still have that Adult Contemporary chart. So
it's the first number one hit single for Frank Sinatra

(38:22):
since nineteen sixty seven. No, it wasn't something stupid. That
was nineteen sixty six. Sinatra's last number one was The
World We Knew. It was a hit single forgotten About
Go back and listen. That's pretty good. Sinatra single, The
World We Knew, and that was a number one hit

(38:45):
single for him September of sixty seven, so that was
his last hit single. That's I think me. Yeah. It's
the all time record fifty eight years in between number
one hits. The previous record had been Elton John who
twenty three years between hit singles. Now one was one
of his own hits and then the other one was

(39:05):
one of those duet kind of deals with Ed Sheeran
and again a Christmas song. So Sinatra, it's a new
record fifty eight years between number one hits. And also
this has got to be the all time record. Sinatra's
first number one hit single was nineteen forty with Tommy
Dorsey I'll Never Smile Again. He was his first hit single.

(39:26):
It's kind of the song that really put him on
the map. So nineteen forty to now is eighty five years.
So that's an all time record. A guy has a
hit single number one on the chart, and he's number
one on the chart eighty five years later. This first
time that's ever happened. Sinatra, I remember, had the longest
career of anybody. When he started singing. Herbert Hoover was

(39:50):
president when he stopped singing, Bill Clinton was president. That's
a long, long career. He also made, let me think now,
about one hundred albums. That's not the record. Ella Fitzgerald
one hundred and sixty six albums, Bing Crosby two hundred albums,
or the equivalent of two hundred albums. Crosby holds the

(40:12):
record for the largest output recording wise. So you got
to hey, I forgot to mention this. You got the
Epstein photos that came out. Remember on Friday, they tried
to you know, they're always trying to get Trump, So
they put out a photo of him with six girls
young girls, you know, with the face was blacked out. Well,

(40:33):
it turned out this is the Democrats on the House Committee.
Look at this, not only with young girls, there's six
of them surrounding him. Well, it turns out the whole
thing was fake. You can always count on Democrats MSNBC, CNN,
New York Times to fake everything. Because somebody came up
with the original picture without the faces blacked out. And

(40:55):
they're clearly not young girls. They're adults. They're all adults.
And it turns out it was a beauty pageant being
held at mar A Lago. They were all professional adult models.
It was a big promotion for Hawaiian Tropic Sun Tan lotion.
The party and the beauty pageant held at mar Alago.

(41:15):
Trump shows up, takes a picture with all the models
in the beauty pageant, the fashion show, and that's what
it was. It wasn't young girls. The picture totally fake,
ridiculous And that tells you all you need to know
about Democrats and Epstein and all this stuff. So, oh,
Saturday had the Army Navy Game. President Trump tradition now

(41:40):
comes to the Army Navy game, walks on the field,
standing ovation the crowd, cheering, Usa, USA. You never hear
that with a democratic president. They don't like to cheer that.
But it was very upsetting the Democrats watching this, very upsetting.
They don't like any of this. They don't like football,
they don't like cheering and chanting. You say, they don't

(42:01):
like any of this stuff, so it really really upset them.
Harry Trumber this last hour. Tourists are all over in
New York. If you don't think New York's doing well,
try to get a hotel room right now in New
York City. It is impossible. It's impossible. There's no hotel
rooms left in New York City. Everybody wants to come here,
even with Mom Donnie elected. Tourists are coming in unbelievable numbers. Also,

(42:25):
real estate sales are very, very very strong. Don't listen
to this. Everybody's leaving New York. Nine hundred and seventy
six closings real estate closings in the last month. Now,
if you go to the super high end departments, there
were nine closings last week. Contracts closings. That's a big number.
That's a lot for one week. So sales are really strong,

(42:49):
and the rental market is going crazy. You're gonna have
a lot of trouble renting department right now in New York.
People are moving in like crazy rentals. That's a good
indicator to study. Rentals are the people first coming to
New York, first coming here, and many rentals next year
turn into buyers. They'll come here, rent for a year
or two and then they'll start buying. But rentals are

(43:11):
through the roof. It's almost impossible to rent anything right now.
So New York doing very very well the Christmas season.
Tourists are everywhere. It's Christmas, and I remember you may
be gift shopping, but for yourself, don't buy anything right now.
Don't buy anything. Don't buy any clothes right now. Don't

(43:34):
buy anything right now because right after Christmas everything's going
to be half price. So I become like Robert de
Niro and Goodfellows yelling anyway, don't buy anything. What I say?
What I tell you, don't buy anything? Did I tell you?
Don't buy anything right now? It's all going to be
half pricing. If you wait till after New Year's it's
going to be seventy five percent off. So don't buy

(43:54):
anything right now. Hey, you know all the great supermarkets
they're all over the place. Whole Foods. Whole Food's not
so much anymore. Quality went down there once Bezos took
it over, I think deliberately. Uh, but remember Whole Foods.
All of a sudden it went back to I guess
it was the nineties. All of a sudden Whole Foods

(44:16):
opened everywhere is an unbelievable supermarket beyond anything you'd ever seen. Now,
they were from Texas. It was a Texas supermarket. They
opened a couple, then they went national. It became huge.
And Wegmans. I forget where they're from. They're from someplace
Wegmans Colorado or something. I don't know, but Wegmans that
were very good. Then they opened a couple. Next thing
you know, they went national. Now when you get a Wegmans,

(44:38):
it's exciting. There's one in New Jersey's had them for
a while, but you just got one couple of years
ago in Westchester. You just got one in Connecticut. So
they've exploded all over America. Now, the next one to
watch out for is Uncle Giuseppees. Uncle Giuseppes is going
to just remember you heard it here first. This is
gonna be the big national phenomenon. Live in Long Island.

(45:01):
You don't even me to tell you about Uncle Giuseppes.
There's a bunch of them all over Long Island. There's spectacular.
It's like the Italian Wegmans. Lots of Italian stuff, but
the prepared foods everything. So there's a big article on
the paper today about Uncle Giuseppe's going all out for Christmas.
Not just decorations like crazy all over their stores. But
they got carollers, they got singers singing Christmas songs right

(45:24):
in the store. There's they're all over Long Island. The
best one's Melville. I think that's where the family lives. Great,
great family, very smart people that run this. So there's
one in not a big one, but there's a smaller
one in Yorktown Heights. There's a bunch of them. I
think they're they're all over Long I think there's one
in New Jersey. But watch this will be the next

(45:44):
big national chain. They got twelve of them already. I
see them looking for other locations. But they're phenomenal, so
keep an eye on them. They'll be the next big
national chain that explodes everywhere. So when hey, once again,
I went to a million Christmas parties. Yesterday. People, everybody
will say to you, what's gonna happen to the midterms,
Who's going to win the midterms, how are we going

(46:06):
to do in the midterms, what's gonna happen that. Don't
listen to anybody right now. This is impossible to predict.
If you said, who's going to be in the super Bowl,
maybe a good sports expert could give you a good guess.
But if you said to the greatest sports expert, who's
going to win the super Bowl in twenty twenty seven,

(46:27):
they can't tell you. There's no way to know that now.
Same thing with the midterms. Don't listen to anybody's prediction
right now. It means absolutely nothing. Everything is going to
change six months from now. You'll be in a whole
different world landscape. These predictions mean absolutely nothing. Same things
when they tell you who's going to win in twenty

(46:48):
twenty eight, who's going to run? You can't tell now.
It's impossible. Now, if you're watching fake news, you'll see
all these polls, all these studies that the Democrats are
definitely going to win the midterms. Look this poll, that poll,
look at this day. Now. The reason they do this
on fake news show you that Democrats are on track
to win, and mid the reason they do that it's

(47:10):
for fundraising. That's the only important thing right now, lots
of fundraising. If you put out all this nonsense showing
you're going to win, you have a much better shot
at fundraising. Donors will give like crazy if they think
you're going to win. So don't fall for all. That's
just propaganda right now for fundraising purposes. Don't take it,
don't take it too seriously. And Gavin Newsom twenty twenty

(47:31):
as well, he's clearly way out in the front. And
I remember he's a big, big star right now on
the scene with all of his tweeting and instagram and
posting and podcasting, all that's up. He's quite a flamboyant guy.
He's attacking Trump like crazy. He's the you know, the
star right now. But there's an old rule in politics,

(47:54):
especially democratic politics, there's candidates you want to date, and
there's candidates you want to marry. So sometimes the flashy
guy with the outrageous comments, it's like a that's like
a woman you date, but you wouldn't marry her. So
it's the same thing with voters right now. They'll date
him because he's funny and flashy and outrageous, doesn't mean
they want to marryhim, doesn't mean they'll vote for him.

(48:15):
So just for hey, we'll take some calls. Next eight
hundred three to two one zero seven ten is the number,
eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten, mister
New York.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
Here's more, Marks amone on sevent ten wor all right.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
We're learning more about the Rob Reiners situation. The police
have not yet held their press comp so they not
absolutely confirm. But remember we told you last hour they
have arrested the son. They did take the son into custody. Well,
now they've charged him. They've officially charged him. Hasn't really
been announce ship, but they've charged him and there's a

(48:53):
four million dollar bail on him. Now. This is Sunday, yesterday,
this terrible stabbing. The night before Saturday night, there was
a big Conan O'Brien Christmas party. Rob Reiner and his
wife were there, and somehow the son, Nick was there,
and apparently they got into a loud, loud, vicious argument

(49:13):
at the party that got very loud and out of control,
so much so that Reiner and his wife left the party.
So that's Saturday night, and it looks like the Sun
came to the house Sunday and again a loud, loud argument.
And Reiner's daughter was living in the guest house. Apparently

(49:35):
she heard the argument and then at some point later
went over to check on them, found them dead. Called police,
told police about the Sun. So but here's the latest though,
he is. He has been charged apparently, and there's a
four million dollar bail. Let's take some calls. Let's go
to Brian Grantwich, Connecticut. Brian, how you doing.

Speaker 6 (49:56):
Hey, Hey Mark, good morning, First first time I ever
called in here.

Speaker 8 (50:00):
I love you.

Speaker 6 (50:00):
We've met a few times over the years.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
Yeah we meet.

Speaker 6 (50:05):
We met up with sal.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
Scal very fine restaurant in Granwich, Connecticut, right there in
the water. Oh yeah, David Fletcher the manager.

Speaker 6 (50:12):
Excellent guy, great guy, super nice guy. I actually took
my girlfriend for for her birthday party there.

Speaker 5 (50:19):
But real quick.

Speaker 6 (50:20):
So Wegman's is actually from Rochester.

Speaker 9 (50:23):
New York.

Speaker 6 (50:24):
Mark, Okay, yep, Danny Danny Wegman. When I left the
Waldorf in the Tavern on the Green in twenty one club,
I met Danny Wegman through through a relative and we
started off premise catering business with you. You remember David Bulet.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
Oh god, David, Oh my god, got the best.

Speaker 6 (50:46):
We did parties.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
He was a great guy, but the great guys.

Speaker 4 (50:53):
Yeah, you know what.

Speaker 6 (50:54):
He you'll admit a little nuts Oh good time. I
was with him for three or four years.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
Very hard to have the number one highest rated New
York restaurant in New York and then be closed in six
months unless you're a little nutty.

Speaker 6 (51:06):
Oh my god. But I'll leave it with this. Jim
from New Jersey is one of my best friends, and
he calls in all the time. And when I heard
you mentioned Wegman's, I said, oh god, I got a
call Mark and.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
All right from Rochester. Hey, you said you worked at
the Waldorf.

Speaker 6 (51:23):
I was director catering at the Waldorf.

Speaker 3 (51:25):
Well have you seen the new Waldorf.

Speaker 6 (51:28):
Yeah, I'm I'm a member of the Distinguished Alumni and.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
I like the old war Dog Waldorf a little better.
What do you think?

Speaker 6 (51:37):
So they had their open party in the ballroom the
night before our dinner, so it was a little bit
of a mess. And the lobby I think is really nice. Mark,
it's beautiful.

Speaker 3 (51:46):
It's nice. They took away a lot of stuff.

Speaker 6 (51:49):
That I don't think they did. You know, they took
away it went from I think it went from like
fifteen hundred keys to that to like three hundred believe
it or not. So they're all private, you know, beautiful million,
multi million dollar a year co ops and condos or whatever.
But but the ballroom is still the ballroom.

Speaker 3 (52:05):
Yeah, it's not that same. It was white and gold.
Now it's silver silver. It looks like a big tin
can when you're in it. The beautiful lighting's gone. They
got those led Halligen whatever they are, they're not the same.

Speaker 6 (52:17):
They took the they took the chandelier at which is ridiculous.
I mean, how can you how can you do that?
But uh yeah, back in the days, forget about it.
I mean we had so many parties there, oh my god.
But but anyway, Danny's I think Danny's daughters are now
in charge of the company and they're great, great people
as well. And uh yeah, so's father.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
All right, Well it's a great, great store. Thanks for calling.
Let's go to uh Stuart in South Carolina. Stuart, how
you doing, hey.

Speaker 9 (52:47):
Mark Her?

Speaker 10 (52:47):
Are you two points one? You know I've been employees offs.
Almost fifty years in the South in very gun friendly states.
I have never worked a home invasion, not one ever.
I've never worked the car jacket ever. Because people here
know is they open up your door to your house,
they're probably going to die. If they open up there
a car door, they're probably going to die. So guns,

(53:11):
guns prevalent among people, are a real crime to turn.
And you know that criminals do not obey gun laws.
Australia and New Zealand have taken guns away from everybody nobody.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
Okay, but you live in the South South Carolina. People
know how to handle a gun. This is New York City.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
Can you imagine a woman in a great neck handling
a gun.

Speaker 10 (53:32):
Well, maybe this is true, but if.

Speaker 3 (53:34):
They may hesse, you can't even find the code check
every thing. You know you're going to look for a gun.

Speaker 8 (53:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (53:40):
And the other point I want to make is you're
absolutely right. New York City is wonderful. South Carolina is horrible.
We have crocodiles everywhere. The humidity and the summer is
just horrible. The people are unfriendly. Please New Yorkers stay
in wonderful New York City and please don't come to
South Carolina. It's a horrible place to live.

Speaker 3 (53:57):
You've been sarcastic, but yes I am. I'd rather be
in New York right now.

Speaker 10 (54:02):
It's what gas is two thirteen right now.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
Hey, no, but you got nowhere to go there.

Speaker 10 (54:11):
We got the beach, the mountains, got everywhere here. I
mean I've been I grew up in Levittown, but what
I've been down South over fifty years, I would never leave.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
Now it's a great place. I'll stay here, but it's
a great place. Thanks for calling, Stuart. I'll actually long time.
We'll take some more calls tomorrow because I want to
get to a Steve Cuzo. He's the expert on New York,
on real estate, on restaurants, on what's going on? How
is New York doing? How is business? We'll get to
all of that. What's going to happen under mom Donnie.

(54:41):
We'll get to all of that. Coming up next on
seven to ten, wore did Mark.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
On demand by setting a presead for his podcast on
the iHeartRadio app. Now back to Mark Simon on wor.

Speaker 3 (54:58):
Well. Steve Cuzo is the great columnist for the New
York Post. Nobody better on real Estate, on restaurants, on
New York, on What's going on? And all his columns
are up on the New York Post website. Steve Cuzo,
how you doing? Hey, good morning, Mark.

Speaker 9 (55:12):
I always hope I can live up to your great going.

Speaker 3 (55:15):
And you always do. Now when it comes to apartments, rentals, sales,
offices moving, how is New York doing? It's not true
that everybody's leaving New York, is it?

Speaker 9 (55:30):
No, sure isn't. The office market has strongest it's been
in about ten years. And you think about what that means,
recovered from the pandemic. People are back offices. It's hardly
any space available, that's how strong the market is. And

(55:51):
housing a very interesting story, you know, right. I wrote
a piece yesterday in the Post. It's up on our
website about the whole myth, the fallacies around so called
affordable apartments. So you know, you've got the incoming mayor
Zagoni and many others complaining about we've got to build

(56:12):
affordable housing, you know, get people off the streets into
affordable housing. There's a number of issues here. Number one,
most of the people, many of them at least, do
not they'd rather be on the street because they are
not They're not normal people. They're psychos, they are drug addicts,
they are dangerous home with people. They're not people by
and large living on the street simply because they can't

(56:34):
afford to make ends meet despite working three jobs. Okay,
so let's get that straight.

Speaker 3 (56:39):
Number two.

Speaker 9 (56:41):
There's a myth that the city doesn't have or doesn't
create affordable apartments. It's you can look it up. This
is not a matter of opinion, but of objective truth.
The City of New York, through various meetings, rezonings, et cetera,
has generated the creation of over three hundred thousand new

(57:03):
rental apartments in the last roughly ten years. That's an
extraordinary number. And of those a significant percentage, a minority percentage,
but still a meaningful percentage. Twenty percent typically are ear
marked for people with incomes below average. They are intended

(57:28):
for people who make a certain percentage of the median
area income. That is to say, by and large, people
who are working class, not middle not up, not affluent.
They have families, some of them were of two to
three jobs, and these are apartments that are set aside

(57:50):
for people with those lower incomes. They're not set aside
for people with no incomes, which is of course what
Mamdani and his fellow travelers in what I call socialists
the sophistry want. They're intended for people who earn a living.
They're tax paying citizens of the city, and they deserve

(58:12):
a place to live that they can afford. And the
city has delivered. Okay, let's say three hundred thirty thousand
new units all together, and rentals were talking about not condos,
twenty percent of that, so sixty thousand, roughly, very roughly
are affordable in a meaningful sense. So you read all

(58:34):
this propaganda in Bologne. It's propagated by the activist organizations,
the New York Times and other left leaning media that
the city has failed its homeless populations by not building,
not creating affordable home for them. It's malarkey, just not true.

Speaker 3 (58:56):
Well, sometimes you don't have affordable housing because the place
is booming. You know, if you went to a garden city,
Long Island, it's very expensive, there's no affordable housing. But
the next town over, Hempstead, not so good, a lot
of affordable housing. But so is every place have to
have affordable housing, you just go to the next town.

Speaker 9 (59:14):
No, The truth is I don't Mark, I don't really
know the Garden City situation. But more to the point
is that I mean, you can't have uniform You can't
have affordable housing by any definition, distributed uniformly. Of course,
the five boroughs hundreds of different neighborhoods. Obviously some areas,

(59:35):
some neighborhoods lend themselves more to higher income residents than others.
But what's remarkable is that you look at the city now.
The city has generated entire new skylines of mostly rental
apartment buildings in the last fifteen years, and places like

(59:55):
Gowanas in Brooklyn, on the Canal, in the parts of
downtown Manhattan in the South Bronx, Long Island City, and
Funter's Point in Queens. These are success stories. These stories
help explain why we're not seeing a massive exodus of

(01:00:17):
people from the city's Obviously, there will always be some
people who want to go. Let them go, and they'll
quickly find The New York Times actually had a terrific
story about a week ago about how people who think
they're going to leave the city suddenly discovered that it's
not as easy as they thought. They thought they could
get the tax benefits of living in Texas or Florida

(01:00:38):
just by filling out a change for transform or something,
And it turns out this is far from the case.
So nine out of ten people who say they're leading
the city for good don't.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
Hey.

Speaker 3 (01:00:49):
So these big, big, big real estate guys, they know
their stuff. These guys are brilliant. Now I noticed they're
building a ninety story skyscraper Madison in fifty eighth Park Avenue.
In fifty second they get one hundred story skyscraper going.
They got all these skyscrapers going, one on fifty seventh coming.
They wouldn't be doing this if they didn't believe in
the future of New York, would they.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
They?

Speaker 9 (01:01:09):
Of course, they believe. They're not infallible. They often make
a lot of them make big mistakes and go, you know,
if not broke when a minimum they lose their umpires.
They look back to a case of William Zeckendorf, one
of the famous developers of all time. He ended up
living in a I think I'm like a furnished room

(01:01:32):
or something in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A lot of
these characters that too much. You know, they're intoxicated by
easy money. The banks are too willing to lend. Sometimes
interest rates are very low. Interest rates obviously fluctuate, but
when they're very low, everybody sees they don't see any
possible downside. And yet there were buildings, rental apartment buildings

(01:01:56):
and condo buildings that did not do well and had
to be taken over by someone else. By and large,
I agree with you that generally speaking, real estate developers
have a greater you know, they're more attached to the
reality the pulse of the city's economy than journalists are,
and they wouldn't be making taking the kinds of gambles

(01:02:19):
that they take if they weren't confident. So the buildings
you mentioned Madison Avenue, there are two of them. One
is being developed by related companies at fifty eighth Street
and Extel I think, two blocks north. They're both putting
up giant you know, the buildings. Not even certain exactly
what the mix will be of apartments or offices, perhaps

(01:02:39):
a hotel. But yeah, of course they have confidence and
they those buildings are going to do fun.

Speaker 3 (01:02:46):
Also, the big new restaurants opening all over the place, right,
You've covered a lot of big restaurants that have opened recently.

Speaker 9 (01:02:53):
Yeah, well, the one I wrote about last week is
called Palladinos and it's in Grand Central Terminal. It's on
the you know, the the the mezzanie, the balcony's overlooking
the main concourse. I never heard of this guy, Joe Palladino.
He's from New York, but he made a career in Texas,
UH opening steakhouses. Now he's come to New York and

(01:03:16):
it's magnificent. It's absolutely beautiful. It's a great place to sit,
even if you didn't eat or drink anything. Not that,
not that they're promoting asking people to come, not to
spend any money, because the setting is so magnificent on
the you know, the main floor of the terminal, and
the food's great. And I had a story in my

(01:03:38):
real estate column today that there's another steakhouse coming and
it's called something like Jay. I'm sorry, I just can't
remember the Jack Jack D's Jack's going to Yeah, and
it's going to be on in the building known as
seventy five Rockefeller Plaza. Now it's really the restaurant will
actually be on the West fifty second Street side UH

(01:04:00):
is currently vacant. That's another big one, so over two
hundred seats and the two guys doing it are professionals.
One of them is the son of Jack Dorian, who
is creative Dorian's Red Hand on the East Side. And uh,
it's the New York City has an unlimited appetite, it

(01:04:22):
seems for steakhouses. I often think there are too damn
many of them, But there you go, that's what that's
what the public wants. They don't want, you know, eight
seat counters where you just need you know, vegan weird stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:04:37):
All right, So bottom line, New York is booming, right,
it's doing very well.

Speaker 9 (01:04:43):
Yeah, I mean, there's nothing is permanent. And in terms
of the real estate aspect of it, people forget that.
It's a cyclical industry. It goes up, it goes down.
Everybody nobody knows what's really coming. Everybody is old saying
fighting the last war. Yeah, and so god knows where

(01:05:04):
we're haded. But a couple of weeks ago, you know,
I sat down with Mark Holliday, who's the CEO of
sl Green, the city's largest commercial landlord, and he's very optimistic.
I said to him, Mark, this, you know, vacancy rates
are down and brints are up and blah blah, blah,
you know, am I missing something? Is there is there

(01:05:25):
a weak link here in this picture? And he said,
well basically not all.

Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
Right, good good news now for now. Excellent news everybody.
If you want to read Steve Cuzo's columns, they're all
up on the New York Post website. You can find
all his columns there and make sure you read them
regularly in the New York Post. Steve Cuzo, thanks for
being with us.

Speaker 9 (01:05:44):
Thanks Mark, always fun.

Speaker 3 (01:05:45):
All right, take care, Hey, don't forget. Buck and Clay
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Mar on seven ten WR.

Speaker 5 (01:06:11):
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Speaker 3 (01:06:12):
A lot's going to happen today. They'll be press conferences today.
As far as the Rob Reiner murder, I never thought
he'd be saying that. Police. Remember, it's three hours earlier
in Los Angeles, so it's only nine o'clock there. But
at some point pretty soon they'll hold a press conference,
they'll announce things. They've not officially announced anything yet, but
what we know unofficially the son Nick has been charged.

(01:06:35):
They arrested him. He was taken into custody. Apparently they've
got enough evidence or whatever they need, they've actually charged him.
He's being held on four million dollars bail right now
and apparently had vicious fights all weekend with the Sun.
It looks like he stabbed both of them. But Joe,
you'll hear more today. So we'll be back tomorrow and
I'll be covering the whole thing for you. Don't go away.

(01:06:57):
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