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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
NOWR Presents the Mark Simon Show. Thank God it's Friday.
We got a lot to get to today. The Mom
Donnie Trump meeting is today, just hours away. We'll give
you all the details. Thanksgiving is less than a week away. Yeah,

(00:23):
one week from today. It'll be the day after thanks
to you. It'll be that silly Black Friday a week
from today. So we'll get to that. We'll get to
President Trump and his latest controversy. We'll get to that
Ukraine peace plan. We'll get to Jeffrey Epstein and a
whole lot more. We'll get to the anti Semitic terrorism

(00:43):
that's taken place in New York City. I think that'll
be a topic of today's meeting. So anyway, here's the deal.
President Trump will meet Mom Donnie today in the White
House at three o'clock. Mom Donnie asked for the meeting.
It was that requested it. Trump said, yes. It will
be closed to press. It's not going to be like

(01:06):
the Zelenski meeting, where they'll start with the cameras there
and you'll be watching it live and they'll get into
a fight. It's gonna be closed press. Now why is that? Well?
Two reasons. One, you can really elevate the gravitas of
Mom Donni. If there's pictures of him sitting in the

(01:27):
Oval Office, sitting on the couch with the discussing things
with the president. You know those couches, those two couches
in the Oval Office, that's where world leaders sit as
they meet with the president. So to see mom Donni
in that seat would be give him a lot more cachet.
It would look it's impressive to be sitting there in
the Oval Office with the President. So they're not going

(01:49):
to let the press in now. If things go really well,
they're going to have to call an audible on this.
If it goes really well at the end, the president
can invite the press in and then take those pictures.
If he wants to give that gift to Mom Donnie,
he can bring the press in afterwards. Now, you can't
do it the other way around. It's too difficult. You

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can't have the press in there and try to throw
them out if it's not going the way you want.
So they'll start with no press, and there's a possibility
at the end they might be called in. Now, what
happens with the press at the White House. There's about
one hundred and fifty news organizations that do the coverage
in the White House. Well, you can't have them all
there at once, so they have what's called a pool,

(02:33):
which they pick five news organizations to come in, do
the video, do the audio, and then that's fed to
the other one hundred and fifty. So every day they
have a pool, they rotate it. They pick different news
organizations to be in the pool. One day it might
be ABC News, it might be The New York Times,
it might be The New York Post, it might be Newsmax,

(02:54):
it might be BBC. What they pick five every day,
it's a different five every day that are chosen for
the pool. Well, I'm looking at today's White House pool,
I think the President was stacking the deck against Mom Donnie.
The five names in the pool are all big Mom
Donnie probably hating organizations. It's Fox News, Newsmax, It's all

(03:19):
very conservative news organizations in the pool, So that I
would assume that was done deliberately. So if they do
call him in, Mom Donnie's going to get no sympathy
from anybody. So the other question is who will be
in the room now if Mam Donnie comes in there
and sits down and on that other couch it's JD. Vance,

(03:40):
Stephen Miller, Tom Holman. He's not going to like that.
He's not going to like that. So we'll see if
the President invites other people in who he invites in there? Now,
remember with the Zelenski meeting, everybody always goes to that
as the standard. He had all those people over there
on the couch, and if you want to have Zelensky

(04:02):
have a hard time, he just turn and say JD. Vance.
What do you think Vance would go after his Olenski?
They could do their good cop, bad cop routine. So
the meeting will be at three o'clock. I would guess
it goes about half an hour forty five minutes, and
then if they bring the press in, that'll stretch it
out and they might even take questions if it goes
really well, you never know what this mom Donnie guy.

(04:25):
He still seems like quite the con man, and a
good thing with a con man, you can make deals
with con men. Trump has one. He's got a lot
of great talents, but one real big talent. He can
go into a room when somebody's never met before. And
many people have told me about this. He can I
mean I've seen him myself a couple of times. But

(04:45):
people that were involved in big, big deals where they're
going to meet with the seven people from Hong Kong
or whoever. Trump has an amazing ability to get in
the room, look at him with radar and sonar and
see right now through them, see everything, see their weaknesses,
their strengths, also to see what they're really looking for,
what they would really like. So sometimes they go in

(05:08):
with a plan, here's what will present. Barbara Krkan tells
this story. They were going in there to sell this
group from Hong Kong the Plaza hotel and they walk in,
sit down all around these big table. Trump takes one
look at him and knows what they really want, and
it's waterfront property in Manhattan, and he sells them the
whole West Side railroad yards. But he saw right in

(05:28):
their faces, he could tell what they really wanted. So
he'll read mom Downie very well and he'll know. And
I remember he's done this with the big world leaders,
with Kim Jong un and others. Is Zelenski. It went
badly the first meeting, but he saw what was needed.
You needed to slap the guy around a little and

(05:49):
have him come back for a second meeting a little
more humble. So we'll see what happens at three o'clock.
We'll probably know. By four o'clock we'll have some word
on what happened. Now, what are the topics they're going
to go over? Well, police very important. He's agreed to
keep Jessica Tish. Now think about what that means. It's
a pretty important to see. It's the most important decision.

(06:11):
You get the right police commissioner and the police are
doing their job and everybody's safe. That kind of fixes
everything in the city. As long as the streets are safe,
people stay, business comes back, tourists come, money flows in
most important thing, keep the streets safe, and everything else
will fall into place. But remember this is a big

(06:31):
thing for Mom Donnie to get her to stay. Not
just good police commissioner, but she's Jewish, she's an Oligark,
she's from an oligarch family. It's everything Mom Donnie rails against.
So he's made this exception. Apparently part of their agreement
is he'll leave the police department alone, all his crazy
stuff of the social workers and this, and he'll do

(06:53):
that separately in another department, and he'll create called the
Department of Community Safety. Now he's given in on some things,
social workers respond to domestic violence calls. Apparently he's given
in on that. He's even said so well, he's backed
off on it publicly. Hey, the other big thing is
there's a civilian review board that can really go after cops.

(07:17):
The police commissioner has a final say, but he was
going to take that away from the police commissioner and
give himself the power. Apparently he's backing off that. He
hasn't absolutely formally announced it, but his statesman his statements
yesterday sound like he's backing off. He's actually said there's

(07:37):
a good chance he won't do that. He will not
take control of the civilian complaint Review Board. Well, he
sidestepped the question. He wouldn't say he was going to
continue to do that. He double talked his way out
of it, so that Bob and Weave an evasive answer
made it look like he's backing off that. So in
the meeting today with Trump, single the Safety Police, all

(08:02):
that stuff, and hopefully Trump is going to bring up
what happened at the Park East Synagogue, one of the
great synagogues in New York, on sixty Seventh Street on
the east side. There were what were supposed to be
protesters or something in front of it as Jewish people
went to worship in the synagogue. It was not a protest.

(08:24):
It was Muslim terrorism. They were all Muslim pro Palestini,
but they tried to terrorize the worshippers. It was actual terrorism.
Trump's going to bring that up and point out to
them that if anything happens like that, the government, federal
government has every right to come in there and arrest
these people and charge them with terrorism. And he doesn't

(08:45):
want to have to do that. That Momdannie should take
care of that. You can have the same protest, you
just have to do what Rudy Giuliani or a good
mayor would do, which is put them across the street
far away so it's not interfering with the people trying
to go to the synagogue. Put them far away, put
a fence there so they can yell and scream and

(09:06):
do whatever they want, but they can't get near the
people or terrorize them. So that'll come up in the
meeting today. Now there's a long, long precedent that allows
federal troops to come in and protect the civil rights
of minorities. So if anything like that happens again, this
has been going on for many, many decades, federal troops
can come in and protect people in that situation. They

(09:29):
used to have to do it for black people in
the South when they were being terrorized by Ku Klux
Klan or other protesters. So federal law Trump can come
in and defend those people. They're also going to talk
about He's gonna explain, Tom, i'm donnie, this stupid. We're
a city of international law. Apparently, it's going to have
to give him a little civics lesson. We are not

(09:50):
a city of international law. The US does not follow
international law, never has, never will. We have American law.
We have our own laws. We have federal gover laws,
state laws, city laws, we have a Supreme Court. We
do not, no matter how many times he says it,
We're not a city of international law. This idea of

(10:10):
arresting Benjamin Netanya, who I'm sure the President will go
over this the way he claims he can do that
is netnya who was charged in the Hague with war crimes.
The President will probably have to explain to ma'm donnie,
we don't recognize that court that court is a joke.
It's not taken seriously. The US does not recognize that court.

(10:32):
And if Netanyahu were to come to New York, and
Trump has said this, federal agents would protect him, and
a couple of Justice Department officials have said if Mam
Donni tries any crap like that, that the Justice Department
will arrest him for hate crimes. So Trump will do
this nicely. He'll just kind of lay all this out
for him. He's also going to try to explain to

(10:54):
mo'm donnie, you know the socialism free free, this free,
gross free that these are, as one person put it,
these are dorm room conversations and college dorm rooms from
Naive's students. And he's going to try explain to him.
First job of the city government as collect the trash,

(11:14):
clean the streets, make sure they're safe, run the subways,
run the run traffic, keep the town open for business.
It's the most important thing. So this could be a
very very important meeting. It could go badly. They could
get into a big fight. Mom Donnie could come out
yelling and screaming. But Trump's pretty good at remember, Mom

(11:36):
Donnie's just a kid. He's never had a job. He's
never been a negotiator. Trump is a master negotiator, negotiating
with the biggest people in the world in business and
television and world affairs. Been doing it all his life.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Mom, Donnie, I have many disagreements with the President, and
I believe that we should be relentless and pursue all
avenues and all meetings make our city affordable for every
single New Yorker.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
All Right, we'll see what happens today. We'll know, there'll
be a little fallout over the weekend, and then we'll
know on Monday.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
My team reached out to the White House to set
up this meeting because I will work with anyone to
make life more affordable for the more than eight and
a half million people who call the city home.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yeah. So his team, Well, that's Dean Fullahan, who's from
the Deblasio team, a couple of there's about five major
people that are like the major inner circle, four of
them from the Deblasio administration, one of them from the
Adams administration. Anyway, we'll get back to that. Hey, the
Dick Cheney funeral. You know who's getting a lot of

(12:42):
flack is Rachel Maddow, who was at the Dick Cheney funeral.
To take a look at my Twitter, you can see
the picture of her sitting there next to Anthony Fauci,
Mark Milly, the General Mark Milly. What does that say
about Cheney that the Fauci Millie, the two most in
coompt it at bungling people ever in government, are the

(13:02):
ones there to mourn him. But what the hell was
Rachel Maddow doing there? She's getting a lot of flak
for it. And now, remember when Cheney was in power
there as vice president those eight years. That's when Madow
first came on the scene, first became a big host.
But for all those years, Rachel Maddow brutally attacked Cheney,

(13:24):
called him a war criminal, a liar, a crook, a thief,
a torturer, a warmonger. They went after him for everything.
Abu Garab, waterboarding, liar, thief, They went out and claimed
he was had some slimy, sleazy Halliburton deal. None of
that was true. Abu Gharab, the waterboarding, the torturing in prison.

(13:51):
I mean, they just went after him like crazy. Now
she's sitting there at his funeral mourning him. This is
the hypocrisy Democrats are famous for. When asked about it,
she said, well, I felt that he was I didn't
agree with him one hundred percent disagree with him, but
I feel he was transformation over the last few years

(14:12):
in helping to lead the charge against Donald Trump. So
she out and now admits it. You could be hitler,
you could be the most awful person in the world.
But if you're bad mouthing Trump, she'll stand by you.
If it's against Trump, she likes you no matter what.
A pretty knee jer kind of silly kind of way
to behave. So the Ukraine Deal, we'll get to that

(14:36):
a little later. On this Ukraine Deal twenty eight point
peace plan, people are saying it's quite an elaborate plan.
Steve Witkoff put this together. A lot of what they
learned in the Gaza negotiations used here. It's a twenty
eight point peace plan. People that have looked through it
said it's absolutely ridiculous. It gives everything to Russia, gives

(14:58):
absolutely nothing thing to Ukraine. It's twenty eight points. Twenty
eight of them favor Russia, but it's a starting point.
They know what they're doing. This is not the plan.
This is like round one. Ukraine will start eliminating stuff
from it. Putin will argue, so it's a starting point
to try to get to something. But the plan could

(15:19):
never be adopted. It doesn't provide any protection for Ukraine.
In the end, it gives them all the It gives
Russia all the territory they wanted anyway, So there wouldn't
be much point to any of this. It's round one.
It's just a round one. Turns out the Department of
Justice under Joe Biden was so weaponized targeting people law fair,

(15:43):
coordinating these Trump indictments in four different cities. Now it
turns out they went after Jim Jordan in Congress, massive surveillance.
They got his phone, rerecord, emails, everything as GPA. They
followed everything he did. Terrible, terrible surveillance. This will just
keep coming out, This story will keep you, just keep evolving,

(16:04):
getting bigger and bigger and bigger. Hey, we'll take some
calls in just a minute. Eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred three two
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Speaker 3 (16:21):
Now.

Speaker 4 (16:22):
Now back to the Mark Simone Show on wor.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to VIC in Pennsylvania. Vic.
How you doing.

Speaker 5 (16:33):
I'm doing fine.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Mark.

Speaker 6 (16:34):
I want to ask you.

Speaker 7 (16:35):
Is this JDL still around?

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, they are the Jewish Defense League, but you know
they need help. NYPD has to cooperate, and that's where
you need to write Police Commissioner. Also, you can't allow
this kind of stuff. This was absolute terrorism taking place
in the front of Parky Synagogue, and people don't like
the mom Donni reaction to it. It wasn't a strong statement

(16:58):
condemning it. But that'll come up in today's meeting with
the President. He'll bring that up. He's been told all
about this incident, and we'll bring it up today. Let's
go to uh Jerry in Greenwich. Jerry, how you doing?

Speaker 7 (17:13):
I'm doing well?

Speaker 3 (17:13):
Mark?

Speaker 7 (17:14):
Thank you?

Speaker 8 (17:15):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (17:15):
These Democrats they lost their election and there's still one
run the country to ruin it worse than Biden did.
What's what is the matter with this? People? They hate America,
they hate all American people. They hat had everything about
what Trump is doing, but that's an excuse. They hate us.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Who's us?

Speaker 7 (17:41):
All these Democrats are on television and tapes in the
in that and the one run and that they want
to tell Trump what to do. They're still you know,
are crazy.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
No, they are a crazy, good point, Jerry, Yeah, they
are absolutely Now. Of course Trump doesn't help him, so
I mean he does it deliberately, you know. He ever
like a vicious animal in a cage in a zoo,
like a big tiger, a lion, and it's in a cage,
but you go rattle the cage and it starts roaring
and going crazy. He does that with the press all
the time. All the time. He just goes after them,

(18:13):
trust to rile them up, trust to get him nuts.
He enjoys it. He loves the fight. And if everything's
fine and peaceful, he hates it. He's miserable. He loves trouble,
he loves action, he loves fighting. You know, it's wearing
all of us down, but he enjoys it. He gets
up every morning thing and how can I rile things
up again? I can create total chaos. He does his

(18:34):
best work in this kind of total chaos. But the
media always falls for it. The press always takes the bait.
Democrats going nuts. There's something about him that just sets
people off. You know, we have to get on the show.
There's a great psychiatrist, doctor Keith Ablow. We got to
remember Miranda Devine was telling us he can explain this

(18:56):
Trump arrangement syndrome, what it is that sets them off.
I'll just try to get him for a Monday. We'll see.
We're gonna do that. Let's go to Joel in Florida. Joel,
how you doing?

Speaker 9 (19:07):
Good morning?

Speaker 10 (19:07):
More just out of curiosity, do you think it any
criteria that can be used by the doctor by the
covern Hokeel or Hope's success or could put the Mandanbie
out of office, similar to what was with Jimmy walkerm
Then yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
You can remove mom Donni from office. You can just
do it now. You got thirty days to lay out
the case. But you could find some reason if he
if just failure to do his job, you could remove
him from office. If there's some incident like to take
that park at East Synagogue incident yesterday the day before,
if he didn't have the police jump in and take

(19:43):
care of you, just something like that, you can remove
him from office. FDR removed Jimmy Walker from office. It
can be done. Let's go to Blouvelt in Florida. Blouvelt.
How you doing?

Speaker 5 (19:54):
Watch how are good? Hey?

Speaker 6 (19:59):
Listen?

Speaker 5 (19:59):
I saw a video of these young, mushed college girls
dancing around at von Donnie Guide. I like, there, you know,
they're so excited to have sharia law come in. I
couldn't believe what I was seeing. You know, I think
with Donald Donald Trump should get a gold frame picture
of that Bill Clinton sitting in a dress and have

(20:21):
a wife by her side. Every time he's a stupid
question from ABC, that's.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
A good point. Every time they bring up Epstein, well
he brings up Clinton. But believe it or not, Epstein.
He had a big house on seventy first Street. It
was like bigger than the town as it used to
be a school, and he really fixed it up. It
was all glitzy and gold and everything inside. And he
had an artist do a painting of Bill Clinton in
a blue dress I guess like a Monica Lewinsky blue dress,

(20:48):
I don't know what, in a blue dress and high heels.
I don't know why he did this, but it was
Bill Clinton. And he had that in the living room
when you walked in, and when the FBI raided the play.
Couldn't believe this, but you right, Trump should put that
behind him as the backdrop every time he talks about
Jeffrey Epstein. Let's go to Tom and New Rochelle. Tom.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
How you doing, Hi, Mark, Thanks to lot.

Speaker 7 (21:12):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 11 (21:14):
When you talked about you quoted Mondamie for international law,
I decided I'd go online and check.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Don't go online, don't check anything, don't just go to experts.
Don't go online.

Speaker 11 (21:26):
It's our Google og LGBTQ rights and law in Uganda
and in the know.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
But what we're saying is when Mamdannie keeps saying we're
a city of international law, the President's going to explain
to him today this is absolutely not the case. We
don't recognize international law in New York City, in New
York State, or in America. We have our own laws.
We don't and we certainly don't subscribe to anything that
World Court does in the Hague, we don't recognize those

(21:57):
laws here. Let's go to Fern in New Jersey. Fern,
how you.

Speaker 12 (22:00):
Doing, Hey, Mark, good morning, Thanks for taking my call.
Love your show, Avid listener. I even write to you
a lot of times. You do, Yeah, I do, I
do anyhow, Anyhow, Listen, I wanted to tell you that
you mentioned, and thank you so much for mentioning what
happens at the Parky Synagogue. It wasn't just a matter
of people there being, you know, there to worship. The

(22:24):
fact of the matter is, and ironically so the people
that were there that evening were attending a program from
an organization called Nephish Benefish because they are looking to
maybe immigrate to Israel. So on top of the fact
that you know, they're fearful to begin with, then they're

(22:44):
terrorized walking in or around the building.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
So yeah, no, no, at that incident, if you were
to stand across the street with signs pro Palestine, whatever,
that's fine, that's a protest. This was different.

Speaker 9 (22:55):
Well, of course we've.

Speaker 12 (22:56):
Seen that for the Israel Day parade all the time.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
Yeah, that's fine. This was muzzle terrorism and the federal
government has every right to send troops in and go
after them and declare these people they were engaged in
terrorism at that moment. They could be arrested federally. The
President will explain that to Mom Donnie in today's meeting,
the meeting today at three o'clock. Well, we'll get back

(23:18):
to that. Well, we'll talk to Ronda sheer. Next, We've
got a lot to discuss with her coming up on
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Speaker 13 (23:27):
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Speaker 14 (23:54):
How you Doing's have some fun because it's Jeffrey Epstein's thing.

Speaker 8 (23:58):
It's getting to me.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
How many jeff Epstein's did you know in Hollywood?

Speaker 3 (24:02):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (24:02):
My gosh, so many? Are you kidding? They were all producers.
I know a lot of them.

Speaker 14 (24:09):
But you know, how did you talk about that poor doctor,
that neurosurgeon.

Speaker 8 (24:12):
Did you already hit that?

Speaker 15 (24:14):
Well?

Speaker 1 (24:14):
Wait, I you know, I said, oh the poor guy,
he's got the same name, must crush. Now you see
the guys in the New York Post today trying to
get himself some publicity.

Speaker 14 (24:21):
Yeah, wait a minute, I'm sorry. I think neurosurgeons are god.
They operate on your brain, they open your skull. They
operate your brain. This dude, Jasmine Crockett names this neurosurgeon
as like he's the one who gave money to Lee
Zelden Poor.

Speaker 8 (24:37):
It feels so sorry, But did you read the article.
It said that he's going to give money to her.

Speaker 14 (24:41):
He could get back at her by giving donating money
to her, and then he would Then they could say, oh,
she took money from Jeffrey Epstein too.

Speaker 8 (24:50):
I love that. I think the should do that.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
He is a neurosurgeon. If he really wanted to help,
he'd offer to give her brain surgery instead of don Okay.

Speaker 14 (24:57):
I have to talk about her fashion because you know,
I know you love them talking about fashion.

Speaker 8 (25:01):
Yea, what is she doing? Have you?

Speaker 14 (25:03):
This woman does not care about Congress every day it
is a style show on the red carpet for her.
She's having her own fashion moment. The hair and the wigs,
I mean those are all wigs. By the way, Mama
Dog I call myself Mamma dog.

Speaker 8 (25:16):
Is something you don't know. Mamma Dog.

Speaker 14 (25:18):
Randa up all night knows these things. She's wearing wigs,
the clothing, I don't know who's paying for those clothes.
Anybody ever talk about who's.

Speaker 8 (25:26):
Paying for her clothes.

Speaker 14 (25:27):
They're very expensive, very expensive, very very expensive. And the
hairdos you shoose wigs are those wigs are in the thousands,
every wig she wears. No one ever talks about the
fashion of these people, like most most people don't dress
up in Congress like her, But for her I get.
I get the biggest kick out of it because that's
what I do. The woman is a riot. The hairdo

(25:48):
yesterday when she was talking about oh no, I didn't
really mean to say differ the whole bs thing that
she was doing with that wig and my long hair
all the way down to her butt.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yeah, she's a joke.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
No, you bring up a good point. I can't think
of any congress person wearing very very expensive clothes. You
really don't see that anywhere.

Speaker 14 (26:05):
Now, You really don't see them. And I love Pauline
a Luna because she's from my state. And I mean
she's beautiful. I mean if you just go by beauty
and she could. She was like, you know, I think
a model back in the day. She doesn't wear expensive
clothes or try to stand out. I mean she's wearing
yellows and shocking pinks and wigs, and every.

Speaker 8 (26:23):
Day it's a different wigs. Some days it's parted on
by her ear, some days it's like not parted.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
So anyway, I'm even multi zillionaire. And Nancy Pelosi wears
clothes from the estate of Edith Bunker or something.

Speaker 14 (26:37):
Oh sorry, stop it, stop it dogs not you. Anyway,
they got excited over that. No, you're so funny.

Speaker 8 (26:44):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 14 (26:45):
I know that some jewelry that Nancy Pelosi wears is
very expensive, but I think it looks like Carnival beats
from New Orleans.

Speaker 8 (26:51):
I'm just saying it's like the worst.

Speaker 14 (26:53):
It's the worst, but forgetting her when she's just old.

Speaker 8 (26:56):
And she wears old lady stuff.

Speaker 14 (26:57):
But she really needs one of my bras because that
woman a lift. I mean, the boobs are like really
too long. I mean, I just just letting you know that.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
Oh okay, I got her brad size. It's forty six long.

Speaker 14 (27:10):
No, I really need to send some some bras to
Nancy from my line. And in the meantime, you've got
to I just want you to go back and do
like a style show of everything from Jasmine because it's
ridiculous and it's really expensive.

Speaker 8 (27:22):
Let's find out who.

Speaker 14 (27:24):
Is buying her clothing, who is buying her wigs.

Speaker 8 (27:28):
Let's just find that out and I'll be very happy.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
Right.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Some of these people have a lot of money, you know,
like Marjorie Taylor Green, very wealthy woman when she went
into congress.

Speaker 14 (27:35):
Right, right, But I and I know Jasmine Crockett was
an attorney.

Speaker 8 (27:39):
But really, I mean that still doesn't matter.

Speaker 14 (27:43):
Those clothes are really expensive during COVID, and I had
to buy wigs. Those wigs are two thousand dollars apiece,
so just add those up.

Speaker 8 (27:49):
Every day. She's a new wig.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
You know.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
When John Carey ran for president, the first thing he
told them is, you gotta stop wearing these clothes. These
are BRIONI suits, they're like seven. You can't wear these
are mes ties, they're three hundred. You got to get
American normal clothes. And he did it.

Speaker 8 (28:04):
Well, it is true.

Speaker 14 (28:05):
But I can tell you, you know, Trump, he's wearing your
expensive stuff.

Speaker 8 (28:08):
But it looks it's the same thing every day. So no,
but he's actually.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
Said, We've had him on the show talking about it.
He will never give into these consultants. He's gonna wear
his expensive clothes. He's never going to play in blue jeans.
He's not gonna wear a hunting jacket when he's in Iowa.

Speaker 8 (28:21):
He just he never did.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeah, no, he won't do it.

Speaker 8 (28:23):
He never did.

Speaker 14 (28:24):
I love a song because the summers, the suits. But Kai,
can we just talk one second about Kai, and then
we have to promote my show.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
His granddaughter Ki Trump is going to be the next
Tiger Woods, a champion golfer.

Speaker 8 (28:35):
She could be the next president.

Speaker 14 (28:36):
She can speak, she's so articulate, she does these tours
of the White House. She has so many followers, which
that's all, that's all people want now. And she's done
this because she's she's wonderful. Out of all the Trumps,
she is, so you want to watch her, You want
to keep watching her.

Speaker 8 (28:52):
I've watched she and Trump.

Speaker 14 (28:54):
Play golf together, like I watched eighteen Holes. That's how
entertaining she is. I mean, way more than him. And
she's just adorable. And then she's going to be Tiger
Wood's stepdaughter. I think it's so awesome.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
Hey, it's a good point. Do you want to watch
Trump play golf? There's a bunch of YouTube videos where
they literally just follow him the whole eighteen holding can
watch the whole game, but you can hear. You can
hear the conversation, the dialogue. It's great stuff.

Speaker 14 (29:18):
So he has a really interesting, you know, like swing.
Like I told my my husband's a really great golfer.
I'm like, what is that swing?

Speaker 8 (29:24):
He goes, don't. I said, it's not like a full swing.
He goes, don't. Put that swing down. That swing is amazing.
He is accurate. Yeah, it's far.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
I used to play with him when he was a
younger guy and had an incredible, real pro swing. But
when you get to be heavier in you're seventy nine,
you got to, you know, adjust it down. But your
husbands are kept like as much as you could keep
of that swing.

Speaker 14 (29:46):
No, he's really entertainment and she's amazing. So it is
a golfing fam it's a sporty family. I just love
watching them. I think they're just so intriguing. That guy,
I'm a major.

Speaker 8 (29:54):
Fan of her.

Speaker 14 (29:54):
So if anybody hasn't followed her, they should, because she
takes you into the White House, she takes you behind
the scenes, she does her makeup and shows how bad
the bathrooms are.

Speaker 8 (30:04):
He really needs he.

Speaker 14 (30:05):
Really does need to renovate the you know, bathrooms are
the first thing people renovate homes. Those bathrooms are really
they're from like the eighteen hundreds.

Speaker 8 (30:13):
Thank goodness, he's doing a bathroom.

Speaker 14 (30:14):
Everything he's doing about that is right, and he should
leave that legacy the most beautiful you know, the United
States of America.

Speaker 8 (30:20):
We should have the most.

Speaker 14 (30:21):
Amazing ballroom to be able to receive all of these
dignitaries from all over the world.

Speaker 8 (30:25):
So I love that about him.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
He class.

Speaker 8 (30:27):
Let him leave his mark, let him leave his gold everywhere.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
Hey, Rod, this year is coming up all night. The
great TV series is back? When and now when? The
next one is Tomorrow Night?

Speaker 14 (30:36):
Okay, so Tomorrow Night Scream. It's called the Scream. Queen
Turkey Trot ten pm on Kings of Horror, which you
can find on YouTube. Just go to YouTube and search
Kings of Horror at ten pm Eastern. It is hysterical.
I have like amazing scream. I know you don't know,
so I'm not going to mention her name. Scream queens

(30:57):
and actors on. It's very funny. It's sketch forward. It's
finally being funny, not like Saturday Night Live. It's all political.
It's just really funny, laugh out loud sketches and I'm
so proud to be doing the show again and we're
doing a lot more and I'll.

Speaker 8 (31:10):
Tell you about that at another time.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
But having a blast, type n to shere up all night.
It'll come up probably if.

Speaker 14 (31:17):
You've put Kings of Horror, because you'll find my other
content of my own so or you can just simply
go to scream excuse me.

Speaker 8 (31:24):
You can simply go to.

Speaker 14 (31:25):
Kingsofharror dot com on your computer. Just go to kingsof
Horror dot com at ten pm and all things horror
will come up. But we're getting ready to do pure
comedy on the show and getting away from horror, so
just stay tuned and we're having a blast. My partners
are amazing and it's blowing up.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
Mark.

Speaker 8 (31:43):
You got to come on the show.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
I'll come on. I was on your show a couple
months ago.

Speaker 9 (31:47):
It was very good. You are.

Speaker 14 (31:48):
I'm going to put you in the Magic Heart, which
is really cool. We have fun, so I know you
have a great sense of humor about all of this,
So thank you for plugging that. And I want everybody
to eat a traduck in for Thanksgiving. And I see,
I knew you wouldn't know that. You're so non Southern.
A tur ducan is a chicken inside of a duck,

(32:09):
inside of a turkey, and then it's cooked. It's either
baked or it's fried, and and all of those meats
of like the duck.

Speaker 8 (32:18):
Makes the turkey so moist. It's completely Cajun and you
can get it. You can even google it right now,
can ducan?

Speaker 14 (32:27):
It sounds such a snob terrible. You don't eat, it's
just eating pure and youm I'm gonna cook for you
my gumbo one day.

Speaker 8 (32:39):
Mark, don't worry.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Him, gumbo fan. Although I like that Paul Prudom, he
was a great cook. I liked him.

Speaker 14 (32:45):
Well, I'm a great cook too, So don't And you're
gonna love my Turduckan and everybody out there go try
it to duck and it's great.

Speaker 8 (32:50):
Don't listen to Mark. You can be a little snobby
about his food.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
But if you're in the middle of New York City,
I defy you to go find a tra duck in anywhere.
But you can find everything here, but you can't make
sure you watch Ronda Shar's latest up All Night Tomorrow
Night go to YouTube type Kings of Horror up all
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tomorrow night and come back soon. We'll talk again.

Speaker 8 (33:12):
Thanks Mark, the happy holidays.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
I'm Gobble Gobble all right, you two take care. Hey,
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They do a very good show every day. You learn
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(33:37):
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Speaker 1 (33:46):
Hey, we'll get to a lot of stuff in the
next hour. We'll get back to the big mom Donnie
Trump meeting. It's today at three o'clock and got a
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(34:14):
before Thanksgiving. I just texted doctor Keith Ablow he'll come
on with us Monday. He's one of the great psychiatrists
in the world. Psychologists. He's done incredible work on Trump
derangement syndrome. What causes it exactly? What is it about
this guy that sets you crazy liberals off so much?

(34:35):
We'll get to that. Also, he'd give us some advice
on if you're going to Thanksgiving dinner, how not to
fight with your relatives, how not to get crazy. You know,
it's if you do this for a living, this kind
of stuff, you don't ever talk about it off the year.
You don't sit there and discuss politics with a bunch
of people that you know are basically just amateurs, and

(34:57):
you don't care what anybody thinks him. It's fine. I mean,
you know, people can if I've been at the party
or something said Trump is the worst nightmare. He's a
threat to democracy. I can't sleep at night. I just
go yeah, me too, and just walk away. Don't don't
even argue it, don't even bother with them. I love
the New York Yankees, And sometimes you'll be standing there

(35:17):
and say, yank terrible. I mean, I love the Mets.
I don't get mad. It's fine. You love the Mets
that you hate Trump, you'll ave biding. Fine, don't just
just don't. Don't even worry about it. But we'll talk
to a professional, a real expert, on Monday about what
to do about that at at a Thanksgiving dinner. Now

(35:40):
here's the latest Trump controversy. These handful of people in
Congress put out this video telling the troops not to
listen to orders if they think they're not legal. If
you're in the military, if you're a military person, if
you're there and the commander gives you an order, if
you don't feel it's legal, this people in Congress, men

(36:01):
and women in Congress, don't follow it. Don't follow any
order you think is illegal, and we'll have your back.
It's a ridiculous video to put out. This is horrible.
First of all, you're a soldier servant in the middle
of something. You're not a lawyer. You know you can't
actually evaluate correctly is this legal or illegal? And you

(36:23):
never tell the troops to disobey orders. It's just absolutely ridiculous.
So why would they do such a dumb thing. Well,
probably they were trolling Trump. This is the age of
a tweeting and trolling and that kind of stuff. So
they're probably trying to get into his head or get
under his skin or make him overreact, and he did.

(36:44):
He overreacted like crazy. I mean, he should have attacked him,
really attacked him for this. But he said, this is treason,
this is sedition. Actually, if you tell our military to
disobey orders, He's got a point there, it's treason, it's edition.
But he did point out sedition is treason is punishable

(37:10):
by death. Okay, well that's the law. But then they're
claiming he called for their execution. He told the said
they should, we should hang them. He didn't say that,
but he what he did was wrong. There was somebody
that tweeted that. It said hang them. George Washington would
have which is true, George Washington would hang you for that.

(37:31):
But Trump we retweeted it. You know, if the president
United States, you're not supposed to retweet that kind of stuff.
So Trump was wrong, shouldn't have done it, went too far.
But that's Trump. He's done it before. I can't honestly
tell you if he does it deliberately or if he
just gets carried away, or he has this thing about

(37:54):
being the main story in every news cycle every day
he wants to be the lead story on the news
every day. He wants to put on any news talk channel, Fox,
MSN and be the lead story any day. So you're
not supposed to do that. You know, first role of
publicity when you need it. You know, if you're a

(38:15):
big star and your new movies coming out, suddenly you're everywhere.
You're on every show, You're on every TV show, you're
in a paper magazine, You're everywhere for two three weeks
plugging your new book, your new movie, and then you
go away for a couple of months, and then you
come back, you know, when Taylor Swift needs some publicity.
That's all you see is Taylor Swift for a week,

(38:37):
and then there'll be a month where you don't. He's
supposed to go away for a while. Trump doesn't believe
that theory. He thinks do it every day. He's been
doing it every day for forty years. So that's one
reason he goes over the top with these with these
crazy things, and they're all over the place, yelling and screaming.
There he was calling for their execution. Then you get
the quiet to quiet Mike Johnson, who's got to jump into.

Speaker 16 (39:01):
This sometimes he uses heated rhetoric. Okay, but do any
of you agree that that's appropriate, that they should be
telling young members of the military to defy orders. You
should think about the implications of that. The President's trying
to make a point. I think he made the point.
I'm glad you're all covering it. You need to criticize
and ask the questions of the Democrats, not the Republicans.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Okay, yeah, so listen, he was wrong, but they were
wrong too. Everybody was wrong in this. Caroline Levitt had
to respond.

Speaker 4 (39:26):
They are literally saying to one point three million active
duty service members not to defy the chain of command,
not to follow lawful orders.

Speaker 8 (39:36):
Every single refuse an illegal order.

Speaker 4 (39:39):
But they're suggesting, they're suggesting, Nancy, that the president has
given illegal orders, which he has not. Every single order
that is given to this United States Military by this
Commander in chief and through this command, chain of command,
through the Secretary of War is lawful.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
Yeah, that these kindless people were absolutely wrong to do this.
Their claim is, well, we only meant if they're there
is an illegal order. Well, nobody's ever seen an illegal order.
And here's the real key to this. They've been running
around doing TV shows. That's the whole reason they did this,
to give themselves a lot of publicity, and all of
a sudden, they're all over TV, and a couple of
times on TV they said, well, when you say an

(40:16):
illegal order, give us an example of what you were
talking about. And they couldn't think of an example. It's
never happened. Nobody could point to anything they when asked
about it. When they were asked about it, they could
not give an answer that question. They couldn't point to
any illegal order. So nobody knows exactly what the hell
they were talking about. Hey, Jasmine Crockett, this an absolute

(40:39):
bumbling idiot. Is the one that claimed Jeffrey Epstein donated
to Lee Zelden. Well, it's not true. It's a different
Jeffrey Epstein. It's a doctor in Long Island. And at
the time of the donation, the real Jeffrey Epstein had
been dead for like four years, so obviously he's dead,
he's not donating. When she was asked about it.

Speaker 13 (41:01):
I never said that it was that Jeffrey Epstein. My team.
What they did is they googled, and that is specifically
why I said a Jeffrey Epstein unlike Republicans. I at
least don't go out and just tell lies because it
was not the same one.

Speaker 5 (41:14):
That's fine.

Speaker 13 (41:14):
But when Lee Zelden had something to say, all he
had to say was it was a different jeff Jeffrey Epstein.
He admitted that he did receive donations from a Jeffrey Epstein,
So at least I wasn't trying to mislead people.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
Yeah, she's getting awards now for what is possibly the
dumbest excuse anybody's ever heard. It was one incredibly stupid excuse.
I think this is where she originally said.

Speaker 13 (41:37):
It folks who also took money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein.
As I had my team dig in very quickly, met Romney,
the NRCC, Lee Zelden, George Bush.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
Yeah, of course it's a different Jeffrey Epstein. But she
was asked about it.

Speaker 13 (41:57):
Do you want to correct the record on the people
that I never said that it was that Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
Yeah, yes you did. I mean, it's an incredibly stupid excuse,
absolutely ridiculous. Hey, when it comes to exercise, now, you
think you're supposed to be like sweating in the gym,
You're supposed to be out there running three miles, you're
supposed to be sweating. And well, there's all kinds of

(42:23):
new studies out now showing that the best exercise what
they call zone zero exercise. It's more gentle, slower, as
long as it's just real exercise, as long as you're walking.
A lot of people just try walking now instead of running.
But if you do a lot of walking, you're supposed
to do ten thousand steps. You try to do fifteen
thousand every day. But that kind of stuff, and there's

(42:44):
all kinds of new studies, scientific studies showing that can
be just as beneficial and in some ways more beneficial,
especially when you get older, that the most important exercise
is what they call zone zero. It's gentle exercise, stretching, walking,
light yoga or just like gardening, that kind of stuff. Movement,
lots of movement. You don't have to be sweating, just

(43:06):
constant movement. It improves circulation, regulates blood sugar, lowers cardiovascular risk,
eases stress, supports mental health. So you know, go to
the gym. Now that some studies say, well once a
week or once all you got to go do some
real exercise in a gym. But most important thing daily
is just gentle exercise, whether it's just a lot of

(43:26):
walking or stretching, it's very very important. Movement doesn't have
to be hard. According to study, gentle regular activity still
counts and can give you major health benefits. Also, you'll
lose weight doing that. You won't have to take that
stupid ozempic. There's one side effect after another coming from

(43:47):
that ozempic. You know, there's ozempic face where you just
your face looks older, your skin gets droopy. Another problem
now dentists reporting ozempic teeth. The side effects of not
just ozempic, but all those GLP injections can lead to
dry mouth. There's an active ingredient that affects the salivary

(44:11):
glands that'll give you the dry mouth, and that causes
all kinds of problems with your gums and your teeth.
The medications also cause people to drink less water. They'll
be less thirsty, so this increases the risk of cavities,
gum disease. You know who loves ozempic of these plastic
surgeons because they got to fix the skin that ozempic face,

(44:33):
and now dentists love it, creating more work for them. Hey,
the TV show Boston Blue. Well, I've been watching it.
It's pretty good. It's like I think the fifth episode
is on Tonight's instead of Blue Bloods. You know, for
fourteen years it was Blue Bloods every Friday night at ten.
I missed that show. Love watching the reruns. But it's

(44:55):
Boston Blue. It's Danny Reagan now in Boston. It's pretty good.
It's not Blue Bloods, but it's pretty good. I do
watch it now every week. And one time Bridget moynihan
made a cameo from the original Blue blood series. What
about Tom Selleck? Will he do it well? He was
asked the question sounds like no. He was pretty blunt,

(45:19):
pretty blunt. He seems kind of angry. Selick is not
happy that CBS canceled Blue Bloods, and he said, I
think it's partly my lot in life to make sure
Blue Bloods has its place in television history. But I
don't think it's my lot in life to keep playing
Frank Reagan. He makes it pretty clear he's not interested

(45:42):
in doing Boston Blue, and he can't explain he's still mad.
It was one of CBS's top top shows, one of
like the five highest rated shows in television. He can't
believe they canceled it. He says, I still don't know
why CBS did it. Actually points out if you get
a football, he was the like the sixth most popular

(46:02):
series in all of television. I don't know where my
next job will be, he said, I'd love a good western.
I want to sit on a horse again. What does
anybody want to do a western? They look terrible and
they don't want to see in a western. I love
to do another comedy. He's very good in comedy. Remember
Friends and Hey, remember he was He was on Boston
Legal for a while. He was pretty good on that show.

(46:23):
But why did CBS cancel it? Because nobody watches TV anymore.
It's people don't watch network television. They're all streaming and
all that stuff, but they're not watching ABC, CBS or
NBC much anymore. And you can't afford to do these
really expensive shows. You know, when you do a game show,
it doesn't cost much money. You know, you build one

(46:46):
set that last year for seven years, just that one set,
and you don't have to pay the people very much,
even the celebrities to come on a game show. It's
it's like a late night talk show. You're paying them
basically scale. It doesn't cost you anything. You do Blue
Bloods or any drama or Law and Order spending a fortune.
You got to make a movie every week, you gotta
spend millions out in the street car chases. You ever

(47:08):
see him film a movie out in the street. It's
fifty trucks, it's twenty seven trailers, it's one hundred people
out there. You know what that costs to do that.
That's not one scene. You got to do like thirty
seven scenes for each show. So it costs a fortune.
That's why you don't see Blue Bloods anymore. Boston Blue
it's a cheaper version.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
All.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
They still got to do those chasings, but they're smaller
chase scenes and you don't have to pay a whole cast.
Remember Blue Blood's had like eight stars all getting seven figures.
This is one star maybe getting seven figures. And that's
about it. So today's the meeting, Mom, Donnie and Trump.
It'll take place at three o'clock today. They'll meet in

(47:50):
the Oval Office. It's closed to the press. Now here's
the deal. President Trump knows if they open it to
the press, and there's video and pictures, it will elevate
Mam Donnie's status in the world. You know, when you're
sitting on that yellow couch in the Oval Office talking
to the President, it gives you a gravitas. There you

(48:12):
are on the couch where the world leaders sit, talking
to the President of the United States. So those photographs
will really really elevate the status of Mam Donni. So
it's closed to the press. However, at the end of
the meeting, president can decide depending on how it goes,
he can decide to bring the press in to take

(48:32):
those pictures or do that video. They can even go
live on TV. So at the end of the meeting,
depending on what happens, the President will decide if he
wants to bring them in, and it will it will
make Mam Donnie look important. Now, the other thing you
got to watch for is who else is in the room,

(48:52):
Mam Donnie. And the President always tells you when you
come to me, when he invites you to a meeting,
he'll say, bring whoever you want. Says that very often,
so Mom Donna, he can bring his team. But if
he looks to the you know, he'll be on this couch.
If he looks over at the other couch and it's J. D.
Vance and Steven Miller and Tom Holman. I don't think
Mom done will like that. So I don't know what's

(49:13):
going to happen, but we'll find out. At three o'clock today,
we'll take some calls. Next eight hundred three to two
one zero seven. Ton is the number eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten in Mark on Demand by
setting up presad for his podcast on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 17 (49:32):
Now back to Mark Simone on wor.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Stuart, South Carolina. Stuart,
how you doing?

Speaker 15 (49:41):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (49:41):
Mark?

Speaker 14 (49:41):
Here?

Speaker 18 (49:42):
You do you remember Lieutenant Colonel Stuart, Marine Corps colonel
who complained about the Afghanistan withdrawal and how it was
an absolute disaster. They charged and court martialed him under
the UCMJ and discharged him from the military because he
actually spoke the truth and said what a disaster this is.

(50:03):
You know, I'm a Vietnam veteran. Both my parents Yeah
actually yeah.

Speaker 3 (50:09):
On our site.

Speaker 18 (50:11):
Yeah, well believe it or not. Yeah, well sometimes Bobby
seventy two, so I am of that age. But yeah,
you know, it's just unbelievable that these these Democrats would
tell people to disregard orders. I mean, it is phenomenal.
These people have become the enemy of the United States.

(50:31):
I think they've they've gone out of their ever loving minds.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
I think, yeah, they've just gone it's Trump arrangement syndrome.
They've literally gone absolutely all right, Stuart, thanks for Colin.
Let's go to Mike and Florida. Mike, how you doing,
Good morning, Mark, Mike.

Speaker 9 (50:47):
Regard regarding that same subject, I think there's another motive
that you can add to why Trump responds the way
that he does, and he's because he's noted for years
that Republicans, as they're getting bludgeoned by the Democrat and
the press and the mass media and getting the you know,
you know what kicked out of them, they never responded
in kind. They were always always very polite and genteel

(51:09):
and gentlemanly and we'll just stick to the you know facts.
And it got them nowhere. And I think he sees
that you have to fight fire with fire because if
you don't respond or it gets you is Rachel Maddow
shows up at your funeral when you're dead, and that's it.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
That's good, good way to put it. Thanks for calling.
Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave, how you doing.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
Good morning, Mark. I'm doing very well, Thank you Mark.
As we know recently in the.

Speaker 17 (51:34):
News that Joe Biden took a ride on an Amtrak
train with a reporter, my question is did the Secret
Service screen all of the passengers before the trip? And finally,
how much of Biden's family still receive Secret Service protection?

Speaker 1 (51:50):
Well, you see the wife, the kids, it's a good question. Yeah,
he was on a friend Brookes Singman, the great reporter
Fox News, was riding Amtrak going down to Washington, and
there was Joe Biden and she just gets a ticket,
goes to her seat and who's the guy next to her,
Joe Biden. It's kind of sad. This guy's a former president.
And normally when you're a former president, you got lots

(52:12):
of wealthy friends who want to take care of everything
for you. Here's what to borrow my plane whenever you want,
use my how everybody's given you everything when you're a
former president. But not Biden. Not Joe Biden got no
use for him. He's been seeing flying coach on an
airplane's he's been seeing Take a look at the Brooks
Singman's Instagram. There there she is sitting next to Joe

(52:32):
Biden on the Amtrak. It's a sad, sad case. Let's
go to Bob and New Rochelle. Bob, how you doing.

Speaker 15 (52:40):
I'm good and well, I'm good. Hey, Look, I got
a question for you. You talking about Blue buzzes a lot
and how these shy disappear because it's so expensive to
make those scenes. Do you think at some point AI
or place all that no unit that way.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
That's an interesting question. Yeah, you could do it with AI.
You could have these guys just in a studio with
a green screen and then a I'll put in all
the car chase and all that. Yeah, you could do that,
But then you got all these Hollywood unions. You're gonna
have to battle, and that's a big fight. That's the
reason it's so expensive to do all these shows. That's
why some of these shows go up and do it
in Toronto. In fact, I think some of that Boston Blue,

(53:15):
most of that's done in Toronto. It's a lot cheaper
up there, less union costs. Let's go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent,
how you doing?

Speaker 6 (53:24):
Good morning, Mark, Good morning, Mara opposite to what Stewart
said about the patriot who talked about the disastrous withdrawal
from Afghanistan and that they hung that guy out to dry.
The only real unconstitutional order I could think of what
the military was. And you'll remember this when that sergeant

(53:45):
ordered the Meli massacre during the Vietnam War. And there
the sergeant, I forget what his name, and he was
prosecuted for that. Remember that the meal I met when
he mowed down all those peasants, he ordered his troops
to do that. Mark. Everyone knows Katy Hulko doesn't have
a spine and isn't the brightest light bulb in the box.

(54:08):
The other night, try to make a case for Zora
Mundani's universal daycare and for her raising the corporate tax
on the corporations and everything, because she's scouted all the jobs,
mainly city union jobs. Where first off, where they're gonna

(54:31):
put these daycare centers. A lot of these private daycare
centers a dumpson. They're just ripe with fraud. And another
thing didn't miss bright over there, take into account all
the corporations that or are already moving down to Florida
and Texas, Dad, are gonna move out of New York

(54:53):
and you're gonna lose that revenue. She's talking about the
revenue gained, What about the revenue lost?

Speaker 1 (55:00):
Talking about high level management. This is not her game.
Her game is just politics, campaigning. Same thing with Mom Donnie.
They've never known these two have never managed anything. They've
never been managers. It's just what sounds good in the campaign.
What's the what campaign promise sounds right? Executing? Managing? It's
not their field. But de Vincent could point. Hey, when
we come back. Steve Cuzo, the great New York Post reporter,

(55:22):
nobody better on restaurants, on real estate, on New York.
We'll see what he says about the coming Mom Donnie
situation for business. We'll get to all of that next
on seven to ten.

Speaker 12 (55:34):
Wor Mark Simone wr Well.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
Steve Cuzel, the great New York Post column this nobody
better on restaurants, the real estate on New York. Stuff
is columns. You can read them all. They're in the
New York Post website. Steve Cuzoh, how you doing.

Speaker 3 (55:53):
I'm great, Mark. Thanks, So it's hard to live up
to that doing. I'll try them. You'll do it.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
You'll Hey, you're just back from London. Yeah, all on Instagram,
great pictures. But were there any English speaking people left
in London?

Speaker 3 (56:07):
Well that's the thing I tell friends who haven't been
to London a long time. I say, I tell them
English is widely spoken. Now that's supposed to be a joke,
because it is, after all, London. It's England, you know.
So yes, English is still widely spoken, but not universally,
no like New York was it.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
But all the great old London places they're not. They've
been overtaken by all kinds of new places. What's what's
good over there?

Speaker 3 (56:34):
Well? So what's new? Oh? So many great restaurants. But
the most interesting single thing, in my view is the
former American Embassy in Grove Most Square, which had been
there for I don't know. That was our embassy there
for a million years. The embassy moved away about ten
years ago to a new location. The building was a
giant brutalist style kind of a hulking building. It was

(56:58):
never well loved and uh but then Katari UH Fund
bought it and converted the whole property. God knows how
much it might must have cost into a spectacular new
Rosewood managed hotel.

Speaker 9 (57:18):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (57:18):
You know, Rosewood is one of the premier hotel companies
in the world. The Carlisle, New York, and I mean
they operate the Carlisle and it's called the Chancery. That's
the end of the new hotel. And when you go
into the building, you can't believe that this was once
this miserable, you know interior where people would line up for,

(57:39):
you know, to get their passports renewed. They created a
they card that an atrium. It's it's all soft and warm,
unlike the you know, the kind of still brooding exterior.
The interior is all warmth and light and they have
five restaurants, including a Carbone from New York. I didn't
eat there, but we did to eat at a wonderful

(58:01):
Mediterranean restaurant in the hotel called Sarah. And they have
a rooftop lounge called Eagle or the Eagle, because it's
got the giant gold eagle that was there during the
years that the building was the Embassy. And apparently this
giant eagle is made out of B fifty two parts

(58:23):
and it's a lounge and it's like it's a rooftop
lounge like the ones that we have, that so many
are in New York and all together it's a must
see for people in visiting London who haven't been there
for a couple of years. The hotel opened only a
few months ago.

Speaker 1 (58:39):
Yeah, that's chancery. Hey, you know, it's fascinating. The rooftop
of every office building was the water tower, the AC system,
what they call the mechanicals. It wasn't ntill like two
thousand and two that anybody figured out put the restaurant
on the rooftop, put the bar on the rooftop, and.

Speaker 3 (58:56):
Put the bars up there. It's incredible. New York City
and manhatt and then parts of Brooklyn and even a
few parts of Queens in Flushing have rooftop miss and
that this is space that previously was used for nothing,
mechanical uses or whatever. And one of the first transformations

(59:17):
my late friend Steve the Greenberg created I think it's
two thirty fifth Avenue and I think it was called
two thirty fifth rooftop. And since then there are a
gazillion of them. And I was amused in London because
our British friends there were absolutely flabbergasted at the views
from the roof of the you know, the Eagle on

(59:38):
top of the Chancery Hotel, and it's a nice view,
but nothing compared to the ones we have in New York.
There's one hotel I don't remember the name of it.
It's Canal Street and the Bowery that has a rooftop
lounge that is simply not to be believed, facing both
Brooklyn and Manhattan. Nothing like it in the world. So

(01:00:00):
it's all good time stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
Yeah, Hey, Steve Kesa were talking about this yesterday. Masa,
the Japanese restaurant Time Warner Center, nine hundred dollars a
person got wiped.

Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
Out more than that, more than that twelve.

Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
Hundred with tax and tips and all of that usually perhead.

Speaker 3 (01:00:18):
Yeah, not per couple, but per head.

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
So there's another one now, like seven fifty ahead, the.

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
Michelin story, Sushiz or something. So what's happened is that
Masa had three Michelin stars since it opened in two
thousand and nine when the building was known as Time
Warner Center. Now it's Deutsche Bank Center and Masa, which
is a very small restaurant, only twenty six seats, the

(01:00:45):
best seats of which are at the chef's counter. Carried
it's three Micheling stars all that time, and a couple
of things happened during that time. The competition grew enormously
for makassi style Japanese dining, where the chef sets the
menu from it changes nightly. Many many courses usually built

(01:01:10):
around sushi, but not always. I was at masulunton I
had Kobe beef, which was extraordinary, or rogu beef from Japan.
But there's much more competition now and however, and so
they know they lost the star. I don't believe a
word Micheline says about anything, but if you're in business,

(01:01:31):
in the restaurant business, it matters enormously to you. Because
many many New Yorkers don't care that much about Micheline stars.
But it's a different story in Europe and Asia. There
are people with a lot of money from Europe and
Asia who come to New York and when they decide
where they're going to eat, before they even come, they
just look at what's got three stars and they make

(01:01:53):
their selections on that basis. And so friends in the
industry told me that a restaurant, high end restaurant lose
that's cut from three stars to two as Masa happened
to Masa, it can cost them twenty five percent of
their revenue, not immediately, not overnight, because you know they're
booked far in advance, but over time, and you know

(01:02:17):
when the current reservations run out, it's going to hurt them.
And it's a small restaurant. Masa unlike some other restaurants
that lost the star and they could they could weather
it because there were large restaurants and they were part
of big companies. Masa is not. So you know, they've
got a tough time to hand them.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
Why do you have your doubts about these micheline reviewers,
I have.

Speaker 3 (01:02:40):
My I never believed the only reviews of or ratings
of restaurants I ever believed Mark or my own, the
ones that I've written for The New York Post. I
never believed Zagat ratings. I never believed micheline ratings. I
never believed in New York Times ratings, and so I'm
a skeptic. The only one I do believe there's the

(01:03:00):
three stars for La Berna Dam, which in my view is,
you know, the greatest restaurants in the world, and retained
its three stars. But even they cannot afford to let
their guard down because all it takes, you know, Micheling
likes to upset the Every year Micheline likes to come

(01:03:21):
up with one, you know, reduction in the star because
otherwise nobody would pay attention. So they've got to knock
somebody down every year. So this year it was poor Masa.
But in terms of in terms of quality, I don't
believe a word of it. I've been to plenty of
Michelin star, one star, two star restaurants that I thought

(01:03:42):
absolutely stink.

Speaker 1 (01:03:44):
Yeah, good point. Now before we run out of time, Uh,
what are all the real estate guys, all the restaurant guys,
what are they saying to you about the coming Mondani era?

Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
Well, I do the commercial side, as you know, not residential,
but for the most part. But all the commercial people say,
don't worry. You know, we're bigger than any Our industry
is bigger than any political change. And they're probably right.
That doesn't mean that there isn't going to be an
effect on something in New York City. You know, Mamdani

(01:04:18):
talks about u you know, residential rent control. He wants
to freeze rents and stabilize the ponds. But he doesn't
say anything like that about commercial estate. Commercial real estate pays, provides,
generates more tax revenue for the City of New York
and the state than any other industry, more than Wall Street.

(01:04:44):
I don't remember the exact numbers. It doesn't matter. Anyone
can look them up. And so, you know, commercial real
estate industry, which has been fortunately dramatically revived over the
last two years. It's extraordinary. What's happened is really the
drive of the New York City economy. And even a
you know, a communistic guy like Mam Donnie would be

(01:05:08):
a fool to tamper with that.

Speaker 1 (01:05:11):
Well, we got through Deblasio for eight years, we'll get
through this for four exactly. Yeah, all right, Well, everybody
reads Steve Cuzo's excellent columns in the New York Post.
If you go to the New York Post website, all
of his columns are up there. You can read them all.
Just go to the New York Post website and just
type in Steve Cuzo. Steve Cuzo, thanks for being with us.

Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
Thank you, Mark always fun.

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
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