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Many voters who are not fond of mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo may vote for him to prevent Zohran Mamdani from possibly becoming NYC's next mayor. Mark interviews Roger Friedman from Showbiz411. All the strikes on Broadway in NYC that occurred within the last few weeks have been settled. Mariah Carey is secretly teasing plans for the upcoming holiday season! Many Democrats are thinking of a 2028 Presidential run. A huge decision on trade with China could unfold overnight tonight. Mark interviews Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman. More police officers are being tapped to work in Nassau County because Zohran Mamdani may be the next mayor. The economy under Mr. Blakeman is thriving with restaurants, beaches, stores, and more! Making the county safe is a huge priority.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, this is Mark Simon Show on.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Seven to ten. WoT Well, things are shifting in the
mayoral race. We'll get to that. We'll get to the
President's trip. He meets with President She tonight late tonight.
We'll get to the shutdown. We'll get to the World Series.
We'll get to twenty twenty eight. We'll get to the
ballroom and a whole lot more coming up. There's people

(00:27):
that watch this stuff carefully are seeing a shift in
the mayoral race. More people are moving towards Cuomo. Curtis
who we love. He'd be He's the best candidate of
the bunch, he'd be the best mayor of the bunch.
But there are voters shifting from him to Cuomo, despite
the fact that they hate Cuomo. They were horrified by

(00:47):
Cuomo's performance in office as governor, but they're just so
terrified of him Donnie City Hall, that they're more and
more people are shifting to Cuomo. So we don't know
if it's too little, too late. He's still way behind
in all the polling, but but there is a shift,
and there is some data showing the race really tightening.

(01:11):
The big big donors are always the worst in any campaign.
Because at first they always back the wrong guy. They're
never great at helping. They do more damage than good,
these big, big money donors. But one of the problems
is to get mom Donnie out of this, to take
him out of competition. This had to start about a
month and a half ago. As John McLaughlin, the Great Polster,

(01:34):
explained to us, you gotta drive his negatives up. You
got to get his negatives up into the fifties. And
the way you do that is massive negative ads against him.
Bombard everybody with these ads showing you things he said
in the past, all that stuff. Well, that's where the
big donors have to spend the money. The big super
PACs have to run those ads. Well, they didn't this time.

(01:55):
Where have they been This is one of the few
campaigns where they haven't been there. You haven't seen those
kind of negative ads. It's because the big donors were
terrified of Mamdanie winning and then not being able to
have any kind of relationship with him because you can
always tell who donated the money, So out of fear,
they didn't do it. Now it looks like they may
start doing it. It's a little late. About thirty five

(02:17):
percent of the vote is already in because of that
early voting, so it's a little late, but they're going
to start running some negative stuff. You got this weekend
to do it, and then early voting stops. I think Monday.
I think there's no early voting the day before the election.
But then Tuesday's election day. You'll probably get half the
votes on Tuesday. So, but Cuomo has been picking up

(02:41):
a little steam and he's been picking up endorsements. David
Patterson endorsed him, But then David Patterson has endorsed everybody
in the race. He's endorsed Adams. If Curtiss is saying,
don't endorse me, it's the kiss of death. Eric Adams
is endorsed Cuoma. They were campaigning together.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Here they are yesterday, here Adams, Governor Patterson, myself.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
We are Democrats.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
We've always been Democrats, we will always be Democrats, and
we believe in the democratic values.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Now, the only problem is that he keeps, you know,
making that point, I'm the real I'm the actual Democrat. Well,
he was in the Democratic primary and Democrats rejected him.
Democrats voted against him. He's running now on a third party.
He's not the Democratic nominee, but Adams appeared with him yesterday.

Speaker 5 (03:27):
We don't need a socialist masquer rating as a democrat.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
No one's going to get a free ride, no matter
what some people are promising. But there is a great
opportunity for this city if we elect this gentleman right
now next Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Now that's the Adams and David Patterson together. So here's
the problem. Everybody hates Cuomo. They thought he was he's
a nice guy in real life, but they just thought
he was the worst governor. He caused the crime wave,
the no bail, no jail, the closing the prisons, letting
all the prisoners out, the taking away the qualified immunity
from cops was a horrible thing to do. Cops could

(04:05):
get sued if they went near anybody, so they had
to be very restrained. I mean, he did so many things.
He totally mismanaged the pandemic. He tried to ban the vaccine.
At one point he blocked Ice and threatened to sue him.
He closed Indian Point that drove up that was twenty
five percent of our power, drove up our electric costs.

(04:26):
He picked Kathy Hockle. He's the reason we're stuck with
Kathy Ogle. He gave us the congestion pricing. He's the
one that pushed that through. So he was just terrible
as governor. But many just think Madamie could actually be worse. Obviously,
they're worried most about public safety. But remember it was
Cuomo that gave us the no bail no jail. That
one move single handedly caused the crime wave. He's the

(04:48):
one that pushed it like crazy. But people just think
could be safer with him than Mom Donnie. He's probably
probably correct, but even here's Michael Goodwin today, the great
columnists in the New York Post, and he writes, if
anyone had dared to tell me I would actually vote
for Andrew Cuomo again, I would have shot back. Never.

(05:09):
I was thoroughly disgusted with the former governor, applauded his
forced exit from Albany, and saw no evidence he was
doing anything to make himself fit to hold public office again.
In the three plus years since his resignation, he's continued
to play defense attack as critics, including me Goodwin, but

(05:29):
had done nothing to demonstrate he learned anything or accepted
any responsibility for his historic collapse. There were no apologies
for the heartless nursing home tobaccle. He caused there was
no remorse that he was guilty of sexually harassing thirteen
women accused of harassing them. He never said so directly,

(05:53):
but he seemed to believe if he got back into
politics enough, voters enamored with the Cuomo name would give
him a second chance ants, even if he didn't show
them why he deserved it. Well, that was the problem.
In the primary. He thought just the Cuomo name, the
name recognition, whatever, it would help him. But he got
wiped out in both debates in the primary. He got

(06:15):
wiped out in the popular vote in the primary. But
Goodwin says, as horrible as he thinks Cuomo is, he'll
vote for him just to stop mom Donnie. So you're
getting more and more of that. By the way, every
piece of polling these are all kind of junk polls,
a dozen of them that are out there, but every
single one shows that Curtis got out of the race,

(06:36):
Cuomo still would be behind, So it's not about Curtis.
And the most detailed polling shows if Curtis left, thirty
six percent of his vote would go to Cuomo, giving
Cuomo an extra four percent, so if he spot behind
ten percent, then he'd be behind six percent. Still not
enough to win. The idea that if Curtis dropped out,

(06:58):
all those votes would go to Cuomo is crazy. It's
like saying if the Yankees lose in the playoffs and
don't make the World Series, all the Yankee fans will
then go with the Red Sox. It doesn't work that way.
May be some of them just because they like the
American League, would cheer for the Red Sox, but most
of the Yankee fans would not suddenly go to the
Red Sox. Same thing with Curtis. Curtis is not getting

(07:21):
out of the race, no reason why he should. If
Cuomo wants to win this, he's got to win those votes.
You can't just force Sliwa out. Cuomo has to legitimately
try to win those voters away. Well, it looks like
there is some movement like that. He is picking up
a little steam. We'll see if he can do it
enough to close the gap. The race is tighter than

(07:42):
the people think. Mamdani is on course to win. Now, Well,
here's what's interesting. If you try to argue with people
about policies that he supports, In the polling, the majority
of residents don't agree with his policies. This is the

(08:03):
fascinating part. They just like him. The poll found that
New Yorkers favor harsher penalties for fair evasion. They're not
looking for free bus fare. They don't like the bail
reform law. Sixty eight percent don't want the free buses.
They thought it would turn them into homeless shelters. He
can go on and on. They're not in favor of

(08:23):
his crime policies, but despite all that, they were still
for him. Now, Mam, Donnie's got all these horrible comments
in the past, you know, they keep coming up. He said,
the NYPD had their boots on your neck. Is let
me say, I think I have it here somewhere. Maybe
maybe this is it. This is from a few years ago.

Speaker 6 (08:43):
We have to make clear when.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
It's idees. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
So he said, when the NYPD boot is on your neck,
it's been laced by the IDF. So that's real, mom, Donnie.
There he takes a terrible shot of the police and
puts in some anti Semitic, anti Israel nonsense into the
same sentence. So that's what you're dealing with. Uh, here's Curtis, but.

Speaker 5 (09:10):
He just shows that hate that he has vote for
the idea and the hate that he has for the NYPD.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, so all of this is just horrible. But again
we are seeing a shift of voters who don't like Cuomo.
They hate Clomo, they thought he was a terrible governor.
But there is some movement, some shift over to voting
for Cuomo. We'll see if it's enough. A lot of
people are really upset with Kathy Hokele. Now, if Mom
Donnie were to win and be a terrible mayor, that

(09:38):
would be the end of Kathy Hokeel. Anybody running against
her would just run the clips of her supporting Mom
Donnie and stickiness with this stuff. She could actually remove
him as mayor, which she won't have the nerve to do.
So that's another reason she'll get voted out of office.
She just panders to him in his socialist crowd. She
was at she appeared at the Mom Donnie rally, and

(09:59):
again she'll never be able to explain that away. What
were you doing at a Mom Donnie rally? Speaking on
his behalf, holding hands with him at the rally? She
got booed there. By the way, even the far left
hates her. She was booed. She said, she's not the
brightest woman in the world. They were booing her like crazy,

(10:20):
and she said, I thought they were saying, let's go bills. Now,
if you're going to think of an excuse, that's why
would this was in Forest Hill stadiums. Why would people
in New York City not say let's go giants jets.
Nobody in New York City cares about the bills. So
just looked awful for her. Now, what if Mom Donnie win?
Is there any way to stop him? If he wins? Yes,

(10:40):
if they found out he took foreign money, knowingly took
foreign money into his campaign, they can remove him from
being mayor. That would be the end of it. Now,
there are several groups that have been working on this,
this one called the Coolidge Reagan Foundation. They have now
filed two criminal referrals with the Justice Department. They've uncovered

(11:03):
thirteen thousand and foreign money from one hundred and seventy
donors that went to Mom Donnie. No, it's not quite
that simple. You've got to prove that he knew about it,
but it's enough to file a criminal referral, have a
criminal investigation there's another one hundred and seventy incidents that's
not isolated. That's a lot of incidents. The mam Donnie
campaigns ad thirty one of the one hundred and seventy

(11:25):
one donors proved their citizenship. Well, he's still got one
hundred and forty left that didn't. The criminal referral is
with the Assistant Attorney General right now, so he'll be
looking at that. Fox News Digital did an investigation. They
uncovered thirteen thousand from donors with foreign addresses, including one

(11:45):
five hundred dollars donation from his mother in law in Dubai,
not an American citizen. Mam Donnie says he returned the contribution,
but as of October fourteenth, filing still show ninety one
foreign donations had been refunded. But that leaves that leaves
about sixty of them still out there, so it's possible

(12:05):
they could take them out with that. Also, any victory
of Mandami's would he'd be a terrible mayor. It would
just kill the Democrats right now. Democratic brand is in
real trouble. If he went back to ten years ago
and took a real poll, not a serious poll, fifty

(12:27):
percent of voters view the Democratic Party is out of touch.
Half okay, that makes sense, but it's now up to
seventy percent. The majority of the country thinks the Democratic
Party is totally completely out of touch. So we'll see
what happens as the early voting continues. Now, if we

(12:47):
get about a million votes, a million one, a million two,
which is low twenty thirty percent turnout, it looks like
it could head to two million. You could get sixty
percent seventy percent turnout. The voting gets to two million,
that probably could give you a Cuomo victory. Probably it
has to get to about two million, but it looks

(13:08):
like it could be headed there. So there's all these endorsements. Now,
Michael Goodwin says he hates Cuomo as much as it,
but he's going to vote for him. Here you got
a woman who this kind of went viral online. She says,
Cuomo murdered my husband. I think she's referring to the
nursing homes. Cuomo murdered my husband, But I'm still going

(13:31):
to vote for him. So you're getting a lot of that.
So there is a shift going on right now. Now
in New Jersey, it's very very very tight. Nobody can
tell what's going to happen. Now, these endorsements don't mean
much of anything. You know, when Cuomo announces, oh, the
Electricians Union endorsed me. They're nice people, but I don't
think anybody when they want to know who to vote for,

(13:52):
asks they're Electrician. It doesn't mean anything. Even the big
name the newspaper endorsements generally mean nothing to Rally's trying
to get endorsements. He's got a Trump. Trump's not going
to come to New Jersey, but it's gonna be some
sort of video endorsement. Mikey Cheryl brought in Obama to
give an endorsement. Here's the latest Chittarelli endorsement. Kelsey Grammar, Hi,

(14:14):
Kelsey Grammar. Here, you already know that I'm from New Jersey. No,
wait to stop it. Did you know he's from New Jersey?
I never know he's from New Jersey. Is there anything
about him that suggests he's from New Jersey?

Speaker 7 (14:26):
No, why I'm talking to you right now. There's a
lot of famous folks who grew up in Jersey. But
some of them seem content to let you guys go
on living on a prayer. Others have just forgotten that
you were born in the USA too. But once Jack wins,
and I think he's got a good chance of winning,
it's gonna make it a lot easier to just shake

(14:46):
it off.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
I don't know. That's not a very good not a
good commercial. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
It's like just picture him and Niles in the in
the little cafe, they're talking. No, no, not a powerful endorsement. Anyway,
We'll see what happens. We'll get back to the mayor
all race. We'll get back to that. The President is
continuing the trip. You'll read that he's going to meet
with President She Thursday morning, but with the massive time difference,

(15:15):
Thursday morning is late tonight, so it'll be late tonight
that he meets with She. So far, it's been a
very very successful trip. Lots of agreements, lots of deals
have been signed, great for the United States, and so
they call deliverables. He's gotten a lot of different deliverables
on this trip. We'll get to the shutdown coming up.
Chuck Schumer says, this is outrageous. It's outrageous, this is horrifying.

(15:37):
Forty two million people on foodstamps might not get their benefits,
but most people on to hear this. Go wait a minute,
forty two million people are on food stamps. Why weren't
you outraged about that? You should have been screaming for
years that forty two million people are on food stamps.
That's not right. Somebody that did just a sign of
his failed leadership. Anyway, we'll get back to all of

(15:59):
this coming up. We'll take some calls next. Eight hundred
three to two one zero seven ten. Is the number
eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
You're listening to the Mark Simone Show.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Mike and
Long Island. Mike, how you doing?

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Hey, Mark, good morning, Good morning, Mark.

Speaker 8 (16:23):
I got a question to you.

Speaker 9 (16:25):
In this city, we probably have fifty percent.

Speaker 8 (16:27):
I don't know what the numbers are of voters that
are completely uneducated. Don't follow what city you're talking about,
New York City.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Well you're not in New York City.

Speaker 8 (16:37):
Okay, but it's even though the.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Rest we wait, you can't, you're just making up statistics
fifty percent or not on? He can't just make up
don't you can't just make up stuff like that. Let's
go to Jerry in New Jersey. Jerry, how you doing good?

Speaker 8 (16:52):
Mark?

Speaker 10 (16:52):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Let me check you're good. They don't really care. They
just say how you're doing, but they don't like the answer. Yes,
go ahead, Yeah, let's go ahead.

Speaker 10 (17:00):
You believe that Andrew Clomo really wants to be mayor
after being CEO. I think they're dusting him off to
see if he can run against AOC and take Schumor's
seat in the Senate.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, No, obviously when your governor,
mayor is a big step down. Although it's more fun
to be mayor. Actually, nobody wants to go to Albany mayor.
You're in city Hall, you liveing in Gracie mansion. It's
nicer than the governor's mansion, better located. But you're right,
you're right. He's plotting his whole life. He's been plotting

(17:35):
to be president.

Speaker 10 (17:37):
Did you see him with Stephonicus governor after she said
you'll never serve again.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
That's a good point. Yeah, that's the problem with Coloma.
You don't you never know what he's really up to.
But the argument is, Mom, Donnie is so horrible, so horrible,
you'd vote for him. It's say, this is like the
worst mess New York has ever gotten into. And you
Democrats got us into this with your primary there without

(18:05):
anybody you'd want to vote for. It was Mom, Donnie
and then the lowest worst people in the world, the
brad Lander types and the worst people have you ever seen?
In the primary in Cuomo couldn't even beat them. He
got wiped out in his own primary. But we'll see.
We got six days left until the election. Let's go
to Rich in Myrtle Beach. Rich How you doing, Hey?

Speaker 8 (18:25):
Thanks?

Speaker 9 (18:26):
Mark.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
A couple of things. Any connection the fact that us
AID got defunded.

Speaker 8 (18:30):
Now the Democrats are broke and they're all screaming at
they will need money. That's pretty coincidental.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Up, Yeah, that could be that us AID was basically
just a slush fund. It was to bribe people all
over the place, and a lot of Democrats profited off.
If this shutdown is not going well for Democrats Republicans,
their messaging is very good on this. The problem is
Trump controls the White House, so he makes the shutdown

(18:58):
is not painful. Remember when Obama was president and he
did the shutdown, he tried to make it deliberately as
painful as possibly closed everything, even though he didn't have to.
They closed monuments World War Two monuments that didn't require
any staffing. There was no reason to close him. He
just wanted to make it look painful, so he had

(19:20):
them closed and the yellow police tape was put all
around him and they were closed up just so. Eeverywhere
it looked was a symbol of closure, even though there
was no reason to close those things. Let's go to
David and Passaic. David, how you.

Speaker 4 (19:31):
Doing, good morning.

Speaker 11 (19:33):
I want to reminisce what will happened on the Montdani
In the late seventies. Property valleys went down, taxes went up,
There was a lot of fires in the South. Bronx
had gangs, even have Gerald Ford told New York City
dropped dead, remember that.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, that was more mid seventies. That was under a
beam and.

Speaker 11 (19:55):
A beam right in. The Financial Review Board took over
and the city was bankrupt. Garbage was all over the streets.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, no way. Which party was that? Oh yeah it
was Democrats there. Once again they don't do good at
running the cities.

Speaker 11 (20:10):
You know who got to start the court sleeve in
the subways. That's when he started the angels.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Angels.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Yeah, back then there was quite a year. There's a
big mini series about nineteen seventy seven. It was an
incredible year. You're right. It was fires and crime, and
it was the sun of sam summer, and it was
the Yankees and Reggie. It was quite that. It's somewhere online.
You can find that nineteen seventy seven. It's a documentary series.
But it is fascinating to watch. Go back and watch

(20:40):
it if you can. I guess how bad could mom
Downy be? Probably? Well, remember we went through this with
the Blasio who was it didn't declare himself as socialist,
but he was pretty much a socialist. Anyway, let's take
some calls. Let's go to line too. You're on the air.
How you doing? Oh good?

Speaker 12 (21:02):
It's rub from anybody who believes that nine to eleven
was about Islamophobia should never be Mayor of New York.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
Well, it's like he's like the Muslim house Sharpton. I
guess you know, Sharpton always plays the race card even
when it doesn't apply, and he's playing that Islamophobia card
when it doesn't apply. There's not this has never been
a problem in New York City. New York City is
a Muslim city. It's eleven percent Muslim. The Jewish population
is only eleven percent. You get the same number with

(21:34):
Muslims eleven percent. And if you talk to the NYPD
and look over all the data, there's not an a
tax on Muslims. It's not happening. Attacks on Jews, yes, yes,
in great numbers. Anti Semitic attacks by the thousands for
the last couple of years. You've seen them all over
the news. And if you look through NYPD data, it's

(21:55):
tons of anti Semitic attacks, anti Muslim attacks. You will
not find any in the city. It really doesn't happen. Obviously,
it was something people thought about right after nine to eleven,
but it didn't result in much of anything. Hey, when
we come back, Roger Friedman, the Great entertainment reporter, he'll
be with us. Next we'll get back to the mayoral race. Hey,
we'll talk to Bruce Blakeman later. He's got a lot

(22:16):
to say about mom Donnie. He's also the guy you
should vote for Nassau County best county Executive in America.
But all of that's coming up on seven to ten.
Woor The Mark Simon Show.

Speaker 13 (22:28):
On sevent ten, woor.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Well Roger Friedman is the great entertainment reporter. He has
a website you should check every day. There's always news stories,
showbiz for one one dot com, showbizfo one one dot com.
Roger Friedman, how you doing.

Speaker 13 (22:45):
I'm really doing great because once mom Donnie is mayor
all tickets to Broadway shows will be free and all
the restaurants around them we'll be serving free.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Food and empty at the same time. But hey, yeah,
speaking of Broadway, everything is settled, right They had all
these strike threats, that's all settled now.

Speaker 13 (23:04):
All the strikes have been settled, which was very smart
because it's a turkey time on Broadway. The last thing
anyone needed was a strike. And things are back to
normal and Broadway is booming right now. Actually, you know,
Hamilton is doing incredible business. The last week get to
three point four million dollars, which is insane, and it's

(23:29):
been doing that right along since they brought back their
Tony winning star Leslie Odam Jr.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
For a run.

Speaker 13 (23:37):
That's I guess going through the winter January maybe, and
people will pay anything to get into the show. They're
premium tickets for fifteen hundred dollars and they're all sold out.
People will pay absolutely anything to get in there. And
other shows are doing great. There's a new show called
Queen of Versailles with Kristin Chenowith that's also doing great business.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
What is Queen ever size about that woman with the
House in Florida?

Speaker 13 (24:06):
Yes, it's about the woman with the house in Florida.
And yeah, and f Murray Abraham's and I think he
plays her husband. And the songs are really good and
that's gonna be a big hit.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Wow.

Speaker 13 (24:19):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, we have a lot. And Chess
is coming. Did you ever see Chess the first time around?

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Andrew Weber?

Speaker 8 (24:27):
No?

Speaker 1 (24:29):
Oh, yeah, one night in Bangkok.

Speaker 13 (24:31):
It's a very popular show. And you know, the book
was never good. The songs were great, but the book's
book was never good. So they got this great guy,
Danny Strong, to rewrite the whole show. And now that
show is selling out in previews like crazy, I mean
totally sold out. So we have a Broadway is booming.
And I just put up a story on Showbiz for

(24:52):
one one that Daniel Radcliffe is coming from Harry Potter,
who already has a Tony Award for Merrily We Roll Along,
and he's going to be in a one man show
this winter that's being imported from England. But that's supposed
to be terrific. And as long as they don't charge
seven hundred dollars a ticket, I think they'll be Okay.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
No, no, it's good news. I'm glad Broadway's doing so well. Hey,
I welcome by a Rockefeller Center on Radio City's marquee
right above it. It was the first Christmas tree I
saw this year. That Christmas tree above the Marquee is
up already. It's a little early.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
Oh is it really it's there already.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah. There's a great story.

Speaker 13 (25:30):
About I'm an editor they brought into the New Yorker
from England, which was like are in nineteen ninety and
they bring this guy in and he's an older guy
and he's never been to New York before, and somehow
he got a job working as an editor of New Yorker.
And he comes back after lunch and he says to
the people in the office, oh my god, we have

(25:51):
to do this story. There's a big tree going up
in Rockefeller Center.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
Well, and everyone was like, uh huh.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
Speaking of Christmas though, this is the we're a little early,
but pretty soon that Christmas music will start everywhere, and
then you wrote about Mariah Carey. But yes, it's the
only time of the year. A lot of people who
don't know who these people are start to hear Andy
Williams and Nat King Cole and all that stuff. So
it's a great Also, you know, I'm thinking of Brenda Lee.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Brenda Lee, Brenda Lee.

Speaker 13 (26:31):
Sometimes her song goes all the way up to number
one during Christmas time. She's about ninety and they you know,
they go and they wake her up and they tell
her what's going on, and she shocked.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
Well, Mariah Carrey had.

Speaker 13 (26:43):
An album out a few weeks ago that nobody bought,
which was a pretty good album. It was very well
sung and had nice songs, but nobody wanted to hear it,
you know.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Bad marketing.

Speaker 13 (26:57):
Also that Mariah doesn't really get out and push stuff.
She expects you to come to her. But she loves
the Christmas season and she has the best selling Christmas
song of all time. That's all I really want for
Christmas is You or whatever it's called. Sounds like a
Phil Spector song and it's sold about a billion copies.

(27:18):
And every year around this time she starts putting little
messages on social media. Not yet, not yet, We're not
ready yet. And then she goes out and she has
her big Christmas season. It lasts about six weeks, so
we're about to see Mariah's Christmas season.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
And that's how we know.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yeah, Roger Freeman, too many documentaries. It's enough with these documentaries.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
I know.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
It's the cheapest thing to do. It's cheaper than making
an actual movie.

Speaker 6 (27:42):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
No, documentaries are fabulous. I'll tell you why.

Speaker 13 (27:44):
Documentaries are more important than ever. No, they're more important
than ever. And I'll tell you why. The reason is
as funding gets cut for PBS and National Public radio,
where we get a lot of information, and as the
networks like CBS today is laying off a thousand people,

(28:05):
as the networks are contracting and not doing so much
documentary work or newswork. Independent documentaries are really a huge
source of information for us, and we're getting to find
out things from around the world that we wouldn't know.
Critics Choice Association, which I'm part of, has a big

(28:25):
awards ceremony on November ninth over at the Ballroom on
forty seventh Street, and that's a very important thing. The
Gotham Awards just announced their awards coming up, nominations coming up,
and they have five terrific documentaries and then we'll have
the Oscars.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
You can't.

Speaker 13 (28:46):
I feel that you cannot have enough documentaries to illuminate
subjects around the world that we would not have.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
Actual Most of them are about you know, there's a
new one Stiller and Mara. Now I love Stiller and Mara.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
I know it's great. Watched it.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
I knew Stiller and Marra. Yeah, what's like happened dozing
off halfway through? What am I watch?

Speaker 1 (29:06):
Oh? No, I watched. I loved it. I loved them.
I knew them too.

Speaker 13 (29:09):
We were very lucky to live in New York and
know them. And although I never had Blue Nune Wine,
Ben Stiller, their son has done a great job documenting
their career and it's on Apple TV. I recommend it
for it's so enjoyable to see them again.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
All right, maybe just see I'd rather go to YouTube
and just watch Stiller in Marra and he Ed Sullivan
show on The Tonight Show or watch.

Speaker 13 (29:34):
But you wouldn't, but we would because we're one hundred
and fifteen years old. But for younger people who are
Ben Stiller fans, let's say, and they don't know anything
about Stilar Mirror. They're learning about his parents for the
first time through this documentary. Then they're going to go
to YouTube and look at the clips, but they don't
know offhand that they should be doing that.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
Do you see what I mean?

Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah, Okay, this.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Is giving them entry away to that to Stiller Mirror.
So I think that's terrific.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
But there's another documentary coming or is it a biopic
CCR Creeden's Clearwater Revival.

Speaker 13 (30:05):
Oh well, Creeden's you know, Queen's Clearwater Revival is huge.
It's so weird that, you know, fifty sixty years after
they had hits, they're bigger than Effort. You know that
their greatest hits winds up in the top twenty every
week on iTunes. Wow, no one knows what, No one
knows why. But the songs are great. You know, if
they'll stop the Rain? Have you ever seen the Rain?

(30:27):
Proud Mary? All these songs and they're being played on
the radio constantly.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
So now you know. This Bruce Springsteen movie is out
called Deliver.

Speaker 13 (30:36):
Me from Nowhere, and the people who made it really
want to make a movie about John Fogerty and Creeden's
because you know, the great story, the crazy story about
them is that in the seventies, John Fogerty lost the
rights to all his songs and it took him like
twenty years to get them back, and in the meantime

(30:58):
he just sort of had to disavow them and go
on and play other songs. He would have been charged
by this company that bought them if he had played them. Wow,
it's a crazy story. Yeah, And John Fogerty is one
of the good guys of all time in music.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
Everyone loves him.

Speaker 13 (31:15):
So they're waiting to see if the Springsteen movie gets
a lot of awards. I think it'll have a lot
of awards action this winter, and then they're going to
announce that John Fogerty movie.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Oh no, there'll be a whole new genre. There'll be
a Freddie in the Dreamers movie. They'll be Oh, I
hope so Gilbert Sullivan's it won't stop Jerry and the Pacemakers.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
Well, Roger Friedman great stuff. Check out his website showbiz
for one one dot com. Showbiz for one one dot
com New stuff every day up there.

Speaker 13 (31:47):
Oh listen, I have one other thing to tell you.
Tom Hanks Off Broadway show with the Shed begins tomorrow night.
It's already sold at its first two performances. It's called
This World of Tomorrow Kelly o'harrison at Rubenson Fiogo Hudson
and everyone's really looking forward to it. Go to the
Shed and try and get tickets.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Tom Hanks New Show. All right, all right, sounds good.
Roger Friedman, thanks for being with us. Thank you, take care. Hey,
we got a lot coming up, and then we'll get
back to the Mayoral Race in the next hour. Don't
forget Bucking Clay. It's an excellent show every day at
noon right here on seven to ten. WR get his.

Speaker 5 (32:26):
And access to Mark by setting a pre set in
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Now back to the Mark Simone Show on WR.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
Hey, we'll stop forget the latest news, get updated. Then
in the next hour we'll get back to the mayoral Race. Well,
we'll get to Long Island too. Lots of talk about there,
but the Mayoral Race and a whole lot more, the
ballroom derangement syndrome and more. We'll get to twenty twenty
eight too. All of that in the next hour right
here on seven to ten.

Speaker 14 (32:59):
W Oh, it's more more in mister New York on
seven to ten wr.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Well, hey, we'll get to Long Island this hour. Bruce
Blake Wan will be with us. The best county executive
in America. He's up for reelection. Make sure you vote
for him. You know, you only got six days till
the election. Early voting is going on right now. Looks
like extremely heavy turnout in New York City that's believed
to favor Andrew Cuomo. Curtis as well, But there has

(33:29):
been a shift. There is some movement people that weren't
going to vote for Cuomo now voting for him. So
he's picking up steam. I don't know. It could be
way too little, too late. You got six days until
the election. You got I think five more days of
early voting and then you'll get a lot of voting
on election day. A lot of people still wait till
election day to do it, and it's all kinds of

(33:51):
traditionalists that do that. But how did we get in
this mess? Well, you can blame Andrew Cuomo pretty much.
The Democratic Primary is what caused this mess. Cuomo was
not supposed to be in that You know, when you
leave office in disgrace, you quit in disgrace. You're not
supposed to come back that fast. You're really not supposed
to come back at all. But he jumped in there

(34:13):
and it was enough to scare Eric Adams out of
the primary. And who knows. Adams might have done much
better against mom Donnie, but it was a primary of
crazy Democrats, Brad Lander, those type of guys, and Cuomo
was just a disaster in both debates. In the primary,
he was horrible, got beaten to a pulp by Mamdanni

(34:37):
and he didn't do well. It was just a terrible campaign.
He didn't do a lot of rat didn't do anything,
no rallies, no event, there was not much of it.
There was no energy to his campaign. So he lost.
He was totally rejected by Democratic voters. Mom Donnie won
the primary in a huge amount of votes, and that's
how he got stuck with him. And once you get

(34:59):
on that Democratic now nomination, once you're a Democratic nominee,
there are so many people that just can't help it.
It's just a knee jerk. They just pull the Democratic lever.
So that's the problem, and the Democratic registration in New
York is like five to one over the Republicans. Now
Cuomo then jumps in on a third party. But remember

(35:19):
he's not a major party candidate. He's a third party candidate.
In fact, when you go to vote, you got to
hunt for his name. Top of the ballot is Mom Donnie,
next is Curtis, and then you got to go down
eight spaces to get eight. Cuomo has eight names down
on that ballot, so it's not easy to find. But
how did the Democrats let this happen? You got Chuck Schumer,
you got these old traditional Democrats jillibrand even that, you

(35:46):
know that crazy Kathy Hokeel. Why didn't they say anything,
the elders of the party, Why didn't they do something
about this crazy socialism. Well, in the case of Schumer, Hoko,
they're terrified, they're just frightened. They're not leaders. They're terrified.
They're paniced. They're afraid of him, they're afraid of get primaried.
But what about the guys that well, you know, this

(36:06):
is not just a little fringe of the Democratic Party,
it's all through the Democratic Party. The leadership is now
AOC Bernie Sanders. They're not tolerating Mom Donnie. They love
Mom Donnie. Listen to Bernie.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
Let be cut to the chase.

Speaker 15 (36:20):
The billionaires have already spent nineteen million dollars to Troy
to defeat Zaron Mamdani for Mayor of New York in
this last week. They're going to spend a hell of
a lot more. Our job is to do everything that
we can to bring out the vote.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
You see, that's what they're tapping into. A lot of
this is about the billionaires, the billionaires.

Speaker 4 (36:45):
Let be cut to the chase.

Speaker 15 (36:48):
The billionaires have.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Already billionaires, the damn billionaires, those billionaires. You know you're
supposed to live in fear of these billionaires. First of all,
a Mom Donnie was financed by a lot of billionaires.
There were a lot of Soros types that financed Mom
Donnie and finance all this Bernie nonsense. It's billionaires, fine it,

(37:11):
but it sounds good. You remember when Biden took office,
kept telling you about the white supremacist. The biggest threat
in America is white supremacists. Well, there aren't any white supremacist.
There's a couple in a federal prison somewhere, and there's
a few in the Appalachian Mountains. But I remember the
police Commissioner Dermot cheat Is on good day in New
York and if Biden was going on and on about

(37:32):
the threat from white supremacists, and Rosanna scotisists to him,
how serious is the threat from white supremacists in New
York City? And he was very thoughtful, he said, you know,
I don't really have let me give you an answer tomorrow.
Let me check on this research this And the next
day she read what he sent to her. He said,

(37:53):
I've checked everything. Our department has never encountered a white supremacist.
So it wasn't it wasn't a thing, right, But it's
the same thing the billionaires, these billionaires. Now, what is
it these billionaires are doing to us? Well, they're paying
most of our taxes for us. You know, here in
New York, the billionaires pay forty eight percent of the tax.

(38:14):
The top one percent pays forty eight percent of the
tax here in New York. And they do create a
lot of jobs, you know, you see these billionaires. Look
at they open that JP Morgan Chase brand new building
on Park Avenue. Well it says there'll be ten thousand
people working there. So it's one building ten thousand jobs.
And you know, some of these billionaires they create companies

(38:36):
like Amazon, Federal Express, Fred Smith, great guy, he created
the Federal Express. That's eight hundred thousand job. See, you
kind of need these billionaires. But you're supposed to live
in fear of them the way he talks. They're billionaires,
those billionaires. Now, be honest. You ever walk down the

(38:57):
street and you say, oh, watch out, there's a billionaire. Oh,
you're really supposed to be afraid of them. You cross
the street, Oh, let's go this way. There's billionaires over
there that they're really not going to hurt you, these billionaires.
But that's what Mamdannie taps into. Even though he's funded
by billionaires. You're not supposed to notice that. But it's
just crazy.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Now.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
Then he promises this free stuff, you know whatever, they
promised this stuff, free buses, free rent, free apartments, free food,
free grocery stores, free. It's the billionaires that pay for it.
If you get rid of them, nobody's gonna pay for this.
By the way, with the free buses. I've been telling
you this all along, But the MTA chairman, that weasel,
Jano Lieber, finally came out and said there's no such

(39:38):
thing as free buses. The mayor has no power over
the MTA, no control of the MTA, and he said,
forget the free buses. It's an absolutely ridiculous thing. But
this may all race has It's not just here in
New York. You know, the whole country is focused on this.
You're the big national shows. You know, you listen to
the Sean Hannity radio show. That's seventeen million people around

(40:00):
the country. They're all talking about it. I was on
Cuddlow yesterday. It's the number one show in business television,
national show. But we could talk about the mayor ole
race in great detail, and everybody around the country knows
all the stuff. They're following it closely. So most important
thing is get out there and vote. Voter turnout is
five hundred percent above normal right now. If that continues,

(40:21):
we could get to two million votes. If that's the case,
Mom Donnie has a really good chance of losing. If
it's the normal thirty percent turnout, he's got a real
good chance of winning. If it gets to two million
up near there a very good chance at Mom Donnie loses.
So that's the key, get out and vote, and another
important thing to keep reminding you. If you're in Manhattan,

(40:43):
get rid of Alvin Bragg the DA. Vote for Maud Marin.
She's the Republican candidate. She's very big on this is
a revolutionary idea. I'm putting the criminals in jail the
current DA. Bragg doesn't believe in jail. He believes in
letting them all out. He said that on Day one,
famous memo. So get rid of Alvin Bragg, vote for

(41:03):
maud Merin, and again throw out everybody on the city council.
Just everybody clean house and get a new common sense
city council. If you're worried about Mom, Donnie, that's one
thing you can do, because city council has more power
than anybody. Hey, when it comes to twenty twenty eight,
what are the Democrats going to do? A lot of
them want to run a lot of these cabinet members,

(41:23):
the Pete Buddhajetge types. But they're going to have a
big problem because more and more stuff is coming out
and you'll continue to see more showing that Joe Biden
was a complete zombie, a vegetable that didn't know where
he was, and they were all covering it up. So
if you're in the cabinet, you're gonna have to explain
why you helped cover that up, why you didn't say anything.

(41:44):
So anybody in the Biden mistration is going to have
trouble running. They'll never be able to explain why they
didn't come forward or why they didn't do something. So
this helps Gavin Newsom because he could say, you know, hey,
I was all the way out in California. I didn't
know what was going on. And Josh Shapiro, the Pennsylvania governor,
good governor. Maybe he's eyeing twenty twenty eight. He's starting

(42:08):
to say things about Biden that everybody should have noticed.
He noticed, he saw things wrong, he said, just watching television,
I saw So he's starting to do that. Hey, now,
what about Trump in twenty twenty eight. You know, he's
talked about how he could run in twenty twenty eight.
I don't know how he could, but he's been talking
about it. I think you might see that talk stop

(42:28):
from what I hear. Mike Johnson has told him to
stop with the twenty twenty eight He's basically just taunting people.
But Johnson said, you could hurt us in the midterms.
People might get so scared of that just as you know,
just as a buffer, they might vote for Democrats just
to make sure government was split. So he said, stop
the twenty twenty eight talk. It might help Democrats in

(42:51):
the midterms. So you probably see Trump stop that the shutdown.
The Democrats keep voting to keep the shutdown going. I
don't know why they keep voting. Schumer making he's having
another press conference to day. He just makes these crazy comments.
There was one yesterday. Why is the president on a
foreign trip? What is he doing overseas? Why would he

(43:12):
be on a foreign Well, he's coming back with great deals.
He's saving the American economy with that stuff. That's why
the stock market has been soaring. He's been making great agreements,
trade deals, all sorts of economic deals with country after country.
It's called deliverables. He's getting us stuff. He meets with
the president she late tonight.

Speaker 7 (43:31):
President chief of China is coming tomorrow here and we're
going to be I hope making a deal.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
I think we're gonna have a deal. I think it'll
be a good deal for both. Yeah, Now this could
be big. This could really be a big, huge boost
of the economy. Now you'll say it's tomorrow the meeting
with she, but because of the crazy time difference, it'll
actually be late tonight for us. Hey, the cartel, you know,

(43:57):
we keep blowing up those ships out there. A lot
of people are saying, if Trump's going to war with
the cartel, why does he blow up the labs, you know,
like in Mexico where they make the drugs, Why doesn't
he blow that up. There's a lot of strategy to this.
They've thought about this very carefully. This is very strategic.
They have figured out if you blow up the lab,
they can rebuild another lab. Oh, it might cost them

(44:19):
twenty five thousand to build a new lab, but twenty
five thousand. If you blow up the ship with the
drugs on it and all the ingredients, that's twenty five million.
So the idea is to bankrupt them, to just drain
them financially. So and you can make all the drugs
you want in a lab, but that doesn't mean anything
if he can't transport them to the U. And it's
mostly by ship, So it shuts down the transportation of

(44:42):
the drugs and it kills them financially. Again, blowing up
the lab. You can you watch Breaking Bad how they
built those labs. It's about twenty thousand. Twenty five thousand
means you blow up the lab, they can have another
one up in a week. You blow up twenty five.
Some of those ships had fifty million in drugs on them.
Really really hurt the car. Tell So anyways, Hey, the

(45:06):
ballroom project moving along. They're moving very fast.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Now.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
The reason for the ballroom the President, as a world leader,
met all the other world leaders all over the world,
and he noticed when you go see a world leader,
they're in a palace. It's the most ornate, palatial, unbelievably
spectacular places you meet them. See realized. They come to
America and the Oval Office, you know, we think it's great,
but it's a pretty plain room. It's like a plain

(45:32):
municipal office, and it doesn't project what you want to project.
And when they come here, the President feels you know,
you see the Oval Office. Now he's got gold and
it's too ornate and it's too looks like Versai or something. Well,
that's to project power, strength, wealth, because that's the way
those world leaders live and that's what their office looks like.

(45:52):
So he's trying to project that back. And when they
come here for a major event. It was pathetic. They
would hold it on the way White House lawn in
a tent. The East room of the White House only
holds about one hundred people, but you can do five
six hundred. They would do it on a tent on
the lawn. It's like you're at a wedding in Great Neck,
Long Island or something and a tent with porta potties.

(46:16):
So that's why he's building this ballroom. So when they
come here, it projects wealth and power and strength. Better
image for the United States. Oh, speaking of Long Island.
Check out my Instagram. So I'm going through these old photos.
I found this was from twenty years ago. It's Sean Hannity,
me and Curtis. We did a big book signing event

(46:37):
at Huntington, Long Island book review. Remember that great book
starts Gone now but spectacular. I mean, I love this picture.
It's from twenty years ago. Look how different everybody looks
twenty years ago. It's up on my Instagram. Mark Simone
NYC at Instagram. Mark Simone NYC at Instagram. Hey, it
was on Long Island all this weekend. It's booming thanks

(47:00):
to Bruce Blakeman. The Great Nassau County Executive. He'll be
with us later this hour. High point of the weekend.
London Jewelers. London Jewelers, there's great though, if you're a
watch collector, you know Wempy and Better region all the
great watch dealers, but nobody better than London Jewelers. Spectacular
store in Long Island. Although it's closed right now. They're
building another floor on it. That's a big and they're

(47:22):
in a temporary store. But even in the temporary store,
it's spectacular. They had their watch fair this weekend. Anybody
who's everybody in Long Island was there. It was phenomenal.
Gillis Pole, the brilliant restaurant tour, Jerry Savarro another great
restaurant or everybody was there. London Jewelers run by the
nicest people. Mark you dell, his wife, Candy, you dell,
the whole family. And if you're a watch collector, nobody

(47:45):
has better. I mean, it's not just the best brands
that you got to have an eye for buying the
best of the best. London Jewelers. Check it out. The
Americana So coming up. Bruce Blakeman, he was there too.
Bruce Blakeman will get to him in just a few minutes.
We'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three to two
one zero seven ten is the number eight hundred three

(48:08):
to two one zero seven ten to.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
The Mark Simone sell on wo.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
R Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Stuart
in South Carolina. Stuart, how you doing.

Speaker 8 (48:21):
Hey, Mark car are you you know?

Speaker 9 (48:23):
I'm trying to find out a lot of information about
the Alvin Bragg race. Because Alburn Bragg stays in there
with Mom, Donnie or even Cuomo and Hoche, Well, you're
going to have the trifecta of hell.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
Yeah, everybody, get rid of Alvin Bragg. Vote for Maud Maren,
the Republican candidate. She's a good on crime. Vote for her.
Get rid of Alvin Bragg.

Speaker 9 (48:43):
Oh absolutely, He's crossed so much death and destruction in
New York City. I can't imagine anybody voting for this guy.
And it sounds like does he still have a shot or.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
What crazy New York City. Good news is with these
DA races, it doesn't take a lot of votes to
get rid of them. So make sure you vote, get
out there and vote for Maud Maren for d A
good point Stewart. Let's go to Billy in Manhattan. Billy,
how you doing?

Speaker 1 (49:07):
Mark?

Speaker 12 (49:07):
We well, a couple of quick points. Who are the
heard of this Gotham polling group. From what I gathered,
it's a couple of hundred senior citizens that are friendly
to Cuomo. And it's almost publicity, including your station. It's bogus.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Well, you know, you got to remember in this race,
we haven't had any real good polls. We've had all
these junk polls, these college polls, these media polls. Normally,
the campaign behind the scenes they bring in the big, big,
serious pollsters, the John McLaughlin's, but none of them have
spent the money. That's the problem. So we're all these
public poles are all just just junk. Let's go to

(49:40):
Jan in New Jersey. Jan, how you doing?

Speaker 8 (49:43):
Mark?

Speaker 3 (49:44):
May Or?

Speaker 11 (49:45):
Mark?

Speaker 14 (49:45):
Doesn't that sound good?

Speaker 2 (49:47):
No? No, I don't want to be mayor?

Speaker 14 (49:49):
Okay, all right, I know you don't want it, but
you'd be great. You know what I was thinking. There's
so much like everybody, but with Mom, Donnie and AOC
and Burn, they're like keeping people to be caterpillars instead
of letting them to be butterflies.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
All Right, I don't know what that means. But okay,
let's go to Jimmy and New Milford. Jimmy, how you doing?

Speaker 8 (50:14):
He good?

Speaker 1 (50:14):
Wanting markla good.

Speaker 6 (50:16):
There's one thing that I could never There's one thing
I can never figure Clmo for, and that was when
he said, boy, you know, America was never that great anyway.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
One of those famous comments, you know, to talk about
these things that mom Donnie said in the past. Cuomo
said some pretty bad things in the past. Two Let's
go to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing.

Speaker 4 (50:37):
Good morning, Mark? I'm okay, good morning, Mara. Mark. Among
the many things you said that or right on the money,
you mentioned the fact that the new Chase building. Now
I want AOC Bernie Sanders and Mondamie to think about this.
Think about all the tax relief and all the money
that that building is supplying to the city burst off

(51:01):
in property tax, in water and sewer tax, and then
all the people that are being employed. You said, what
ten thousand people are being employed in that building. Yeah,
all right, all those people have to be are paying tax, right,
and they're contributing also to the local economy. Because Jamie

(51:21):
Diamond says he wants everybody to work, right at least
three or four days a week.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
No, yeah, what's your five days a week? Great, Jamie
Dimon as well as you got to go back to
the office, right.

Speaker 4 (51:32):
Because he knows that that's contributing to the local economy,
to the delicate tssen, to the dry cleaners, this, that
and the other. And another thing that you mentioned. You
mentioned the great voted turnout, the high voted turnout. John
Kattamatidis last night said that in June, and this is
another reason why we must bring the primary back in September.

(51:57):
In June it was one hundred and two degrees that
stay that they had the primary. I felt like when
I went to go vote, I was gonna drop bed in.
The polling place is only three blocks from my house.
People are busy, schools over, they're getting ready to go
up state, go on vacation. And yeah, no that's a
good degrees heat and everything.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
No good point, No more primaries in June. They got
to move back to September where they belong. But Vincent,
we got to go do the news. Great call. Yeah
it was there's another There have been a lot of
tricks they've used from the rank choice voting to moving
the primaries to June. You get much lower turnout if
you do it in June. If you do it in September,
you get much better turnout. Hey, when we come back,
we'll talk to the best county executive in America, Bruce Blakeman.

(52:42):
He's up for reelection. Obviously he's gonna win, but make
sure you get out there and Botram. We'll talk to
him next on seven to ten WR.

Speaker 5 (52:49):
Mister New York. Hey, that's marksimone seven ten WR.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
Well, we love Long Island, especially Nasaut County, and it
has the best county executive in America. There's not even
a close second. Bruce Blakeman is the county executive up
for reelection on Tuesday. Make sure you vote for Bruce
Blakeman on Tuesday. And he's with us right now. Bruce Blakeman,
how you doing good?

Speaker 12 (53:11):
Mark?

Speaker 8 (53:12):
Thank you so much. You're very kind, Really appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Do you actually have an opponent? Has anybody had the
nerve to run against you?

Speaker 8 (53:19):
Yes, we have an opponent. I don't take anything for granted,
you know, Mark. In Nassau County we have one hundred
and ten thousand more registered Democrats than Republicans. So we
can't take anything for granted here.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
All right, So everybody get out and vote for Bruce
Blakeman on Tuesday. You have early voting out there too,
don't you.

Speaker 4 (53:37):
Yes, yes, so yeah, do it.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
Today and you have a very good district attorney. It's
to Anne Donnelly, right, We everyra should vote for her
too well.

Speaker 8 (53:46):
Working with Anne Donnelly and our great police Commissioner Pat Ryder,
and our police department, our Sheriff's department, working very closely
with ICE, we are the safest county in America, which
is saving It's saying a lot since we're on the
border of New York City and our populations larger than
ten states in America.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
Yeah, so if mom Donnie wins, can we join Nasau
County in New York City? Can become part of Nassau County?
Is that possible?

Speaker 8 (54:14):
Our real estate brokers are doing a tremendous business right now.
Our housing prices are going up up, So if you
want to come to Dassau County, now's the time to
buy because it's only going to go higher. People are
very concerned about him becoming mayor. I certainly am planning
with our police department measures that we're going to take

(54:37):
because we have a great relationship with the NYPD right now.
We share intelligence, we share assets, we work very well together.
I'm not sure that's going to be the same if
he's elected.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
How hard is it just to have common sense in politics?
You know, one thing, you come from the private sector too.
Do you think that should be a requirement that you
had have been in the private sector just to learn
common sense and how to be practical about things.

Speaker 8 (55:05):
I think it's a great platform to run for office
where you have to meet a payroll, where you understand
that everything that every decision that that's made is a
cost benefit analysis. That's what you should do in business.
That's what you should do in government. Unfortunately it's not
done in government. But you know, we do common sense

(55:25):
things out here, like boys play with boys, girls play
with girls. We don't want boys and girls bathrooms and
locker rooms. Just common sense.

Speaker 2 (55:35):
Yeah, and things are booming and NASA right every time
I'm out there, you got another hotel going up, more
stores are opening. It's the economy is bigger than ever,
isn't it.

Speaker 8 (55:45):
Our gross domestic product is larger than one hundred and
twenty six nations in the United Nations. We are an
economic powerhouse. Our restaurants are as good as New York City.
Our shopping is as good as New York City, may
be better. We have beautiful beaches, beautiful parks, great museums.
And by the way, I heard you mentioned the YOUU

(56:05):
Dell's great great entrepreneurs out here in Nassau County. I
love them because they create a lot of sales tax
revenue for us.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
Yea Marky Della, his wife Candy, that whole family is
just wonderful. And that's another example. Like he's adding another
Florid to his store. Next store, you got rh Restoration hardware.
They just opened a spectacular store. So they must think
highly of you and Long Island if they're spending all
this money to expand.

Speaker 8 (56:34):
Well, we are the safest county in America. We haven't
raised taxes one penny in four years, so we're doing
the right things out here. And we encourage businesses to
come to Nassau County. I meet with business owners from
all over the world, not just the United States, and
encourage them to do business in Nassau County because it's safe.

(56:55):
We've got beautiful housing stock. As I said, we've got
beautiful beaches, our our top notch. We've got a lot
to offer out here.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
Yeah, So why does anybody go to the Hamptons. I've
never understood that it takes you nine hours to get there.
Nasau County got better restaurants and better stores, you got
beautiful beaches. But I guess it's good they don't all
come because you can't, you'd have too many people.

Speaker 8 (57:20):
We were the Hamptons before there was a Hampton mark.
So we have the Gold Coast, which has amazing homes, again,
great restaurants. Then on the South Shore, we've got some
of the most pristine, beautiful beaches in the whole world.
So we've never marketed Nassau County the way that we should.

(57:41):
So the last four years, that's all I've been doing.
As I said, our gross domestic product is incredibly high.
When I came into office, it was eighty five billion
a year. It's now over one hundred and twenty five
billion dollars a year.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (57:53):
So everybody vote for Bruce Blakeman Tuesday's election. That you
can do early voting if you're in Nasau County, make
sure you vote for Bruce Blakeman, and you must have
you thought about the next four years what you want
to do. You must have a lot on your plate there.
But what's next for NASA?

Speaker 8 (58:10):
Continue to make it safer, continue to make it more affordable,
keep taxes down, and use common sense, as you said,
and American values. We need to get back to American values.
Our kids have been indoctrinated with nonsense in our schools
and universities, and we've got to reteach them about the

(58:30):
things that were talked to us by our parents and grandparents.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
Yeah, when you get a mom Donnie getting all these votes,
a lot of people think that's the result of universities
becoming crazy left wing and doctrination centers gl glamorizing socialism.
And how do you undo that? That could take They've
raised generations of these crazy people. How do you undo that?

Speaker 8 (58:52):
Well, we have to re educate Mark. By the way,
communism has been a failure. Socialism has been a failure.
You can't point to one country where it's been a success.
And my friends who are who are you know, immigrants
from socialist countries. They can't understand why we don't teach
more in our in our public schools and our universities

(59:14):
and our private schools about what socialism and communism are
all about. It's basically being nonproductive, depending on the government
to control every aspect of your life. Anti religion, no spirituality.
It's really a dismal life. I think Winston Churchill said

(59:35):
it's the sharing of misery.

Speaker 1 (59:38):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
So Bruce Blakeman is up for re election. Make sure
you vote for him on Tuesday. Best county executive in America?
Have you getten calls from other county executives? You've worked
miracles there? Have they called you for a guidance advice?

Speaker 8 (59:52):
Well, I talk with political leaders throughout the state. I
speak with county executives all over New York State, and
you know, we've got a good nucleus here in New
York State. And you know, one of the things we've
got to do is focus very very carefully on changing
our state government because they're the biggest problem. With castlest bail,

(01:00:15):
with all congestion, pricing, all of these types of very
oppressive laws that are anti business, the pro criminal those
are the types of things that we've got to change
in our state government.

Speaker 2 (01:00:29):
Yeah, if we have any big politicians listening. Give them
some advice on how to be fearless. You've been a
guy who just you know, what's the right thing to do,
what's the smart thing to do, and you do it,
and maybe you get a little flack, but you get
through it. You're not under any big attack from anybody
to tell them how doing the right thing is sometimes
in the end will always work out for you.

Speaker 8 (01:00:49):
Well, that's absolutely right, Mark. I think that if you
do the right thing, if you're courageous, if you stand
by your values and principles, eventually that will reap great benefits.
So I'll give you a for instance, my cooperation with ICE.
We are the most comprehensive county in the United States.
In our cooperation with ICE. We've removed forty seven illegal

(01:01:14):
migrants who had criminal records just last months. Twenty eight
of them were gang related. When people when I told
people I was going to enter into a cooperation agreement
with ICE, they were like, Oh, you're going to lose
the Hispanic vote. The Hispanic Americans won't both of you.
We've pulled it now three times in the Hispanic American community,

(01:01:36):
they love it. From sixty two to sixty six percent
of Hispanic Americans want that cooperation with ICE because they
want safe communities for their children. They don't want their
children to being doctrinated into gangs. They don't want overcrowded schools,
they don't want homeless people in their neighborhoods. So my
support in the Hispanic American community has been overwhelming.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
Yeah, it's a great example for any other politicians. Just
do the right thing. You'll get a little flak here
in there, but in the end everything will be better,
Everything works out, and then you get credit for doing
the right thing. And we want everybody to vote for
Bruce Blakeman on Tuesday, that's election day, but you can
do it now, there's early voting in Nassau County. He's
the best county executive in America by far. And Bruce Blakeman,

(01:02:19):
good luck, not that you'll need it, but thanks for
being with us. Keep up the great work.

Speaker 8 (01:02:24):
Mark, you're a good friend. Thank you so much. And
if I had your voice and your intellect, that'd be
President of the United States.

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
Definitely do well, not yet, not yet, we need you
in Nasau County then, president, But thanks for making Marks
take care. Yeah, he really has done a phenomenal job
in Nassau County. If we could clone him, that would
be perfect. If we can get somewhere like that is Mayor,
then we wouldn't have to settle for these horrible choices

(01:02:51):
we got. Hey, we got a lot coming up today,
Buck and Clay at noon, excellent show. Then you got
the most listened to radio show in America, Sean Hannity
today Wednesday. I think Curtis is on with Buck and
Clay today. I think in the one o'clock hour you'll
hear Curtis on Buck and Clay. Then, Hey, don't forget
Jimmy Fayala great show every night nine to midnight. Here

(01:03:13):
on seven to ten WR.

Speaker 5 (01:03:16):
Set up reseat on the iHeartRadio app to WR to
hear Mark live.

Speaker 11 (01:03:21):
Set another for.

Speaker 5 (01:03:22):
Mark's podcast to hear him anytime. Now back to Mark
Simone on WOOR.

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
It just about out of time. Hey, don't forget Buck
and Clay coming up today, Curtis will be a big
guest on the show. I think in the one o'clock
hour you'll hear him with the Buck and Clay. This
will be interesting. As we've been reporting all morning, there
is some movement in the Meyrill race. There has been
a shift of votes towards Cuomo. Again, we got all
these junkie polls for this. Nobody's spent the money for

(01:03:55):
a serious, serious poll from a top polster. So we
don't know sure, but we'll see there is movement towards Cuomo.
He's picking up a little steam. We'll see if it's enough,
if there's an enormous turnout, if it gets to two million,
which it hasn't in a million years, then the Cuoma's
got a shot, So we'll we'll see. Hey, don't forget Sunday. Actually,

(01:04:18):
Saturday night we go off daylight saving time. Saturday overnight
we go off daylight saving time, so Sunday will be
the first day where it's standard time and it'll get
dark out like at five point fifteen five point thirty.
That's going to be really annoying on Sunday. Hey, Sunday's
also marathon day, so don't even think of driving into Manhattan.

(01:04:38):
It'll be traffic nightmare all over. The marathon is in
all five burroughs. Hey, we're out of time. I'm here
every day ten to noon or listen anytime, get the podcast,
but I'll be back tomorrow at ten I'll talk to
you then on seven to ten wo