FULL SHOW: Tonight's NYC mayoral debate; ICE is very active in NYC.

Andrew Cuomo has shifted his personal attacks from Zohran Mamdani to Republican Curtis Sliwa, focusing on winning the NYC mayoral race. Late-night TV has changed over the years. The late, great Johnny Carson was at the top of his game, hosting late-night TV. Are ICE raids throughout the country causing fear among people who are not targeted? Mark interviews author Ann Coulter. Would removing the Democratic Party in NYC solve all the affordability issues in the city? The "No Kings" protests were mostly led by senior citizens.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You just heard the news. Now you'll find out what
it all means.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey, smart simone on seven to TENR.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Well, we'll get to the mayor old debate. The final
mayoral debate is tonight at seven o'clock. Will go over
all the whole thing, and then we'll get to Donald Trump.
You won't believe what the Democrats are melting down over
this time. We'll get to there's some other races going
on here in New York City. You should be where,
very very important. We'll get to Johnny Carson coming up

(00:33):
a little later this hour, don't miss that. We'll get
to Broadway, we'll get to Hunter, we'll get to the
next indictments, the awful law fair guys from the Biden administration,
one by one going down. We'll tell you who's next. Hey,
Tonight is the final mayoral debate. It's it's seven o'clock.
It'll be a ninety minute debate. That last one on

(00:54):
Channel four was two hours. It was too long. You
couldn't After about an hour and a half you couldn't
watch anymore. So it'll be a ninety minute debate tonight. Unfortunately,
it's on New York One, which has very few viewers.
And the other problem with New York One is the
most slanted left wing place. In fact, the debate moderator
will be Errol Lewis. Very nice guy, but you couldn't

(01:16):
get more left wing, slanted partisan than Errol Lewis. A
lot of people think that's a ridiculous choice, that he
should recuse himself. Try to find somebody moderate, somebody neutral
to run the debate. So you know they stack these debates.
If you watch the Channel four debate with four moderators,

(01:36):
three candidates, four moderators, but all of them against you,
very very left wing. You barely let Curtis talk for
the first twenty minutes. And then if you're watching the
debate laters, it's pretty frustrating. Every time we tried to talk,
they kept switching subjects, cutting them off. So that could
be even worse tonight with the very slanted Errol Lewis

(01:58):
running this New York One debate. Now you probably is
who sees New York won nobody anymore. But it'll also
be streaming, it'll be online, the clips will go everywhere,
so hopefully it'll get some attention. Curtis, you know, he
won the last debate everybody agreed on that. The question
is did anybody notice? And the problem is, you know,
do does anybody really pay attention to these debates? So

(02:20):
tonight he's got to He'll do fine, he'll win the debate,
but he's going to need some real viral moments, things
that go all over the place. He's got to take
out Mom Donnie keeps going. Everybody says, we do he
keep going after Cuomo. How can you help it? You
can't help going after Cuomo. But it is Cuomo in
the way. You know, there's all these calls are Curtis away,

(02:41):
He's got to drop out? Why doesn't he drop out?
Where are the calls for Cuomo to drop out? You know,
Curtis has a very little baggage, you know, maybe a
carry on Cuomo he's got more baggage than Paris Hilton.
I mean, it's going to be a problem in tonight's debate.
He's gonna have to answer for all that stuff. I

(03:02):
know people are saying, yeah, but there was a poll
that showed if it was just Cuomo and Mam Donnie,
it would be tied. And not a poll I would trust.
It's a little poll from a polling company nobody ever
heard of. That's run by Cuomo supporters, So I wouldn't
take that. I don't take that poll seriously. But tonight
will be the final, the final straw, the final blow.

(03:27):
After tonight, there's not much else that could change the election.
Early voting starts on Saturday, and a lot of people
do that early voting. Sometimes that's half the votes of
the early voting. It starts Saturday, it goes for about
ten days. The election is two weeks from yesterday, so
it's not looking good. Mam. Donnie still has a lead,

(03:49):
but these polls have been wrong before. And Curtis is
one of these type of guys like Trump in the beginning,
who tends to underpole. In other words, he's actually better
than the polls are showing. Cuomo, Well, you got a
couple of problems. One, people just can't stand the guy,
especially in the political world. He's threatened everybody, you know,

(04:11):
that whole bully routine of threatening everybody in the in
the in the world, the government wise, you got no friends,
no allies. When he left office, he had to leave
in disgrace and resign. But when he left he did
spend a lot of time there wooing the big donors,
which is a group you can easily reach there in
the Upper east Side, there in the Hampton's, there in

(04:32):
Palm Beach, you can run down there, go to all
their dinners, hang out with them, win them o. He
won them over. That's why you see all these big, big, big,
big donors backing Cuomo. They are behind him. That's his base,
you know, that's the most important thing. Who's your base?
That's his base? The big donors. Unfortunately, when it comes
to voting, they're only like, there's seventy five of them.

(04:53):
It's it's not a lot of votes. And remember they
have a track record of being one hundred percent wrong
every time, those big donors. Who's Curtis's base, Well, definitely
Staten Island, a lot of Queen's, a lot of Brooklyn,
a lot of working class, a lot of people behind Curtis.
Who's the mom Donnie's base. He's got younger voters, they
love them. He's got all the left wing Democrats and

(05:15):
they've convinced themselves that it's these oligarchs. If only we
could get rid of these oligarchs, everything would be great,
it'd be affordable. They kind of works the opposite way.
That's the problem with Mom Donnie and those type of socialists.
They've never understood the relationship between capitalism and everybody having

(05:37):
a good economy, a strong economy. Now, the other problem
is with these socialists, they don't really it's not really
anything the stuff they claim, they're not even really for.
If you're Mom Donnie, you don't live that way. You know,
socialists live more like oligarchs. In fact, oligarchs comes from
the communist socialist world. So tonight seven to nine thirty,

(05:57):
this will be crucial if there's any chance of blooding
up Mom Donnie. Verbally it'll be tonight, it's gotta happen. Now.
The other thing, you know, Mom Donnie is a good talker.
You know, he talks very fast. When you talk very
fast and you speak quickly and you talk like, people
think he must be very smart. How else could you
talk to this fast? And looks good. He's got that

(06:19):
those eyes look good. He looks sharp, he looks like
a dynamic young guy. The problem is it looks he
just looks like a salesman. He's clearly not a manager.
He's just a salesman. And the problem is for him,
maybe even with his base, they don't really deep down
think he's authentic or sincere. There's no clarity. You know,

(06:42):
He's got these visions of things but no specifics, So
there's no authenticity, no clarity. The other problem with Cuomo
he used to be a good salesman years ago, but
and he was never a manager because as governor, it
was a disaster. Disaster. He screwed up the police, he
screwed up trime fighting, he screwed up the nursing homes.
I mean, it's just the worst management. That decision to

(07:05):
send patients with the virus into all the nursing homes
may go down in history. It's the single dumbest management
decision ever made in the world. So and nobody looks
at Cuomo and thinks authenticity or clarity. You know, he's
he did something awful. Now he says it was wrong.
I wouldn't do it again. He's flip flopping all over
the place on things. So when you look at Curtis,

(07:27):
here's the only guy you see with at real authenticity.
There's even a Colin in the New York Post today
pointing this out. And the post is not for Curtis,
but even they point out when it comes to clarity, authenticity,
it's only Curtis. So you know, they keeps saying, Curtis,
why do you go after Cuomo? Go after Mom Donnie.
But on the other hand, I'm listening to Cuomo the
last couple of days. He's going after Curtis more than

(07:48):
Mom Donnie.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
Curtis cannot will not be Mayor of New York. He
could cause Mandami to be Mayor of New York. Those
are his options.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yeah, but who did cause Mam Donnie to be in
the league. Well, it was Cuomo. Unfortunately in the Democratic
primary instead of Adams, he had Cuomo against Mom Donnie,
and Cuomo was a disaster in that race. He lost
both debates, he lost the popular vote by a lot.
So if it's Cuomo that gave us Mom Donnie, by
his poor performance in the primary, we got stuck with

(08:23):
Mom Donnie.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
It's not about you.

Speaker 5 (08:26):
It's not about you.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
It he keeps going after Curtis.

Speaker 5 (08:29):
It's not about you. It's not about you, Curtis. It's
not about me. It's not about Mayor Eric Adams. It's
not about any of us. It's about New York City.
That's why we're here. That should be why we're here.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
And if that's not why we're here, uh, it's God's
way of telling us we shouldn't be here. Curtis cannot
will not be mayor of New York. He could cause
Mandannie to be mayor of New York. Those are his options.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah, but the real problem everybody thinks Mam Donnie would
be a nightmare as mayor of New York. The problem is,
deep down everybody knows Cuomo could be a disaster. He
might do the same crap he did as governor. Remember
as governor he was so far to the left, so
much left wing woke kind of stuff. It caused the
crime wave. He's closed Indian points, screwed up our electric bills,

(09:27):
our electricity. He could go on and on all the decisions,
but so in a position he could have a total
nightmare with Mam Donnie or a bad dream with Cuomo.
I don't know. Here's Curtis.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
I don't see any sign of a Cuomo campaign other
than every day agnowledge him.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Slee wool must drop out or I can't win. Why
not wave the white flag?

Speaker 6 (09:50):
Now?

Speaker 7 (09:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, and that's another thing. Have you ever seen a
race like that where a guy can't get his own votes,
he has to beg everybody else to drop out. Yeah,
I saw it once. It was in the Democratic primaries.
Remember when Joe Biden was one of twelve candidates and
he was horrible in the debates and he wasn't winning.
You remember, and then they came to South Carolina and

(10:13):
the Democratic Party made everybody else drop out of the race.
You remember that. They made Buddhajetge drop out, They made
Elizabeth Warren drop out, Bernie Sanders, they all had to
resign from the race the day before the South Carolina
primary so that Joe Biden could win. It worked, they
all dropped out and Biden won. But look what you
ended up with. So that's whenever you got to make

(10:33):
people drop out of a race to get yourself a winner,
you end up with a bad, bad candidate. Hey, it
happened with Cuomo years ago. He's running for governor and
he had the very popular David Patterson out there ready
to challenge him, and they made Patterson get out of
the race. They had then President Obama get Patterson out

(10:56):
of the race so Cuomo could win. I talked to
Patterson about this the other Day firmed it absolutely said
it was heavy pressure from the Obama administration that forced
him out of the race so Cuomo could win. So
he's got a history of this. He can't win, can't
go out there and get the votes, but he's got
to get other people out of the race. Here's more
a curtisy.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
I am not dropping out under no circumstance.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
I've already been offered money to drop out. I said no.

Speaker 4 (11:23):
Distant from that, with threats again Stancy and myself, I
now have to have armed security with me former NYPD officers.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
Never had that in my life. I trust the people
they are able to choose the next mayor. Well, anyway,
stop arguing about it. Wait till tonight seven to eight thirty.
The mayoral debate is tonight seven o'clock. Watched that and
then afterwards then you'll know. Then you'll know what's gonna
all have some idea. And again early voting starts Saturday.

(11:54):
And now here's another thing. This is very important. You
got to get rid of Alvin Bragg. This is the
district attorney who lets all the criminals out. He doesn't
put people in jail. It's one reason we have such
a bad crime wave. So you got to get rid
of Alvin Bragg. There's a woman running against him. She's
the Republican candidate. She's really a Democrat, been a Democrat

(12:15):
for years, but running as a Republican. She's got a
very good track record as a DA she puts criminals
in jail. So this could be a big, big, big change.
Get rid of Alvin Bragg. Vote for maud merin election
day or early voting. If you get Alvin Bragg out
of there and get her in there, at least you
got some protection against a possible mom Donnie mayoralty. Now

(12:39):
President Trump. The Democrats that Trump derangement syndrome is amazing.
No matter what he does, they go nuts. He's building
a spectacular ballroom at the White House. It needs it,
it really needs it. They don't you know that beautiful
East Room of the White It can only hold about

(13:01):
two hundred people. So when they have these big parties
and big events, they have to put a tent on
the lawn, so it looks like a wedding in New
Jersey with the tent on the lawn. It's not appropriate
for the White House. And the other problem is, you know,
half the time it's raining, it's cold, it's wet, the
grass is wet. You can't keep having a major White

(13:21):
House event in a tent on the lawn. So he
wants to build this ballroom and it's going to be
spectacular to hold about eight hundred beautiful ballroom. It's going
to extend out the east wing of the White House.
So to start this, they have to tear down one
of the walls of the east room of the East
Wing and attach this. So you've seen the pictures. It's demolition,

(13:44):
the wrecking balls, the cranes. They've taken down one of
the walls on the east end of the White House,
the East Wing, and what's actually there is the First
Lady's office. She's had to move to somewhere else temporarily.
And this will go quickly because it's Trump who's an
expert at construction. It's not like the government building it.
And yesterday he was doing a press converge. You can

(14:05):
hear the construction going on, and you could hear the
noise in the distance, and he said, ah, the sound
of construction. I love that sound. Well, think about it,
we hate that sound. But to a guy who's been
a builder all his life. He loves it. Now, this
is not unusual to tear down something in the White
House build something else. Happens all the time, even the
West Wing. In nineteen oh two, President Roosevelt added the

(14:26):
West Wing. You know Trump is adding a ballroom. It
was President Theodore Roosevelt that added the West Wing to
the White House. Franklin Roosevelt added a second floor to
the West Wing. They had relocate the Oval Office for
a while. Nineteen forty eight, President Harry Truman, come listen this.
Nineteen forty eight, Truman completely gutted the White House interior

(14:50):
and rebuilt the whole thing, preserving only the exterior walls.
He completely gutted the White House, and it has always
been changing the to be a swimming pool in the
White House. Nineteen seventy Nixon got rid of it, removed
the swimming pool, converted into the press briefing room that
you see. He also added a bowling alley. President Obama

(15:13):
took away the tennis court. There was a beautiful tennis
court there. He got rid of it, put in a
basketball court. So things go on all the time like this.
It's going to look great, But liberals are all over
the place. The left wing online crying emotional about this.
A picture of that wrecking ball hitting the wall and
the headlines desecration, heartbreaking. What he's doing to the playhouse.

(15:35):
It's going to look spectacular. And those tweets in those
posts you're putting up aren't going to age well. So, hey,
we'll get to the President wants the Department of Justice
to pay him two hundred and thirty million dollars. Now,
this will really get these left wing people crazy. He's
probably wrong about that. I mean, he's owed something for

(15:58):
the whole fake which hunt, the Russia hoax, the raid
on mar A Lago, which was absolutely disgusting. He's owed
something for that, the law fairy, he was put on
trial in four cities. What is he owed? I don't know,
maybe several million to pay all his legal fees, all
his expenses pay. Obviously he's owed that. I don't two
hundred and thirty million might be a ridiculous figure, but

(16:21):
you know, that might be a starting figure. Anyway. Hey,
we'll get to Johnny Carson coming up. Don't miss that.
We'll take some calls next. Eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred three two
one zero seven, ten. Hey, let's take some calls. Let's
go to uh Rich and Myrtle Beach. That line works, Rich,

(16:41):
How you doing good?

Speaker 8 (16:43):
Thanks? Mark? You know, everything we talk about here, day
after day, subject after subject, all goes back to this
honesty of the press. The plenty of pleasures of torn Aport,
the White House for centuries, but it's only Donald Trump
that's a criminal about it. It's only Donald Trump this
green back and he's using his own money. It's really unbelievable.
All comes back to the dishonesty of the press.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah. Well, it's tough to run a democracy, You're right,
without an honest press, with the totally distorted media. It's
some of his own. He's going to put in a
couple million, but most of the renovation will be paid
for by donors, and so that'll be another that's the
next left wing attack. They're going to hit him with
that a special interest in oligarks are buying favors. And

(17:28):
again it's done all the time. Every president has done
renovation to the White House. Let's go to Mike and Florida. Mike,
how you doing.

Speaker 9 (17:36):
Good morning, Mark?

Speaker 10 (17:37):
Yes, Mike, you played a sound bite yesterday with Clomo
claiming that as part of his platform, he's going to
build eighty thousand affordable how impousing units once he gets elected, and.

Speaker 9 (17:49):
People should be remembered. This is what he did at
HUD and it caused the housing clash that the tooth
ear in the early two thousands, and it's something Democrats
keep doing every few general. We called them the projects
in the old days. And it doesn't work. And he's
just going to do the same thing here, and he's
a he's a fraud. And you know, it's amazing that

(18:11):
Republicans can't have the guts to get behind Curtis.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
It's shame. I don't think I don't think Clonmo's a fraud.
I think he's actually sincere. He believes he's doing the
right stuff all the time, like with this right bailed
note jail. I think he's just wrong. He as head
of HUD the housing stuff. Many people think he was
a major factor in causing the housing crash which almost
took down the whole American economy. And as governor, you

(18:37):
saw a disaster after a disaster. So he's not a fraud.
He just I don't know what it is. He just
screws up. He just he's a salesman. He's not a manager.
And that's the problem with some people. They can just
talk there, they can campaign, but they're not managers. They
can't run stuff. Let's go to Joe in Babylon. Joe,
how you doing.

Speaker 11 (18:56):
Good?

Speaker 3 (18:57):
Mark?

Speaker 12 (18:57):
I just want to make one point about Curtis was
candidacy for mayor as far as his situation as a
Republican candidate. From my understanding, he's also running on the
independent line, and it's not being emphasized for those Democrats
will not vote for a Republican.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Well, I don't think Democrats going to vote for him anyway.
I Democrats love Mom Donnie and a lot of them
like Cuomo. It's a Republican. It's going to be a
turnout election. If you get the eighteen percent model. That's
how de Blasio got elected. It was eighteen percent turnout.
If you get the eighty percent model, everything changes. That's
how Rudy Giuliani got elected. Hey, by the way, if

(19:40):
you look at the ballot, at the top of the
ballot is Mom Donni, second is Curtis. Those are the two.
You gotta really hunt for. Cuomo's name. You gotta go
down eight spaces to find Cuomo. He's got a problem
with his ballot position. Let's go to Jerry in Greenwich. Jerry,
how you doing?

Speaker 13 (19:57):
I'm doing very well, Mark. Could you know it's a
share what's had been in New York? It was beautiful.
But anyway, may I be allowed to wish good luck
to my friend Heather. She's rerunning for a text collector
in Greenwich. All right, I wish yours.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
To look and we want everybody in Greenwich. We want
everybody to vote for Fred Camillo. He's the mayor. He's
a great mayor.

Speaker 13 (20:18):
Yes, yes, agreed with that.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
He's up for reelection. Make sure you vote for Fred Camillo.
And who's the who's the tax collector?

Speaker 13 (20:25):
I'm on the lane for that, you know. And but Heather,
she's a very lovely lady and she's she cares for
the Greenwich people. Anyway, I want to thank you very
much for let me to say that.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
All right, don't worry, that's fine, we'll send you the bill.
But one more, Let's go to Sandy in the New
York Sandy, what's going on?

Speaker 14 (20:43):
Good morning?

Speaker 11 (20:43):
Mark?

Speaker 14 (20:44):
Yes, Mark, I think about that beautiful ball that Donald
Trump is building in the White House. I went to
mar Alago once.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
And oh, you're one of those. If you go to
mar A Lago, it's these women everywhere. They chase every
everybody around the room. How are you can I take up?
And they take selfies with everybody. That's if you look
at the pictures of my ago, it looks beautiful, but
that crowd. He when we come back, we'll take a
look at Johnny Carson. Johnny Carson. You look at what's

(21:15):
on Late Night today. Oh listen, I know. I was
like the Johnny Carson expert. I knew everything you could
know about Johnny Carson. Then I started listening to this
thing called the Carson Podcast. There's six hundred episodes. By
the time I got done, I learned like three million
things I never knew. It was the greatest look at
Johnny Carson ever done by Mark Malcoff. He interviewed everybody

(21:38):
that every celebrity was on the Tonight Shoe Brady worked.
It's well, it's turned into a book. The book just
came out, the definitive book on Johnny Carson. We'll talk
to Mark Malcoff, the author next on seven to ten
WR seven to ten WRS.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Mark Simone show continues.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
Now, whoa, I still can't find it. We're looking for
Mark Melcoff, author of the great New Johnny Carson book.
I'm sure he'll turn up a pretty reliable guy. We
couldn't find him. All right, hang on here, let me
send him a text. He's not Steve Moore. He's not

(22:20):
Steve Moore. We'll get him. Uh, there we go. He
wrote this book based on for years, I guess about
five six years, he's been doing something called The Carson Podcast.
And if you haven't heard it, start listening to it.
You'll get addicted. If you love Johnny Carson, if you
love that whole world of television and the Golden Age,

(22:43):
it's called the Carson Podcast. And he interviewed every big
star you can imagine that was ever on The Tonight Show.
But even more fascinating are the interviews with all the
people that worked on the show, even though people he
wouldn't think it'd be interesting, like the guy that held
the curtain open. They're fascinating interviews, all sorts of insights
and stories behind the scenes the Tonight's Show and about

(23:08):
Johnny Carson and everything. So after years of this it
became so popular, it turned into a book and it
just came out yesterday. It's called Love Johnny Carson. It's
the definitive, full, fascinating story of Carson. What made him
so successful? What went on behind the scenes. You love

(23:28):
the book. It's called Love Johnny Carson. Get the book.
So we still didn't find him, Well that's funny, all right.
Well if he doesn't turn up, we'll get him later
in the week. But it's a great book. You know,
if you read this book, it'll, you know, just make
you think about what we're stuck with today. Late Night

(23:49):
you got Stephen Colbert, who is just you know, it's
like a DNC show every night at eleven thirty. It's
kind of an angry, mad kind of a show. And
then Fallon started off, all right, he can be funny
at times, he can be entertaining at times, but it's
just it's not Johnny Carson. It's like it's more like

(24:09):
a game show than Johnny Carson. And then you got Kimmel,
who nobody knows what that is. Half funny, half angry,
just very angry stuff. The Tonight Show was actually created
by Steve Allen in nineteen fifty three fifty four. He
invented the whole thing, and he when the network gave
me the assignment, they thought it would be like the
Today Show. The Today Show was already a big success,

(24:31):
so they wanted to duplicate it, do the same thing
at night, call it the Tonight Show instead of Today.
And they told Steve Allen, you know, you'll do newscasts
on the half hour, you'll do weather reports, you'll do
news and features. He didn't want any of that. He
just decided, I'll come out and I'll tell jokes and
I'll be funny, and I'll have guests come on, and
I'll bring out comedians and singers, and at the end

(24:53):
of the day, people don't want another newscast. They want
to be entertained. So he created the Tonight Show and
was a huge six, huge success, monster success. It became
the hottest thing in TV. Became so big they switched
him to a primetime variety show. Then they bring in
a guy named Jack Parr, who wasn't that well known,
to take over the Tonight Show. And he he's the

(25:15):
guy that created the exact format we used today. He's
the guy that decided to have a desk, a chair,
a couch. He designed the set. It's exactly the same
set still being used today. And he's the guy that
made it little less of a variety entertainment show and
just talk, lots of guests, lots of talk. Carson came
along later. Parr was a huge success, the biggest thing

(25:39):
in television. He had enormous ratings. She couldn't be bigger
than Parr. It was tough for Carson to take over.
He struggled for a year or two. First year or
two were rough. A lot of people didn't know if
he'd make it, but then slowly but surely gradually took off,
became a major, major, major television institution, and stayed thirty years.

(26:00):
It was an incredible thing. Then he left. It was
never the same since Jay Leno was a big step down,
but still a big step up from what we have now.
And a lot of people think at some point these
shows will just go. You know, Colbert is going to
be canceled. He's been canceled. He'll go off the air
in I think it's March or is it May, and

(26:24):
watch carefully. I don't think they'll replace him. There won't
be another talk show. They'll probably they'll run reruns of
a game show. You know, when they took Kimmel off
for three four days, they just put reruns of Celebrity
Family Feud. It got tripled the ratings that kim will get.
So don't think CBS hasn't noticed that, and they're looking
to make major cutbacks, so Fallon goes. When Colbert goes

(26:48):
off the air, you'll see reruns of primetime dramas or
game shows that'll take its place. It'll be down to
two late night shows. Kimmel may pick up the whole
Colbert audience. That might help them. If not, don't be
surprised if he goes. One thing about Jimmy Fallon. If
he's the only one left, he's got the ability to

(27:10):
switch from an angry political show to just a fun
entertainment show. But they don't have the money to do
these shows anymore. You know, I don't know if you
know this, but Colbert Fallon, they're not on five nights
a week. They're really four nights a week, and they
run a rerun the other night. There's big, big cuts
coming to CBS is now owned by sky Dance, and

(27:33):
it's about to happen. Might happen next week, major, major,
major layoffs. Thousands of people will be cut there. It'll
happen at all the networks. A lot of people don't
watch network TV anymore. You know. Network TV's only twenty
five million people watching Network TV. Twenty five million. That's it.
AM talk radio sixty three million. It's a much, much,

(27:55):
much bigger medium. So hey, wait, we didn't find him,
Mark Melcoff didn't turn out. That's funny. But get the book.
It's a great book. It's called Love Johnny Carson. It's
got great pictures in it. Uh, it's everything you every
want to know about that whole era, about Johnny Carson,
all that stuff. And well, should we take some calls. Yeah,

(28:15):
let's take a call or two. Let's go to uh Phil, Phil,
how you doing?

Speaker 13 (28:22):
Hello?

Speaker 3 (28:22):
Oh it's Phyllis, not Phil. She's listening to the radio.

Speaker 7 (28:28):
Hi.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
Hi, let me check. Oh, yes it is turn your
radio down before I'm listening to myself.

Speaker 14 (28:42):
Before Steve Allan, it was called the Broadway Open House.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
Oh, this is a real old timer. You go way back,
well actually two years hill perfect right in our target demo.
That's just what we're looking for. No, that's good. Yeah,
well that was different. Though Broadway Open House was the
first late night show, it wasn't the first tonight show.

Speaker 15 (29:03):
And that's when they introduced Dagmar There you go, well,
you go way back.

Speaker 14 (29:08):
Yeah, and she appeared at Frank Sinatra at the Paramount.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
WHOA, my god. Hey, how about that Eddie Canter?

Speaker 15 (29:13):
Huh No, that was my mother's joint.

Speaker 8 (29:17):
Man, make it sound old.

Speaker 13 (29:19):
All right, thank you very much, love for.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
Your show, all right, glad you listened. Thanks for calling
Phyllis ninety two. How about that still going strong? Turns
the radio up pretty loud though, right, that's a loyal listener.
But anyway, the book is called Love, Johnny Carson, get
the book. You will love it. Anyway. We've got a

(29:42):
lot to get to, but we'll find them later in
the week. We'll have the mine anyway. Don't forget Buck
and Clay coming up at noon today. Excellent show every
day twelve noon, three o'clock. You got the most listened
to radio show in America, Sean Hannity. You got Jesse
Kelly at six and Jimmy Fayla great show every night
at nine. Here on seven to ten. Wo R get hiss.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
In access to Mark by setting a pre set in
the iHeartRadio app for his live show.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
And his podcast. Now back to the Mark Simone Show on.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
Woor Well, all right, we heard from I heard from
Mark melcoffee. Got the pime mixed up. I thought it
was next hour. We'll reschedule, we'll figure we'll figure it out.
But hey, it's gonna be nice today. I should be
nice for it rained overnight, so that's it. It's gonna
be nice for the rest of the week now, I
don't forget. Tonight, seven o'clock is the debate. The mayor

(30:38):
Old debate is at seven o'clock. It's on New York One,
which is channel that doesn't have a lot of viewers,
and it's not on every cable system. It's only on Spectrum,
but I'm sure it'll be online. It'll be on YouTube.
You'll be able to watch it. It's an hour and
a half. Last debate was too long. It was two hours.
Nobody could nobody could make it to two hours. But

(30:59):
this will be an hour and a half tonight, seven
to nine thirty. And we'll see what goes viral and
what gets talked about the next day. So that'll be interesting. Hey,
coming up in the next hour, we'll get the hunter Biden.
He's speaking out, big mistake. I don't know what he
thinks he's going to achieve by all of this. And
we'll get back to the mayoral race. We'll get to

(31:22):
President Trump, the Middle East, and a whole lot more.
Remember Kamala Harris, Do you remember her? Kamala Harris? The
DNC quietly paying her another two million they're trying to
pay off. She racked up this huge campaign debt. You know,
it was only one hundred and seven days that campaign.
Somehow she's think about this, one hundred and seven days.

(31:43):
She spent one point five billion, one point five billion
and still ran out of money and is in debt.
Apparently the DNC has already paid about twenty million trying
to pay off her debt, which is a little questionable
for the DNC to pay that. They don't have a
lot of cash on hand, But they gave her another
one point six million yesterday to paying off her debt.

(32:04):
That's a little weird. Anyway, we got a lot to
get to in the next hour. I'm here every day
ten to noon, and if you can't listen ten to noon,
you can listen anytime day, night, just get the podcast
back right after the news on seven to ten WR.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Demark Simone show on seven to Tenryay, well what it
was today?

Speaker 3 (32:28):
It's Wednesday already, all right, tonight, I keep reminding you
tonight seven o'clock mayoral debate. Curtis Cuomo, Mom, Donnie, you
know they don't actually even have to let the Cuomo
in the debate. He's a third party candidate, he's not
a major party candidate, but he will be in the
debate this time. They've I guess, tossed a coin or
something on speaking order. Curtis will go first. That's not

(32:53):
a It's more important who goes last. Although I don't
know if everybody will make it to the end of
the debate. But it's tonight now. So the difference is
tonight's debate. The last one was Channel four. It was
done in a TV studio without an audience. Tonight it'll
be a Long Island city with an audience. It's a
college auditorium. They will have an audience, so that can

(33:14):
change the dynamic a little. Curtis very good in front
of an audience. When it comes to being in front
of an audience. For almost a lot of experience, but Mom,
Donnie's not that experienced in front of a live audience.
Curtis the most experienced, does speeches all the time, so
that could help them. Down in Chinatown, a big uproar.

(33:35):
People are all upset because terrible things were happening. Ice
was there arresting illegals and Democrats in New York. When
they see law enforcement enforcing the law, they get all upset.
They do not like that, and apparently they were cracking down. Hey,
I don't know if I like this either. They were
cracking down on the illegal vendors down there in Chinatown.

(33:56):
Those are the ones that sell the fake Louis Vutan,
the fake Gucci. You know, some of that is kind
of useful. I don't know if you want to get
rid of all that. But again, they're they're enforcing the law,
arresting illegals. That's what law enforcement is supposed to do.
But everybody was upset, angry.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
What are they doing to our city?

Speaker 10 (34:14):
Shot they harass the citizens of New York.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
Well, actually where they're doing the city cleaning it up,
enforcing the law, and they weren't going after the citizens
in New York. They were going after illegals. Who broke
into the country who were not citizens. Then you get
this Jamani Williams who shows up. None of this is
about public safety. It is about fear and chaos. Well, yeah,

(34:39):
they are trying to create fear among illegals. That's why
we've had almost two million self deport already. Chaos would
be no border and millions flood into the country illegally,
that would be chaos. But it's Jimani Williams, left wing guy.
These left wing cooks, they hate law enforcement, they hate
enforcing the law. They love ill for all sorts of reasons.

(35:01):
They don't want to see those They do not want
to see the immigration laws enforced. Here's one of the
great kooks of all time, Brad Lander. Angry Brad Lander.

Speaker 6 (35:10):
There is no excuse for sending military style vehicles and
a national law enforcement responds for street vendors.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
Now, it's right about that. If you look at the
video they are in, uh, it does look like a
big military view. They look like troops in Iraq. The
vehicle looks like that, and the officers are in it
says police on their uniforms and on their vests, but
their military style uniforms, you know, like green combat military

(35:41):
with all the helmets and all this, so they do
look military. But hey, I don't mind it. I mean,
if it's enforcing the law. Remember the riots all over
New York that summer and Cuomo would not send the
National Guard in. That was more frightening than this. So
I don't mind a lot of law enforcement. It's not
a bad thing, but it drives these left wingers crazy. Hey,

(36:02):
in the New Jersey race, it's Chittarelli and Mikey Cheryl,
Mickey Mickey or Mikey whatever her name is, Mikey Cheryl. Okay,
when last time you met a woman named Mikey Mikey Cheryl.
But that's a cute name. But she's having trouble. Chittarelli
has caught up to her in the polls, it's even now,

(36:22):
so she's called in Obama to help. I guess it's
not that important, Obama. It's not worth a trip. He's
not flying in. He's not You're supposed to fly in,
appear with her at the rally, you know, hold her
hand up in your hand to a big speech. You're
supposed to do that. It's not that important, Obama. He's

(36:43):
not flying in for this so instead he made a video.
It's like the guy that won't show up to the
roast or the dinner, so he sends a video. It's
a real cheap easy way, takes five minutes, you don't
have to bother. So he sent a video to endorse her. Now, also,
maybe it's a good thing he didn't fly in because
anytime he would show up in those congressional races all

(37:05):
over the country. Whenever he'd show up and campaigned for
the person and endorse him, they would lose. His track
record was like ninety seven percent of his candidates lost.
So maybe maybe it's helping her. But I don't think
he means much anymore. You know, he's from another era. Hey,
George Santos got pardoned, Well, he didn't get parted, he

(37:26):
got a sentence commuted. He's still convicted, so he's a
free man and he's out and about. But local officials,
local d local officials now talking about indicting him locally
on local charges. Now that could put him back in
jail if he's convicted, and there's nothing President Trump can
do about a local charge. The governor maybe could do something,

(37:48):
but she's not, so he still could be in legal jeopardy.
A couple of people in the prosecutors DA's have talked
about possibly going after him to keep and I on that.
President Trump apparently is being pushed to pardon. Well again,
not pardon, he would be commuting the sentence of p. Diddy,

(38:09):
which would mean still convicted. Everything stands. He just lets
him out of jail, but he served two years. Some say,
well that for what he got convicted of, two years
is enough. I don't know, it'd be a little controversial.
He can't keep commuting everybody's sentence. Although with Trump, you know,
what is it ten to twelve people? With Obama it
was a Biden. It was thirty five hundred pardons. It

(38:32):
was out of control. Hey, another thing he's getting pushed on.
You know, with the tariffs. It's been pretty successful with
the tariffs. It hasn't caused inflation, it hasn't crashed the economy.
All those people got it wrong. But it bothers some people.
And he's talking about a tariff on coffee. That's scaring
a lot of people because coffee is very expensive to

(38:54):
begin with. I don't know why people pale it Like
if you work here at iHeart, you get down the hall.
We got like six coffee machines in the kitchen. It's free.
I don't know why I have to go to Starbucks
and pay eight dollars for something, but people do. And
it's already very expensive in all these coffee places, so
they don't want the price to go up. Now, the
argument against Trump putting tariffs on coffee, and it's a

(39:17):
pretty good argument against it. Though supposedly the reason you
do the tariffs is to help America, so in other words,
instead of importing, people will buy local and it will
shift everything from foreign imports to local sources. But people
are pointing out there's a good point. Ninety nine percent

(39:38):
of coffee is imported. We really don't make coffee here
in the US.

Speaker 9 (39:41):
Now.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
Maybe we should start, and maybe we could, but we
don't really really. Maybe there's somebody upstate growing their own
coffee or something, but ninety nine percent of it is imported,
so we don't really need those tariffs. Hunter Biden has spoken,
I don't know why. I don't know what her copes

(40:02):
to accomplish, but well, I guess I do. He was
making a fortune under Joe with the influence peddling, getting
millions and millions and millions of dollars from shady companies
in the Ukraine, millions from China, went on, and when
he ran out of that, he started selling these fake
paintings for millions. He made millions on these phony fake paintings,

(40:26):
you know, just a piece of junk, and he'd sell
it for people. Pay you one hundred thousand for his painting,
five hundred thousand. It was a way of giving him
money legally without without it being technically a bribe. It's
an old scheme that was used in the Paola days
and rock and roll. That's probably where he learned it.
But that all stopped. You know, everybody's paying a million

(40:48):
for his painting, five hundred thousand for his painting, fifty
thousand for his pay. He's making a fortune. As soon
as a Joe's out of office, nobody bought a painting.
Ever again, that was the end of Hunter. Everybody else
finding some other way to buy influence. So Hunter Biden
got a pardon from Joe Biden, and speaking out yesterday,
he said it was only because of Donald Trump. He

(41:09):
blames Trump for this. Had Trump not won, I wouldn't
have needed a pardon. But we were so worried about law, fair,
about retribution and all this his revenge tour. Hunter says
it was clear he was going to conduct a revenge tour.
That's the only reason I needed a pardon. Well, the
other reason he's probably guilty of everything. They probably it
could be a retribution, revenge tour. But the point is

(41:32):
you're actually guilty. You know, Comie's going to have a problem.
John Bolton clearly has a problem. They've got him dead
to rights. I mean, there's almost no way out of
a conviction for John Bolton, and it looks like Clapper
will be next. Oh no, excuse me, Brennan. Clapper is
probably down the road. John Brennan, former CIA director, very
very shady guy who was caught up in the Russia hoax.

(41:56):
He was, I mean, just disgusting what he did trying
to get Trump. CIA director John Brennan. So he testified
before a Congressional committee, the Judiciary Committee. They have now
referred him to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution. As

(42:16):
the chairman pointed out, Brennan made numerous willfully intentionally false
statements of material fact contradicted by the record established by
the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence he made, according
to Jordan, made false statements before Congress. It's a crime
that people have convicted for, so they could have Brennan

(42:39):
here convicted. Now you could say, well, it's retribution. It
could be, but if you're guilty, you're guilty. If you
did it, it's also justice at the same time. And
remember law fair is when you get indicted in four
cities at the same time, like Donald Trump, that's law fair. Hey,
in Israel, you've got Wick Cough, You've got Jared Kushner,

(43:04):
You've got Vice President Vance over there trying to settle
this thing, trying to keep it calm. Looks like Marco
Rubio will head over there tomorrow. It's going to take
four people now to keep netanyahukm keep everything on track.
But video released yesterday shows things going on in Gaza,
Hamas torturing, executing Palestinians that were just begging for relief.

(43:31):
Footage shows Hamas gunman shooting Palestinians in the street. First
they've badly beaten man. They beat this guy so badly,
then shot him in the leg and the Torso this
video of all this, and there's a second one who
breaks down crying. A terrorist Hamas then shoots him. Israel

(43:54):
putting out this video that they got a hold of,
saying to the media, we call on all media outlets
to give appropriate coverage to this. You've shown every other
kind of footage, show this footage. Responsible journalism should shine
a light on this problem and do something about it.
If Israel's counting on the media in America to be fair,

(44:17):
that's not a good thing. It's not going to work. Hey,
there's a Democrat running in Nassau County for District attorney,
so they ran commercials tying her to Zoron Mom Donnie.
She's now threatening to sue the Republican Party. That's how
bad things are for this. Mom Donnie, a Democrat candidate,

(44:40):
is suing the GOP for trying to connect her to
Zoron Mom Donnie. She said it's completely fabricated, false, defamatory.
She wants nothing to do with Mom Donnie. She wants
no connection to Mom Donnie and is willing to sue
over it. Hey, they had a big they call it
the Rose Garden. This is the beautiful new Rose Garden terrace.

(45:02):
It's enormous with tables and chairs. It's one of the
most beautiful outdoor dining places in the world. And yesterday
President Trump invited a lot of the Senate for lunch,
special Senate lunch. He made a big speech to all
of them, but everybody noticed he didn't invite ran Paul.
He was left out of the group. And in fact,

(45:24):
during a Trump's speech he talked about some of the
achievements the Republican Party made while also throwing in again
and ran Paul didn't vote for this, so they had
been friendly for a while, but apparently that's over a
lot of tension now between between ran Paul and Trump.
And he was Snubb not invited to the luncheon. So anyway,

(45:45):
don't forget Tonight's the debate seven o'clock. I have no
idea what Curtis will bring him, but you know, he
could bring up the fact that Cuomo's not really in
the campaign. Cuomos still hasn't opened a campaign headquarters, he's
not actively campaigning anywhere. He does some TV, but that's
about it. Curtis is in every neighborhood every week, and

(46:06):
reporters noted said to Cuomo, you know, you don't seem
to be out there on the campaign trail. You're not
working in the neighborhoods. He didn't really respond to anything,
but hey, we'll take some calls in a minute. Eight
hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
Now more, Mark Simone on sevento.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to uh Tony
in Westchester, Tony.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
How you doing great?

Speaker 8 (46:38):
Mark?

Speaker 14 (46:39):
I don't understand something, and I think you you'll say
it best is you know, if Trump was lost there,
he would have put Hillary in prison, you know, ten
years ago. And then Obama comes out and as all
the Democrats do and say it's law there and Trump
getting his revenge. He needs to clean up the DJ

(47:01):
and that's what he's doing, isn't he.

Speaker 3 (47:03):
Yeah, yeah, definitely. It's a good point. You know, when
it came to Hillary, he's not a vengeful guy. He's
not a guy who gets retribution. This is not him.
He never does that. But some people thought after that
first term was over, y know, you didn't do enough
to stop these people. Maybe you should have gone after Hillary.
And then this was different what they did to him
and his family. This was total out of control, law fair.

(47:26):
It was imagine being on trial in four cities at
the same time. It was just ridiculous. So and you
look back at that Russia hoax. What a crazy, insane
thing they tried to pull. So you got to make
sure that doesn't happen again. And again Trump's style is
to let it go. But you got to do something.
You got to create a deterrent so nobody pulls that
crap again. Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave, how

(47:49):
you doing, Good morning, Mark. I'm doing very well. Thank you.

Speaker 13 (47:52):
Mark.

Speaker 16 (47:53):
I have two questions about Madami.

Speaker 11 (47:55):
Please.

Speaker 16 (47:56):
First of all, if you're the president of the United States,
you have to be a natural born citizen. Why doesn't
this law apply for mayor of New York or any
other major city? And the last question is have we
ever learned the results of the investigation into his wealth?

Speaker 3 (48:12):
Well, it's coming, it's coming. But the first question, Yeah,
that's just the way the founding fathers did it. You
only have to be born here to be president. I
guess that's because you're conducting foreign policy and we could
be at war with the country you're from. I guess
that's the reason. In the case of a mayor or
a governor, you're not dealing with foreign policy, so you
don't have to have been born in the country. Schwarzenegger

(48:33):
was governor California, wasn't born here. A lot of examples.
The difference with Mam Donnie. You know, Schwarzeger had been
here for a long time. Mam Donnie came to this
country like twelve minutes ago and only recently became a citizen.
So it's a little odd. Let's go to Shelley, Rockland County. Shelley,
how you doing.

Speaker 15 (48:52):
Hi, pleasure to speak to you. I'm concerned about exception tampering.
We don't want to take away any vote. It's one
of the only good righteous camp Some elect and I
have a ceiling that there's going to be some election Tampa.

Speaker 3 (49:06):
Well, yeah, yeah, I remember it's New York City. There's
always been election fraud in New York City. Even the
Democrats will admit that to you privately. It's always been
that way, especially Manhattan. They do some funny business sometimes.
But the expert that campaign people will tell you though,
even the fraud, if you're lucky, it's only five to

(49:26):
seven percent, but it means you got to win by
a lot more. There are people saying we should also,
you got a lot of illegals voting. There are people
saying an ice officer should be at every balling place
just to keep things clean. That might be a good idea.
Let's go to Mark and Brooklyn. Mark, how you doing?

Speaker 7 (49:45):
Yes? Sorry, good morning, walk?

Speaker 3 (49:46):
How are you good?

Speaker 7 (49:47):
Good? I was going to guess I wanted to make
a couple of comments, and then a suggestion.

Speaker 3 (49:53):
You can't come in with a whole playlist. How about
it one college. We'll see if we want to continue.

Speaker 7 (49:57):
All right, there's a fine line between ideologies aggotism and
from what I see you though, I would strongly support Courtseye.
What these numbers are just not there?

Speaker 3 (50:07):
So how do you know what?

Speaker 7 (50:09):
Well, if you look at the percentage states pulling in percentage.

Speaker 3 (50:13):
How do you know? How do you know what the
numbers are?

Speaker 7 (50:15):
Well, they're on the radio and on TV.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
I know. But you're quoting this poll from Monday, which
was actually done by Cuomo people, and it's a polling
company I never heard of, and again done by Cuomo people.
I wouldn't take it too seriously. I wouldn't trust that
poll at all. Let's go to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent,
how you doing.

Speaker 11 (50:34):
I'm doing good market. Yesterday I asked the woman's comment
about illegals and your comment bottle. They busted twenty four
hundred dollars in Texas. They found that twenty four hundred
illegals actually voted, and they're calling for other states to
look into their electoral records to see if it's going

(50:56):
on there. You know, Mondami goes around his big freighter
and his big word is affordability. Well, please let me
remind all New York is, as Ronald Reagan said, government
is not the solution. Government is the problem, the reason
why it is so expensive to live in New York

(51:18):
City and New York State these days. Also Jersey Is,
for example. Look on your either landline phone bill or
your cell bill. There's all these charges, nickel and dime
charges for things you've never even heard of. Now, what
the city has did. They've notified all the landlords and
the co op managers recently that we have to have

(51:43):
lead paint inspections in our apartments. And they're very, very pricey.
I've been going around getting estimates. Here's another example. Last week,
the city council, these boneheads who've never ran even a
lemonade stand pass the law that when you have a
new stove installed in an apartment, you have to have

(52:07):
a master plumber come, not even a regular plumber, a
master plumber come and install that stove. A master plumber
you're talking about, just to walk in the door anywhere
from two point fifty to five hundred dollars to do
five or five minutes work in years pasted it. I've

(52:28):
had this experience. If you had the new stove delivered
to the apartment in question, the gas company would gladly
send around a technician to hook it up and to
test it. In five minutes. It's done. Now you can't
do it. And who they're going to pass that price?
I know I am. I'm gonna pass it on to

(52:50):
the tenants. You want that new stove, you're gonna have.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
That's a good point. Good point, Vincent, thanks for calling you.
That affordability crisis, A lot of it caused by Democrats
with over regulation on apartments and buildings and everything. Anyway, Well, hey,
when we come back and Culture we'll be with us.
Next we'll talk to her about ice, the meyrill erase,
no kings, all sorts of stuff coming up on seven
to ten, wo.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
R, Mark Simon.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
Wr Well and Culture the best selling offer of the
great column. Let's make sure you follow her at Twitter
and even better as substack because on subjects she's got columns, podcasts, videos, interviews,
all sorts of stuff. Just go to and Culture dot
substack dot com and culture.

Speaker 6 (53:35):
How you doing fantastic? How are you? Mark Simon?

Speaker 3 (53:39):
Good?

Speaker 2 (53:39):
No?

Speaker 3 (53:40):
Did I see you marching in that No Kings thing
on Saturday?

Speaker 6 (53:44):
Uh? No, I would have brought the average age down
and I can buy about thirty years.

Speaker 3 (53:51):
Yeah, it did look like Halloween at the Senior Center,
didn't it.

Speaker 6 (53:55):
Yeah. It's very weird that these I mean, this has
got to be like the Bill Clinton generation and they
really think it's the Summer of love and they get
to have re sex and they're young and good looking,
and boy they aren't. Oh that that ship has sales.

Speaker 3 (54:11):
Yeah, I think it was more like the Eugene McCarthy generation,
the George McGovern generation.

Speaker 6 (54:16):
So hey, the Charles Manson generation.

Speaker 3 (54:21):
Yeah. Today, yesterday in Chinatown Ice rated they were resting illegals,
illegal vendors, and the Democrats were up in arms protesting.
Now is that a good idea? You know, those illegal
vendors in Chinatown. That's where you get the counterfeit Gucci
and Louis Vuitton. And do we really want to eliminate that?

(54:43):
We kind of like that.

Speaker 6 (54:44):
I would think that more people would be sympathetic to
keeping that than keeping many many other places alleged illegals go.
But I do think it's a little bit different than
traditional Canal street vendors they have they have storefronts, so

(55:05):
I don't even know that they're they're illegal. The new
push I gather was from the African selling stuff on
the street, and I do think that that is quite
different than having a storefront that that does start to
look like a very peasant third world country where people
just throw blankets on the ground and hawk their goods. No,

(55:26):
I got a storefront, and to have a storefront, I mean,
I think they're Koreans. The Koreans there. They're probably legal.

Speaker 3 (55:35):
Yeah, but you know those storefronts in China Town. When
you buy that stuff, you got a whisper and then
they whisper it back to you and then they take
you down in the base.

Speaker 6 (55:41):
I'm not saying the goods are legal, oh okay, but
this was an ice ray. They're supposed to be looking
for the illegal immigrants, not the knockoff Gucci bag.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
Yeah. So yeah, just make sure that you're legal and
you can sell it ulle part that's Scucci's problem. We'll
let them worry about it, right. Hey, this White House demolition,
it's happened before a million times with other presents. Why
did theo Why did these Democrats get themselves so outrage

(56:14):
they're talking about desecration of the White House from adding
a ballroom.

Speaker 12 (56:19):
No.

Speaker 6 (56:19):
Also, I like democrats pretending that they care about desecration
after years of them ripping down centuries old American history,
all of the monuments anyone, anyone in American history who
held a slave or did not denounce slavery, which would

(56:40):
be you know, everyone on the face of the earth,
since slavery existed in every country, every place. And guess what,
it still exists today, Mark Simone, principally in sub Sahara, Africa.
But no one will will point that out. Perhaps we
should cut off their funding, but no, this is what
I mean. All the Black Lives Matter pro tests, the

(57:01):
ripping down of history, the replacing portraits at universities, you know,
the science room, it has all their Nobel Prize winners. Nope,
got to take those portraits down because they're all white males.
So yeah, don't don't. Oh the orson arson and mostly
peaceful protests. Do not talk to me about desecration.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
Yeah, so if you could get rid of anything that
had a racist past, wouldn't you have to get rid
of the Democratic Party? Since?

Speaker 6 (57:28):
Oh yes, let's start there. That's a fine idea.

Speaker 3 (57:34):
Hey, tonight is the final mayoral debate, seven o'clock tonight.
What do you think can we stop? Mom? Donnie?

Speaker 6 (57:42):
No, no, no. The only shot ever, and even that
was a long shot, was was Adams that that is
a pure generic choice what you have now versus something
much worse. There are so many reasons to hate Cuombo.
I really, I've never thought he has a chance. Many
people hate him for many different reasons. I mean, maybe

(58:02):
these are the famous last words. I don't think it's
going to be a day at the beach if he
wins anyway, And I guess all we can hope for is,
I mean, New York City will get worse. The main
thing mom Dommy can do is make crime even worse
than it is now, which seems kind of hard to believe.

(58:23):
But a lot of the things he's promising he can't do.
Will he will have children of fours. He's definitely gonna
help wealthy landlords with non rent stabilized apartments. If he
freezes rents as he claims he will on the one
third of rental apartments that are in New York City
that are rent stabilized, that just makes the non rent

(58:44):
stabilized apartments more valuable, so those landlords can increase the
rent through the roof. There's a limited supply thanks to
mom dommy, So he will he will be helping people
well like himself. It is absolutely outrageous, and it was
so glib and flippant to say, oh, you know, Cuomo

(59:06):
thinks that he can he can solve the affordability crisis
by raising my and my wife's rent. No, the point
is he's rich living in a rent controlled apartment that's
supposed to be to help low and middle income New Yorkers,
not rich New Yorkers. But of course rent control is

(59:28):
there is no income qualification in New York for rent
controled apartments. So a few years ago, recent magazine did
an investigation and looked up all these New Yorkers Manhattan nights,
paying nine hundred dollars a month, three bedroom apartments. Meanwhile,
they have two million dollar homes in East Hampton.

Speaker 3 (59:47):
Yeah, if we had real press, actual real legitimate media,
so everything would be different. You know, they might keep
pointing out Democrats have controlled every inch in New York
for fifteen years, the legislature, city council, governor, mayor fifteen
years of this. If we have such an affordability crisis,
wouldn't make sense to get rid of the Democrats since

(01:00:08):
they it's their affordability crisis they've caused.

Speaker 6 (01:00:12):
No, of course, you're absolutely right. Every time I fly
into any New York airport, I think about this. They
are such complete disasters. I mean the scaffolding all over
New York. How long it takes to get anything done,
anything built. And there is a theory why did the
Access Powers after World War Two? Why did they become

(01:00:34):
economic juggernauts While Britain, the leader of the war until
we stepped in against Hitler, became known as the sick
man of Europe. Their economy has just steadily declined since
World War Two. And the argument is, after a while,
in any society, a country in this case, a city

(01:00:54):
special interests becomes so entrenched, it becomes like scoliosis. You
can't change, you can't move, and you need to just
destroy it and start from scratch, which luckily in a
way happened to Germany and Japan. And I don't know
how New York ever gets out of this. It just
seems like an endless downwards cycle. I suppose, you know,

(01:01:16):
start voting Republican and you can at least get rid
of the entrenched interests and massive corruption that runs this
city so that nothing can ever get done and the
entire infrastructure is falling apart.

Speaker 3 (01:01:28):
Yeah, that's another thing to remember. In fifteen days, thirteen days,
when the election happens, get rid of Alvin Bragg, put
in the Republican DA, vote for every Republican on the
city council. Change the city council. That could make a difference.
But we only got like a minute left. We got
through eight years at the Blasio. We could get through Mamdani, can't.

Speaker 6 (01:01:47):
We Well, what's great about the city remains great as
the people in the private industries. But yes, I agree
with you. People have got to get over forget about
associating those of you who hate the Republicans. Everything you
hate about the Republican Party. This ought to be just
an anti corruption vote, just to shake things up. Vote

(01:02:08):
whether now we're in the next election or the next one,
just keep voting Republican in a place like New York
to shake things up if you ever want the bad
things about it to change.

Speaker 3 (01:02:17):
Yeah, good point. Well, everybody follow and culture on Twitter. Hey,
make sure you follow on substacks. You got a lot
of stuff up there, interviews, podcast videos, all sorts of
things and culter dot substack dot com. Great stuff and Culter.
Thanks for being with us.

Speaker 6 (01:02:31):
Good to talk to you.

Speaker 8 (01:02:32):
Mark Simone, Bye bye, take care.

Speaker 3 (01:02:35):
Hey, now, don't forget tonight seven o'clock Final Debate. It's
on New York One. Now a lot of cable systems
don't get New York one. But I'm sure it'll be
online on YouTube. You'll be able to watch it online.
Final Debate tonight, seven o'clock until eight thirty. It's a
ninety minute debate. Unfortunately, you got Errol Lewis, nice, very

(01:02:57):
nice guy, but the most slanted bias left wing guy
in the world as the moderator. That shouldn't be happening,
but it will, But it's tonight that's the final debate,
and then early voting starts Saturday. That's right, in three
days people begin voting in the mayoral race. Hey, don't
forget Buck and Clay, they'll be here next right after

(01:03:20):
the twelve o'clock news with a great show on seven
to ten, wor set up.

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
Re said on the iHeartRadio app to WOOR to hear
Mark live.

Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
Set another for Mark's podcast, to hear him anytime.

Speaker 1 (01:03:33):
Now back to Mark Simone on WOOR.

Speaker 3 (01:03:38):
Well, let's see New York Post website, big new top story.
Curtis Lee what quits radio gig? In on air shouting match,
Curtis says, you'll never go back to WABC. Well, listen,
this is in the heat of the moment. Things calm down.
You never know that can be patched up. I had

(01:04:00):
a place for him here, but again it's just an
he's and I understand his anger. Everybody telling him to
get out of the race. It's insane. People should be
telling Cuomo to get out of the race. No point
in talking about it now. The most important thing is
tonight's debate. That's the final chapter of this campaign. Well,

(01:04:22):
there's another week after this, but if it's going to
turn around, it would probably have to be tonight Merril
Debates seven o'clock to eight thirty. It's on New York One.
Most people can't get that. It'll be on YouTube, it'll
be online, look for it anyway. I'll be back tomorrow.
We'll go over the debate, we'll analyze it, we'll break
it all down. Tomorrow. I'll be here ten to noon.

(01:04:44):
Don't go away. Buck and Clay are coming up next
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