FULL SHOW: Will NYPD Commissioner stay on board; Trouble for Kathy Hochul.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is considering whether to retain current NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch when he takes office. If Tisch does not stay on, former Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison is said to be a top contender for the role, according to sources close to Mamdani’s transition team. Mark interviews WOR midday Host Clay Travis from Clay and Buck. Clay has a new book out called "Balls." Did the Democrats try to use sports to highlight and promote the LGBTQ community? Governor Kathy Hochul is most likely to encounter significant challenges in the upcoming gubernatorial race, as U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik has announced her candidacy for governor in New York City. This development sets the stage for a highly competitive contest between the two prominent political figures. Former CIA Director John Brennan is reportedly under investigation by the Department of Justice. Sources indicate that the inquiry may lead to an indictment. Mark interviews Roger Friedman from Showbiz 411. Roger and Mark talk about the 2026 Grammy nominations. A Michael Jackson biopic is coming out that is attracting many people.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now this is the Mark Simon Show on sevent ten
wor Hey, well, thank got it Friday, Oh my god,
they get this week over with. We got a lot
to get to. We'll get to a crazy mom Donnie,
and what's he going to do with the police department.

(00:22):
We've got some intel on that. We'll get to that
coming up. We'll get to at least Stephonic running for governor.
There should be the end of Kathy Hoko. We'll get
to MSNBC. They're in their final week now of being MSNBC,
and a lot more to get to the shutdown. There
might be some kind of vote today, not necessarily to

(00:44):
end the shutdown, but to begin towards the end of
the Who knows what these people are going to do.
The shutdown continues today's day. They do that ten cut
in flights at a lot of airports. Now, it sounds bad,
and it is bad, but it's not as as bad
as you think, because we did this before. Remember they
were having problems with Newark Airport and the controllers, traffic controllers,

(01:06):
and it was all messed up, and they decided to
cut the flights ten percent for a while. So we
went through this already at Newark. They'll do this at
a number of airports, and what they cut are the
emptiest flights they can find. They are not a lot
of empty flights nowadays, but some less populated than others.
They'll cut those and combine them. So if you're traveling,

(01:27):
you'll see some delays. You'll also see some really crowded,
cramped planes, fewer flights and more people on each plane shutdown.
The problem is the polling is all over the map.
Some show that the Republicans are getting the blame, some
show Democrats are getting the blame. One of the problems

(01:49):
it's hard to poll because President Trump the idea when
he did the shutdown was to make it as the
least painful that he could make it. Don't cut anything
you don't have to cut. And you know when Obama
did the shutdown, he was the opposite. He tried to
make it as painful as possible. They wanted to make
the Republicans look bad, so they closed down a lot

(02:09):
more than they had to close down. They closed down everything,
and they deliberately tried to make it very painful for
the public. They closed down things that you didn't even
need to close. I mean there were World War Two
monuments that don't require any staffing of any kind, but
they still close those down, that put that yellow barricade
tape all over it, just to make it look as
ugly as they could. The president doing the opposite.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Here.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Hey Elis Stefanic has announced she is running for governor.
This was not unexpected. Here she is.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
It is clear we need a new generation leader to
step up and bring common sense and deliver results the
issues that I hear from not just in my district,
but all across the state. People are struggling with high
taxes in New York State. It's an affordability crisis. If
you look at utility rates, insurance rates, it is running
families and small businesses out of this state.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Okay, see, now it's an interesting situation. You just had
a guy win the mayoralty, a Democrat, and he ran
on affordability and that sort of stuff, which is odd
because it's the Democrats that caused it. The Democrats have
run every inch in New York for the last fifteen years.
Democrats at mayors, governors, legislature, city council. The whole thing's

(03:24):
been run by Democrats. So if it's an affordability crisis
and this crisis, and in that crisis, it's all the
Democrats fault. It would make sense to switch parties if
that party just gave you all these problems, switch parties
so it'll be easier for Stephonic to campaign on that.
Hochel can try campaigning on affordability. But she's been in
charge for eight years, and before that, Cuomo for years,

(03:48):
and it's her legislature, all Democrats, So it's going to
be tough, very to Here's the Stephanic's first campaign commercial.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
From the ashes of Kathy Hockel's failed policies, New York
Real Rise like we always do. The spirit of the
empire state cannot be broken. All we need is a
courageous leader ready for the fight. A least Dephonic will
make New York affordable and safe.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Now, Stephanic an upstate congresswoman, and you remember in those
hearings where Hokel had to testify in the congressional hearings,
it was Stephonic that really went after her on crime,
on everything else. I want to make sure you understand
that this simply says that we will cooperate with Ice.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
No, it does not say that I read what it says,
and let me talk to you about the results. Do
you know who secure a kan is? You should, as
the governor of New York State?

Speaker 5 (04:42):
Do you know refresh my recollection?

Speaker 3 (04:45):
He was an illegal migrant in New York and do
you know what crime he committed in addition to being
here legally?

Speaker 6 (04:50):
No, I do not, you do not.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
This was widely reported. He found a fifteen year old girl,
threatened her with a metal pull, told her to get
into the back seat of his car, He took her
clothes off, and he violently raped her in Albany, New York.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, now, Hokel had a really rough time testifying in
front of Stefanic. I'm sure this will be used in commercials.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
These are horrific crimes.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
In their heart, they're horrific crimes that are committed on
your watch. You sign this executive order on your first
day in office. You sign it again and again this January.
We deserve a governor who stands up for law abiding
New Yorkers, doesn't put illegals first, but actually puts New
Yorkers first. I appreciate Rather than going after the viral moment,
I suggest you no, no, no, I'm standing up for

(05:33):
New Yorkers zone. Rather than addressing the illegals in New York,
you are prioritizing your far left sanctuary state policies, which
you put in place with executive orders.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
So based on this kind of stuff, it would be
pretty easy I think for Stefanic to beat Hochel in
any debate now is the only complication for Stephanic. Bruce Blakeman,
I'm hearing, wants to run for governor. Bruce Blakeman is
the best county executive in America, done a phenomenal job
in Nassau County, just got re elected. Governor's race would

(06:04):
be next year would be you know, Nassau County will
not be happy to lose Blakeman, but it's worth it
if he can be the governor because then he can
fix the whole state. So at least Stephonic would have
to go through a primary battling Bruce Blakeman. That won't
be easy. I mean, you know, I'd have to go
with Blakeman on that. You know, like Stephonic, but Blakeman's

(06:25):
the best and in aal not national, but a big
statewide race for a governor. New York City is half
the votes in a governor's race, New York City is
half the votes. Now, if you study the history of this,
you got to win at least thirty five percent of
New York City as the Republican. To get elected governor,
you got to win thirty five percent of New York City.

(06:47):
It's not easy to do as a Republican. But in
the primary, that's a little different. So it'd be Blakeman
against Stephonic in the primary, and who knows, who knows
who else the other people will jump in there. You
never know, maybe Andrew Giuliani will try it again. Maybe
who knows, Maybe Lee Zelden Board in Washington may come

(07:08):
try it again. But Blakeman, Stephanic. It's a great situation
to have a couple of great candidates. So we'll see
who gets through that primary. Mom, Donnie, Now, the big,
big nightmare is the police department. That's the problem. He's
already named five people on his transition team. They're all

(07:28):
ex to Blasio, people to Blasio administration, one's from the
Adams administration. But the most important thing is keep people safe.
If you got safe streets, you got everything. So will
Jessica stay as police commissioners she hadn't said anything yet.
Now this could get interesting. We'd want her to stay.

(07:49):
She's done a good job. She might not stay just
simply because she doesn't want to work with Mom Donnie,
or she doesn't like some of his policies. And if she,
you know, she'll want to run against him in four years,
so she may not want to stay if she leaves.
Who's the police commissioner. This is the big fear with
Mom Donnie. Everybody thinks he's going to put Al Sharpton
in charge of the police department or something like that,

(08:11):
some crazy left wing sort of a character. This is
the big, big worry. But this is not bad news.
Apparently this is from the inside of the Mam Donnie world.
If he has to pick up police commissioner right now,
highest on his list is the Suffolk County Police Commissioner,
Rodney Harrison. He's not a bad guy. Rodney Harrison, Suffolk

(08:36):
County Police Commissioner. He's been there for a couple of years.
He ran the he actually ran the department and left
at the end of Steve Balloone's term as county executive.
But he's the guy that he formed the task force
that finally got the Gilgo Beach serial killer. He was
with the NYPD. He retired in twenty twenty one as
chief of department. That's the highest uniform position, so everybody

(09:00):
thinks he's a good guy police Former police Commissioner of
Suffolk Rodney Kay Harrison looks like that right now would
be Mom Donnie's choice. And if Jessica Tish will stay,
it looks like they'll make Harrison the deputy mayor in
charge of public safety, so he'd be overseeing her and

(09:20):
I don't know what their relationship is or she'd want
to work under him, But we'll see, Tish. I think
we'll wait and see who's appointed, who's going to be
what before she decides anything. Now, for the last thirty years,
new mayors have always ended up bringing in their own
police commissioner. It's just tradition, you know. When Rudy Giuliani

(09:42):
took over, Ray Kelly was the police commissioner out. He's
the greatest police commissioner ever ever. And I remember talking
to Rudy Juliana at the time. He knew that. He
just said, I can't keep you know, a previous guy.
I have to have my own commissioner. Some just think
they got to have her own person in there. So
it's highly unusual to keep a police commissioner. We'll see

(10:04):
if this is the one time where it actually actually happens. Now,
you keep hearing everybody's gonna leave. People are all going
to run away from New York. They always say they
said that when Deblasio so offic Some people did, but
not as many as you thought. It's not as bad
as you think. George Santos has announced he's leaving New York.
He's George Santos leaving New York. He lives in Queen's actually,

(10:29):
so he said he can't stay here under mom Donnie.
But I don't think that's a great loss that George
Santos is leaving. Now you could say, well, why does
he just move to Nasau County, Bruce blakemhan you can
trust him? Well, that's where Santos had all his trouble
in Nassau County. I don't think he wants to go
back there. Hey, congratulations Elon Musk, who was the richest

(10:52):
man in the world. That's quite an honor, quite a headline.
To be the single richest man on earth. That's an
incredible unbelievab accomplishment. Well, now another accomplishment. He's now the
highest paid guy in the history of the world, biggest
compensation package ever in the history of the world. Tesla
the board of directors approved his new pay package, which

(11:14):
is the new pay package is one trillion dollars with
a t one trillion dollars. It's unbelievable. But apparently he
threatened to leave the company if he didn't get it,
and the Tesla board was scared as can be. They
don't think the company can exist without Musk. Now, to

(11:36):
get the trillion, he'll have to hit a series of
performance marks. He's fifty four years old. He uh oh, hey,
he's still the richest guy. He's the richest guy in
the world. Four hundred and ninety billion. Four hundred and
ninety billion. I think about that. If you had four billion,
you'd be unbelievably rich. But four hundred and ninety billion.

(12:00):
Let's say there was a hole in your pocket and
you didn't know it, and ninety billion fell out of
your pocket and you lost it. You're still worth four
hundred billion. It wouldn't really matter. I don't even know
why you even work. This is like five hundred billion.
If you put that, if you just invested it, you'd
have five billion a year in income. Five billion a

(12:22):
year in income. You couldn't spend that if you tried.
But guys like this love to work. He'll be awarded
all kinds of stock in twelve tranches first round. If
it hits, there's all kinds of targets you have to
have to sell. He has to deliver twenty million vehicles,
Tesla hats has to hit two trillion in valuation. He

(12:45):
has to deliver one million of the Optimus human eyed robots. Yeah,
that's next. The robots are coming. If they get all
the hurdles, Tesla stock would explode and be worth eight
point five trillion, with Musk getting a quarter. That's so,
that's how they'll end up with a trillion dollars in income.

(13:07):
And let's say it doesn't work out well and they
only hit two benchmarks, then he'll earn twenty six billion
from that. This is unbelievable. You know, he'll be earning
more money than Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, and Jensen Huang
in the video combined. Combined, seventy five percent of shareholders
voted in favor of the proposal that just terrified of

(13:29):
losing him. They don't think anybody else could run the
company like that. Unbelievable. Hey, Dave Portnoy, here's another one.
Portnoy says he's gonna pull Barstool from New York City.
Their headquarters is here. He's threatening, he says, I hate
the guy. He's threatening to pull out and move Barstool.
Portnoy just bought a thirty million dollar house in Miami,

(13:52):
so I imagine that's where he'd move it. You know,
people go, you know, on their phone. That's how they
are in the You read the newspaper on the computer,
you read your websites, you read your book on a kindle,
you do all that. That's all changing slowly. People don't
want to read anymore. It's incredible how lazy people are getting.

(14:13):
And wait till AI takes over, you're going to see
laziness like you've never seen. So a lot of people
don't want to read a book on a kindle. They
want talking books. They don't have to hold it, look
at it, move their eyes. They don't want to have
to do that. They want to just have a talking book. Well,
it's affecting everything else newspapers are starting to realize they've
got to start talking. It can't just be print. The

(14:35):
New York Times has been working very hard on what
they call the post text era, so they're quickly moving
to platforms where everybody's talking, all the writers doing audio
and video. So when you go to the New York Times,
you don't have to tire yourself out reading. You can
just listen and watch. So all their big writers columns

(14:57):
are turning into talking heads. This is the big thing
audio video. At some point, if you've got no time
machine and went to five years from now, there might
not be any print of any kind anymore. Everything is
just talking and video. Hey, oh, you will be with
us later this hour, Clay Travis. Clay Travis will be
here in a few minutes. We'll talk to Clay Travis.

(15:18):
He's got a new book out. And then, uh, well,
a lot more to get to and 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. If you're
listening to Mark on the iHeartRadio app, save time and
tap the preset button.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
Now.

Speaker 7 (15:38):
Now back to the Mark Simone Show on WOOR.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to H. David
in Brooklyn. David, how you doing.

Speaker 8 (15:48):
Hey, good morning, How are you good? Okay, I just
want to if you give me thirty seconds, I make
my point. You speaking yesterday that the election turnout was
only forty five percent, So I want to explain something
my training statistics. I think forty five percent is actually
too high. And I'll splaink to you why New York
City does not have a system of people removing themselves

(16:10):
from the from the voting world, Meaning when someone registers
to vote in New York, then they move to Florida
from they move wherever. They don't call up.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
People do not know. That's a good point that the
actual total might be higher, but people aren't.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
By the way, you don't have to say give me
give me thirty sent you be interesting. If you're really interesting,
you can stay on. You'll be on for ten minutes.
If it's not so interesting, it might be ten seconds.
Let's go to Mike in Florida.

Speaker 9 (16:33):
Mike, how you doing, good morning, Mark, Yes, Mike, just
to get off the politics for a couple of seconds.
I was cruising YouTube and I came across a bunch
of Neil Sidaka videos and I was wondering if you
were friends with him, and also, how short is Neil Sedaka?
He looked. It was one where he's dancing, he's singing,

(16:53):
there's a bunch of dancing girls, and he looks like
he comes up to their waist.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Well, no, he's not. He's a good friend of mine.
He's not. He's not tall, but I would say he's
five nine probably okay, maybe he's five five nine. But
you know, when they put you in the show with
the dancing girls, they're always like six feet tall, these dancers.

Speaker 10 (17:11):
So true.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, but he does, he's doing.

Speaker 10 (17:14):
He's pushed.

Speaker 9 (17:15):
He's in his eighties.

Speaker 10 (17:16):
I know that.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah, you can see how he's doing because if you're
follow him on Facebook or online, probably on YouTube too.
Every couple of days in his own apartment over there
on the Upper East Side, he makes these videos. Him
at the piano and he sings some of his songs.
He might want to get a little better dressed for them.
It's usually him and his pajamas.

Speaker 9 (17:40):
He's an underrated genius.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
I say, Oh, he's a brilliant guy. And he's one
of the few artists in the world. Like some of
those videos, you'll see him do laughter in the rain
just at the piano. He's one of the few guys
in real life can When he does it, it sounds
exactly like the like the recording, exactly like the record.

Speaker 9 (17:55):
That's impressive.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
You know how many times you go to a concert
and they're doing their hit and it doesn't sound anything
like the single that you've heard for years. But now
that that sounds perfect. Thanks for calling, Mike. Let's go
to Aaron in Indianapolis. Aaron, how you doing good?

Speaker 10 (18:10):
Boarding?

Speaker 6 (18:11):
Mark?

Speaker 9 (18:11):
I want to talk about the new.

Speaker 5 (18:13):
Incoming New York mayor.

Speaker 11 (18:15):
Yes, I think I think we should extend the peace
offering and send him some gift boxes of ham sandwiches.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
I don't know what that means, but I think we
should send him to Indianapolis. Let him run your town
for a little while. It didn't like that. I had
a lot of silence there. Let's go to Bill in Pennsylvania. Bill,
how you doing okay?

Speaker 12 (18:37):
Mark?

Speaker 11 (18:37):
It's I'm wondering why right ways like Stiftanic use the
word affordability. Those are the leftwards, but we should be
using your slogan common sense.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
Well, we use that a lot. Now President Trump uses
that a lot.

Speaker 11 (18:53):
I know, but it should be the rallying cry. Everybody
says that they that these people are saying, you know,
afford a bill, and they're going to wait across the
country with that slogan. We should respond by saying. Commons says, well,
we do, we do, we do.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
President Trump, as I say, he says it a lot.
You can't decide what the big slogan is. You can
just keep saying it. Then you see what catches on.
For some reason, the affordability caught on with the public.
They like the word, you know, it's like branding. Sometimes
it catches on, sometimes it doesn't. But affordability it's a
big issue right now. But you got a lot of

(19:29):
the President's policies and a lot of the things in
the pipeline going through the economy that will bring prices down.
So in six months prices might be a lot lower,
and then it won't be a very good word for
a campaigning anymore. Let's go to Susan and Brooklyn. Susan,
how you doing, Hi?

Speaker 13 (19:44):
Great? Mark, love your show. I just have to make
a comment. I received my two hundred dollars inflation refund
check from local. And the thing is they tell you
on this to keep the stub on the top to
file with your twent five taxes. And it even says
it on the check. This is insane. I'm being taxed

(20:06):
on money that I was already taxed on.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Well, I don't know. Does that mean you have to
pay taxes on it just because you have to keep
the stub?

Speaker 13 (20:12):
Well, it says this refund is issued on your income
tax return for the years shown below tax year twenty
twenty five.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
I don't know. You got ask an account? That might
mean you don't have to pay tax on how come
I didn't?

Speaker 9 (20:24):
I didn't get it?

Speaker 11 (20:25):
Check?

Speaker 1 (20:25):
How come I didn't get one?

Speaker 13 (20:28):
I don't know. Maybe you make too much money? What
can I say? Mark, have a good day.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
All right, thanks for calling. Hey, We'll take a break
for the news, get caught up on everything, and when
we come back, we'll talk to Clay Travis. Last night
was the Patriot Awards in Long Island, Fox News, Fox Nation.
They do this great Patriot Awards. First, lady was there,
Erica Kirka. Clay Travis was there. He's also got a
new book out. We'll talk to him about that. But

(20:55):
first let's get all the latest news. Let's get caught
up on everything on seven to ten Insight from the inside.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
This is seven to ten Wrson Show.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Well with us right now, Clay Travis superstar. Of course
you listen to Buck and Clay and every day twelve
noon to three, the Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show noon
to three every day right after me. You seem all
over television of course, OutKick all that stuff. And he's
a best selling author. This is another bestseller that has
just come out. His new book is called Balls. It's

(21:31):
actually a fascinating book. And Clay Travis, thanks for actually
coming into the studio.

Speaker 7 (21:36):
Well, thank you for having me. Most importantly, thanks for
being a tremendous lead in for the show for all
these years. And you are dominating in New York City
as you long have, and we appreciate you passing the
baton to us at noon, and we get to talk
to a lot of people all over the country and
certainly a lot of people in New York who are grappling,

(21:57):
as we were talking about off air, with what has
been a challenging week, I think, to say the least.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah, it's been a long week. I don't know, we'll
get through this, and let's talk about the book first.
That's an interesting subject because it's called Balls, but it's
about sports, and you know, I never thought about it.
I read this book the Democrats going into all these
dangerous areas with people, but screwing around with sports. Yeah,

(22:24):
that's bad.

Speaker 7 (22:24):
Well, I think there's a sense among young men that
they have been villainized for many things that they've had
absolutely nothing to do with at all. And I think,
when when I think about my lifetime, I feel I
grew up in the era that girls and boys should
be treated equally under the law. And Title nine probably

(22:47):
is a is a strong component of the era that
I grew up in. But it wasn't that there was
something wrong with being male or being female. It was
that both sexes should be able to espid to be
the highest level of success possible, which seemed very very
healthy to me. And then in the last I would

(23:07):
say decade, certainly we moved into a world where being
male there was something wrong with it and something toxic
with it. And so many young men who are growing
up in this era are looking around and saying, there's
a couple of anecdotes in here but one of my
favorite is one of my kid's friends came home one

(23:28):
day with me and he said, mister Clay, we learned
today at school that white men cause all the problems
in the world and we're the reason that everything is awful.
And they told us, you know that we have all
this power, And he said, my mom doesn't even let
me pick what I eat for dinner, mister Clay, what
power do I have? And it's a silly, funny anecdote,

(23:52):
but I think it kind of gets at the representative
issue here, which is we have created a world where
young men feel like they're blamed for everything, given credit
for nothing, and in this twenty twenty four election, they
pushed back against that in a pretty aggressive way.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
So do you think Democrats targeted sports thinking it's too
macho or was it just a yeah.

Speaker 7 (24:17):
I don't know how targeted it was or how much
it was just a natural outgrowth of their attempt to
take overall culture. But this book goes into to me
when it really began in earnest and you may remember
this story, some of your listeners will, but it kind
of feels like a long time ago now because so
many stories have happened since. But Michael Sam was a

(24:40):
star defensive end for the Missouri football team in the
SEC SEC player of the Year defensively, I think, but
like a lot of guys going to the pros, they
saw him as not an ideal fit. He wasn't big
enough to play defensive end, he wasn't fast enough to
play linebacker. There are all these issues, and so he
ended up getting drafted late. And when he got drafted,

(25:02):
he made out with his boyfriend on ESPN. You know,
they were sitting there with a camera right in his face.
And then the entire Michael Sam's story was obsessively covered
by ESPN. And that was the first time I remember
someone becoming a star of coverage without being a star.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
On the field.

Speaker 7 (25:24):
The only reason people were following that story was because
he was gay. And when I go back and look
at it now, then you had Caitlin Jenner's situation, certainly
Colin Kaepernick taking a knee. They tried to turn sports
into politics by any other name. And you know, I
came one of my prior books as Republicans by Sneakers Too,

(25:46):
which is from the Jordan era, when hey, I want
my excellence in athletics to speak to anybody, Why would
I want a way into politics and alien eight half
the country, which I actually think is the way that
a super smart sports league or a super smart athlete
would be. And by the way, this all culminated to
me with Leah Thomas winning a women's swimming title as

(26:10):
a man. And also for those people who remember it
in the twenty twenty bubble when the NBA players actually
took their own names off the back of their jerseys
and replace them with political slogo, which is it's all crazy,
but that is chronicled here as what we saw in
twenty twenty four was I think a backlash to that era.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Well, get the book. It's fascinating. It's Klay Travis's new
book called Balls, and it really explores all of this.
But why did guys like Roger Goodell, Why did they
cave to this? Why didn't they stand up for their sports?

Speaker 7 (26:45):
Because they did what was best for them personally that
was worse for the league's I think it's such a
good question. If you're an old white guy and you're
making forty million dollars a year, as Roger Goodell is,
and your league is made up a majority black athlete.
Do you want to be the guy that steps in
front of the media train to be seen immediately by

(27:07):
all of the sports media as the old, racist, white
guy who is trying to run the league. I think
he recognized, and certainly the owners did that this was
bad for the overall brand of the league and bad
for the outreach of audience. But they did what was
in their best interest to preserve their jobs as opposed

(27:28):
to what was in the league's best interest.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Now, there are some psychologists to say that's the reason
the Democrats go so crazy about Donald Trump, that's the
reason for this Trump arrangements in him, that he's such
an old fashioned, macho, kind of fifties kind of guy,
and you think that's part of.

Speaker 7 (27:44):
The well, look, I think the reason why the left
hates football in general is because it represents alpha masculinity.
I mean, there is no woman who's ever going to
make a football team, And in order to play football
at a high level, you have to be a physical
beast who puts your body on the line every single play.

(28:06):
And you know, there's a reason that football, and obviously
it's much less serious, has been analogized so often to
warfare because it's just physical carnage on the field, our
most aggressive. There's a great quote at West Point one
of their football coaches, and I'm not going to remember

(28:27):
it perfectly, but on you know, basically, the idea was
at West Point, we train men through football to be
able to eventually win on battlefields because it's about following orders,
it's about being in the right position, and so there's
always been a militaristic components of football that I think
also makes left wingers a little bit uncomfortable.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
Wells all about Clay Travis Gain his latest book. It's
already a bestseller, but go get the book. It's called Balls.
You'll love this book. Hey Clay Travis, you founded OutKick Now? Yeah,
you way back in the beginning all the big sports
sports Illustrated, ABC, ESPN. How come they didn't see you coming?
How did you get ahead of them?

Speaker 7 (29:09):
It is I think we have the most culturally influential
sports site now at OutKick, and Fox now owns it,
and we have a lot of impact. I think that's
part of what I write about in the book is
I think there's an advantage to being sort of a
speed ship a speedboat when everybody else is an aircraft

(29:33):
carrier because it allows you to adjust on the fly
quickly and see oncoming issues without having to run everything
through a bureaucracy in order to make it happen. And
so I think also the thing that is remarkable to
me is not that OutKick worked and continues to work
so well for Fox. It's that no one's ever competed

(29:56):
with us.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
You know.

Speaker 7 (29:58):
I sometimes look around and I say, boys, it's like
I invented beer, and nobody else will come out with
their own version of a beer. So that's maybe the
most remarkable thing about it. And if people aren't familiar
with the story of OutKick in sports, I think there's
a business and entrepreneurial story that is built into into
this book as well.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
Absolutely, we'll get the book. It's a brand new book
from Clay Travis called Balls. You will love the book.
Listen to Clay Travis and Buck Session today noon to three,
and of course you'll see them all over television. But
the book is called Balls. Go get it. Clay Travis,
thanks for starting.

Speaker 7 (30:33):
Thank you for killing it for us for so many
years as the lead in. We really love this station
and everything you guys do and we look forward to
talking with you guys for years and years to come.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
All right, we'll do it again soon. Thank your Simon
show on woor oh, I don't know, it's been quite
a week. You got the MoMA putting together a transition team.

(31:03):
Another big fear besides what he'll do with the police department,
is the anti Semitism of Mom Donnie, the anti Semitism
that surrounds him. You know, he's been going on Morning
Joe there that crazy Morning Joe Swamp Joe at MSNBC,
and also a regular guest on the show is the

(31:24):
director of the ADL, you know, the Defense League. So
apparently Joe Scarborough has decided to arrange a meeting between them.
You know, it's one of the biggest institutions that represents
Jewish New Yorkers. He said, it's important that they sit
down with Mom Donnie and engage with each other because

(31:48):
the Defense League has pointed out, you know, Mam Donniel
bragged that he went to a synagogue, but they'll point
out the only team he goes to a synagogue's an
anti Zionist synagogue. So this will be an interesting Now.
The only problem is it's Morning Joe. It's MSNBC, so
Scarborough says, So we may may add Al Sharpton to
the meeting, but we'll see, you know, and it's one

(32:13):
thing to just go meet with these people. It's just
a gesture and you need much more than gestures. Here. Hey,
we'll get We had a lot to get to. In
the next hour. We'll get back to Mom, Donnie and
we'll get to we'll get to MSNBC. It's their final
week coming up. There'll be no more MSNBC. It's not
going to switch to something called ms now. But rebranding

(32:33):
is very, very dangerous. We'll talk about that in the
next hour. Now, I'm here every day ten to noon,
or you could listen to the podcast that way, you
can listen to any time you want, day or night.
And by the way, if you're a podcast listener, there's
a bonus segment that's not on the air that you'll
get every weekend back after the news seven to ten
WR here's more marks alone on sevent ten. Woor Well,

(32:58):
it's been quite a week. It's it's over. It's over.
We need a weekend to recover. It's getting cold out
the Rockefeller Center tree they cut it down. It's on
its way. It'll be here there too. That's how you know.
I guess summer's over. Rockefeller Center tree is on its way.
I was in the Central Park. The skating rink is open.

(33:20):
I guess. I guess summer is finally over. Hey, By
the way, if you want to look at leaves, changing colors,
the leaves, apparently, this is the peak weekend around here,
around the New York City area, in Long Island, Connecticut,
New Jersey, this is the peak weekend. So do it
this weekend. Nancy Pelosi has announced she will not seek reelection.

(33:45):
That's great news. President Trump was asked about it. I
think she's an able woman. I'm glad she's retiring.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
I think she did the country a great service by retiring.
I think she was a tremendous liability.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
For the country. Now you're saying, well, way would he
say that? He shouldn't talk like that? Why does he
talk like well? Because a couple of days before, did
you hear what she said about him? She's on a
being interviewed by somebody on some show. To listen to
the hyperbole, listen to how crazy they get.

Speaker 13 (34:16):
He's just a vital creature.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
The worst thing on the face of the earth. But anyway,
you think he's the worst thing on the face of
the earth.

Speaker 7 (34:24):
I do, Yeah, I do.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
Yeah. They just get so crazy about him. They get
so crazy, we're gonna there's a couple of prominent psychologists
who actually said, what sets them off so much? Why
is he? You know, they hated Bush and they they
hated Reagan and they went after him, but this is
beyond anything. Some psychologists think it's because you know, they're

(34:48):
trying to be so woke and you know DEI and
he's just like this old fashion macho guy, old fashioned
nineteen fifty these sort of macho kind of it's that
that sets them off. And then there's some psychologists that
say it's like daddy issues, Like they've got massive daddy

(35:11):
issues with this guy, but he just sets them up.
I mean, listen to her, this is nice. If I
played the clip and I didn't say who she's talking about,
who would you guess you probably think she's talking about
Iatola Komanie or Putin or bin Laden. But if you
didn't know who she was talking about, the worst thing

(35:34):
on the face of the earth. But you think he's
the worst thing on the face of the earth.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
I do.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
Yeah, it's pretty funny. Now. The only sad thing about
her leaving it was great to watch her trade stocks.
She was the greatest insider trading in the history of
the world. Nobody you know, you're allowed to do insider
trading in Congress. So a lot of people made a
couple of millions. She made, like, got close to a
billion dollars. Now, listen to this over the last ten years.

(36:01):
Because of her insider trading. Over the last ten years,
Nancy Pelosi outperformed Warren Buffett Buffett's stock portfolio. Buffett grew
his portfolio by one hundred and eighty five percent. Pelosi
grew hers by seven hundred and twenty percent, almost four
times the gains. You got to give her credit for

(36:22):
at least for that. The greatest insider trading in the
history of the world. In her case, it was legal.
So a last Stephonica is going to run for governor.
She's why would she announce it now? It's a year
one year away. Do you really need a whole year? Well, okay,
it helps, you know. Some say that was the big,
big problem with Cuomo. He was just so dead all

(36:43):
through the primaries. He didn't wake up until the last
two weeks. One reason you start early. It gives you
an excuse to go around and campaign, not in the
big places, but in the little places. That's why the
candidates go to Iowa year ahead. You go to these little,
tiny places where nobody's really going to watch. You know,
you're not gonna get a lot of coverage, which is good,
but you do speech as you meet with voters, and

(37:04):
that way you hone the message. You're really you know,
six months of that and then you're ready for the
real campaign. You have developed a message, a stump speech,
You've really got yourself up to speed. So that's why
you do it a year ahead of time. Now, Hokeel
is going to have a huge problem. Normally, these Democrats
will campaign on affordability and whatever crisis. Well, now you've

(37:28):
got a Republican who can just look at you and
say you're the one in charge for the last eight years.
It's your fault. You created it. So I don't know
what she's going to do about that. The other big
problem she has is a Mom Donnie problem. You can
assume a year from now, Mom Donnie will have been
a terrible, terrible mayor, and she endorsed them. She is
going to have to deal with that picture of her
and him they pose together holding their hands up together,

(37:51):
clasped hands. So she's going to have to answer for that,
and that's not going to be easy. It's going to
be a big problem for her. Hey, MSNBC a week
from today will no longer exist. Friday, the fifteenth final
day of MSNBC. It's gone. They'll rebrand it as they'll

(38:12):
call it MS now. They gave people a tour of
their new studio. They've been kicked out of Rockefeller Center.
Their new studios kind of small, it's a little cramped.
They'll be operating out of there. But you know, there's
a lot of branding experts that say they may not
realize how dangerous this is. You know, it's gonna be
the same show, same anchors, won't look as good because

(38:33):
it'll be smaller studios. They will no longer have NBC
News resources or correspondence or all of that. But anytime
you rebrand, you know you could just change you know, well,
if you said yeah, but they just changing the name
or they're just changing the logo, it can affect things.
Look what happened to Cracker Barrel. Cracker Barrel just changed

(38:56):
the logo and they redecorated the stores. Rebranding is very, very,
very dangerous, so it'll be interesting to see what happens now.
MSNBC apparently is worried about the dangers of rebranding, so
they put together a few million dollars to do an
ad campaign to promote the new brand. You'll start seeing

(39:17):
that everywhere. And this is a company that was spun
off from NBC in comcasts, so a few millions a
lot of money to them, but it's going to be
quite a struggle. Hey, Hey, speaking of television, sometime today,
I'm going to go over to the Paley Center. You know,
that's like the Museum of Television and Radio. They call
it the Paley Center. But this is the final weekend

(39:41):
it's there, and I want to The museum is going
to be there forever, but what's there for the final
weekend is Johnny Carson's actual desk and parts of the
Tonight Show set. I want to go over there and
see it before it goes away. It'll be there through Sunday.
At the Paley Center. You can actually see the actual
Johnny Carson, which is that's pretty cool. And then Paley

(40:04):
Fest actually begins. Now they got a whole bunch of
big events. The check the schedule. You can get tickets.
Where there's Trisha Yearwood, is there Ted Danson, who's got
this hot news series on Netflix. Just go to a
pale museum dot org. It's all for a very good cause. Hey,
there is some good news this week. Looks like John
Brennan that the dirty, dirty CIA director will be indicted.

(40:29):
Apparently they are preparing indictments against him. They will go
after him. Hopefully they'll get him. But even if they don't,
just put him on trial. This is the dirtiest CIA
director we've ever had. Also a communist, by the way,
I mean literally he admits to having voted in presidential
elections for the communist candidate. Now that's the kind of guy.

(40:50):
This is CIA director. You know, Comy was at one
time a communist. He's talked about earlier in his life
being an actual communist. He tries to pose some sort
of Apublican he's always always been very left wing Democrat,
but he admits earlier in his life he was an
actual communist. Do you remember the McCarthy stuff. McCarthy hearings.
If you even happen to walk into a Communist party

(41:14):
meeting or a Communist club meeting, you were banned from
society for the rest of your life. These guys were
actual communists, declared communists. Komy Brennan. Also remember it was
Brennan who signed that ridiculous letter from the fifty one
former intelligence officials who said the Hunter laptop was Russian disinformation.

(41:36):
Absolutely insane stuff. You hear all this talk. Everybody's moving,
everybody's leaving. Everybody's fleeing New York because of Mom Donnie.
I don't know, well, there'll be some people to leave,
but everybody's going to leave that fast. We went through
this with the Blasio same thing. Everybody's leaving. Some people did,
but not a lot. But they're panicking in Florida. And

(42:00):
all the homes that are available in Florida. You know,
they figure everybody will move to Florida. Now all these
rich people moved to Florida, so the homes that would
be that were available are all getting snapped up like crazy,
not by New Yorkers but by local Floridians who, apparently,
in the last weeks since Momdani have flooded the market
because they're afraid all these New Yorkers will come down

(42:23):
and buy everything, and when they start buying like crazy,
it'll drive the pricest way up in Florida. So local
Floridians started buying stuff. There were homes that were on
sitting on the market for months with no activity that
all of a sudden had dozens of offers Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
And these homes are getting snapped up at the fastest

(42:44):
rate they've ever seen. Condos that sat through the whole
summer with no bidders now have multiple offers. It's going
on all over the East Coast, Miami, Boca Palm Beach.
In fact, they're starting to see it in Orlando and
other places. Floridians happen up these homes because they know
it's going to drive prices up like crazy. Hey, you know,

(43:05):
podcasting is a big thing.

Speaker 10 (43:07):
Now.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
There's two kinds of podcasts. There's the real ones, the
professional ones. iHeart is the biggest podcast in the world.
Serious is a big podcaster Spotify obviously, but nobody's bigger
than iHeart. And we've got all the top top names
in the world podcasting. Now, the other part of podcasting
is every amateur now has a podcast because anybody can

(43:31):
do it. Now, if you talk about a professional podcast,
we have millions and millions and millions of listeners. If
you're Joe Rogan, you got forty million listeners or whatever
he's got. The one with President Trump, the campaign podcast,
I think that hit one hundred million listens at one point.
Even my podcast will hit ten million this year. Ten

(43:53):
million listens. We did nine point four million last year.
But it's a big deal these podcasts. Now. Netflix wants
to get into the podcasting business. They want to seriously
get into the podcasting business. Netflix of course the number
one best known streaming place, but they think that's not enough,

(44:14):
that you better expand all of that. So they want
to get into podcasting. They're making a deal. Well, they're
in talks with Serious XM YouTube. By the way, it's
a huge podcaster. So Netflix is talking to SERIOUSXM to
combine and have all of their podcasts. Now. They want
to do it audio and video. SERIOUSXM has some big

(44:36):
podcast Caller Daddy Morbid, Dateline NBC. But they're trying to
strike some kind of deal. Earlier they made a deal
with Spotify. They got to Bill Simmons podcast, Zach Lowe
Conspiracy Theories, and some others. Now, the biggest podcaster of
all is iHeart. There's nobody bigger than iHeart. Hollywood reporter

(44:57):
says Netflix has also approached iHeart Media about a similar arrangement.
iHeart has some of the most important podcasts in the world,
like the Breakfast Club done over there, right across the hall,
and stuff you should know. Now, there's some trade magazines
this morning writing that it sounds impressive, but that they

(45:19):
think Netflix is way too late, way too late to
get into this, that they've missed the boat on it.
They'll never catch up. You know, when they started with
the streaming stuff, they were ahead of everybody else. That's
how they got so big. And you remember at the time,
you kids today, you won't know what I'm talking about.

(45:40):
Before Netflix, if you wanted to see a movie at home,
you had to go to a store like a Blockbuster
video store, and you had to rent the movie for
a day or two. One time it was on a cassette,
a VHS cassett, and you'd have to rewind it. If
you didn't rewind it before you brought it back, you
get fined, and then later it was a DVD. This

(46:02):
sounds crazy. Can you imagine a twenty three year old listening.
What what do you mean you went to a street. Yeah,
you had to go to a blockbuster, rent the thing,
bring it back. You had to go back the next day.
And state of the art was they put it like
a slot in the door, so he didn't have to
go during the day. You could go late at night
and drop it through the slot. But then Netflix started.

(46:24):
Netflix actually started, I think it was DVDs. It was DVDs,
and then they started streaming. Eventually they got rid of
the DVDs and streaming took over. So but again podcasting,
they're way too late to jump on board. Hey King Charles, boy,
is he out to get this? Prince Andrew. He stripped
him of his title, the Duke of this, the Duke

(46:45):
of that, the Earl of the Duke of Earl, whatever
the hell he was. King Charles keeps taking things away,
kicked him out of the wherever he was living, such palace,
taken everything. Final humiliation, he stripped his brother of his
other tie. He was left with Royal Highness and Prince
so he's no longer any of that stuff.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
Now.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
This is all because of the Jeffrey Epstein, Gallaine Maxwell stuff.
This woman wrote a book with all the allegations, but
it's never been proven. Nothing's been proven. Just because somebody
claimed it hasn't been proven. But on the other hand,
he's never denied it. He's never actually denied the allegations.
So the only thing he has left he's a Vice

(47:27):
Admiral of the Royal Navy. That title given him in
twenty fifteen. He did spend twenty two years in the
Royal Navy and he actually saw active service. Was a
helicopter pilot during the Falklands War. Ooh, a helicopter pilot.
This is like Mikey Cheryl. Two of them could start
a little helicopter company there. But this Prince Andrew, I

(47:49):
don't know what he's gonna do. If I were him,
I would just leave. Just hey, come over here, come
over here. They'll treat Hill like a big tabloid star.
But he would face charges if he came out of here,
so that's why he has to stay in England. 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 7 (48:11):
Did Mark on Demand by setting a pre sad for
his podcast on the iHeart Radio app. Now back to
Mark Simon on.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Wor Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Uh,
let's go to John and Florida.

Speaker 10 (48:26):
John, how you doing morning?

Speaker 2 (48:28):
Mark?

Speaker 11 (48:29):
Mark bum Sean go from retail for the airlines.

Speaker 10 (48:32):
To pick up the controller salaries and then reimbursed them
when the government comes back.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
Well, those airlines don't make much money to begin with.
The profit marginal an airline is practically nothing. It's almost
impossible to run an airline. As Donald Trump used to
point that out. You know, uh, he used to explain
that he went to business school with all these geniuses.
Some of them became billionaires, and some of them didn't

(48:56):
make that much money. And he said the reason was
some of them went into the right business. Is they
went into oil and made billions. Some of them went
into airlines and you can barely make a living there.
It's not easy on those airlines. I know they they
can be really awful to customers, but good news is
they're not making much profit those airlines. Let's go to
Georgia and Long Island, George, how you doing fine?

Speaker 10 (49:19):
Mare, Just a quick statement, Mendani has some type of
cult following where you can get a million votes like
he did.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
I think you'll have an impact on the governor's election.

Speaker 10 (49:29):
Whether it be fin as we just said.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
Yeah, Now, it's not a cult following. When you win
a majority of the votes in New York City, that's
more than a cult. That's a lot of people, but
a lot of that. These younger people who you know,
indoctrinated in all these universities, haven't seen a lot of history.
Don't know that Every so often, every twenty years, somebody
comes along with this socialist nonsense and it always fails.

(49:54):
And anytime the government jumps in and decided they're going
to do stuff for the poor, always the rich that
benefits the most from it. In the end, he always
figured out how to benefit from it. Let's go to
Nick and basking Ridge. Nick, how you doing hi?

Speaker 6 (50:09):
Mark? You mentioned Trump arrangement syndome, and I have a
three word explanation of exactly what that is. Ego hates ego, Well,
that could be.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
That could be also, But a lot of psychologists ever
talked about this. They think it's just that he's everything
that they they tried to stamp out in life, like
old fashioned macho macho man and just this like alpha male,
this like old good, old fashioned American moxie. They thought

(50:47):
they stamped that all out. They don't want to see
that anymore. Let's go to Bill at Bradley Beach. Bill,
how you.

Speaker 12 (50:51):
Doing right, Mark?

Speaker 11 (50:53):
Good morning.

Speaker 12 (50:54):
Well we've got Jefferies on saying about and across the
living and every thing. Yet the Democrats couldn't care about
the fifty year high inflation for four years out of
the Biden dictatorship, where they actually eliminated the dollar store.
When they left, everything was twenty five and more everything

(51:14):
in the country.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
What are you saying, Democrats are hypocritical? You can't believe that.
That's not the Democrats, I know, hypocrites. Why that's unheard? Yeah.

Speaker 6 (51:25):
No.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
The funniest thing is you watch these videos where they
all say Trump talked about getting rid of the filibuster,
and they all have these you can see these online,
all of them, Bernie Sanders, Obama, all of them saying,
why that's Unamerican, that's a threat to our democracy. To
get rid of the philibuster. Then you'll see it cut
together with the video of them from four years ago
saying we must get rid of the philibuster. It's anti American,

(51:48):
it's anti democracy. Let's go to Carl and Sayerville, Carl,
how you doing, by Mark? How are you good?

Speaker 2 (51:55):
You know Mark, the incoming marriage. Do you think he's
going to like maybe scale down the Independence Day celebration
and shorten the Thanksgiving Day pro You know, I didn't.

Speaker 1 (52:06):
Talk about that. I didn't think about that. Oh that's
a very good point. I didn't think about that. Excellent point.
You know this guy, you know, he can't raise your taxes.
He can't give you free busses. That's not in his power.
But I didn't think about that. He can start getting
rid of the Rockefeller Center tree. He could eliminate the
Columbus Day parade. He could. I don't know. That's because

(52:30):
it's tough to do. That would be really tough for
him to do. But you're right, we got to keep
an eye on that. Let's go to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent,
how you doing?

Speaker 10 (52:37):
Good morning, Mark, Good morning Anthony from the Bronx. Mark,
Maybe Mondomio stall outdoor loudspeakers around city Hall and instead
of a minaret. We'll have to call the prayer every day.
The Muslim called the prayer Uh Mark, speaking about the
Communists and everything about how dur mccartty day to day

(53:00):
come after you. Right after they caught and executed to
kidnapper Sacco and Vanzetti of Uh Lucky Limberg's child in
my grandfather's building at the time, and my mother was
alive and living there. She told me on the top
floor there was an Italian Communist living there with his

(53:21):
wife and his kid, and one day the FBI came
to arrest him, came to get him uh for Communist activity,
and the punk that he was, he locked himself in
the apartment and the punk killed his wife, killed his kid,
and then killed himself because he couldn't face the music.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
Mark.

Speaker 10 (53:43):
I wanted to ask you man, and you're.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
Out there story, yeah, Mark.

Speaker 10 (53:50):
I don't think Jessica Tish is going to take uh
Mandami to Commun's offer to be police ammission and his
ruma has it that she wants to run for mayor
or the next time around, and she would she would easily,
She'd have the money she could self fund. And I

(54:12):
don't think she wants to be her name in any
way in her family's name associated with Zora Mandanmi. She
doesn't need that because she'll fill out. She'll finish out
her term with Adams. She's doing a great job and
why would she want.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
Bad No, she probably won't risk it for Vincent. Great call,
Thanks for calling. We were hearing if she leaves mom,
Donnie's looking at Rodney Harrison, Suffolk County Police Commissioner. That's
the guy he's looking at, former NYPD Chief of Department.
So that's not the world's worst choice. But hey, when
we come back, Roger Friedman will be with us, Great

(54:52):
entertainment reporter. We'll talk to him next on seven to ten.
W O. R.

Speaker 4 (54:57):
Marks On.

Speaker 1 (55:02):
Well, Roger Friedman, the great entertainment reporter. His website is
showbiz for one one dot com. We're trying to get
all right, he'll turn up. But as for showbiz four
one one dot com. There's new stories there all the time.
We are looking for him. Uh and he'll turn that
him there, Yeah, I see him there, We got him.

(55:25):
He'll turn up. It's Showbiz four one one dot com,
great entertainment site. News stories every day there. Roger Friedman,
how you doing Roger Friedman. Are you there? I am, Oh,
there you are.

Speaker 5 (55:42):
I've just endured the Grammy nominations.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
Yeah, so tell us about the Grammy nominations.

Speaker 5 (55:49):
Well, uh, it's the all the pop people who you
know on the radio if you're fourteen, Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber,
they're the main names. Lady Gaga got seven nominations for
her Man Eater album and she's going to win. The
others are just superfluous in the traditional pop section, which

(56:15):
is more for you and me.

Speaker 1 (56:16):
Actually, I believe or not, I listened to ze like
that stuff.

Speaker 5 (56:19):
Okay, I like one Sabrina Carpenter, who I just saw
by the way at the garden and loved her Manchild
album and song got nominated. And that bunny Billie Eilish
got nominated for a song that I thought came out
the year before. But all right, but it's Luther Kendrick

(56:43):
Lamar for his song Luther with Sizza.

Speaker 1 (56:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (56:47):
But those are the ones. But the really the category
that you and I would enjoy the most would be
traditional pop, and that's Barber streisand Jennifer Hudson, Elton John
and Brandy Carlisle. Those are the main names you know

(57:07):
who didn't get nominated for that category, which I really
would have liked to was Ringo Star. He had this
great country album called look Up, and they didn't do
anything for it.

Speaker 1 (57:18):
But I really liked that album.

Speaker 5 (57:22):
I really liked it. But you know, I would say
that Chapel Roane, she's nominated. But it's really the Grammys
are very narrow at this point because they're really just
looking at the top chart stars. They're they're they're looking
for a good TV show, which you can't blame them.
They want ratings, which are necessary to stay alive, and

(57:47):
they're not going into really like diverse or interesting things
you know that might surprise you, which they've done in
the past. This is a very straightforward list of you know,
top forty hits, commercial it's that kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
Well, but that's what we did that in the nineties,
the two thousands, they we did that.

Speaker 5 (58:06):
No, yeah, it's been a little better in the past.
But the TV show February first, it'll be a big,
big show. And if they get some of these people,
if they gets Loffe, she's do you know who she is? Yeah,
she's a fabulous singer around there. Phil being good shaped.

(58:29):
They nominated some Layla Biali really but for Winter Songs,
and we're going to have to look her up and
see who she is Best New Artist. Those are all good.
And this guy Somber. You know who Somber is? Yeah, Okay,
he's twenty years old. He's from the Lower East Side.

(58:52):
He's about nine feet tall. He's the son of the
guy who does all the booking like the Elton Shawn
and am Fhar shows and that kind of thing. He's
got a big I never knew his name is Andy Boose.
I never knew that he was a musician himself. And
his son's name is Sean Boose and I guess the

(59:15):
middle initial is M, so it's SMB. And he calls
himself Somber. He said two massive hits are three massive
hits on the charts all year, and a big album
into a debut album, and he's going to win Best
New Artist. He is the Best New Artist. So he's
a real New York story. I think he dropped out

(59:35):
of school like seventeen to become a rock star and
became one sort of overnight.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (59:40):
So that's a big New York story.

Speaker 1 (59:42):
Hey, where are the Grammy's being held this year.

Speaker 5 (59:45):
Grammys are in Los Angeles February first, from the what
I call the Staples Center, what others called the Crypto
Crypto crypt dot com. And they'll be preceded by two events.
Music Cares Person of the Year Award on the Friday
of that weekend is going to Mariah Carey and she'll

(01:00:06):
show up sometime that evening, probably not on time, but
sometime that evening. The next night, Clive Davis throws his
annual pre Grammy dinner.

Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
He'll be.

Speaker 5 (01:00:18):
Almost ninety four years old by then, Please God knock Wood,
and it's going to be that'll be an amazing night.
So the Grammy weekend is going to be terrific. And
it's the last Grammys. I believe it's the last Grammys
on CBS. CBS blew their chances to have the Grammys
for the next ten years, and after this January goes

(01:00:41):
to NBC.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
Oh all right, yea, Roger VI, tell me, what's the
deal with this Michael Jackson movie? Good bad? What is it?

Speaker 9 (01:00:49):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:00:49):
So the Michael Jackson movie. I'm looking forward to it.
But originally the plan was, this is crazy. The plan
was to have a lot like three hour where they
were going to take you through the nineties and the
two thousands where he gets arrested and there's like you know, molestation,
charged and trials and all this other stuff. And finally

(01:01:11):
someone came to their senses and said, nobody wants to
see that in the movie. So they went back. They
went back and made a film that ends, you know,
around the time of nineteen ninety like after bad and
thriller and dangerous and when he's at the peak of
his career before the bad stuff comes, and that movie
will be terrific. And it's very similar in that way

(01:01:33):
to the MJ musical playing on Broadway and around the world,
which is a huge hit, by the way, huge And
that also stops at the end of the nineteen eighties
when Michael is at his peak powers and you know,
adored by everyone. The next twenty years are you know,
a crazy time. They see that in a documentary, that's fine,

(01:01:55):
but nobody wants to see Michael going to court and
I'm just not going to work. Yeah, So I Jermaine
Jackson's son Jafar is playing Michael in the movie, and
there's a great cast that goes with it, and there's
going to be Walter Wall music, and my prediction is
it's going to be like Bohemian Rhapsody. People are going

(01:02:16):
to come out dancing and they're not going to think
about any bad stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:02:21):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:02:21):
Despite the fact that Michael had all that scandal that
we covered extensively and minutely, he is still one of
the top ten recording artists in the world. His estate
is worth a billion dollars. The records sell like crazy.
Thriller has been on the charts for the last month
because of Halloween, so there's no question that the movie

(01:02:43):
will be a hit. But that's that's what the movie
will be. Now today, I hear they might make a
second movie. My advice is, do not make that second movie.
Stop stop, well, well things are good.

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
You know, yeah, we'll go a minute left. Tell me
tell me of Broadway. What's the hottest thing on Broadway?
The latest newest, hottest thing on Broadway, the.

Speaker 5 (01:03:05):
Latest, hottest, newest new thing on Broadway.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
Tom Hanks?

Speaker 5 (01:03:09):
I know Tom Hanks is off Broadway and he has
a show called This World or Tomorrow. The prices started
out at four hundred dollars a ticket, and nobody bought
the tickets that tell a couple of last week that
you could buy a ticket on any night in any section,
because no one was going to spend four hundred dollars.
Now they've cut the price by fifty seven percent. The

(01:03:32):
really good seats are two fifty nine, and decent seats
and very decent seats are one sixty nine. So now
everyone can see this play. Who wants to see a
regular play. I have friends who went in the first
week and said, it's a slight play, but charming and
the cast, it's wonderful to see them all on stage.
It's at the Shed in Hudson Yards. It's a small theater,
so you can see Tom Hanks. You know, you'll be

(01:03:54):
able to see him, really see him, and you know,
I'm probably not going to go, but I think a
lot of people will go. And already several nights are
sold out because at you know, one hundred and sixty
nine dollars a seat, people will go for that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
Yeah. Well, good thing about off Broadway. There's no bad
seats because it's a small theater.

Speaker 5 (01:04:10):
You're close with, Yeah, there are no bad seats. And
then if you're thirty years old or younger, the tickets
are forty five dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:04:18):
Okay, but if you're thirty or younger, you're not going
to know who this guy is.

Speaker 5 (01:04:20):
If this Tom Hanks, that might be a problem. Yeah,
but you and I would have gone at thirty years
old because we're old souls.

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
There you go. Well, great stuff, Roger Freeman. Check out
his website. There's new stories every day there. Showbiz for
one one dot com, Showbiz for one one dot com.
Roger Friedman, thanks for being with us, Thank you, take care, hey,
and now I'm here every day ten to noon. But
if you can't listen ten to noon, you know you
can always get the podcast. You can hear this show

(01:04:48):
anytime you want. And remember, if you're a podcast listener
on the weekends, you get a bonus segment, a whole
other segment that wasn't on the air. But you can
get get the podcast of this show and place you
get your podcast, or you can just go to seven
to ten WR dot com onor Well, I'm glad this

(01:05:10):
week is over. It's been a rough week here in
New York. The good news, all the big democratic politicians
are gone right now. They're gone all weekend. They're all
in Puerto Rico. They have this conference after every election.
It started as after the election, just to you know, unwind,
go take a break, candidates, we'll go down to Puerto Rico.

(01:05:31):
But now it's every Democratic politician, official lobbyist. It's a
lot of wheeling and dealing, whereas Curtis would say, whining, dining,
pocket lining, that kind of stuff. So it goes on
all weekend. They'll be back on Monday. I'm just warning you, Hey,
we're out of time. I'll be back Monday every weekday
ten to noon, or listen anytime. Get the podcast, and

(01:05:53):
if you're a podcast listener, remember you get a bonus
segment that was never on the air. You get an
extra show. Wherever you get your podcasts, I'll see a
Monday at ten seven, ten wor