December 11, 2025 • 32 mins
President Trump has announced that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. This action has sparked concern among Democrats, who are raising alarms about security risks with other countries and the potential impact on the global oil supply. Additionally, Trump is reportedly considering action against Colombia due to concerns about drug trafficking and the possibility of narcotics entering the United States. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews economist Steve Moore. With a new Federal Reserve Chair set to take over next year after Jerome Powell, Moore discusses the state of the economy. He argues that the economy is currently strong and questions Democratic claims about an affordability crisis.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is seven to tenor boy, the Mark Simoon Show starts.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Now. Oh well, hey, I got a lot to get
to today. We'll get to the tanker. We'll get to Tucker,
We'll get to Mom, Donnie, We'll get to Luigi. We
got a lot of stuff to talk about today. So
that you might have seen on the news that the
United States of America seized a Venezuelan oil tanker. It
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looked pretty impressive, the military operation with the planes and
fighter jets and helicopters and our military repelling down onto
the deck, seizing this massive oil tanker with thousands and
thousands of gallons of oil on if it was about
seventy million worth of oil. It was a Venezuelan ship.
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The whole thing was illegal because it was violating our sanctions.
And of course you had all the fake news all
up in arms. Here's that old weather beaten, old hag Martha.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Rattott sources telling ABC News it was headed for Cuba,
capable of carrying up to two million barrels of oil.
Today's seizure marking the first time the US has overtly
interfered with oil exports, Venezuela's main source of revenue.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Until now, the US.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Has been targeting boats they say are carrying drugs, striking
at least twenty two boats and killing nearly ninety people,
including two survivors.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Now this old Martha rat, it's this old hag looks
like Granny on a Beverly hillbillize, you know, not quite
the mother on Golden Girls. But she's getting there. But
you notice her language overtly interfered with Venezuela. If if
you were watching this, you must think this is the
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most awful thing. Why would we overtly interfere with a nice, little, peaceful,
little oil shipman. Why would we see? Well, she forgot
to explain that the ship was in total violation of
US sanctions. Now, let me just explain. When it comes
to sanctions, they're never enforced. You know, we have sanctions
at times where you're not allowed to buy Russian oil,
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you're not allowed to buy Iranian oil, or you're not
allowed to ship oil to this country or to that country.
These are sanctions now, they've just never enforced. Biden was
the king of this. You know, remember Russia did they
invaded Ukraine or at one point when Russia did something awful,
Biden big press conference. He said, I am placing six
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hundred and fifty sanctions on Russia, and the fake news
applauded and said, wow, look at him, stand up to Russia. Well,
they never told the audience that there was already twenty
seven hundred sanctions on Russia that weren't being enforced, and
these six hundred weren't going to be enforced, and they're
never enforced. It's the silliest thing in the world. Can
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you imagine if cops when they pull you over for
a speeding ticket, never forced them, if you throw it
away and you didn't go to court, nothing, whatever, you'd
never enforced them. Well, nobody would stop speeding. So President
Trump decided, let's actually enforce one of these sanctions. Let's
actually do what we're supposed to do and enforce one.
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So they seized the ship, took the oil. She said,
a couple of million barrels. It's seventy million worth of oil.
And reporters, of course went nuts asking them about it.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
We've just seized a tanker on the coast of venezuela
large tanker, very large, largest one ever sees. Extra and
other things are happening.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, okay, they cut the clip here. But the reporter said, well,
what are you gonna do with the oil? And he said,
I don't know. I guess we keep it. You know,
he hadn't thought about that's just simply enforcing the sanction.
And then when he said I guess we keep it,
of course fake news went nuts, how they can't keep
their oil. Well, what would you do with it? It's
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a sanction you're supposed to enforce. You're supposed to seize it.
That's okay, despite what the fake news tells you. Now
that you've seized it, what do you do with the oil?
If you don't keep it? What do you do with it?
Do you give it back to somebody? You send it
back to? That wouldn't make any sense. So what do
you do with the oil? You could put it up
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on eBay and sell it. You could go sell it somewhere.
You keep it, I guess. Now. The price of oil
went up a little yesterday the seizing of a tanker,
but not much it was it went only went up
one percent. And what this means is if he continues
to do this kind of stuff, the countries may actually
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start obeying the sanctions. They may stop violating sanctions. Can
you imagine such a thing? What's next? And he un
hinted there's other things coming now. You know, he's got
talking about going into Venezuela, knocking out all their drug facilities,
stopping all that. You know, if he stops all their
oil shipments, they're just going to go broke. They got
a billion dollars in reserve, but at some point they'll
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go broke. But he was also hinting it going after
Columbia next.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Columbia's producing a lot of drugs. They have cocaine factories
that they make cocaine, as you know, and they sell
it right into the say so he better wise up
or he'll be next.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Now, I don't know what this could do to people.
You know, if you go after all the fentanyl, if
you go after all the cocaine, at some point there
could be a tremendous shortage of drugs. I don't know.
I mean, you know, it can have all these drug
agents running around try to arrest all the drug dealers,
but that we've been doing that for a thousand years,
it never seems to get that much done. If you
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actually made the supply of drugs dry up, that could
be interesting. First of all, it would drive the price
way up, so it's interesting. But now, of course you're
going to see Chuck Schumer with his glasses all falls
ugged up, yelling and screaming about how dare you seize
an oil tanker. You're going to see all the craziest senators,
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you know, the blooming dolls and the Chris Murphy's yelling
and screaming and huffing and puffing about it. But it's
a great thing. It's a great thing. You see all
these experts explaining this stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserve in the world,
so it's fourteen trillion dollars worth of oil and it's
a primary means of the regime funding.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, so you're stopping the primary funding of that awful regime.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
It is a significant escalation, but this might be the
start of a campaign. With all that naval power, the
US can certainly stop oil tankers from leaving Venezuela, which
could completely cut off their ability to sell their own
Krugle world.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, now that's the other thing. You might not have
to fire too many shots after after a while. I
would think if you're a narco terrorist in one of
those speedboats. You might not really want to go on
one of those missions and go, you know, through the
water anymore. And if you're one of these tankers, if
it's going to get seized, you may not want to
send one of these tankers out. So it all might
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just stop. So we'll see what happens. Schumer, of course,
yelling and screaming about everybody and everything. They're still on
Pete Hexath hexit arrangement syndrome continues. They want him gone.
He's not going anywhere.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
By the way, watch the video of this mission, the
seizing of the tanker. Real impressive precision military mission. You
got to remember under Hexath, the military has pulled off
some pretty amazing missions, the bombing of the Iran nuclear facilities,
the seizing of this tanker. It's pretty good. Doesn't impress
Chuck Schumer though, plan to demand Secretary Hegseth.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Give the total unedited videos of what happened in the
September second boat strikes. I will demand of Rubio and
Hegseth what the hell is going on in the Caribbean,
and then his way up.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
What are their plans? Good for Schumer? This is what
he does best. Talk mix speeches, yell and scream. He
never actually does anything. You remember all those fake Sunday
press conferences with all those issues he was fighting for.
Soon as the press conference is over, he'd throw the
index cards in a waste basket and forget about it.
Same thing here he's demanding. He better nowhere else, or
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that's all he does. He just talks and then leaves.
He wants the videos every second, unedited videos must be released.
They hate that he got these big new glasses just
to watch these videos. But you'll never he'll yell and
scream about it. Now, what democrats generally do is they
start this stuff, they go crazy, it becomes a major issue.
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Then they keep focus grouping it, and then after about
a week or two they say, huh, it's not registering,
it's not working on people. Then they throw it right
in the waste basket. Find something else. They don't really
care about any of this stuff. Affordability that seems to
be working, that has registered, even though there's not that
much of an affordabil crisis. There was a terrible affordability
crisis under Joe Biden, where of inflation went nuts the
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highest level in fifty years, and for the middle class
the highest level ever. It was horrible under Biden. Trump
has brought it down almost in half. It's going to
take another six months to bring it down the other half.
But so it's Biden's affordability crisis. They never mentioned that part.
But even on CNBC, which is the most left wing slanted,
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even on CNBC yesterday, Jay Clayton, who's the US attorney,
he's the former SEC chairman, very knowledgeable guy financially on
the economy. All that's very not brilliant guy, very good guy,
Jay Clayton, he was the guest. But even the CNBC
panel had to admit that this affordability crisis was all
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the fault of Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
The affordability issue is but from the twenty two percent increase.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
In prices in inflation under Biden, there's this full stop
right there.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
That's the affordability issue.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
And you ought to be able to explain.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
That, right, That's right.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
And look, I think that with the economic team President
Trump and the economic team led by Scott Dessant, you
have people who very much understand this and it was
a they were thrown you know what, I would say,
the worst economy for the average American in my adult
lifetime in terms of the like you said, the incredible
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increase in prices at the household.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Now, so this affordability thing seems to work. If you
just keep yelling at screaming this affordability crisis, people start
to believe it and hold it against Trump.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
They did this exact same play years ago against George HW.
Bush and it worked. George H. W. Bush Bush Senior
was running against this unknown young governor, Bill Clinton, and
they hadn't got the word affordability yet. That came out
of focus groups a few weeks ago. Focus groups found
the best word was affordability. But it was back in
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ninety two Bush versus Clinton, and they kept talking about
the economic crisis. They made it look like they were
in the worst with the economy. It was having problems,
but it wasn't the worst economy. They made it sound
like it was, and it helped Bush Senior lose to Clinton.
And back then, the big newscast was the CBS Evening
News with Dan Rather, and every night you can go
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back and watch the videos of this all through the campaign.
Every night the CBS Evening News did the special feature
Economy in Crisis economy in crisis. They would open with
that and then rather had to do the actual news.
But before he did, he said, now coming up, we'll
get to our special feature, the economy in crisis or
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is a crisis in the economy? And every night they
would do this special feature, but the economy in crisis. Well,
on November fourth, the election came and Clinton won, and
that night they dropped the feature. There was no feature,
no economy and crisis, no crisis in the economy. They
never mentioned it again. As soon as Clinton won, they
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dropped the feature and never used it again. But it
helped kill Bush. So they've brought this play back. And
sure enough, if they keep yelling and screaming about affordability, affordability, affordability,
everyone thinks is a crisis. Now the president has not
been on top of this. He needs, you know, they
keep saying, you got to do better messaging. But it's
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it's tough, you know, if every time anybody turns around,
they see affordability crisis. So he's got to get back
out there in the campaign trail. He did the first
one this week in Pennsylvania. There'll be more of them coming,
and he's got to talk about affordability.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
I have no.
Speaker 10 (12:42):
Higher priority than making America affordable again.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
That's what we're going to do.
Speaker 10 (12:46):
They gave you high prices, they gave you the highest
inflation in history, and we're giving you we're bringing those
prices down rapidly, lower prices, bigger paychecks. You're getting lower prices,
bigger X. We're getting inflation, we're crushing it, and you're
getting much higher wages. I mean, the only thing that
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you used. It's really going up big. It's called the
stock market and your four oh one k.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah, yeah, stock market has been on fire all year now.
When the stock market goes crazy, goes way up. Well,
of course it helps the big hedge fund guys of
billionaires Goldman's as those kind of guy, of course it
helps them. But it helps every working man and woman
in America because they got a four oh one k
pension and the pension's invested in stock. So it's driving
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up your pension, driving up your four oh one k.
But of course the media will never mention this. The
president gets no credit for it. You know, the smartest
guy is Larry Cudler, the best economist, and if you
watch Cudlow every day, four o'clock Fox Business Network, especially
the first five or ten minutes, Larry Cudler will go
over the exact most important statistics on the economy, laying
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out how much better the economy is doing. He'll give
you a real data. It'll put it up on the
screen and it's fascinating. Then I'll right away go to
the top economists in the world, Art Laugher, all of
this stuff, and if you watch that, you'll understand exactly
how good things are. The economy was bad under Biden,
but it's getting better every week, and you'll give you
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the exact figures and data. Well, not everybody watches Cutlow
every day. You know, most people are watching Sherry Shepherd,
they're watching the prices right, They're watching entertainment. You know,
they're not watching that. So you gotta remember, for a
lot of people, they don't follow this stuff. They don't
listen to talk radio, they don't follow this closely. They
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watch you man, we'll just check the evening news at
six point thirty. We'll watch that for ten minutes. That's
their news summary. So if you get these fake news
idiots like this Martha Raddatz.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Sources telling ABC News it was headed for Cuba capable
of carrying up to two million barrels of oil. Today's
seizure marking the first time the US has overtly inter
with the election.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
That's all you think. What they overtly interfered with a
country trying to ship some oil. She never mentions. It
was in total violation of US sanctions. It was an
illegal ship and illegalship. She never mentioned it. So if
you're just watching the ABC and evening news, what are
you supposed to think you're supposed to I think, slowly,
but truly, one by one, people are starting to realize
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you can't trust these people. President Trump saying the New
York Times should cease publication. Well, I gonna cease publication.
New York Times actually doing pretty well. You can make
a lot of money with this fake news. In fact, subscriptions.
You gotta remember with the newspaper, the print edition means
nothing anymore. It's just a money loser. The New York
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Times print edition probably has one hundred thousand people, but
it's online where people read the newspaper and you subscribe
online subscriptions. New York Times just hit twelve million. It's
pretty impressive. Twelve million, online subscription. So you can make
a lot of money doing this fake news. But there
should be some Federal Trade Commission something stepping in on labeling.
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You know, if you falsely label a product, they can
step right in there and stop you. You know, if
you say this product can definitely cure that, well they can.
They can make you change that label and you'll have
to put in there that doesn't actually cure it, it could
reduce symptoms. You know. So when the New York TIMPs
calls it a newspaper, or that they're printing news or
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here's the news section, Federal Trade Commission can step in
there and say, you're not labeling this correctly. This is
a political agenda. You're pushing a narrative. You're not really
reporting the news as is. Anyway, we've got a lot
to get to speaking of the great economists. We'll have
one in just a few minutes so we can get
the actual facts on how the economy is doing. We've
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got a lot coming up. We'll take some calls. Next
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Speaker 4 (17:05):
Now back to Mark Simon ONR.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to John in Florida. John,
how you doing.
Speaker 11 (17:16):
I'm morning, Mark, and Holidays. They should take that oil
and fill up the always at that.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
They'll take the what.
Speaker 11 (17:23):
You know from that the oil.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, that's a good idea. Throw it in the oil reserves.
Speaker 11 (17:31):
And also about Martha Gradish strike news stations these advertisements,
and you'll cut these plea people and start advertising with
them and they'll change their tune. You hit them in
the popabook, got to change tool.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
No they won't. They won't all they won't.
Speaker 11 (17:48):
Okay, you know better, boy.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
No, they won't. For a second. They actually don't make
any money on the news or the Sunday shows. It's uh.
I mean, they sell commercials, but it's not a big
part of their revenue. It's just on principle they do it.
The Sunday show makes no money, it has no viewers,
but it's fake news and they love it. Let's go
to Kay in Manhattan, k How you doing, Hi?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Mark?
Speaker 12 (18:13):
I'd like what I'd like to say these voters who
are who are thinking about voting for Democrats because of
the economy.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
Yeah, but they.
Speaker 12 (18:21):
Remind me of a woman who has a boyfriend who
batters her and abuses her, and then she meets a
really nice guy and he forgets her birthday, so she
goes back to the first guy.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (18:36):
Well, I can't even believe these people would think about
voting for Democrats after what this country has been through.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Well, it happens, It happens. Hey, they voted for mom Donnie.
Speaker 9 (18:47):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
By the way, I remember I was mentioned before. Nobody
reads the print edition of a newspaper. Nobody. It's tiny,
the circulation of a print edition. It's all subscriptions now,
So if you're the New Times, all your money is
off subscriptions, twelve million subscribers.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Well, one thing that did is and they found, you know,
in the print edition, is you turn the page as
a full page ad. Wow, you'd see this ad. What
they found with the people that read the paper online
is they don't pay any attention to the ads. They
don't even look at them, and they don't The only
way they make money is if you click on the ad. Well,
nobody clicks on the ads online on a newspaper, so
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all the revenue is from the subscriptions now and not
from advertising. And that's one reason the New York Times
and other publications have been able to go crazy left wing,
totally slanted partisans, because they're no longer depending on advertising revenue.
So the New York Times, Washington Posts, they can go
totally nuts. All the money is subscriptions, no longer advertising.
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You don't have to worry about advertiser backlash anymore if
you're a newspaper. Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave,
how you doing.
Speaker 12 (19:55):
Good morning, Mark.
Speaker 13 (19:56):
I'm doing very well. Thank you.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Mark.
Speaker 13 (19:58):
I have a question about the autopen during the Biden administration.
What exactly will President Trump do or has he done
regarding pardons?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Well, good question. He has said if it's an autopen pardon,
they're going to probably cancel it because it wasn't actually
signed by Biden and the technically the president has to
sign it. Apparently there is some way you can tell
if it was the autopen or a real signature. Let's
go to Joe in New York City. Joe, how you doing?
Speaker 13 (20:27):
Those crazy sig Democrats saying jingle bells is racist? That's nonsense, Mark.
He went the Three Stooges did jingle bells.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
There you go. Well, I told you we have the
most incredible high end audience in the world. There are
some exceptions, there's a few. Now, what he's talking about
is this crazy Joy Reed who got fired from MSNBC
yelling and screaming yesterday that jingle Bells is racist. Jingle
Bells is racist. I don't know what the hell she's
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talking about. She claims it was written by a Confederate
soldier who wrote jingle Bells and he was making fun
of black people, and that it has its origins in
bigoted minstrel shows that were popular at the time. Well,
this doesn't make any sense. It was a song, but
Joy Reid claiming jingle Bells is racist. However, this makes
her look pretty hypo critical. I found out she made
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a recording of the song years ago. I found this
is Joy Reid singing jingle Bells. Pretty good, it's not bad. Actually,
let's go to Jeffrey and Queen's Jeffrey, how you.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Doing, Yeah, Mark, good morning?
Speaker 12 (21:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Listen to the single affordability as well. I'll pay you
the truth. You go to like ten twenty different supermarkets
and you fi them up the piss through the roof,
especially to the by cats from the dds, thestids and
the other ones. The prices are through the roof.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Well, I always find the gristities prices are pretty good.
There's different supermarkets, but you got to remember you can't
compare like a Manhattan supermarket. If you really want to
test affordability, you got to get out of New York City.
Things cost a whole lot more in Manhattan because there's
all kinds of costs to a supermarket. They don't have
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your things. You don't think about. You know, if you
run a supermarket, a million trucks have to show up
every day and deliver your food. So if you got
a supermarket in Long Island or in Westchester, you got
a big parking lot and the trucks come in and
deliver your food. If it's in Manhattan, the trucks have
to double park. They get ticketed like crazy. So if
you're a supermarket, you're paying like half a million a
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year in parking tickets, things like that, you're paying congestion
pricing to you're paying all kinds of taxes. So the
supermarket that brings up the price is paying millions in
expenses they wouldn't be paying if they were in the suburbs.
So again, something with gas, don't you know, don't look
at a gas pump in New York City and think
that's the price around the country.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Hey, when we come back, one of the greatest economists
in the world, Now, what is the real story with affordability.
We'll get to that next Steve Moore, we hope coming
up next on seven to ten wor.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Seventeen w alarm.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Well, let's turned to one of the great economists in
the world, Steve Moore, and he runs the committee to
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And he's with us now, Steve Moore, how you doing, hey.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Mark, I'm doing really well. I think the economy is
doing really well. I think America's doing really well. And
you know, I love Trump's speech the other night about
how well the economy is doing because it is it
happens to be doing really well. In terms of wages,
in terms of job opportunities, in terms of four one
K plans. It's all looking very positive to me.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Oh, I don't know. I got the New York Times
right here says we're in the worst affordability crisis ever
in history. But yeah, their focus groups came up with
this word affordability. They what do you do about the
fact they're just drilling this into people's heads and people
are falling for it.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Well they are, I mean, And by the way, there's
a difference between an increase in prices and an increase
in inflation. So what's happened is, you know, prices are
still rising by about two and a half percent, but
that's down from like five and six percent increases and
prices under Biden. In fact, as you know, the ninety
percent of the inflation that people are complaining about in
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the higher prices happened under.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Who Joe Biden?
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Yeah, exactly. So why is it that people are so
obsessed with Trump on this?
Speaker 11 (24:55):
Now?
Speaker 5 (24:55):
Look, the things that are really rising in prices right
now are beef prices, and you know, people are angry
when they buy a steak at the grocery store. The
other thing that's going through the roof. By the way,
is healthcare costs?
Speaker 7 (25:06):
Mark?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
We just got our healthcare statement for twenty six and
our insurance premiums are you ready to are going up
twelve percent? So you know what is going on. I
thought fifteen years ago we passed the affordable care at well, yeah,
not so affordable to me.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
But you've been writing about this in the hotline. Yeah,
the whole thing needs to be totally busted up. And
when the government gets involved, nothing works right. But like
a simple test, a cat scan or something, it's one
hundred dollars, but the insurance rate is twelve hundred dollars
or eight thousand. Yeah, you got to stop all this.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
How do we you need? Well, one thing, one thing
we need is healthcare price transparency so everyone knows. You know,
have you noticed we as Americans we always ask you
know you've taken you know, you buy a book, an
airline flight, you ask how much it's going to cost?
You go to the grocery store, how much is that
ice creamium cost? Everything that we buy a restaurant, everything
we asked, see how much is it could cost? Except
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for one thing healthcare. You know, when you go to
the doctor at the hospital. We never asked what things cost,
and that's one of the reasons prices are completely out
of control. I mean, my old friend Philogram used to say,
if we paid for groceries the way we pay for healthcare,
he said, I'd eat steak and lobster and drink champaign
every night. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
So there's no way to do this though, get government
completely out of health care, is there? It can't happen.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Well, you know we could if you could not take
a dumber way to pay for healthcare right now than
what we have right now. And incidentally, under the Democratic
plan that you can have an income over half a
million dollars and the Democrats want you to get subsidies
from the taxpayer for millionaires. Practically, I mean, it does
not make any sense. By the way, there are twenty
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one states that have refused Trump's demand to tell us
make sure that the people are signing up for Medicaid
and all these Obamacare substies, going to make sure that
they actually have legitimate Social Security numbers and they're eltible
of the programs. Twenty one states, including New York and
New Jersey, have refused to comply.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Yeah. Now, they'll be Democrats yelling, well, what's the Republican
plan on healthcare? What is the Republican plan?
Speaker 5 (27:11):
I have two words answer? Ready, yeah, free enterprise, free markets. Well,
let's pay healthcare. Now. People should have catastrophic insurance or
you know, if you have you know, if you get
cancer God forbid, or have a terrible accident and you
have hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical expenses, you
want to make sure you're covered for that. But why
do we need you know, healthcare coverage for active visits
(27:33):
and all these other things that are routine expenditures. So
that would make that would put the patient back in
the equation. And incidentally, you know I have an item
in the hotline today. Mark that the in Canada now
they have seven eight, nine, ten, twelve, fifteen, in some
cases twenty six weeks delay and waiting lines to get
(27:54):
any kind of medical procedure. But freeh Do you remember that?
Do you remember the famous scene in the movie Beetlejuice
where the beetle Juice is in the waiting room and
they're serving number number three and he looks at his
number and he's like nine hundred thousand. That's how I help,
there's just some both. It's free if you can get it.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yeah. Hey, so the Fed a slight reduction yesterday. This
is the most useless Fed ever? Will this get fixed?
Will we get a new FED chairman?
Speaker 9 (28:24):
Will ar?
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Yeah, Well it's going to be one. Yep, We're going
to get one of the two. Kevin's either Kevin Hassett
or Kevin Worst. You know both of them. I know
both of them. I think they were both the excellent,
excellent choices. They would restore the value of the dollar.
They would make sure that interest rates are as low
as they possibly can be. And so I'd like both
(28:45):
of those picks. And as long as we get rid
of Jerome Powell, I'll be very happy.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Will he'll be replaced as chairman? Will he step down
from the Fed like he's supposed to?
Speaker 5 (28:56):
I hope. So he's the guy who let prices go
up by twenty percent of the last four years. He's
a total failure. He's got to go. And we got
to get somebody in there who depends a dollar, restores
us to price stability, and gets the inflation rate back
down to two percent or belowp Yeah, I gotta run mout,
but I hope you have a great, great day. And
my god, I gotta do some Christmas shopping, all.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Right, get me something nice? You want my sizes?
Speaker 5 (29:20):
Yeah, you're right exactly.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Yeah, takes care.
Speaker 9 (29:25):
Well. At least he showed up. He had to run,
but at least he showed up. That's pretty good. So
it's enough Christmas. I'm a long ago Christmas. What's the
day today? Let me it's eleventh. That's thirteen more days
of this two weeks. I can't take it. I don't
feel good. Yeah, it's overeating. It's these Christmas parties. You
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just eat like crazy.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
The good thing is today I'm walking around the whole
sixth floor here, there's no buffets anywhere, thank god. Today.
Yesterday there were these buff face in front of Elvis
Durant studio. What that was the most incredible buffet Italian this,
and and then down there by Jim Kurr studio buffet
of these incredible cakes and pastries. This went on for miles.
(30:14):
That's in the morning. Then in the afternoon. Who's that buffet? Yesterday?
At lunch here that big another Italian yeah whatever that
was called?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
And then from that I leave and then I go
to all these Christmas parties. You know, they've got a
lot of afternoon Christmas parties. That's a big thing now,
afternoon Christmas parties. They're one of those. And then night.
The last Christmas party was Pea Pack which is one
of the most prestigious, finest private banks in America. You
hear them on w O r PA Pack Private Doug
(30:45):
Kennedy the chairman. What a great party that was. But
the food was amazing. Now I can't even move today,
So it's got to stop. It's got to stop these
Christmas parties. And then next week it gets any work
much worse. There's like three, four of them a day.
It's too much. It's too much. You've got to come
up with something besides food and parties. Hold the Christmas
(31:09):
party at a gym, no food, just gatorade or something
like that. It's tough to deal with. Hey, coming up,
you got to Buck and Clay at noon today with
a great show. Then you got the most listened to
radio show in America, Sean Hannity at three, Jesse Kelly
at six. Hey, Jimmy Faylor does a great show here
every night at nine o'clock. In fact, he'll be with us.
(31:30):
He'll be our guest here in the next hour on
seven to ten wor.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
The Mark Simone Show continues on seventen WOR.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Whoa hey, So you got Tucker Carlson going nuts again?
What is he yelling about? Now? You know that Olivia Nuzzy,
that crazy reporter who was sexting and texting and with
the RFK Junior and the text came out. That was
a little bit of a scandal, And now you got
this crazy Tucker was all inn Israeli plot to take
down Trump. It was a deep state Israeli plot to
(32:05):
take down Donald Trump. So now, yeah, I was playing
this yesterday. You just got to forget about Tucker Carlson.
Just forget about it. You know, when you get fired,
you're not on a network, you don't have a real platform.
When you're producing a podcast out of your living room,
how do you get anybody to see it? You got
to get attention. So he's a very smart guy and
a very sophisticated guy, but he's saying these crazy outlandish things.
(32:29):
Megan Kelly the same thing, Candae Owens the same thing.
They don't work for anybody. They're out of work. They're
doing a show out of their house. So to get attention,
they say the craziest things to go viral, so they
want to be the new Alex Jones or whatever. Just
ignore them, just don't pay attention. Hey, Jimmy Fayalo will
be with us in the next hour. We've got a
lot to talk about. We'll get to it right after
(32:51):
the news on seven to ten w
This is seven to tenor boy, the Mark Simoon Show starts.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Now. Oh well, hey, I got a lot to get
to today. We'll get to the tanker. We'll get to Tucker,
We'll get to Mom, Donnie, We'll get to Luigi. We
got a lot of stuff to talk about today. So
that you might have seen on the news that the
United States of America seized a Venezuelan oil tanker. It
(00:27):
looked pretty impressive, the military operation with the planes and
fighter jets and helicopters and our military repelling down onto
the deck, seizing this massive oil tanker with thousands and
thousands of gallons of oil on if it was about
seventy million worth of oil. It was a Venezuelan ship.
(00:49):
The whole thing was illegal because it was violating our sanctions.
And of course you had all the fake news all
up in arms. Here's that old weather beaten, old hag Martha.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Rattott sources telling ABC News it was headed for Cuba,
capable of carrying up to two million barrels of oil.
Today's seizure marking the first time the US has overtly
interfered with oil exports, Venezuela's main source of revenue.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Until now, the US.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Has been targeting boats they say are carrying drugs, striking
at least twenty two boats and killing nearly ninety people,
including two survivors.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Now this old Martha rat, it's this old hag looks
like Granny on a Beverly hillbillize, you know, not quite
the mother on Golden Girls. But she's getting there. But
you notice her language overtly interfered with Venezuela. If if
you were watching this, you must think this is the
(01:46):
most awful thing. Why would we overtly interfere with a nice, little, peaceful,
little oil shipman. Why would we see? Well, she forgot
to explain that the ship was in total violation of
US sanctions. Now, let me just explain. When it comes
to sanctions, they're never enforced. You know, we have sanctions
at times where you're not allowed to buy Russian oil,
(02:08):
you're not allowed to buy Iranian oil, or you're not
allowed to ship oil to this country or to that country.
These are sanctions now, they've just never enforced. Biden was
the king of this. You know, remember Russia did they
invaded Ukraine or at one point when Russia did something awful,
Biden big press conference. He said, I am placing six
(02:30):
hundred and fifty sanctions on Russia, and the fake news
applauded and said, wow, look at him, stand up to Russia. Well,
they never told the audience that there was already twenty
seven hundred sanctions on Russia that weren't being enforced, and
these six hundred weren't going to be enforced, and they're
never enforced. It's the silliest thing in the world. Can
(02:53):
you imagine if cops when they pull you over for
a speeding ticket, never forced them, if you throw it
away and you didn't go to court, nothing, whatever, you'd
never enforced them. Well, nobody would stop speeding. So President
Trump decided, let's actually enforce one of these sanctions. Let's
actually do what we're supposed to do and enforce one.
(03:16):
So they seized the ship, took the oil. She said,
a couple of million barrels. It's seventy million worth of oil.
And reporters, of course went nuts asking them about it.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
We've just seized a tanker on the coast of venezuela
large tanker, very large, largest one ever sees. Extra and
other things are happening.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, okay, they cut the clip here. But the reporter said, well,
what are you gonna do with the oil? And he said,
I don't know. I guess we keep it. You know,
he hadn't thought about that's just simply enforcing the sanction.
And then when he said I guess we keep it,
of course fake news went nuts, how they can't keep
their oil. Well, what would you do with it? It's
(04:06):
a sanction you're supposed to enforce. You're supposed to seize it.
That's okay, despite what the fake news tells you. Now
that you've seized it, what do you do with the oil?
If you don't keep it? What do you do with it?
Do you give it back to somebody? You send it
back to? That wouldn't make any sense. So what do
you do with the oil? You could put it up
(04:27):
on eBay and sell it. You could go sell it somewhere.
You keep it, I guess. Now. The price of oil
went up a little yesterday the seizing of a tanker,
but not much it was it went only went up
one percent. And what this means is if he continues
to do this kind of stuff, the countries may actually
(04:49):
start obeying the sanctions. They may stop violating sanctions. Can
you imagine such a thing? What's next? And he un
hinted there's other things coming now. You know, he's got
talking about going into Venezuela, knocking out all their drug facilities,
stopping all that. You know, if he stops all their
oil shipments, they're just going to go broke. They got
a billion dollars in reserve, but at some point they'll
(05:11):
go broke. But he was also hinting it going after
Columbia next.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Columbia's producing a lot of drugs. They have cocaine factories
that they make cocaine, as you know, and they sell
it right into the say so he better wise up
or he'll be next.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Now, I don't know what this could do to people.
You know, if you go after all the fentanyl, if
you go after all the cocaine, at some point there
could be a tremendous shortage of drugs. I don't know.
I mean, you know, it can have all these drug
agents running around try to arrest all the drug dealers,
but that we've been doing that for a thousand years,
it never seems to get that much done. If you
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actually made the supply of drugs dry up, that could
be interesting. First of all, it would drive the price
way up, so it's interesting. But now, of course you're
going to see Chuck Schumer with his glasses all falls
ugged up, yelling and screaming about how dare you seize
an oil tanker. You're going to see all the craziest senators,
(06:08):
you know, the blooming dolls and the Chris Murphy's yelling
and screaming and huffing and puffing about it. But it's
a great thing. It's a great thing. You see all
these experts explaining this stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserve in the world,
so it's fourteen trillion dollars worth of oil and it's
a primary means of the regime funding.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, so you're stopping the primary funding of that awful regime.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
It is a significant escalation, but this might be the
start of a campaign. With all that naval power, the
US can certainly stop oil tankers from leaving Venezuela, which
could completely cut off their ability to sell their own
Krugle world.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, now that's the other thing. You might not have
to fire too many shots after after a while. I
would think if you're a narco terrorist in one of
those speedboats. You might not really want to go on
one of those missions and go, you know, through the
water anymore. And if you're one of these tankers, if
it's going to get seized, you may not want to
send one of these tankers out. So it all might
(07:07):
just stop. So we'll see what happens. Schumer, of course,
yelling and screaming about everybody and everything. They're still on
Pete Hexath hexit arrangement syndrome continues. They want him gone.
He's not going anywhere.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
By the way, watch the video of this mission, the
seizing of the tanker. Real impressive precision military mission. You
got to remember under Hexath, the military has pulled off
some pretty amazing missions, the bombing of the Iran nuclear facilities,
the seizing of this tanker. It's pretty good. Doesn't impress
Chuck Schumer though, plan to demand Secretary Hegseth.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Give the total unedited videos of what happened in the
September second boat strikes. I will demand of Rubio and
Hegseth what the hell is going on in the Caribbean,
and then his way up.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
What are their plans? Good for Schumer? This is what
he does best. Talk mix speeches, yell and scream. He
never actually does anything. You remember all those fake Sunday
press conferences with all those issues he was fighting for.
Soon as the press conference is over, he'd throw the
index cards in a waste basket and forget about it.
Same thing here he's demanding. He better nowhere else, or
(08:23):
that's all he does. He just talks and then leaves.
He wants the videos every second, unedited videos must be released.
They hate that he got these big new glasses just
to watch these videos. But you'll never he'll yell and
scream about it. Now, what democrats generally do is they
start this stuff, they go crazy, it becomes a major issue.
(08:43):
Then they keep focus grouping it, and then after about
a week or two they say, huh, it's not registering,
it's not working on people. Then they throw it right
in the waste basket. Find something else. They don't really
care about any of this stuff. Affordability that seems to
be working, that has registered, even though there's not that
much of an affordabil crisis. There was a terrible affordability
crisis under Joe Biden, where of inflation went nuts the
(09:07):
highest level in fifty years, and for the middle class
the highest level ever. It was horrible under Biden. Trump
has brought it down almost in half. It's going to
take another six months to bring it down the other half.
But so it's Biden's affordability crisis. They never mentioned that part.
But even on CNBC, which is the most left wing slanted,
(09:28):
even on CNBC yesterday, Jay Clayton, who's the US attorney,
he's the former SEC chairman, very knowledgeable guy financially on
the economy. All that's very not brilliant guy, very good guy,
Jay Clayton, he was the guest. But even the CNBC
panel had to admit that this affordability crisis was all
(09:50):
the fault of Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
The affordability issue is but from the twenty two percent increase.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
In prices in inflation under Biden, there's this full stop
right there.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
That's the affordability issue.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
And you ought to be able to explain.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
That, right, That's right.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
And look, I think that with the economic team President
Trump and the economic team led by Scott Dessant, you
have people who very much understand this and it was
a they were thrown you know what, I would say,
the worst economy for the average American in my adult
lifetime in terms of the like you said, the incredible
(10:29):
increase in prices at the household.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Now, so this affordability thing seems to work. If you
just keep yelling at screaming this affordability crisis, people start
to believe it and hold it against Trump.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
They did this exact same play years ago against George HW.
Bush and it worked. George H. W. Bush Bush Senior
was running against this unknown young governor, Bill Clinton, and
they hadn't got the word affordability yet. That came out
of focus groups a few weeks ago. Focus groups found
the best word was affordability. But it was back in
(11:02):
ninety two Bush versus Clinton, and they kept talking about
the economic crisis. They made it look like they were
in the worst with the economy. It was having problems,
but it wasn't the worst economy. They made it sound
like it was, and it helped Bush Senior lose to Clinton.
And back then, the big newscast was the CBS Evening
News with Dan Rather, and every night you can go
(11:24):
back and watch the videos of this all through the campaign.
Every night the CBS Evening News did the special feature
Economy in Crisis economy in crisis. They would open with
that and then rather had to do the actual news.
But before he did, he said, now coming up, we'll
get to our special feature, the economy in crisis or
(11:45):
is a crisis in the economy? And every night they
would do this special feature, but the economy in crisis. Well,
on November fourth, the election came and Clinton won, and
that night they dropped the feature. There was no feature,
no economy and crisis, no crisis in the economy. They
never mentioned it again. As soon as Clinton won, they
(12:07):
dropped the feature and never used it again. But it
helped kill Bush. So they've brought this play back. And
sure enough, if they keep yelling and screaming about affordability, affordability, affordability,
everyone thinks is a crisis. Now the president has not
been on top of this. He needs, you know, they
keep saying, you got to do better messaging. But it's
(12:27):
it's tough, you know, if every time anybody turns around,
they see affordability crisis. So he's got to get back
out there in the campaign trail. He did the first
one this week in Pennsylvania. There'll be more of them coming,
and he's got to talk about affordability.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
I have no.
Speaker 10 (12:42):
Higher priority than making America affordable again.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
That's what we're going to do.
Speaker 10 (12:46):
They gave you high prices, they gave you the highest
inflation in history, and we're giving you we're bringing those
prices down rapidly, lower prices, bigger paychecks. You're getting lower prices,
bigger X. We're getting inflation, we're crushing it, and you're
getting much higher wages. I mean, the only thing that
(13:07):
you used. It's really going up big. It's called the
stock market and your four oh one k.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah, yeah, stock market has been on fire all year now.
When the stock market goes crazy, goes way up. Well,
of course it helps the big hedge fund guys of
billionaires Goldman's as those kind of guy, of course it
helps them. But it helps every working man and woman
in America because they got a four oh one k
pension and the pension's invested in stock. So it's driving
(13:34):
up your pension, driving up your four oh one k.
But of course the media will never mention this. The
president gets no credit for it. You know, the smartest
guy is Larry Cudler, the best economist, and if you
watch Cudlow every day, four o'clock Fox Business Network, especially
the first five or ten minutes, Larry Cudler will go
over the exact most important statistics on the economy, laying
(13:56):
out how much better the economy is doing. He'll give
you a real data. It'll put it up on the
screen and it's fascinating. Then I'll right away go to
the top economists in the world, Art Laugher, all of
this stuff, and if you watch that, you'll understand exactly
how good things are. The economy was bad under Biden,
but it's getting better every week, and you'll give you
(14:17):
the exact figures and data. Well, not everybody watches Cutlow
every day. You know, most people are watching Sherry Shepherd,
they're watching the prices right, They're watching entertainment. You know,
they're not watching that. So you gotta remember, for a
lot of people, they don't follow this stuff. They don't
listen to talk radio, they don't follow this closely. They
(14:38):
watch you man, we'll just check the evening news at
six point thirty. We'll watch that for ten minutes. That's
their news summary. So if you get these fake news
idiots like this Martha Raddatz.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Sources telling ABC News it was headed for Cuba capable
of carrying up to two million barrels of oil. Today's
seizure marking the first time the US has overtly inter
with the election.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
That's all you think. What they overtly interfered with a
country trying to ship some oil. She never mentions. It
was in total violation of US sanctions. It was an
illegal ship and illegalship. She never mentioned it. So if
you're just watching the ABC and evening news, what are
you supposed to think you're supposed to I think, slowly,
but truly, one by one, people are starting to realize
(15:23):
you can't trust these people. President Trump saying the New
York Times should cease publication. Well, I gonna cease publication.
New York Times actually doing pretty well. You can make
a lot of money with this fake news. In fact, subscriptions.
You gotta remember with the newspaper, the print edition means
nothing anymore. It's just a money loser. The New York
(15:44):
Times print edition probably has one hundred thousand people, but
it's online where people read the newspaper and you subscribe
online subscriptions. New York Times just hit twelve million. It's
pretty impressive. Twelve million, online subscription. So you can make
a lot of money doing this fake news. But there
should be some Federal Trade Commission something stepping in on labeling.
(16:08):
You know, if you falsely label a product, they can
step right in there and stop you. You know, if
you say this product can definitely cure that, well they can.
They can make you change that label and you'll have
to put in there that doesn't actually cure it, it could
reduce symptoms. You know. So when the New York TIMPs
calls it a newspaper, or that they're printing news or
(16:28):
here's the news section, Federal Trade Commission can step in
there and say, you're not labeling this correctly. This is
a political agenda. You're pushing a narrative. You're not really
reporting the news as is. Anyway, we've got a lot
to get to speaking of the great economists. We'll have
one in just a few minutes so we can get
the actual facts on how the economy is doing. We've
(16:48):
got a lot coming up. 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 and
mark on demand by setting a preset for his podcast
on the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Now back to Mark Simon ONR.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to John in Florida. John,
how you doing.
Speaker 11 (17:16):
I'm morning, Mark, and Holidays. They should take that oil
and fill up the always at that.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
They'll take the what.
Speaker 11 (17:23):
You know from that the oil.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, that's a good idea. Throw it in the oil reserves.
Speaker 11 (17:31):
And also about Martha Gradish strike news stations these advertisements,
and you'll cut these plea people and start advertising with
them and they'll change their tune. You hit them in
the popabook, got to change tool.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
No they won't. They won't all they won't.
Speaker 11 (17:48):
Okay, you know better, boy.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
No, they won't. For a second. They actually don't make
any money on the news or the Sunday shows. It's uh.
I mean, they sell commercials, but it's not a big
part of their revenue. It's just on principle they do it.
The Sunday show makes no money, it has no viewers,
but it's fake news and they love it. Let's go
to Kay in Manhattan, k How you doing, Hi?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Mark?
Speaker 12 (18:13):
I'd like what I'd like to say these voters who
are who are thinking about voting for Democrats because of
the economy.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
Yeah, but they.
Speaker 12 (18:21):
Remind me of a woman who has a boyfriend who
batters her and abuses her, and then she meets a
really nice guy and he forgets her birthday, so she
goes back to the first guy.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (18:36):
Well, I can't even believe these people would think about
voting for Democrats after what this country has been through.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Well, it happens, It happens. Hey, they voted for mom Donnie.
Speaker 9 (18:47):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
By the way, I remember I was mentioned before. Nobody
reads the print edition of a newspaper. Nobody. It's tiny,
the circulation of a print edition. It's all subscriptions now,
So if you're the New Times, all your money is
off subscriptions, twelve million subscribers.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Well, one thing that did is and they found, you know,
in the print edition, is you turn the page as
a full page ad. Wow, you'd see this ad. What
they found with the people that read the paper online
is they don't pay any attention to the ads. They
don't even look at them, and they don't The only
way they make money is if you click on the ad. Well,
nobody clicks on the ads online on a newspaper, so
(19:26):
all the revenue is from the subscriptions now and not
from advertising. And that's one reason the New York Times
and other publications have been able to go crazy left wing,
totally slanted partisans, because they're no longer depending on advertising revenue.
So the New York Times, Washington Posts, they can go
totally nuts. All the money is subscriptions, no longer advertising.
(19:48):
You don't have to worry about advertiser backlash anymore if
you're a newspaper. Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave,
how you doing.
Speaker 12 (19:55):
Good morning, Mark.
Speaker 13 (19:56):
I'm doing very well. Thank you.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Mark.
Speaker 13 (19:58):
I have a question about the autopen during the Biden administration.
What exactly will President Trump do or has he done
regarding pardons?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Well, good question. He has said if it's an autopen pardon,
they're going to probably cancel it because it wasn't actually
signed by Biden and the technically the president has to
sign it. Apparently there is some way you can tell
if it was the autopen or a real signature. Let's
go to Joe in New York City. Joe, how you doing?
Speaker 13 (20:27):
Those crazy sig Democrats saying jingle bells is racist? That's nonsense, Mark.
He went the Three Stooges did jingle bells.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
There you go. Well, I told you we have the
most incredible high end audience in the world. There are
some exceptions, there's a few. Now, what he's talking about
is this crazy Joy Reed who got fired from MSNBC
yelling and screaming yesterday that jingle Bells is racist. Jingle
Bells is racist. I don't know what the hell she's
(21:05):
talking about. She claims it was written by a Confederate
soldier who wrote jingle Bells and he was making fun
of black people, and that it has its origins in
bigoted minstrel shows that were popular at the time. Well,
this doesn't make any sense. It was a song, but
Joy Reid claiming jingle Bells is racist. However, this makes
her look pretty hypo critical. I found out she made
(21:28):
a recording of the song years ago. I found this
is Joy Reid singing jingle Bells. Pretty good, it's not bad. Actually,
let's go to Jeffrey and Queen's Jeffrey, how you.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Doing, Yeah, Mark, good morning?
Speaker 12 (21:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Listen to the single affordability as well. I'll pay you
the truth. You go to like ten twenty different supermarkets
and you fi them up the piss through the roof,
especially to the by cats from the dds, thestids and
the other ones. The prices are through the roof.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Well, I always find the gristities prices are pretty good.
There's different supermarkets, but you got to remember you can't
compare like a Manhattan supermarket. If you really want to
test affordability, you got to get out of New York City.
Things cost a whole lot more in Manhattan because there's
all kinds of costs to a supermarket. They don't have
(22:27):
your things. You don't think about. You know, if you
run a supermarket, a million trucks have to show up
every day and deliver your food. So if you got
a supermarket in Long Island or in Westchester, you got
a big parking lot and the trucks come in and
deliver your food. If it's in Manhattan, the trucks have
to double park. They get ticketed like crazy. So if
you're a supermarket, you're paying like half a million a
(22:49):
year in parking tickets, things like that, you're paying congestion
pricing to you're paying all kinds of taxes. So the
supermarket that brings up the price is paying millions in
expenses they wouldn't be paying if they were in the suburbs.
So again, something with gas, don't you know, don't look
at a gas pump in New York City and think
that's the price around the country.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Hey, when we come back, one of the greatest economists
in the world, Now, what is the real story with affordability.
We'll get to that next Steve Moore, we hope coming
up next on seven to ten wor.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Seventeen w alarm.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Well, let's turned to one of the great economists in
the world, Steve Moore, and he runs the committee to
Unleash Prosperity dot com and every day they put out
the best daily news and analysis briefing. You can get
it free. It'll come right to your email. Just go
to Unleash Prosperity dot com. Hey, make sure you get
his book, The Trump Economic Miracle. What a book it is.
(23:44):
And he's with us now, Steve Moore, how you doing, hey.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Mark, I'm doing really well. I think the economy is
doing really well. I think America's doing really well. And
you know, I love Trump's speech the other night about
how well the economy is doing because it is it
happens to be doing really well. In terms of wages,
in terms of job opportunities, in terms of four one
K plans. It's all looking very positive to me.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Oh, I don't know. I got the New York Times
right here says we're in the worst affordability crisis ever
in history. But yeah, their focus groups came up with
this word affordability. They what do you do about the
fact they're just drilling this into people's heads and people
are falling for it.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Well they are, I mean, And by the way, there's
a difference between an increase in prices and an increase
in inflation. So what's happened is, you know, prices are
still rising by about two and a half percent, but
that's down from like five and six percent increases and
prices under Biden. In fact, as you know, the ninety
percent of the inflation that people are complaining about in
(24:45):
the higher prices happened under.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Who Joe Biden?
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Yeah, exactly. So why is it that people are so
obsessed with Trump on this?
Speaker 11 (24:55):
Now?
Speaker 5 (24:55):
Look, the things that are really rising in prices right
now are beef prices, and you know, people are angry
when they buy a steak at the grocery store. The
other thing that's going through the roof. By the way,
is healthcare costs?
Speaker 7 (25:06):
Mark?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
We just got our healthcare statement for twenty six and
our insurance premiums are you ready to are going up
twelve percent? So you know what is going on. I
thought fifteen years ago we passed the affordable care at well, yeah,
not so affordable to me.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
But you've been writing about this in the hotline. Yeah,
the whole thing needs to be totally busted up. And
when the government gets involved, nothing works right. But like
a simple test, a cat scan or something, it's one
hundred dollars, but the insurance rate is twelve hundred dollars
or eight thousand. Yeah, you got to stop all this.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
How do we you need? Well, one thing, one thing
we need is healthcare price transparency so everyone knows. You know,
have you noticed we as Americans we always ask you
know you've taken you know, you buy a book, an
airline flight, you ask how much it's going to cost?
You go to the grocery store, how much is that
ice creamium cost? Everything that we buy a restaurant, everything
we asked, see how much is it could cost? Except
(26:01):
for one thing healthcare. You know, when you go to
the doctor at the hospital. We never asked what things cost,
and that's one of the reasons prices are completely out
of control. I mean, my old friend Philogram used to say,
if we paid for groceries the way we pay for healthcare,
he said, I'd eat steak and lobster and drink champaign
every night. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
So there's no way to do this though, get government
completely out of health care, is there? It can't happen.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Well, you know we could if you could not take
a dumber way to pay for healthcare right now than
what we have right now. And incidentally, under the Democratic
plan that you can have an income over half a
million dollars and the Democrats want you to get subsidies
from the taxpayer for millionaires. Practically, I mean, it does
not make any sense. By the way, there are twenty
(26:49):
one states that have refused Trump's demand to tell us
make sure that the people are signing up for Medicaid
and all these Obamacare substies, going to make sure that
they actually have legitimate Social Security numbers and they're eltible
of the programs. Twenty one states, including New York and
New Jersey, have refused to comply.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Yeah. Now, they'll be Democrats yelling, well, what's the Republican
plan on healthcare? What is the Republican plan?
Speaker 5 (27:11):
I have two words answer? Ready, yeah, free enterprise, free markets. Well,
let's pay healthcare. Now. People should have catastrophic insurance or
you know, if you have you know, if you get
cancer God forbid, or have a terrible accident and you
have hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical expenses, you
want to make sure you're covered for that. But why
do we need you know, healthcare coverage for active visits
(27:33):
and all these other things that are routine expenditures. So
that would make that would put the patient back in
the equation. And incidentally, you know I have an item
in the hotline today. Mark that the in Canada now
they have seven eight, nine, ten, twelve, fifteen, in some
cases twenty six weeks delay and waiting lines to get
(27:54):
any kind of medical procedure. But freeh Do you remember that?
Do you remember the famous scene in the movie Beetlejuice
where the beetle Juice is in the waiting room and
they're serving number number three and he looks at his
number and he's like nine hundred thousand. That's how I help,
there's just some both. It's free if you can get it.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yeah. Hey, so the Fed a slight reduction yesterday. This
is the most useless Fed ever? Will this get fixed?
Will we get a new FED chairman?
Speaker 9 (28:24):
Will ar?
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Yeah, Well it's going to be one. Yep, We're going
to get one of the two. Kevin's either Kevin Hassett
or Kevin Worst. You know both of them. I know
both of them. I think they were both the excellent,
excellent choices. They would restore the value of the dollar.
They would make sure that interest rates are as low
as they possibly can be. And so I'd like both
(28:45):
of those picks. And as long as we get rid
of Jerome Powell, I'll be very happy.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Will he'll be replaced as chairman? Will he step down
from the Fed like he's supposed to?
Speaker 5 (28:56):
I hope. So he's the guy who let prices go
up by twenty percent of the last four years. He's
a total failure. He's got to go. And we got
to get somebody in there who depends a dollar, restores
us to price stability, and gets the inflation rate back
down to two percent or belowp Yeah, I gotta run mout,
but I hope you have a great, great day. And
my god, I gotta do some Christmas shopping, all.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Right, get me something nice? You want my sizes?
Speaker 5 (29:20):
Yeah, you're right exactly.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Yeah, takes care.
Speaker 9 (29:25):
Well. At least he showed up. He had to run,
but at least he showed up. That's pretty good. So
it's enough Christmas. I'm a long ago Christmas. What's the
day today? Let me it's eleventh. That's thirteen more days
of this two weeks. I can't take it. I don't
feel good. Yeah, it's overeating. It's these Christmas parties. You
(29:49):
just eat like crazy.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
The good thing is today I'm walking around the whole
sixth floor here, there's no buffets anywhere, thank god. Today.
Yesterday there were these buff face in front of Elvis
Durant studio. What that was the most incredible buffet Italian this,
and and then down there by Jim Kurr studio buffet
of these incredible cakes and pastries. This went on for miles.
(30:14):
That's in the morning. Then in the afternoon. Who's that buffet? Yesterday?
At lunch here that big another Italian yeah whatever that
was called?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
And then from that I leave and then I go
to all these Christmas parties. You know, they've got a
lot of afternoon Christmas parties. That's a big thing now,
afternoon Christmas parties. They're one of those. And then night.
The last Christmas party was Pea Pack which is one
of the most prestigious, finest private banks in America. You
hear them on w O r PA Pack Private Doug
(30:45):
Kennedy the chairman. What a great party that was. But
the food was amazing. Now I can't even move today,
So it's got to stop. It's got to stop these
Christmas parties. And then next week it gets any work
much worse. There's like three, four of them a day.
It's too much. It's too much. You've got to come
up with something besides food and parties. Hold the Christmas
(31:09):
party at a gym, no food, just gatorade or something
like that. It's tough to deal with. Hey, coming up,
you got to Buck and Clay at noon today with
a great show. Then you got the most listened to
radio show in America, Sean Hannity at three, Jesse Kelly
at six. Hey, Jimmy Faylor does a great show here
every night at nine o'clock. In fact, he'll be with us.
(31:30):
He'll be our guest here in the next hour on
seven to ten wor.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
The Mark Simone Show continues on seventen WOR.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Whoa hey, So you got Tucker Carlson going nuts again?
What is he yelling about? Now? You know that Olivia Nuzzy,
that crazy reporter who was sexting and texting and with
the RFK Junior and the text came out. That was
a little bit of a scandal, And now you got
this crazy Tucker was all inn Israeli plot to take
down Trump. It was a deep state Israeli plot to
(32:05):
take down Donald Trump. So now, yeah, I was playing
this yesterday. You just got to forget about Tucker Carlson.
Just forget about it. You know, when you get fired,
you're not on a network, you don't have a real platform.
When you're producing a podcast out of your living room,
how do you get anybody to see it? You got
to get attention. So he's a very smart guy and
a very sophisticated guy, but he's saying these crazy outlandish things.
(32:29):
Megan Kelly the same thing, Candae Owens the same thing.
They don't work for anybody. They're out of work. They're
doing a show out of their house. So to get attention,
they say the craziest things to go viral, so they
want to be the new Alex Jones or whatever. Just
ignore them, just don't pay attention. Hey, Jimmy Fayalo will
be with us in the next hour. We've got a
lot to talk about. We'll get to it right after
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