October 29, 2025 • 33 mins
Many voters who are not fond of mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo may vote for him to prevent Zohran Mamdani from possibly becoming NYC's next mayor. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews Roger Friedman from Showbiz411. All the strikes on Broadway in NYC that occurred within the last few weeks have been settled. Mariah Carey is secretly teasing plans for the upcoming holiday season!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, this is Mark Simon Show on sevent ten.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
WoT Well, things are shifting in the mayoral race. We'll
get to that. We'll get to the President's trip. He
meets with President She tonight late tonight. We'll get to
the shutdown. We'll get to the World Series. We'll get
to twenty twenty eight. We'll get to the ballroom and
a whole lot more coming up. There's people that watch
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this stuff carefully are seeing a shift in the mayoral race.
More people are moving towards Cuomo. Curtis who we love.
He'd be He's the best candidate of the bunch, he'd
be the best mayor of the bunch. But there are
voters shifting from him to Cuomo, despite the fact that
they hate Cuomo. They were horrified by Cuomo's performance in
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office as governor, but they're just so terrified of him
Donnie City Hall, that they're more and more people are
shifting to Cuomo. So we don't know if it's too little,
too late. He's still way behind in all the polling,
but but there is a shift, and there is some
data showing the race really tightening. The big big donors
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are always the worst in any campaign. Because at first
they always back the wrong guy. They're never great at helping.
They do more damage than good, these big, big money donors.
But one of the problems is to get mom Donnie
out of this, to take him out of competition. This
had to start about a month and a half ago.
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As John McLaughlin, the Great Polster, explained to us, you
gotta drive his negatives up. You got to get his
negatives up into the fifties. And the way you do
that is massive negative ads against him. Bombard everybody with
these ads showing you things he said in the past,
all that stuff. Well, that's where the big donors have
to spend the money. The big super PACs have to
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run those ads. Well, they didn't this time. Where have
they been This is one of the few campaigns where
they haven't been there. You haven't seen those kind of
negative adds. It's because the big donors were terrified of
Mam Donnie winning and then not being able to have
any kind of relationship with him because you can always
tell who donated the money, So out of fear, they
didn't do it. Now it looks like they may start
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doing it. It's a little late. About thirty five percent
of the vote is already in because of that early voting,
So it's a little late, but they're going to start
running some negative stuff. You got this weekend to do it,
and then early voting stops. I think Monday. I think
there's no early voting the day before the election. But
then Tuesday's election day. You'll probably get half the votes
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on Tuesday. So, but Cuomo has been picking up a
little steam and he's been picking up endorsements. David Patterson
endorsed him, But then David Patterson has endorsed everybody in
the race. He's endorsed Adams. If Curtiss is saying, don't
endorse me, it's the kiss of death. Eric Adams is
endorsed Cuomo. They were campaigning together. Here they are yesterday, here.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Adams, Governor Patterson, myself. We are Democrats. We've always been Democrats,
we will always be Democrats, and we believe in the
democratic values.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah. Now, the only problem is that he keeps, you know,
making that point, I'm the real I'm the actual Democrat. Well,
he was in the Democratic primary and Democrats rejected him.
Democrats voted against him. He's running now on a third party.
He's not the Democratic nominee, but Adams appeared with him yesterday.
We don't need a socialist masquer rated as a Democrat.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
No one's going to get a free ride, no matter
what some people are promising. But there is a great
opportunity for this city if we elect this gentleman right
now next Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Now that's the Adams and David Patterson together. So here's
the problem. Everybody hates Cuomo. They thought he was he's
a nice guy in real life, but they just thought
he was the worst governor. He caused the crime wave,
the no bail, no jail, the closing the prisons, letting
all the prisoners out, the taken away the qualified immunity
from cops was a horrible thing to do. Cops could
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get sued if they went near anybody, so they had
to be very restrained. I mean, he did so many things.
He totally mismanaged the pandemic. He tried to ban the vaccine.
At one point he blocked Ice and threatened to sue him.
He closed Indian Point that drove up that was twenty
five percent of our power, drove up our electric costs.
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He picked Kathy Hockle. He's the reason we're stuck with
Kathy Ogle. He gave us the congestion pricing. He's the
one that pushed that through. So he was just terrible
as governor, But many just think Madamie could actually be worse. Obviously,
they're worried most about public safety. But remember it was
Cuomo that gave us the no Bail no jail. That
one move single handedly caused the crime wave. He's the
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one that pushed it like crazy. But people just think
they'd be safer with him than Mom Donnie. He's probably
probably correct, but even Here's Michael Goodwin today, the great
columnists in the New York Post, and he writes, if
anyone had dared to tell me I would actually vote
for Andrew Cuomo again, I would have shot back. Never.
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I was thoroughly disgusted with the former governor, applauded his
forced exit from Albany, and saw no evidence he was
doing anything to make himself fit to hold public office again.
In the three plus years since his resignation, he's continued
to play defense attack his critics, including me Goodwin, but
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had done nothing to demonstrate he learned anything or accepted
any responsibility for his historic collapse. There were no apologies
for the heartless nursing home tobaccle he caused. There was
no remorse that he was guilty of sexually harassing thirteen
women accused of harassing them. He never said so directly,
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but he seemed to believe if he got back into
politics enough, voters enamored with the Cuomo name would give
him a second chance, even if he didn't show them
why he deserved it. Well, that was the problem. In
the primary. He thought just the Cuomo name, the name recognition, whatever,
it would help him. But he got wiped out in
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both debates in the primary. He got wiped out in
the popular vote in the primary. But Goodwin says, as
horrible as he thinks Cuomo is, he'll vote for him
just to stop mom Donnie. So you're getting more and
more of that. By the way, every piece of polling
these are all kind of junk polls, a dozen of
them that are out there, but every single one shows
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that Curtis got out of the race, Cuomo still would
be behind, So it's not about Curtis. And the most
detailed polling shows if Curtis left, thirty six percent of
his vote would go to Cuomo, giving Cuomo an extra
four percent, So if he's Spout behind ten percent, then
he'd be behind six percent, still not enough to win.
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The idea that if Curtis dropped out, all those votes
would go to Cuomo is crazy. It's like saying if
the Yankees lose in the playoffs and don't make the
World Series, all the Yankee fans will then go with
the Red Sox. It doesn't work that way. It may
be some of them just because they like the American League,
would cheer for the Red Sox, but most of the
Yankee fans would not suddenly go to the Red Sox.
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Same thing with Curtis. Curtis is not getting out of
the race, no reason why he should. If Cuomo wants
to win this, he's got to win those votes. You
can't just force Sliwa out. Cuomo has to legitimately try
to win those voters away. Well, it looks like there
is some movement like that. He is picking up a
little steam. We'll see if he can do it enough
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to close the gap. The race is tighter than the
people think. Mamdani is on course to win. Now. Well,
here's what's interesting. If you try to argue with people
about policies that he supports. In the polling, the majority
of residents don't agree with his policies. This is the
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fascinating part. They just like him. The poll found that
New Yorkers favor harsher penalties for fair evasion. They're not
looking for free bus fair They don't like the bail
reform law. Sixty eight percent don't want the free buses.
They thought it would turn them into homeless shelters. He
can go on and on. They're not in favor of
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his crime policies, but despite all that, they were still
for them. Now, Mom, Donnie's got all these horrible comments
in the past, you know, they keep coming up. He said,
the NYPD had their boots on your neck. Ist he say,
I think I have it here somewhere. Maybe maybe this
is it. This is from a few years ago.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
We have to make clear when the.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yeah. So he said, when the NYPD boot is on
your neck, it's been laced by the IDF. So that's real, Mom, Donnie.
There he takes a terrible shot of the police and
puts in some anti Semitic, anti Israel nonsense into the
same sentence. So that's what you're dealing with. Uh, here's Curtis.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
But he just shows the hate that he has vote
for the idea and the hate that he has for
the NYPD.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, so all of this is just horrible. But again
we are seeing a shift of voters who don't like Cuomo.
They hate Clomo, they thought he was a terrible governor.
But there is some movement, some shift over to voting
for Cuomo. We'll see if it's enough. A lot of
people really upset with Kathy Hokele. Now, if Mom Donnie
were to win and be a terrible mayor, that would
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be the end of Kathy Hokel. Anybody running against her
would just run the clips of her supporting Mom Donnie
and stickiness with this stuff. She could actually remove him
as mayor, which she won't have the nerve to do.
So that's another reason she'll get voted out of office.
She just panders to him in his socialist crowd. She
was at she appeared at the Mom Donnie rally, and
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again she'll never be able to explain that away. What
were you doing at a Mom Donnie rally? Speaking on
his behalf, holding hands with him.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
At the rally?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
She got booed there, by the way, even the far
left hates her. She was booed. She said, she's not
the brightest woman in the world. They were booing her
like crazy, and she said, I thought they were saying,
let's go bills. Now, if you're going to think of
an excuse, that's why would this was in Forest Hill stadiums.
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Why would people in New York City not say let's
go giants jets. Nobody in New York City cares about
the bills. So just looked awful for her. Now, what
if Mom Donnie win? Is there any way to stop him?
If he wins? Yes, if they found out he took
foreign money, knowingly took foreign money into his campaign, they
can remove him from being mayor. That would be the
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end of it. Now, there are several groups that have
been working on this, this one called the Coolidge Reagan Foundation.
They have now filed two criminal referrals with the Justice Department.
They've uncovered thirteen thousand and foreign money from one hundred
and seventy donors that went to Mom Donnie. No, it's
not quite that simple. You've got to prove that he
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knew about it, but it's enough to file a criminal referral,
have a criminal investigation. There's another one hundred and seventy
incidents that's not isolated. That's a lot of incidents. The
Mam Donnie campaigns at thirty one of the one hundred
and seventy one donors proved their citizenship. Well, he's still
got one hundred and forty left that didn't. The criminal
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referral is with the Assistant Attorney General right now, so
he'll be looking at that. Fox News Digital did an investigation.
They uncovered thirteen thousand from donors with foreign addresses, including
one five hundred dollars donation from his mother in law
in Dubai, not an American citizen. Mam Donnie says he
returned the contribution, but as of October fourteenth, filing still
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show ninety one foreign donations had been funded. But that
leaves that leaves about sixty of them still out there,
so it's possible they could take him out with that. Also,
any victory of Mandami's would he'd be a terrible mayor.
It would just kill the Democrats right now. Democratic brand
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is in real trouble. If he went back to ten
years ago and took a real poll, not a serious poll,
fifty percent of voters viewed the Democratic Party is out
of touch. Half okay, that makes sense, but it's now
up to seventy percent. The majority of the country thinks
the Democratic Party is totally completely out of touch. So
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we'll see what happens as the early voting continues. Now,
if we get about a million votes, a million one,
a million two, which is low twenty thirty percent turnout,
it looks like it could head to two million. You
could get sixty percent, seventy percent turnout. If the voting
gets to two million, that probably could give you a
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Cuomo victory. Probably it has to get to about two million,
but it looks like it could be headed there. So
there's all these endorsements. Now, Michael Goodwin says he hates
Cuomo as much as it, but he's going to vote
for him. Here you got a woman who this kind
of went viral online. She says, Cuomo murdered my husband.
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I think she's referring to the nursing homes. Cuomo murdered
my husband. But I'm still going to vote for him.
So you're getting a lot of that. So there is
a shift going on right now. Now in New Jersey.
It's very very very tight nobody can tell what's going
to happen. Now, these endorsements don't mean much of anything.
You know, when Cuomo announces, oh, the Electricians Union endorsed me.
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They're nice people. But I don't think anybody when they
want to know who to vote for, asks they're Electrician.
It doesn't mean anything. Even the big name the newspaper
endorsements generally mean nothing. Rally's trying to get endorsements. He's
got a Trump. Trump's not going to come to New Jersey,
but it's gonna be some sort of video endorsement. Mikey
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Cheryl brought in Obama to give an indorsement. Here's the
latest Chitarelli endorsement. Kelsey Grammar, Hi, Kelsey Grammar.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Here. You already know that I'm from New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
No, wait, stop it. Did you know he's from New Jersey?
I never know he's from New Jersey. Is there anything
about him that suggests he's from New Jersey?
Speaker 6 (14:26):
No?
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Why I'm talking to you right now. There's a lot
of famous folks who grew up in Jersey. But some
of them seem content to let you guys go on
living on a prayer. Others have just forgotten that you
were born in the USA too. But once Jack wins,
and I think he's got a good chance of winning,
it's gonna make it a lot easier to just shake
it off.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I don't know. That's not a very good not a
good commercial. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
It's like just picture him and Niles in the in
the little cafe, they're talking. No, no, not a powerful endorsement. Anyway,
We'll see what happens. We'll get back to the mayor
all race. We'll get back to that. The President is
continuing the trip. You'll read that he's going to meet
with President She Thursday morning, but with the massive time difference,
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Thursday morning is late tonight, so it'll be late tonight
that he meets with She. So far, it's been a
very very successful trip. Lots of agreements, lots of deals
have been signed, great for the United States, and so
they call deliverables. He's gotten a lot of different deliverables
on this trip. We'll get to the shutdown coming up.
Chuck Schumer says, this is outrageous. It's outrageous, this is horrifying.
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Forty two million people on foodstamps might not get their
benefits but most people on to hear this. Go Wait
a minute, forty two million people are on food stamps.
Why weren't you outraged about that? You should have been
screaming for years that forty two million people are on
food stamps. That's not right. Somebody that did just the
sign of his failed leadership. Anyway, we'll get back to
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all of this up. We'll take some calls. Next. Eight
hundred three to two one zero seven ten. Is the
number eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. You're
listening to the Mark Simone Show. Hey, let's take some calls.
Let's go to Mike and Long Island. Mike, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Hey, Mark, good morning, Good morning, Mark.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I got a question to you.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
In this city, we probably have fifty percent.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
I don't know what the numbers are of voters that
are completely uneducated.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Don't follow what city you're talking about, New York City.
Well you're not in New York City.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Okay, but it's even though the rest.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Well, you can't you you're just making up statistics. Fifty
percent or not on he can't just make up don't
you can't just make up stuff like that. Let's go
to Jerry in New Jersey. Jerry, how you doing good?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Mark?
Speaker 6 (16:52):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Let me check you're good. See they don't really care.
They just say how you're doing, but they don't the answer. Yes,
go ahead, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
You believe that Andrew Clomo really wants to be mayor
after being CEO. I think they're dusting him off to
see if he can run against AOC and take Schumer's
seat in the Senate.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, no, obviously when your governor,
mayor is a big step down. Although it's more fun
to be mayor. Actually, nobody wants to go to Albany mayor.
You're in city Hall, you liveing in Gracie mansion. It's
nicer than the governor's mansion, better located. But you're right,
you're right. He's plotting his whole life. He's been plotting
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to be president.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
And did you see him with Stephonica's governor after she
said you'll never serve again.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
That's a good point. Yeah, that's the problem with Cloma.
You don't you never know what he's really up to.
But the argument is, Mom, Donnie is so horrible, so horrible,
you'd vote for him. It's like, this is like the
worst mess New York has ever gotten into. And you
Democrats got us into this with your primary there without
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anybody you'd want to vote for. It was Mom, Donnie
and then the lowest worst people in the world to
Brad Lander types and the worst people have you ever seen?
In the primary in Cuomo couldn't even beat them. He
got wiped out in his own primary. But we'll see.
We got six days left until the election. Let's go
to Rich in Myrtle Beach. Rich How you doing?
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Thanks?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Mark. A couple of things. Any connection the fact that
us AID got defunded. Now the Democrats are broke and
they're all screaming if they will need money. That's pretty coincidental.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Up, Yeah, that could be that us AID was basically
just a slush fund. You know, it was to bribe
people all over the place, and a lot of Democrats
profited off of this. Shutdown is not going well for Democrats. Republicans.
Their messaging is very good on this. The problem is
Trump controls the White House, so he makes the shutdown
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is not painful. Remember when Obama was president and he
did the shutdown, he tried to make it deliberately as
painful as possibly. He closed everything, even though he didn't
have to. They closed monuments World War Two monuments that
didn't require any staffing. There was no reason to close him.
He just wanted to make it look painful, so he
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had them closed and the yellow police tape was put
all around him and they were closed up just so
everywhere it looked was a symbol of closure, even though
there was no reason to close those things. Let's go
to David and Passaic. David, how you.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Doing, good morning.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
I want to reminisce what will happened on the Montdani
In the late seventies, property valleys went down, taxes went up,
There was a lot of fires.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
In the South.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Bronx had gangs, even have Gerald Ford told New York
City dropped dead, remember that.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, that was more mid seventies. That was under a
beam and.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
A beam right in the Financial Review Board took over
and the city was bankrupt. Garbage was all over the streets.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, no way. Which party was that? Oh yeah it
was Democrats there once again they don't do good at
running the cities.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
You know who got to start? Then go to sleeve
in the subways. That's when he started the angels. Angels.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Yeah, back then. There was quite a year. There's a
big mini series about nineteen seventy seven. It was an
incredible year. You're right. It was fires and crime, and
it was the sun of sam summer, and it was
the Yankees and Reggie. It was quite that. It's somewhere online.
You can find that nineteen seventy seven. It's a documentary series.
But it is fascinating to watch. Go back and watch
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it if you can. I guess how bad could mom
Downy be? Probably? Well, remember we went through this with
the Blasio who was it didn't declare himself as socialist,
but he was pretty much a socialist. Anyway, let's take
some calls. Let's go to line too. You're on the air.
How you doing, Oh, Mark Good?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
It's rout from anybody who believes that nine to eleven
was about Islamophobia should never be Mayor of New York.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yeah. Well, it's like he's like the Muslim house Sharpton.
I guess you know, Sharpton always plays the race card
even when it doesn't apply, and he's playing that Islamophobia
card when it doesn't apply. There's not this has never
been a problem in New York City. New York city
is a Muslim city. It's eleven percent Muslim. The Jewish
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population is only eleven percent. You get the same number
with Muslims eleven percent. And if you talk to the
NYPD and look over all the data, there's not an
a tax on Muslims. It's not happening. Attacks on Jews, yes, yes,
in great numbers. Anti Semitic attacks by the thousands for
the last couple of years. You've seen them all over
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the news. And if you look through NYPD data, it's
tons of anti Semitic attacks, anti Muslim attacks. You will
not find any in the city. It really doesn't happen. Obviously.
It was something people thought about right after nine to eleven,
but it didn't result in much of anything. Hey, when
we come back, Roger Friedman, the Great entertainment reporter, he'll
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be with us. Next we'll get back to the mayoral race. Hey,
we'll talk to Bruce Blakeman later. He's got a lot
to say about mom Donnie. He's also the guy you
should vote for Nassau County best county Executive in America.
But all of that's coming up on seven to ten.
Woor The Mark sim Own Show.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
On sevent ten woor Well.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Roger Friedman is the great entertainment reporter. He has a
website you should check every day. There's always news stories,
showbiz for one one dot com, showbizfo one one dot com.
Roger Friedman, how you doing.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I'm really doing great because once mom Donnie is mayor
all tickets to Broadway shows will be free and all
the restaurants around them we'll be serving free food and empty.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
At the same time. But hey speak Yeah, speaking of Broadway,
everything is settled, right They had all these strike threats,
that's all settled now.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
All the strikes have been settled, which was very smart
because it's a tricky time on Broadway. The last thing
anyone needed was a strike. And things are back to
normal and Broadway is booming right now. Actually, you know,
Hamilton is doing incredible business. Last week it did three
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point four million dollars, which is insane, and it's been
doing that right along since they brought back their Tony
winning star Leslie Odam Jr. For a run. That's I
guess going through the winter January maybe, and people will
pay anything to get into the show. They're premium tickets
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for fifteen hundred dollars and they're all sold out. People
will pay absolutely anything to get in there. And other
shows are doing great. There's a new show called Queen
of Versailles with Kristin Chenowith that's also doing great business.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
We have what is Queen ever? Size? About that woman
with the House in Florida.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yes, it's about the woman with the house in Florida,
And yeah, and f Murray Abrahams and I think he
plays her husband. And the songs are really good and
that's gonna be a big hit.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, we have a lot and Chess
is coming. Did you ever see Chess the first time around?
Andrew Weber?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Oh yeah, one night in Bangkok. It's a very popular show.
And you know, the book was never good. The songs
were great, but the books book was never good. So
they got this great guy, Danny Strong, to rewrite the
whole show. And now that show is selling out in
previews like crazy, I mean totally sold out. So we
have a Broadway is booming. And I just put up
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a story on Showbiz for one one that Daniel Radcliffe
is coming from Harry Potter, who already has a Tony
Award for Merrily We Roll Along and he's going to
be in a one man show this winter that's being
imported from England that's supposed to be terrific. And as
long as they don't charge seven hundred dollars a ticket,
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I think they'll be Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
No, no, it's good news. I'm glad Broadway's doing so well.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I walking by a Rockefeller Center on Radio City's marquee
right above it. It was the first Christmas tree I
saw this year. That Christmas tree above the Marquee is
up already. It's a little early.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Oh is it really it's there already.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah. There's a great story about I'm an editor they
brought into the New Yorker from England, which was like
her in nineteen ninety and they bring this guy in
and he's an older guy and he's never been to
New York before, and somehow he got a job working
as an editor of New Yorker. And he comes back
after lunch and he says to the people in the office,
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oh my god, we have to do this story. There's
a big tree going up in Rockefeller Center. Well, and
everyone was like, uh huh.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Speaking of Christmas though, this is the we're a little early.
But pretty soon that Christmas music will start everywhere. And
then you wrote about Mariah Carey. But yes, it's the
only time of the year. A lot of people who
don't know who these people are start to hear Andy
Williams and Nat King Cole and all that stuff. So
it's a great Also, you know, I'm thinking of Brenda Lee.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Brenda Lee, Brenda Lee. Sometimes her song goes all the
way up to number one during Christmas time. She's about
ninety and they had you know, they go and they
wake her up and they tell her what's going on,
and she shocked. Well, Mariah Carrey had an album out
a few weeks ago that nobody bought, which was a
pretty good album. It was very well sung and had
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nice songs, but nobody wanted to hear it, you know,
bad marketing. Also that Mariah doesn't really get out and
push stuff. She expects you to come to her. But
she loves the Christmas season and she has the best
selling Christmas song of all time with All I Really
Want for Christmas Is You or whatever it's called. Sounds
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like a Phil Spector song, and it's sold about a
billion copies. And every year around this time she starts
putting little messages on social media. Not yet, not yet,
We're not ready yet. And then she goes out and
she has her big Christmas season. It lasts about six weeks,
so we're about to see Mariah's Christmas season. And that's
how we know.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yeah, Roger Freeman, too many documentaries. It's enough with these documentaries.
I know. It's the cheapest thing to do. It's cheaper
than making an actual movie.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Oh. No, documentaries are fabulous. I'll tell you why. Documentaries
are more important than ever. No, they're more important than ever,
and I'll tell you why. The reason is as funding
gets cut for PBS and National Public radio, where we
get a lot of information, and as the networks like
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CBS today is laying off a thousand people, as the
networks are contracting and not doing so much documentary work
or newswork. Independent documentaries are really a huge source of
information for us, and we're getting to find out things
from around the world that we wouldn't know. Critics Choice Association,
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which I'm part of, has a big awards ceremony on
November ninth over at the Ballroom on forty seventh Street,
and that's a very important thing. The Gotham Awards just
announced their awards coming up, nominations coming up, and they
have five terrific documentaries and then we'll have the Oscars.
(28:46):
You can't. I feel that you cannot have enough documentaries
to illuminate subjects around the world that we would not
have acted.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Most of them are about you know, there's a new
one Stiller in Mara.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Now.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
I love Stiller and Mara.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
I know it's great.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I knew Stiller and Marra. Yeah, what's like happened to
dozing off halfway through? What am I watch?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Oh? No, I watched. I loved it. I loved them.
I knew them too. We were very lucky to live
in New York and know them. And although I never
had Blue Nune Wine, Ben Stiller, their son has done
a great job documenting their career and it's on Apple TV.
I recommend it for it's so enjoyable to see them again.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
All right, maybe just see I'd rather go to YouTube
and just watch Stiller in Marra and he Ed Sullivan
show on The Tonight Show or watch.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
But you wouldn't, but we would because we're one hundred
and fifteen years old. But for younger people who are
Ben Stiller fans, let's say, and they don't know anything
about Stilar mirror. They're learning about his parents for the
first time through this documentary. Then they're going to go
to YouTube and look at the clips, but they don't
know offhand that they should be doing that. Do you
see what I mean? Yeah, Okay, this is giving them
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entry away to that Stiller mirror. So I think that's terrific.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Now you're right about But there's another documentary coming or
is it a biopic CCR Creeden's Clearwater Revival.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Oh well, Creeden's you know, Queen's Clearwater Revival is huge.
It's so weird that, you know, fifty sixty years after
they had hits, they're bigger than Effort. You know that
their greatest hits winds up in the top twenty every
week on iTunes. Wow, no one knows what, No one
knows why. But the songs are great. You know, They'll
stop the Rain, have you ever seen the Rain? Proud Mary?
(30:28):
All these songs and they're being played on the radio constantly.
So now you know. This Bruce Springsteen movie is out
called Deliver Me from Nowhere, and the people who made
it really want to make a movie about John Fogerty
and Creeden's because you know, the great story, the crazy
story about them is that in the seventies, John Fogerty
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lost the rights to all his songs and it took
him like twenty years to get them back, and in
the meantime he just sort of had to disavow them
and go and play other songs. He would have been
charged by this company that bought them if he had
played them. Wow, it's a crazy story. Yeah, And John
Fogerty is one of the good guys of all time
(31:12):
in music. Everyone loves him. So they're waiting to see
if the Springsteen movie gets a lot of awards. I
think it'll have a lot of awards action this winter,
and then they're going to announce that John Fogerty movie.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Oh no, there'll be a whole new genre. There'll be
a Freddie in the Dreamers movie. They'll be Oh, I
hope so Gilbert Sullivan. It won't stop.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Jerry and the Pacemakers. There you go.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Well, Roger Friedman great stuff. Check out his website showbiz
for one one dot com. Showbiz for one one dot com,
New stuff every day up there.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Oh listen, I have one other thing to tell you.
Tom Hanks Off Broadway show with the Shed begins tomorrow night.
It's already sold out its first two performances. It's called
This World of Tomorrow Kelly o'harrison at Rubinson, Yogo Hudson,
and everyone's really looking forward to it. Go to the
Shed and try and get tickets.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Tom Hanks New show. All right, all right, sounds good.
Roger Friedman, thanks for being with us. Thank you, take care. Hey,
we got a lot coming up, and then we'll get
back to the Mayoral Race in the next hour. Don't
forget Bucking Clay. It's an excellent show every day at
noon right here on seven to ten WR get.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
His and access to Mark by setting a fre set
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Now back to the Mark Simone Show on WR.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Hey, we'll stop forget the latest news, get updated. Then
in the next hour we'll get back to the mayoral race. Well,
we'll get to Long Island too. Lots of talk about there,
but the Mayoral Race and a whole lot more the
ballroom derangement syndrome and more. We'll get to twenty twenty
eight too, all of that in the next hour right
here on seven to ten w
Yeah, this is Mark Simon Show on sevent ten.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
WoT Well, things are shifting in the mayoral race. We'll
get to that. We'll get to the President's trip. He
meets with President She tonight late tonight. We'll get to
the shutdown. We'll get to the World Series. We'll get
to twenty twenty eight. We'll get to the ballroom and
a whole lot more coming up. There's people that watch
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this stuff carefully are seeing a shift in the mayoral race.
More people are moving towards Cuomo. Curtis who we love.
He'd be He's the best candidate of the bunch, he'd
be the best mayor of the bunch. But there are
voters shifting from him to Cuomo, despite the fact that
they hate Cuomo. They were horrified by Cuomo's performance in
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office as governor, but they're just so terrified of him
Donnie City Hall, that they're more and more people are
shifting to Cuomo. So we don't know if it's too little,
too late. He's still way behind in all the polling,
but but there is a shift, and there is some
data showing the race really tightening. The big big donors
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are always the worst in any campaign. Because at first
they always back the wrong guy. They're never great at helping.
They do more damage than good, these big, big money donors.
But one of the problems is to get mom Donnie
out of this, to take him out of competition. This
had to start about a month and a half ago.
(01:32):
As John McLaughlin, the Great Polster, explained to us, you
gotta drive his negatives up. You got to get his
negatives up into the fifties. And the way you do
that is massive negative ads against him. Bombard everybody with
these ads showing you things he said in the past,
all that stuff. Well, that's where the big donors have
to spend the money. The big super PACs have to
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run those ads. Well, they didn't this time. Where have
they been This is one of the few campaigns where
they haven't been there. You haven't seen those kind of
negative adds. It's because the big donors were terrified of
Mam Donnie winning and then not being able to have
any kind of relationship with him because you can always
tell who donated the money, So out of fear, they
didn't do it. Now it looks like they may start
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doing it. It's a little late. About thirty five percent
of the vote is already in because of that early voting,
So it's a little late, but they're going to start
running some negative stuff. You got this weekend to do it,
and then early voting stops. I think Monday. I think
there's no early voting the day before the election. But
then Tuesday's election day. You'll probably get half the votes
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on Tuesday. So, but Cuomo has been picking up a
little steam and he's been picking up endorsements. David Patterson
endorsed him, But then David Patterson has endorsed everybody in
the race. He's endorsed Adams. If Curtiss is saying, don't
endorse me, it's the kiss of death. Eric Adams is
endorsed Cuomo. They were campaigning together. Here they are yesterday, here.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Adams, Governor Patterson, myself. We are Democrats. We've always been Democrats,
we will always be Democrats, and we believe in the
democratic values.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah. Now, the only problem is that he keeps, you know,
making that point, I'm the real I'm the actual Democrat. Well,
he was in the Democratic primary and Democrats rejected him.
Democrats voted against him. He's running now on a third party.
He's not the Democratic nominee, but Adams appeared with him yesterday.
We don't need a socialist masquer rated as a Democrat.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
No one's going to get a free ride, no matter
what some people are promising. But there is a great
opportunity for this city if we elect this gentleman right
now next Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Now that's the Adams and David Patterson together. So here's
the problem. Everybody hates Cuomo. They thought he was he's
a nice guy in real life, but they just thought
he was the worst governor. He caused the crime wave,
the no bail, no jail, the closing the prisons, letting
all the prisoners out, the taken away the qualified immunity
from cops was a horrible thing to do. Cops could
(04:05):
get sued if they went near anybody, so they had
to be very restrained. I mean, he did so many things.
He totally mismanaged the pandemic. He tried to ban the vaccine.
At one point he blocked Ice and threatened to sue him.
He closed Indian Point that drove up that was twenty
five percent of our power, drove up our electric costs.
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He picked Kathy Hockle. He's the reason we're stuck with
Kathy Ogle. He gave us the congestion pricing. He's the
one that pushed that through. So he was just terrible
as governor, But many just think Madamie could actually be worse. Obviously,
they're worried most about public safety. But remember it was
Cuomo that gave us the no Bail no jail. That
one move single handedly caused the crime wave. He's the
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one that pushed it like crazy. But people just think
they'd be safer with him than Mom Donnie. He's probably
probably correct, but even Here's Michael Goodwin today, the great
columnists in the New York Post, and he writes, if
anyone had dared to tell me I would actually vote
for Andrew Cuomo again, I would have shot back. Never.
(05:09):
I was thoroughly disgusted with the former governor, applauded his
forced exit from Albany, and saw no evidence he was
doing anything to make himself fit to hold public office again.
In the three plus years since his resignation, he's continued
to play defense attack his critics, including me Goodwin, but
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had done nothing to demonstrate he learned anything or accepted
any responsibility for his historic collapse. There were no apologies
for the heartless nursing home tobaccle he caused. There was
no remorse that he was guilty of sexually harassing thirteen
women accused of harassing them. He never said so directly,
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but he seemed to believe if he got back into
politics enough, voters enamored with the Cuomo name would give
him a second chance, even if he didn't show them
why he deserved it. Well, that was the problem. In
the primary. He thought just the Cuomo name, the name recognition, whatever,
it would help him. But he got wiped out in
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both debates in the primary. He got wiped out in
the popular vote in the primary. But Goodwin says, as
horrible as he thinks Cuomo is, he'll vote for him
just to stop mom Donnie. So you're getting more and
more of that. By the way, every piece of polling
these are all kind of junk polls, a dozen of
them that are out there, but every single one shows
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that Curtis got out of the race, Cuomo still would
be behind, So it's not about Curtis. And the most
detailed polling shows if Curtis left, thirty six percent of
his vote would go to Cuomo, giving Cuomo an extra
four percent, So if he's Spout behind ten percent, then
he'd be behind six percent, still not enough to win.
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The idea that if Curtis dropped out, all those votes
would go to Cuomo is crazy. It's like saying if
the Yankees lose in the playoffs and don't make the
World Series, all the Yankee fans will then go with
the Red Sox. It doesn't work that way. It may
be some of them just because they like the American League,
would cheer for the Red Sox, but most of the
Yankee fans would not suddenly go to the Red Sox.
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Same thing with Curtis. Curtis is not getting out of
the race, no reason why he should. If Cuomo wants
to win this, he's got to win those votes. You
can't just force Sliwa out. Cuomo has to legitimately try
to win those voters away. Well, it looks like there
is some movement like that. He is picking up a
little steam. We'll see if he can do it enough
(07:40):
to close the gap. The race is tighter than the
people think. Mamdani is on course to win. Now. Well,
here's what's interesting. If you try to argue with people
about policies that he supports. In the polling, the majority
of residents don't agree with his policies. This is the
(08:02):
fascinating part. They just like him. The poll found that
New Yorkers favor harsher penalties for fair evasion. They're not
looking for free bus fair They don't like the bail
reform law. Sixty eight percent don't want the free buses.
They thought it would turn them into homeless shelters. He
can go on and on. They're not in favor of
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his crime policies, but despite all that, they were still
for them. Now, Mom, Donnie's got all these horrible comments
in the past, you know, they keep coming up. He said,
the NYPD had their boots on your neck. Ist he say,
I think I have it here somewhere. Maybe maybe this
is it. This is from a few years ago.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
We have to make clear when the.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yeah. So he said, when the NYPD boot is on
your neck, it's been laced by the IDF. So that's real, Mom, Donnie.
There he takes a terrible shot of the police and
puts in some anti Semitic, anti Israel nonsense into the
same sentence. So that's what you're dealing with. Uh, here's Curtis.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
But he just shows the hate that he has vote
for the idea and the hate that he has for
the NYPD.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, so all of this is just horrible. But again
we are seeing a shift of voters who don't like Cuomo.
They hate Clomo, they thought he was a terrible governor.
But there is some movement, some shift over to voting
for Cuomo. We'll see if it's enough. A lot of
people really upset with Kathy Hokele. Now, if Mom Donnie
were to win and be a terrible mayor, that would
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be the end of Kathy Hokel. Anybody running against her
would just run the clips of her supporting Mom Donnie
and stickiness with this stuff. She could actually remove him
as mayor, which she won't have the nerve to do.
So that's another reason she'll get voted out of office.
She just panders to him in his socialist crowd. She
was at she appeared at the Mom Donnie rally, and
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again she'll never be able to explain that away. What
were you doing at a Mom Donnie rally? Speaking on
his behalf, holding hands with him.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
At the rally?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
She got booed there, by the way, even the far
left hates her. She was booed. She said, she's not
the brightest woman in the world. They were booing her
like crazy, and she said, I thought they were saying,
let's go bills. Now, if you're going to think of
an excuse, that's why would this was in Forest Hill stadiums.
(10:28):
Why would people in New York City not say let's
go giants jets. Nobody in New York City cares about
the bills. So just looked awful for her. Now, what
if Mom Donnie win? Is there any way to stop him?
If he wins? Yes, if they found out he took
foreign money, knowingly took foreign money into his campaign, they
can remove him from being mayor. That would be the
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end of it. Now, there are several groups that have
been working on this, this one called the Coolidge Reagan Foundation.
They have now filed two criminal referrals with the Justice Department.
They've uncovered thirteen thousand and foreign money from one hundred
and seventy donors that went to Mom Donnie. No, it's
not quite that simple. You've got to prove that he
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knew about it, but it's enough to file a criminal referral,
have a criminal investigation. There's another one hundred and seventy
incidents that's not isolated. That's a lot of incidents. The
Mam Donnie campaigns at thirty one of the one hundred
and seventy one donors proved their citizenship. Well, he's still
got one hundred and forty left that didn't. The criminal
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referral is with the Assistant Attorney General right now, so
he'll be looking at that. Fox News Digital did an investigation.
They uncovered thirteen thousand from donors with foreign addresses, including
one five hundred dollars donation from his mother in law
in Dubai, not an American citizen. Mam Donnie says he
returned the contribution, but as of October fourteenth, filing still
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show ninety one foreign donations had been funded. But that
leaves that leaves about sixty of them still out there,
so it's possible they could take him out with that. Also,
any victory of Mandami's would he'd be a terrible mayor.
It would just kill the Democrats right now. Democratic brand
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is in real trouble. If he went back to ten
years ago and took a real poll, not a serious poll,
fifty percent of voters viewed the Democratic Party is out
of touch. Half okay, that makes sense, but it's now
up to seventy percent. The majority of the country thinks
the Democratic Party is totally completely out of touch. So
(12:40):
we'll see what happens as the early voting continues. Now,
if we get about a million votes, a million one,
a million two, which is low twenty thirty percent turnout,
it looks like it could head to two million. You
could get sixty percent, seventy percent turnout. If the voting
gets to two million, that probably could give you a
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Cuomo victory. Probably it has to get to about two million,
but it looks like it could be headed there. So
there's all these endorsements. Now, Michael Goodwin says he hates
Cuomo as much as it, but he's going to vote
for him. Here you got a woman who this kind
of went viral online. She says, Cuomo murdered my husband.
(13:25):
I think she's referring to the nursing homes. Cuomo murdered
my husband. But I'm still going to vote for him.
So you're getting a lot of that. So there is
a shift going on right now. Now in New Jersey.
It's very very very tight nobody can tell what's going
to happen. Now, these endorsements don't mean much of anything.
You know, when Cuomo announces, oh, the Electricians Union endorsed me.
(13:47):
They're nice people. But I don't think anybody when they
want to know who to vote for, asks they're Electrician.
It doesn't mean anything. Even the big name the newspaper
endorsements generally mean nothing. Rally's trying to get endorsements. He's
got a Trump. Trump's not going to come to New Jersey,
but it's gonna be some sort of video endorsement. Mikey
(14:08):
Cheryl brought in Obama to give an indorsement. Here's the
latest Chitarelli endorsement. Kelsey Grammar, Hi, Kelsey Grammar.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Here. You already know that I'm from New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
No, wait, stop it. Did you know he's from New Jersey?
I never know he's from New Jersey. Is there anything
about him that suggests he's from New Jersey?
Speaker 6 (14:26):
No?
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Why I'm talking to you right now. There's a lot
of famous folks who grew up in Jersey. But some
of them seem content to let you guys go on
living on a prayer. Others have just forgotten that you
were born in the USA too. But once Jack wins,
and I think he's got a good chance of winning,
it's gonna make it a lot easier to just shake
it off.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I don't know. That's not a very good not a
good commercial. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
It's like just picture him and Niles in the in
the little cafe, they're talking. No, no, not a powerful endorsement. Anyway,
We'll see what happens. We'll get back to the mayor
all race. We'll get back to that. The President is
continuing the trip. You'll read that he's going to meet
with President She Thursday morning, but with the massive time difference,
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Thursday morning is late tonight, so it'll be late tonight
that he meets with She. So far, it's been a
very very successful trip. Lots of agreements, lots of deals
have been signed, great for the United States, and so
they call deliverables. He's gotten a lot of different deliverables
on this trip. We'll get to the shutdown coming up.
Chuck Schumer says, this is outrageous. It's outrageous, this is horrifying.
(15:37):
Forty two million people on foodstamps might not get their
benefits but most people on to hear this. Go Wait
a minute, forty two million people are on food stamps.
Why weren't you outraged about that? You should have been
screaming for years that forty two million people are on
food stamps. That's not right. Somebody that did just the
sign of his failed leadership. Anyway, we'll get back to
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all of this up. We'll take some calls. Next. Eight
hundred three to two one zero seven ten. Is the
number eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. You're
listening to the Mark Simone Show. Hey, let's take some calls.
Let's go to Mike and Long Island. Mike, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Hey, Mark, good morning, Good morning, Mark.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I got a question to you.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
In this city, we probably have fifty percent.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
I don't know what the numbers are of voters that
are completely uneducated.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Don't follow what city you're talking about, New York City.
Well you're not in New York City.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Okay, but it's even though the rest.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Well, you can't you you're just making up statistics. Fifty
percent or not on he can't just make up don't
you can't just make up stuff like that. Let's go
to Jerry in New Jersey. Jerry, how you doing good?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Mark?
Speaker 6 (16:52):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Let me check you're good. See they don't really care.
They just say how you're doing, but they don't the answer. Yes,
go ahead, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
You believe that Andrew Clomo really wants to be mayor
after being CEO. I think they're dusting him off to
see if he can run against AOC and take Schumer's
seat in the Senate.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, no, obviously when your governor,
mayor is a big step down. Although it's more fun
to be mayor. Actually, nobody wants to go to Albany mayor.
You're in city Hall, you liveing in Gracie mansion. It's
nicer than the governor's mansion, better located. But you're right,
you're right. He's plotting his whole life. He's been plotting
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to be president.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
And did you see him with Stephonica's governor after she
said you'll never serve again.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
That's a good point. Yeah, that's the problem with Cloma.
You don't you never know what he's really up to.
But the argument is, Mom, Donnie is so horrible, so horrible,
you'd vote for him. It's like, this is like the
worst mess New York has ever gotten into. And you
Democrats got us into this with your primary there without
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anybody you'd want to vote for. It was Mom, Donnie
and then the lowest worst people in the world to
Brad Lander types and the worst people have you ever seen?
In the primary in Cuomo couldn't even beat them. He
got wiped out in his own primary. But we'll see.
We got six days left until the election. Let's go
to Rich in Myrtle Beach. Rich How you doing?
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Thanks?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Mark. A couple of things. Any connection the fact that
us AID got defunded. Now the Democrats are broke and
they're all screaming if they will need money. That's pretty coincidental.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Up, Yeah, that could be that us AID was basically
just a slush fund. You know, it was to bribe
people all over the place, and a lot of Democrats
profited off of this. Shutdown is not going well for Democrats. Republicans.
Their messaging is very good on this. The problem is
Trump controls the White House, so he makes the shutdown
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is not painful. Remember when Obama was president and he
did the shutdown, he tried to make it deliberately as
painful as possibly. He closed everything, even though he didn't
have to. They closed monuments World War Two monuments that
didn't require any staffing. There was no reason to close him.
He just wanted to make it look painful, so he
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had them closed and the yellow police tape was put
all around him and they were closed up just so
everywhere it looked was a symbol of closure, even though
there was no reason to close those things. Let's go
to David and Passaic. David, how you.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Doing, good morning.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
I want to reminisce what will happened on the Montdani
In the late seventies, property valleys went down, taxes went up,
There was a lot of fires.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
In the South.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Bronx had gangs, even have Gerald Ford told New York
City dropped dead, remember that.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, that was more mid seventies. That was under a
beam and.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
A beam right in the Financial Review Board took over
and the city was bankrupt. Garbage was all over the streets.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, no way. Which party was that? Oh yeah it
was Democrats there once again they don't do good at
running the cities.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
You know who got to start? Then go to sleeve
in the subways. That's when he started the angels. Angels.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Yeah, back then. There was quite a year. There's a
big mini series about nineteen seventy seven. It was an
incredible year. You're right. It was fires and crime, and
it was the sun of sam summer, and it was
the Yankees and Reggie. It was quite that. It's somewhere online.
You can find that nineteen seventy seven. It's a documentary series.
But it is fascinating to watch. Go back and watch
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it if you can. I guess how bad could mom
Downy be? Probably? Well, remember we went through this with
the Blasio who was it didn't declare himself as socialist,
but he was pretty much a socialist. Anyway, let's take
some calls. Let's go to line too. You're on the air.
How you doing, Oh, Mark Good?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
It's rout from anybody who believes that nine to eleven
was about Islamophobia should never be Mayor of New York.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yeah. Well, it's like he's like the Muslim house Sharpton.
I guess you know, Sharpton always plays the race card
even when it doesn't apply, and he's playing that Islamophobia
card when it doesn't apply. There's not this has never
been a problem in New York City. New York city
is a Muslim city. It's eleven percent Muslim. The Jewish
(21:31):
population is only eleven percent. You get the same number
with Muslims eleven percent. And if you talk to the
NYPD and look over all the data, there's not an
a tax on Muslims. It's not happening. Attacks on Jews, yes, yes,
in great numbers. Anti Semitic attacks by the thousands for
the last couple of years. You've seen them all over
(21:51):
the news. And if you look through NYPD data, it's
tons of anti Semitic attacks, anti Muslim attacks. You will
not find any in the city. It really doesn't happen. Obviously.
It was something people thought about right after nine to eleven,
but it didn't result in much of anything. Hey, when
we come back, Roger Friedman, the Great entertainment reporter, he'll
(22:12):
be with us. Next we'll get back to the mayoral race. Hey,
we'll talk to Bruce Blakeman later. He's got a lot
to say about mom Donnie. He's also the guy you
should vote for Nassau County best county Executive in America.
But all of that's coming up on seven to ten.
Woor The Mark sim Own Show.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
On sevent ten woor Well.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Roger Friedman is the great entertainment reporter. He has a
website you should check every day. There's always news stories,
showbiz for one one dot com, showbizfo one one dot com.
Roger Friedman, how you doing.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I'm really doing great because once mom Donnie is mayor
all tickets to Broadway shows will be free and all
the restaurants around them we'll be serving free food and empty.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
At the same time. But hey speak Yeah, speaking of Broadway,
everything is settled, right They had all these strike threats,
that's all settled now.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
All the strikes have been settled, which was very smart
because it's a tricky time on Broadway. The last thing
anyone needed was a strike. And things are back to
normal and Broadway is booming right now. Actually, you know,
Hamilton is doing incredible business. Last week it did three
(23:24):
point four million dollars, which is insane, and it's been
doing that right along since they brought back their Tony
winning star Leslie Odam Jr. For a run. That's I
guess going through the winter January maybe, and people will
pay anything to get into the show. They're premium tickets
(23:46):
for fifteen hundred dollars and they're all sold out. People
will pay absolutely anything to get in there. And other
shows are doing great. There's a new show called Queen
of Versailles with Kristin Chenowith that's also doing great business.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
We have what is Queen ever? Size? About that woman
with the House in Florida.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yes, it's about the woman with the house in Florida,
And yeah, and f Murray Abrahams and I think he
plays her husband. And the songs are really good and
that's gonna be a big hit.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, we have a lot and Chess
is coming. Did you ever see Chess the first time around?
Andrew Weber?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Oh yeah, one night in Bangkok. It's a very popular show.
And you know, the book was never good. The songs
were great, but the books book was never good. So
they got this great guy, Danny Strong, to rewrite the
whole show. And now that show is selling out in
previews like crazy, I mean totally sold out. So we
have a Broadway is booming. And I just put up
(24:51):
a story on Showbiz for one one that Daniel Radcliffe
is coming from Harry Potter, who already has a Tony
Award for Merrily We Roll Along and he's going to
be in a one man show this winter that's being
imported from England that's supposed to be terrific. And as
long as they don't charge seven hundred dollars a ticket,
(25:11):
I think they'll be Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
No, no, it's good news. I'm glad Broadway's doing so well.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I walking by a Rockefeller Center on Radio City's marquee
right above it. It was the first Christmas tree I
saw this year. That Christmas tree above the Marquee is
up already. It's a little early.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Oh is it really it's there already.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah. There's a great story about I'm an editor they
brought into the New Yorker from England, which was like
her in nineteen ninety and they bring this guy in
and he's an older guy and he's never been to
New York before, and somehow he got a job working
as an editor of New Yorker. And he comes back
after lunch and he says to the people in the office,
(25:50):
oh my god, we have to do this story. There's
a big tree going up in Rockefeller Center. Well, and
everyone was like, uh huh.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Speaking of Christmas though, this is the we're a little early.
But pretty soon that Christmas music will start everywhere. And
then you wrote about Mariah Carey. But yes, it's the
only time of the year. A lot of people who
don't know who these people are start to hear Andy
Williams and Nat King Cole and all that stuff. So
it's a great Also, you know, I'm thinking of Brenda Lee.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Brenda Lee, Brenda Lee. Sometimes her song goes all the
way up to number one during Christmas time. She's about
ninety and they had you know, they go and they
wake her up and they tell her what's going on,
and she shocked. Well, Mariah Carrey had an album out
a few weeks ago that nobody bought, which was a
pretty good album. It was very well sung and had
(26:51):
nice songs, but nobody wanted to hear it, you know,
bad marketing. Also that Mariah doesn't really get out and
push stuff. She expects you to come to her. But
she loves the Christmas season and she has the best
selling Christmas song of all time with All I Really
Want for Christmas Is You or whatever it's called. Sounds
(27:14):
like a Phil Spector song, and it's sold about a
billion copies. And every year around this time she starts
putting little messages on social media. Not yet, not yet,
We're not ready yet. And then she goes out and
she has her big Christmas season. It lasts about six weeks,
so we're about to see Mariah's Christmas season. And that's
how we know.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yeah, Roger Freeman, too many documentaries. It's enough with these documentaries.
I know. It's the cheapest thing to do. It's cheaper
than making an actual movie.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Oh. No, documentaries are fabulous. I'll tell you why. Documentaries
are more important than ever. No, they're more important than ever,
and I'll tell you why. The reason is as funding
gets cut for PBS and National Public radio, where we
get a lot of information, and as the networks like
(28:02):
CBS today is laying off a thousand people, as the
networks are contracting and not doing so much documentary work
or newswork. Independent documentaries are really a huge source of
information for us, and we're getting to find out things
from around the world that we wouldn't know. Critics Choice Association,
(28:23):
which I'm part of, has a big awards ceremony on
November ninth over at the Ballroom on forty seventh Street,
and that's a very important thing. The Gotham Awards just
announced their awards coming up, nominations coming up, and they
have five terrific documentaries and then we'll have the Oscars.
(28:46):
You can't. I feel that you cannot have enough documentaries
to illuminate subjects around the world that we would not
have acted.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Most of them are about you know, there's a new
one Stiller in Mara.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Now.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
I love Stiller and Mara.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
I know it's great.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I knew Stiller and Marra. Yeah, what's like happened to
dozing off halfway through? What am I watch?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Oh? No, I watched. I loved it. I loved them.
I knew them too. We were very lucky to live
in New York and know them. And although I never
had Blue Nune Wine, Ben Stiller, their son has done
a great job documenting their career and it's on Apple TV.
I recommend it for it's so enjoyable to see them again.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
All right, maybe just see I'd rather go to YouTube
and just watch Stiller in Marra and he Ed Sullivan
show on The Tonight Show or watch.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
But you wouldn't, but we would because we're one hundred
and fifteen years old. But for younger people who are
Ben Stiller fans, let's say, and they don't know anything
about Stilar mirror. They're learning about his parents for the
first time through this documentary. Then they're going to go
to YouTube and look at the clips, but they don't
know offhand that they should be doing that. Do you
see what I mean? Yeah, Okay, this is giving them
(29:55):
entry away to that Stiller mirror. So I think that's terrific.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Now you're right about But there's another documentary coming or
is it a biopic CCR Creeden's Clearwater Revival.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Oh well, Creeden's you know, Queen's Clearwater Revival is huge.
It's so weird that, you know, fifty sixty years after
they had hits, they're bigger than Effort. You know that
their greatest hits winds up in the top twenty every
week on iTunes. Wow, no one knows what, No one
knows why. But the songs are great. You know, They'll
stop the Rain, have you ever seen the Rain? Proud Mary?
(30:28):
All these songs and they're being played on the radio constantly.
So now you know. This Bruce Springsteen movie is out
called Deliver Me from Nowhere, and the people who made
it really want to make a movie about John Fogerty
and Creeden's because you know, the great story, the crazy
story about them is that in the seventies, John Fogerty
(30:51):
lost the rights to all his songs and it took
him like twenty years to get them back, and in
the meantime he just sort of had to disavow them
and go and play other songs. He would have been
charged by this company that bought them if he had
played them. Wow, it's a crazy story. Yeah, And John
Fogerty is one of the good guys of all time
(31:12):
in music. Everyone loves him. So they're waiting to see
if the Springsteen movie gets a lot of awards. I
think it'll have a lot of awards action this winter,
and then they're going to announce that John Fogerty movie.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Oh no, there'll be a whole new genre. There'll be
a Freddie in the Dreamers movie. They'll be Oh, I
hope so Gilbert Sullivan. It won't stop.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Jerry and the Pacemakers. There you go.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Well, Roger Friedman great stuff. Check out his website showbiz
for one one dot com. Showbiz for one one dot com,
New stuff every day up there.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Oh listen, I have one other thing to tell you.
Tom Hanks Off Broadway show with the Shed begins tomorrow night.
It's already sold out its first two performances. It's called
This World of Tomorrow Kelly o'harrison at Rubinson, Yogo Hudson,
and everyone's really looking forward to it. Go to the
Shed and try and get tickets.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Tom Hanks New show. All right, all right, sounds good.
Roger Friedman, thanks for being with us. Thank you, take care. Hey,
we got a lot coming up, and then we'll get
back to the Mayoral Race in the next hour. Don't
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Speaker 2 (32:38):
Hey, we'll stop forget the latest news, get updated. Then
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we'll get to Long Island too. Lots of talk about there,
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