December 8, 2025 • 34 mins
Mark discusses various forms of what he calls “Trump Derangement Syndrome” among Democrats, highlighting how Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s response to a recent boat strike is eroding Democratic trust in Trump administration officials. He also references a contentious interview between ABC’s George Stephanopoulos and Senator Eric Schmitt, criticizing Stephanopoulos for questionable news reporting. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews New York Post columnist Liz Peek. Liz argues that Democratic governance often leads to financial mismanagement, citing unnecessary programs and fraud. They also discuss Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s plan to eliminate NYC’s homeless encampments, suggesting it could worsen homelessness in the city.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now this is the Mark Simon Show on seventoor.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hey, I'm back and lots to talk about. We got
a lot of stuff to go over. We'll get to
all of that's freezing cold today and it's going to
stay that way for most of the week. That's is
that allergies. Cold weather allergies. It doesn't go away. So
we got a lot to talk about. We'll get to
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the Kennedy Center Honors, We'll get to Ukraine. We'll get
to Narco Boats, We'll get to George Sloppadopolis. We'll get
to Mom Donnie and his latest crazy ideas. We'll get
to the pipe bomber and how they caught him. It's fascinating. Actually,
we'll get to the Jets. Interesting, what's going on with it?
This is going to be a big movement for the
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rest of the season. Anyway, we'll we'll talk about all
of that and more. Be nice to your Democratic friends.
I know they're angry and yelling and screaming. I don't
know if I have time to do it today, but
we're at some point we're gonna I'm gonna explain Trump
derangement syndrome in detail. After talking to a number of
psychiatrists and psychologists who've explained exactly what it is. There
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are other types of this same disease. In this case
it's Trump derangement syndrome. There are other types. And also
for the past week or two we've seen hegxith derangement
syndrome as they go nuts trying to get rid of
Pete hegsyth. Now why it's not even anything really personal.
They just want to get Trump somehow. So whenever they
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see something, anything, one little branch of the tree that
looks like it's gonna break, the break off any limb
of the tree, anything, so they think Hexith is vulnerable.
He's not not. In any way. He hasn't done anything
that anybody would consider wrong in the Trump administration. Signal
gait was a complete ridiculous piece of trivia, absolute nonsense.
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That's where he used that signal app for communication. It
was approved by the Pentagon. It was Pentagon policy to
use it. If you shouldn't use it, well you could
take a look at that and maybe not use it,
but that's not a scandal. If you're watching the Sunday
shows this week the opening segments, you might have said,
is this a rerun is this from months ago? They
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were talking about signal gate using the signal but no, no,
they just latch onto something and they won't let it go.
You know, these Sunday shows, the idea used to be
they go over the news of the week. They didn't
do that on any of the Sunday shows this week.
If you were watching them, you missed out a review
of the news of the week. Instead, they zeroed in
on one or two things that they liked. Well, they're
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basically only two get Hexif and Narco boats, and they
were going after these Narco boats, and every crazy Democrat
was on there with their crazy explanations. It might have
been We think it was maybe a fishing They could
have been fishing boats. No one's ever seen a fishing
boat with six outboards on it and super high speed
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going eight hundred miles an hour at three in the morning.
Nobody's ever seen a fishing boat. I'm not an expert
on the fishing or boats, but you can tell a
Narco boat from a fishing boat. A fishing boat has
fishing equipment all over it and hanging off the sides.
You can tell the Narco boat because it's a super
high speed boat with a million outboard engines on it,
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and it's got twenty five oil drums of chemicals. You
can always tell the Narco boat that way. See the
fishing boat brings bait. Bait isn't that big. You don't
need twenty five oil drums full of bait, so you
can tell. Hey, the best moment on the Sunday Shows.
The finest moment was this Senator of Missouri, Eric Schmidt Stephanopoulos,
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or as we call him, Trump first named him, George
Sloppadopoulos is interviewing him. Now does what they all do?
The greatest example this week was Margaret Brennan. You know
they all do this jackal and hide. They have a
Republican on and every time the Republican answers, they pair
it to him, they a thousand follow ups, They tear
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apart his answer, they yell and scream at him, they
go crazy, and then they go to commercial. Then they
come back with a Democrat and whenever the Democrat answers,
they just nod like a bobblehead. They have no follow ups,
no pushback. Whatever the answer is, uh huh, oh, thank you, Okay,
here's my next question. It's just little softba interviews. So
for the Republican, they're vicious pitbulls tearing into him. Then
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when they come back from commercial to interview the Democrat,
they're cute little poodles hugging the guests. So Schmidt brought
this up. Stephanopolos is trying to destroy Schmidt. He just
had a guest on talking about the Narco boats and
whatever the guest said, Stephanopolis just nodded like a bobblehead.
Then he comes back with Eric Schmidt. Whatever Schmid said,
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Stephanopolis vicious, angry tears into them. Listening to this exchange.
This is Eric Schmidt. This moment went super viral on
the Sunday Show yesterday.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Well, I'm curious about your pushback on that particular point.
With your previous guests, you had zero pushback because he's
giving the Democrat talking points like you spew every single week,
which is probably why your ratings are so bad.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
He kept going, he kept tearing into Stephanopolis, and.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
You're trying to divert here the attention from what the
American people actually support. Seventy five percent of Americans support
US blowing Narco terrorists out of the water in the Caribbean,
who are trying to poison Americans. There's no real legal
debate about the ability to do that. Now you could
have a policy discussion about it, which now you see
the Democrats pivoting from the second strike and the war
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crimes allegation to really what this whole thing is about,
should we be doing it in the first place.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Now, you got to remember the drug lords, the big
cartel leaders, you know, Salamanca and all those and Gus
Fring and all the cartel leaders watching the Sunday shows
had tears in their eyes, so grateful at the way
these Sunday hosts were defending them in their drug boats,
sticking up for them, fighting for them.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
And this is kind of the rabbit hole of Trump
arrangement syndrome, is that they can't let this thing go.
They can't believe that he won. They didn't want Hegseth
to be the Secretary of War. They fought it. He
was their number one target. They failed at that, and
so now you just have a series and series of
issues that come up every week to try to undermine
this president the secretary of War, and it's not working.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
It's amazing how this Trump derangement syndrome has these Democrats
defending anything illegal. If it's illegal, they're going to defend it.
If it's narco terrorists and drug shipments, Fell defended, it's
illegals all over the city streets. Fell defended whatever it is.
If it's anti Trump, they'll defend it even if it's illegal,
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standing up fighting for every criminal in the world. Hey,
now that one of the fascinating things this past week
was they caught the pipe bomber January sixth. Everybody was
focused on the trespassing incident at the Capitol and not
on the pipe bombs. Somebody put bombs at the RNC
and at the DNC. This is pretty serious stuff. They
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caught it and they got the bombs and got rid
of them. But that could have been a disastrous that.
You know, all you heard about was January sixth, was
the trespassers, the people that unlawful entry. They were all
charged with unlawful entry, trespassing, that sort of stuff. This
is all you heard about. You never really heard any
follow up on the pipe bombs. And the reason was
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Christopher Ray, who was the worst FBI director, a real
swamp creature and the deep state. The swamp was only
interested in getting Trump. They felt that the trespassing at
the capitol, the chaos at the Capitol, would get Trump,
so they focused on that. They investigated like crazy, they
prosecuted like crazy. They got like seven hundred and sixty
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of those trespassers. They went after that. The pipe bomb
they decided was of no value to them as their
narrative because the pipe bomber tried to blow up the
DNC and the RNC. It didn't look like he had
any political leaning, so it was of no value to
Chris Ray, the FBI, the deep state, the swamp, the
Biden administration. They they weren't interested in the pipe bomber.
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Finding him not in any interest, so they let it go.
They had a lot of evidence, but they didn't really
do anything with it. Well, a few weeks ago, actually
a couple months ago, Trump administration decided to really go
after this and do the investigation and find this guy.
And they did. They took all the existing evidence and
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then they used AI. Christopher Ray could have done this,
And this is it's fascinating stuff what they can do
with AI. You ever watched that CSI. But the laboratory
stuff they can do, the scientifics to catch a criminals
frightening and you're a criminal, you gotta go whoa this is?
I mean, they are really thorough, but this is way
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beyond it. This is AI. So one of the things
they used the AI for they figured out what it
takes to make a pipe bomb. There's about seventeen things
you'd have to buy to make a pipe bomb. You'd
have to buy a certain type of pipe, certain types
of chemicals also, So they listed the seventeen things and
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then they looked through the sales receipts of every store, everywhere,
home depot lows, every hardware thing. They looked through all
the sales receipts. Now, only AI could do this. For
humans to do this, you'd need a team of like
ten thousand people and it would take them year's But
the AI can look through the sale of everything in
the America and figure out did any one person buy
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all seventeen of these things? And they got a name
somebody that bought all seventeen. Then they could take the
two locations where the pipe bombs were. You know, your
phone has a GPS in it, they can track where
you are. So and only AI could do this. For
humans to do it would take twenty years and a
thousand people. The AI could look through all the phone
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records of all the cell phones and see if anybody
was in both those locations on that day. And they did,
and they got it down to one guy. They figured
out it was the guy. And then they went to
you know, they had the security video, they looked, they
found the guy on it. They've got him. He's been arrested,
he will be prosecuted. It's going to be a hell
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of a trial. Christopher Ray could have done this, Biden
could have done this. They decided deliberately not to. But
they got the guy. And it's a great, great, great
accomplishment for Jeanine Piro, for the FBI. Now here's the
only problem for you said, well, Jee, I didn't hear
a loud about this. How am they're not talking about this? Well,
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here's the reason they've looked through this guy is everything,
his emails, his social media, everything. There is no indication
anywhere that he was a Trump voter. In fact, it
appears he did not register with either party. He did
not vote. It seems he has nothing to do with Trump,
no connection. He's more of just an angry anarchist, sort
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of a guy, So there's nothing to tie him to
a MAGA or Trump. So that's the other reason you
didn't hear anything about it this week. He's facing thirty
years in prison if convicted. It's most likely he will
be convicted. The evidence is overwhelming. So that should be it.
Kennedy Center Honors last night. It's a great thing in
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Washington because here in New York, we got a million gallows.
We got all sorts of gallows every night of the week,
we got all sorts of awards, we got every there's
a million things in here Washington, DC. They don't have
a lot. There's really not much. There's the Kennedy Center Honors.
That's like the one big Galla of the year. There's
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what they call the Alfalfa Dinner. That's a big event
down there. There's that White House Corresponds dinner. But that's
about it. Very rarely today have any excuse down there
to get dressed up and go to a big gallous.
It's the biggest event in Washington all year. I used
to go to it every year, but stopped about ten
years ago. But it was always a great event. And
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when you go there, the Kennedy said, the whole audience.
The entire audience are famous political people, all the Senators,
all the congressmen, all the cabinet, everybody. And it's always
four or five great honorees. A couple of are really
big stars, a couple of people that aren't such big
stars to most people. You know, a classical musician, a ballet,
you know that kind of stuff. But Trump has taken
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over the Kennedy Center, put all his people on the board.
It used to be kind of left wing, but then
it got more and more and more and more to
the left. It was really partisan. Now it's not. So
you get real American heroes. You know, Sylvester Stallone, And
in the old days of Kennedy center'd be Laurence Olivier.
Now it's Sylvester Stallone. But that's good. And Trump, remember
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loves Sylvester Stallone. They did a lot of stuff through
the years together, TV and other stuff. And the President
has a big ceremony in the Oval Office giving the
special medals, and then they go to the Kenny Center
and they do the big dinner. Here's President Trump and
it was Rambo.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
I knew nothing about it, but I like sly, so
I said, let's go see it. After about four minutes,
they said, this movie is great.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah. So hey. Also remember Trump became a big hit
with The Apprentice. It was the number one show in television,
so big that they decided to do spinoffs. Remember the
first spinoff of The Apprentice, Sylvester Stallone was the host. Yeah,
it didn't do well. There were fourteen Apprentice copies and
none of them did well. Only Trump's Michael Crawford phanom
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of the Opera. Donald Trump loves fan of the Opera.
You wouldn't think that, would you. You wouldn't think that'd
be his kind of ship. But he loves it, loves
the music, loves Michael Crawford. He got the Kennedy Center Award.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Well, I don't think they're ever going to find anybody
like you, Michael, Okay, I know something about that business.
I don't think they'll find anybody like you.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
He was brilliant in the Phantom of the Opera. He
was amazing in Phantom of the Opera. However, that's twenty
eight years ago and he hasn't done much since. I
guess he has, But you know, that's what he's best
known for. I mean, musically, he's not I remember he's
in Las Vegas for a while, one of those residencies.
But it's great to see him get it and big
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happy crowd except for the left. Now, what they do
They do the Kennedy Centers on a Sunday night and
then they record it. It's a three or four hour
deal and then they chop it down to two hours
for a television special on CBS. That's been the routine
for many, many years. So it was last night they
recorded it. It will be seen December thirteenth on CBS,
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the edited version. Now, this will be interesting. It gets
pretty good ratings. But of course the left wingers will
not watch it. They'll go crazy. But we'll see, we'll
see how well it does this year. Hey, we'll get
to mom. Donnie coming up. He's made the decision. He
will give up his rent controlled department. He will move
into Gracy Mansion. Now, one of the reasons is security
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told him that it's really impossible for him to continue
to live in an apartment building in Astoria. There's a
lot of security around him, mayor, and they just it
would be totally disruptive to the apartment building. You know,
when you're the mayor, the governor Generally, you come into
a building, they shut off the elevator. You know, no
one else is allowed in the elevator, he except you
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and the security. So you can't do that in an
apartment building. Also, they'd have to check everybody coming in
and out all the time. You can't do it. So
he'll move into Gracey Mansion. Pretty good socialist. They're living
in a mansion, Gracy Mansion right on the water. We'll
get into this more detail later. He's got this plan
now to stop the sweeps of homeless people, the encampments.
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Of course, this is a disaster. Eric Adams has been
doing a good job. You know, you may not have noted,
maybe you did notice you see very few homeless people
and you don't see any homeless camps anywhere. If he's
stating he's no longer going to implement a smart policy
on our part, New Yorkers about to see the repercussions
of that. Yeah, so well, well we'll get into this
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and don't ma'm Donnie's ridiculous explanation, why I seem to
do Hey, by the way, you know, you keep everybody's
leaving New York. That's it. Everybody's leaving everybody's people are
not leaving here. Actual statistics since the election. Real estate
sales have been booming since Mam Donnie got elected. Since
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his election, eight hundred and sixty nine contracts have been
signed in New York City. That's a little down, it's
like down half a one percent, but it's pretty close
to last year. Eight hundred and sixty nine contracts have
been signed. Condo sales have been very strong since the election.
Luxury deals very strong. Forty one contracts signed just last week.
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That's a lot. And you get on these big real
estate guys, the big, big, big geniuses of real estate
and banking. They know better, they see the future. JP Morgan,
you know, just open this massive, massive new headquarters on
Park Avenue. Ten thousand people can work in that building.
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So you think, well, that show's confidence. You know what
shows even more confidence. Now I'm hearing JP Morgan's going
to do a second building a block or two a way.
They need a whole other building, another massive skyscraper they're
going to do. And there's more examples of this. So
these guys think New York will be fine. Anyway. We'll
get back to Mom Donnie, We'll get to all of
that coming up. We'll take some calls. Next eight hundred
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eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
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Speaker 1 (17:46):
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Speaker 2 (17:51):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Kim in Connecticut. Kim,
how you doing good?
Speaker 6 (17:57):
Thanks? I've been listening with years about the recent homeless
situation in New York. What Mandannie's doing there. I just
wanted to say that this is spreading like a cancer.
It is in Connecticut now among the socialist Democrats. Connecticut
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is totally run by the Democratic Party. You have two
Democratic senators.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Well, you got the two worst senators, two really really
ugly bad senators, the really worst. Now your governor's not
so bad. Your governor has moments of very very bad behavior.
Maybe because Ned Lamont, the governor, was a business guy
for many, many years, so he goes pretty left woke sometimes,
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but sometimes he goes very very common sense. But you've
got Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, the two of the sleaziest,
dirtiest public servants ever lying how many times these guys.
Guy's been caught lying about anything and everything. Go to
Mike in Florida. Mike, how you doing, Good morning, Mark, Yes, Mike.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
Before I make my point about the Democrats, can you
believe it's been forty five years since John Lennon was killed?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Wow? Forty years.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
Unbelievable. Forty five years. It's like mind boggling, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah, right in front of the Dakota seventy second and
Central Park West.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
Yeah, unbelievable. It's like surreal. Actually they think it's been
that long. Yeah, But you were mentioning about the Democrats
they have.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
They're so clever.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
You know, they have this quiver of issues that they
like to put an arrow out, take an arrow out,
and put it back in. You know, Epstein being one
of them that you know, the the narco stuff that
will disappear for a couple of weeks and then they'll
bring it back. Then they'll bring out you know Maxine Nicely,
Maxine Waters, you know, made her appearance. So they're starting
to bring out the big guns to start, you know,
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hammering away. They're very clever at there.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, you can't make the case that they're that clever
because none of these things ever go anywhere. I mean,
it gives them something to do at MSNBC, but they
never amount anything. The Epstein thing went nowhere. The narco
boats will go nowhere for them. None of them work
in the end.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Well, I just hope it doesn't have a cumulative effect,
you know, on the mooters. It's not us, but too
many other people seem to be able to.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah, no, I know what you mean, but it's more
just red meat for the Trump Arrangement syndrome crowd. You
gotta throw them something every day. You know. They got
a signal gate. That was a big one for a
week or two. Signal gate, the using the signal. They
were all fired up about that. It was all over
CNN and MSNB. The normal people in the public, What
the hell is signal gate? They're paying no attention to it.
Same thing with the narco boats. They like seeing drug
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dealers blown up. They enjoy that. They think that's good
for America, getting rid of all the fentanyl and cocaine
and all. They like that. So it ends up going
nowhere in the end. You know, the Epstein thing again,
it just doesn't register. Most people don't care. Hey, By
the way, I've talked to everybody that's read the Epstein
files in detail. I mean, these are prosecutors in the
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US Attorney's office, These are FBI guys. Alan Dershowitz who
was there, he was Epstein's lawyer, and they all say
the same thing. They all seem to agree on one thing.
There is nothing in these Epstein files that would surprise anybody.
In fact, there are no names in their Every name
you think it is going to be in every name
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has already been public. There's a couple of names that aren't,
but they're like unknown business people. But all the names
have already been made public. There's nothing in there. And
when they say the Epstein files, it's mostly from the
US Attorney's office here in Manhattan, the Southern District. And
if you talk to people that have seen that file,
what it is. It's just witness interviews. That's ninety eight
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percent of the file is just witness interviews and there's
not much in there. Let's go to Paul in Whitestone. Paul,
how you doing.
Speaker 8 (21:56):
Yeah, Mark, how are you doing good? You can't make
this up?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Contop nothing against you personally. Everybody has got to stop
using that expression. You can't make this stuff up. You
can make it up. It's offensive to the great writers
and novelists and screenwriters. You can very easily make this
kind of stuff up. In fact, there are guys that
do that all day long for a living. So nothing
against you, though, Go ahead, all right.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
A communist who wants to abolish prisons and police is
going to live in a mansion for quote, his family safety.
I don't want to hear it. If the police advise this,
he should stand for his principles and say no, I'm
going to stay in the story. I'm going to not
have police protection. But he's not going to do that
because he's like every other communist leader, and the young,
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selfish idiots who voted for him because they want free
stuff are about to learn a harsh lesson.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yeah, well it happens. Who is it that said great
Commas said, we have to go through this every twenty years.
We have to let him do their socialism experiment. Let
it fail so the new generals can see how bad
it is. But again, nobody out there ever say again,
you can't make this stuff up. I remember sitting with
I A'll mentioned names a couple of great screenwriters, and
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someone said you can't make this up, and they got
very offended. They said, you can. That's what we do
for a living. We can make up stuff even more
far fetched than this. It's easy to do. Hey, when
we come back. Michael Goodwin has been out of action
for a couple of weeks, but Liz Peak the Brilliant
Columnists will be with us next on seven to ten wor.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
More, Mark Simone on sevent ten wor well.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Liz Peak the Brilliant Columnist, And it's got this wonderful website.
You should check it every day. Sign up for the
daily briefings. It's great news and analysis. Lizpeak dot com.
Lizpeak dot com, make sure you sign up for the
daily briefing every day. Good stuff, Liz Peak. How you doing, I'm.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Terrific better for speaking with you.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Hey, hear that the big drug lords, the cartel bosses,
had tears in their eyes yesterday watching these Sunday shows,
so grateful to the host for sticking up for them,
defending them in their narco boats. How much longer do
we have to listen to this from the Democrats?
Speaker 9 (24:16):
I mean, Mark, don't you really begin to sort of
think what are the Democrats doing? What do they stand
for as the public looks at the Democratic Party? Now,
they stand for illegal immigration, they stand for effectively embracing recidivism,
not putting anyone in jail, and all these god awful
stories week after week, just like the light train stabbing,
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the second one again as someone who's been convicted of
many times an illegal immigrant, I mean, what are the
they embrace fraud? They're opposed twenty six states won't let
the federal government look at their SNAP programs and their
medicaid programs. Why, I mean, fraud is a serious hundreds
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of billions of dollars every year and that is, by
the way, coming a statistic coming from Joe Biden's administration
are lost to waste and fraud by our federal welfare programs.
What is it that the Democrats are offering people that
they can possibly like? And as you say, the final
thing standing up for narco traffickers, that is really a
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winning argument.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
My god?
Speaker 5 (25:26):
What is wrong with these people?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
So whenever it comes to Democrats and homeless programs, money
seems to have vanished. You remember we had the Deblasi
administration with that thrive in dollars billion missing now in
this Somali, Minnesota, Tim Waltz, whatever this is, they're talking
about maybe up to eight billion missing. Mom Donnie is
now talking about a homeless program. Does that mean another
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billion is going to get lost somewhere?
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Sure?
Speaker 9 (25:53):
Sure, because among other things, none of these people has
real world private sector or experience. So, you know, I
think it was Jamie Dimond yesterday on Maria's Maria Bartiromo
show talking about the city is three hundred thousand people
and basically, successful mayors are people who can manage. Well,
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do you think this guy has any management capabilities at all?
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Of course he doesn't.
Speaker 9 (26:19):
He hasn't read, he hasn't run a business, He hasn't
run any Most Democrats, by the way, have never run
a business. Which is a very interesting differential in my view,
between Republicans and Democrats. When Democrats get fired, they get
voted out of a job, what do they do? They
run for another office because they don't know how to
run a restaurant or build a house or anything.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Practical.
Speaker 9 (26:42):
Republicans can go back to farming or running a car
dealership or you know name it. I mean, actually, if
you look at seriously, what you know Congress people and
mayors and stuff do after retirement. They either go to
work for MSNBC if they're Democrats, or they go to
Harvard to teach, like build a Blasio or Lori Lightfoot,
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or they run for another office. Look at Andrew Como.
He couldn't think of anything else to do, so we
ran for mayor of New York. That didn't turn out well,
So what's he going to do. He's probably going to find,
you know, mayor of Buffalo or something next to run for.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
It's really pitiful.
Speaker 9 (27:16):
But anyway, Mandani taking on a lot of money to
spew at the homeless. You know, his latest thing on
homelessness is he's no longer going to enforce the eradication
or the cleaning out of the homeless encampments.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Who does that benefit Mark? Who is really applauding that move?
Speaker 9 (27:35):
It certainly isn't the residents of the neighborhoods where these
homeless encampments spring up, Because their lives are going to
be made a mess by the fact that you're going
to have this sprawl of dirty, sometimes violent homeless in
community that kind of erupts in their midst It isn't
good for the homeless some seventy percent of whom are
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drug users or alcoholics.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Because they aren't going to get any treatment.
Speaker 9 (28:02):
They prefer to live on the street because they can
continue to abuse drugs and alcohol. It isn't good for them.
Who is it good for? I mean, I really ask
that at all sincerity. Who does he think he's benefiting there?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yeah? You know, here in the radio business, we want
to do something. Sometimes we see what happened in other
stations did it and they come in with the report
forty seven stations did it and the ratings plunged all
forty seven times, So we know not to do it now.
In the case of Mamdani, and he's a very smart
guy when they show him thirteen other cities did it
and with disaster, why can he take in that information
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and calculate all this.
Speaker 9 (28:39):
Well, it's the same thing with rent control, right. Rent
control has never ever worked anywhere, and so nonetheless he
is very in favor of capping rent increases on subsidized housing,
even though it has been proven time after time that
what you do is disincentivize landlords from any money, any
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investment into the housing stock, so basically you end up
with worse off less affordable and crumbling housing. So to
your point, why doesn't he learn from that? Why don't
the young people out protesting in favor of socialism learn
from the fact that, never error has socialism resulted in
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anything but increase poverty and, by the way, increase wealth disparities.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
I mean, look at Venezuela, a very good example.
Speaker 9 (29:30):
So the answer to your question is because ideologues like
Mom Donnie don't really ever look at facts. They don't
look at common sense answers. They are wedded to an
ideological approach, whether it's climate change or just social justice
or whatever that basically is a failure. But then you know,
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nobody's around to kind of blame them for the failure usually,
so they just kind of go on and do what
they want. But it's a fact free zone that Mom
Donnie is living in.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Is it just childish? That's like a you know, a
childish teenager. Is it something sounds good? They do it.
They don't think of the consequences.
Speaker 9 (30:11):
So yeah, yes, because because just what you said, there's
no consequences. What are the consequences if he blows a
billion dollars over the next four years on homelessness?
Speaker 5 (30:23):
Look at Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 9 (30:24):
How much money has Gavin Newsom spent on homeless projects
in California only to see the money disappear, the homeless
population continue to grow, et cetera.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Does any It's incredible to me.
Speaker 9 (30:39):
How is it the voters don't say, well, wait a minute,
didn't you just ask for five billion dollars for that?
Where did that money go? Show us the money? Show us,
you know, let's have accountability. There is never accountability. It
is mystifying.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
So is the real problem that we don't have legitimate
news organizations anymore. If we had real news and media,
there would become sequences. Newsom would be a town day
and night. So how do you run a democracy with
corrupt news?
Speaker 5 (31:05):
I think that's part of it.
Speaker 9 (31:07):
I actually think what sort of tragic is we have
people who listen to one side or another kind of
depending on their politics. They listen to Fox News, they
listen to you, or they listen to CNN and ms
now or whatever it's called, and people get very little
cross fertilization.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
I think that's fair.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
Very I read, and I'm sure you read publications on
the other side. A lot of people simply don't they
don't want to know, They don't want to hear, and
you know what, that's not good for our country. I
hope at some point there really are news organizations that
will cover, you know, stories from both sides. I was
listening to was it Margaret Brennan who interviewed Elan Omar yesterday?
Speaker 5 (31:51):
You know, and you just want to kind of put
your head through the wall.
Speaker 9 (31:53):
It's like, really, you're not going to challenge her on
the fact that the Somalis have been perpetuating these frauds.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
But by the way, it's not that big a community.
Speaker 9 (32:02):
If there were hundreds of people, which probably there were
involved in scamming of the three different programs, they acted
like it was just one three different programs that they
took billions of dollars from. Don't you think an awful
lot of Somalis knew what was going on?
Speaker 5 (32:18):
I do.
Speaker 9 (32:19):
And and for her to just sort of accept that, oh, yeah,
Somali's really are the victims here, I don't know, it's
pretty discouraging.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
She was funny yesterday. Whatever idiotic explanation Omar gave, she
just nodded like a bubble head.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
Yeah, just nodded, right.
Speaker 9 (32:35):
I mean, it's like, But the best media breakout yesterday
was Leslie Stall deciding that Marjorie Taylor Green was the
person she needed to interview for sixty minutes. So Marjorie
Taylor Green, someone who has been totally widely chastised, debunked,
(32:55):
criticized on the left, loads on the left as being
a conspiration theorists and all the rest. Now she's acceptable
because she's gonna blast Donald Trump. I mean, really, isn't
that just incredible?
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yeah? Pretty pretty transparent though, Oh my gosh, well, great stuff. Hey,
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Lizpeak dot com has great news and analysis and you
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Thanks for being with us.
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Oh thanks very much for having me. Take care, Mark,
take care.
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hey, I'm back and lots to talk about. We got
a lot of stuff to go over. We'll get to
all of that's freezing cold today and it's going to
stay that way for most of the week. That's is
that allergies. Cold weather allergies. It doesn't go away. So
we got a lot to talk about. We'll get to
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the Kennedy Center Honors, We'll get to Ukraine. We'll get
to Narco Boats, We'll get to George Sloppadopolis. We'll get
to Mom Donnie and his latest crazy ideas. We'll get
to the pipe bomber and how they caught him. It's fascinating. Actually,
we'll get to the Jets. Interesting, what's going on with it?
This is going to be a big movement for the
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rest of the season. Anyway, we'll we'll talk about all
of that and more. Be nice to your Democratic friends.
I know they're angry and yelling and screaming. I don't
know if I have time to do it today, but
we're at some point we're gonna I'm gonna explain Trump
derangement syndrome in detail. After talking to a number of
psychiatrists and psychologists who've explained exactly what it is. There
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are other types of this same disease. In this case
it's Trump derangement syndrome. There are other types. And also
for the past week or two we've seen hegxith derangement
syndrome as they go nuts trying to get rid of
Pete hegsyth. Now why it's not even anything really personal.
They just want to get Trump somehow. So whenever they
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see something, anything, one little branch of the tree that
looks like it's gonna break, the break off any limb
of the tree, anything, so they think Hexith is vulnerable.
He's not not. In any way. He hasn't done anything
that anybody would consider wrong in the Trump administration. Signal
gait was a complete ridiculous piece of trivia, absolute nonsense.
(02:01):
That's where he used that signal app for communication. It
was approved by the Pentagon. It was Pentagon policy to
use it. If you shouldn't use it, well you could
take a look at that and maybe not use it,
but that's not a scandal. If you're watching the Sunday
shows this week the opening segments, you might have said,
is this a rerun is this from months ago? They
(02:21):
were talking about signal gate using the signal but no, no,
they just latch onto something and they won't let it go.
You know, these Sunday shows, the idea used to be
they go over the news of the week. They didn't
do that on any of the Sunday shows this week.
If you were watching them, you missed out a review
of the news of the week. Instead, they zeroed in
on one or two things that they liked. Well, they're
(02:44):
basically only two get Hexif and Narco boats, and they
were going after these Narco boats, and every crazy Democrat
was on there with their crazy explanations. It might have
been We think it was maybe a fishing They could
have been fishing boats. No one's ever seen a fishing
boat with six outboards on it and super high speed
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going eight hundred miles an hour at three in the morning.
Nobody's ever seen a fishing boat. I'm not an expert
on the fishing or boats, but you can tell a
Narco boat from a fishing boat. A fishing boat has
fishing equipment all over it and hanging off the sides.
You can tell the Narco boat because it's a super
high speed boat with a million outboard engines on it,
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and it's got twenty five oil drums of chemicals. You
can always tell the Narco boat that way. See the
fishing boat brings bait. Bait isn't that big. You don't
need twenty five oil drums full of bait, so you
can tell. Hey, the best moment on the Sunday Shows.
The finest moment was this Senator of Missouri, Eric Schmidt Stephanopoulos,
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or as we call him, Trump first named him, George
Sloppadopoulos is interviewing him. Now does what they all do?
The greatest example this week was Margaret Brennan. You know
they all do this jackal and hide. They have a
Republican on and every time the Republican answers, they pair
it to him, they a thousand follow ups, They tear
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apart his answer, they yell and scream at him, they
go crazy, and then they go to commercial. Then they
come back with a Democrat and whenever the Democrat answers,
they just nod like a bobblehead. They have no follow ups,
no pushback. Whatever the answer is, uh huh, oh, thank you, Okay,
here's my next question. It's just little softba interviews. So
for the Republican, they're vicious pitbulls tearing into him. Then
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when they come back from commercial to interview the Democrat,
they're cute little poodles hugging the guests. So Schmidt brought
this up. Stephanopolos is trying to destroy Schmidt. He just
had a guest on talking about the Narco boats and
whatever the guest said, Stephanopolis just nodded like a bobblehead.
Then he comes back with Eric Schmidt. Whatever Schmid said,
(04:58):
Stephanopolis vicious, angry tears into them. Listening to this exchange.
This is Eric Schmidt. This moment went super viral on
the Sunday Show yesterday.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Well, I'm curious about your pushback on that particular point.
With your previous guests, you had zero pushback because he's
giving the Democrat talking points like you spew every single week,
which is probably why your ratings are so bad.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
He kept going, he kept tearing into Stephanopolis, and.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
You're trying to divert here the attention from what the
American people actually support. Seventy five percent of Americans support
US blowing Narco terrorists out of the water in the Caribbean,
who are trying to poison Americans. There's no real legal
debate about the ability to do that. Now you could
have a policy discussion about it, which now you see
the Democrats pivoting from the second strike and the war
(05:42):
crimes allegation to really what this whole thing is about,
should we be doing it in the first place.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Now, you got to remember the drug lords, the big
cartel leaders, you know, Salamanca and all those and Gus
Fring and all the cartel leaders watching the Sunday shows
had tears in their eyes, so grateful at the way
these Sunday hosts were defending them in their drug boats,
sticking up for them, fighting for them.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
And this is kind of the rabbit hole of Trump
arrangement syndrome, is that they can't let this thing go.
They can't believe that he won. They didn't want Hegseth
to be the Secretary of War. They fought it. He
was their number one target. They failed at that, and
so now you just have a series and series of
issues that come up every week to try to undermine
this president the secretary of War, and it's not working.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
It's amazing how this Trump derangement syndrome has these Democrats
defending anything illegal. If it's illegal, they're going to defend it.
If it's narco terrorists and drug shipments, Fell defended, it's
illegals all over the city streets. Fell defended whatever it is.
If it's anti Trump, they'll defend it even if it's illegal,
(06:47):
standing up fighting for every criminal in the world. Hey,
now that one of the fascinating things this past week
was they caught the pipe bomber January sixth. Everybody was
focused on the trespassing incident at the Capitol and not
on the pipe bombs. Somebody put bombs at the RNC
and at the DNC. This is pretty serious stuff. They
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caught it and they got the bombs and got rid
of them. But that could have been a disastrous that.
You know, all you heard about was January sixth, was
the trespassers, the people that unlawful entry. They were all
charged with unlawful entry, trespassing, that sort of stuff. This
is all you heard about. You never really heard any
follow up on the pipe bombs. And the reason was
(07:31):
Christopher Ray, who was the worst FBI director, a real
swamp creature and the deep state. The swamp was only
interested in getting Trump. They felt that the trespassing at
the capitol, the chaos at the Capitol, would get Trump,
so they focused on that. They investigated like crazy, they
prosecuted like crazy. They got like seven hundred and sixty
(07:53):
of those trespassers. They went after that. The pipe bomb
they decided was of no value to them as their
narrative because the pipe bomber tried to blow up the
DNC and the RNC. It didn't look like he had
any political leaning, so it was of no value to
Chris Ray, the FBI, the deep state, the swamp, the
Biden administration. They they weren't interested in the pipe bomber.
(08:16):
Finding him not in any interest, so they let it go.
They had a lot of evidence, but they didn't really
do anything with it. Well, a few weeks ago, actually
a couple months ago, Trump administration decided to really go
after this and do the investigation and find this guy.
And they did. They took all the existing evidence and
(08:38):
then they used AI. Christopher Ray could have done this,
And this is it's fascinating stuff what they can do
with AI. You ever watched that CSI. But the laboratory
stuff they can do, the scientifics to catch a criminals
frightening and you're a criminal, you gotta go whoa this is?
I mean, they are really thorough, but this is way
(08:58):
beyond it. This is AI. So one of the things
they used the AI for they figured out what it
takes to make a pipe bomb. There's about seventeen things
you'd have to buy to make a pipe bomb. You'd
have to buy a certain type of pipe, certain types
of chemicals also, So they listed the seventeen things and
(09:19):
then they looked through the sales receipts of every store, everywhere,
home depot lows, every hardware thing. They looked through all
the sales receipts. Now, only AI could do this. For
humans to do this, you'd need a team of like
ten thousand people and it would take them year's But
the AI can look through the sale of everything in
the America and figure out did any one person buy
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all seventeen of these things? And they got a name
somebody that bought all seventeen. Then they could take the
two locations where the pipe bombs were. You know, your
phone has a GPS in it, they can track where
you are. So and only AI could do this. For
humans to do it would take twenty years and a
thousand people. The AI could look through all the phone
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records of all the cell phones and see if anybody
was in both those locations on that day. And they did,
and they got it down to one guy. They figured
out it was the guy. And then they went to
you know, they had the security video, they looked, they
found the guy on it. They've got him. He's been arrested,
he will be prosecuted. It's going to be a hell
(10:25):
of a trial. Christopher Ray could have done this, Biden
could have done this. They decided deliberately not to. But
they got the guy. And it's a great, great, great
accomplishment for Jeanine Piro, for the FBI. Now here's the
only problem for you said, well, Jee, I didn't hear
a loud about this. How am they're not talking about this? Well,
(10:46):
here's the reason they've looked through this guy is everything,
his emails, his social media, everything. There is no indication
anywhere that he was a Trump voter. In fact, it
appears he did not register with either party. He did
not vote. It seems he has nothing to do with Trump,
no connection. He's more of just an angry anarchist, sort
(11:08):
of a guy, So there's nothing to tie him to
a MAGA or Trump. So that's the other reason you
didn't hear anything about it this week. He's facing thirty
years in prison if convicted. It's most likely he will
be convicted. The evidence is overwhelming. So that should be it.
Kennedy Center Honors last night. It's a great thing in
(11:30):
Washington because here in New York, we got a million gallows.
We got all sorts of gallows every night of the week,
we got all sorts of awards, we got every there's
a million things in here Washington, DC. They don't have
a lot. There's really not much. There's the Kennedy Center Honors.
That's like the one big Galla of the year. There's
(11:50):
what they call the Alfalfa Dinner. That's a big event
down there. There's that White House Corresponds dinner. But that's
about it. Very rarely today have any excuse down there
to get dressed up and go to a big gallous.
It's the biggest event in Washington all year. I used
to go to it every year, but stopped about ten
years ago. But it was always a great event. And
(12:12):
when you go there, the Kennedy said, the whole audience.
The entire audience are famous political people, all the Senators,
all the congressmen, all the cabinet, everybody. And it's always
four or five great honorees. A couple of are really
big stars, a couple of people that aren't such big
stars to most people. You know, a classical musician, a ballet,
you know that kind of stuff. But Trump has taken
(12:35):
over the Kennedy Center, put all his people on the board.
It used to be kind of left wing, but then
it got more and more and more and more to
the left. It was really partisan. Now it's not. So
you get real American heroes. You know, Sylvester Stallone, And
in the old days of Kennedy center'd be Laurence Olivier.
Now it's Sylvester Stallone. But that's good. And Trump, remember
(12:58):
loves Sylvester Stallone. They did a lot of stuff through
the years together, TV and other stuff. And the President
has a big ceremony in the Oval Office giving the
special medals, and then they go to the Kenny Center
and they do the big dinner. Here's President Trump and
it was Rambo.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
I knew nothing about it, but I like sly, so
I said, let's go see it. After about four minutes,
they said, this movie is great.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah. So hey. Also remember Trump became a big hit
with The Apprentice. It was the number one show in television,
so big that they decided to do spinoffs. Remember the
first spinoff of The Apprentice, Sylvester Stallone was the host. Yeah,
it didn't do well. There were fourteen Apprentice copies and
none of them did well. Only Trump's Michael Crawford phanom
(13:41):
of the Opera. Donald Trump loves fan of the Opera.
You wouldn't think that, would you. You wouldn't think that'd
be his kind of ship. But he loves it, loves
the music, loves Michael Crawford. He got the Kennedy Center Award.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Well, I don't think they're ever going to find anybody
like you, Michael, Okay, I know something about that business.
I don't think they'll find anybody like you.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
He was brilliant in the Phantom of the Opera. He
was amazing in Phantom of the Opera. However, that's twenty
eight years ago and he hasn't done much since. I
guess he has, But you know, that's what he's best
known for. I mean, musically, he's not I remember he's
in Las Vegas for a while, one of those residencies.
But it's great to see him get it and big
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happy crowd except for the left. Now, what they do
They do the Kennedy Centers on a Sunday night and
then they record it. It's a three or four hour
deal and then they chop it down to two hours
for a television special on CBS. That's been the routine
for many, many years. So it was last night they
recorded it. It will be seen December thirteenth on CBS,
(14:42):
the edited version. Now, this will be interesting. It gets
pretty good ratings. But of course the left wingers will
not watch it. They'll go crazy. But we'll see, we'll
see how well it does this year. Hey, we'll get
to mom. Donnie coming up. He's made the decision. He
will give up his rent controlled department. He will move
into Gracy Mansion. Now, one of the reasons is security
(15:04):
told him that it's really impossible for him to continue
to live in an apartment building in Astoria. There's a
lot of security around him, mayor, and they just it
would be totally disruptive to the apartment building. You know,
when you're the mayor, the governor Generally, you come into
a building, they shut off the elevator. You know, no
one else is allowed in the elevator, he except you
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and the security. So you can't do that in an
apartment building. Also, they'd have to check everybody coming in
and out all the time. You can't do it. So
he'll move into Gracey Mansion. Pretty good socialist. They're living
in a mansion, Gracy Mansion right on the water. We'll
get into this more detail later. He's got this plan
now to stop the sweeps of homeless people, the encampments.
(15:50):
Of course, this is a disaster. Eric Adams has been
doing a good job. You know, you may not have noted,
maybe you did notice you see very few homeless people
and you don't see any homeless camps anywhere. If he's
stating he's no longer going to implement a smart policy
on our part, New Yorkers about to see the repercussions
of that. Yeah, so well, well we'll get into this
(16:11):
and don't ma'm Donnie's ridiculous explanation, why I seem to
do Hey, by the way, you know, you keep everybody's
leaving New York. That's it. Everybody's leaving everybody's people are
not leaving here. Actual statistics since the election. Real estate
sales have been booming since Mam Donnie got elected. Since
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his election, eight hundred and sixty nine contracts have been
signed in New York City. That's a little down, it's
like down half a one percent, but it's pretty close
to last year. Eight hundred and sixty nine contracts have
been signed. Condo sales have been very strong since the election.
Luxury deals very strong. Forty one contracts signed just last week.
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That's a lot. And you get on these big real
estate guys, the big, big, big geniuses of real estate
and banking. They know better, they see the future. JP Morgan,
you know, just open this massive, massive new headquarters on
Park Avenue. Ten thousand people can work in that building.
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So you think, well, that show's confidence. You know what
shows even more confidence. Now I'm hearing JP Morgan's going
to do a second building a block or two a way.
They need a whole other building, another massive skyscraper they're
going to do. And there's more examples of this. So
these guys think New York will be fine. Anyway. We'll
get back to Mom Donnie, We'll get to all of
that coming up. We'll take some calls. Next eight hundred
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Speaker 2 (17:51):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Kim in Connecticut. Kim,
how you doing good?
Speaker 6 (17:57):
Thanks? I've been listening with years about the recent homeless
situation in New York. What Mandannie's doing there. I just
wanted to say that this is spreading like a cancer.
It is in Connecticut now among the socialist Democrats. Connecticut
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is totally run by the Democratic Party. You have two
Democratic senators.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Well, you got the two worst senators, two really really
ugly bad senators, the really worst. Now your governor's not
so bad. Your governor has moments of very very bad behavior.
Maybe because Ned Lamont, the governor, was a business guy
for many, many years, so he goes pretty left woke sometimes,
(18:44):
but sometimes he goes very very common sense. But you've
got Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, the two of the sleaziest,
dirtiest public servants ever lying how many times these guys.
Guy's been caught lying about anything and everything. Go to
Mike in Florida. Mike, how you doing, Good morning, Mark, Yes, Mike.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
Before I make my point about the Democrats, can you
believe it's been forty five years since John Lennon was killed?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Wow? Forty years.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
Unbelievable. Forty five years. It's like mind boggling, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah, right in front of the Dakota seventy second and
Central Park West.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
Yeah, unbelievable. It's like surreal. Actually they think it's been
that long. Yeah, But you were mentioning about the Democrats
they have.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
They're so clever.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
You know, they have this quiver of issues that they
like to put an arrow out, take an arrow out,
and put it back in. You know, Epstein being one
of them that you know, the the narco stuff that
will disappear for a couple of weeks and then they'll
bring it back. Then they'll bring out you know Maxine Nicely,
Maxine Waters, you know, made her appearance. So they're starting
to bring out the big guns to start, you know,
(19:56):
hammering away. They're very clever at there.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, you can't make the case that they're that clever
because none of these things ever go anywhere. I mean,
it gives them something to do at MSNBC, but they
never amount anything. The Epstein thing went nowhere. The narco
boats will go nowhere for them. None of them work
in the end.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Well, I just hope it doesn't have a cumulative effect,
you know, on the mooters. It's not us, but too
many other people seem to be able to.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah, no, I know what you mean, but it's more
just red meat for the Trump Arrangement syndrome crowd. You
gotta throw them something every day. You know. They got
a signal gate. That was a big one for a
week or two. Signal gate, the using the signal. They
were all fired up about that. It was all over
CNN and MSNB. The normal people in the public, What
the hell is signal gate? They're paying no attention to it.
Same thing with the narco boats. They like seeing drug
(20:42):
dealers blown up. They enjoy that. They think that's good
for America, getting rid of all the fentanyl and cocaine
and all. They like that. So it ends up going
nowhere in the end. You know, the Epstein thing again,
it just doesn't register. Most people don't care. Hey, By
the way, I've talked to everybody that's read the Epstein
files in detail. I mean, these are prosecutors in the
(21:05):
US Attorney's office, These are FBI guys. Alan Dershowitz who
was there, he was Epstein's lawyer, and they all say
the same thing. They all seem to agree on one thing.
There is nothing in these Epstein files that would surprise anybody.
In fact, there are no names in their Every name
you think it is going to be in every name
(21:25):
has already been public. There's a couple of names that aren't,
but they're like unknown business people. But all the names
have already been made public. There's nothing in there. And
when they say the Epstein files, it's mostly from the
US Attorney's office here in Manhattan, the Southern District. And
if you talk to people that have seen that file,
what it is. It's just witness interviews. That's ninety eight
(21:48):
percent of the file is just witness interviews and there's
not much in there. Let's go to Paul in Whitestone. Paul,
how you doing.
Speaker 8 (21:56):
Yeah, Mark, how are you doing good? You can't make
this up?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Contop nothing against you personally. Everybody has got to stop
using that expression. You can't make this stuff up. You
can make it up. It's offensive to the great writers
and novelists and screenwriters. You can very easily make this
kind of stuff up. In fact, there are guys that
do that all day long for a living. So nothing
against you, though, Go ahead, all right.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
A communist who wants to abolish prisons and police is
going to live in a mansion for quote, his family safety.
I don't want to hear it. If the police advise this,
he should stand for his principles and say no, I'm
going to stay in the story. I'm going to not
have police protection. But he's not going to do that
because he's like every other communist leader, and the young,
(22:43):
selfish idiots who voted for him because they want free
stuff are about to learn a harsh lesson.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yeah, well it happens. Who is it that said great
Commas said, we have to go through this every twenty years.
We have to let him do their socialism experiment. Let
it fail so the new generals can see how bad
it is. But again, nobody out there ever say again,
you can't make this stuff up. I remember sitting with
I A'll mentioned names a couple of great screenwriters, and
(23:10):
someone said you can't make this up, and they got
very offended. They said, you can. That's what we do
for a living. We can make up stuff even more
far fetched than this. It's easy to do. Hey, when
we come back. Michael Goodwin has been out of action
for a couple of weeks, but Liz Peak the Brilliant
Columnists will be with us next on seven to ten wor.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
More, Mark Simone on sevent ten wor well.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Liz Peak the Brilliant Columnist, And it's got this wonderful website.
You should check it every day. Sign up for the
daily briefings. It's great news and analysis. Lizpeak dot com.
Lizpeak dot com, make sure you sign up for the
daily briefing every day. Good stuff, Liz Peak. How you doing, I'm.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Terrific better for speaking with you.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Hey, hear that the big drug lords, the cartel bosses,
had tears in their eyes yesterday watching these Sunday shows,
so grateful to the host for sticking up for them,
defending them in their narco boats. How much longer do
we have to listen to this from the Democrats?
Speaker 9 (24:16):
I mean, Mark, don't you really begin to sort of
think what are the Democrats doing? What do they stand
for as the public looks at the Democratic Party? Now,
they stand for illegal immigration, they stand for effectively embracing recidivism,
not putting anyone in jail, and all these god awful
stories week after week, just like the light train stabbing,
(24:39):
the second one again as someone who's been convicted of
many times an illegal immigrant, I mean, what are the
they embrace fraud? They're opposed twenty six states won't let
the federal government look at their SNAP programs and their
medicaid programs. Why, I mean, fraud is a serious hundreds
(25:01):
of billions of dollars every year and that is, by
the way, coming a statistic coming from Joe Biden's administration
are lost to waste and fraud by our federal welfare programs.
What is it that the Democrats are offering people that
they can possibly like? And as you say, the final
thing standing up for narco traffickers, that is really a
(25:23):
winning argument.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
My god?
Speaker 5 (25:26):
What is wrong with these people?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
So whenever it comes to Democrats and homeless programs, money
seems to have vanished. You remember we had the Deblasi
administration with that thrive in dollars billion missing now in
this Somali, Minnesota, Tim Waltz, whatever this is, they're talking
about maybe up to eight billion missing. Mom Donnie is
now talking about a homeless program. Does that mean another
(25:50):
billion is going to get lost somewhere?
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Sure?
Speaker 9 (25:53):
Sure, because among other things, none of these people has
real world private sector or experience. So, you know, I
think it was Jamie Dimond yesterday on Maria's Maria Bartiromo
show talking about the city is three hundred thousand people
and basically, successful mayors are people who can manage. Well,
(26:14):
do you think this guy has any management capabilities at all?
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Of course he doesn't.
Speaker 9 (26:19):
He hasn't read, he hasn't run a business, He hasn't
run any Most Democrats, by the way, have never run
a business. Which is a very interesting differential in my view,
between Republicans and Democrats. When Democrats get fired, they get
voted out of a job, what do they do? They
run for another office because they don't know how to
run a restaurant or build a house or anything.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Practical.
Speaker 9 (26:42):
Republicans can go back to farming or running a car
dealership or you know name it. I mean, actually, if
you look at seriously, what you know Congress people and
mayors and stuff do after retirement. They either go to
work for MSNBC if they're Democrats, or they go to
Harvard to teach, like build a Blasio or Lori Lightfoot,
(27:02):
or they run for another office. Look at Andrew Como.
He couldn't think of anything else to do, so we
ran for mayor of New York. That didn't turn out well,
So what's he going to do. He's probably going to find,
you know, mayor of Buffalo or something next to run for.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
It's really pitiful.
Speaker 9 (27:16):
But anyway, Mandani taking on a lot of money to
spew at the homeless. You know, his latest thing on
homelessness is he's no longer going to enforce the eradication
or the cleaning out of the homeless encampments.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Who does that benefit Mark? Who is really applauding that move?
Speaker 9 (27:35):
It certainly isn't the residents of the neighborhoods where these
homeless encampments spring up, Because their lives are going to
be made a mess by the fact that you're going
to have this sprawl of dirty, sometimes violent homeless in
community that kind of erupts in their midst It isn't
good for the homeless some seventy percent of whom are
(27:57):
drug users or alcoholics.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Because they aren't going to get any treatment.
Speaker 9 (28:02):
They prefer to live on the street because they can
continue to abuse drugs and alcohol. It isn't good for them.
Who is it good for? I mean, I really ask
that at all sincerity. Who does he think he's benefiting there?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yeah? You know, here in the radio business, we want
to do something. Sometimes we see what happened in other
stations did it and they come in with the report
forty seven stations did it and the ratings plunged all
forty seven times, So we know not to do it now.
In the case of Mamdani, and he's a very smart
guy when they show him thirteen other cities did it
and with disaster, why can he take in that information
(28:37):
and calculate all this.
Speaker 9 (28:39):
Well, it's the same thing with rent control, right. Rent
control has never ever worked anywhere, and so nonetheless he
is very in favor of capping rent increases on subsidized housing,
even though it has been proven time after time that
what you do is disincentivize landlords from any money, any
(29:01):
investment into the housing stock, so basically you end up
with worse off less affordable and crumbling housing. So to
your point, why doesn't he learn from that? Why don't
the young people out protesting in favor of socialism learn
from the fact that, never error has socialism resulted in
(29:22):
anything but increase poverty and, by the way, increase wealth disparities.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
I mean, look at Venezuela, a very good example.
Speaker 9 (29:30):
So the answer to your question is because ideologues like
Mom Donnie don't really ever look at facts. They don't
look at common sense answers. They are wedded to an
ideological approach, whether it's climate change or just social justice
or whatever that basically is a failure. But then you know,
(29:52):
nobody's around to kind of blame them for the failure usually,
so they just kind of go on and do what
they want. But it's a fact free zone that Mom
Donnie is living in.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Is it just childish? That's like a you know, a
childish teenager. Is it something sounds good? They do it.
They don't think of the consequences.
Speaker 9 (30:11):
So yeah, yes, because because just what you said, there's
no consequences. What are the consequences if he blows a
billion dollars over the next four years on homelessness?
Speaker 5 (30:23):
Look at Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 9 (30:24):
How much money has Gavin Newsom spent on homeless projects
in California only to see the money disappear, the homeless
population continue to grow, et cetera.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Does any It's incredible to me.
Speaker 9 (30:39):
How is it the voters don't say, well, wait a minute,
didn't you just ask for five billion dollars for that?
Where did that money go? Show us the money? Show us,
you know, let's have accountability. There is never accountability. It
is mystifying.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
So is the real problem that we don't have legitimate
news organizations anymore. If we had real news and media,
there would become sequences. Newsom would be a town day
and night. So how do you run a democracy with
corrupt news?
Speaker 5 (31:05):
I think that's part of it.
Speaker 9 (31:07):
I actually think what sort of tragic is we have
people who listen to one side or another kind of
depending on their politics. They listen to Fox News, they
listen to you, or they listen to CNN and ms
now or whatever it's called, and people get very little
cross fertilization.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
I think that's fair.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
Very I read, and I'm sure you read publications on
the other side. A lot of people simply don't they
don't want to know, They don't want to hear, and
you know what, that's not good for our country. I
hope at some point there really are news organizations that
will cover, you know, stories from both sides. I was
listening to was it Margaret Brennan who interviewed Elan Omar yesterday?
Speaker 5 (31:51):
You know, and you just want to kind of put
your head through the wall.
Speaker 9 (31:53):
It's like, really, you're not going to challenge her on
the fact that the Somalis have been perpetuating these frauds.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
But by the way, it's not that big a community.
Speaker 9 (32:02):
If there were hundreds of people, which probably there were
involved in scamming of the three different programs, they acted
like it was just one three different programs that they
took billions of dollars from. Don't you think an awful
lot of Somalis knew what was going on?
Speaker 5 (32:18):
I do.
Speaker 9 (32:19):
And and for her to just sort of accept that, oh, yeah,
Somali's really are the victims here, I don't know, it's
pretty discouraging.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
She was funny yesterday. Whatever idiotic explanation Omar gave, she
just nodded like a bubble head.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
Yeah, just nodded, right.
Speaker 9 (32:35):
I mean, it's like, But the best media breakout yesterday
was Leslie Stall deciding that Marjorie Taylor Green was the
person she needed to interview for sixty minutes. So Marjorie
Taylor Green, someone who has been totally widely chastised, debunked,
(32:55):
criticized on the left, loads on the left as being
a conspiration theorists and all the rest. Now she's acceptable
because she's gonna blast Donald Trump. I mean, really, isn't
that just incredible?
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yeah? Pretty pretty transparent though, Oh my gosh, well, great stuff. Hey,
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Oh thanks very much for having me. Take care, Mark,
take care.
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