October 3, 2025 • 30 mins
Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are representing Democratic lawmakers in the ongoing government shutdown. The left-wing news networks are claiming people could die if the shutdown continues for a long period of time. Mark explains why. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews journalist Liz Peek. Liz believes that Andrew Cuomo is nothing compared to Zohran Mamdani. Cuomo's reputation as governor of New York put a damper on his mayoral campaign.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You just heard the news.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Now you'll find out what it all means. He smart
simone on seven tenor.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Hey it's Friday, that's a good news. It's October. It's
okay news. Yankees win, they'll begin tomorrow the playoffs. That's
great news. We'll get to the shutdown. We'll get to
the Yankees. We'll get to Andrew Cuomo, even Democrats making
fun of his latest ad. We'll get to Mom Donnie
and his words. They're calling him word salad, they're more
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like word jumbles. And we'll get to cracker barrel. And
we'll get to President Trump, some interesting developments, what he
may be up to next. Let's see, I mean yeah, okay,
Sean Diddy Combs is about to be sentenced. No, nothing yet.
The sentence hearing is taking place now. He's going to
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get sentenced at some point this morning. Prosecutors want eleven years.
He wants time served, which is fourteen months. If you
ask those criminal lawyers that do these cases all the time,
they're betting four years five years will be the sentence.
Diddy wrote a long letter to the judge, begging for mercy, apologizing,
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saying he's sorry a thousand different ways. So we'll bring
you that news. Apparently nothing is happening yet. It'll be
a while before they get a sentence. Now, apparently it
was worse than a Taylor Swift line of the concert line.
There were people camping out for two days to get
into this courtroom for the Sean Ditty sentencing. You know,
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they got those professional placeholders. You can pay them to
wait in line for you to camp out on the sidewalk.
Although it's not like the old camping out on the
sidewalk with a sleeping bag. This is. They bring tents,
they got you know, chargers for the phones, they've got TV,
they got everything there, they got smartphones, they got everything
going on. So it'll happen at some point this morning.
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So here's real quickly the shutdown. Here's the problem. They's
supposed to be a vote today at eleven am. It's
expected that the vote will not succeed to end the shutdown,
and it'll go through the weekend and there'll be a
vote on Monday. They're hoping Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday
they'll get it settled. Now here's the shutdown situation. If
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you're watching the crazy left wing networks, if you're watching
MSNBC or CNN, you'll see Hakeem Jeffreys and Chuck Schumer
on television, and all they keep telling you is everybody
is going to die this shut every people are going
to die. People are going to drop dead. The planes
are going to fallow this sky. This is the biggest
crisis ever. And now they're going on vacation for a
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couple of days. So everybody's going to die. But it's Friday,
we gotta leave. Sorry, they're going They're all going away
for the weekend. They're taking the weekend off. In a
minor crisis, you'd probably work on Saturday, wouldn't you major crisis,
you'd work Saturday and Sunday. But everybody's gonna die, and
they're going away for the weekend. And many of these
Democrats are going down to Sea Island for some sort
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of democratic conference, and they're getting criticized because it's a
very plush, lush, expensive five star resort, an oligarch type
of place. That's where the Democrats are holding this conference.
So if you're lucky, they'll come back. If they have time,
they might come back on Monday and continue the shutdown. Problem.
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Part of the problem is you got two people leading
the Democrats, Schumer and Jeffreys, Hakeem Jeffries. These are the
two worst spokespeople you could have if you want, And
the most important thing in a situation like this is
your messaging. You couldn't have worse messaging. Schumer is an old,
dried up, old dinosaur fossil from one hundred years ago.
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Everybody just, you know, cringes when they look at this guy.
Jeffries is a younger guy, but he's a total stiff,
and he talks in the He's so pious and ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
We'd assume, on myself, having gotten a single phone call
as it relates to a follow up conversation, we're ready
to have that conversation, but we need credible partners on
the other side of the owl.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Well, see that's a little change in tone. Yesterday was
everybody's gonna die and they won't budge, and he should
get one of those phones that can make outgoing calls.
That way, you don't just sit there and wait for
the calls, and said, the problem is nobody knows what
the hell these guys are talking about. We love Mike
Johnson doing a great chep, but they don't speak English.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
He said passionately, as recently as March of this year,
on the same instrument, the same ZR.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
That it would be rap. But he knows what the
hell you're talking about with your instrument, your clean CR.
Now there's a continuing resolution, and there's a clean CR.
Now when you're watching television and you hear about this
clean the CR and it's a clean the resolution, nobody
knows what you're saying. Speak English, nobody knows what the
hell you're talking about. So we'll see what happens at
eleven am. Don't expect much. It'll probably go through the weekend.
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But here's the problem. You got Schumer and Jeffreys, the
two worst messengers you could have. They're just disasters on TV.
They don't communicate at all. Other problems they're both from Brooklyn,
New York, which means all they hear from a left wing,
crazy left wing. The other problem is they haven't gone home.
None of these congress people have been home. We're meeting
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the constituents. All they're hearing from is union special interests
and all these special interests yelling him, ot cave don't
cave in, don't cave in. You need to hear from
the constituents, showing you that the line at the airport's
longer than ever because TSA had lay off some people,
or they're not picking up the crash or something. They're
not hearing from constituents anyway. Well, that's all there is
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to know about the continuing resolution clean c are. Hey,
the Yankees big win last night. They start the playoffs
Toronto tomorrow, for that's great news. Andrew Cuomo getting a
lot of flak over this TV ad and me he
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told you about this yesterday. He finally started running a
TV commercial. Nobody knows if he's really campaigning or there's
an actual campaign. He still has not opened a campaign headquarters.
He doesn't do much. He'll do in one or two interviews,
but basically it's always a fluff you know, look, you know,
totally rigged interview, like ERL Lewis on New York One.
He always make sure it's somebody will never give him
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a hard time or bring up anything bad. But he
finally put out a campaign ad. It looks very expensive.
It's not because it turns out it's all AI. But
the ad, as we described yesterday, shows him doing trying
to do different jobs he goes, but I'm not very
good at That shows him trying to be a trained
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engineer and not he can't do it. Then it shows
him trying to be a window washer. He's up on
a scaffolding, up on a skyscraper. He can't do it.
And all these different jobs it looks if it really
looks good. It's all done by AI. And then he says,
but the only thing I can't do any of these gentlemen,
I'm not good at it. The only thing I can
do is run a government. So this was the ad.
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I'm watching the left wing shows last night. They're all
attacking him, even Colbert ridiculing him, saying why would you
run an ad saying you stink at everything, you don't
know how to do anything, You're not competent to do anything.
And also a lot of the left wing people pointing
out what he's really saying is what we all kind
of knew. And the problem with him. I can't go
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back into the world. I can't go back into the
private sector. Nobody will hire me. I can't do a
damn thing. The reason I'm back running again, even though
I quit in disgrace, is I don't fit in anywhere
else in the world. I think this is this the ad.
I'm Andrew Cuomo, and I could pretend to do.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
A lot of jobs.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
But I know what I know, and I know what
I don't know, and I do know how to make
government work. I'll hire five thousand new cops, the partner
with low community groups and keep our family safe, and
we'll get the homeless off the streets and into the
help they desperately need. There are a lot of jobs
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I can't do, but I'm ready to be your mayor
on day one.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Okay, but you know I'll hire five dozen new cops.
He's the guy that just when he was governor, he
got rid of cops. He defunded cops, he cut down
on the cops. He closed the prisons and let the
prisoners out. He passed he passed that no bail, no jail,
let all the criminals loose. He took away qualified immunity
from the cops, he took away overtime, and he was
just horrible with cops. So that's the ad. You know,
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they keep saying, if mom Donnie wins, people are gonna
leave New York. People are gonna move out. This is
the big thing if Donnie wins, you won't believe how
many people leave and move well. Cuomo holds the record
for causing more people to leave and move out of
New York while he was governor, especially the pandemic the
way he bungled it up. More people fled New York
under Cuomo than any other any other petition. In fact,
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so many people moved out of New York millions that
we lost four congressional seats under his watch. Because so
many we lost so much population, we lost four congressional seats.
There was a period of a year and a half
where you could not get a moving van under Cuoma.
There were so many people leaving, there was a shortage
of moving vans, and there was like a year wait
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to get one. Curtis has been running ads. Here's a
Curtis Leeway adds.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
You can hear a woman screaming rapes in broad daylight,
attacks on the subway.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Why Cormon, We're gonna aid the cash bail system once
and for.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
All worst sov On Mo'm done. He wants to go
even further with them in charge. You are not safe.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
We deserve better. I'm Curtish Slim, I'm asking for you,
O for mam.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Together, we'll build back a shafe more affordable lead.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
It's not a bad ad and is a part of
the addy as the beret part of the eddie doesn't
have the bret. A lot of people there's to stop
wearing the braid. Stop worrying about the hat. That's not
a factor. It's not an issue in a camp. It
means absolutely nothing to anybody. Nobody's voting based on a hat.
Also bear in mind, is Jimmy Fayle to point it out.
A guy just got elected president wearing a red hat.
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You can do it now. This race will come down
to a couple of things. Biggest thing will be the
debate October sixteenth. That could turn the race around. Cuomo
could get wiped out there. He's a bad debater. He
looks awful in debates. Mam Donnie's good. Curtis is great.
They could wipe out Cuomo in the debate. But the
debate could be a turning point in the race. But
here's the main factor. This race will be about turnout.
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If there's big turnout, Mam Donnie probably won't win. If
there is that turnout that we've had the last few years,
you know, twenty percent, twenty two percent turnout. That's how
de Blasio got in. There was just no turnout. The
only people that showed up were the crazy young radicals.
If it's twenty percent turnout, yeah it favors Mam Donnie.
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But if we go back to the old days with
eighty percent turnout, that's how we You know, Republicans won
five of the last mayoral races, five of the last eight,
and that's how Giuliani won. All of a sudden, people
are fed up, and there was and the polls didn't
show it happening, but there was all of a sudden,
big turnout, So a big turnout, and Mom, Donnie loses.
Now he's being very cautious now and asking when he's
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doing interviews, people are calling these word salads. What Kamala
does is a word salad. And she was so silly
and dumb and stupid and inarticulate that she just gives
a word solid an answer. Mom Donnie is very shrewd
and smart, so it sounds like a word salut. But
he's doing it deliberately. He's very carefully talking a lot
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without saying anything. So if you listen to his answers,
you don't know what the hell he's saying.
Speaker 8 (11:47):
I think New Yorkers deserved leadership that is looking to
be thoughtful as opposed to leadership that is just trying
to engage in the discourse of our politics. And I
think that it's part of what I'm trying to bring
to our politics is a reflection of what I see
in New Yorkers as opposed to what I see in
the people who passed for our leaders Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
See, it sounds good, but he's deliberately not saying any
Nobody knows what the helly just said that we don't want.
It's not about being thoughtful, it's about engaging with reflection.
It's a little thoughtful, not too thoughtful, more engagement than thoughtful.
Nobody knows what he means or what he's saying. So well,
we'll get back to the Meryl racing a little while now. Hey,
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Cracker Barrel fired the marketing company. You know, I was
talking about this yesterday. These marketing companies are really bad,
some of these marketing companies. There's some good ones, but
there's some really bad ones. And the biggest corporations hire
these marketing companies and there to do the rebrand and
to you know, redesign new love and some of them
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are disasters. And the one that Cracker Barrel hired was
a total disaster. It's a company called Profit total disaster.
They came up with the new menu, the new decorps
for the restaurants, the new logo, the new this, the
new that. It was a complete disaster. It was all
so awful. Cracker Barrel lost one hundred and forty million
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dollars in value. One hundred and forty million in value. Now,
I don't know what took them so long, but they
finally fired this company. The company's going and this is
also the company put in the DEI hiring, the this,
the that, all of that stuff. Hey, oh, Donald Trump
apparently when he was up here for the Ryder Cup
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met with some high ranking not CBS, but the parent company.
Negotiations are taking place for Donald Trump to possibly do
a sixty minutes interview. Now sixty minutes is the most awful,
corrupt show, totally slanted biased, not just the questions the
way they run the interview, but they'll actually doctor up
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the video to slant things, to mislead. They'll doctor up
the interviews in the video that got caught doing it
with Kamala Harris. It was so obvious they were trying
to interfere with the election. They doctored up her video
so much that they ended up having to pay a
settlement of about thirty million to Donald Trump. That's how
bad it was. So negotiations are taking place for Trump
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to do an interview with sixty minutes. I don't know
why he's even bothering. Nobody watches it anymore. It's not
that big an audience. It doesn't mean much, but Trump
negotiating for certain things. The video or the interview will
have to run absolutely unedited, no edits at all allowed.
He's agreed to Bill Whittaker to do it, and knowing him,
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he's very smart, he'll figure out what night he wants
it on. Sixty minutes doesn't have a lot of viewers anymore.
Used to be the number one show in television, used
to get sixty million people. Gets nothing now. But the
only times it gets any ratings if it's on after
a big, huge game. So if it's a really important
football game or The Master or something like that, when
it ends, it goes right to sixteen minutes. So Trump
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will pick one of those nights. So, hey, we got
a lot coming up, and we'll take some calls. Next.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Now back to Mark Simone on woor.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Hey, we'll take some calls. Eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten is the number. Let's go to Kathy North, Carolina. Kathy,
how you doing?
Speaker 9 (15:29):
Hey, Mark, it's good to talk to you, it's good
to hear you. I have a random question. I know
you're not a financial guru, but of course your friend
Larry Cudlow is, so maybe he can answer this someday.
All that money that Doge saved billions and billions, where
does that show up?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Like?
Speaker 9 (15:45):
Where is it being pocketed? Is it in the It
doesn't seem to be in the budget. The budget would
have been missing several billion dollars because we didn't have
to pay out to that. So I just I remember
talking about it and hearing about it. But where does
it physically show up?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
It doesn't show up. It's just the actual budget drops.
Spending drops a little. Now. The problem is you got Congress,
and Republicans are just as bad as Democrats. Whenever there's
money they start spending it again. That's the problem. You
can keep cutting the spending, but Democrats and Republicans in
Congress keep bringing it back.
Speaker 9 (16:18):
But you're telling me that if we didn't if we
didn't do dose, then this outrageous budget would be that
many more billion more.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I mean, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
So you are a financial guru.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
No, it's a simple common sense. If you get rid
of seven hundred thousand people, your pay roll is less money. Obviously,
I know, but I know it's North Carolina. But this
is not hard to figure it out. Now, what's going
on down there in North Carolina.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
It's beautiful today. Fall is coming. I'm not my favorite season.
I really love summer, but it's here. It's quite nice.
And we have that big we have a big governor's
race going on. I guess, or no, I guess the
governor is running for the Senate seat. So we're going
to look for that. I'm going to try schuck you
out with that.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Say hello to Barney Fife and OPI and everybody down there, and.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Hey, hey, hey, we love North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
It's a great place. Thanks for calling. Let's go to
Dave in Chicago. Dave, how you.
Speaker 9 (17:17):
Doing good morning, Mark.
Speaker 10 (17:19):
I'm doing very well, Thank you.
Speaker 9 (17:21):
Mark.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I know in the recent passed we were all told
not to use TikTok because it came from China and.
Speaker 10 (17:27):
It stole all of our personal information. My question is
what's the latest.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
Status, because I know President Trump does have a TikTok account.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yeah you can. Well, you know he's got so many phones.
You can have one on a phone that is not
on his phone. But it'll get safer and safer. I
get to wait till it's completely turned over to the
new Board of Directors. So instead of the communist Chinese
having all your data, Larry Ellenson will have it. It'll
be Oracle and some other people running it. But should
be safer. It should be safe. Hey, nowadays all these
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apps steal everything. You just don't want to go into
the communist Chinese government. Who knows what they're up to there.
Let's go to Mike and Florida. Mike, how you doing,
Good morning, Mark. That's Mike.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
He's listening to the ads you played from the candidates.
Don't you find it funny that in this day and age,
the ads haven't changed much. It's still I'll be ready
on day one they'll have one eventually with the guy
sitting in the diner. It's like there's a million people
online who have like clever memes and you know, have
unique takes on things, and these politicians still can't get
out of the twentieth century.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yeah, it's a very good point. Now, the reason for
that is there's only a handful of these political consultants,
and they go from campaign to campaign and teach everybody
the same exact ad. You know, if you're a great
consultant and incredible marketing video, you're going to go to
work for all these big corporations. You're not going to
do politics. But that's a good point. Yeah, they all
do this. I'll be ready on day one. So what
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everybody's ready on day one? Every Hey, iHeart every major company.
We hire people all the time. One they show up,
they're ready. We've never had anybody who we hired say
I'm not ready. I can't stop, I'll have to come
back another time. I'm just not ready. Everybody is ready
day one. Let's go to Stan in Forest Hills, Stan,
(19:14):
How you're doing, How you doing?
Speaker 7 (19:16):
Happy holidays? I just want to say, you know, I
keep hearing that's socialism which I'm not a.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Communist, but you sound like a communist.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
No, no, I'm not anna sound like one. Do you
ever hear yourself?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
But that's a little bit of a communist, you don't know.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
The point is, we have socialistic programs in this country
that are extremely successful. Well I mean to name them.
They called social security. We pay into it, but it's
for the masses. We have Medicare, we pay that into it.
It's for the masses, and the greatest one is Medicaid, which.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Is in Southern I know that's an old, old cliche
Democratic it's not a cliche. We got to cut you
off there. It's an old democratic cliche talking point. It's
a government program. It's not socialist. I mean, you could
say that's what's socialism, is government handouts. But it's not
a socialist. You can opt in, you can opt out,
you can do whatever the hell you want. You cannot
take it. Let's go to David in New Jersey. David,
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how you.
Speaker 10 (20:11):
Doing all right? Good morning? Thank you very much for
taking my call. This is the first time I ever
called I listened to you. You're I think you're great.
Thank you for what you do.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
When a guy butters you up first. It means he's
up to something. All right, go ahead, I like.
Speaker 10 (20:26):
To hear your opinion on this. We know this Mondomie,
he's a he's an anti semi. The Jews in New
York has, from my understanding, has the biggest population outside Israel.
We know Como's a thief and a bum. What's wrong
with these Jews not voting against this guy?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
And they aren't putting your Most of the Jewish community
is totally against him, working hard against him. And let
me just defend and Cuomo. I don't think that he's
a thief, the worst governor ever. Yes, a complete incompetent,
a disgrace. Yes, all his sexual Yes, a thief. No,
we don't know if I'm actually stealing money.
Speaker 10 (21:06):
But why aren't they putting your vote towards Sleeva?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I do A lot of them are? A lot of
them are.
Speaker 10 (21:13):
So Slew should be running away with this instead of.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Well, we love the Jewish community, but it's a tiny,
tiny part of the electorate, it's not a big part
of it's not a big percentage of the votes. But
they are men much of the Jewish community back in Sliva.
Speaker 10 (21:26):
And well, let's hope so Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
No, it's just unfortunately it's not a big enough part
of the electorate. Again, it's a turnout race. If you
get huge turnout, Montdomie loses. If you get what we've
been getting for like Deblasio or Eric Adams, where it's
eighteen percent turnout twenty, that's where you have a problem. Hey,
when we come back, Liz Peak will be with us next.
The great columnist. Let's see what she thinks about all
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of this. We'll get to that next on seven to
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Speaker 2 (21:54):
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Speaker 3 (22:06):
W o rs Mark Simone. Well, the great columnist Liz Peak,
and of course you see her all over television. You
can see her columns foxnews dot com. Also make sure
you go to her website, a great news site, lizpeak
dot com, lizpeak dot com, great stuff every day. Up there,
Liz Peak.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
How you doing, I'm terrific.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 10 (22:28):
Mark.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Well, you know I'm watching Schumer and the Keem Jeffries
all over television. Every Hey's gonna die. We're gonna die.
This is gonna die. And then they all left for
the weekend. They're on vacation. Now, how does this work?
Speaker 6 (22:41):
I guess we're not going to die right away?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Yeah. So are these two just tone deaf Jeffries and Schumer?
Are they just out of touch?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (22:52):
They're scared to death. Mark, I think the progressive left
has a stranglehold on the Democratic Party right now. And honestly,
I think you can fairly say that if AOC Alexandrio
Cacio Cortez, the progressive darling from New York State, was
not threatening to primary Chuck Schumer when he's up for
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reelection in twenty eight we would not be having a
government shutdown. When he signed on and agreed to go
along with the Republican funding bill in March, he got
absolutely sporched by the progressive left. They hated him for
going along. They think the only thing the Democrats should
be doing is resisting everything Republicans and Donald Trump are
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trying to do. And so he learned his lesson. I mean,
when you look at poland guess what Schumer might be
beaten by AOC. It's completely possible. So you know, it's
like Andrew Cuomo running against mom Donni in New York
City for the mayor's race. I mean, basically, Cuomo a
sort of long time I guess moderate Democrat, although I
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think he's a pretty far left Democrat. He is nothing
compared to Mamdani. That's where the energy is, that's where
the excitement is in the Democratic Party. So I mean, honestly,
you have this ridiculous situation where the entire country is
in the grip of AOC who, in my view, is
an incredibly know nothing Democrat representative who has tremendous social
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media presence. And that's about it.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
And how did we get to this point? Is it
because the universities became in doctrination centers over the last
few decades and we've raised generations of far left kookie
socialist young Is that how this is happening.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
Without a doubt, without a doubt, that is part of it.
I mean, I think in terms of what ails the
Democratic Party, well, first of all, let's look at their record.
Show me a Democrat run state in the United States
that is prospering. The answer is, you can't because their
policies don't work. Mamdani has risen to fame by talking
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about affordability. He's completely right that the two most expensive
states to live in are New York and California. Why
would that be, I wonder Well, let's talk about high
taxes and tons of regulation that make it almost impossible
to operate a small business, and all the kinds of
labor laws that they put in effect that jack up
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the price of everything from uber drivers to delivery drivers,
delivery people for food and stuff. All that may seem
like a good thing, but the reality is it means
it's incredibly expensive to live in these states. So weirdly,
it's Democrat policies that have pushed the emergence of Democratic
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socialists who pretend they're going to solve those affordability issues
by being even farther to the left, having even more
regulation and more taxes, and doing everything that Democrats have
been doing for decades, but on steroids. I mean, you
cannot come up with a worse argument for election than that,
and yet it is resonating.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Yeah, if you think about it, the Democrats have run
every inch in New York legislature, albanys, governor, mayor city
council for about twelve years. So why would if there's
such a crisis. Why wouldn't you just switch parties? That's
the obvious thing to do.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
Yeah, Mark, you know you're thinking straight.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
The problem is all these young people are not and
part of it is what you call indoctrination. And that's
exactly the right word for it. You know, during the
Vietnam era, if you think back that long, what how
did you escape the draft? All the lefty hippies who
didn't approve of the warren Vietnam could avoid the draft
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by becoming teachers and professors.
Speaker 10 (26:43):
So they did.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
And guess what here we are all these years later.
These guys have organized and run the departments of America's
colleges now for forty plus years. They hire people who
think the way they do. Polling shows early the faculty
at Harvard, for example, doesn't even want to have any
kind of diversity of opinion in Harvard's faculty. They don't
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approve of that. So you have a very solid generation
now that is incredibly left wing and by the way,
incredibly ignorant because they don't know the history of the
Soviet Union. They don't know the history of Venezuela and
how or Cuba or any of these countries that are
so poor and so destitute in the case of Soviet Union,
(27:28):
that actually collapsed under the weight of the kinds of
policies that they are now embracing. Had they been ever
taught that, or taught about the virtues of capitalism and
how capitalist free countries do well and create wealth for
their people, maybe they wouldn't be so eager to flock
to a guy that is touting the same failed policies
(27:51):
that really have caused millions to live in poverty.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a strange election here in New York.
You got one candidate is the absolute worst of the
new generation Democrat and the other candidate's the worst of
the old generation Demosray, Yeah, isn't.
Speaker 9 (28:06):
That the truth?
Speaker 6 (28:06):
That's a really good point. It's oh, it's like and
and that's you know, that's obviously anyway, that's a local issue.
We have two terrible candidates running. Uh, and so it's
it's like, you know, the worst of the choice.
Speaker 10 (28:19):
You can make.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
But but I think generally nationally, when you look at Schumern,
Schumer in particular should be embarrassed. I mean, how many
times has he paraded before the cameras well every Sunday
night he used to, if you recall, because nobody else bothered. Uh,
And he would talk about how terrible government shutdowns are,
how they really hurt the country. And here they are
(28:41):
insisting on one for what end? To what end they
want to? I mean, they don't want to give the
Senate and it's just a few weeks to get their
spending bill in order. They don't want to do that.
So again, this is this is play acting. It's performative politics,
which is what Democrats have really kind of, you know,
(29:03):
become very good at or at least sort of that's
all they do. Now it's performingtive politics with no particular purpose,
and I think it's a tragedy honestly.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Yeah. Well, great stuff, Liz Peak. Hey, everybody check out
her website lizpeak dot com. You got great stories there
every day. It's a great news site, lizpeak dot com.
Be a subscriber to it and of course reader columns.
Watch her all over television and great stuff, Liz Peak.
Thanks for being with.
Speaker 10 (29:32):
Us, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
All right, take care, let me just see here the
did he trial? Well, no, no word, it's going to
be a little while. The hearing is underway. Did he
will be sentenced at some point, will bring it to
you when it happens. The judge says trial evidence did
establish that they were transported for the purpose of engaging
(29:55):
in a commercial sex act. That doesn't sound good prosecute
and wants eleven years. Did he wants time served? That's
fourteen months. Criminal lawyers say it'll be somewhere in the
middle of five six years. Well, we'll see, it'll happen
later this morning and we'll get to that coming up
on seven ten WR.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Mark Simone on seven tenor.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Hey, we got a stop for the news. We'll got
updated on everything, find out all the latest, and then
we got another hour to go with lots to get to.
We'll get to the mayoral race again and we'll get to, Hey,
the Trump sombrero stuff. We'll explain how that came about
and more right after the news on seven ten WR
You just heard the news.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Now you'll find out what it all means. He smart
simone on seven tenor.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Hey it's Friday, that's a good news. It's October. It's
okay news. Yankees win, they'll begin tomorrow the playoffs. That's
great news. We'll get to the shutdown. We'll get to
the Yankees. We'll get to Andrew Cuomo, even Democrats making
fun of his latest ad. We'll get to Mom Donnie
and his words. They're calling him word salad, they're more
(00:31):
like word jumbles. And we'll get to cracker barrel. And
we'll get to President Trump, some interesting developments, what he
may be up to next. Let's see, I mean yeah, okay,
Sean Diddy Combs is about to be sentenced. No, nothing yet.
The sentence hearing is taking place now. He's going to
(00:55):
get sentenced at some point this morning. Prosecutors want eleven years.
He wants time served, which is fourteen months. If you
ask those criminal lawyers that do these cases all the time,
they're betting four years five years will be the sentence.
Diddy wrote a long letter to the judge, begging for mercy, apologizing,
(01:17):
saying he's sorry a thousand different ways. So we'll bring
you that news. Apparently nothing is happening yet. It'll be
a while before they get a sentence. Now, apparently it
was worse than a Taylor Swift line of the concert line.
There were people camping out for two days to get
into this courtroom for the Sean Ditty sentencing. You know,
(01:39):
they got those professional placeholders. You can pay them to
wait in line for you to camp out on the sidewalk.
Although it's not like the old camping out on the
sidewalk with a sleeping bag. This is. They bring tents,
they got you know, chargers for the phones, they've got TV,
they got everything there, they got smartphones, they got everything
going on. So it'll happen at some point this morning.
(02:02):
So here's real quickly the shutdown. Here's the problem. They's
supposed to be a vote today at eleven am. It's
expected that the vote will not succeed to end the shutdown,
and it'll go through the weekend and there'll be a
vote on Monday. They're hoping Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday
they'll get it settled. Now here's the shutdown situation. If
(02:25):
you're watching the crazy left wing networks, if you're watching
MSNBC or CNN, you'll see Hakeem Jeffreys and Chuck Schumer
on television, and all they keep telling you is everybody
is going to die this shut every people are going
to die. People are going to drop dead. The planes
are going to fallow this sky. This is the biggest
crisis ever. And now they're going on vacation for a
(02:46):
couple of days. So everybody's going to die. But it's Friday,
we gotta leave. Sorry, they're going They're all going away
for the weekend. They're taking the weekend off. In a
minor crisis, you'd probably work on Saturday, wouldn't you major crisis,
you'd work Saturday and Sunday. But everybody's gonna die, and
they're going away for the weekend. And many of these
Democrats are going down to Sea Island for some sort
(03:08):
of democratic conference, and they're getting criticized because it's a
very plush, lush, expensive five star resort, an oligarch type
of place. That's where the Democrats are holding this conference.
So if you're lucky, they'll come back. If they have time,
they might come back on Monday and continue the shutdown. Problem.
(03:29):
Part of the problem is you got two people leading
the Democrats, Schumer and Jeffreys, Hakeem Jeffries. These are the
two worst spokespeople you could have if you want, And
the most important thing in a situation like this is
your messaging. You couldn't have worse messaging. Schumer is an old,
dried up, old dinosaur fossil from one hundred years ago.
(03:50):
Everybody just, you know, cringes when they look at this guy.
Jeffries is a younger guy, but he's a total stiff,
and he talks in the He's so pious and ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
We'd assume, on myself, having gotten a single phone call
as it relates to a follow up conversation, we're ready
to have that conversation, but we need credible partners on
the other side of the owl.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Well, see that's a little change in tone. Yesterday was
everybody's gonna die and they won't budge, and he should
get one of those phones that can make outgoing calls.
That way, you don't just sit there and wait for
the calls, and said, the problem is nobody knows what
the hell these guys are talking about. We love Mike
Johnson doing a great chep, but they don't speak English.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
He said passionately, as recently as March of this year,
on the same instrument, the same ZR.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
That it would be rap. But he knows what the
hell you're talking about with your instrument, your clean CR.
Now there's a continuing resolution, and there's a clean CR.
Now when you're watching television and you hear about this
clean the CR and it's a clean the resolution, nobody
knows what you're saying. Speak English, nobody knows what the
hell you're talking about. So we'll see what happens at
eleven am. Don't expect much. It'll probably go through the weekend.
(05:04):
But here's the problem. You got Schumer and Jeffreys, the
two worst messengers you could have. They're just disasters on TV.
They don't communicate at all. Other problems they're both from Brooklyn,
New York, which means all they hear from a left wing,
crazy left wing. The other problem is they haven't gone home.
None of these congress people have been home. We're meeting
(05:26):
the constituents. All they're hearing from is union special interests
and all these special interests yelling him, ot cave don't
cave in, don't cave in. You need to hear from
the constituents, showing you that the line at the airport's
longer than ever because TSA had lay off some people,
or they're not picking up the crash or something. They're
not hearing from constituents anyway. Well, that's all there is
(05:48):
to know about the continuing resolution clean c are. Hey,
the Yankees big win last night. They start the playoffs
Toronto tomorrow, for that's great news. Andrew Cuomo getting a
lot of flak over this TV ad and me he
(06:08):
told you about this yesterday. He finally started running a
TV commercial. Nobody knows if he's really campaigning or there's
an actual campaign. He still has not opened a campaign headquarters.
He doesn't do much. He'll do in one or two interviews,
but basically it's always a fluff you know, look, you know,
totally rigged interview, like ERL Lewis on New York One.
He always make sure it's somebody will never give him
(06:29):
a hard time or bring up anything bad. But he
finally put out a campaign ad. It looks very expensive.
It's not because it turns out it's all AI. But
the ad, as we described yesterday, shows him doing trying
to do different jobs he goes, but I'm not very
good at That shows him trying to be a trained
(06:50):
engineer and not he can't do it. Then it shows
him trying to be a window washer. He's up on
a scaffolding, up on a skyscraper. He can't do it.
And all these different jobs it looks if it really
looks good. It's all done by AI. And then he says,
but the only thing I can't do any of these gentlemen,
I'm not good at it. The only thing I can
do is run a government. So this was the ad.
(07:11):
I'm watching the left wing shows last night. They're all
attacking him, even Colbert ridiculing him, saying why would you
run an ad saying you stink at everything, you don't
know how to do anything, You're not competent to do anything.
And also a lot of the left wing people pointing
out what he's really saying is what we all kind
of knew. And the problem with him. I can't go
(07:33):
back into the world. I can't go back into the
private sector. Nobody will hire me. I can't do a
damn thing. The reason I'm back running again, even though
I quit in disgrace, is I don't fit in anywhere
else in the world. I think this is this the ad.
I'm Andrew Cuomo, and I could pretend to do.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
A lot of jobs.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
But I know what I know, and I know what
I don't know, and I do know how to make
government work. I'll hire five thousand new cops, the partner
with low community groups and keep our family safe, and
we'll get the homeless off the streets and into the
help they desperately need. There are a lot of jobs
(08:10):
I can't do, but I'm ready to be your mayor
on day one.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Okay, but you know I'll hire five dozen new cops.
He's the guy that just when he was governor, he
got rid of cops. He defunded cops, he cut down
on the cops. He closed the prisons and let the
prisoners out. He passed he passed that no bail, no jail,
let all the criminals loose. He took away qualified immunity
from the cops, he took away overtime, and he was
just horrible with cops. So that's the ad. You know,
(08:39):
they keep saying, if mom Donnie wins, people are gonna
leave New York. People are gonna move out. This is
the big thing if Donnie wins, you won't believe how
many people leave and move well. Cuomo holds the record
for causing more people to leave and move out of
New York while he was governor, especially the pandemic the
way he bungled it up. More people fled New York
under Cuomo than any other any other petition. In fact,
(09:01):
so many people moved out of New York millions that
we lost four congressional seats under his watch. Because so
many we lost so much population, we lost four congressional seats.
There was a period of a year and a half
where you could not get a moving van under Cuoma.
There were so many people leaving, there was a shortage
of moving vans, and there was like a year wait
(09:23):
to get one. Curtis has been running ads. Here's a
Curtis Leeway adds.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
You can hear a woman screaming rapes in broad daylight,
attacks on the subway.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Why Cormon, We're gonna aid the cash bail system once
and for.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
All worst sov On Mo'm done. He wants to go
even further with them in charge. You are not safe.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
We deserve better. I'm Curtish Slim, I'm asking for you,
O for mam.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Together, we'll build back a shafe more affordable lead.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
It's not a bad ad and is a part of
the addy as the beret part of the eddie doesn't
have the bret. A lot of people there's to stop
wearing the braid. Stop worrying about the hat. That's not
a factor. It's not an issue in a camp. It
means absolutely nothing to anybody. Nobody's voting based on a hat.
Also bear in mind, is Jimmy Fayle to point it out.
A guy just got elected president wearing a red hat.
(10:16):
You can do it now. This race will come down
to a couple of things. Biggest thing will be the
debate October sixteenth. That could turn the race around. Cuomo
could get wiped out there. He's a bad debater. He
looks awful in debates. Mam Donnie's good. Curtis is great.
They could wipe out Cuomo in the debate. But the
debate could be a turning point in the race. But
here's the main factor. This race will be about turnout.
(10:39):
If there's big turnout, Mam Donnie probably won't win. If
there is that turnout that we've had the last few years,
you know, twenty percent, twenty two percent turnout. That's how
de Blasio got in. There was just no turnout. The
only people that showed up were the crazy young radicals.
If it's twenty percent turnout, yeah it favors Mam Donnie.
(11:00):
But if we go back to the old days with
eighty percent turnout, that's how we You know, Republicans won
five of the last mayoral races, five of the last eight,
and that's how Giuliani won. All of a sudden, people
are fed up, and there was and the polls didn't
show it happening, but there was all of a sudden,
big turnout, So a big turnout, and Mom, Donnie loses.
Now he's being very cautious now and asking when he's
(11:22):
doing interviews, people are calling these word salads. What Kamala
does is a word salad. And she was so silly
and dumb and stupid and inarticulate that she just gives
a word solid an answer. Mom Donnie is very shrewd
and smart, so it sounds like a word salut. But
he's doing it deliberately. He's very carefully talking a lot
(11:43):
without saying anything. So if you listen to his answers,
you don't know what the hell he's saying.
Speaker 8 (11:47):
I think New Yorkers deserved leadership that is looking to
be thoughtful as opposed to leadership that is just trying
to engage in the discourse of our politics. And I
think that it's part of what I'm trying to bring
to our politics is a reflection of what I see
in New Yorkers as opposed to what I see in
the people who passed for our leaders Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
See, it sounds good, but he's deliberately not saying any
Nobody knows what the helly just said that we don't want.
It's not about being thoughtful, it's about engaging with reflection.
It's a little thoughtful, not too thoughtful, more engagement than thoughtful.
Nobody knows what he means or what he's saying. So well,
we'll get back to the Meryl racing a little while now. Hey,
(12:30):
Cracker Barrel fired the marketing company. You know, I was
talking about this yesterday. These marketing companies are really bad,
some of these marketing companies. There's some good ones, but
there's some really bad ones. And the biggest corporations hire
these marketing companies and there to do the rebrand and
to you know, redesign new love and some of them
(12:51):
are disasters. And the one that Cracker Barrel hired was
a total disaster. It's a company called Profit total disaster.
They came up with the new menu, the new decorps
for the restaurants, the new logo, the new this, the
new that. It was a complete disaster. It was all
so awful. Cracker Barrel lost one hundred and forty million
(13:14):
dollars in value. One hundred and forty million in value. Now,
I don't know what took them so long, but they
finally fired this company. The company's going and this is
also the company put in the DEI hiring, the this,
the that, all of that stuff. Hey, oh, Donald Trump
apparently when he was up here for the Ryder Cup
(13:35):
met with some high ranking not CBS, but the parent company.
Negotiations are taking place for Donald Trump to possibly do
a sixty minutes interview. Now sixty minutes is the most awful,
corrupt show, totally slanted biased, not just the questions the
way they run the interview, but they'll actually doctor up
(13:58):
the video to slant things, to mislead. They'll doctor up
the interviews in the video that got caught doing it
with Kamala Harris. It was so obvious they were trying
to interfere with the election. They doctored up her video
so much that they ended up having to pay a
settlement of about thirty million to Donald Trump. That's how
bad it was. So negotiations are taking place for Trump
(14:20):
to do an interview with sixty minutes. I don't know
why he's even bothering. Nobody watches it anymore. It's not
that big an audience. It doesn't mean much, but Trump
negotiating for certain things. The video or the interview will
have to run absolutely unedited, no edits at all allowed.
He's agreed to Bill Whittaker to do it, and knowing him,
(14:42):
he's very smart, he'll figure out what night he wants
it on. Sixty minutes doesn't have a lot of viewers anymore.
Used to be the number one show in television, used
to get sixty million people. Gets nothing now. But the
only times it gets any ratings if it's on after
a big, huge game. So if it's a really important
football game or The Master or something like that, when
it ends, it goes right to sixteen minutes. So Trump
(15:03):
will pick one of those nights. So, hey, we got
a lot coming up, and we'll take some calls. Next.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Now back to Mark Simone on woor.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Hey, we'll take some calls. Eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten is the number. Let's go to Kathy North, Carolina. Kathy,
how you doing?
Speaker 9 (15:29):
Hey, Mark, it's good to talk to you, it's good
to hear you. I have a random question. I know
you're not a financial guru, but of course your friend
Larry Cudlow is, so maybe he can answer this someday.
All that money that Doge saved billions and billions, where
does that show up?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Like?
Speaker 9 (15:45):
Where is it being pocketed? Is it in the It
doesn't seem to be in the budget. The budget would
have been missing several billion dollars because we didn't have
to pay out to that. So I just I remember
talking about it and hearing about it. But where does
it physically show up?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
It doesn't show up. It's just the actual budget drops.
Spending drops a little. Now. The problem is you got Congress,
and Republicans are just as bad as Democrats. Whenever there's
money they start spending it again. That's the problem. You
can keep cutting the spending, but Democrats and Republicans in
Congress keep bringing it back.
Speaker 9 (16:18):
But you're telling me that if we didn't if we
didn't do dose, then this outrageous budget would be that
many more billion more.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I mean, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
So you are a financial guru.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
No, it's a simple common sense. If you get rid
of seven hundred thousand people, your pay roll is less money. Obviously,
I know, but I know it's North Carolina. But this
is not hard to figure it out. Now, what's going
on down there in North Carolina.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
It's beautiful today. Fall is coming. I'm not my favorite season.
I really love summer, but it's here. It's quite nice.
And we have that big we have a big governor's
race going on. I guess, or no, I guess the
governor is running for the Senate seat. So we're going
to look for that. I'm going to try schuck you
out with that.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Say hello to Barney Fife and OPI and everybody down there, and.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Hey, hey, hey, we love North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
It's a great place. Thanks for calling. Let's go to
Dave in Chicago. Dave, how you.
Speaker 9 (17:17):
Doing good morning, Mark.
Speaker 10 (17:19):
I'm doing very well, Thank you.
Speaker 9 (17:21):
Mark.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I know in the recent passed we were all told
not to use TikTok because it came from China and.
Speaker 10 (17:27):
It stole all of our personal information. My question is
what's the latest.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
Status, because I know President Trump does have a TikTok account.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yeah you can. Well, you know he's got so many phones.
You can have one on a phone that is not
on his phone. But it'll get safer and safer. I
get to wait till it's completely turned over to the
new Board of Directors. So instead of the communist Chinese
having all your data, Larry Ellenson will have it. It'll
be Oracle and some other people running it. But should
be safer. It should be safe. Hey, nowadays all these
(17:59):
apps steal everything. You just don't want to go into
the communist Chinese government. Who knows what they're up to there.
Let's go to Mike and Florida. Mike, how you doing,
Good morning, Mark. That's Mike.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
He's listening to the ads you played from the candidates.
Don't you find it funny that in this day and age,
the ads haven't changed much. It's still I'll be ready
on day one they'll have one eventually with the guy
sitting in the diner. It's like there's a million people
online who have like clever memes and you know, have
unique takes on things, and these politicians still can't get
out of the twentieth century.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yeah, it's a very good point. Now, the reason for
that is there's only a handful of these political consultants,
and they go from campaign to campaign and teach everybody
the same exact ad. You know, if you're a great
consultant and incredible marketing video, you're going to go to
work for all these big corporations. You're not going to
do politics. But that's a good point. Yeah, they all
do this. I'll be ready on day one. So what
(18:53):
everybody's ready on day one? Every Hey, iHeart every major company.
We hire people all the time. One they show up,
they're ready. We've never had anybody who we hired say
I'm not ready. I can't stop, I'll have to come
back another time. I'm just not ready. Everybody is ready
day one. Let's go to Stan in Forest Hills, Stan,
(19:14):
How you're doing, How you doing?
Speaker 7 (19:16):
Happy holidays? I just want to say, you know, I
keep hearing that's socialism which I'm not a.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Communist, but you sound like a communist.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
No, no, I'm not anna sound like one. Do you
ever hear yourself?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
But that's a little bit of a communist, you don't know.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
The point is, we have socialistic programs in this country
that are extremely successful. Well I mean to name them.
They called social security. We pay into it, but it's
for the masses. We have Medicare, we pay that into it.
It's for the masses, and the greatest one is Medicaid, which.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Is in Southern I know that's an old, old cliche
Democratic it's not a cliche. We got to cut you
off there. It's an old democratic cliche talking point. It's
a government program. It's not socialist. I mean, you could
say that's what's socialism, is government handouts. But it's not
a socialist. You can opt in, you can opt out,
you can do whatever the hell you want. You cannot
take it. Let's go to David in New Jersey. David,
(20:10):
how you.
Speaker 10 (20:11):
Doing all right? Good morning? Thank you very much for
taking my call. This is the first time I ever
called I listened to you. You're I think you're great.
Thank you for what you do.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
When a guy butters you up first. It means he's
up to something. All right, go ahead, I like.
Speaker 10 (20:26):
To hear your opinion on this. We know this Mondomie,
he's a he's an anti semi. The Jews in New
York has, from my understanding, has the biggest population outside Israel.
We know Como's a thief and a bum. What's wrong
with these Jews not voting against this guy?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
And they aren't putting your Most of the Jewish community
is totally against him, working hard against him. And let
me just defend and Cuomo. I don't think that he's
a thief, the worst governor ever. Yes, a complete incompetent,
a disgrace. Yes, all his sexual Yes, a thief. No,
we don't know if I'm actually stealing money.
Speaker 10 (21:06):
But why aren't they putting your vote towards Sleeva?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I do A lot of them are? A lot of
them are.
Speaker 10 (21:13):
So Slew should be running away with this instead of.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Well, we love the Jewish community, but it's a tiny,
tiny part of the electorate, it's not a big part
of it's not a big percentage of the votes. But
they are men much of the Jewish community back in Sliva.
Speaker 10 (21:26):
And well, let's hope so Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
No, it's just unfortunately it's not a big enough part
of the electorate. Again, it's a turnout race. If you
get huge turnout, Montdomie loses. If you get what we've
been getting for like Deblasio or Eric Adams, where it's
eighteen percent turnout twenty, that's where you have a problem. Hey,
when we come back, Liz Peak will be with us next.
The great columnist. Let's see what she thinks about all
(21:50):
of this. We'll get to that next on seven to
ten w R.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
One An Instant Dose of Honesty any Time, the Mark
Someone Podcast. He's on the Iart Radio app and at
seven ten w o R dot com Slash Podcast seven ten.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
W o rs Mark Simone. Well, the great columnist Liz Peak,
and of course you see her all over television. You
can see her columns foxnews dot com. Also make sure
you go to her website, a great news site, lizpeak
dot com, lizpeak dot com, great stuff every day. Up there,
Liz Peak.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
How you doing, I'm terrific.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 10 (22:28):
Mark.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Well, you know I'm watching Schumer and the Keem Jeffries
all over television. Every Hey's gonna die. We're gonna die.
This is gonna die. And then they all left for
the weekend. They're on vacation. Now, how does this work?
Speaker 6 (22:41):
I guess we're not going to die right away?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Yeah. So are these two just tone deaf Jeffries and Schumer?
Are they just out of touch?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (22:52):
They're scared to death. Mark, I think the progressive left
has a stranglehold on the Democratic Party right now. And honestly,
I think you can fairly say that if AOC Alexandrio
Cacio Cortez, the progressive darling from New York State, was
not threatening to primary Chuck Schumer when he's up for
(23:12):
reelection in twenty eight we would not be having a
government shutdown. When he signed on and agreed to go
along with the Republican funding bill in March, he got
absolutely sporched by the progressive left. They hated him for
going along. They think the only thing the Democrats should
be doing is resisting everything Republicans and Donald Trump are
(23:33):
trying to do. And so he learned his lesson. I mean,
when you look at poland guess what Schumer might be
beaten by AOC. It's completely possible. So you know, it's
like Andrew Cuomo running against mom Donni in New York
City for the mayor's race. I mean, basically, Cuomo a
sort of long time I guess moderate Democrat, although I
(23:56):
think he's a pretty far left Democrat. He is nothing
compared to Mamdani. That's where the energy is, that's where
the excitement is in the Democratic Party. So I mean, honestly,
you have this ridiculous situation where the entire country is
in the grip of AOC who, in my view, is
an incredibly know nothing Democrat representative who has tremendous social
(24:19):
media presence. And that's about it.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
And how did we get to this point? Is it
because the universities became in doctrination centers over the last
few decades and we've raised generations of far left kookie
socialist young Is that how this is happening.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
Without a doubt, without a doubt, that is part of it.
I mean, I think in terms of what ails the
Democratic Party, well, first of all, let's look at their record.
Show me a Democrat run state in the United States
that is prospering. The answer is, you can't because their
policies don't work. Mamdani has risen to fame by talking
(24:58):
about affordability. He's completely right that the two most expensive
states to live in are New York and California. Why
would that be, I wonder Well, let's talk about high
taxes and tons of regulation that make it almost impossible
to operate a small business, and all the kinds of
labor laws that they put in effect that jack up
(25:20):
the price of everything from uber drivers to delivery drivers,
delivery people for food and stuff. All that may seem
like a good thing, but the reality is it means
it's incredibly expensive to live in these states. So weirdly,
it's Democrat policies that have pushed the emergence of Democratic
(25:41):
socialists who pretend they're going to solve those affordability issues
by being even farther to the left, having even more
regulation and more taxes, and doing everything that Democrats have
been doing for decades, but on steroids. I mean, you
cannot come up with a worse argument for election than that,
and yet it is resonating.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Yeah, if you think about it, the Democrats have run
every inch in New York legislature, albanys, governor, mayor city
council for about twelve years. So why would if there's
such a crisis. Why wouldn't you just switch parties? That's
the obvious thing to do.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
Yeah, Mark, you know you're thinking straight.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
The problem is all these young people are not and
part of it is what you call indoctrination. And that's
exactly the right word for it. You know, during the
Vietnam era, if you think back that long, what how
did you escape the draft? All the lefty hippies who
didn't approve of the warren Vietnam could avoid the draft
(26:40):
by becoming teachers and professors.
Speaker 10 (26:43):
So they did.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
And guess what here we are all these years later.
These guys have organized and run the departments of America's
colleges now for forty plus years. They hire people who
think the way they do. Polling shows early the faculty
at Harvard, for example, doesn't even want to have any
kind of diversity of opinion in Harvard's faculty. They don't
(27:08):
approve of that. So you have a very solid generation
now that is incredibly left wing and by the way,
incredibly ignorant because they don't know the history of the
Soviet Union. They don't know the history of Venezuela and
how or Cuba or any of these countries that are
so poor and so destitute in the case of Soviet Union,
(27:28):
that actually collapsed under the weight of the kinds of
policies that they are now embracing. Had they been ever
taught that, or taught about the virtues of capitalism and
how capitalist free countries do well and create wealth for
their people, maybe they wouldn't be so eager to flock
to a guy that is touting the same failed policies
(27:51):
that really have caused millions to live in poverty.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a strange election here in New York.
You got one candidate is the absolute worst of the
new generation Democrat and the other candidate's the worst of
the old generation Demosray, Yeah, isn't.
Speaker 9 (28:06):
That the truth?
Speaker 6 (28:06):
That's a really good point. It's oh, it's like and
and that's you know, that's obviously anyway, that's a local issue.
We have two terrible candidates running. Uh, and so it's
it's like, you know, the worst of the choice.
Speaker 10 (28:19):
You can make.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
But but I think generally nationally, when you look at Schumern,
Schumer in particular should be embarrassed. I mean, how many
times has he paraded before the cameras well every Sunday
night he used to, if you recall, because nobody else bothered. Uh,
And he would talk about how terrible government shutdowns are,
how they really hurt the country. And here they are
(28:41):
insisting on one for what end? To what end they
want to? I mean, they don't want to give the
Senate and it's just a few weeks to get their
spending bill in order. They don't want to do that.
So again, this is this is play acting. It's performative politics,
which is what Democrats have really kind of, you know,
(29:03):
become very good at or at least sort of that's
all they do. Now it's performingtive politics with no particular purpose,
and I think it's a tragedy honestly.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Yeah. Well, great stuff, Liz Peak. Hey, everybody check out
her website lizpeak dot com. You got great stories there
every day. It's a great news site, lizpeak dot com.
Be a subscriber to it and of course reader columns.
Watch her all over television and great stuff, Liz Peak.
Thanks for being with.
Speaker 10 (29:32):
Us, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
All right, take care, let me just see here the
did he trial? Well, no, no word, it's going to
be a little while. The hearing is underway. Did he
will be sentenced at some point, will bring it to
you when it happens. The judge says trial evidence did
establish that they were transported for the purpose of engaging
(29:55):
in a commercial sex act. That doesn't sound good prosecute
and wants eleven years. Did he wants time served? That's
fourteen months. Criminal lawyers say it'll be somewhere in the
middle of five six years. Well, we'll see, it'll happen
later this morning and we'll get to that coming up
on seven ten WR.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Mark Simone on seven tenor.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Hey, we got a stop for the news. We'll got
updated on everything, find out all the latest, and then
we got another hour to go with lots to get to.
We'll get to the mayoral race again and we'll get to, Hey,
the Trump sombrero stuff. We'll explain how that came about
and more right after the news on seven ten WR
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