November 17, 2025 • 32 mins
Democrats continue to highlight alleged connections between President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, raising questions about the nature and extent of their relationship. Meanwhile, Zohran Mamdani met with NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch to discuss the potential of her staying on as his administration begins in January 2026. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews journalist Liz Peek. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is expected to meet with President Trump soon to discuss the future of NYC - a conversation that could help ease tensions between them. There is speculation about whether Governor Kathy Hochul will lose a reelection bid due to pressure from Mamdani's progressive policies.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fly from Midtown Manhattan. Here comes the Mark Simone Show
on seven R.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
It's cold out there. We'll get to Johnny Carson coming up.
We'll get to Epstein, We'll get to Bill Ackman, We'll
get to we'll give you all the latest on Mom Donnie,
everything you need to know, where there is to know
right now. We'll get to Hunter Biden. We'll get to
affordability and a whole lot more. Lots to talk about today,
A freezing cold. This is the first well we had
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one last week, but this is another one of those
winter days today. So I come into our beautiful, magnificent
iHeart headquarters, which is floor after floor after floor after
floor of studio's office. But on our sixth floor here,
the first thing I see is that Christmas tree. Why
is there a Christmas tree? It's not even Thanksgiving yet.
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It's not just here. They're all over the place, these
Christmas trees. It's starting earlier and earlier and earlier, and
it's gotta stop. It's got to stop. The I told
you last week about that condominium place in Florida where
they made residents take down the Christmas decorations, told them
they're not allowed to put them up till after Thanksgiving.
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Their rule is one holiday at a time, and it
makes sense. So President Trump, let me just explain this
Epstein stuff. This has been going on for quite a
while now. Donald Trump has nothing to do with Epstein.
There's no Epstein connection with Donald Trump. There's nothing there.
But he has been brilliantly playing the Democrats, letting them
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build it up and build it up. If you're watching
the Sunday shows, it was all about Trump Epstein, Trump Epstein.
He's letting this build and build and build and build.
So it'll end up when they're all released, all these files,
it'll be another example of Democrats totally misleading the public,
totally conning them about something. Now, the Epstein situation is
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pretty simple. He made himself a lot of money, showed
up in Florida Palm Beach, and being a zillionaire, suddenly
started hanging out at mar A Lago and there he
was all over mar A Lago. This is back in
the good old and they were talking twenty something years ago,
maybe twenty five years ago. And anytime anybody with a
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lot of money starts spending it at mar A Lago
and throwing parties there, or back when Trump owned the plaza,
if somebody spent a fortune throwing an incredible gallot in
the ballroom, Trump would always show up. And you'll notice
even now if you follow all this stuff on Instagram,
when there's a big, big wedding or an event at
Mar A Lago where they rent the ballroom, Trump will
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show up. He'll show up and wander through the crowd
taill ever. So that's how he met Epstein, That's how
I got to know him. Epstein had lots of women
and fun and celebrities, so Trump started hanging out with
him whenever he was at Mar A Lago or there'd
be a party in there. It was just at parties,
nothing else. A couple of times Epstein came up to
Trump's office showing off to some women that he could
him up there. Not underage, not under age, perfectly appropriate,
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age appropriate women. And that was the relationship. Well, then
a couple of things happened at mar Alago. Epstein started
hiring some people away from Mar Alago mar A Lago's
staff members, so Trump told him to cut it out,
and he didn't. Also, at one point, Epstein went after
I think she was fifteen, a girl that worked in
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the locker room. It was actually the daughter of a member.
It got back to Trump, and Trump immediately banned Epstein
from mar Alago. This is twenty something years ago banned him.
It's actually twenty four, twenty one years ago. Banned him
from mar Alago forever. I never spoke to him again,
cut off all ties with the guy. Now, as far
as these young young girls, that was Epstein's preference, that's
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what Epstein liked, these young young girls. So it was him.
There's rumor that Prince Andrew also liked that and got involved.
But all these people hanging around with Epstein, it wasn't
about young girls for them. They were not pedophiles. That
was Epstein. But if you went to it. I was
at a few Epstein things. If you went to Epstein's parties,
there were women all over the place, but all ages,
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all ages, not young girls. He had a lot of
his young girls working for him as Massuse's and if
you go to the party, they'd be checking the coats
and that kind of stuff. But Trump has no worries
at all about Epstein. It's going to be nothing in
those files that's going to bother Trump, and he knows that,
so that's why he's been stringing Democrats along. He's now
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last night called for Republican release all the files, and
at some point you'll see it all. All the files
will come out.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
The problem is, this is the only problem Trump might have.
There might be some big, big donors of his or
friends of his that are in the files, but if
it's in the files, it's not going to be young girls.
It's going to be them at these parties, maybe cheating
on their wife, that sort of stuff. That's like a
Bill Gates kind of situation. One has already come out.
Larry Summers, Treasury Secretary to Bill Clinton, President of Harvard,
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very prestigious guy, a very married guy. But he was
carrying on with women, not young girls, older women. And
the emails have already emerged from the Epstein estate. They
found the emails where Larry Summers is and I don't
know why you would put this in writing, but these
guys put it in writing. He's emailing back and forth
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about this woman that woman, and she won't see him anymore,
and they're talking about they're talking about his dating life,
and he's turning to Epstein for advice on how to
get this woman back. This is a married guy, so
that kind of stuff will come out. That's the worst
of it. But nobody Trump's has no Epstein problem at all.
Once it's all released, you'll see that one of the
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people at Epstein hired away from Marlago was this infamous woman,
Virginia Giuffrey, who worked at mar Alago in the Spa.
It was Gallaine Maxwell that recruited her way into Epstein world.
She eventually killed her. She committed suicide not that long ago.
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But she did a million interviews with law enforcement, US
Attorney FBI, all that sort of stuff, and she wrote
a book and in all the interviews and in the books,
she made it clear nothing ever happened with Donald Trump.
In fact, she said he was a very nice man
and always a total gentleman with her. And remember she
had worked for him too. So the US Attorney here
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in New York, good guy Jay Clayton, he's been told
to oversee an investigation and to look into Democrats because
a lot of Democrats are going to have a problem.
Now you know who was really tangled up with Epstein
or the banks. Nothing to do with sex, but JP Morgan,
Chase and these other banks were really really close with Epstein,
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working hard with him. The reason they did that Epstein
had billions of dollars that he was working with and
he had to put it somewhere, so they wanted it
in their bank because they can make a fortune having
his bills in their banks. So JP Morgan chasing. The
other banks were very nice to Epstein, and these are
the same banks that d banked Donald Trump threw him out,
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refused to take his business. And if you're a major corporation,
you can't exist without banks. You have to have banks
for everything. So that was just disgusting the way they
d banked. It wasn't just Trump, other conservative companies. So
they deserve everything they're getting with this Epstein stuff. Now,
who else will have a problem A lot of celebrities.
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George Stephanopolis will have a big problem with George Sloppadopolis,
Katie Couric. These are some of the celebrities that were
at Epstein's house having dinner with them. You know, when
you see the ABC Sunday Morning Show this week make
a big deal out of Epstein, they failed to mention
George Stepanopolos at Epstein's house having dinner with him. Now,
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when asked about it, Stephanopoulos gives you this ridiculous explanation.
I didn't know who he was. I had no idea
who he was. I had no idea who he was.
I should have done my due diligence. Is Stephanopoulois's quote, Well,
the guy's a news broadcaster, host of a news show,
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supposedly a journalist and a newsman. They didn't know Jeffrey
Epstein was. Now, this is after Epstein was convicted of
being a pedophile. This was trafficking the miners prostitution. Epstein
was already convicted and had gone to prison for it.
George Stephanoppois, I had no idea he was. I should
have looked into it. Well, I knew who he was.
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You probably knew who he was. You probably read about it,
the guy in Florida that got convicted. Of course, you
read about this guy's a professional newsman on a network,
claiming you didn't know about it. There is this clip
running around the internet right now of Katie Couric. She's
on with what's the Bravo guy's name, Andy Andy Cohen.
She's on the Bravo show, and good for Andy Cohne
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He said, the hell were you doing at Jeffrey Epstein's
house having dinner with him? So she said, well, I
didn't know who he was. I probably shouldn't. Remember she
was the anchor of the CBS Evening News, that's one
of the top news jobs in the world. And she
didn't know who Jeffrey Epstein was. This is after he
was in prison, this is after he'd been convicted, after
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he went to jail. I didn't know who he was.
I guess I should have invested. First of all, who
goes to anybody's house and you don't know who they are?
Have you ever been to a house I'd had dinner
with somebody and when you're leaving, who is it? I
don't know. I have no idea who the guy is. Well,
I just say, you having dinner in his house? Yeah,
I don't.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Know who he is.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Even if somehow you were that stupid, that ignorant that
you didn't know who he was after spending the evening
at his house, wouldn't you then have some idea of
who he was? So, Katie Kirk, I didn't I should
have checked. Now, she uses the excuse that Prince Andrew
was going to be at the dinner and that Megan
Markle and Prince Harry were going to become a big,
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big story was big Royal waves. She said, I felt
I should get to know Prince Andrew. He could help
me get the exclusive. It doesn't work that way. You
just you don't need to go to somebody's house and
you can start working the story without that. So a
lot of people like Stephanopoulos, Katie Kirk are going to
have a big, big Epstein problem. You know, there's a
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woman in Congress, Stacey Plasket. She's a Democrat. Now there's
a lot of files being released from the Epstein estate,
and this Epstein would text like crazy with people. But
apparently this Democrat congresswoman is texting back and forth with Epstein.
And it's during the hearings. You remember they had hearings
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on Trump. Was it Michael Cohen or something? It was
Michael Cohen. There were these hearings going on and they're
asking questions, you know, they take turns each congress person
on the committee. Well, they're about to come to the
Stacey Plasket in the during the hearings, she's texting Epstein,
who's watching it live on TV. What should I ask him?
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You've been watching the testimony. What did they leave out?
What should I? And Epstein is texting her questions to
ask and at one point the witness is talking and
he mentions Rona. So this dumb congresswoman texts Epstein is
what's Rona? Is that an acronym for something? And Epstein
text back, No, that's Rona, his assistant, his chief of staff,
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and he said, Rona is the keeper of the secrets.
Dig into Rona. This is this congress woman during the hearings,
contexting with Epstein. So these democrats were very, very very
close to Epstein. Rona, by the way, is Rona graft.
Who's the nicest woman, the most decent, honest. There was
nothing bad there, So I don't know what Epstein was
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talking about. And the other thing, if you start reading
through the emails, Epstein had nothing to do with Trump
after two thousand and four, nothing, no connect for twenty years.
He didn't know Trump at all, but a lot of
these people think he still did. So you see these
very very powerful, big people are texting and emailing Epstein
right up until the end during the first Trump term.
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I'm going to Washington to meet with the present What
should I say, or a meeting with this official in
the White House, and Epstein is texting back as if
he's connected to Trump, which he wasn't at that point,
giving advice, well he likes this, he doesn't like this,
or don't see Jared, make sure you see this person.
Epstein didn't know anything. He was just conning these people
like crazy. Now here's another important point to remember. The
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Biden administration had these Epstein files for four years. The
Biden administration looked through, carefully inspected everything in the Epstein
files for four years. They couldn't find anything that would
hurt Trump. They were looking for it because they wanted
to hurt Trump. They wanted to arrest him, prosecute him,
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do whatever they could to stop him. They looked through
the files. They couldn't find anything in there that would help.
That's why you never heard about the Epstein files for
the whole four years of Biden. There was nothing in
there that hurt Trump. And this is the way this
all works. Look at these democrats yelling and screaming, demanding
we must see the Epstein files. Well, how come you
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didn't say word for four years? How come you didn't
want to see him in twenty twenty four. Why didn't
you want to see him in twenty twenty three? How
come in twenty twenty two you never asked to see him?
Twenty twenty one, you never mentioned it. It's the same
thing with the media. You know, you hear about it
is the affordability crisis. Affordability crisis. Inflation under Biden hit
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nine percent, It averaged five percent, but it hit nine percent.
None of these people, the same Democrats, the same media,
never mentioned affordability. It never came up pro check for
four years, never mentioned it at nine percent. Now it's
two point five percent. That's all they can talk about,
the affordability crisis, two point five percent. Trump was at
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about Epstein last night.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
They're using Jeffrey Epstein as a deflection from the tremendous
success that we're having as a party.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yeah, yeah, Actually, the Epstein's stuff, you could also call
it operation change the subject. That's what it's all about.
It sounds good, it sounds but again Trump has been
setting them up and brilliantly. Hey, President Trump said he
will meet with Mom Donnie. Mom Donnie said he will
meet with Trump. Looks like the meeting will take place
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in Washington, d C. We'll get into it in detail
a little later. Also, Mom Donnie has talked with Jessica
Tish again. They spoke over the weekend. Hopefully she'll stay.
The fire commissioner's great guy, Robert Tucker. He's already quit
and left, but he's got a huge business he can
go back to, and I don't think he wants anything
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to do with Mom Donnie. Jessica Tish will see if
she stays. Well, there's a lot of Mom Donnie stuff.
We'll get into it a little later. Lots to talk about,
and we'll take some call next. Eight hundred three two
one zero seven ten is the number eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
If you're listening to Mark on the iHeartRadio app, save
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Speaker 3 (15:19):
No, there's more of that Christmas stuff. Well, you got
to be honest. We have to admit next week at Thanksgiving.
Next week is Thanksgiving. Anyway, let's take some calls. Let's
go to uh D in Miami. D How you.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Doing, Hello, Yes, good morning, sure, Yes, I have a
question I'd like to ask you, sir, Go ahead, what
do you think will happen if Africa was cut off
is uranium export to the United States in the western world.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Well, that could affect my iPhone battery. That would be
something would be terrible.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
That's what I think. I think the African county A
you're gonna start, you know, to do because if this
man is going to continue in this part, SUSI.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Are we talking about Trump?
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Of course, sir.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Oh well, but I also remember also for a minute,
please no, I also remember at the same time, it
would be the end of the African economy since that's
what they do for a living is sell us uranium,
and without that they'd go broke pretty fast. So let's
go to Bob and new Erschelle, Bob, how you doing.
(16:25):
Wait a minute, Bobby are there? Nope, we lost them.
Let's uh, we got them. Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
I know you're a big Blue Bloods fan. My wife
got me watching and I got a bit. It's a
good show, and I understand that you have to suspend
reality to a certain degree for these kind of shows.
But what would you in your opinion, would you say
a more unrealistic one of the Reagans being involved in
the biggest case of the city every week, or Danny
Reagan have nothing but smoking hot partners and his wife
not having a problem with it.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Well, these are very good questions. I love Blue Bloods.
I still watch it and reruns. Every Wednesday is a
blue Blood marathon. I'd love Blue Bloods. It's the most
unrealistic cop show ever. First of all, Len carry You
plays Tom Selick's father. These two guys are the same age.
There's like a one year age between these two guys.
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Makes no sense at all. There's all kinds of technical things,
like the police commissioner does not wear a uniform, which
Tom Sellick does at times in the show. Also, Danny
Reagan every week is involved in a massive gunfire, massive
shootout every week. I've asked three commissioners, has there ever
been a cop that's in a shootout every week? And
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they all said if there was, I'd pull him off
the street immediately. We'd never be able to do that. Also, well,
we could go on and on. It's very unrealistic, but
despite that, it's a great show. You know, Like, if
you want to go back and watch NYPD Blue n
WHYPD Blue is probably the most realistic cop show. And
I started watching Boston Blue the spinoff with Danny Reagan.
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I gotta admit it. It's pretty good. They it's it's very,
very different from Blue Blood. They've kept a couple of
factors there, a couple of little things, but it's very
different and it's a great show. Let's go to Mike
and Florida. Mike, how you doing.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
Good morning, Mark, Yes, Mike, I was laughing when you
were talking about that Florida h O Way that was
putting up the that's cracked down on the Christmas decorations.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I live in one of these so called active fifty
five communities and it's neither over just over fifty five
or active unless you consider majong a contact sport. But
they can't wait and put up those stinking Christmas decorations.
The irony is they're all asleep by six o'clock that
they don't even get to see the lights lit up.
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And they're the most decrepit looking things that they've been
in the back of their garage. You know that they
lived in Michigan and they dragged down here and I'm
gonna put you know in their follow liying like there's
little kids around and it's.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
It's so pathetic. I'm not against Christmas.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
It's great, but it's the forced joy is like ludicrous.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
You can't wait to put them up.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
A lot of pathetic things about Florida. The most pathetic
is when you people in Florida try to celebrate Christmas.
It doesn't look right. Palm trees and Christmas don't go together.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
It's eighty five degrees and they're allaw lie, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
It doesn't work, all right, Mike, thanks for calling. You know,
it's better to live in one of these condo communities
or something like that, because, uh, you know, everything's taken
care of. You've got your own house, you got to
find your own plumber, you got to find your own
people to fix it. It's so much easier in a condo,
one of those complexes, one of those communities. But then
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you got the board. You know, it's always little old
ladies with nothing to do who go on this board
and then run around on patrol, enforcing every little rule.
Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave, how you doing,
good morning, Mark.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
I'm doing very well, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Mark.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
I'm just beginning to read Love Johnny Carson by Mark Malcolm.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Oh, it's the definitive book on Johnny Carson. It's the
greatest book ever in Johnny Carson just came out. We'll
have the author on in the next hour.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Go ahead, Thank you.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
I noticed you've been quoted numerous times in the book.
I flipped through it quickly. But I have a question,
if I may. It says you had said that the
Midwest is very important to the Tonight Show and that's
what Johnny believes. Could you please explain? And lastly, Mark,
my second question is did Johnny's guest hosts follow that policy?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Well?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
A couple of things about the Midwest. One a great analyst,
show business analyst showed that all the great talk show
hosts were from the Midwest, Johnny Carson, David Letterman, all
these sorts. You could go down a whole list. But
the guests, we're all from New York. All the great
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comedians are from Brooklyn or you know, New Jersey, or
they were all local New York. But in their own
city they couldn't be the host. It was always the
Midwesterner that had to be the host of the show.
And Johnny Carson. One of the valuable lessons he taught people.
He told me about this. He always taught this lesson.
The battle is won in the central time zone. It's
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a very important rule. Don't try to appeal to like
elite New York or La or Beverly Hills. Always try
to appeal to the middle. And hey, we don't have
much time, but let's go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent,
how you doing?
Speaker 5 (21:30):
I'm doing good Mark, Good morning matter Mark. I hope
us Jessicatish does not take the job with Zora Mundani
finish out her term. She's doing a great job. She
does have a business to go back to. And let
Zora Mandani's diz that were on his political posts. He
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just got his first name, zorn Well, let the letter
Z become the new Scholart letter. Let him hang by
his own petard. And another thing, Kathy Hkle is thinking
about flip flopping on the corporate taxes so Mandamie could
have his free daycare. Don't do it, stupid, Hoko. You
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could attract Jersey business to New York. They're paying eleven
point nine, we're charging seven point nine. If she had
any sense of any brains in her head, she could
use that as a selling point to draw the corporate
head quality brains.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
It's backbones. She has no backbones. She's afraid of getting primary.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Well, that's what Michael Goodwin's article talked about. She doesn't
have any backbone. But please, mistache, do not take the job.
Let it go to Let let disease for Zoran become
the new Scarlar letter. You like Trump business, when you
plan you come back and then you could wipe the
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floor with him.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
All right, Vincent, great call, Hey, when we come back.
Michael Goodman's out here this week, but we'll talk to
the brilliant calumnist Liz Peak. We'll talk about Mom, Donnie
and Hoaklan and all that next on seven to ten war.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
He's more Mark. He's a Mark Simone show on SEVENTENR.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Well, Liz peak brilliant column lists, you know, besides her column,
besides all the TV. You can also check out her website.
It's one of the best news sites with all sorts
of great stories every day. Lizpeak dot com lizpeak dot com,
check it out. Liz Peak.
Speaker 9 (23:33):
How you doing, good morning, I'm terrific. Thank you.
Speaker 10 (23:37):
How about you?
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I'm good. Let's see President Trump says he will meet
with Mom Donnie. Mom Donnie says he'll go to Washington
meet with him. How do you think that would go?
Speaker 9 (23:48):
Look, I think that's actually a good idea on both
of their parts. To have New York City basically be
orphaned or estranged from the mothership, the federal mothership doesn't
really help anybody, right. I can't imagine that Mom Donnie
and Donald Trump will have much in common or much
common ground, let's put it that way.
Speaker 10 (24:10):
But I think it's a good idea.
Speaker 9 (24:12):
And look, it's one of the first things that this
radical thirty four year old anti Semite has said. That
makes them sound like a slightly normal person. So that's
very welcome.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Right, Yeah, they do have something in common. They're both
were these outsiders who came in and just crushed these
political dynasties and beat them. Do you think you know
Trump could be good one on one sometimes?
Speaker 10 (24:38):
Yes he can, Yes he can.
Speaker 9 (24:40):
But Mark, yes, I've seen this idea before that they
have in common, that they're outsiders. Let's remember that Donald
Trump had decades of actual work experience, actually built things,
created wealth, and in the process, let's face it, worked
with a lot of city governments and municipas and state
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governments in trying to get various projects underway, get them completed,
et cetera. Mom Donnie has zero experience of any value whatsoever.
All he has is a big smile and you know,
a resume as a community activist.
Speaker 10 (25:17):
I don't put them in the same boat at all.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Yeah, you know, no, it sounds perfect. You know, there's
a lot of other mom Donnie's out there getting ready
to go. And there's a couple of other cities where
they got a mom Donnie type, somebody with no work experience,
lives in their parents' basement running and Bill Mahra so
a Friday night, is warning the Democrats stop with this stuff.
But where the elder Democrats, the party elders, where are
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they on this.
Speaker 10 (25:43):
It's It's astounding, isn't it. You know.
Speaker 9 (25:46):
We had Julian Epstein on the Democrats strategists.
Speaker 10 (25:50):
This morning on Mornings with Maria and.
Speaker 9 (25:53):
As he said, Trump occupies the middle. Now that's what
that's what's making Democrats crazy. That is why they have
gone so far to the left. And I've said this
for months. I mean, if Trump is in the middle
on taxes, regulation, energy policy, immigration, gender issues, et cetera.
Speaker 10 (26:14):
Where does that leave the Democrats.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
It either leaves them basically working with Trump, which they
refuse to do because they've conjured up such hatred of
this president that they cannot be seen as collaborators, if
you will, or it drives some extreme left policies, which again,
and that's just what Epstein said too. It may work
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in New York, it may work in Seattle or San Francisco.
They're not going to work in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa, these
states where frankly, house seats are up for grabs in
purple districts. I mean, are they really and in those
parts of the country, are they going to want to
elect a socialist?
Speaker 10 (26:55):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Yeah. Even Kathy Hokel, she's said, you'd assume she's the
middle of the road type, and she's the governor that's
bigger than the mayor. How does she get so intimidated
by this Ma'm donnie that she seems to want to
go along with his nonsense.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
It's it's just it's not just Kathy Hokeel. It's every
New York Democrat right now is being primaried by someone
on the left, and that includes Kathy Hochel. Her lieutenant
Governor Antonio Delgado, who no one's ever heard of, may
end up giving her a real fight because Mam Donnie
(27:33):
likes him. They've you know, they've been campaigning together, and
he's far left like Mam Donnie. Kathy Hochel is in
a terrible position because idiotically she gave von Donnie her endorsement,
so she basically alienated all the moderate Democrats in her party.
And now if she basically says, well, I endorsed him,
(27:53):
but I'm not going to really go along with any
of his program, what does that make her out to be?
Speaker 10 (27:58):
What makes her out to be.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
A completely insincere political animal, which.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
Is exactly what she is. So she will blow with
the wind.
Speaker 9 (28:07):
She is a terrible governor, and frankly, I think Elie
Sophonic has a very good chance of beating her if
she's the candidate. I'm not sure she will be the candidate,
but we'll see.
Speaker 10 (28:18):
I mean, she doesn't have.
Speaker 9 (28:21):
A backbone mark and right now you need some senior
Democrats with backbones who are moderates, who can call out
a socialist for being bad for the country. Frankly, like
Bill Maher's doing.
Speaker 8 (28:33):
I mean, who would have funk it.
Speaker 9 (28:34):
He's the guy that's saying to a pretty big audience,
socialism doesn't work. This is what he just said over
the weekend.
Speaker 10 (28:41):
I guess or Friday.
Speaker 9 (28:42):
Socialism doesn't work. It has failed every place that's been tried.
Look at Venezuela, formerly one of the richest countries on Earth,
now one of the poorest in South America. You know,
just common sense, folks, and history things that apparently are
not in great supply on the left.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Right now, hey, let's pick if you're watching the Sunday shows.
Oh you hear about? Is this affordability crisis? What an
affordability crisis? How come during Biden when inflation was nine percent,
never heard a word about this affordability crisis? Why now?
Speaker 10 (29:15):
Yeah, it's rich, isn't it.
Speaker 9 (29:17):
I think Democrats fastened on this only after Mom Donnie
did so kudos to him for giving them.
Speaker 10 (29:23):
Sort of a lifeline here.
Speaker 9 (29:26):
And yeah, things are expensive, mainly because they went up.
Eighty seven percent of the increase in prices over the
last five years came under Joe Biden. And yet to
your point, that was mostly ignored by the mainstream media.
Speaker 10 (29:39):
But it is pretty rich.
Speaker 9 (29:40):
Because if you look at the top ten cities in
terms of cost of living, they are all run and
have been run for decades by Democrats. Democrats brand mark
is high cost, high taxes, high regulatory burdens, high union
labor costs, you name it. They are imposing enormously high
(30:02):
costs on the general public and have for a decade
or more. And then you add on to this layer
of green energy, which is also expensive, and you know,
you have a recipe for extremely inflated costs of living
and to try and tag that on Republicans where we
are talking lower taxes, lower regulation, fewer impediments to building,
(30:27):
which by the way, means better building costs because time
is money and construction. You know, it is just astounding
that they have been able to hijack this issue.
Speaker 10 (30:38):
We can't let that stand.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Very good point. Yeah, the affordability crisis seems to only
be taking place in blue cities and states. So yeah, well, yes,
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Thank you, Mark for having me always just a pleasure.
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Take care, Henry. Thanks. Coming up the next hour, we'll
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
It's cold out there. We'll get to Johnny Carson coming up.
We'll get to Epstein, We'll get to Bill Ackman, We'll
get to we'll give you all the latest on Mom Donnie,
everything you need to know, where there is to know
right now. We'll get to Hunter Biden. We'll get to
affordability and a whole lot more. Lots to talk about today,
A freezing cold. This is the first well we had
(00:31):
one last week, but this is another one of those
winter days today. So I come into our beautiful, magnificent
iHeart headquarters, which is floor after floor after floor after
floor of studio's office. But on our sixth floor here,
the first thing I see is that Christmas tree. Why
is there a Christmas tree? It's not even Thanksgiving yet.
(00:53):
It's not just here. They're all over the place, these
Christmas trees. It's starting earlier and earlier and earlier, and
it's gotta stop. It's got to stop. The I told
you last week about that condominium place in Florida where
they made residents take down the Christmas decorations, told them
they're not allowed to put them up till after Thanksgiving.
(01:13):
Their rule is one holiday at a time, and it
makes sense. So President Trump, let me just explain this
Epstein stuff. This has been going on for quite a
while now. Donald Trump has nothing to do with Epstein.
There's no Epstein connection with Donald Trump. There's nothing there.
But he has been brilliantly playing the Democrats, letting them
(01:37):
build it up and build it up. If you're watching
the Sunday shows, it was all about Trump Epstein, Trump Epstein.
He's letting this build and build and build and build.
So it'll end up when they're all released, all these files,
it'll be another example of Democrats totally misleading the public,
totally conning them about something. Now, the Epstein situation is
(01:58):
pretty simple. He made himself a lot of money, showed
up in Florida Palm Beach, and being a zillionaire, suddenly
started hanging out at mar A Lago and there he
was all over mar A Lago. This is back in
the good old and they were talking twenty something years ago,
maybe twenty five years ago. And anytime anybody with a
(02:19):
lot of money starts spending it at mar A Lago
and throwing parties there, or back when Trump owned the plaza,
if somebody spent a fortune throwing an incredible gallot in
the ballroom, Trump would always show up. And you'll notice
even now if you follow all this stuff on Instagram,
when there's a big, big wedding or an event at
Mar A Lago where they rent the ballroom, Trump will
(02:40):
show up. He'll show up and wander through the crowd
taill ever. So that's how he met Epstein, That's how
I got to know him. Epstein had lots of women
and fun and celebrities, so Trump started hanging out with
him whenever he was at Mar A Lago or there'd
be a party in there. It was just at parties,
nothing else. A couple of times Epstein came up to
Trump's office showing off to some women that he could
him up there. Not underage, not under age, perfectly appropriate,
(03:05):
age appropriate women. And that was the relationship. Well, then
a couple of things happened at mar Alago. Epstein started
hiring some people away from Mar Alago mar A Lago's
staff members, so Trump told him to cut it out,
and he didn't. Also, at one point, Epstein went after
I think she was fifteen, a girl that worked in
(03:27):
the locker room. It was actually the daughter of a member.
It got back to Trump, and Trump immediately banned Epstein
from mar Alago. This is twenty something years ago banned him.
It's actually twenty four, twenty one years ago. Banned him
from mar Alago forever. I never spoke to him again,
cut off all ties with the guy. Now, as far
as these young young girls, that was Epstein's preference, that's
(03:48):
what Epstein liked, these young young girls. So it was him.
There's rumor that Prince Andrew also liked that and got involved.
But all these people hanging around with Epstein, it wasn't
about young girls for them. They were not pedophiles. That
was Epstein. But if you went to it. I was
at a few Epstein things. If you went to Epstein's parties,
there were women all over the place, but all ages,
(04:09):
all ages, not young girls. He had a lot of
his young girls working for him as Massuse's and if
you go to the party, they'd be checking the coats
and that kind of stuff. But Trump has no worries
at all about Epstein. It's going to be nothing in
those files that's going to bother Trump, and he knows that,
so that's why he's been stringing Democrats along. He's now
(04:31):
last night called for Republican release all the files, and
at some point you'll see it all. All the files
will come out.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
The problem is, this is the only problem Trump might have.
There might be some big, big donors of his or
friends of his that are in the files, but if
it's in the files, it's not going to be young girls.
It's going to be them at these parties, maybe cheating
on their wife, that sort of stuff. That's like a
Bill Gates kind of situation. One has already come out.
Larry Summers, Treasury Secretary to Bill Clinton, President of Harvard,
(05:01):
very prestigious guy, a very married guy. But he was
carrying on with women, not young girls, older women. And
the emails have already emerged from the Epstein estate. They
found the emails where Larry Summers is and I don't
know why you would put this in writing, but these
guys put it in writing. He's emailing back and forth
(05:22):
about this woman that woman, and she won't see him anymore,
and they're talking about they're talking about his dating life,
and he's turning to Epstein for advice on how to
get this woman back. This is a married guy, so
that kind of stuff will come out. That's the worst
of it. But nobody Trump's has no Epstein problem at all.
Once it's all released, you'll see that one of the
(05:43):
people at Epstein hired away from Marlago was this infamous woman,
Virginia Giuffrey, who worked at mar Alago in the Spa.
It was Gallaine Maxwell that recruited her way into Epstein world.
She eventually killed her. She committed suicide not that long ago.
(06:05):
But she did a million interviews with law enforcement, US
Attorney FBI, all that sort of stuff, and she wrote
a book and in all the interviews and in the books,
she made it clear nothing ever happened with Donald Trump.
In fact, she said he was a very nice man
and always a total gentleman with her. And remember she
had worked for him too. So the US Attorney here
(06:26):
in New York, good guy Jay Clayton, he's been told
to oversee an investigation and to look into Democrats because
a lot of Democrats are going to have a problem.
Now you know who was really tangled up with Epstein
or the banks. Nothing to do with sex, but JP Morgan,
Chase and these other banks were really really close with Epstein,
(06:47):
working hard with him. The reason they did that Epstein
had billions of dollars that he was working with and
he had to put it somewhere, so they wanted it
in their bank because they can make a fortune having
his bills in their banks. So JP Morgan chasing. The
other banks were very nice to Epstein, and these are
the same banks that d banked Donald Trump threw him out,
(07:10):
refused to take his business. And if you're a major corporation,
you can't exist without banks. You have to have banks
for everything. So that was just disgusting the way they
d banked. It wasn't just Trump, other conservative companies. So
they deserve everything they're getting with this Epstein stuff. Now,
who else will have a problem A lot of celebrities.
(07:30):
George Stephanopolis will have a big problem with George Sloppadopolis,
Katie Couric. These are some of the celebrities that were
at Epstein's house having dinner with them. You know, when
you see the ABC Sunday Morning Show this week make
a big deal out of Epstein, they failed to mention
George Stepanopolos at Epstein's house having dinner with him. Now,
(07:50):
when asked about it, Stephanopoulos gives you this ridiculous explanation.
I didn't know who he was. I had no idea
who he was. I had no idea who he was.
I should have done my due diligence. Is Stephanopoulois's quote, Well,
the guy's a news broadcaster, host of a news show,
(08:11):
supposedly a journalist and a newsman. They didn't know Jeffrey
Epstein was. Now, this is after Epstein was convicted of
being a pedophile. This was trafficking the miners prostitution. Epstein
was already convicted and had gone to prison for it.
George Stephanoppois, I had no idea he was. I should
have looked into it. Well, I knew who he was.
(08:33):
You probably knew who he was. You probably read about it,
the guy in Florida that got convicted. Of course, you
read about this guy's a professional newsman on a network,
claiming you didn't know about it. There is this clip
running around the internet right now of Katie Couric. She's
on with what's the Bravo guy's name, Andy Andy Cohen.
She's on the Bravo show, and good for Andy Cohne
(08:54):
He said, the hell were you doing at Jeffrey Epstein's
house having dinner with him? So she said, well, I
didn't know who he was. I probably shouldn't. Remember she
was the anchor of the CBS Evening News, that's one
of the top news jobs in the world. And she
didn't know who Jeffrey Epstein was. This is after he
was in prison, this is after he'd been convicted, after
(09:15):
he went to jail. I didn't know who he was.
I guess I should have invested. First of all, who
goes to anybody's house and you don't know who they are?
Have you ever been to a house I'd had dinner
with somebody and when you're leaving, who is it? I
don't know. I have no idea who the guy is. Well,
I just say, you having dinner in his house? Yeah,
I don't.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Know who he is.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Even if somehow you were that stupid, that ignorant that
you didn't know who he was after spending the evening
at his house, wouldn't you then have some idea of
who he was? So, Katie Kirk, I didn't I should
have checked. Now, she uses the excuse that Prince Andrew
was going to be at the dinner and that Megan
Markle and Prince Harry were going to become a big,
(09:59):
big story was big Royal waves. She said, I felt
I should get to know Prince Andrew. He could help
me get the exclusive. It doesn't work that way. You
just you don't need to go to somebody's house and
you can start working the story without that. So a
lot of people like Stephanopoulos, Katie Kirk are going to
have a big, big Epstein problem. You know, there's a
(10:21):
woman in Congress, Stacey Plasket. She's a Democrat. Now there's
a lot of files being released from the Epstein estate,
and this Epstein would text like crazy with people. But
apparently this Democrat congresswoman is texting back and forth with Epstein.
And it's during the hearings. You remember they had hearings
(10:41):
on Trump. Was it Michael Cohen or something? It was
Michael Cohen. There were these hearings going on and they're
asking questions, you know, they take turns each congress person
on the committee. Well, they're about to come to the
Stacey Plasket in the during the hearings, she's texting Epstein,
who's watching it live on TV. What should I ask him?
(11:02):
You've been watching the testimony. What did they leave out?
What should I? And Epstein is texting her questions to
ask and at one point the witness is talking and
he mentions Rona. So this dumb congresswoman texts Epstein is
what's Rona? Is that an acronym for something? And Epstein
text back, No, that's Rona, his assistant, his chief of staff,
(11:24):
and he said, Rona is the keeper of the secrets.
Dig into Rona. This is this congress woman during the hearings,
contexting with Epstein. So these democrats were very, very very
close to Epstein. Rona, by the way, is Rona graft.
Who's the nicest woman, the most decent, honest. There was
nothing bad there, So I don't know what Epstein was
(11:46):
talking about. And the other thing, if you start reading
through the emails, Epstein had nothing to do with Trump
after two thousand and four, nothing, no connect for twenty years.
He didn't know Trump at all, but a lot of
these people think he still did. So you see these
very very powerful, big people are texting and emailing Epstein
right up until the end during the first Trump term.
(12:08):
I'm going to Washington to meet with the present What
should I say, or a meeting with this official in
the White House, and Epstein is texting back as if
he's connected to Trump, which he wasn't at that point,
giving advice, well he likes this, he doesn't like this,
or don't see Jared, make sure you see this person.
Epstein didn't know anything. He was just conning these people
like crazy. Now here's another important point to remember. The
(12:32):
Biden administration had these Epstein files for four years. The
Biden administration looked through, carefully inspected everything in the Epstein
files for four years. They couldn't find anything that would
hurt Trump. They were looking for it because they wanted
to hurt Trump. They wanted to arrest him, prosecute him,
(12:54):
do whatever they could to stop him. They looked through
the files. They couldn't find anything in there that would help.
That's why you never heard about the Epstein files for
the whole four years of Biden. There was nothing in
there that hurt Trump. And this is the way this
all works. Look at these democrats yelling and screaming, demanding
we must see the Epstein files. Well, how come you
(13:15):
didn't say word for four years? How come you didn't
want to see him in twenty twenty four. Why didn't
you want to see him in twenty twenty three? How
come in twenty twenty two you never asked to see him?
Twenty twenty one, you never mentioned it. It's the same
thing with the media. You know, you hear about it
is the affordability crisis. Affordability crisis. Inflation under Biden hit
(13:37):
nine percent, It averaged five percent, but it hit nine percent.
None of these people, the same Democrats, the same media,
never mentioned affordability. It never came up pro check for
four years, never mentioned it at nine percent. Now it's
two point five percent. That's all they can talk about,
the affordability crisis, two point five percent. Trump was at
(14:00):
about Epstein last night.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
They're using Jeffrey Epstein as a deflection from the tremendous
success that we're having as a party.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yeah, yeah, Actually, the Epstein's stuff, you could also call
it operation change the subject. That's what it's all about.
It sounds good, it sounds but again Trump has been
setting them up and brilliantly. Hey, President Trump said he
will meet with Mom Donnie. Mom Donnie said he will
meet with Trump. Looks like the meeting will take place
(14:28):
in Washington, d C. We'll get into it in detail
a little later. Also, Mom Donnie has talked with Jessica
Tish again. They spoke over the weekend. Hopefully she'll stay.
The fire commissioner's great guy, Robert Tucker. He's already quit
and left, but he's got a huge business he can
go back to, and I don't think he wants anything
(14:50):
to do with Mom Donnie. Jessica Tish will see if
she stays. Well, there's a lot of Mom Donnie stuff.
We'll get into it a little later. Lots to talk about,
and we'll take some call next. Eight hundred three two
one zero seven ten is the number eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
If you're listening to Mark on the iHeartRadio app, save
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the Mark Simone show on woor oh.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
No, there's more of that Christmas stuff. Well, you got
to be honest. We have to admit next week at Thanksgiving.
Next week is Thanksgiving. Anyway, let's take some calls. Let's
go to uh D in Miami. D How you.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Doing, Hello, Yes, good morning, sure, Yes, I have a
question I'd like to ask you, sir, Go ahead, what
do you think will happen if Africa was cut off
is uranium export to the United States in the western world.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Well, that could affect my iPhone battery. That would be
something would be terrible.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
That's what I think. I think the African county A
you're gonna start, you know, to do because if this
man is going to continue in this part, SUSI.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Are we talking about Trump?
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Of course, sir.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Oh well, but I also remember also for a minute,
please no, I also remember at the same time, it
would be the end of the African economy since that's
what they do for a living is sell us uranium,
and without that they'd go broke pretty fast. So let's
go to Bob and new Erschelle, Bob, how you doing.
(16:25):
Wait a minute, Bobby are there? Nope, we lost them.
Let's uh, we got them. Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
I know you're a big Blue Bloods fan. My wife
got me watching and I got a bit. It's a
good show, and I understand that you have to suspend
reality to a certain degree for these kind of shows.
But what would you in your opinion, would you say
a more unrealistic one of the Reagans being involved in
the biggest case of the city every week, or Danny
Reagan have nothing but smoking hot partners and his wife
not having a problem with it.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Well, these are very good questions. I love Blue Bloods.
I still watch it and reruns. Every Wednesday is a
blue Blood marathon. I'd love Blue Bloods. It's the most
unrealistic cop show ever. First of all, Len carry You
plays Tom Selick's father. These two guys are the same age.
There's like a one year age between these two guys.
(17:15):
Makes no sense at all. There's all kinds of technical things,
like the police commissioner does not wear a uniform, which
Tom Sellick does at times in the show. Also, Danny
Reagan every week is involved in a massive gunfire, massive
shootout every week. I've asked three commissioners, has there ever
been a cop that's in a shootout every week? And
(17:38):
they all said if there was, I'd pull him off
the street immediately. We'd never be able to do that. Also, well,
we could go on and on. It's very unrealistic, but
despite that, it's a great show. You know, Like, if
you want to go back and watch NYPD Blue n
WHYPD Blue is probably the most realistic cop show. And
I started watching Boston Blue the spinoff with Danny Reagan.
(17:59):
I gotta admit it. It's pretty good. They it's it's very,
very different from Blue Blood. They've kept a couple of
factors there, a couple of little things, but it's very
different and it's a great show. Let's go to Mike
and Florida. Mike, how you doing.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
Good morning, Mark, Yes, Mike, I was laughing when you
were talking about that Florida h O Way that was
putting up the that's cracked down on the Christmas decorations.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I live in one of these so called active fifty
five communities and it's neither over just over fifty five
or active unless you consider majong a contact sport. But
they can't wait and put up those stinking Christmas decorations.
The irony is they're all asleep by six o'clock that
they don't even get to see the lights lit up.
(18:45):
And they're the most decrepit looking things that they've been
in the back of their garage. You know that they
lived in Michigan and they dragged down here and I'm
gonna put you know in their follow liying like there's
little kids around and it's.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
It's so pathetic. I'm not against Christmas.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
It's great, but it's the forced joy is like ludicrous.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
You can't wait to put them up.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
A lot of pathetic things about Florida. The most pathetic
is when you people in Florida try to celebrate Christmas.
It doesn't look right. Palm trees and Christmas don't go together.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
It's eighty five degrees and they're allaw lie, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
It doesn't work, all right, Mike, thanks for calling. You know,
it's better to live in one of these condo communities
or something like that, because, uh, you know, everything's taken
care of. You've got your own house, you got to
find your own plumber, you got to find your own
people to fix it. It's so much easier in a condo,
one of those complexes, one of those communities. But then
(19:40):
you got the board. You know, it's always little old
ladies with nothing to do who go on this board
and then run around on patrol, enforcing every little rule.
Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave, how you doing,
good morning, Mark.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
I'm doing very well, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Mark.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
I'm just beginning to read Love Johnny Carson by Mark Malcolm.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Oh, it's the definitive book on Johnny Carson. It's the
greatest book ever in Johnny Carson just came out. We'll
have the author on in the next hour.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Go ahead, Thank you.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
I noticed you've been quoted numerous times in the book.
I flipped through it quickly. But I have a question,
if I may. It says you had said that the
Midwest is very important to the Tonight Show and that's
what Johnny believes. Could you please explain? And lastly, Mark,
my second question is did Johnny's guest hosts follow that policy?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Well?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
A couple of things about the Midwest. One a great analyst,
show business analyst showed that all the great talk show
hosts were from the Midwest, Johnny Carson, David Letterman, all
these sorts. You could go down a whole list. But
the guests, we're all from New York. All the great
(20:55):
comedians are from Brooklyn or you know, New Jersey, or
they were all local New York. But in their own
city they couldn't be the host. It was always the
Midwesterner that had to be the host of the show.
And Johnny Carson. One of the valuable lessons he taught people.
He told me about this. He always taught this lesson.
The battle is won in the central time zone. It's
(21:17):
a very important rule. Don't try to appeal to like
elite New York or La or Beverly Hills. Always try
to appeal to the middle. And hey, we don't have
much time, but let's go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent,
how you doing?
Speaker 5 (21:30):
I'm doing good Mark, Good morning matter Mark. I hope
us Jessicatish does not take the job with Zora Mundani
finish out her term. She's doing a great job. She
does have a business to go back to. And let
Zora Mandani's diz that were on his political posts. He
(21:52):
just got his first name, zorn Well, let the letter
Z become the new Scholart letter. Let him hang by
his own petard. And another thing, Kathy Hkle is thinking
about flip flopping on the corporate taxes so Mandamie could
have his free daycare. Don't do it, stupid, Hoko. You
(22:13):
could attract Jersey business to New York. They're paying eleven
point nine, we're charging seven point nine. If she had
any sense of any brains in her head, she could
use that as a selling point to draw the corporate
head quality brains.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
It's backbones. She has no backbones. She's afraid of getting primary.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Well, that's what Michael Goodwin's article talked about. She doesn't
have any backbone. But please, mistache, do not take the job.
Let it go to Let let disease for Zoran become
the new Scarlar letter. You like Trump business, when you
plan you come back and then you could wipe the
(22:56):
floor with him.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
All right, Vincent, great call, Hey, when we come back.
Michael Goodman's out here this week, but we'll talk to
the brilliant calumnist Liz Peak. We'll talk about Mom, Donnie
and Hoaklan and all that next on seven to ten war.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
He's more Mark. He's a Mark Simone show on SEVENTENR.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Well, Liz peak brilliant column lists, you know, besides her column,
besides all the TV. You can also check out her website.
It's one of the best news sites with all sorts
of great stories every day. Lizpeak dot com lizpeak dot com,
check it out. Liz Peak.
Speaker 9 (23:33):
How you doing, good morning, I'm terrific. Thank you.
Speaker 10 (23:37):
How about you?
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I'm good. Let's see President Trump says he will meet
with Mom Donnie. Mom Donnie says he'll go to Washington
meet with him. How do you think that would go?
Speaker 9 (23:48):
Look, I think that's actually a good idea on both
of their parts. To have New York City basically be
orphaned or estranged from the mothership, the federal mothership doesn't
really help anybody, right. I can't imagine that Mom Donnie
and Donald Trump will have much in common or much
common ground, let's put it that way.
Speaker 10 (24:10):
But I think it's a good idea.
Speaker 9 (24:12):
And look, it's one of the first things that this
radical thirty four year old anti Semite has said. That
makes them sound like a slightly normal person. So that's
very welcome.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Right, Yeah, they do have something in common. They're both
were these outsiders who came in and just crushed these
political dynasties and beat them. Do you think you know
Trump could be good one on one sometimes?
Speaker 10 (24:38):
Yes he can, Yes he can.
Speaker 9 (24:40):
But Mark, yes, I've seen this idea before that they
have in common, that they're outsiders. Let's remember that Donald
Trump had decades of actual work experience, actually built things,
created wealth, and in the process, let's face it, worked
with a lot of city governments and municipas and state
(25:01):
governments in trying to get various projects underway, get them completed,
et cetera. Mom Donnie has zero experience of any value whatsoever.
All he has is a big smile and you know,
a resume as a community activist.
Speaker 10 (25:17):
I don't put them in the same boat at all.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Yeah, you know, no, it sounds perfect. You know, there's
a lot of other mom Donnie's out there getting ready
to go. And there's a couple of other cities where
they got a mom Donnie type, somebody with no work experience,
lives in their parents' basement running and Bill Mahra so
a Friday night, is warning the Democrats stop with this stuff.
But where the elder Democrats, the party elders, where are
(25:42):
they on this.
Speaker 10 (25:43):
It's It's astounding, isn't it. You know.
Speaker 9 (25:46):
We had Julian Epstein on the Democrats strategists.
Speaker 10 (25:50):
This morning on Mornings with Maria and.
Speaker 9 (25:53):
As he said, Trump occupies the middle. Now that's what
that's what's making Democrats crazy. That is why they have
gone so far to the left. And I've said this
for months. I mean, if Trump is in the middle
on taxes, regulation, energy policy, immigration, gender issues, et cetera.
Speaker 10 (26:14):
Where does that leave the Democrats.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
It either leaves them basically working with Trump, which they
refuse to do because they've conjured up such hatred of
this president that they cannot be seen as collaborators, if
you will, or it drives some extreme left policies, which again,
and that's just what Epstein said too. It may work
(26:36):
in New York, it may work in Seattle or San Francisco.
They're not going to work in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa, these
states where frankly, house seats are up for grabs in
purple districts. I mean, are they really and in those
parts of the country, are they going to want to
elect a socialist?
Speaker 10 (26:55):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Yeah. Even Kathy Hokel, she's said, you'd assume she's the
middle of the road type, and she's the governor that's
bigger than the mayor. How does she get so intimidated
by this Ma'm donnie that she seems to want to
go along with his nonsense.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
It's it's just it's not just Kathy Hokeel. It's every
New York Democrat right now is being primaried by someone
on the left, and that includes Kathy Hochel. Her lieutenant
Governor Antonio Delgado, who no one's ever heard of, may
end up giving her a real fight because Mam Donnie
(27:33):
likes him. They've you know, they've been campaigning together, and
he's far left like Mam Donnie. Kathy Hochel is in
a terrible position because idiotically she gave von Donnie her endorsement,
so she basically alienated all the moderate Democrats in her party.
And now if she basically says, well, I endorsed him,
(27:53):
but I'm not going to really go along with any
of his program, what does that make her out to be?
Speaker 10 (27:58):
What makes her out to be.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
A completely insincere political animal, which.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
Is exactly what she is. So she will blow with
the wind.
Speaker 9 (28:07):
She is a terrible governor, and frankly, I think Elie
Sophonic has a very good chance of beating her if
she's the candidate. I'm not sure she will be the candidate,
but we'll see.
Speaker 10 (28:18):
I mean, she doesn't have.
Speaker 9 (28:21):
A backbone mark and right now you need some senior
Democrats with backbones who are moderates, who can call out
a socialist for being bad for the country. Frankly, like
Bill Maher's doing.
Speaker 8 (28:33):
I mean, who would have funk it.
Speaker 9 (28:34):
He's the guy that's saying to a pretty big audience,
socialism doesn't work. This is what he just said over
the weekend.
Speaker 10 (28:41):
I guess or Friday.
Speaker 9 (28:42):
Socialism doesn't work. It has failed every place that's been tried.
Look at Venezuela, formerly one of the richest countries on Earth,
now one of the poorest in South America. You know,
just common sense, folks, and history things that apparently are
not in great supply on the left.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Right now, hey, let's pick if you're watching the Sunday shows.
Oh you hear about? Is this affordability crisis? What an
affordability crisis? How come during Biden when inflation was nine percent,
never heard a word about this affordability crisis? Why now?
Speaker 10 (29:15):
Yeah, it's rich, isn't it.
Speaker 9 (29:17):
I think Democrats fastened on this only after Mom Donnie
did so kudos to him for giving them.
Speaker 10 (29:23):
Sort of a lifeline here.
Speaker 9 (29:26):
And yeah, things are expensive, mainly because they went up.
Eighty seven percent of the increase in prices over the
last five years came under Joe Biden. And yet to
your point, that was mostly ignored by the mainstream media.
Speaker 10 (29:39):
But it is pretty rich.
Speaker 9 (29:40):
Because if you look at the top ten cities in
terms of cost of living, they are all run and
have been run for decades by Democrats. Democrats brand mark
is high cost, high taxes, high regulatory burdens, high union
labor costs, you name it. They are imposing enormously high
(30:02):
costs on the general public and have for a decade
or more. And then you add on to this layer
of green energy, which is also expensive, and you know,
you have a recipe for extremely inflated costs of living
and to try and tag that on Republicans where we
are talking lower taxes, lower regulation, fewer impediments to building,
(30:27):
which by the way, means better building costs because time
is money and construction. You know, it is just astounding
that they have been able to hijack this issue.
Speaker 10 (30:38):
We can't let that stand.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Very good point. Yeah, the affordability crisis seems to only
be taking place in blue cities and states. So yeah, well, yes,
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Thank you, Mark for having me always just a pleasure.
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