December 4, 2025 • 34 mins
The Democrats are using the recent drug boat strike as an opportunity to portray Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as part of a broader issue, criticizing the Trump Administration for decisions that conflict with their views. This comes on the heels of President Trump’s controversial comments referring to Somali immigrants as “garbage,” which prompted a strong response from Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who condemned the remarks as racially motivated and deeply hurtful. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews Roger Friedman of Showbiz411.The two attended an exclusive event last night at a Manhattan restaurant, where they mingled with several celebrities and gained unique insights into their lives. Notably, Roger had the chance to sit down with filmmaker Woody Allen to discuss how things are going for him, and the conversation was positive and engaging.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fly from Midtown Manhattan. Here comes the Mark Simone Show
on seven.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
On Hey, we got a lot to get to today.
The war crimes hoax, it's almost over, so Malia unbelievable fraud.
We'll get to the Christmas tree lighting. We'll get to
the New York Times. We'll get to Luigi Mangeon. You
know it's a year ago. It's the one year anniversary
of that horrible shooting. We'll get to Mom, Donnie and
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Net and Yahoo, and we'll get to Trump's arrangement syndrome,
new research coming out about it. We'll get to Christmas
parties and a whole lot more so. The the Democrats
trying everything. You notice they abandoned Epstein. You haven't heard
them mentioned Epstein in two three weeks. They gave up
on that. It didn't test well, it didn't focus group well,
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it wasn't working. They think the war crimes hoax, this
will take down the entire Trump administration, or at least
get rid of Pete Hexath. It will do neither of
those things. Hex Off is fine. He's not going anywhere, obviously.
If you're going to blow up a drug boat, a
coke boat, a narco boat, as they call him if
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you're going after the car, tell to blow up the boat.
You drop a lot of bombs, not one. This new ridiculous,
preposterous Democrat rule that you're only allowed to one bomb,
one bomb. If you don't get him with the one bomb,
that's it doesn't make any sense. Anybody in the history
of warfare, any general, any leader, will tell you you
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drop a lot of bombs and try to wipe them out.
President Trump is just kind of laughing at this. He
kind of enjoys this. He likes when the Democrats come
up with a hoax where he knows it's not going
to work, and in the end it'll fizzle out. What's
today Thursday, They'll try it one last time. They'll try
it for another couple of days. They'll do it on
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the Sunday shows, and then that's it. That'll be the
end of the war crimes hoax. They'll see it's going nowhere,
doesn't work. Signal Chat. They're trying to bring that back
with the Inspector General's report that Pete hagsf did actually
violate used classified information on the signal Chat. What a violation. Now, actually,
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if you look down on the fine print, it says,
it's not actually anything wrong, and the Secretary of Defense
had the power at any time to declassify anything, so
it's up to him what he puts up there. And
as far as using the signal gate app, the signal
app that was standard operating procedure in the Pentagon, it
was in the Pentagon Manual to use it. It was
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just fine. So this Inspector General's report means absolutely nothing.
It's coming way too late. Nobody even remembers this signal thing.
These things mean absolutely nothing. But if you're the democratic
echo chamber, the media democratic echo chamber, MSNBC, CNN, you
need these kind of things. It's like doing a drama
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on TV. You create these little subplots and you create
these little things to talk about. So it's MSNBC. They
got to fill twenty four hours a day. Ms now,
it's now ms NOW. So they create this nonsense and
they just keep talking about it. And all the old
ladies who are the big Trump Arrangement syndrome people, and
all the crazy left wingers can run around and talk
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about this war crimes, signal Gate and yell and screaming
about this. Normal people don't know what the hell they're
talking about normal people are going to work, living their lives,
watching the football game. I didn't know anything about signal gate,
war crime, solks. What are you talking about? So it'll
go away now, you know, starting what's today, Yeah, next
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week it starts where it gets into the really heavy
Christmas party season. And every day, if you're in Washington,
there's a million Christmas parties these people have to go to.
In Congress, in government, there's a million Christmas parties for
all the lobby the suppliers, the vendors, the contractors, that
all the people that they deal with. So they'll be
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all snarled up and tied up for the next couple
of weeks with Christmas, and it's Congress, they take a
you know, like a million vacation days. They'll be gone
very early for Christmas, so you got another few days
and then they're all busy and gone and that's the
end of it. Nobody will be concentrating on anything. Even
the White House. There's a White House Christmas party every
night for the next couple of weeks, sometimes two or
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three at night. They just do these NonStop Christmas parties.
So it's just about over Hey. The other big thing
is the Somalia story. The Somalian community in Minnesota, led
by Ilan Omar, committed massive fraud. It appears to be
a massive, massive fraud. A billion dollars went missing, and
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all kinds of screen schemes, left wing schemes, pandemic schemes,
but all run by the crazy left wing of the
Minnesota Democrat. A lot of Somalians in there. They set
a billion dollars. But Mike Johnson, Congress is going to
look into this.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
It's staggering. Tom Emmer, of course, is from Minnesota, and
he tells us that it may be as much as
two billion dollars in broader Minnesota. And Tim Wallas has
a lot to answer for it. And Congress has a
lot of interest in this, and we're going to track
it down. And I think I think the authorities will
as well.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, so Congress will get to it. They'll be criminal charges.
Looks like it's going to be two billion, two billion.
He got the Somalian Democrats, Elon Omar and all these
people that did it. Now, of course they're Democrats. The
media will pay no attention to this, they'll bury the story,
never mention it. But you wonder when you watch Donald
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Trump sometimes, why does he say these things? Well, why
does he have to talk like that? Well, sometimes it's
very strategic. So he started talking about Omar, Somalia, all
of this stuff, and he crossed the line.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
She should be allowed to be a congresswoman. And I'm
sure people are looking at that, and she should be
throwing the hell out of our country and most of
those people they have destroyed Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Okay, that's okay, now that part. See you stop right there. Yeah,
if you're that big of crook you're involved in that
bigger fraud, of course you should be thrown out of Congress.
And if it's that big of fraud in you the
frauded your community, of course you should be thrown out. Okay, there,
he's fine, But then he keeps going, We're.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Going to go the wrong way if we keep taking
in garbage into our country. Elan Omar is garbage. She's garbage,
Her friends are garbage. These are people that work. These
are people that say, let's go, come on, let's make
this place great. These are people that do nothing but complain.
They complain and from where they came from, they got nothing.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
You know, if they.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Came from paradise, and they said, this isn't paradise. But
when they come from hell and they complain and do nothing,
but bitch, we don't want them in our country.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Okay, you're not supposed to talk like that if you're
the president. But it's brilliant what he's done there. Brilliant.
He's put the media, the left wing in a real bine.
Now to them, that's racist, ethnic slur, really over the top, wrong, disgusting.
You can't talk like it. So they want to go
after him on this. They want to really go after
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him on that stuff. But to do that, they got
to publicize the Somalia scandal, the two billion fraud. They
wanted to bury the story and hide it now because
they want to use this stuff again, so they're going
to have to go after it. So he's put them
in a real trap where now they have to cover
this story. So now it will get attention. Now, it
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will go before Congress. Now they'll be hearing so brilliant
on the part of Donald Trump. Now people will always
complain they were doing this before you got into politics.
I remember, for the twenty years before he was in politicy,
same thing. He'd say things that were over the top,
that were outrageous, and lets supposed to talk like that.
Why does he have to say these things? But I
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was thinking about this yesterday. If you go back, you
know how, you're on Twitter or you're somewhere online, and
they show you these clips. Look at what Obama said
fifteen years ago, and he's talking about we must close
the border. We got to get rid of these illegals.
They'll always find these clips. God, check out my Twitter
right now. There's a clip of Bernie Sanders twenty years
ago sounding like Trump. But we got to get rid
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of these illegals. We can't let them in. They're taking
jobs from America. So you see all these clips of
these Democrats, they try to show you how hypocritical they are.
That look what they said back then. They said the
same things Trump said. They said, but you have to
remember it. This is the real difference between the Democrats
and Trump. Democrats when they're running will always say the
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right things. You watch Hillary when she was running, you
can see all this campaign video, and Bill Clinton and
Obama they said all the right stuff when they were running.
They said exactly what you want them to say, exactly
what they agree with you complete then they get elected
and they don't do any of it. They don't do nothing.
Trump is the opposite. He'll say all the wrong things,
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but then he gets in office and he actually gets
everything done. He says all the things you shouldn't say,
but he gets it done. He gets the job done,
He does the right stuff. Democrats are the opposite. When
they're running, they'll say all the right stuff, tell you
all the right things. Then when they get office, don't
do a damn thing. It's like Mom Donnie with his affordability,
and you got a few of these, Mom Donnie's the
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one that ran in Nashville. They'll run on affordability, affordability, affordability.
They watch when they get in office, they'll not only
do nothing about affordability, everything ends up costing more. They'll
do more damage to the problem. So that's just a
democratic thing. The same thing with Newsom. Look at Newsom.
He looks good, sounds good. He's out there saying all
the right stuff. Meantime he's completely screwing up the state.
(09:44):
You know, gas is three dollars an hour, three dollars
a gallon. That's the average in America right now. Three
dollars a gallon. In twenty five states, it's below three dollars.
In California it's six fifty seven dollars. This is Newsom
say all the right things but completely screw up. He's
got the worst numbers, the worst statistics, the worst affordability,
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the worst job lost. But he says all the right things.
And for some reason that's fine with Democrats. They like that.
Now there's this new breed of Democrats among Donni's and
all these young they look good, sound good, their social
media influencers, they're great, they're charming, and all the new
Democratic voters are voting for this. They have no interest
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in the old dinosaurs, these old you know, they look
at Chuck Schumer like he's a mummy, like he's an
old fossil, Like he's a like a corpse. They dug up.
He just looks a thousand years old. To them. He
looks ridiculously outdated, even when he agrees with him, even
if he's talking about the bombing of the ships.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
If Trump were to order an attack on land, that
would be an act of war, and Congress would invoke
the War Powers Act. It's Congress's prerogative to.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Go to war.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
And I hope Republicans will defend that role.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
This is everything the new Democrats hate the voters now,
they hate this, oh, this old fossil. They want the
new breed, the Mom Donni's you know, Mom Donnie gets
on that social media and he talks a mile a minute,
and he sounds brilliant. He talks really fast, he's got
a great smile, he looks charming, good looking. And then
you got this old shumer with the rumpled up old suit,
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the old man glasses that are all fogged up, and
reading it off index cards. You know, to younger voters,
they've never even seen an index card. They don't know
what the hell these things he's holding. They don't write
anything down. Everything's digital to them. They've never seen an
index card. They don't know what it is. Where you
would get such a thing. Hey, last night was the
Christmas tree lighting. I don't know what the fuss is
(11:47):
about a Christmas tree lighting. It's beautiful to see the tree.
You could walk over there right now, it's right over there,
Rockefeller Center. You see the tree. Magnificent, it's beautiful. But
the idea of watching the lighting of it, if you
went to someplace where they had beautiful lighting at a
restaurant and you walked, he say, wow, that's beautiful lighting.
Look at that. That's all you want to see? You
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could you turn it off? I like to see you
turn it on. The idea of turning a light on it.
You want to see it on, you don't want to
see it often, then it's on. If this is that
fascinating to you to watch a tree lighting, and you
couldn't go to Rockefeller Center because you said there's ten
thousand people there, you can't get anywhere near there. It's
a myths. You can watch the tree lighting of the
Rockefeller Centered tree in person every morning at five am.
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You know, they turn the lights off at midnight, then
they turn them back on at five am. So if
you want to see the tree lighting and Rockefeller Center
seven days a week, any morning, just go at five am.
I'll get there at ten of five or whatever, and
then you can see him turn the lights on. It's
not that exciting, but you can watch it. So this
stuff is getting bigger and bigger. More people watch this this.
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You know they used to do the tree lighting and
then it would you know, videotape it and chop it
up and it would be this little special on Channel
four clock to seven thirty. Then it got bigger, went
to the network. All of a sudden, it was a
network show, not just Channel four, and it became like
an hour. Now it's like two hours, three hours. It's
like the Grammy Awards, twelve famous singers and roquettes and dancers.
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It's a massive primetime special and it gets big ratings.
We didn't get the rating shit for last night, but
it'll be huge, you know. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
set a record this year. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
got unbelievable ratings. I think it was twenty six million people,
which is like the most viewers for anything on television,
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like in seven years. I think the last thing was
an Oscar show that did twenty six million. I mean
outside of a sports event, but unbelievable. How popular the
parade is. Hey, speaking of TV, Boston Blue just got
renewed for season two. That's the spinoff from the Great
show Blue Blood. So it's only been on. It was
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the seventh show this week, eighth show. But it's got
big ratings. They've already renewed it for season two. Pretty good, hey,
the New York Times had this big summit yesterday at
Lincoln Center, the big conference with the huge audience, and
they had that wormy weasel Andrew Sorkin moderated, and they
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had all kinds of big guest speakers. But we give
a lot of credit to Scott Bessant, the great Scott Bessant,
who told them off right to their face right at
the New York Times summit. He said, I don't even
read the New York Times anymore, and he called Andrew
Sorkin a pop historian, which is really an insulting to him.
(14:39):
Let me see if I have the clip here, this
is this is uh, this is bessn't at the New
York Times summit, you.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
Had what was the greatest, one of the greatest scandals
of all time, that the coverage of the Biden administration,
Joe Biden's diminished capacity and the.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
Cover up there to raise these questions. Where was in
New York Times.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
We just had a three hour cabinet meeting yesterday, Andrew,
for ten months the Biden administration did not have a
cabinet meeting. How are you going to invote the twenty
fifth Amendment if the cabinet secretaries never see the president,
which they didn't.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Now you actually go to my Twitter. You got to
actually watch the clips because Andrew ross Serkin is squirming,
absolutely squirming. He's all upset and everything Best in this
saying it's driving him nuts. And at one point he says,
I just don't even read the New York Times anymore.
It's no longer the paper or record. This is right
at their Summit's a good for best and good job
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on his part. Hey, Luigi Mans, you oon trial, as
I said, it's taking place, trying to get the evidence tossed.
He's got some pretty good lawyers and some legal experts
watch and say, these guys have I don't you know,
who knows if they'll win these arguments, but they got
some pretty good arguments to get evidence tossed out of there.
It's going to be It's an interesting case already because
it's been one year that's shooting. I remember we all
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watched that vide remember the day had unfolded. It was
one year ago. But he's you know, it's democrats that
love him, so he's got fans and supporters cheering him
every time he comes in and out of the court.
This is a murderer, an executioner, an assassin. Democrats cheering him,
young democrats, you know, the whole nosering crowd. Women, they
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love this guy. But it's a shooting. You know, if
you're in New York City, on the streets of New York,
you're on a surveillance camera. No matter where you are,
all of Manhattan, every inch is covered by surveillance cameras.
So he shoots the guy in the street and sidewalk
and it's all recorded. You can see him do it right.
So I don't know how he thinks he's gonna win
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this case. I mean, we saw him do it right
on camera. But it's crazy New York City, crazy New
York judges, so who knows what could happen? Hey, well,
take some calls in just a minute. Eight hundred three
to two one zero seven ten is the number. Eight
hundred three to two one zero seven ten.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
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Speaker 2 (17:10):
Hey, Let's take some calls. Eight hundred three to two
one zero seven ten is the number eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten. Let's go to Rich in
Myrtle Beach. Rich, How you doing pretty good?
Speaker 8 (17:23):
Thanks?
Speaker 9 (17:23):
Mark. You know, Trumps so far.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
Ahead of these people.
Speaker 9 (17:26):
You know, he's he's got Democrats and oppressed, defending drug terrorists,
defending some millions. He just keeps putting them in a
corner and they're just so stupid they can't even see it.
And then they got a kick out of Martha Radice
on ABC saying that the fishermen climbed back into the
boat and went communications with other drug deals. That's why
they got born up a second time. So she actually
(17:46):
blew up their own hopes. It was hysterical watching these
people the way they behave.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, she's one of the funniest it. Thanks for calling Rich.
Speaker 9 (17:52):
This.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Martha Raddits is this old, worn out, weather beaten looking woman.
You see her. She's the Foreign spot, but she's lately
been the host of the Sunday Morning Show a lot,
and she's watching it yesterday. Well, there's definitely a war crime.
There's nobody that knows less about war crime rules than
Martha Radditt's. And the problem is they all live in
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a bubble. All they know is big Trump, hating left wing, Washington,
DC swamp people. So if you live in this bubble
and you're hearing from the most biased people in the world,
you're never getting a straight story from anybody. So in
this echo chamber, it's all bobbleheads nodding at each other.
It just reinforces all these biases they have. Anyways, go
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to Mike in Florida. Mike, how you doing. Good morning, Mark, Yes, Mike.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
I'm going to echo what Rich just said.
Speaker 10 (18:44):
It's a less than a year away from the midterms
and the Democrats have Hitchdale wagon to a very odd
team of issues. Mangione, the Somali thieves, the Venezuelan drug runners,
the illegals in you know, my grading into the country,
you know, calling for insurrection for the army. You know
(19:05):
these basically stags are cool against against the president. And
it's incredible that the communism and it's.
Speaker 9 (19:14):
The funny thing is none of those issues served their constituencies.
Speaker 10 (19:17):
Their constituencies are the ones who were impacted most by
all of those supporting all of those things.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yeah, that's a good point, but this Trump derangement syndrome
has them all going crazy. And one of the problems
is years ago the Democrats hashed the plot, will take
over the universities, will put in the most radical left
wing professors, and then to be able to get away
with that, we'll put in all the most left wing
people on the board of trustees, left wing college presidents.
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So they became these left wing, crazy, left wing doctrination centers,
and they raised generations of these people. Well, now that
they're all the voters, they have no interest in establishment Democrats.
They don't like Bill Clinton, they don't like Chuck Schumer,
they don't like these type of Democrats. They're young and
crazy and radical left, and that's what they like. So
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they're going to vote for Mom Donnie. They're going to
vote for that crazy woman in Tennessee, and they're going
to go for this nonsense. And the only people that
are hanging on are like the crazy radicals, Bernie Sanders
sometimes Elizabeth Warren, although these two aren't going to do
quite as well because they are old, haggard looking people.
So you're going to see this shift to the left
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just go crazy. Now, this always goes in cycles, so
at some point it might rebound. Twenty twenty six is
the last shot that Democrats have at taking out Trump.
They they've got to win in twenty twenty six to
stop him. At least if they win, he won't have
Congress on his side. If they have a Democratic Congress,
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they'll come after him every second. They'll hold hearings every
minute into him. They'll impeach him every six months. That's
the only shot they got if they don't win in
twenty twenty And usually the opposing party wins in the midterm,
no matter how popular the president. So there's been a
couple of exceptions, and if this becomes one of those
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exceptions and Trump hangs on to Congress, then you'll see
a real revolution of total mutiny in the Democratic Party.
This will be too many elections they've lost. Somebody will
rise up and try to rescue the party from the radicals.
That's what That's how Bill Clinton came about. They had
gone way too far to the left. He rose up
and was powerful enough as a speaker or a leader,
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and he led them back to the center. So somebody
will have to do that. Here, Oh, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
Meta Instagram has just ordered everybody back to work every day,
back to work five days a week. You know, they
got used to working at home Obviously we all like
(21:53):
that working from home, but especially these young little tech idiots,
they really don't like to leave their house. Has ordered
everybody back to work. It's driving them nuts. Suddenly he's
Paully and goodfellas. I'm not saying you've gotta go back
this minute, but you gotta go back. You're gonna have
to go back. Let's go to Rupert in New York City. Rupert,
how you doing?
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Hey? How you doing? You know?
Speaker 9 (22:16):
I just don't understand how how New York City has
to end this sanctuary.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
They have to end that, it has to put an
end to that.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Well, it's ridiculous, you're right, but good luck with that.
You got a democratic legislature, democratic city council. Sanctuary law
is ridiculous. It's what protects all the illegal criminals that
are here. Now, how did we end up with this
terrible sanctuary state law? How did we get this? Andrew Cuomo?
Another horrible thing he did in New York besides is
(22:47):
no bail, no jail, is closing the prisons. He's the
guy that signed this sanctuary state law that has completely
screwed up New York. Hey, when we come back, Roger
Friedman will be with us. Well, I saw him last night.
I'll tell you where in a moment on seven to
ten wr Hey. Roger Friedman, the great entertainment reporter. His
website if you should check it every day, there's always
(23:09):
good stories. Showbiz for one one dot com, Showbiz for
one one dot com. Roger Friedman, how you doing.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
I'm great. It was fun seeing you last night, Mark.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Well, last night was you know, there was Elaines, the
great celebrity restaurant for fifty years. Last night was the
reunion of Elaines. The customers, the crowd.
Speaker 8 (23:31):
But it was the fifteenth anniversary of Elaine's passing, which
she would be ninety five, I think, or ninety six.
But it's amazing the fifteen years have gone by and
the place where they had this event, called Hudson Malone
on its fifth forward fifty third Street, was packed, just
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packed with people who'd been to Alan's an amazing situation.
She would have been so through well to see all
those people in there toasting her and you know, just
having a good time.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Except great crowd, but you know, we had seen these
people twenty years ago. Twenty five looked a lot older,
a lot of.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
These people crowd. We didn't look at it old, but
they did.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
But people always ask the same thing, Elaines. You could
go in there any night and was filled with famous faces, celebrities,
movie stars, all these making Why is there nothing like
that today?
Speaker 8 (24:32):
You know, there might be somewhere, but people don't since
the pandemic in particular, people don't really go out anymore.
They did and it's packed, but Elaine's was a place
where he weren't really late at night. At the end
of the night, you would at ten or eleven o'clock,
when you were finished at theater or dinner or whatever,
(24:53):
you would say, let's go to LANs And that's what
made it special because people came pouring in very late
and stay t in the morning and it was, you know,
lots of great conversation. I just interviewed Woody Allen. It's
on my site on Showbiz four one one. I just
interviewed Woody Allen for his ninetieth birthday ninety and ninety
(25:13):
and we had it's a great interview. It's an hour
and a half and on video, and we talked about
Elaines and he said he even at the height of
his fame with any Hall and all that. He was
the least famous person in the restaurant, and he was
constantly meeting people. In fact, he met the philosopher Simone
de Bouvoir there, of all people. I mean, that's how
(25:35):
crazy it was where people came from all over the
world to be at Alams.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Yeah, sometimes you see the biggest Hollywood writers, but they
give you an awe because like the greatest figures in
Saul Bella would be there, and this guy.
Speaker 8 (25:50):
So Robert Altman, a, Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller and
all kinds of people like that. I'm at Urdigen and
movie stars came in all the time. I used to
sit late at night with Dapney Coleman when he was
in town, and all kinds of great One night I
met Greg Olman in there. That was amazing. And Phil
Spector on my fortieth birthday. Phil Spector came in and
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he had like ten bodyguards, all with holsters and guns.
And Elaine said to me, go talk to him, and
I'm like, I'm right, what are you talking about? He
has ten bodyguards. She goes, just go on over and
say hi. So I did, and I had a good
interview with him.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Although I remember him one night he punched somebody who
did he punch? He got no fight there one night?
Speaker 8 (26:36):
Did he really? Yeah? Not so there occasionally there were fights.
And last night in front of the bar, which is
a very nice place, this restaurant, there was some kind
of fight on the street, on the sidewalk. It was
just like a Lane's. It was like in honor of Elaane.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
So you know what, here's why there's no big celebrity
residence where you're going. There's a million sire nowadays, there's
no celebrities that everybody would know, you know, like if
I read paid six, I don't know who any of
these people.
Speaker 8 (27:05):
Are, and now well there's somebody you know. First of all,
celebrities aren't valued sort of the same way now, like
the movie studios want to have paid influencers come to
the red carpet. They walk the red carpet. You've never
heard of these people before in your life. They're dressed
very strangely, and then they're supposed to be promoting the
(27:28):
movies to their followers. Well, these people are not celebrities,
and it's very peculiar to see them at all these movies.
There's this happened this week about two different two or
three different premieres where no one knew who these people were. Yeah,
this is what this is what the studios want now.
They don't care whether you know candiceburg and let's say
(27:50):
I'm just using her as an example, or or any
you know, famous movie star comes to the red carpet.
They want someone who's on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Yeah, because you know in Kandasbergen or Clint Eastood, whoever,
or half the world doesn't know who these people are anymore.
Speaker 8 (28:05):
Yeah, that's very peculiar. I can't imagine that that's the case,
but I'm sure it probably is. And they're only in
you know, during the summer, there was this movie with
Austin Butler, and outside on the red carpet, it was
a beautiful night and there were tons of these people
walking around in costumes. Finally we said to them, who
(28:27):
are you? What is all this? And while we were
talking to them on the street, fans were coming up
to the people on the street who had nothing to
do with the movie premiere. We're coming up to them
and saying, oh, I watch you all the time, like
you watch them all the time, what do they do
you know they don't really do anything. It's a different world. Yeah,
(28:49):
you know, it's just a different world because of the
phones and the social media and the access.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Hey well, Avery, watch Roger Freeman's interview with Woody Allen
on his site showbiz for one one dot com. So
tell us more about what he owned. Is he in
good spirits? Is he looking?
Speaker 8 (29:04):
He's in great spirits. He's in good shape, he told
I got him to tell a story he had told
me a long time ago when he was a stand
up comedian and he didn't want to be a stand
up comedian, but he signed on. He had been a writer,
you know, for your show, show Sid Caesar and all
that stuff. And he got an agent and the agent said,
(29:26):
we don't represent writers, we only represent performers. So you
have to go out and do stand up comedy routine
around the country. And he didn't want to do it,
and they sent him out. And you know, he plays
the clarinet. He plays it now and played it then.
And he used to bring his records with him to
the hotel rooms, but he needed a record player. So
(29:47):
in each city he would be at the city for
a week or two weeks. He would buy a new
record player and put it in the room and play
his records and come back from the clubs. He wasn't
like the kind of comedian who stays out all night drinking.
He comes back into the room, practices the clarinet, and
then when he's finished in the city, he leaves the
record player there.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (30:07):
Now, so he left dozens of record players around the country.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
People, people under thirty are going, what the hell are
they talking about? What's a record player?
Speaker 8 (30:14):
What's there's a record player? Well, you know, he also
writes on an underwood manual typewriter. You kidd, No, He's
written every single thing he's ever written on the same typewriter.
He's never seen a computer. I've seen I have this
and I've taken a nice picture of him in his
office with the with the with the typewriter. He goes
(30:38):
to I said, how do you get the ribbons? He says, well,
I go down I go down the Union Square. There's
some little store still there that's selling the ribbons to
this typewriter from seventy four years ago when he got it. Wow,
isn't that amazing?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yeah, New York go watch this interview. It's on Showbiz
fo one dot com. Hey, did you know Olivia Newsey?
Did you ever work with her?
Speaker 8 (31:01):
No? I never knew her. You know, her book is out.
It's a Littal failure. It's like number ten thousand or
something on Amazon. Nobody wants to buy it. It's the
kind of thing that's like a media story. It's just
for media gossip. Regular people who are listening to this
don't care about it. But Olivia Newsy apparently was writing
(31:21):
a profile of Robert Kennedy Junior last year for New
York Magazine, and she was having an affair with him,
and she was blocking negative stories in the rest of
the press about him. She's completely crazy. She had a
live in fiance and he's a journalist too, and he
was taking notes the whole time that this was going on.
(31:42):
She thought he wasn't paying attention, just having this affair
with Kennedy who said he wanted to impregnate her in
emails and stuff like that. And the fiance, who had
his own problems at New York Magazine a couple of
years ago. He kept track of all this. So he's
been putting this up now on substack and charging people
(32:03):
to read it. Of course, no one's read. No one's
paying for it. Well, what about the journals?
Speaker 2 (32:07):
They're all Kennedy haters? Why don't they? But how come
they're not buying this book?
Speaker 8 (32:12):
Now, they're not buying the book. They have no interest
in her because this is legiti because MSNBC, you know,
they don't like Trump, obviously, but they're actual journalists and
this woman has done something that's a violation of every
journalistic ethic. So and I think people on all sides
feel that way. So she's she's kind of cooked, and
(32:33):
she's really doubled down on it. And Vanity Fair hired
her to be their West Coast editor, and now of
course they want out of the contract. They didn't realize
how crazy she was.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
She's like a man out of country now.
Speaker 8 (32:44):
So, yes, she's a reporter without a magazine. So it's
a disaster. Meantime, Kennedy's wife, Cheryl Hines, published her own
book knowing this one was coming out, she published her
own book to get ahead of it, and that book
us all the two copies. Oh okay, maybe three.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Yeah, we're out of time, but everybody check out this
good story's new stuff every day Showbiz four one one
dot com Showbiz four one one dot com and take
a look at the Woody Allen interview. It's a powerful video.
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
On Hey, we got a lot to get to today.
The war crimes hoax, it's almost over, so Malia unbelievable fraud.
We'll get to the Christmas tree lighting. We'll get to
the New York Times. We'll get to Luigi Mangeon. You
know it's a year ago. It's the one year anniversary
of that horrible shooting. We'll get to Mom, Donnie and
(00:28):
Net and Yahoo, and we'll get to Trump's arrangement syndrome,
new research coming out about it. We'll get to Christmas
parties and a whole lot more so. The the Democrats
trying everything. You notice they abandoned Epstein. You haven't heard
them mentioned Epstein in two three weeks. They gave up
on that. It didn't test well, it didn't focus group well,
(00:49):
it wasn't working. They think the war crimes hoax, this
will take down the entire Trump administration, or at least
get rid of Pete Hexath. It will do neither of
those things. Hex Off is fine. He's not going anywhere, obviously.
If you're going to blow up a drug boat, a
coke boat, a narco boat, as they call him if
(01:11):
you're going after the car, tell to blow up the boat.
You drop a lot of bombs, not one. This new ridiculous,
preposterous Democrat rule that you're only allowed to one bomb,
one bomb. If you don't get him with the one bomb,
that's it doesn't make any sense. Anybody in the history
of warfare, any general, any leader, will tell you you
(01:32):
drop a lot of bombs and try to wipe them out.
President Trump is just kind of laughing at this. He
kind of enjoys this. He likes when the Democrats come
up with a hoax where he knows it's not going
to work, and in the end it'll fizzle out. What's
today Thursday, They'll try it one last time. They'll try
it for another couple of days. They'll do it on
(01:53):
the Sunday shows, and then that's it. That'll be the
end of the war crimes hoax. They'll see it's going nowhere,
doesn't work. Signal Chat. They're trying to bring that back
with the Inspector General's report that Pete hagsf did actually
violate used classified information on the signal Chat. What a violation. Now, actually,
(02:16):
if you look down on the fine print, it says,
it's not actually anything wrong, and the Secretary of Defense
had the power at any time to declassify anything, so
it's up to him what he puts up there. And
as far as using the signal gate app, the signal
app that was standard operating procedure in the Pentagon, it
was in the Pentagon Manual to use it. It was
(02:37):
just fine. So this Inspector General's report means absolutely nothing.
It's coming way too late. Nobody even remembers this signal thing.
These things mean absolutely nothing. But if you're the democratic
echo chamber, the media democratic echo chamber, MSNBC, CNN, you
need these kind of things. It's like doing a drama
(03:00):
on TV. You create these little subplots and you create
these little things to talk about. So it's MSNBC. They
got to fill twenty four hours a day. Ms now,
it's now ms NOW. So they create this nonsense and
they just keep talking about it. And all the old
ladies who are the big Trump Arrangement syndrome people, and
all the crazy left wingers can run around and talk
(03:22):
about this war crimes, signal Gate and yell and screaming
about this. Normal people don't know what the hell they're
talking about normal people are going to work, living their lives,
watching the football game. I didn't know anything about signal gate,
war crime, solks. What are you talking about? So it'll
go away now, you know, starting what's today, Yeah, next
(03:44):
week it starts where it gets into the really heavy
Christmas party season. And every day, if you're in Washington,
there's a million Christmas parties these people have to go to.
In Congress, in government, there's a million Christmas parties for
all the lobby the suppliers, the vendors, the contractors, that
all the people that they deal with. So they'll be
(04:07):
all snarled up and tied up for the next couple
of weeks with Christmas, and it's Congress, they take a
you know, like a million vacation days. They'll be gone
very early for Christmas, so you got another few days
and then they're all busy and gone and that's the
end of it. Nobody will be concentrating on anything. Even
the White House. There's a White House Christmas party every
night for the next couple of weeks, sometimes two or
(04:29):
three at night. They just do these NonStop Christmas parties.
So it's just about over Hey. The other big thing
is the Somalia story. The Somalian community in Minnesota, led
by Ilan Omar, committed massive fraud. It appears to be
a massive, massive fraud. A billion dollars went missing, and
(04:49):
all kinds of screen schemes, left wing schemes, pandemic schemes,
but all run by the crazy left wing of the
Minnesota Democrat. A lot of Somalians in there. They set
a billion dollars. But Mike Johnson, Congress is going to
look into this.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
It's staggering. Tom Emmer, of course, is from Minnesota, and
he tells us that it may be as much as
two billion dollars in broader Minnesota. And Tim Wallas has
a lot to answer for it. And Congress has a
lot of interest in this, and we're going to track
it down. And I think I think the authorities will
as well.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, so Congress will get to it. They'll be criminal charges.
Looks like it's going to be two billion, two billion.
He got the Somalian Democrats, Elon Omar and all these
people that did it. Now, of course they're Democrats. The
media will pay no attention to this, they'll bury the story,
never mention it. But you wonder when you watch Donald
(05:41):
Trump sometimes, why does he say these things? Well, why
does he have to talk like that? Well, sometimes it's
very strategic. So he started talking about Omar, Somalia, all
of this stuff, and he crossed the line.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
She should be allowed to be a congresswoman. And I'm
sure people are looking at that, and she should be
throwing the hell out of our country and most of
those people they have destroyed Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Okay, that's okay, now that part. See you stop right there. Yeah,
if you're that big of crook you're involved in that
bigger fraud, of course you should be thrown out of Congress.
And if it's that big of fraud in you the
frauded your community, of course you should be thrown out. Okay, there,
he's fine, But then he keeps going, We're.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Going to go the wrong way if we keep taking
in garbage into our country. Elan Omar is garbage. She's garbage,
Her friends are garbage. These are people that work. These
are people that say, let's go, come on, let's make
this place great. These are people that do nothing but complain.
They complain and from where they came from, they got nothing.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
You know, if they.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Came from paradise, and they said, this isn't paradise. But
when they come from hell and they complain and do nothing,
but bitch, we don't want them in our country.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Okay, you're not supposed to talk like that if you're
the president. But it's brilliant what he's done there. Brilliant.
He's put the media, the left wing in a real bine.
Now to them, that's racist, ethnic slur, really over the top, wrong, disgusting.
You can't talk like it. So they want to go
after him on this. They want to really go after
(07:17):
him on that stuff. But to do that, they got
to publicize the Somalia scandal, the two billion fraud. They
wanted to bury the story and hide it now because
they want to use this stuff again, so they're going
to have to go after it. So he's put them
in a real trap where now they have to cover
this story. So now it will get attention. Now, it
(07:38):
will go before Congress. Now they'll be hearing so brilliant
on the part of Donald Trump. Now people will always
complain they were doing this before you got into politics.
I remember, for the twenty years before he was in politicy,
same thing. He'd say things that were over the top,
that were outrageous, and lets supposed to talk like that.
Why does he have to say these things? But I
(08:01):
was thinking about this yesterday. If you go back, you
know how, you're on Twitter or you're somewhere online, and
they show you these clips. Look at what Obama said
fifteen years ago, and he's talking about we must close
the border. We got to get rid of these illegals.
They'll always find these clips. God, check out my Twitter
right now. There's a clip of Bernie Sanders twenty years
ago sounding like Trump. But we got to get rid
(08:21):
of these illegals. We can't let them in. They're taking
jobs from America. So you see all these clips of
these Democrats, they try to show you how hypocritical they are.
That look what they said back then. They said the
same things Trump said. They said, but you have to
remember it. This is the real difference between the Democrats
and Trump. Democrats when they're running will always say the
(08:41):
right things. You watch Hillary when she was running, you
can see all this campaign video, and Bill Clinton and
Obama they said all the right stuff when they were running.
They said exactly what you want them to say, exactly
what they agree with you complete then they get elected
and they don't do any of it. They don't do nothing.
Trump is the opposite. He'll say all the wrong things,
(09:02):
but then he gets in office and he actually gets
everything done. He says all the things you shouldn't say,
but he gets it done. He gets the job done,
He does the right stuff. Democrats are the opposite. When
they're running, they'll say all the right stuff, tell you
all the right things. Then when they get office, don't
do a damn thing. It's like Mom Donnie with his affordability,
and you got a few of these, Mom Donnie's the
(09:22):
one that ran in Nashville. They'll run on affordability, affordability, affordability.
They watch when they get in office, they'll not only
do nothing about affordability, everything ends up costing more. They'll
do more damage to the problem. So that's just a
democratic thing. The same thing with Newsom. Look at Newsom.
He looks good, sounds good. He's out there saying all
the right stuff. Meantime he's completely screwing up the state.
(09:44):
You know, gas is three dollars an hour, three dollars
a gallon. That's the average in America right now. Three
dollars a gallon. In twenty five states, it's below three dollars.
In California it's six fifty seven dollars. This is Newsom
say all the right things but completely screw up. He's
got the worst numbers, the worst statistics, the worst affordability,
(10:06):
the worst job lost. But he says all the right things.
And for some reason that's fine with Democrats. They like that.
Now there's this new breed of Democrats among Donni's and
all these young they look good, sound good, their social
media influencers, they're great, they're charming, and all the new
Democratic voters are voting for this. They have no interest
(10:28):
in the old dinosaurs, these old you know, they look
at Chuck Schumer like he's a mummy, like he's an
old fossil, Like he's a like a corpse. They dug up.
He just looks a thousand years old. To them. He
looks ridiculously outdated, even when he agrees with him, even
if he's talking about the bombing of the ships.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
If Trump were to order an attack on land, that
would be an act of war, and Congress would invoke
the War Powers Act. It's Congress's prerogative to.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Go to war.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
And I hope Republicans will defend that role.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
This is everything the new Democrats hate the voters now,
they hate this, oh, this old fossil. They want the
new breed, the Mom Donni's you know, Mom Donnie gets
on that social media and he talks a mile a minute,
and he sounds brilliant. He talks really fast, he's got
a great smile, he looks charming, good looking. And then
you got this old shumer with the rumpled up old suit,
(11:24):
the old man glasses that are all fogged up, and
reading it off index cards. You know, to younger voters,
they've never even seen an index card. They don't know
what the hell these things he's holding. They don't write
anything down. Everything's digital to them. They've never seen an
index card. They don't know what it is. Where you
would get such a thing. Hey, last night was the
Christmas tree lighting. I don't know what the fuss is
(11:47):
about a Christmas tree lighting. It's beautiful to see the tree.
You could walk over there right now, it's right over there,
Rockefeller Center. You see the tree. Magnificent, it's beautiful. But
the idea of watching the lighting of it, if you
went to someplace where they had beautiful lighting at a
restaurant and you walked, he say, wow, that's beautiful lighting.
Look at that. That's all you want to see? You
(12:08):
could you turn it off? I like to see you
turn it on. The idea of turning a light on it.
You want to see it on, you don't want to
see it often, then it's on. If this is that
fascinating to you to watch a tree lighting, and you
couldn't go to Rockefeller Center because you said there's ten
thousand people there, you can't get anywhere near there. It's
a myths. You can watch the tree lighting of the
Rockefeller Centered tree in person every morning at five am.
(12:30):
You know, they turn the lights off at midnight, then
they turn them back on at five am. So if
you want to see the tree lighting and Rockefeller Center
seven days a week, any morning, just go at five am.
I'll get there at ten of five or whatever, and
then you can see him turn the lights on. It's
not that exciting, but you can watch it. So this
stuff is getting bigger and bigger. More people watch this this.
(12:51):
You know they used to do the tree lighting and
then it would you know, videotape it and chop it
up and it would be this little special on Channel
four clock to seven thirty. Then it got bigger, went
to the network. All of a sudden, it was a
network show, not just Channel four, and it became like
an hour. Now it's like two hours, three hours. It's
like the Grammy Awards, twelve famous singers and roquettes and dancers.
(13:14):
It's a massive primetime special and it gets big ratings.
We didn't get the rating shit for last night, but
it'll be huge, you know. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
set a record this year. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
got unbelievable ratings. I think it was twenty six million people,
which is like the most viewers for anything on television,
(13:35):
like in seven years. I think the last thing was
an Oscar show that did twenty six million. I mean
outside of a sports event, but unbelievable. How popular the
parade is. Hey, speaking of TV, Boston Blue just got
renewed for season two. That's the spinoff from the Great
show Blue Blood. So it's only been on. It was
(13:57):
the seventh show this week, eighth show. But it's got
big ratings. They've already renewed it for season two. Pretty good, hey,
the New York Times had this big summit yesterday at
Lincoln Center, the big conference with the huge audience, and
they had that wormy weasel Andrew Sorkin moderated, and they
(14:18):
had all kinds of big guest speakers. But we give
a lot of credit to Scott Bessant, the great Scott Bessant,
who told them off right to their face right at
the New York Times summit. He said, I don't even
read the New York Times anymore, and he called Andrew
Sorkin a pop historian, which is really an insulting to him.
(14:39):
Let me see if I have the clip here, this
is this is uh, this is bessn't at the New
York Times summit, you.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
Had what was the greatest, one of the greatest scandals
of all time, that the coverage of the Biden administration,
Joe Biden's diminished capacity and the.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
Cover up there to raise these questions. Where was in
New York Times.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
We just had a three hour cabinet meeting yesterday, Andrew,
for ten months the Biden administration did not have a
cabinet meeting. How are you going to invote the twenty
fifth Amendment if the cabinet secretaries never see the president,
which they didn't.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Now you actually go to my Twitter. You got to
actually watch the clips because Andrew ross Serkin is squirming,
absolutely squirming. He's all upset and everything Best in this
saying it's driving him nuts. And at one point he says,
I just don't even read the New York Times anymore.
It's no longer the paper or record. This is right
at their Summit's a good for best and good job
(15:37):
on his part. Hey, Luigi Mans, you oon trial, as
I said, it's taking place, trying to get the evidence tossed.
He's got some pretty good lawyers and some legal experts
watch and say, these guys have I don't you know,
who knows if they'll win these arguments, but they got
some pretty good arguments to get evidence tossed out of there.
It's going to be It's an interesting case already because
it's been one year that's shooting. I remember we all
(15:59):
watched that vide remember the day had unfolded. It was
one year ago. But he's you know, it's democrats that
love him, so he's got fans and supporters cheering him
every time he comes in and out of the court.
This is a murderer, an executioner, an assassin. Democrats cheering him,
young democrats, you know, the whole nosering crowd. Women, they
(16:19):
love this guy. But it's a shooting. You know, if
you're in New York City, on the streets of New York,
you're on a surveillance camera. No matter where you are,
all of Manhattan, every inch is covered by surveillance cameras.
So he shoots the guy in the street and sidewalk
and it's all recorded. You can see him do it right.
So I don't know how he thinks he's gonna win
(16:40):
this case. I mean, we saw him do it right
on camera. But it's crazy New York City, crazy New
York judges, so who knows what could happen? Hey, well,
take some calls in just a minute. Eight hundred three
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Hey, Let's take some calls. Eight hundred three to two
one zero seven ten is the number eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten. Let's go to Rich in
Myrtle Beach. Rich, How you doing pretty good?
Speaker 8 (17:23):
Thanks?
Speaker 9 (17:23):
Mark. You know, Trumps so far.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
Ahead of these people.
Speaker 9 (17:26):
You know, he's he's got Democrats and oppressed, defending drug terrorists,
defending some millions. He just keeps putting them in a
corner and they're just so stupid they can't even see it.
And then they got a kick out of Martha Radice
on ABC saying that the fishermen climbed back into the
boat and went communications with other drug deals. That's why
they got born up a second time. So she actually
(17:46):
blew up their own hopes. It was hysterical watching these
people the way they behave.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, she's one of the funniest it. Thanks for calling Rich.
Speaker 9 (17:52):
This.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Martha Raddits is this old, worn out, weather beaten looking woman.
You see her. She's the Foreign spot, but she's lately
been the host of the Sunday Morning Show a lot,
and she's watching it yesterday. Well, there's definitely a war crime.
There's nobody that knows less about war crime rules than
Martha Radditt's. And the problem is they all live in
(18:14):
a bubble. All they know is big Trump, hating left wing, Washington,
DC swamp people. So if you live in this bubble
and you're hearing from the most biased people in the world,
you're never getting a straight story from anybody. So in
this echo chamber, it's all bobbleheads nodding at each other.
It just reinforces all these biases they have. Anyways, go
(18:36):
to Mike in Florida. Mike, how you doing. Good morning, Mark, Yes, Mike.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
I'm going to echo what Rich just said.
Speaker 10 (18:44):
It's a less than a year away from the midterms
and the Democrats have Hitchdale wagon to a very odd
team of issues. Mangione, the Somali thieves, the Venezuelan drug runners,
the illegals in you know, my grading into the country,
you know, calling for insurrection for the army. You know
(19:05):
these basically stags are cool against against the president. And
it's incredible that the communism and it's.
Speaker 9 (19:14):
The funny thing is none of those issues served their constituencies.
Speaker 10 (19:17):
Their constituencies are the ones who were impacted most by
all of those supporting all of those things.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yeah, that's a good point, but this Trump derangement syndrome
has them all going crazy. And one of the problems
is years ago the Democrats hashed the plot, will take
over the universities, will put in the most radical left
wing professors, and then to be able to get away
with that, we'll put in all the most left wing
people on the board of trustees, left wing college presidents.
(19:46):
So they became these left wing, crazy, left wing doctrination centers,
and they raised generations of these people. Well, now that
they're all the voters, they have no interest in establishment Democrats.
They don't like Bill Clinton, they don't like Chuck Schumer,
they don't like these type of Democrats. They're young and
crazy and radical left, and that's what they like. So
(20:06):
they're going to vote for Mom Donnie. They're going to
vote for that crazy woman in Tennessee, and they're going
to go for this nonsense. And the only people that
are hanging on are like the crazy radicals, Bernie Sanders
sometimes Elizabeth Warren, although these two aren't going to do
quite as well because they are old, haggard looking people.
So you're going to see this shift to the left
(20:27):
just go crazy. Now, this always goes in cycles, so
at some point it might rebound. Twenty twenty six is
the last shot that Democrats have at taking out Trump.
They they've got to win in twenty twenty six to
stop him. At least if they win, he won't have
Congress on his side. If they have a Democratic Congress,
(20:49):
they'll come after him every second. They'll hold hearings every
minute into him. They'll impeach him every six months. That's
the only shot they got if they don't win in
twenty twenty And usually the opposing party wins in the midterm,
no matter how popular the president. So there's been a
couple of exceptions, and if this becomes one of those
(21:09):
exceptions and Trump hangs on to Congress, then you'll see
a real revolution of total mutiny in the Democratic Party.
This will be too many elections they've lost. Somebody will
rise up and try to rescue the party from the radicals.
That's what That's how Bill Clinton came about. They had
gone way too far to the left. He rose up
and was powerful enough as a speaker or a leader,
(21:32):
and he led them back to the center. So somebody
will have to do that. Here, Oh, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
Meta Instagram has just ordered everybody back to work every day,
back to work five days a week. You know, they
got used to working at home Obviously we all like
(21:53):
that working from home, but especially these young little tech idiots,
they really don't like to leave their house. Has ordered
everybody back to work. It's driving them nuts. Suddenly he's
Paully and goodfellas. I'm not saying you've gotta go back
this minute, but you gotta go back. You're gonna have
to go back. Let's go to Rupert in New York City. Rupert,
how you doing?
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Hey? How you doing? You know?
Speaker 9 (22:16):
I just don't understand how how New York City has
to end this sanctuary.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
They have to end that, it has to put an
end to that.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Well, it's ridiculous, you're right, but good luck with that.
You got a democratic legislature, democratic city council. Sanctuary law
is ridiculous. It's what protects all the illegal criminals that
are here. Now, how did we end up with this
terrible sanctuary state law? How did we get this? Andrew Cuomo?
Another horrible thing he did in New York besides is
(22:47):
no bail, no jail, is closing the prisons. He's the
guy that signed this sanctuary state law that has completely
screwed up New York. Hey, when we come back, Roger
Friedman will be with us. Well, I saw him last night.
I'll tell you where in a moment on seven to
ten wr Hey. Roger Friedman, the great entertainment reporter. His
website if you should check it every day, there's always
(23:09):
good stories. Showbiz for one one dot com, Showbiz for
one one dot com. Roger Friedman, how you doing.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
I'm great. It was fun seeing you last night, Mark.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Well, last night was you know, there was Elaines, the
great celebrity restaurant for fifty years. Last night was the
reunion of Elaines. The customers, the crowd.
Speaker 8 (23:31):
But it was the fifteenth anniversary of Elaine's passing, which
she would be ninety five, I think, or ninety six.
But it's amazing the fifteen years have gone by and
the place where they had this event, called Hudson Malone
on its fifth forward fifty third Street, was packed, just
(23:53):
packed with people who'd been to Alan's an amazing situation.
She would have been so through well to see all
those people in there toasting her and you know, just
having a good time.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Except great crowd, but you know, we had seen these
people twenty years ago. Twenty five looked a lot older,
a lot of.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
These people crowd. We didn't look at it old, but
they did.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
But people always ask the same thing, Elaines. You could
go in there any night and was filled with famous faces, celebrities,
movie stars, all these making Why is there nothing like
that today?
Speaker 8 (24:32):
You know, there might be somewhere, but people don't since
the pandemic in particular, people don't really go out anymore.
They did and it's packed, but Elaine's was a place
where he weren't really late at night. At the end
of the night, you would at ten or eleven o'clock,
when you were finished at theater or dinner or whatever,
(24:53):
you would say, let's go to LANs And that's what
made it special because people came pouring in very late
and stay t in the morning and it was, you know,
lots of great conversation. I just interviewed Woody Allen. It's
on my site on Showbiz four one one. I just
interviewed Woody Allen for his ninetieth birthday ninety and ninety
(25:13):
and we had it's a great interview. It's an hour
and a half and on video, and we talked about
Elaines and he said he even at the height of
his fame with any Hall and all that. He was
the least famous person in the restaurant, and he was
constantly meeting people. In fact, he met the philosopher Simone
de Bouvoir there, of all people. I mean, that's how
(25:35):
crazy it was where people came from all over the
world to be at Alams.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Yeah, sometimes you see the biggest Hollywood writers, but they
give you an awe because like the greatest figures in
Saul Bella would be there, and this guy.
Speaker 8 (25:50):
So Robert Altman, a, Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller and
all kinds of people like that. I'm at Urdigen and
movie stars came in all the time. I used to
sit late at night with Dapney Coleman when he was
in town, and all kinds of great One night I
met Greg Olman in there. That was amazing. And Phil
Spector on my fortieth birthday. Phil Spector came in and
(26:14):
he had like ten bodyguards, all with holsters and guns.
And Elaine said to me, go talk to him, and
I'm like, I'm right, what are you talking about? He
has ten bodyguards. She goes, just go on over and
say hi. So I did, and I had a good
interview with him.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Although I remember him one night he punched somebody who
did he punch? He got no fight there one night?
Speaker 8 (26:36):
Did he really? Yeah? Not so there occasionally there were fights.
And last night in front of the bar, which is
a very nice place, this restaurant, there was some kind
of fight on the street, on the sidewalk. It was
just like a Lane's. It was like in honor of Elaane.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
So you know what, here's why there's no big celebrity
residence where you're going. There's a million sire nowadays, there's
no celebrities that everybody would know, you know, like if
I read paid six, I don't know who any of
these people.
Speaker 8 (27:05):
Are, and now well there's somebody you know. First of all,
celebrities aren't valued sort of the same way now, like
the movie studios want to have paid influencers come to
the red carpet. They walk the red carpet. You've never
heard of these people before in your life. They're dressed
very strangely, and then they're supposed to be promoting the
(27:28):
movies to their followers. Well, these people are not celebrities,
and it's very peculiar to see them at all these movies.
There's this happened this week about two different two or
three different premieres where no one knew who these people were. Yeah,
this is what this is what the studios want now.
They don't care whether you know candiceburg and let's say
(27:50):
I'm just using her as an example, or or any
you know, famous movie star comes to the red carpet.
They want someone who's on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Yeah, because you know in Kandasbergen or Clint Eastood, whoever,
or half the world doesn't know who these people are anymore.
Speaker 8 (28:05):
Yeah, that's very peculiar. I can't imagine that that's the case,
but I'm sure it probably is. And they're only in
you know, during the summer, there was this movie with
Austin Butler, and outside on the red carpet, it was
a beautiful night and there were tons of these people
walking around in costumes. Finally we said to them, who
(28:27):
are you? What is all this? And while we were
talking to them on the street, fans were coming up
to the people on the street who had nothing to
do with the movie premiere. We're coming up to them
and saying, oh, I watch you all the time, like
you watch them all the time, what do they do
you know they don't really do anything. It's a different world. Yeah,
(28:49):
you know, it's just a different world because of the
phones and the social media and the access.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Hey well, Avery, watch Roger Freeman's interview with Woody Allen
on his site showbiz for one one dot com. So
tell us more about what he owned. Is he in
good spirits? Is he looking?
Speaker 8 (29:04):
He's in great spirits. He's in good shape, he told
I got him to tell a story he had told
me a long time ago when he was a stand
up comedian and he didn't want to be a stand
up comedian, but he signed on. He had been a writer,
you know, for your show, show Sid Caesar and all
that stuff. And he got an agent and the agent said,
(29:26):
we don't represent writers, we only represent performers. So you
have to go out and do stand up comedy routine
around the country. And he didn't want to do it,
and they sent him out. And you know, he plays
the clarinet. He plays it now and played it then.
And he used to bring his records with him to
the hotel rooms, but he needed a record player. So
(29:47):
in each city he would be at the city for
a week or two weeks. He would buy a new
record player and put it in the room and play
his records and come back from the clubs. He wasn't
like the kind of comedian who stays out all night drinking.
He comes back into the room, practices the clarinet, and
then when he's finished in the city, he leaves the
record player there.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (30:07):
Now, so he left dozens of record players around the country.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
People, people under thirty are going, what the hell are
they talking about? What's a record player?
Speaker 8 (30:14):
What's there's a record player? Well, you know, he also
writes on an underwood manual typewriter. You kidd, No, He's
written every single thing he's ever written on the same typewriter.
He's never seen a computer. I've seen I have this
and I've taken a nice picture of him in his
office with the with the with the typewriter. He goes
(30:38):
to I said, how do you get the ribbons? He says, well,
I go down I go down the Union Square. There's
some little store still there that's selling the ribbons to
this typewriter from seventy four years ago when he got it. Wow,
isn't that amazing?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yeah, New York go watch this interview. It's on Showbiz
fo one dot com. Hey, did you know Olivia Newsey?
Did you ever work with her?
Speaker 8 (31:01):
No? I never knew her. You know, her book is out.
It's a Littal failure. It's like number ten thousand or
something on Amazon. Nobody wants to buy it. It's the
kind of thing that's like a media story. It's just
for media gossip. Regular people who are listening to this
don't care about it. But Olivia Newsy apparently was writing
(31:21):
a profile of Robert Kennedy Junior last year for New
York Magazine, and she was having an affair with him,
and she was blocking negative stories in the rest of
the press about him. She's completely crazy. She had a
live in fiance and he's a journalist too, and he
was taking notes the whole time that this was going on.
(31:42):
She thought he wasn't paying attention, just having this affair
with Kennedy who said he wanted to impregnate her in
emails and stuff like that. And the fiance, who had
his own problems at New York Magazine a couple of
years ago. He kept track of all this. So he's
been putting this up now on substack and charging people
(32:03):
to read it. Of course, no one's read. No one's
paying for it. Well, what about the journals?
Speaker 2 (32:07):
They're all Kennedy haters? Why don't they? But how come
they're not buying this book?
Speaker 8 (32:12):
Now, they're not buying the book. They have no interest
in her because this is legiti because MSNBC, you know,
they don't like Trump, obviously, but they're actual journalists and
this woman has done something that's a violation of every
journalistic ethic. So and I think people on all sides
feel that way. So she's she's kind of cooked, and
(32:33):
she's really doubled down on it. And Vanity Fair hired
her to be their West Coast editor, and now of
course they want out of the contract. They didn't realize
how crazy she was.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
She's like a man out of country now.
Speaker 8 (32:44):
So, yes, she's a reporter without a magazine. So it's
a disaster. Meantime, Kennedy's wife, Cheryl Hines, published her own
book knowing this one was coming out, she published her
own book to get ahead of it, and that book
us all the two copies. Oh okay, maybe three.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Yeah, we're out of time, but everybody check out this
good story's new stuff every day Showbiz four one one
dot com Showbiz four one one dot com and take
a look at the Woody Allen interview. It's a powerful video.
And Roger Friedman thanks for being with us. Thank you,
take care, don't forget Buck and Clay Noon Today, excellent
(33:25):
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Speaker 1 (33:41):
R Mister New York Mark Simone seven wor.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Well, Hey, tomorrow's gonna be It's gonna be cold today,
but tomorrow's gonna be the coldest day of the year.
It says like high thirty one, but the real feel
will be like in the teenth It's gonna be really
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