November 12, 2025 • 32 mins
Obamacare is in jeopardy at the moment due to the government shutdown and a potential vote. Does the Trump administration have a plan to put more money in Americans' pockets by redoing the healthcare system? Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews writer Alan Zweibel. How will streaming change the landscape of viewers watching live TV in the future? Alan is working on a Broadway show highlighting the life of comedian Rodney Dangerfield!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is seven or boy, the Mark Simoon Show starts now.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, oh, yesterday, well it was no. I mean a
couple of times going to actual, actual snowflakes, and I
was freezing a little warmer today. It'll get back into
the fifties this weekend. That's good news. We got a
lot to get to. We'll get to Chuck Schumer the
end of his career. We'll get to Momdani the beginning
of this Meyrill nightmare his We'll get to another new
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Democrat candidate that's absolutely frightening. We'll get to We'll get
to everybody loves Raymond. They got big news there. We'll
get to the next media attacks that are coming, the
media doing it. Used to be report the news. Now
it's spend all day trying to get Trump on something.
We'll tell you what's what's coming next. The shutdown. The
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vote will take place in the House later today that
will end the shutdown. They'll vote to end it. I
know this. Some people talking about posing some Democrats say
they will not go along with it. They'll end up
they'll end up ending it today. The vote will be successful,
and the shutdown will end tonight, probably six seven, o'clock
somewhere around there, and then air traffic control will start
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to get better. The air traffic controllers have to come back.
It's a slow process. It won't be probably till Monday
that gets back to normal. They'll start coming back slowly
over the weekend. Here's the Transportation Secretary Duffy.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
We had four staffing triggers today. On Saturday there were
eighty one. I think Sunday was fifty three.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
So real issues. I don't know what he's talking about.
They love to use that jargon staffing triggers. Ah, a
staffing trigger. Who knows what the hell that is.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
But air traffic controllers are seeing and the end to
the shutdown and feel more hopeful, and they're coming in
to their facilities. So we're grateful to them for all
that they're doing.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, when they weren't getting paid, you know, they didn't
get paid for forty days, and some wouldn't work without
getting paid. They just called in sick. But some even
without getting paid, felt the duty to come in and
they did. And President Trump said he will try to
get each one that came in and worked during the shutdown,
get them a ten thousand dollars bonus, so that'll be
good news. Once of shutdowns over, everybody gets paid. Everybody
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gets their back pay, so nobody loses a penny on this.
And then the big issue then after the shutdown, the
Democrats got nothing out of it. But nobody ever does
no party, Republicans or Democrats. Fourteen shutdowns. It's never done
any good for one side or another. The shutdown caucus
is oh for fourteen. It never accomplishes anything. You could
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argue that one thing Democrats got out of it is
and they'll tell you this, well, the one thing they
got out of it. And now we brought the focus
back to healthcare, Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, fixing it.
We brought the focus back on that. That'll be in
the spot like that's what we one. But at some
point people just start to realize, wait a minute, there's
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something this Obamacare was obviously a failure. First of all,
they called it the Affordable Care Act. If it's so affordable,
why would you need a subsidy. It's supposed to be
affordable by definition. But the other thing is people are
starting to realize, wait a minute, the fact that we're
talking about it, the fact that it's a major issue
means it's not working. If it was working great, you
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wouldn't be hearing about it. It wouldn't be an issue.
The fact that it's an issue, the fact that you
had to shut down a government over it, means it's
a disaster. It's not working at all. It's a big problem.
President Trump keeps talking about, you know, redoing it. Come
up with something else. You know, people say, well, where's
the plan, what's the plan? He doesn't have one yet,
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but you know, and he's not a healthcare expert, but
he certainly got a lot a lot of people there
that are and they could come up with something much better. Remember,
President Trump's the only president ever in history who took
office having already run healthcare plans. You know, he's a
guy that had ten thousand employees and lots of companies
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and lots and lots and lots and lots of people
to get healthcare for so over forty years he's been
buying and getting healthcare plans. And when you do that
for a major company with thousands of employees, you got
to meet with these healthcare plan companies and go over them.
So he's got some ex it's minor compared to a
government healthcare plan. But he's got more experience at this
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than any other president ever has. Here he is on the.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Premiums have gone up like rocket ships, and I'm not
just talking about recent I want instead of going to
the insurance companies, I want the money to go into
an account for people with the people buy their own
health insurance.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
It's so good, the.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Insurance will be better, it'll cost less. Everybody's going to
be happy. They're going to feel like entrepreneurs are actually
able to go out and negotiate their own health insurance.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, okay, I mean that sounds good on paper, it
doesn't actually always work in reality. But the thing is,
if let's say it's costing you one hundred thousand per
person to give them the healthcare, it might be cheaper
just to here's thirty thousand go out and buy regular healthcare.
So he's got something there. He hasn't got it figured out,
but he's got something there. Here's the real problem with Obamacare.
The idea was you'd make everybody go on it, and
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then all the people under forty never need anything. They
don't have any big medical expenses, so they're just pumping
money in. And that's paying for the older people who
need the services. But courts looked at that and it
looked like the courts were going to rule against that,
saying you just can't mandate it, you can't force people
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onto healthcare. But so before the courts even got to that,
and I think it was the twenty seventeen legislation, they
removed the mandate. They just knew it wouldn't hold up,
so that there was no more mandate. And if younger
people don't have to get the healthcare, they don't because
they don't get sick. So without all the young people
paying in, it was just old people taking money out.
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So the Obamacare system collapsed under the weight doctor Oz,
I mean, he's one of the guys that knows a
little about this kind of stuff, will help try to fix.
Here's doctor Alot.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
I'm going to share with you numbers that will blow
your mind. And these are the actual numbers from CMS.
We believe four point four million people are not appropriately
enrolled in Obamacare, which means they're fantoms. They don't know
they have the insurance, they don't want the insurance, they
didn't need the insurance. They're already enrolled in some other policies,
so we as taxpayers are paying for four point four
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million people to have full benefits for no good reason.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
That's the other problem. If the government runs the healthcare
government has tended to be sloppy, stupid, and you know,
the private sector, it's their money, so they police themselves
a lot better.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
It's over eleven million people who have Obamacare never use
their policies. They don't buy medications with it, they don't
see doctors and use it, which means they often don't
know they have it. And yet we're still stuck with
the bill. The President doesn't want that anymore. He wants
to waste, fraud and abuse taken out of the system.
He wants to take care of the people getting the
ACA Obamacare, here's insurance, and we want to bring privatelycarried
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people into the system as well. And that's what he's
talking about. Let Americans use their money wisely.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
That's a good argument. You know, government overpays like the
ten percent for things. You know, a simple thing like
pav in the highway. If the private sector does it
pave a a mile of highway forty thousand dollars, when
the government does it a million a mile. I mean,
he just overpay for everything. So it's a good argument. Now,
Hakeem Jeffreys, that's silly. The House Leader of the Democrats,
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such a dumb guy, but he was asked about what
doctor Oz said.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Here, Nobody who's serious in this country takes doctor Oz seriously,
no one, And I mean it's shocking that the guy
even was confirmed. I'm not going to respond to any
comments from Randall's like doctor Oz, who is woefully unqualified
to be in whatever position he holds any administration.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
He's a joke. That's pretty funny, actually, I think I
just think of doctor Oz, one of the greatest heart
surgeons in America, an incredible medical career at all the
top hospitals. You couldn't have a bigger career as a
doctor or in the medical world. Hakim Jeffries IQ of
ninety ninety five maybe never did a thing in his life,
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doesn't know anything, has no skills, so he had to
go in a government thinks Oz as a joke. Hakim
Jeffries Oz has literally, well almost literally double the IQ
of Hakim Jeffries.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
You know he didn't understand the message.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Well his eyes responding to Hakim Jeffries.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
You know, he didn't understand the message. That's an important one,
so he tried to attack the messenger with an ad
hominem approach. But you know, that's not how you deal
with the challenges that twenty four million people are facing
now because the Democratic Party has not been able to
really put forward a program that could work. Just throwing
more money at it is not a strategy. That's a
tactic that has already created immense amounts of fraud in
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the system.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, very good point. Now I say nothing came of
the shutdown, Well, some good came out of it. We're
probably going to get rid of Chuck Schumer. His term
is till he doesn't run for reelection till twenty twenty eight,
so he actually serves till January of twenty twenty nine.
That's three more years of this guy. But the good
news is Democrats can't take three more years of this guy.
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They want to remove him as House leader, a Senate leader.
They want to remove him as the Senate leader, which
will be a huge humiliation for him. President Trump.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
They just went too far. He thought he could break
the Republicans, and the Republicans broke him. We have good policy,
they have bad policy, and there's something I don't know
if it's Trump derangement or they just crazed. They're like
crazed lunatics, but you know, we have just great policy.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, now Schumer's finished. They all hate him, the high
falutin Morning Joe, Rachel Maddow type shows, the John Stewart,
they're going after him like crazy. But even the dumb shows,
even the low IQ shows, and sometimes they're a better
barometer because if the low IQ shows have figured it out,
that means everybody has like listen to the view when
they talk about Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
So the bottom line is the Democrats went into this
after a blue wave out of the American people saying
we do want the opposition, the working people want the
Democratic Party to fight for them, and now they just
cave and surrendered. I think Chuck Schumer his days are
over and he cannot put that and he cannot keep
his trockets together. If he cannot keep hisquokets together, he
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needs to go.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
He needs to be Yeah, the audience applauding wildly to
get rid of Chuck Schumer. Hey, there's a lot of
media attacks coming against Donald Trump. You're gonna be hearing
about these for the next day or two. First is
Jeffrey Epstein. You're going to keep hearing about secret emails,
undiscovered email he knew emails have emerged. Epstein says, Trump
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knew all about everything, about the women, about all of it. Well,
none of this is true. It turns out what they're
talking about. There their emails where he's writing. Michael wolf
the sleezy, dirty tabloid writer, the sleezy, dirty gossip writer,
contact at Epstein at some point and Epstein's writing back
and forth. Now everybody knows about Michael Wolfe, I mean
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people that deal with him. Guy will say anything about
Trump if you If you don't believe me, just go
check his Instagram. Every day he makes an Instagram video
where he's sitting in a different part of his house
or he's in his backyard looks like the Hamptons and
he's just sitting there bad mouthing Trump the worst attacks
in the world. None of them are true. Go back
and watch the old ones. You'll see nothing he said
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ever came true. And he's written two books about Trump,
and he gets himself on every Sunday show. It just
makes up crap about Trump and a lot of times,
a lot of people that are media savvy. When you
get one of those guys, one of those reporters, writers,
calumnist that will print anything and they don't really verify it.
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They'll print anything you tell them. You know, you can
tell him anything, so you just make up crap and
tell him. You know, if you're talking to some very
very top journalist the world, you gotta be careful. You know,
if you tell him something that's not true, he's gonna
check it and then he's not gonna trust you anymore.
But when you're talking to him Michael, well, if you
can tell him anything and he'll he'll run with it.
So that's Epstein talking to Wolf. And it's just it's
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it's just nonsense. It's this is back in twenty nineteen,
so it's years ago. It was twenty and sixteen or
twenty eleven or something. It's way way way back. It's
it's a long time ago. And he says Trump Trump
knew about all the girls. Well, he probably did, because
I remember way back when, twenty years ago. More than that,
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Trump warning me and other people to stay the hell
away from Epstein. In fact, I mean I knew Epstein
not well. But I one reason is Trump and two
other people who you wouldn't know, always warned me stay
away from this guy. Hey, don't go near this guy.
And then the other thing is there about Marlaga. You know,
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Trump banned Epstein from mar A Lago when Epstein first
got to Palm Beach as a very wealthy guy. When
you're a wealthy hotshot and new to Palm Beach, first
thing you do is you joined mar A Lago. And
he was spending a lot of time there, but he
was hitting on a young girl that worked in the
locker room. Turned out it was the daughter of a member.
Trump went crazy, banned him, threw him out of the club,
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never spoke to him again. So you're going to see
one of these emails. Epstein tells Michael Wolfe. I was
never a member of mar A Lago. I was never
a member. As if Trump were lying now, it could
be was never a member because back in those days,
if you were a friend of Trump's you didn't have
to be a member. You could go anyway. It wasn't
that formal. Whenever you want to go, you just called
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Trump's office and they would put your name on at
the gate. To come in anytime you want, you just
call you'd call Rona or before that, you'd call Norma
and you could go to mar alago A lot of
his friends just went there, some of them famously not
paying for anything, charging everything to Trump. But you could
do that back then, So don't trust any of these emails.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
The other thing that's going to come out, you know,
Letitia James is in big trouble mortgage fraud. They came
up with all this stuff. She lied and lied to
the bank, lied to you know, mortgage fraud. She claimed
it would be a primary residence when it couldn't be
set it on several documents. This is all fraud and
it also is going to lead to indictments for tax
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evasion all that kind of stuff. So they're going to
start to go after this that somehow whoever got these
documents and dug up this fraud, got them illegally, that
it was illegal for them to even see these documents
or get them. So they're going to try all that.
You're going to see that coming the next few days.
They're also going to be going after cash Patel for
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they're gonna claim he leaked stuff or he revealed stuff
too early. They're also going to go after his use
of private jets. You know, look at this he went
it's got a girlfriend in Puerto Rico or someplace. He
went down there twice to see her and took private
jets both as well. A lot of private jet use.
But you're gonna the truth is as FBI director, he's
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not allowed to fly commercial. That's the rule, that's the law.
He's got to fly on a private jet at all times.
So now President might still be unhappy that he's using
private jets a little too much, but so expect these
attacks to come. We'll get to Mom Donnie coming up.
He's done a couple of interesting interviews yesterday. What he's
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going to be up to. Democrats have somebody even worse
than Mom Donnie. They're about to unleash on us. We'll
get to that coming up, and a whole lot more. Hey,
and if you use open table, we're going to warn
you about a few things coming up, and we'll take
some calls. Next. Eight hundred three two one zero seven
ten is the number, eight hundred three to two one
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zero seven ten.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Let's get back to the Mark Simone show on woor.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Well, let's take some calls. Let's go to uh Rich
and Myrtle Beach. Rich, how you doing.
Speaker 9 (16:00):
The windy down here yesterday and today? But it should
be better by the end of the week. You know,
you brought up so many points. I don't even know
where to begin. But we'll start with Jeffries. You know,
when this country was founded, it was the best and
the brightest became our politicians. They did a couple of
terms and got the got the heck out, guys like
Jeffries and Schumer and uh, what's the name from California
(16:23):
who's just passed away? Uh? You know these people. If
you don't, if this isn't a perfect case for to
get rid of all, to get term limits, to get
rid of.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
All, well that's the argument that was the original idea.
Citizen legislatures comes sir for a while, go back. You're right,
you professional politicians, you get hacks that can't make it
in the private sector. But how are you gonna get
Only Congress can vote for term limits, so they're not
going to vote for they're not going to term limit
themselves out this. Yeah, but you're right, there's got to
be a way to do it. Let's go to uh,
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Mara in Nevada, Mara, how you doing so good?
Speaker 10 (16:59):
I'm talking to you child, Vincent, Mark, I have two things.
Vincent suggested Sal from Patsy's as a junior honorary member
of the fan club. Of course, Vincent's honorary that means
your seventy. You're in your seventies, So Salas.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I understand. But Sal's a big guy, big restaurant, tourist,
busy and the time for your fan club. But what's
the second?
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Wait?
Speaker 10 (17:21):
Mark, here's why I called yeah, imagine an ugly, ugly
thing is going to happen. July fourth, twenty twenty sixth.
What's the anniversary of our beloved with the United States
and my beloved New York City, which was the first
capital where George Washington was inaugurate Forlornc's cavern. George Washington
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said goodbye to the Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Mark, Mara, we got it's only a two hour show. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
all right, well yeah, twenty twenty six is two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary. All kinds of celebrations planned. Let's go
to Mike and Florida. Mike, how you doing good morning?
Speaker 11 (18:01):
Mark?
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Yes, it's amazing. How how clever. The Democrats are.
Speaker 11 (18:06):
You know, they have this thing that with Trump that
they keep dredging up every you know, they have five
or six items and then it's in a cycle. So
you know, for the next week or so, it's going
to be the Epstein stuff again, as you pointed out,
and then it'll go back to Ice being Nazis again.
And the Republicans are always left with this Montani election,
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you would think you would hear something to defect. We're
going to bring him into court for every single thing
like they do to Trump that he tries to pass. No,
Republicans are going.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
To be like, oh, well, you're going to try to
get along.
Speaker 11 (18:38):
With them and see make do when them up only
And it's just amazing the two different parties the way
they Yeah, you're.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Right, but the Republican argument is you don't want to
behave like Democrats, you don't want to get like that.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Yeah, and because you would win.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
The I mean the argument. You can't remember most of
these said protesters that don't work, they've got nothing to do.
They're one hundred years old or they're twenty, they're just
not doing it. You know, Republicans all go to work
every day. They're all busy. I don't have time. And remember,
for Democrats, politics is a cult, a religion. It's for Republicans,
they're busy with work and family and everything else.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
I'd like to see them be a little bit more aggressive.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
All right, now, you're not wrong, You're not wrong. Let's
go to Bill in Pennsylvania. Bill, how you doing?
Speaker 12 (19:25):
How you doing?
Speaker 9 (19:26):
Mark?
Speaker 12 (19:26):
I got a real healthcare problem the other day.
Speaker 9 (19:30):
I had a heart.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Attack and I, oh, I hope you're okay.
Speaker 12 (19:35):
Well, the only insurance I had was for my cat
being and had that insurance, and when I went into
the hospital, I said, with this addition symptoms you have
and this insurance, we're going to have to put you down.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
What's something most important thing? Are you all right now?
Are you okay?
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (19:58):
Sure, I am fine.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I'm just all right. You're gonna take care of yourself now.
You're gonna eat better, sleep more, no smoking, no drinking.
Speaker 9 (20:06):
You didn't think that was funny at all to bubbly down.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Oh it was a joke, all right. Anyway, thanks for calling.
Let's go to Shelley in Long Island. Shelley, how you doing?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (20:18):
Hey, Mark? Love the show about at least Stephonic and
Bruce Blakeman going against each other.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
Possibly.
Speaker 13 (20:26):
Don't you think that at least Stephonic would be better
to go up against Hocal woman to woman. We really
need to win New York. We don't need these two
in fighting.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
And my second.
Speaker 13 (20:38):
Question is Trump. Is Trump aware of the Islamification going
on across our nation?
Speaker 9 (20:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah, of course he is. Yeah, Now this can be
an interesting fight. Stefanic Bruce Blakeman. The convention is I
think in February, the convention, they decide who's who they're
gonna go with. Yes, Stephonic would be great. She's great
attacking Hokel. You saw her battle Hocal in those congressional hearings.
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She's really good at taking on Hokel. Blakeman would be
the better governor obviously, I mean, because he's you know,
she's a legislator. He's a real, you know, management guy.
He runs Nassau County. He's been the governor of Nassau
County for four years and been brilliant at it. So
obviously Blakeman would do better downstate. Stefanally could do better upstate.
And it's a good problem to have two great candidates.
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It's a great problem if I'd go with Blakeman. But
it's having these two great candidates having a battle of
out good situation to be in. So you know one thing,
you know you're gonna have a good, good candidate this
time around for governor. Hey, when we come back, Alan's
Why Bell, the great producer, writer, a comedian will be
with us, and we'll get a lot of television stuff
to talk about. Primetime television it's pretty much fading away.
(21:51):
It's uh, well, we'll get into why why streaming is
just killing it and a whole lot. Hey, he's also
working on a Rodney Dangerfield movie. We'll get to that
coming up next on seven to ten.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
W R seven t WRS. Mark Simone Show continues.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Now, Well, Alan's y Bell, the great writer, producer, comedian,
best selling author. Get his book his life story. It's
very funny, a lot of great stories. It's called Laughlines.
You can get it on Amazon. Laugh Lines. And it's
great to come back with us. Alan's Y Bell. How
you doing.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
I'm great. How are you Mark?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I'm good. Hey. First I want to ask you about
the Network TV. Primetime Network TV used to be the
biggest sitcoms and dramas. It's all going away. You know,
even Blue Blood's highest rated to get canceled because it
costs too much money to do car chases, and it's
like making a movie every week, and they replace it,
you know, they replace it with game shows and stuff.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Well, game shows are very very cheap to produce, right, yeah,
and very few car chases, you know, in a game show. Okay, Now,
family feud. I never saw of cards. Yeah, you know,
it's what it is is. Yeah, you've got escalating a
production course you have. As a series gets older and older,
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it's cast gets more money and more money, and after
a while, I guess the networks look at it and go, Okay,
what kind of return are we getting on these investments?
And it's a shame because a lot of good shows
get canceled for that reason.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Years ago, Prime Time you got the thirty million viewers,
you could pay for everything. But now if you're going
to get two million viewers, you can't have a twenty
five cars in a chase scene and four thousand trailers.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
You know what it is?
Speaker 5 (23:35):
The pie is split into so many pieces now, so
many sessions. You know, you would go back with showing
our age but there was a time where it was
only ABC, CBS, and NBC, and then Fox came along.
In the late eighties, we had four networks. Now cable
streaming all the other platforms. Everybody is fighting for a
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little piece of that same pie, meaning the viewing audience.
Plus you know, it's no longer a communal gathering to
watch the show. It used to be everybody was around
the TV eight o'clock on Sunday nights because then Sullivan
was on, and then you changed the channel, which was
a big to do. At nine o'clock, Bonanza came on
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on NBC. But now you know your DV are it
and you watch it at your leisure, or you'd get
a family. I know there are times where I'll discover
that my wife and I, who are in different rooms.
Let's say in our house we're watching the same show
at the same time. We shouldn't we be next to
each other.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
No, yeah, not a good idea. But so last night,
all of a sudden, they had the Golden Girls thirtieth
anniversary or whatever it was, it special where they brought
them all back. And then next month, later this month,
we're gonna have Everybody Loves Raymond thirtieth anniversary. Is this
the new cheap skate form of programming for a network TV?
Speaker 5 (24:59):
Well, you know, I think it's a combination of a
lot of things. You get, you know, it's fun for
the audience to see who they were, remember who they were,
because you're still alive and young, younger in reruns, right,
this is what they look like now, we all aged
thirty years. It's fun to see them together again. And
you know something, I don't know the cost of those things,
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but it seems to me that everybody's happy to do it.
You know, years ago there was a Murphy Brown one,
and you know, if you go down a list, it's
been a lot of reunion shows, so you know, I
guess they're here to stay. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Also, if you were in the cast of the show,
you know, the big star might have had a piece
of the show, made a fortune or still a big star.
But if you were just in the cast, this is
your big chance to get back on television. Already forgot
about the cast?
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Well, that's absolutely true. You're in front of a camera,
you're in front of an audience, and you go, oh, wow,
she's still alive. Who knew?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Hey, tell us about your working on this ride the
danger of project. I can't wait to see this because
it's everybody loves this guy. Tell us what's going on
with that?
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Well, we had a reading of the first act a
couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
It went well, Broadway show, right, a Broadway play, this
would be a Broadway show.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
And I got this terrific director named Maritz I can't
pronounce his last name, Van then s and a bunch
of continents. Okay, great guy, great director. And now it's
going to be our turn to go in and dig
a little deeper and finish the story that I've been
(26:36):
working on. So it's really exciting. You know. I love
the theater. I've done it a number of times off
Broadway and on Broadway with Billy Crystal's show Seven hundred Sundays,
and Martin Short had a show that I co wrote. So,
you know, something being you know, having come from live TV,
(26:58):
you know, with an audience and your right thing in
the morning, and it's on TV at night. This is
the closest you get to it because movies take forever
and you're usually doing the same same scene over and
over again for the crew. Okay, and so to have
an audience response to something that you wrote is no
better feeling for a writer.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Yeah, this is not a musical, is it.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
You can sing while you're sitting in your teeth, Mark,
but no, nobody on stage will be seen.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Good, good good. I don't want that.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
And well no, no, no, no, no, no no, there won't
be any no.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Thing, oh good, oh good, it'll be now. Rodney Dangerfield
great comedian, funny guy, but there was like a dark
side to him. Will we see some of that?
Speaker 12 (27:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (27:44):
I think you have to. I think you know, you
have a main character that had demons and had vices,
and there are reasons for it, and but what the
reason he was such a hero is that he took
those demons, and he took those vices and the things
that he felt inferior about and he made that into
(28:05):
his act. I don't get no respect, Okay, it was
he looked at head on, you know what I mean.
So that came from a hurtful place, but at the
same time, it was his way of getting a laugh,
getting acceptance from audiences, you know, and taking control. So
(28:26):
there's a great degree of heroism there.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah. Now, obviously casting is crucial and it'd be great
to star in this great Broadway show, this play, but
kind of unflattering if you're going to get cast as
Rodney Dansfield. Somebody says, why you look just like.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
You know. We've had some talks about it, but right now,
as the writer, I'm just writing it for Rodney and
Rodney's voice. Okay. Yeah, Once it's done and we're happy
with the script, or the producers are happy with the script,
then it's going to be a time to talk Turkey. Okay,
who can play him? Okay? And then you know, there's
(29:07):
I'm sure that there'll be a lot of suggestions. I'm
sure there will be a lot of disagreements, and you know,
in some stars are so big that you know they
don't know addition, so you got to guess whether or
not so and so can do it. You know. It's
but that's down the road. So right now I'm pretending
like Rodney's still alive and he's on stage delivering what
(29:28):
I'm writing.
Speaker 9 (29:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
The only other problem Rodney had incredible delivery for those
one liners. And I don't care how good an actor
you are, you're not gonna have that comic delivery. That's
gonna be a problem. Isn't it.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Well, you know something, a lot of people impersonate him.
You're right, Rodney did have that great delivery and the timing.
You know, I remember when I wrote for him, this
is before Saturday Night Live, so this is fifty one,
fifty two years ago.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Now.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
He would labor over syllables, or he would take a pause,
or he would you know, look off stage. It was
all calculated. What seemed like an had lib what seemed
like in the moment a sort of reaction that he
would have. Those were very, very well rehearsed. It was
(30:17):
like jazz, you know what I mean. He was free flowing,
but at the same time he knew but he knew
where he was going.
Speaker 9 (30:24):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yeah, he was a real craftsman. He would record every
shows a little cassette recorder and he had those index cards.
Absolutely well, right faster, we want to see this. This
is going to be a big I guarantee this will
be a huge, huge blockbuster hit.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Well, I sure, hope. So I just want to get
these words down on paper so we can take the
next step. But thank you for your confidence.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
I know, is there is there any idea, any date,
any idea when to lappen.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
No, no, no, I think that will happen once everyone satisfied
with the script, and then they'll look at the calendar
to look at you know. The biggest thing also was
one or theaters available, you know, so those will be
in the hands of people like producers and agents and
whatever who know that end is the business.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Well, Alan's white Belt, great talking to everybody. Get his
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of that. And Alan's White Belt. Thanks for being with us.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
Thanks for having me Mark, see you so all right?
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Take care. Oh yes, everybody loves Raymond. If you're there
is going to be a reunion, I'll tell you all
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Now.
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, oh, yesterday, well it was no. I mean a
couple of times going to actual, actual snowflakes, and I
was freezing a little warmer today. It'll get back into
the fifties this weekend. That's good news. We got a
lot to get to. We'll get to Chuck Schumer the
end of his career. We'll get to Momdani the beginning
of this Meyrill nightmare his We'll get to another new
(00:30):
Democrat candidate that's absolutely frightening. We'll get to We'll get
to everybody loves Raymond. They got big news there. We'll
get to the next media attacks that are coming, the
media doing it. Used to be report the news. Now
it's spend all day trying to get Trump on something.
We'll tell you what's what's coming next. The shutdown. The
(00:53):
vote will take place in the House later today that
will end the shutdown. They'll vote to end it. I
know this. Some people talking about posing some Democrats say
they will not go along with it. They'll end up
they'll end up ending it today. The vote will be successful,
and the shutdown will end tonight, probably six seven, o'clock
somewhere around there, and then air traffic control will start
(01:17):
to get better. The air traffic controllers have to come back.
It's a slow process. It won't be probably till Monday
that gets back to normal. They'll start coming back slowly
over the weekend. Here's the Transportation Secretary Duffy.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
We had four staffing triggers today. On Saturday there were
eighty one. I think Sunday was fifty three.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
So real issues. I don't know what he's talking about.
They love to use that jargon staffing triggers. Ah, a
staffing trigger. Who knows what the hell that is.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
But air traffic controllers are seeing and the end to
the shutdown and feel more hopeful, and they're coming in
to their facilities. So we're grateful to them for all
that they're doing.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, when they weren't getting paid, you know, they didn't
get paid for forty days, and some wouldn't work without
getting paid. They just called in sick. But some even
without getting paid, felt the duty to come in and
they did. And President Trump said he will try to
get each one that came in and worked during the shutdown,
get them a ten thousand dollars bonus, so that'll be
good news. Once of shutdowns over, everybody gets paid. Everybody
(02:21):
gets their back pay, so nobody loses a penny on this.
And then the big issue then after the shutdown, the
Democrats got nothing out of it. But nobody ever does
no party, Republicans or Democrats. Fourteen shutdowns. It's never done
any good for one side or another. The shutdown caucus
is oh for fourteen. It never accomplishes anything. You could
(02:43):
argue that one thing Democrats got out of it is
and they'll tell you this, well, the one thing they
got out of it. And now we brought the focus
back to healthcare, Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, fixing it.
We brought the focus back on that. That'll be in
the spot like that's what we one. But at some
point people just start to realize, wait a minute, there's
(03:05):
something this Obamacare was obviously a failure. First of all,
they called it the Affordable Care Act. If it's so affordable,
why would you need a subsidy. It's supposed to be
affordable by definition. But the other thing is people are
starting to realize, wait a minute, the fact that we're
talking about it, the fact that it's a major issue
means it's not working. If it was working great, you
(03:26):
wouldn't be hearing about it. It wouldn't be an issue.
The fact that it's an issue, the fact that you
had to shut down a government over it, means it's
a disaster. It's not working at all. It's a big problem.
President Trump keeps talking about, you know, redoing it. Come
up with something else. You know, people say, well, where's
the plan, what's the plan? He doesn't have one yet,
(03:47):
but you know, and he's not a healthcare expert, but
he certainly got a lot a lot of people there
that are and they could come up with something much better. Remember,
President Trump's the only president ever in history who took
office having already run healthcare plans. You know, he's a
guy that had ten thousand employees and lots of companies
(04:09):
and lots and lots and lots and lots of people
to get healthcare for so over forty years he's been
buying and getting healthcare plans. And when you do that
for a major company with thousands of employees, you got
to meet with these healthcare plan companies and go over them.
So he's got some ex it's minor compared to a
government healthcare plan. But he's got more experience at this
(04:29):
than any other president ever has. Here he is on the.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Premiums have gone up like rocket ships, and I'm not
just talking about recent I want instead of going to
the insurance companies, I want the money to go into
an account for people with the people buy their own
health insurance.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
It's so good, the.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Insurance will be better, it'll cost less. Everybody's going to
be happy. They're going to feel like entrepreneurs are actually
able to go out and negotiate their own health insurance.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, okay, I mean that sounds good on paper, it
doesn't actually always work in reality. But the thing is,
if let's say it's costing you one hundred thousand per
person to give them the healthcare, it might be cheaper
just to here's thirty thousand go out and buy regular healthcare.
So he's got something there. He hasn't got it figured out,
but he's got something there. Here's the real problem with Obamacare.
The idea was you'd make everybody go on it, and
(05:17):
then all the people under forty never need anything. They
don't have any big medical expenses, so they're just pumping
money in. And that's paying for the older people who
need the services. But courts looked at that and it
looked like the courts were going to rule against that,
saying you just can't mandate it, you can't force people
(05:37):
onto healthcare. But so before the courts even got to that,
and I think it was the twenty seventeen legislation, they
removed the mandate. They just knew it wouldn't hold up,
so that there was no more mandate. And if younger
people don't have to get the healthcare, they don't because
they don't get sick. So without all the young people
paying in, it was just old people taking money out.
(05:57):
So the Obamacare system collapsed under the weight doctor Oz,
I mean, he's one of the guys that knows a
little about this kind of stuff, will help try to fix.
Here's doctor Alot.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
I'm going to share with you numbers that will blow
your mind. And these are the actual numbers from CMS.
We believe four point four million people are not appropriately
enrolled in Obamacare, which means they're fantoms. They don't know
they have the insurance, they don't want the insurance, they
didn't need the insurance. They're already enrolled in some other policies,
so we as taxpayers are paying for four point four
(06:29):
million people to have full benefits for no good reason.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
That's the other problem. If the government runs the healthcare
government has tended to be sloppy, stupid, and you know,
the private sector, it's their money, so they police themselves
a lot better.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
It's over eleven million people who have Obamacare never use
their policies. They don't buy medications with it, they don't
see doctors and use it, which means they often don't
know they have it. And yet we're still stuck with
the bill. The President doesn't want that anymore. He wants
to waste, fraud and abuse taken out of the system.
He wants to take care of the people getting the
ACA Obamacare, here's insurance, and we want to bring privatelycarried
(07:04):
people into the system as well. And that's what he's
talking about. Let Americans use their money wisely.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
That's a good argument. You know, government overpays like the
ten percent for things. You know, a simple thing like
pav in the highway. If the private sector does it
pave a a mile of highway forty thousand dollars, when
the government does it a million a mile. I mean,
he just overpay for everything. So it's a good argument. Now,
Hakeem Jeffreys, that's silly. The House Leader of the Democrats,
(07:35):
such a dumb guy, but he was asked about what
doctor Oz said.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Here, Nobody who's serious in this country takes doctor Oz seriously,
no one, And I mean it's shocking that the guy
even was confirmed. I'm not going to respond to any
comments from Randall's like doctor Oz, who is woefully unqualified
to be in whatever position he holds any administration.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
He's a joke. That's pretty funny, actually, I think I
just think of doctor Oz, one of the greatest heart
surgeons in America, an incredible medical career at all the
top hospitals. You couldn't have a bigger career as a
doctor or in the medical world. Hakim Jeffries IQ of
ninety ninety five maybe never did a thing in his life,
(08:25):
doesn't know anything, has no skills, so he had to
go in a government thinks Oz as a joke. Hakim
Jeffries Oz has literally, well almost literally double the IQ
of Hakim Jeffries.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
You know he didn't understand the message.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Well his eyes responding to Hakim Jeffries.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
You know, he didn't understand the message. That's an important one,
so he tried to attack the messenger with an ad
hominem approach. But you know, that's not how you deal
with the challenges that twenty four million people are facing
now because the Democratic Party has not been able to
really put forward a program that could work. Just throwing
more money at it is not a strategy. That's a
tactic that has already created immense amounts of fraud in
(09:02):
the system.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, very good point. Now I say nothing came of
the shutdown, Well, some good came out of it. We're
probably going to get rid of Chuck Schumer. His term
is till he doesn't run for reelection till twenty twenty eight,
so he actually serves till January of twenty twenty nine.
That's three more years of this guy. But the good
news is Democrats can't take three more years of this guy.
(09:25):
They want to remove him as House leader, a Senate leader.
They want to remove him as the Senate leader, which
will be a huge humiliation for him. President Trump.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
They just went too far. He thought he could break
the Republicans, and the Republicans broke him. We have good policy,
they have bad policy, and there's something I don't know
if it's Trump derangement or they just crazed. They're like
crazed lunatics, but you know, we have just great policy.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, now Schumer's finished. They all hate him, the high
falutin Morning Joe, Rachel Maddow type shows, the John Stewart,
they're going after him like crazy. But even the dumb shows,
even the low IQ shows, and sometimes they're a better
barometer because if the low IQ shows have figured it out,
that means everybody has like listen to the view when
they talk about Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
So the bottom line is the Democrats went into this
after a blue wave out of the American people saying
we do want the opposition, the working people want the
Democratic Party to fight for them, and now they just
cave and surrendered. I think Chuck Schumer his days are
over and he cannot put that and he cannot keep
his trockets together. If he cannot keep hisquokets together, he
(10:32):
needs to go.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
He needs to be Yeah, the audience applauding wildly to
get rid of Chuck Schumer. Hey, there's a lot of
media attacks coming against Donald Trump. You're gonna be hearing
about these for the next day or two. First is
Jeffrey Epstein. You're going to keep hearing about secret emails,
undiscovered email he knew emails have emerged. Epstein says, Trump
(10:54):
knew all about everything, about the women, about all of it. Well,
none of this is true. It turns out what they're
talking about. There their emails where he's writing. Michael wolf
the sleezy, dirty tabloid writer, the sleezy, dirty gossip writer,
contact at Epstein at some point and Epstein's writing back
and forth. Now everybody knows about Michael Wolfe, I mean
(11:15):
people that deal with him. Guy will say anything about
Trump if you If you don't believe me, just go
check his Instagram. Every day he makes an Instagram video
where he's sitting in a different part of his house
or he's in his backyard looks like the Hamptons and
he's just sitting there bad mouthing Trump the worst attacks
in the world. None of them are true. Go back
and watch the old ones. You'll see nothing he said
(11:35):
ever came true. And he's written two books about Trump,
and he gets himself on every Sunday show. It just
makes up crap about Trump and a lot of times,
a lot of people that are media savvy. When you
get one of those guys, one of those reporters, writers,
calumnist that will print anything and they don't really verify it.
(11:56):
They'll print anything you tell them. You know, you can
tell him anything, so you just make up crap and
tell him. You know, if you're talking to some very
very top journalist the world, you gotta be careful. You know,
if you tell him something that's not true, he's gonna
check it and then he's not gonna trust you anymore.
But when you're talking to him Michael, well, if you
can tell him anything and he'll he'll run with it.
So that's Epstein talking to Wolf. And it's just it's
(12:20):
it's just nonsense. It's this is back in twenty nineteen,
so it's years ago. It was twenty and sixteen or
twenty eleven or something. It's way way way back. It's
it's a long time ago. And he says Trump Trump
knew about all the girls. Well, he probably did, because
I remember way back when, twenty years ago. More than that,
(12:41):
Trump warning me and other people to stay the hell
away from Epstein. In fact, I mean I knew Epstein
not well. But I one reason is Trump and two
other people who you wouldn't know, always warned me stay
away from this guy. Hey, don't go near this guy.
And then the other thing is there about Marlaga. You know,
(13:01):
Trump banned Epstein from mar A Lago when Epstein first
got to Palm Beach as a very wealthy guy. When
you're a wealthy hotshot and new to Palm Beach, first
thing you do is you joined mar A Lago. And
he was spending a lot of time there, but he
was hitting on a young girl that worked in the
locker room. Turned out it was the daughter of a member.
Trump went crazy, banned him, threw him out of the club,
(13:23):
never spoke to him again. So you're going to see
one of these emails. Epstein tells Michael Wolfe. I was
never a member of mar A Lago. I was never
a member. As if Trump were lying now, it could
be was never a member because back in those days,
if you were a friend of Trump's you didn't have
to be a member. You could go anyway. It wasn't
that formal. Whenever you want to go, you just called
(13:44):
Trump's office and they would put your name on at
the gate. To come in anytime you want, you just
call you'd call Rona or before that, you'd call Norma
and you could go to mar alago A lot of
his friends just went there, some of them famously not
paying for anything, charging everything to Trump. But you could
do that back then, So don't trust any of these emails.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
The other thing that's going to come out, you know,
Letitia James is in big trouble mortgage fraud. They came
up with all this stuff. She lied and lied to
the bank, lied to you know, mortgage fraud. She claimed
it would be a primary residence when it couldn't be
set it on several documents. This is all fraud and
it also is going to lead to indictments for tax
(14:24):
evasion all that kind of stuff. So they're going to
start to go after this that somehow whoever got these
documents and dug up this fraud, got them illegally, that
it was illegal for them to even see these documents
or get them. So they're going to try all that.
You're going to see that coming the next few days.
They're also going to be going after cash Patel for
(14:45):
they're gonna claim he leaked stuff or he revealed stuff
too early. They're also going to go after his use
of private jets. You know, look at this he went
it's got a girlfriend in Puerto Rico or someplace. He
went down there twice to see her and took private
jets both as well. A lot of private jet use.
But you're gonna the truth is as FBI director, he's
(15:06):
not allowed to fly commercial. That's the rule, that's the law.
He's got to fly on a private jet at all times.
So now President might still be unhappy that he's using
private jets a little too much, but so expect these
attacks to come. We'll get to Mom Donnie coming up.
He's done a couple of interesting interviews yesterday. What he's
(15:27):
going to be up to. Democrats have somebody even worse
than Mom Donnie. They're about to unleash on us. We'll
get to that coming up, and a whole lot more. Hey,
and if you use open table, we're going to warn
you about a few things coming up, and we'll take
some calls. Next. Eight hundred three two one zero seven
ten is the number, eight hundred three to two one
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zero seven ten.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Let's get back to the Mark Simone show on woor.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Well, let's take some calls. Let's go to uh Rich
and Myrtle Beach. Rich, how you doing.
Speaker 9 (16:00):
The windy down here yesterday and today? But it should
be better by the end of the week. You know,
you brought up so many points. I don't even know
where to begin. But we'll start with Jeffries. You know,
when this country was founded, it was the best and
the brightest became our politicians. They did a couple of
terms and got the got the heck out, guys like
Jeffries and Schumer and uh, what's the name from California
(16:23):
who's just passed away? Uh? You know these people. If
you don't, if this isn't a perfect case for to
get rid of all, to get term limits, to get
rid of.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
All, well that's the argument that was the original idea.
Citizen legislatures comes sir for a while, go back. You're right,
you professional politicians, you get hacks that can't make it
in the private sector. But how are you gonna get
Only Congress can vote for term limits, so they're not
going to vote for they're not going to term limit
themselves out this. Yeah, but you're right, there's got to
be a way to do it. Let's go to uh,
(16:56):
Mara in Nevada, Mara, how you doing so good?
Speaker 10 (16:59):
I'm talking to you child, Vincent, Mark, I have two things.
Vincent suggested Sal from Patsy's as a junior honorary member
of the fan club. Of course, Vincent's honorary that means
your seventy. You're in your seventies, So Salas.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I understand. But Sal's a big guy, big restaurant, tourist,
busy and the time for your fan club. But what's
the second?
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Wait?
Speaker 10 (17:21):
Mark, here's why I called yeah, imagine an ugly, ugly
thing is going to happen. July fourth, twenty twenty sixth.
What's the anniversary of our beloved with the United States
and my beloved New York City, which was the first
capital where George Washington was inaugurate Forlornc's cavern. George Washington
(17:44):
said goodbye to the Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Mark, Mara, we got it's only a two hour show. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
all right, well yeah, twenty twenty six is two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary. All kinds of celebrations planned. Let's go
to Mike and Florida. Mike, how you doing good morning?
Speaker 11 (18:01):
Mark?
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Yes, it's amazing. How how clever. The Democrats are.
Speaker 11 (18:06):
You know, they have this thing that with Trump that
they keep dredging up every you know, they have five
or six items and then it's in a cycle. So
you know, for the next week or so, it's going
to be the Epstein stuff again, as you pointed out,
and then it'll go back to Ice being Nazis again.
And the Republicans are always left with this Montani election,
(18:26):
you would think you would hear something to defect. We're
going to bring him into court for every single thing
like they do to Trump that he tries to pass. No,
Republicans are going.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
To be like, oh, well, you're going to try to
get along.
Speaker 11 (18:38):
With them and see make do when them up only
And it's just amazing the two different parties the way
they Yeah, you're.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Right, but the Republican argument is you don't want to
behave like Democrats, you don't want to get like that.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Yeah, and because you would win.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
The I mean the argument. You can't remember most of
these said protesters that don't work, they've got nothing to do.
They're one hundred years old or they're twenty, they're just
not doing it. You know, Republicans all go to work
every day. They're all busy. I don't have time. And remember,
for Democrats, politics is a cult, a religion. It's for Republicans,
they're busy with work and family and everything else.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
I'd like to see them be a little bit more aggressive.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
All right, now, you're not wrong, You're not wrong. Let's
go to Bill in Pennsylvania. Bill, how you doing?
Speaker 12 (19:25):
How you doing?
Speaker 9 (19:26):
Mark?
Speaker 12 (19:26):
I got a real healthcare problem the other day.
Speaker 9 (19:30):
I had a heart.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Attack and I, oh, I hope you're okay.
Speaker 12 (19:35):
Well, the only insurance I had was for my cat
being and had that insurance, and when I went into
the hospital, I said, with this addition symptoms you have
and this insurance, we're going to have to put you down.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
What's something most important thing? Are you all right now?
Are you okay?
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (19:58):
Sure, I am fine.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I'm just all right. You're gonna take care of yourself now.
You're gonna eat better, sleep more, no smoking, no drinking.
Speaker 9 (20:06):
You didn't think that was funny at all to bubbly down.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Oh it was a joke, all right. Anyway, thanks for calling.
Let's go to Shelley in Long Island. Shelley, how you doing?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (20:18):
Hey, Mark? Love the show about at least Stephonic and
Bruce Blakeman going against each other.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
Possibly.
Speaker 13 (20:26):
Don't you think that at least Stephonic would be better
to go up against Hocal woman to woman. We really
need to win New York. We don't need these two
in fighting.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
And my second.
Speaker 13 (20:38):
Question is Trump. Is Trump aware of the Islamification going
on across our nation?
Speaker 9 (20:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah, of course he is. Yeah, Now this can be
an interesting fight. Stefanic Bruce Blakeman. The convention is I
think in February, the convention, they decide who's who they're
gonna go with. Yes, Stephonic would be great. She's great
attacking Hokel. You saw her battle Hocal in those congressional hearings.
(21:04):
She's really good at taking on Hokel. Blakeman would be
the better governor obviously, I mean, because he's you know,
she's a legislator. He's a real, you know, management guy.
He runs Nassau County. He's been the governor of Nassau
County for four years and been brilliant at it. So
obviously Blakeman would do better downstate. Stefanally could do better upstate.
And it's a good problem to have two great candidates.
(21:27):
It's a great problem if I'd go with Blakeman. But
it's having these two great candidates having a battle of
out good situation to be in. So you know one thing,
you know you're gonna have a good, good candidate this
time around for governor. Hey, when we come back, Alan's
Why Bell, the great producer, writer, a comedian will be
with us, and we'll get a lot of television stuff
to talk about. Primetime television it's pretty much fading away.
(21:51):
It's uh, well, we'll get into why why streaming is
just killing it and a whole lot. Hey, he's also
working on a Rodney Dangerfield movie. We'll get to that
coming up next on seven to ten.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
W R seven t WRS. Mark Simone Show continues.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Now, Well, Alan's y Bell, the great writer, producer, comedian,
best selling author. Get his book his life story. It's
very funny, a lot of great stories. It's called Laughlines.
You can get it on Amazon. Laugh Lines. And it's
great to come back with us. Alan's Y Bell. How
you doing.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
I'm great. How are you Mark?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I'm good. Hey. First I want to ask you about
the Network TV. Primetime Network TV used to be the
biggest sitcoms and dramas. It's all going away. You know,
even Blue Blood's highest rated to get canceled because it
costs too much money to do car chases, and it's
like making a movie every week, and they replace it,
you know, they replace it with game shows and stuff.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Well, game shows are very very cheap to produce, right, yeah,
and very few car chases, you know, in a game show. Okay, Now,
family feud. I never saw of cards. Yeah, you know,
it's what it is is. Yeah, you've got escalating a
production course you have. As a series gets older and older,
(23:10):
it's cast gets more money and more money, and after
a while, I guess the networks look at it and go, Okay,
what kind of return are we getting on these investments?
And it's a shame because a lot of good shows
get canceled for that reason.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Years ago, Prime Time you got the thirty million viewers,
you could pay for everything. But now if you're going
to get two million viewers, you can't have a twenty
five cars in a chase scene and four thousand trailers.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
You know what it is?
Speaker 5 (23:35):
The pie is split into so many pieces now, so
many sessions. You know, you would go back with showing
our age but there was a time where it was
only ABC, CBS, and NBC, and then Fox came along.
In the late eighties, we had four networks. Now cable
streaming all the other platforms. Everybody is fighting for a
(23:59):
little piece of that same pie, meaning the viewing audience.
Plus you know, it's no longer a communal gathering to
watch the show. It used to be everybody was around
the TV eight o'clock on Sunday nights because then Sullivan
was on, and then you changed the channel, which was
a big to do. At nine o'clock, Bonanza came on
(24:20):
on NBC. But now you know your DV are it
and you watch it at your leisure, or you'd get
a family. I know there are times where I'll discover
that my wife and I, who are in different rooms.
Let's say in our house we're watching the same show
at the same time. We shouldn't we be next to
each other.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
No, yeah, not a good idea. But so last night,
all of a sudden, they had the Golden Girls thirtieth
anniversary or whatever it was, it special where they brought
them all back. And then next month, later this month,
we're gonna have Everybody Loves Raymond thirtieth anniversary. Is this
the new cheap skate form of programming for a network TV?
Speaker 5 (24:59):
Well, you know, I think it's a combination of a
lot of things. You get, you know, it's fun for
the audience to see who they were, remember who they were,
because you're still alive and young, younger in reruns, right,
this is what they look like now, we all aged
thirty years. It's fun to see them together again. And
you know something, I don't know the cost of those things,
(25:20):
but it seems to me that everybody's happy to do it.
You know, years ago there was a Murphy Brown one,
and you know, if you go down a list, it's
been a lot of reunion shows, so you know, I
guess they're here to stay. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Also, if you were in the cast of the show,
you know, the big star might have had a piece
of the show, made a fortune or still a big star.
But if you were just in the cast, this is
your big chance to get back on television. Already forgot
about the cast?
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Well, that's absolutely true. You're in front of a camera,
you're in front of an audience, and you go, oh, wow,
she's still alive. Who knew?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Hey, tell us about your working on this ride the
danger of project. I can't wait to see this because
it's everybody loves this guy. Tell us what's going on
with that?
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Well, we had a reading of the first act a
couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
It went well, Broadway show, right, a Broadway play, this
would be a Broadway show.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
And I got this terrific director named Maritz I can't
pronounce his last name, Van then s and a bunch
of continents. Okay, great guy, great director. And now it's
going to be our turn to go in and dig
a little deeper and finish the story that I've been
(26:36):
working on. So it's really exciting. You know. I love
the theater. I've done it a number of times off
Broadway and on Broadway with Billy Crystal's show Seven hundred Sundays,
and Martin Short had a show that I co wrote. So,
you know, something being you know, having come from live TV,
(26:58):
you know, with an audience and your right thing in
the morning, and it's on TV at night. This is
the closest you get to it because movies take forever
and you're usually doing the same same scene over and
over again for the crew. Okay, and so to have
an audience response to something that you wrote is no
better feeling for a writer.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Yeah, this is not a musical, is it.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
You can sing while you're sitting in your teeth, Mark,
but no, nobody on stage will be seen.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Good, good good. I don't want that.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
And well no, no, no, no, no, no no, there won't
be any no.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Thing, oh good, oh good, it'll be now. Rodney Dangerfield
great comedian, funny guy, but there was like a dark
side to him. Will we see some of that?
Speaker 12 (27:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (27:44):
I think you have to. I think you know, you
have a main character that had demons and had vices,
and there are reasons for it, and but what the
reason he was such a hero is that he took
those demons, and he took those vices and the things
that he felt inferior about and he made that into
(28:05):
his act. I don't get no respect, Okay, it was
he looked at head on, you know what I mean.
So that came from a hurtful place, but at the
same time, it was his way of getting a laugh,
getting acceptance from audiences, you know, and taking control. So
(28:26):
there's a great degree of heroism there.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah. Now, obviously casting is crucial and it'd be great
to star in this great Broadway show, this play, but
kind of unflattering if you're going to get cast as
Rodney Dansfield. Somebody says, why you look just like.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
You know. We've had some talks about it, but right now,
as the writer, I'm just writing it for Rodney and
Rodney's voice. Okay. Yeah, Once it's done and we're happy
with the script, or the producers are happy with the script,
then it's going to be a time to talk Turkey. Okay,
who can play him? Okay? And then you know, there's
(29:07):
I'm sure that there'll be a lot of suggestions. I'm
sure there will be a lot of disagreements, and you know,
in some stars are so big that you know they
don't know addition, so you got to guess whether or
not so and so can do it. You know. It's
but that's down the road. So right now I'm pretending
like Rodney's still alive and he's on stage delivering what
(29:28):
I'm writing.
Speaker 9 (29:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
The only other problem Rodney had incredible delivery for those
one liners. And I don't care how good an actor
you are, you're not gonna have that comic delivery. That's
gonna be a problem. Isn't it.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Well, you know something, a lot of people impersonate him.
You're right, Rodney did have that great delivery and the timing.
You know, I remember when I wrote for him, this
is before Saturday Night Live, so this is fifty one,
fifty two years ago.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Now.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
He would labor over syllables, or he would take a pause,
or he would you know, look off stage. It was
all calculated. What seemed like an had lib what seemed
like in the moment a sort of reaction that he
would have. Those were very, very well rehearsed. It was
(30:17):
like jazz, you know what I mean. He was free flowing,
but at the same time he knew but he knew
where he was going.
Speaker 9 (30:24):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yeah, he was a real craftsman. He would record every
shows a little cassette recorder and he had those index cards.
Absolutely well, right faster, we want to see this. This
is going to be a big I guarantee this will
be a huge, huge blockbuster hit.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Well, I sure, hope. So I just want to get
these words down on paper so we can take the
next step. But thank you for your confidence.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
I know, is there is there any idea, any date,
any idea when to lappen.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
No, no, no, I think that will happen once everyone satisfied
with the script, and then they'll look at the calendar
to look at you know. The biggest thing also was
one or theaters available, you know, so those will be
in the hands of people like producers and agents and
whatever who know that end is the business.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Well, Alan's white Belt, great talking to everybody. Get his
book laugh Lines. You've got a lot of great stories
and you'll learn a lot about a lot about the
entertainment and show business and comedy books called Laughlines. It's
on Amazon. Follow him on Instagram and Twitter and all
of that. And Alan's White Belt. Thanks for being with us.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
Thanks for having me Mark, see you so all right?
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Take care. Oh yes, everybody loves Raymond. If you're there
is going to be a reunion, I'll tell you all
about it coming up in the next hour. Hey, don't
forget Buck and Clay at noon today with an excellent
show and then Bell most listen to radio show in
America Sean Hannity at three, Jesse Kelly at six, and
we're thrilled to have Jimmy Fayla in the lineup.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
He does a very funny excellent show every night at
nine on seven to ten wo R Mark.
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