October 9, 2025 • 31 mins
Israel and Hamas have agreed to the 1st phase of a peace deal put in place by President Trump to release Israeli hostages. Mark takes your calls! The Affordable Care Act, also known as "Obama Care," may be on the brink of being wiped out if Republicans override Democrats in the ongoing government shutdown.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fly from Midtown Manhattan. Here comes the Mark Simone Show
on seven to ten.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Wr Hey, it's a Thursday. We got a lot to
get to, big, big, big deal in the peace deal
in the Mideast. We'll get to that, the Nobel Prize,
We'll get to the Yankees, We'll get to the stock market.
We'll get to the New Jersey debate. Last night, people
think Mikey Cheryl has seen some real trouble in the
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internal polls. She seemed to change her tone and change
a lot of stuff for last night's debate. And the
same thing for Cuomo. He's getting desperate. There was a
major shocking flip flop from Cuomo. We'll get to that
coming up. And well, let's start with Israel the Middle East.
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The peace deal looks like it's done. It looks like
it'll get signed over the weekend. President Trump planning to
go to Egypt to sign this bill.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I may go there sometime towards the end of the week,
maybe on Sunday actually, and we'll see. But there's a
very good chance to Negotiations are going along very well.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It looks like it's done. Hamas will release the hostages.
They'll start with the living hostages, believed to be about twenty.
They'll release them immediately. They'll release the remaining hostages, the
bodies of the other hostages. Israel's going to give up
something like nineteen hundred prisoners. All right, that's not great,
but you got to do that. The deal looks pretty good.
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President Trump. Tomorrow's Friday, he goes to get his annual
physical Walter Reed Medical Center, and then after that is
expected to head to the Middle East Saturday or Sunday.
It's an amazing accomplishment. It's certainly worthy of a Nobel Prize.
Even in Gaza. Even in Gaza they're cheering him on
the streets of Gaza and screaming Nobel Prize for Trump
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can't get it because the Nobel Prize is a totally
corrupt award. It's the most slanted partisan, a left wing
liberal award. If you look at the list of who
was denied a Nobel Prize, it's amazing, from Gandhi to
all sorts of people. But if you go to the
Nobel Prize for literature, some of the greatest figures in
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literature were denied the Nobel Prize, from Mark Twain to Tolstoy,
to It's an endless list, and it was always because
they weren't they weren't liberal enough, they didn't like their politics.
It's the most political award in the world, and the
most fascinating thing about it is to this day the
Nobel Prize has this incredible reputation, totally undeserved. It's just
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a wacky partisan award, yet they still have this prestige
the Nobel Prize. You know, the worst economist in the
history of the world was Paul Krugman the New York Times,
that bug eyed weirdo who got everything wrong. Every prediction, forecast,
everything he ever wrote turned out to be totally wrong.
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He has the Nobel Prize for economics. So you remember
when they were trying to go after Trump and they
put out a letter from this signed by thirteen Nobel
Prize winners. Well, right there, you knew it was a
slanted partisan the word. Yet somehow, you know, a lot
of people's minds, it has this prestigious reputation. So the
Nobel Prize comes out tomorrow. There's no chance of Trump
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getting it because he's not left wing wacko. Also, I
would assume it's coming out tomorrow. This was decided long ago.
They're not picking the winner tonight. So it comes out tonight.
Tomorrow will be the announcement. It means absolutely nothing. It's
the silliest towards but the Israel peace Deal unbelievable. And
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you know when you talk about the art of the deal,
and sometimes Democrats will say, well, where's the great negotiator? Well,
here it was, Here it was, and there's nobody savvier
at this stuff, and Benjamin Netanyahu gets somehow Trump got
leverage over net and Yahoo and strategically carefully over the
last few weeks and months, somehow it kind of boxed
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him in a little, so he went along with this.
Sometimes it's just luck in some of these deals. But
even Democrats looking at this privately saying this was all skill,
not luck, And a lot of credit goes to Jared Kushner,
normally useless when it comes to the White House, but here,
this is what he was meant to do. This is
where he excelled. Steve Whitkoff the same, and Trump pointing
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out Mike Huckabee was a big, big part of this process.
Hu could be the ambassador to Israel. You wouldn't think
he would be so Israel savvy, but he's spent a
lot of time there over the years. It's something that
means a lot to him. So he was great at this.
So that will that will happen most likely over the
weekend hostages. First release of the release of all the
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living hostages expected on Monday. So you got this fat
slob governor of the Illinois Pritzker, This Ralph Cramdon looking guy,
huffing and puffing. What it's all about? Really, he wants
to be a twenty twenty eight candidate. He has no
shot at all because he has no personality, nothing, nothing
(05:17):
interesting about him. He's kind of a troll like to
look at. So he's got no shot at all, especially
against a Gavin Newsom or other slick, smart candidates with personality.
He's got no shot at all. But he's trying to
get there, and he thinks by being the biggest Trump
fighter in the world. He's a little nutty when he
gets into Trump fighting. Remember the convention. He got up
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there and he said he opened with and he got
huge applause. He said he's going to talk about Trump.
He said, time out of here from a real billionaire,
and the audience applauded, implying Trump's not a real billionaire. Well,
at the time, Pritzker worth about one billion, Trump worth
about seven billions. I don't know what the hell he's
talking about. And then here he is yesterday. But he
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just doesn't want He wants to keep that crime in Chicago.
There's a lot of killing. It's a killing field. Thirty
five forty people shot every weekend in Chicago. He wants
to keep it that way. He's demented, literally unhinged.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
And this is somebody who's so insecure that he lashes out.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Pretending that he can come arrest people for no reason
at all.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
He can't.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
He isn't going to do it.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Taco Trump always chickens out. It's back to taco. I
think I think that's kind of been proven wrong. Now
Pritzker keeps arguing, you cannot send troops national Guard or military.
You can't send troops into an American city state. The
federal government can never do that. And if they do that,
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it's the worst violation of the cont it's the total
end of democracy. You cannot do that. Well, of course
you can, and it's been done before in riots in
all sorts of situations. Nineteen sixty seven, Ryot Johnson said,
troops into cities done all the time. I'll give you
the best example was John F. Kennedy. Back then, it
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was horrible, horrible segregation, and black students couldn't go to
college in Mississippi and Georgia and Atlanta. You remember of
those governors, those awful governors, Lester Maddocks and George Wallace
and others who would stand in the doorway of the
school blocking it so black kids couldn't attend college. Well,
Kennedy sent troops in lots and lots and lots of
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troops to integrate those colleges. It was a big deal
in nineteen sixty one, sixty two, massive amounts of troops
sent in. Now, of course it was Kennedy. He's a Democrat,
so there was nothing but applause. And he was a hero.
And these same Democrats told you this is the most heroic,
wonderful thing any president's ever done. But now, if the
president sends in troops, it's the end of our democracy.
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It's a crime, it's a but again, the incredible hypocrisy
democrats are famous for. So hey, they had that mayoral
forum yesterday at the New York Athletic Club, the beautiful,
prestigious New York Athletic Club, one of the city's finest
private clubs. And it was private. But we're starting to
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see some of the video and we're starting to hear
from some of the people that weren't there. And it
was all business leaders. All these business leaders, a lot
of them basically said, when it came to Mom Donnie,
it was a lot of double talk. It was dancing
around the questions, skated through generalities. One person said, went
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out of his way to slam President Trump over and
over again. Other attendees said, listen, he had tremendous energy
and youth, but nothing of substance. There was no substance,
and it didn't make us feel like he could do
the job. Curtis, they liked, They said he In some
cases there were surprise he had such detailed knowledges of
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economic He's been working with great, great economic team Larry
Kudlow and others advising him. They said, yeah, he was.
There was a lot of clarity on how he would
deal with crime and all that. So they like Curtis.
Now when it comes to Cuomo, now, this crowd was
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a lot of Democrats, and it wasn't so much what
Cuomo was saying, but a number of people in the
crowd said they were quite surprised, quite shocked. They hadn't
seen him speak in person in a long long time.
They said, there was a little shocked. He looked very old,
he lacked energy. Here's one said, I hadn't seen him
in a while, and I was quite disturbed by it.
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Another attendee found Cuomo living in the past, seemed to
be more focused on things in the past than talking
about the future. Other comments, here's this Catherine Wilde, she
warns this business partnership. She's a real wacko. She's praising
a Zora and Mamdani. I rest my case, total whacka
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Mamdonnie's positions have become more substantive and realistic. No need
to read the rest of her statement. She's a nutty character. Uh,
Andrew Cuomo shocked everybody with a major flip flop. Years ago.
You remember about was it five six years ago? There
was this whole thing about closing Rikers Island. Rikers Island
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is the big prison that's on an island. It's Rikers Island.
It's the perfect place for a prison. It's on an island.
You're gonna have a more secure location. And it's a
very big island. There's enormous space there. Rikers Island is
a number of buildings. You couldn't ask for a better
set up for a prison. Lots of buildings, there's room
to build more buildings, all sorts of stuff. All of
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a sudden, there was a proposal to close down Rikers Island. Well,
what are you gonna do for a prison? Well, they'll
build five other prisons. They'll build one in each borough,
which didn't seem to make any sense. It would make
more sense they have one big central prison. And why
would you put a prison into each neighborhood in different boroughs?
Who in Queen's wants the prison in their neighborhood? Why
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would anybody in the Bronx want a prison in their neighborhood.
Why would it? Was a ridiculous idea. Where did it
come from? By the way, Cuomo, this is what he
was talking about yesterday. He says, we got to stop
this plan to close Rikers Island. It's crazy to close
Rikers Island. It's wacko. Why would you do it? We
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must stop this plan. Well, here's the problem. It was
his plan. He's the one that proposed it. He's the
one that started it. So a lot of people think
he saw some internal polling that was frightening him, that
he's got absolutely no shot with Democrats. Democrats just don't
like him. That's how he got wiped out in the primary.
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So they think he's trying now to appeal to moderates, independents, Republicans.
But here's the guy who was the guy that came
up with this plan to close Rikers Island. Now he's
against it.
Speaker 7 (12:03):
We should rebuild new, state of the art jails on
Rikers Island, provide free bus service, and use those existing
sites for housing and commercial development.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, everybody said that all along. You're the one that
wanted to close it.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Let's make a major start by stopping a major debacle,
which is the new jail construction to replace Rikers Island.
Speaker 8 (12:28):
The writing is on the wall.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
It promises to be New York City's big Ditch. It
is already years late, big is over budget and obsolete.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Geez talking about how horrible it is. It's his plan,
it was his idea, it's his plan. He's the one
that did it. It's an incredible flip flop. Now I
should point out there's another factor to this, because you say, well,
what if you got the big prison and you don't
need the other five, and it's on an island, no
place more secure, why would you ever want to close it?
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Why would you ever want to move it? Well, a
lot of people think the real reason is there were
big developers that wanted that island. They wanted to build condos,
They want to put casinos, want they had all kinds
of plans and they were making massive donations to politicians
to get Rikers Island turned over to them because it's
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the only major island around Manhattan that has a nice,
big bridge. You could drive right to it, you know,
Governor's Island. When they took the military base away. They
tried to sell Governor's Island to developers, condos, apartment but
nobody wanted it because you can't drive there, you'd have
to take a ferry. They tried to sell it to
a casino operators, MGM Grand and others all turned it down.
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They can't have high rollers taking a ferry. They wanted
it didn't have a bridge. Rikers Onland the only island
with a bridge, and it's big, and it's kind of bridge.
So that's the real reason a lot of people think Cuomo,
de Blasio and the rest, we're all trying to come
up with this island to hand it over to developers.
But big, big, big flip flop for Cuomo. Here's Mom
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Donnie on all of this.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Andrew Cuomo's proposal to take that which is broken, that
which is morally bankrupt, that which is a stain on
our city, and to keep it open. It's a betrayal
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not only of the law as it stands today, but
also of what New Yorkers actually want.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Now you'll notice Mom Donnie, who was always a very
fast talker. Mom Donny always talked a mile a minute.
You notice Mom Donny is now talking slow. Now Cuomo
always does that, But Coloma's not that bright. Mom Donnie's
very sharp. Why is he's suddenly talking so slow. People
think he's getting very nervous in the last four weeks,
very worried about making a flub or saying the wrong thing.
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He's being very careful when he speaks. It's New York City,
and New York City's famous for nayoral races, where the
whole thing can turn around in the last four or
five weeks. It's happened before. Here's Curtis on all this.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
In twenty nineteen, he has a press conference, we must
close RK his island. Two weeks ago he once again
reiterated it should have been closed a long time ago.
Where would he have put the inmates back then? You
can't trust Cuomo. He's the flip flop guy.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
He is quite a flip flopper, and you gotta give
him credit the gall of this guy. I got pathological huts,
but just flip flop on this thing. Anyway, We'll get
to the New Jersey governor's race. They had the final
debate last night. We got a lot to get to
coming up. We'll take some calls. Next eight hundred three
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Speaker 1 (15:49):
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Speaker 2 (16:02):
Hey, let's take the calls. Let's go to Bob and
New Rochelle. Bob, how you doing, eh?
Speaker 9 (16:08):
I think I'm putting into a cross.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Or your old men.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Sorry to hear that.
Speaker 9 (16:12):
Yeah, I got to take the Cross Bronx every morning
from New Rochelle and it's an absolute nightmare.
Speaker 10 (16:16):
I'm sure you know.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
So people are the country who don't know what the
cross Bunks is.
Speaker 9 (16:19):
It's stretching ninety five.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Where you're going, where you're going when you take the
Cross Bronx.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
I gotta drive my wife to work. She fabricates metal
doors in the Bronx.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Why do you have to take the Cross Bronx. You
just go straight down.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
Greet down aware she's right off the Cross Bronx. I
follow Waves and it sends me that way all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah, don't trust that Waves. I don't trust that waves
at all. You know that Waves is a little corrupt.
They can get paid off by sponsors advertisers to have
you drive by their business or their billboard. Don't trust
that one.
Speaker 10 (16:47):
They're sending me down ninety five every day, so I
don't know who's getting paid off there.
Speaker 9 (16:50):
But anyway, what I'm calling.
Speaker 10 (16:51):
For that is is how they let people in the
lanes hanhandling.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
Now, don't I don't sound heartless. You know, if you're
down on your luck, down your uck, it shouldn't be
in a highway in the middle of the lane.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Well, actually, uh, they should make that an Olympic sport.
He's talking about on the Cross Bronx, which is a
major highway, there are these illegals standing right in the
middle of the highway, right in between the second and
third lane selling candy bars. And you're right, so much
taking for money. Yeah, but there's so much traffic on
the Cross Bronx. How did they get in there? To
get into that middle lane there, it's an amazing thing.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
Slow and everybody's moving at two or three miles an hour.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
They just probably walked between the cars.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
It's still an amazing feat to watch. You're right, it's
totally out of control there that Crossbronx. A good point.
Thanks for calling. Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave,
how you doing.
Speaker 9 (17:37):
Good morning, Mark. I'm doing very well. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Mark.
Speaker 9 (17:40):
I got home very late last night, about one o'clock
in the morning, and I turned on Larry cud Low
and I saw you and Joe Conca. What I'm a
little unclear about. I thought the discussion. I thought the
discussion was about Governor Kathy Hochel. Is he dropping in
the polls due to her endorse see Monday to at
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least what's your stean?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yes, she took a drop over her mom Donnie.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
Endorsement and this continues. Does it look like Kathy Hochel
will absolutely lose because it took her a long time
to endorse Mondonna.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yes, it looks like Kathy Hockel's in big, big trouble.
Thanks Dave, Because, as I pointed out on the Larry
Cuddler yesterday, if she's five points ahead in those public
poles that are all rigged, it means she's really ten
points behind. They rig those poles by about eight to
ten points, So if she's only five points ahead, she's
probably really actually behind. Let's go to Jerry in New Jersey. Jerry,
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how you doing?
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Good morning?
Speaker 10 (18:42):
Mark?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Let me check good?
Speaker 8 (18:45):
Good?
Speaker 10 (18:45):
I think you're good. I don't know if it's a
scare tactic or not. At the air traffic controllers, however,
Trump should pull a Reagan if you don't show up fired,
bringing the military air trafficers, and that would end that
right there.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Well, that was a little different situation. That strike was
about money, and they went on they went on strike.
They all walked out at once, So that was the
reason for that. But this is not as scary. There's
a couple of airports operating now without controllers. But what
they don't want you to know if that has happened
in the past, and what it means is you simply
controlled from another tower at another nearby airport. It's not good,
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but it's not as scary as they make it out
to be. And the other reason Reagan wanted to do
that he had just taken office, he had just become president,
and the air traffic controllers thought they could show him
and they all walked out, paralyzing the whole nation. Well,
he fired them all, brought in the military. It was
an incredibly, unbelievably bold move on the part of the president.
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The real reason he did that is he wanted to
show the Soviet Union at the time how tough he
could be in China, and they took that as a
warning that this guy doesn't bluff and you can't call
bluff and this guy is fearless. So that that's the
other reason he did that. Let's go to Vincent and Brooklyn.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
Vincent, how you doing, Good morning, Mark, Mark, I'm okay, Mark,
The only one who could pull Kathy Hokal's chestnuts side
of the fire is Curtis Sleewer, because if Mondami gets
elected by next summer, she's going to be toasting the polls. Mark.
You're one hundred percent right about right, ass Island being
the only island that had as a bridge and it's
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easy to get to. I had to go bail somebody
out there years ago, and me and this guy I
com mentioned his name, Me and Jimmy Motts. We got
in his sports car and we went to the parking
lot and uh, if you're going to go on the bus,
it's the free bus. It's the Department of Corrections. They
pat you down before you go on the bus to
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make sure you're not bringing Contraband I waited in the
car on the sun deck and I got a sun
there and it was in the summer and you could
build the Plazi and Mario Cuomo because the book was
correctional facility not far about a mile away from my house,
they closed that and they're building co ops over there
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and build the Blazzo at the time said oh, he
was also one of these. I'm going to close like
his island and every all the community groups in every
borough were up in arms because he said he was
gonna build, like you said, five five prisons.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
The dumbest idea, and it was Clomo that was behind
it exactly. Now stop it. He's going to stop his
own idea.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
And there's a co op there now. They're they're building
a high rise call up where the prison is. That's
why they really wanted it.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, well, great call, Vincent, excellent point. Oh when we
come back, Steve Moore will be with us, the Great Economist.
We've got lots to talk to him about. Coming up
next on seven to ten w R Western of the Org.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Gear's more marksimone on seven tenor.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I'm stalling a little here, but it's the hunt for
Steve Moore. We're looking for him, the Great Economist. Man
is a genius, an absolute genius. But you know how
these geniuses are, sometimes it's hard to track them down.
I just saw him yesterday. We were on Cuddload together
yesterday and then we had a big dinner last night
honoring the greatest economist in the world. The greatest living
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economist is doctor Art Laugher. He's the guy that invented
the Laugher curve, which is a basis. Wait a minute,
we have all the TVs on here, one on MSNBC,
one on CNN, and this one on Fox. And I'm
looking at the one on Fox, and the guest is
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Steve Moore. It's live, so you know, normally we can't
find him. And I said, yeah, he'll turn up. We'll
get him in a couple of minutes. But there he is.
He's on with Bill Hemmer, who was at the dinner
last night with us. He's on with Bill Hemmer talking
about actually we should just play the audio. We'll have
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Steve Moore that way. Can you bring it up? Bring
up Fox. Let's see what do you say, We'll look
for it. I think he was got a little mixed
up in his schedule. They we had this dinner honoring
Art Laugher fiftieth anniversary of the Laugher Curve, which is
how you determine the tax policy. In other words, when
you bring down the taxes, you increase the revenue if
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you do it right. And it was people greatest economists
from all over the world flew in for this dinner.
Bill Hemmer was there and Steve Moore ran the dinner.
But he's on right now on Fox. Listen to this.
Speaker 11 (23:49):
Inflated rhetoric that keeps coming out of the Democrats. I'm
old enough to remember when we passed Obamacare. Remember that
in twenty ten, this is all our health care problems.
I remember it was called the Affordable Care Act. And
since then, the cost of healthcare has gone up and
up and up up.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Every year.
Speaker 11 (24:09):
It's doubled in costs since we passed Obamacare. So the
same people who told us Obamacare was going to solve
all our health care problems are now saying, if we
don't pass these massive extensions of Obamacare, we're going to
we're going to have a real problems they were supposed
to be.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 12 (24:28):
I mean, it doesn't sound like anyone at this point.
I mean, this could go maybe another week. There's this
talk about this No King's protest that's coming to DC
on the eighteenth. I believe don't know if they're going
to wait for that. They could, but it could continue
to drag on. What's interesting is that you know, we
know it's hitting federal workers, we know it's hitting area.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
I think we got the idea, so you can't say
we didn't bring you Steve more. We just had an
interview with Steve Moore. You see, this is the thing,
if you're doing this in a million years, you'll have guests
that don't show up, and you got to fill the
tent the courtesy of Steve Moore to when he doesn't
show up, to go on TV with a live interview
and we can broadcast that. But you know, what he
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was saying is just what I was going to ask
him about anyway. Which is a big part of the
shutdown is this healthcare stuff. And the big problem is
the cost of healthcare is going up like crazy. And
as he pointed out, when they passed Obamacare, nobody remembers this.
They call it Obamacare. The original name was the Affordable
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Care Act, and that was the idea. And it turned out,
I know this is hard to believe. I don't mean
to Shakia, but it turned out that Obama lied about
the whole thing when he started it. You remember he
kept saying, if you like your doctor, you can keep
your doctor. If you like your plan, you can keep
your plan. Well, it turns out that was totally false,
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and we now know it's come out since that he
knew it was false, that many people couldn't keep their doctor,
and many people couldn't keep their plan. And the other
problem was the name Affordable Care Act. It wasn't It
might start it off looking okay, but then the cost
quickly swored and got out of control. That's what a
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lot of this fight is about right now.
Speaker 9 (26:12):
Now.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Republicans do the same thing. Remember Bush used to be
famous for that. He'd have a bill that was going
to it was the Clean Skies Act, and then but
you had actually read it was to open a bunch
of coal plants, which but they just give it a
fancy name, a misleading name, the Clean Energy Act, which
it wasn't. So but Obama did that with the Affordable
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Care Act. It was just the opposite. Prices are way
out of control and they're due to almost double in
the next year. That's one reason for the shutdown. Republicans
want to fix this, Democrats want to keep it. And
President Trump has been saying over and over, you got
to redo this health carelet it's got to be redone.
Of course, Democrats don't trust Trump to do it. So
that's what we're going to talk to Steve more about that.
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The other thing I would ask him about the stock
market set another record yesterday, s and P five hundred
all time record, Nasdaq all time record. And you know,
we've been saying that all along. Every week for the
better like the past five or six weeks, the stock
market's been setting all kinds of records. So what that
means is the tariffs are not a problem. The tariffs
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are not causing inflation, the tariffs are not hurt in
the economy. Wall Street has seen that that Wall Street
now accepts the fact that the tariffs are just fine,
doing no damage. And it caused the stock market set
all kinds of records. They've driven it up to the
highest level ever. And now you got the shutdown for
nine or ten days and we're setting new records with
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the stock market during the shutdown, which means Wall Street
is just fine with the shutdown. So it's worked out.
It's worked out very well. Now the shutdown. You can't
continue this forever. It's got to be settled at some point.
How long could it go? Well, the longest shutdown ever
was thirty five days December twenty eighteen. I know you
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don't remember it, nobody remembers, but it was thirty five days.
You can you can do that. So Steve Moore also
mentioned they're talking about a protest this weekend called the
No Kings. They're bringing that back. They're bringing that stupid
slogan back, No Kings. I guess that means Trump is
trying to be you know, that's the other thing you
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hear that these Pritzkers say he's trying to seize power.
He's the president of the United States. There's no more
power to seize. You know, once you get to be president,
you're really not looking to seize much power anymore. That's like,
you know, Elon Musk is worth four hundred and eighty
billion dollars. They take youre trying to enrich himself. Once
you're over four hundred billion, You couldn't enrich yourself if
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you tried. It's impossible, you know. Yeah, he's about to
hit five hundred billion. He'll be a trillionaire at some point.
You know, once you're above one hundred billion, you couldn't
spend it if you tried. You literally could not spend it.
It's impossible. You can't do it. It's impossible. You're earning like
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ten billion a year just an interest. You can't spend it.
So you wouldn't be trying to enrich yourself anyway. We'll
get Steve Moore next week. He does show up, I'd
say ninety eight percent of the time. But hey, coming up,
we've got a lot to get to. In the next hour.
Jimmy Faylor will be with us. You know, he does
a great show every night nine to midnight. You got
(29:29):
to listen to it. It's funny, it's interesting, and of
course you got Buck and Clay right after this show.
They'll be on at noon today on seven to ten
wor mar.
Speaker 12 (29:39):
Emo Show on seven ten wr.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Well, no more, No more Yankee season. It's over. It's over. Yeah,
it ended last night. It was not much of a
kind of a sad ending. A strikeout end of the game.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Here the one chop pitch game. Jeff hop then strikes
out Cody Ballancher and the Blue Jays have done it.
They have not taught the New York Yankees. They have
won their first playoff series since twenty sixteen, and they
(30:20):
are going to the American League Championship Series.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Now, that's the problem with baseball nowadays. You remember the
old days. You win the end of the seed, you win,
you win the Pennant that's the pennant. Now you go
to the World Series. Now, when you win these series,
it doesn't mean you're just not in the next one.
It's the al DS series, the ale BS series, the
al CS series. So you just keep winning and then
it's another you know, it used to be October fourth
(30:46):
you'd start the World Series. Now it's like the middle
of November. So the Yankees are done for the year.
You know, it's been sixteen years since the World Championship.
There's no there's no Georgetown anymore. It's not the same thing.
Remember how many World Championship? Remember any World Series rings?
There are sixteen years since the last one. Hey, we
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got a lot to get to. Right after the news,
I'm here every day ten to noon, or if you want,
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Just get the podcast wherever you get your podcasts back
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Wr Hey, it's a Thursday. We got a lot to
get to, big, big, big deal in the peace deal
in the Mideast. We'll get to that, the Nobel Prize,
We'll get to the Yankees, We'll get to the stock market.
We'll get to the New Jersey debate. Last night, people
think Mikey Cheryl has seen some real trouble in the
(00:28):
internal polls. She seemed to change her tone and change
a lot of stuff for last night's debate. And the
same thing for Cuomo. He's getting desperate. There was a
major shocking flip flop from Cuomo. We'll get to that
coming up. And well, let's start with Israel the Middle East.
(00:48):
The peace deal looks like it's done. It looks like
it'll get signed over the weekend. President Trump planning to
go to Egypt to sign this bill.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I may go there sometime towards the end of the week,
maybe on Sunday actually, and we'll see. But there's a
very good chance to Negotiations are going along very well.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It looks like it's done. Hamas will release the hostages.
They'll start with the living hostages, believed to be about twenty.
They'll release them immediately. They'll release the remaining hostages, the
bodies of the other hostages. Israel's going to give up
something like nineteen hundred prisoners. All right, that's not great,
but you got to do that. The deal looks pretty good.
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President Trump. Tomorrow's Friday, he goes to get his annual
physical Walter Reed Medical Center, and then after that is
expected to head to the Middle East Saturday or Sunday.
It's an amazing accomplishment. It's certainly worthy of a Nobel Prize.
Even in Gaza. Even in Gaza they're cheering him on
the streets of Gaza and screaming Nobel Prize for Trump
(02:00):
can't get it because the Nobel Prize is a totally
corrupt award. It's the most slanted partisan, a left wing
liberal award. If you look at the list of who
was denied a Nobel Prize, it's amazing, from Gandhi to
all sorts of people. But if you go to the
Nobel Prize for literature, some of the greatest figures in
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literature were denied the Nobel Prize, from Mark Twain to Tolstoy,
to It's an endless list, and it was always because
they weren't they weren't liberal enough, they didn't like their politics.
It's the most political award in the world, and the
most fascinating thing about it is to this day the
Nobel Prize has this incredible reputation, totally undeserved. It's just
(02:44):
a wacky partisan award, yet they still have this prestige
the Nobel Prize. You know, the worst economist in the
history of the world was Paul Krugman the New York Times,
that bug eyed weirdo who got everything wrong. Every prediction, forecast,
everything he ever wrote turned out to be totally wrong.
(03:05):
He has the Nobel Prize for economics. So you remember
when they were trying to go after Trump and they
put out a letter from this signed by thirteen Nobel
Prize winners. Well, right there, you knew it was a
slanted partisan the word. Yet somehow, you know, a lot
of people's minds, it has this prestigious reputation. So the
Nobel Prize comes out tomorrow. There's no chance of Trump
(03:27):
getting it because he's not left wing wacko. Also, I
would assume it's coming out tomorrow. This was decided long ago.
They're not picking the winner tonight. So it comes out tonight.
Tomorrow will be the announcement. It means absolutely nothing. It's
the silliest towards but the Israel peace Deal unbelievable. And
(03:48):
you know when you talk about the art of the deal,
and sometimes Democrats will say, well, where's the great negotiator? Well,
here it was, Here it was, and there's nobody savvier
at this stuff, and Benjamin Netanyahu gets somehow Trump got
leverage over net and Yahoo and strategically carefully over the
last few weeks and months, somehow it kind of boxed
(04:08):
him in a little, so he went along with this.
Sometimes it's just luck in some of these deals. But
even Democrats looking at this privately saying this was all skill,
not luck, And a lot of credit goes to Jared Kushner,
normally useless when it comes to the White House, but here,
this is what he was meant to do. This is
where he excelled. Steve Whitkoff the same, and Trump pointing
(04:31):
out Mike Huckabee was a big, big part of this process.
Hu could be the ambassador to Israel. You wouldn't think
he would be so Israel savvy, but he's spent a
lot of time there over the years. It's something that
means a lot to him. So he was great at this.
So that will that will happen most likely over the
weekend hostages. First release of the release of all the
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living hostages expected on Monday. So you got this fat
slob governor of the Illinois Pritzker, This Ralph Cramdon looking guy,
huffing and puffing. What it's all about? Really, he wants
to be a twenty twenty eight candidate. He has no
shot at all because he has no personality, nothing, nothing
(05:17):
interesting about him. He's kind of a troll like to
look at. So he's got no shot at all, especially
against a Gavin Newsom or other slick, smart candidates with personality.
He's got no shot at all. But he's trying to
get there, and he thinks by being the biggest Trump
fighter in the world. He's a little nutty when he
gets into Trump fighting. Remember the convention. He got up
(05:40):
there and he said he opened with and he got
huge applause. He said he's going to talk about Trump.
He said, time out of here from a real billionaire,
and the audience applauded, implying Trump's not a real billionaire. Well,
at the time, Pritzker worth about one billion, Trump worth
about seven billions. I don't know what the hell he's
talking about. And then here he is yesterday. But he
(06:01):
just doesn't want He wants to keep that crime in Chicago.
There's a lot of killing. It's a killing field. Thirty
five forty people shot every weekend in Chicago. He wants
to keep it that way. He's demented, literally unhinged.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
And this is somebody who's so insecure that he lashes out.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Pretending that he can come arrest people for no reason
at all.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
He can't.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
He isn't going to do it.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Taco Trump always chickens out. It's back to taco. I
think I think that's kind of been proven wrong. Now
Pritzker keeps arguing, you cannot send troops national Guard or military.
You can't send troops into an American city state. The
federal government can never do that. And if they do that,
(06:47):
it's the worst violation of the cont it's the total
end of democracy. You cannot do that. Well, of course
you can, and it's been done before in riots in
all sorts of situations. Nineteen sixty seven, Ryot Johnson said,
troops into cities done all the time. I'll give you
the best example was John F. Kennedy. Back then, it
(07:08):
was horrible, horrible segregation, and black students couldn't go to
college in Mississippi and Georgia and Atlanta. You remember of
those governors, those awful governors, Lester Maddocks and George Wallace
and others who would stand in the doorway of the
school blocking it so black kids couldn't attend college. Well,
Kennedy sent troops in lots and lots and lots of
(07:30):
troops to integrate those colleges. It was a big deal
in nineteen sixty one, sixty two, massive amounts of troops
sent in. Now, of course it was Kennedy. He's a Democrat,
so there was nothing but applause. And he was a hero.
And these same Democrats told you this is the most heroic,
wonderful thing any president's ever done. But now, if the
president sends in troops, it's the end of our democracy.
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It's a crime, it's a but again, the incredible hypocrisy
democrats are famous for. So hey, they had that mayoral
forum yesterday at the New York Athletic Club, the beautiful,
prestigious New York Athletic Club, one of the city's finest
private clubs. And it was private. But we're starting to
(08:15):
see some of the video and we're starting to hear
from some of the people that weren't there. And it
was all business leaders. All these business leaders, a lot
of them basically said, when it came to Mom Donnie,
it was a lot of double talk. It was dancing
around the questions, skated through generalities. One person said, went
(08:37):
out of his way to slam President Trump over and
over again. Other attendees said, listen, he had tremendous energy
and youth, but nothing of substance. There was no substance,
and it didn't make us feel like he could do
the job. Curtis, they liked, They said he In some
cases there were surprise he had such detailed knowledges of
(08:59):
economic He's been working with great, great economic team Larry
Kudlow and others advising him. They said, yeah, he was.
There was a lot of clarity on how he would
deal with crime and all that. So they like Curtis.
Now when it comes to Cuomo, now, this crowd was
(09:19):
a lot of Democrats, and it wasn't so much what
Cuomo was saying, but a number of people in the
crowd said they were quite surprised, quite shocked. They hadn't
seen him speak in person in a long long time.
They said, there was a little shocked. He looked very old,
he lacked energy. Here's one said, I hadn't seen him
in a while, and I was quite disturbed by it.
(09:41):
Another attendee found Cuomo living in the past, seemed to
be more focused on things in the past than talking
about the future. Other comments, here's this Catherine Wilde, she
warns this business partnership. She's a real wacko. She's praising
a Zora and Mamdani. I rest my case, total whacka
(10:02):
Mamdonnie's positions have become more substantive and realistic. No need
to read the rest of her statement. She's a nutty character. Uh,
Andrew Cuomo shocked everybody with a major flip flop. Years ago.
You remember about was it five six years ago? There
was this whole thing about closing Rikers Island. Rikers Island
(10:26):
is the big prison that's on an island. It's Rikers Island.
It's the perfect place for a prison. It's on an island.
You're gonna have a more secure location. And it's a
very big island. There's enormous space there. Rikers Island is
a number of buildings. You couldn't ask for a better
set up for a prison. Lots of buildings, there's room
to build more buildings, all sorts of stuff. All of
(10:47):
a sudden, there was a proposal to close down Rikers Island. Well,
what are you gonna do for a prison? Well, they'll
build five other prisons. They'll build one in each borough,
which didn't seem to make any sense. It would make
more sense they have one big central prison. And why
would you put a prison into each neighborhood in different boroughs?
Who in Queen's wants the prison in their neighborhood? Why
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would anybody in the Bronx want a prison in their neighborhood.
Why would it? Was a ridiculous idea. Where did it
come from? By the way, Cuomo, this is what he
was talking about yesterday. He says, we got to stop
this plan to close Rikers Island. It's crazy to close
Rikers Island. It's wacko. Why would you do it? We
(11:30):
must stop this plan. Well, here's the problem. It was
his plan. He's the one that proposed it. He's the
one that started it. So a lot of people think
he saw some internal polling that was frightening him, that
he's got absolutely no shot with Democrats. Democrats just don't
like him. That's how he got wiped out in the primary.
(11:51):
So they think he's trying now to appeal to moderates, independents, Republicans.
But here's the guy who was the guy that came
up with this plan to close Rikers Island. Now he's
against it.
Speaker 7 (12:03):
We should rebuild new, state of the art jails on
Rikers Island, provide free bus service, and use those existing
sites for housing and commercial development.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, everybody said that all along. You're the one that
wanted to close it.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Let's make a major start by stopping a major debacle,
which is the new jail construction to replace Rikers Island.
Speaker 8 (12:28):
The writing is on the wall.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
It promises to be New York City's big Ditch. It
is already years late, big is over budget and obsolete.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Geez talking about how horrible it is. It's his plan,
it was his idea, it's his plan. He's the one
that did it. It's an incredible flip flop. Now I
should point out there's another factor to this, because you say, well,
what if you got the big prison and you don't
need the other five, and it's on an island, no
place more secure, why would you ever want to close it?
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Why would you ever want to move it? Well, a
lot of people think the real reason is there were
big developers that wanted that island. They wanted to build condos,
They want to put casinos, want they had all kinds
of plans and they were making massive donations to politicians
to get Rikers Island turned over to them because it's
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the only major island around Manhattan that has a nice,
big bridge. You could drive right to it, you know,
Governor's Island. When they took the military base away. They
tried to sell Governor's Island to developers, condos, apartment but
nobody wanted it because you can't drive there, you'd have
to take a ferry. They tried to sell it to
a casino operators, MGM Grand and others all turned it down.
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They can't have high rollers taking a ferry. They wanted
it didn't have a bridge. Rikers Onland the only island
with a bridge, and it's big, and it's kind of bridge.
So that's the real reason a lot of people think Cuomo,
de Blasio and the rest, we're all trying to come
up with this island to hand it over to developers.
But big, big, big flip flop for Cuomo. Here's Mom
(14:08):
Donnie on all of this.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Andrew Cuomo's proposal to take that which is broken, that
which is morally bankrupt, that which is a stain on
our city, and to keep it open. It's a betrayal
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not only of the law as it stands today, but
also of what New Yorkers actually want.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Now you'll notice Mom Donnie, who was always a very
fast talker. Mom Donny always talked a mile a minute.
You notice Mom Donny is now talking slow. Now Cuomo
always does that, But Coloma's not that bright. Mom Donnie's
very sharp. Why is he's suddenly talking so slow. People
think he's getting very nervous in the last four weeks,
very worried about making a flub or saying the wrong thing.
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He's being very careful when he speaks. It's New York City,
and New York City's famous for nayoral races, where the
whole thing can turn around in the last four or
five weeks. It's happened before. Here's Curtis on all this.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
In twenty nineteen, he has a press conference, we must
close RK his island. Two weeks ago he once again
reiterated it should have been closed a long time ago.
Where would he have put the inmates back then? You
can't trust Cuomo. He's the flip flop guy.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
He is quite a flip flopper, and you gotta give
him credit the gall of this guy. I got pathological huts,
but just flip flop on this thing. Anyway, We'll get
to the New Jersey governor's race. They had the final
debate last night. We got a lot to get to
coming up. We'll take some calls. Next eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten. Is the number eight hundred
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three two one zero seven ten.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
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Speaker 2 (16:02):
Hey, let's take the calls. Let's go to Bob and
New Rochelle. Bob, how you doing, eh?
Speaker 9 (16:08):
I think I'm putting into a cross.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Or your old men.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Sorry to hear that.
Speaker 9 (16:12):
Yeah, I got to take the Cross Bronx every morning
from New Rochelle and it's an absolute nightmare.
Speaker 10 (16:16):
I'm sure you know.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
So people are the country who don't know what the
cross Bunks is.
Speaker 9 (16:19):
It's stretching ninety five.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Where you're going, where you're going when you take the
Cross Bronx.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
I gotta drive my wife to work. She fabricates metal
doors in the Bronx.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Why do you have to take the Cross Bronx. You
just go straight down.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
Greet down aware she's right off the Cross Bronx. I
follow Waves and it sends me that way all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah, don't trust that Waves. I don't trust that waves
at all. You know that Waves is a little corrupt.
They can get paid off by sponsors advertisers to have
you drive by their business or their billboard. Don't trust
that one.
Speaker 10 (16:47):
They're sending me down ninety five every day, so I
don't know who's getting paid off there.
Speaker 9 (16:50):
But anyway, what I'm calling.
Speaker 10 (16:51):
For that is is how they let people in the
lanes hanhandling.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
Now, don't I don't sound heartless. You know, if you're
down on your luck, down your uck, it shouldn't be
in a highway in the middle of the lane.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Well, actually, uh, they should make that an Olympic sport.
He's talking about on the Cross Bronx, which is a
major highway, there are these illegals standing right in the
middle of the highway, right in between the second and
third lane selling candy bars. And you're right, so much
taking for money. Yeah, but there's so much traffic on
the Cross Bronx. How did they get in there? To
get into that middle lane there, it's an amazing thing.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
Slow and everybody's moving at two or three miles an hour.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
They just probably walked between the cars.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
It's still an amazing feat to watch. You're right, it's
totally out of control there that Crossbronx. A good point.
Thanks for calling. Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave,
how you doing.
Speaker 9 (17:37):
Good morning, Mark. I'm doing very well. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Mark.
Speaker 9 (17:40):
I got home very late last night, about one o'clock
in the morning, and I turned on Larry cud Low
and I saw you and Joe Conca. What I'm a
little unclear about. I thought the discussion. I thought the
discussion was about Governor Kathy Hochel. Is he dropping in
the polls due to her endorse see Monday to at
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least what's your stean?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yes, she took a drop over her mom Donnie.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
Endorsement and this continues. Does it look like Kathy Hochel
will absolutely lose because it took her a long time
to endorse Mondonna.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yes, it looks like Kathy Hockel's in big, big trouble.
Thanks Dave, Because, as I pointed out on the Larry
Cuddler yesterday, if she's five points ahead in those public
poles that are all rigged, it means she's really ten
points behind. They rig those poles by about eight to
ten points, So if she's only five points ahead, she's
probably really actually behind. Let's go to Jerry in New Jersey. Jerry,
(18:39):
how you doing?
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Good morning?
Speaker 10 (18:42):
Mark?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Let me check good?
Speaker 8 (18:45):
Good?
Speaker 10 (18:45):
I think you're good. I don't know if it's a
scare tactic or not. At the air traffic controllers, however,
Trump should pull a Reagan if you don't show up fired,
bringing the military air trafficers, and that would end that
right there.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Well, that was a little different situation. That strike was
about money, and they went on they went on strike.
They all walked out at once, So that was the
reason for that. But this is not as scary. There's
a couple of airports operating now without controllers. But what
they don't want you to know if that has happened
in the past, and what it means is you simply
controlled from another tower at another nearby airport. It's not good,
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but it's not as scary as they make it out
to be. And the other reason Reagan wanted to do
that he had just taken office, he had just become president,
and the air traffic controllers thought they could show him
and they all walked out, paralyzing the whole nation. Well,
he fired them all, brought in the military. It was
an incredibly, unbelievably bold move on the part of the president.
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The real reason he did that is he wanted to
show the Soviet Union at the time how tough he
could be in China, and they took that as a
warning that this guy doesn't bluff and you can't call
bluff and this guy is fearless. So that that's the
other reason he did that. Let's go to Vincent and Brooklyn.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
Vincent, how you doing, Good morning, Mark, Mark, I'm okay, Mark,
The only one who could pull Kathy Hokal's chestnuts side
of the fire is Curtis Sleewer, because if Mondami gets
elected by next summer, she's going to be toasting the polls. Mark.
You're one hundred percent right about right, ass Island being
the only island that had as a bridge and it's
(20:28):
easy to get to. I had to go bail somebody
out there years ago, and me and this guy I
com mentioned his name, Me and Jimmy Motts. We got
in his sports car and we went to the parking
lot and uh, if you're going to go on the bus,
it's the free bus. It's the Department of Corrections. They
pat you down before you go on the bus to
(20:50):
make sure you're not bringing Contraband I waited in the
car on the sun deck and I got a sun
there and it was in the summer and you could
build the Plazi and Mario Cuomo because the book was
correctional facility not far about a mile away from my house,
they closed that and they're building co ops over there
(21:13):
and build the Blazzo at the time said oh, he
was also one of these. I'm going to close like
his island and every all the community groups in every
borough were up in arms because he said he was
gonna build, like you said, five five prisons.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
The dumbest idea, and it was Clomo that was behind
it exactly. Now stop it. He's going to stop his
own idea.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
And there's a co op there now. They're they're building
a high rise call up where the prison is. That's
why they really wanted it.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, well, great call, Vincent, excellent point. Oh when we
come back, Steve Moore will be with us, the Great Economist.
We've got lots to talk to him about. Coming up
next on seven to ten w R Western of the Org.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Gear's more marksimone on seven tenor.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I'm stalling a little here, but it's the hunt for
Steve Moore. We're looking for him, the Great Economist. Man
is a genius, an absolute genius. But you know how
these geniuses are, sometimes it's hard to track them down.
I just saw him yesterday. We were on Cuddload together
yesterday and then we had a big dinner last night
honoring the greatest economist in the world. The greatest living
(22:31):
economist is doctor Art Laugher. He's the guy that invented
the Laugher curve, which is a basis. Wait a minute,
we have all the TVs on here, one on MSNBC,
one on CNN, and this one on Fox. And I'm
looking at the one on Fox, and the guest is
(22:51):
Steve Moore. It's live, so you know, normally we can't
find him. And I said, yeah, he'll turn up. We'll
get him in a couple of minutes. But there he is.
He's on with Bill Hemmer, who was at the dinner
last night with us. He's on with Bill Hemmer talking
about actually we should just play the audio. We'll have
(23:12):
Steve Moore that way. Can you bring it up? Bring
up Fox. Let's see what do you say, We'll look
for it. I think he was got a little mixed
up in his schedule. They we had this dinner honoring
Art Laugher fiftieth anniversary of the Laugher Curve, which is
how you determine the tax policy. In other words, when
you bring down the taxes, you increase the revenue if
(23:34):
you do it right. And it was people greatest economists
from all over the world flew in for this dinner.
Bill Hemmer was there and Steve Moore ran the dinner.
But he's on right now on Fox. Listen to this.
Speaker 11 (23:49):
Inflated rhetoric that keeps coming out of the Democrats. I'm
old enough to remember when we passed Obamacare. Remember that
in twenty ten, this is all our health care problems.
I remember it was called the Affordable Care Act. And
since then, the cost of healthcare has gone up and
up and up up.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Every year.
Speaker 11 (24:09):
It's doubled in costs since we passed Obamacare. So the
same people who told us Obamacare was going to solve
all our health care problems are now saying, if we
don't pass these massive extensions of Obamacare, we're going to
we're going to have a real problems they were supposed
to be.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 12 (24:28):
I mean, it doesn't sound like anyone at this point.
I mean, this could go maybe another week. There's this
talk about this No King's protest that's coming to DC
on the eighteenth. I believe don't know if they're going
to wait for that. They could, but it could continue
to drag on. What's interesting is that you know, we
know it's hitting federal workers, we know it's hitting area.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
I think we got the idea, so you can't say
we didn't bring you Steve more. We just had an
interview with Steve Moore. You see, this is the thing,
if you're doing this in a million years, you'll have guests
that don't show up, and you got to fill the
tent the courtesy of Steve Moore to when he doesn't
show up, to go on TV with a live interview
and we can broadcast that. But you know, what he
(25:07):
was saying is just what I was going to ask
him about anyway. Which is a big part of the
shutdown is this healthcare stuff. And the big problem is
the cost of healthcare is going up like crazy. And
as he pointed out, when they passed Obamacare, nobody remembers this.
They call it Obamacare. The original name was the Affordable
(25:28):
Care Act, and that was the idea. And it turned out,
I know this is hard to believe. I don't mean
to Shakia, but it turned out that Obama lied about
the whole thing when he started it. You remember he
kept saying, if you like your doctor, you can keep
your doctor. If you like your plan, you can keep
your plan. Well, it turns out that was totally false,
(25:48):
and we now know it's come out since that he
knew it was false, that many people couldn't keep their doctor,
and many people couldn't keep their plan. And the other
problem was the name Affordable Care Act. It wasn't It
might start it off looking okay, but then the cost
quickly swored and got out of control. That's what a
(26:09):
lot of this fight is about right now.
Speaker 9 (26:12):
Now.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Republicans do the same thing. Remember Bush used to be
famous for that. He'd have a bill that was going
to it was the Clean Skies Act, and then but
you had actually read it was to open a bunch
of coal plants, which but they just give it a
fancy name, a misleading name, the Clean Energy Act, which
it wasn't. So but Obama did that with the Affordable
(26:33):
Care Act. It was just the opposite. Prices are way
out of control and they're due to almost double in
the next year. That's one reason for the shutdown. Republicans
want to fix this, Democrats want to keep it. And
President Trump has been saying over and over, you got
to redo this health carelet it's got to be redone.
Of course, Democrats don't trust Trump to do it. So
that's what we're going to talk to Steve more about that.
(26:55):
The other thing I would ask him about the stock
market set another record yesterday, s and P five hundred
all time record, Nasdaq all time record. And you know,
we've been saying that all along. Every week for the
better like the past five or six weeks, the stock
market's been setting all kinds of records. So what that
means is the tariffs are not a problem. The tariffs
(27:17):
are not causing inflation, the tariffs are not hurt in
the economy. Wall Street has seen that that Wall Street
now accepts the fact that the tariffs are just fine,
doing no damage. And it caused the stock market set
all kinds of records. They've driven it up to the
highest level ever. And now you got the shutdown for
nine or ten days and we're setting new records with
(27:41):
the stock market during the shutdown, which means Wall Street
is just fine with the shutdown. So it's worked out.
It's worked out very well. Now the shutdown. You can't
continue this forever. It's got to be settled at some point.
How long could it go? Well, the longest shutdown ever
was thirty five days December twenty eighteen. I know you
(28:02):
don't remember it, nobody remembers, but it was thirty five days.
You can you can do that. So Steve Moore also
mentioned they're talking about a protest this weekend called the
No Kings. They're bringing that back. They're bringing that stupid
slogan back, No Kings. I guess that means Trump is
trying to be you know, that's the other thing you
(28:22):
hear that these Pritzkers say he's trying to seize power.
He's the president of the United States. There's no more
power to seize. You know, once you get to be president,
you're really not looking to seize much power anymore. That's like,
you know, Elon Musk is worth four hundred and eighty
billion dollars. They take youre trying to enrich himself. Once
you're over four hundred billion, You couldn't enrich yourself if
(28:44):
you tried. It's impossible, you know. Yeah, he's about to
hit five hundred billion. He'll be a trillionaire at some point.
You know, once you're above one hundred billion, you couldn't
spend it if you tried. You literally could not spend it.
It's impossible. You can't do it. It's impossible. You're earning like
(29:06):
ten billion a year just an interest. You can't spend it.
So you wouldn't be trying to enrich yourself anyway. We'll
get Steve Moore next week. He does show up, I'd
say ninety eight percent of the time. But hey, coming up,
we've got a lot to get to. In the next hour.
Jimmy Faylor will be with us. You know, he does
a great show every night nine to midnight. You got
(29:29):
to listen to it. It's funny, it's interesting, and of
course you got Buck and Clay right after this show.
They'll be on at noon today on seven to ten
wor mar.
Speaker 12 (29:39):
Emo Show on seven ten wr.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Well, no more, No more Yankee season. It's over. It's over. Yeah,
it ended last night. It was not much of a
kind of a sad ending. A strikeout end of the game.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Here the one chop pitch game. Jeff hop then strikes
out Cody Ballancher and the Blue Jays have done it.
They have not taught the New York Yankees. They have
won their first playoff series since twenty sixteen, and they
(30:20):
are going to the American League Championship Series.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Now, that's the problem with baseball nowadays. You remember the
old days. You win the end of the seed, you win,
you win the Pennant that's the pennant. Now you go
to the World Series. Now, when you win these series,
it doesn't mean you're just not in the next one.
It's the al DS series, the ale BS series, the
al CS series. So you just keep winning and then
it's another you know, it used to be October fourth
(30:46):
you'd start the World Series. Now it's like the middle
of November. So the Yankees are done for the year.
You know, it's been sixteen years since the World Championship.
There's no there's no Georgetown anymore. It's not the same thing.
Remember how many World Championship? Remember any World Series rings?
There are sixteen years since the last one. Hey, we
(31:10):
got a lot to get to. Right after the news,
I'm here every day ten to noon, or if you want,
you can listen to any time you want, day or night.
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