December 10, 2025 • 32 mins
Some shoppers have admitted to stealing from self-checkout lanes, which may be prompting stores to gradually phase them out. Mark also wonders: Do young people know the classic Christmas songs that have stood the test of time? Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews author Ann Coulter. Together, they discuss the so-called affordability crisis that Democrats claim is plaguing New York City, noting what they see as double standards from the left. They also speculate about whether former Presidents Biden and Obama could be implicated in shipping cartels or drugs to other countries.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mark Somemo the issues you really care about on seven
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Well, it's a little better today, it's not quite as
cold as yesterday. We got a lot to get to
this hour, the affordability crisis, we got Mom Donnie to
talk about, and Christmas and a whole lot of stuff.
When you're in the supermarket more and more, have you
started using the self checkout or you still? It depends
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if your cashiers. They always have like seven lanes and
only three cashiers, and I've never seen have you ever
been in the supermarket? We're every single aisle, every single
lane has a cashier and it never ever, ever, why
did they do that? Like when you go to the bank,
they have twelve windows, there's always two tellers. Why did
they build twelve windows. There's never been twelve tellers working
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at the same time ever in a bank. So when
you go to the self checkout, it's pretty easy unless
you got stuff that's got to be weighed, and then
it gets a little tough. Now, be honest, did you
ever steal anything at the self checkout? You know, you
don't have to run every single item right by that scanner.
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You run one or two. You got your bag set up,
you're throwing them in the bag. Be totally honest. Did
you ever maybe one item you didn't ring up for
two or three? Well, it happens a lot. There's a
couple of chains that got rid of self checkout because
of that exact problem. They were losing too much to theft.
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Now there's been a study done about this apparently, Now
who would steal like that from the self checkout? Wealthy
Americans apparently are stealing much more from self served checkouts
than anybody else. A sizable for of wealthy Americans have
admitted to not scanning an item in a store. Now,
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sometimes you try to scan it, it doesn't scan. Or sometimes
it's bananas or something you got to weigh at thedaa
know you know, know how to you just throw it
in the bag. If you break it down. By sex,
men steal far more than women do, almost more than
double the rate. Well okay, I mean, it's pretty obvious
men do more bad things than women do. Generally, many
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of those surveys said they feel justified in stealing some
minor items. Thirty percent say the store is too large
and profitable. They don't feel the petty theft will do
anything to them thirty five percent. So they feel that
having to scan the items and self checkout is unpaid labor,
and this is compensation for it. It's kind of true.
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You know. Remember Amazon opened those stores. They had one
in Time Warners Center, they had one near Grandson. Remember
Amazon tried doing stores, these little stores where you could
walk in, grab a little shopping cart thing and take
whatever you want and leave because each item had some
little tag on it that as you walked out, the
door would click and it would build your Amazon account automatically. Now,
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whatever happened to that? Why can't I guess it's tougher
for a supermarket to do it, But that's the best
system Amazon tried that. I noticed those stores are all
gone now, but it was a great idea. Walk in,
grab whatever you want. Everything's got a little tag that
like a little Bluetooth tag on it. It'll when you
walk out, you go through a scanner, it'll see exactly
what you took in charge you for. It makes perfect sense.
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Luigi Mangioni, the hearing's going on, and I keep reading
all these things about how good looking he is. Do
you find him really good looking? Luigi Mangioni, There is
something about him. Women like, I don't know, they like
his eyes, they like as this, I don't know, they
like those big normal eyebrows whatever, and a good looking
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I don't know, you kind of look. If you're making
a movie about Lenny Bruce, I could see hiring him
to play Lenny Bruce. He kind of has that look
about him. But Lenny Bruce was like a good looking guy,
but kind of ratty looking, a little scruffy looking. So
I don't know, But there's more and more of this
where on the left they just idolize any kind of criminal.
You could be an illegal alien, you could be a
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narco terrorist moving drugs. You could even be an assassin.
To hear a criminal, The left loves you. They're out
there fighting for you. And even these candidates Brad Lander
talking about fighting for immigrants, they're not immigrants. They're illegals.
They're illegals that broke into the country. There's nothing more
insulting to immigrants than putting illegal illegals across the border illegally,
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into the same category with them. It's just a awful
awful thing to do, but it's happening more and more so.
It's also a movement right now to get rid of
you know, no more cell phones in the classroom. Kid
comes to school, got to lock up his cell phones
for the day. When he leaves, he gets it back.
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But now there's more and more of a movement to
take it away from kids in general, like no more
cell phones, no more social media for a kid. And
this is both sides of the aisle. Republicans talking about it,
Democrats talking about it. You may have seen the ram
Emmanuel I don't know why he thinks this is a
big issue for him. He wants to run for president
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in twenty twenty eight. All over the airwaves now talking
about no more social media for kids, keep it away
from them. Even Lara Trump on a show said they
got three kids. They got one iPad for the kids,
and they lock it up most of the day. They
want their kids reading books. Well, okay, but this has
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gone on forever, this debate. You know, you got a
kid now he's spending too many hours looking at his phone,
looking at social media, looking at this. But it is
the same thing years ago when you were a kid,
only it was television. It wasn't social media. You know,
your parents would yell you stop watching TV all day,
go outside and play, go do your homework. Why don't
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just sit there and watch TV? And you might think
that's not as bad, but it was just as bad.
What were you watching on TV? Nothing Worthwhile you're watching
Gilligan's Island reruns, you're watching The Monsters every day. I mean,
it wasn't anything great you were watching. You probably learn
more on TikTok than you did back then watching The
Monsters every day and reruns or I'll leave it to
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Beaver was a show with some substance to it. So
there's more and more of this movement to get kids
to read books. But you kind of need the phone
to read a book. You need your kindle there to
read it. But I guess you could still read actual
books now. But we'll see where this goes. So Tucker
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car people keep asking about this, What the hell happened
to him? You know, Tucker Carlson was a pretty respectable,
legitimate figure when he was on Fox News. There he
was discussing issues with great American politicians. Now you see
the guy and he's like a raving maniac online and
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he's got this anti semi creep weirdo on. He's allowing
this guy to have his say on his show, and
then what was it earlier this week he's in cutter
talking about how he's moving there. Just one wacky thing
after another, and then you see a bunch of these
people doing that, Megan Kelly, all these people acting like
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wacko lunatics, and what it is they've all been fired.
They don't work anywhere anymore. You know, if you're on
the Fox News channel, it's got millions of viewers, and
if you do a show there millions of people we'll
see you. Now if you get fired and you're doing
a podcast out of your bedroom and you're not on
a network, nobody sees you. So the only way what
(08:02):
do you do? How do you get attention? Well, you
got to do some crazy thing that goes viral, even
if it's on the left, left wing stuff, you know,
the left wing sites start attacking you like crazy. At
least it gets your attention and publicity. So that's why
Megan Kelly became a total wacko. Also Tucker Carlson, Now
there's a few others. It's kind of like you remember
(08:23):
Alex Jones, who you know, normal people didn't pay any
attention to him, but all the rednecks and hillbilly's and
wackos and all. They love this Alex Jones and they
went crazy with him. And he made a fortune, made
hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to do.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
So that's.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, there's a few others like that.
They just have to act totally nuts, outrageous. They're trying
to become the new Alex Jones. You know, you would
think Tucker would know better, but apparently he would not
know better than that. So now Charlie Kirk was a
(09:04):
different case. Now here was a guy who had a
huge audience, didn't have to do wacky things. He was
preaching great stuff, and he was preaching a lot of
stuff you'd want somebody to try to get across to
younger people, you know, take more interest in religion, go
into church and read the Bible, and I mean, this
is all fine stuff. But the left wing went after
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him like crazy. It led to his assassination. He apparently
had written a book before he died, and his wife
has now put out the book and it's going around
promoting it and it's riled up these left wing nuts. Again,
here's a left wing podcaster Jennifer Welch. And there's Trump
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derangement syndrome. There's Hagsith derangement syndrome. There's Charlie Kirk derangement syndrome. Her.
Now here's another one who went viral with this wacko stuff.
It's about Charlie Kirk screaming and wildly unhinged rants. He's
a racist, he's an opportunistic grifter. The wife is a grifter.
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This woman should be kicked to the curb. She goes
just like Donald Trump, just like her unrepentant, racist, homophobic husband.
There's no truth to any of this. It's just lunacy.
You saw Letterman doing the same thing last night when
he was on Jimmy Kimmel. Listen, we got a lot
of people we don't like, we don't like Mom Donnie.
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But I don't see anybody go nuts about him. It's
not derangement syndrome. And we just can't stand Mom Donnie.
But if you listen to people, they'll say, you know,
he's only thirty four, he's never even run anything, he's
never even had a job. Okay, well that's a legitimate argument.
And the things he said are anti semitic. He's been
quite anti semitic and some of the things. Yeah, okay,
that's a good seems to be very pro criminal. Yeah
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that's true. But we don't go on and on and
on screaming that he's a thief and there's no ranting
and raving and nut I don't know what it is.
Psychologists have studied this. It's and they say it's not
just about Trump, it's about other things in their life.
They hate their father. It's daddy syndrome. I mean, if
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there's all these explanations you can read online from psychologists,
they're seeing things in Trump that set them off about
other things in their life. They just get it's they
get childlike, childish. You know, if you said, yeah, I
really don't like that, mom, Donny, I don't like anything
he's saying. I don't like what he stands. Okay, that's fine.
But if you start ranting and raving and screaming about
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it's just childish. And you look at these people doing
it about Trump, it's just out of control. It's just childlike.
It's you know, it's been going on for ten years now,
and ten years ago we thought, well, all right, it'll
get better. After a few it's this has gotten worse
and worse and worse. It's never gonna stop. We're gonna
have to live with this disease for the rest of
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our life. Hey, Judge's ordered the release of the Epstein
case grand jury transcripts. So this is the other thing
with the left. They always think they got Trump. They
got him now on something. This is a big deal.
They've got him on this. They're going to Judge is
ruled the grand jury transcripts from the Epstein case have
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to be released now. Again, if you talk to people
that have seen everything, they've seen these grand jury things,
they've seen the full Epstein files. You talk to people
in the US Attorney's office that saw them. If you
talk to even Alan Dershwitz, who was the attorney for
Epstein and or Yeah, he was Epstein's attorney for a while,
so he saw everything. People who have seen everything tell
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you there's absolutely nothing in any file, in any grand
jury transcript, there's nothing anywhere in any of these documents
that would tell you anything you haven't heard already. All
the names that are in there, you've already heard. Oh,
there might be one or two little names, unknown people,
but there's every major name that's in there. You've already
heard about it if you talk to them. What's in
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theo Epstein Father It's basically just witness transcripts of witness interviews.
Nothing to outrageous. So, but that's not Remember the same
thing with the MRI. They we're trying to get Trump's MRI.
The Left went nuts trying to get that MRI. Well
they finally got it in the same thing, Eh, it
was nothing. There uh one thing I like about Christmas?
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All these artists you get to hear. You know, obviously
you can walk around in the world today and hear
Taylor Swift all the time or Dual Liapa, But how
often you get to hear Elvis nowadays? So every Christmas,
if you're in your teens or even in your twenties,
every Christmas, who the hell is this guy? And then
it's your only exposure to Elvia? And then I don't know,
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maybe I would think a lot of them. If you
get interested in the guy, Oh, this guy's pretty interesting.
They start googling him youtubingham and start to hear his
other hits. Like, if you're twenty six, you'd never in
your life heard of this guy bing Crosby. Who the
hell's this guy? And they have no idea that from
like nineteen thirty to nineteen fifty, this guy was the
single most famous singer in the world. This guy was
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the biggest figure in entertainment for like twenty five years
before Sinatra took over. This guy was the voice of
America for decades. Looking back on it, well, you admit
you were nuts listening to this Still you still so
you hear all these people now, you would never hear
nobody would ever hear Andy Williams today if it wasn't
for Christmas or Perry Como. I loved Perry Como lived
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right there, right in Long Island, lived in Sand's Point.
Earth a Kit that's one of the biggest Christmas So
I love earth a Kit. She was one of the
greatest singers I know. Her daughter. Her daughter has a
kit Shapiro store in Westport, Connecticut. Clothing store actually put
out a perfume called Eartha if you want a great perfume.
And I hate to break it to you, but there's
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a lot of kids today who really wouldn't know who
the hell Paul McCartney was about. What another The Beatles
broke up fifty five years ago. I mean, there's a
lot of wouldn't know, so one great thing about Christmas. Hey,
we'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten is the number, eight hundred three two
one zero seven.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Ten, mister mers Mark simone.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Wr Let's take some calls.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Let's go to Jean in Florida. Jean, how are you
doing Florida?
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Mark? I love you down here and I love you
in Connecticut.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Where are you in Florida?
Speaker 5 (15:28):
A bureau beach?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
The other day, President Trump took the time to honor
the Blessed Mother on the Feist the assumption. It was beautiful.
He gave a beautiful speech. I have not read one
thing about that in the in the papers. And I'm
just wondering if you can comment why there's been no
coverage of when he honored the Blessed Mother last week.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Gotta be honest, doesn't sound like the most exciting story
in the world. Well to Catay, you talk to you else.
You got a lot of energy. You talk very fast.
You know, if you don't want to be in Florida,
you can't talk like that. You got to learn how
to talk slow, to talk in Florida. You're not a
year round resident.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
I can tell no six months.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah, because you still got that Northeastern energy about you.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Get out of my way.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, that's good. Don't don't end up like those Florida
people that end up talking slow and everything. Well, sing,
great call, thanks for calling. Let's go. Let's go to Blouvelt.
Also in Florida, Blouvelt.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
How you doing, good morning, walksimone, how are you good?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Hey, everybody in Florida listens to us. Will you admit
that's because you miss New York? You all wish you
were back here.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
Oh God, I missed from New York. So the first
thing I do when I land man going to the Wordia,
I go right to the city and write down a
Lombardi's on Spring Street. Yeah, that's my favorite. That's my
favorite joint down there. Hey, two things, and I haven't
heard too much about the first thing. When I ask
you out affinity, Devin, I heard this story. Worry about
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the Omar how she had like she was worth sixty
five thousand dollars two years ago and now she's worth
ten million dollars.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
God bless America.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Yes, God, bless America. And another question is how come
Donald never sits back in a chair. He always leans
forward and he's got his hands on his knees.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
That's just because he's like a lion. He's like a tiger.
He's like ready to pounce. He never sits back.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
No, it's real, it's really that's the reason he never
sits back. He's ready to spring up and go into
action at any moment. You can learn a lot watching
that guy about how to be here.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
I do.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, all right, thanks for calling. Let's go to uh
Joel also in Florida, Joel, how you doing.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Good morning market, Yes, Joey, Florida. Okay, when I when
I was in college, my undergraduate studies and take the
learning psychology and sociology press, he used to tell us
that many people in their pre teens and teens used
to look at successful parents as being too authoritarian, and
they had a resentment for that. Well, it seems that
this is what's causing the Trump's arrangement syndrum.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Well, yeah, actually a mother number of psychologists have come
on this show and have written that it's daddy issues.
Exactly what you're saying. That's one reason they absolutely, Hey Trump,
not aybody has these issues, and that's why not everybody's
like that. Let's go to Hey Vincent and Brooklyn Vincent.
How you doing.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Good morning, Mark macaol Okay, good morning Mara Mark. I'm
gonna say this every time I get on the phone.
This so called unaffordability crisis is caused mainly by blue
state mayors and blue state governors. The previous call of
the young lady from Vero Beach, she got her Catholic
holidays mixed up. The Feast of the Assumption is August fifteenth,
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and the other day was the feast of the Immacula Conception.
That's December eighth, and in fact, in Italian we call
it la CONCHICIONI Okay. That being said, what's the next
thing these crazy democrats are going to do? When you
go to the dealership, they're gonna and you go to
buy an Audi, a Porsche or a BMW. Where are
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they going to pass the lord to city council and says, hey, uh,
that person over there only could afford a Volkswagen Golf.
So we're gonna put a twenty five percent tax on
the on the sticker price of your your Porsche or
your Audi. So we're gonna put this money in a
pool so those people could buy better cars. And you
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you're buying a filet mignon in the supermarket. No, while
your neighbors buying hot dogs and chop meat. You're gonna
have to pay a twenty five percent tax on it.
Where does this nonsense end? You live where you could afford,
You eat what you could afford, and if you can't
live in New York City, get that hell out. My
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girlfriend had a secretary of years ago that when this
woman got divorced from her husband, she had two kids,
she figured out between the alimony and the salary she
was making, she could no longer live in New York City.
She went someplace in Pennsylvania and is living a very
very good life normal.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Hey, a lot of people in New York City could
not afford to live in Monte Carlo.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I just, oh, well, you can't. A lot of people
can't afford to live on Park Avenue, A some place,
so they go live someplace else. This is a bunch
of leftist democrat bs, that's all.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
It's a good point, Vincent, excellent call, Thanks for calling.
You know, we'll talk to and Culter next up bout
I'll ask her about this. This is a good topic.
We'll get to an Culter next on seven to ten.
Wo R It's more on Mark the Mark Simon Show
on WR Well and Culter the best selling author. You know,
she's got a lot of best selling books. You know,
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a book is a great Christmas presence. You might you're
looking for Christmas presents. Get one of her books for somebody. Also,
of course, follow her on Twitter and substack. Even better,
she got interviews and videos and podcasts, all sorts of
stuff on substack. You go to and Culter dot substack
dot com and culture.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
How you doing fantastic? How are you Mark Simone?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Well, I'm good, I'm good. I love the Christmas season.
It seems to make the left wing cooks even more miserable.
I enjoy that.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I love it too. You remind me we have to
go see the tree in Rockefeller Center.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah, we're gonna walk by it every I walked by.
I'll will walk by it later today. So, uh, this
whole thing about affordable housing, you know when they said
we don't have affordable housing, Well, you're really not gonna
ever have any on Park Avenue, and there's certain areas
that are gonna be expensive and other areas that, well,
where did this thing come? Everywhere in the world has
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to be affordable.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Well, rents are very high in New York. I'm glad
you mentioned affordability. What what causes rents and purchase prices
to be so high in New York? As as anyone
in econ one oh one class will take impacts, you
don't even have to take econ one oh one on
my financial illiterate reduce the supply of something. Prices go up.
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Rent control every place in the universe, it's ever been tried.
They could try it on Mars. Suddenly you'll have massively
unaffordable housing. And oh my gosh, we need the government
to build affordable housing. Just just let the market cut loose.
Developers build more stuff that I obviously want to build
a quote affordable, that is to say, less expensive housing.
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You know, Sam Walton has done pretty well by providing
affordable products to people. It's not like in the market
people are only going to build fabulous places on Fifth Avenue. No,
quite to the contrary, But they don't build those now
because they'll be subject to rent control. And as you
and probably your listeners. So a lot of landlorders in
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New York have been forced to just walk away from
apartments because their fees, their taxes, their costs of repairs
are higher than what they're being paid in rent. So
what are they supposed to do, you know, carry these
people for the rest of their lives. No, you just
need the market. And of course one other issue, there's
no there's no problem under the sun that has not
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helped by mass deportation of illegals.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Well, you know, I believe it or not. In the Hamptons,
in East Hampton, there was a movement because in Eastthampton
they didn't have low income housing, affordable movement to get
some and the whole town rose up and said, it's
the hamp that's not supposed to be any affordable housing
that's in the next time.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Very funny. Yeah, no, the affordable housing has to go
in the poor, middle class neighborhood. Let's screw those people.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Yeah, but all your life, you know, your parents are driving.
You see, you're in the car, you're driving, Oh look
at these mansions, What a beautiful And then you keep
driving and driving. Next thing you know, you're in a
really bad neighborhood. That's that's always been that way. You
can't equalize everything.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
No, that's a really good point. Actually, one of the
one of the wonderful things Trump did. What was the
name of it. There was this insane program under Obama
and Biden. Oh, it's on the tip of my tongue.
I can't think of it. But anyway, it was basically
doing exactly the madness you're describing. If someone couldn't afford
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a family, couldn't afford to live, you know, in a
more expensive neighborhood fringe Connecticut or like you say, the
Hamptons Park Avenue. Uh, under law, we had to subsidize
them to allow them to live in homes where they
couldn't afford the neighborhood, which is crazy. That's you can
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they can find housing. They can find plenty of housing.
Housing in the neighborhoods they can they can afford. It's
just like you know, affirmative action at colleges. No, you
can get into a college. Uh, and to have roughly
this SATs is everyone you're competing against. But no, we're
going to elevate you to a college that's going to
make you feel stupid. For the rest of your life.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yeah, but these crazy left wing Democrats, you know, the
double standards is unbelievable. Remember they dropped those illegals in
Nantucket Martha's Vineyards.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Thinking about that.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
They got rounded up and taken out of there so
fast that I didn't see any due process there. Did you?
Did you see any hearings before they got carried out
of there?
Speaker 6 (25:31):
No?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I was thinking about it because, and by the way,
I salute you, I have been so trying to ignore this.
You know, the Venezuela and Narco traffickers, whom Democrats are
wildly in favor of. It's the new pet seal on
the left. But I was thinking access should round them
all up and send them to Martha's vineyards.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah, that would you know?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
You're right?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Actually, in that little harbor, I'd love to see those
Narco speedboats coming in at one hundred and eighty mile
an hour.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
It's right, just move them in both build be affordable
housing up there, then put the Narco terrorists there.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
All right, But how if you're NBC News, if you're
the New York Times, and the boat clearly has four
outboard super high speed outboard motors that costs almost two
hundred thousand dollars and it's going one hundred and eighty
miles an hour through the water in the middle of
the night. How could you claim that's a fishing boat.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
How could they claim that Tucky Williams was, you know,
a hard working student. Frame for killing a cop or
Mumia Abu Jamal. This is their nature. You find a
predator on society and oh my gosh, we must start
a fundraiser for that person. I think they've moved on
from the fishermen. Now, well, this is what I'm writing
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about this week. They have a scrolling series of preposterous
arguments in defense of narco terrorists, whom I'll give you
one one little high light. Last year was the last
year we have we have figures for cocaine, which is
absolutely one hundred percent being shipped. It goes from from
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Colombia to Venezuela. Venezuela sends it to Mexico and then
it comes Mexicans truck it up to the United States.
Back before the media felt like it had to lie
about this, this was written about about once a year
in the New York Times. This will all be covered
in the column going up later today. But in any event,
twenty twenty three, thirty thousand Americans died of overdoses from cocaine.
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Nine to eleven, three thousand Americans died, and we went
to war in two countries for twenty years. But thirty
thousand Americans, Oh, no, we can't do anything in our hemisphere.
You have to go seven thousand miles away. Then we
don't mind for killing innocence.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Well, you know, for years they tried to think of
what to do about these cartel smuggling drugs, and we
maybe set up a commission to talk to Mexico. And
then I like the Trump approach to watch a bomb
just hit the boat.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
And I mean, besides the joy of blowing up drug dealers,
you're absolutely right through through Republican administrations, Democratic administrations. US
attorneys keep indicting. I mean, all of all of Venezuela.
The only the only product they have is drugs, shipping drugs.
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They're sitting on the largest reserve of oil in the world.
They can't get it out of the ground. Socialism works great.
So the entire country right up to about the government,
the military, law enforcement. It is a drug cartel. This
is a country that is a drug cartel. So Obama Trump,
they've all indicted Maduro, the head of intelligence. The indictment
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they indict them, they accuse them of shipping cocaine to
the United States. Yes, your precious little Obama did this
New York Times. And then you know, maybe we'll get
an extradition. A couple of them have finally been caught
and gone to prison, and then some other somebody else
becomes the head of intelligence in Venezuela. Indicting people in
Abstentia is not working. What Trump is doing is working.
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Therefore liberals are going nuts.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Yeah, so hey, also a Democrats, boy, they love tariff's Democrats.
You know, they call it a corporate tax, but it's
a tariff. The tariffing business is left and right, which
I think time you put a tax on the corporation
that raises the prices.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
So uh, that's a good point. No, I don't mind that.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
You're right. So hey, we just about at a time
if somebody wanted to give a Christmas present, what book
of Years would you recommend?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Because that's a good Oh that's a good question. Book,
great Christmas all my children. You know. The last book
Resistance is futile.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
It is.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
It is exactly what's happening right now. Liberals just have
lost their minds with with Trump. The point of the
book is because because they hate Trump so much, they
can't make they can't make serious, solid arguments, and they
just keep helping him with their with their lunatic hysterion.
I go through several examples of that. So that's a
great one and Trump we trust also great now that
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he's being the man I wrote the book.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
About which okay, goot drive your approve.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Adios America of course, which which set off the phenomenon
that is the Trump.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Yeah, so we recommend this for a lot of authors.
You could go to a store a lot of stories
look for to get people books. It's a great gift.
It's nobody can complain. It's a it's a very important thing.
A books. So uh, go to and culture on Amazon
you can get a book as a gift. And of
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substack dot com and culter thanks for being with us.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Good to talk to you.
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Well, it's the middle of the week. It's uh, what's
the day today? It is the tenth, So you got
fourteen days till two weeks till Christmas Eve. Two weeks
from today. It's almost New Year's normally, you know New
Year's Eve, what a time for celebration. But remember New
Year's Day. You're gonna have Mom Donnie sworn in. On
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New Year's Day, you're gonna have a new mayor. It'll
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It'll it'll just be Deblasio all over again. It wasn't good,
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Well, it's a little better today, it's not quite as
cold as yesterday. We got a lot to get to
this hour, the affordability crisis, we got Mom Donnie to
talk about, and Christmas and a whole lot of stuff.
When you're in the supermarket more and more, have you
started using the self checkout or you still? It depends
(00:35):
if your cashiers. They always have like seven lanes and
only three cashiers, and I've never seen have you ever
been in the supermarket? We're every single aisle, every single
lane has a cashier and it never ever, ever, why
did they do that? Like when you go to the bank,
they have twelve windows, there's always two tellers. Why did
they build twelve windows. There's never been twelve tellers working
(00:59):
at the same time ever in a bank. So when
you go to the self checkout, it's pretty easy unless
you got stuff that's got to be weighed, and then
it gets a little tough. Now, be honest, did you
ever steal anything at the self checkout? You know, you
don't have to run every single item right by that scanner.
(01:21):
You run one or two. You got your bag set up,
you're throwing them in the bag. Be totally honest. Did
you ever maybe one item you didn't ring up for
two or three? Well, it happens a lot. There's a
couple of chains that got rid of self checkout because
of that exact problem. They were losing too much to theft.
(01:43):
Now there's been a study done about this apparently, Now
who would steal like that from the self checkout? Wealthy
Americans apparently are stealing much more from self served checkouts
than anybody else. A sizable for of wealthy Americans have
admitted to not scanning an item in a store. Now,
(02:04):
sometimes you try to scan it, it doesn't scan. Or sometimes
it's bananas or something you got to weigh at thedaa
know you know, know how to you just throw it
in the bag. If you break it down. By sex,
men steal far more than women do, almost more than
double the rate. Well okay, I mean, it's pretty obvious
men do more bad things than women do. Generally, many
(02:27):
of those surveys said they feel justified in stealing some
minor items. Thirty percent say the store is too large
and profitable. They don't feel the petty theft will do
anything to them thirty five percent. So they feel that
having to scan the items and self checkout is unpaid labor,
and this is compensation for it. It's kind of true.
(02:52):
You know. Remember Amazon opened those stores. They had one
in Time Warners Center, they had one near Grandson. Remember
Amazon tried doing stores, these little stores where you could
walk in, grab a little shopping cart thing and take
whatever you want and leave because each item had some
little tag on it that as you walked out, the
door would click and it would build your Amazon account automatically. Now,
(03:18):
whatever happened to that? Why can't I guess it's tougher
for a supermarket to do it, But that's the best
system Amazon tried that. I noticed those stores are all
gone now, but it was a great idea. Walk in,
grab whatever you want. Everything's got a little tag that
like a little Bluetooth tag on it. It'll when you
walk out, you go through a scanner, it'll see exactly
what you took in charge you for. It makes perfect sense.
(03:41):
Luigi Mangioni, the hearing's going on, and I keep reading
all these things about how good looking he is. Do
you find him really good looking? Luigi Mangioni, There is
something about him. Women like, I don't know, they like
his eyes, they like as this, I don't know, they
like those big normal eyebrows whatever, and a good looking
(04:04):
I don't know, you kind of look. If you're making
a movie about Lenny Bruce, I could see hiring him
to play Lenny Bruce. He kind of has that look
about him. But Lenny Bruce was like a good looking guy,
but kind of ratty looking, a little scruffy looking. So
I don't know, But there's more and more of this
where on the left they just idolize any kind of criminal.
You could be an illegal alien, you could be a
(04:27):
narco terrorist moving drugs. You could even be an assassin.
To hear a criminal, The left loves you. They're out
there fighting for you. And even these candidates Brad Lander
talking about fighting for immigrants, they're not immigrants. They're illegals.
They're illegals that broke into the country. There's nothing more
insulting to immigrants than putting illegal illegals across the border illegally,
(04:53):
into the same category with them. It's just a awful
awful thing to do, but it's happening more and more so.
It's also a movement right now to get rid of
you know, no more cell phones in the classroom. Kid
comes to school, got to lock up his cell phones
for the day. When he leaves, he gets it back.
(05:14):
But now there's more and more of a movement to
take it away from kids in general, like no more
cell phones, no more social media for a kid. And
this is both sides of the aisle. Republicans talking about it,
Democrats talking about it. You may have seen the ram
Emmanuel I don't know why he thinks this is a
big issue for him. He wants to run for president
(05:36):
in twenty twenty eight. All over the airwaves now talking
about no more social media for kids, keep it away
from them. Even Lara Trump on a show said they
got three kids. They got one iPad for the kids,
and they lock it up most of the day. They
want their kids reading books. Well, okay, but this has
(05:57):
gone on forever, this debate. You know, you got a
kid now he's spending too many hours looking at his phone,
looking at social media, looking at this. But it is
the same thing years ago when you were a kid,
only it was television. It wasn't social media. You know,
your parents would yell you stop watching TV all day,
go outside and play, go do your homework. Why don't
(06:18):
just sit there and watch TV? And you might think
that's not as bad, but it was just as bad.
What were you watching on TV? Nothing Worthwhile you're watching
Gilligan's Island reruns, you're watching The Monsters every day. I mean,
it wasn't anything great you were watching. You probably learn
more on TikTok than you did back then watching The
Monsters every day and reruns or I'll leave it to
(06:39):
Beaver was a show with some substance to it. So
there's more and more of this movement to get kids
to read books. But you kind of need the phone
to read a book. You need your kindle there to
read it. But I guess you could still read actual
books now. But we'll see where this goes. So Tucker
(06:59):
car people keep asking about this, What the hell happened
to him? You know, Tucker Carlson was a pretty respectable,
legitimate figure when he was on Fox News. There he
was discussing issues with great American politicians. Now you see
the guy and he's like a raving maniac online and
(07:20):
he's got this anti semi creep weirdo on. He's allowing
this guy to have his say on his show, and
then what was it earlier this week he's in cutter
talking about how he's moving there. Just one wacky thing
after another, and then you see a bunch of these
people doing that, Megan Kelly, all these people acting like
(07:40):
wacko lunatics, and what it is they've all been fired.
They don't work anywhere anymore. You know, if you're on
the Fox News channel, it's got millions of viewers, and
if you do a show there millions of people we'll
see you. Now if you get fired and you're doing
a podcast out of your bedroom and you're not on
a network, nobody sees you. So the only way what
(08:02):
do you do? How do you get attention? Well, you
got to do some crazy thing that goes viral, even
if it's on the left, left wing stuff, you know,
the left wing sites start attacking you like crazy. At
least it gets your attention and publicity. So that's why
Megan Kelly became a total wacko. Also Tucker Carlson, Now
there's a few others. It's kind of like you remember
(08:23):
Alex Jones, who you know, normal people didn't pay any
attention to him, but all the rednecks and hillbilly's and
wackos and all. They love this Alex Jones and they
went crazy with him. And he made a fortune, made
hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to do.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
So that's.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, there's a few others like that.
They just have to act totally nuts, outrageous. They're trying
to become the new Alex Jones. You know, you would
think Tucker would know better, but apparently he would not
know better than that. So now Charlie Kirk was a
(09:04):
different case. Now here was a guy who had a
huge audience, didn't have to do wacky things. He was
preaching great stuff, and he was preaching a lot of
stuff you'd want somebody to try to get across to
younger people, you know, take more interest in religion, go
into church and read the Bible, and I mean, this
is all fine stuff. But the left wing went after
(09:25):
him like crazy. It led to his assassination. He apparently
had written a book before he died, and his wife
has now put out the book and it's going around
promoting it and it's riled up these left wing nuts. Again,
here's a left wing podcaster Jennifer Welch. And there's Trump
(09:47):
derangement syndrome. There's Hagsith derangement syndrome. There's Charlie Kirk derangement syndrome. Her.
Now here's another one who went viral with this wacko stuff.
It's about Charlie Kirk screaming and wildly unhinged rants. He's
a racist, he's an opportunistic grifter. The wife is a grifter.
(10:08):
This woman should be kicked to the curb. She goes
just like Donald Trump, just like her unrepentant, racist, homophobic husband.
There's no truth to any of this. It's just lunacy.
You saw Letterman doing the same thing last night when
he was on Jimmy Kimmel. Listen, we got a lot
of people we don't like, we don't like Mom Donnie.
(10:30):
But I don't see anybody go nuts about him. It's
not derangement syndrome. And we just can't stand Mom Donnie.
But if you listen to people, they'll say, you know,
he's only thirty four, he's never even run anything, he's
never even had a job. Okay, well that's a legitimate argument.
And the things he said are anti semitic. He's been
quite anti semitic and some of the things. Yeah, okay,
that's a good seems to be very pro criminal. Yeah
(10:51):
that's true. But we don't go on and on and
on screaming that he's a thief and there's no ranting
and raving and nut I don't know what it is.
Psychologists have studied this. It's and they say it's not
just about Trump, it's about other things in their life.
They hate their father. It's daddy syndrome. I mean, if
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there's all these explanations you can read online from psychologists,
they're seeing things in Trump that set them off about
other things in their life. They just get it's they
get childlike, childish. You know, if you said, yeah, I
really don't like that, mom, Donny, I don't like anything
he's saying. I don't like what he stands. Okay, that's fine.
But if you start ranting and raving and screaming about
(11:33):
it's just childish. And you look at these people doing
it about Trump, it's just out of control. It's just childlike.
It's you know, it's been going on for ten years now,
and ten years ago we thought, well, all right, it'll
get better. After a few it's this has gotten worse
and worse and worse. It's never gonna stop. We're gonna
have to live with this disease for the rest of
(11:54):
our life. Hey, Judge's ordered the release of the Epstein
case grand jury transcripts. So this is the other thing
with the left. They always think they got Trump. They
got him now on something. This is a big deal.
They've got him on this. They're going to Judge is
ruled the grand jury transcripts from the Epstein case have
(12:16):
to be released now. Again, if you talk to people
that have seen everything, they've seen these grand jury things,
they've seen the full Epstein files. You talk to people
in the US Attorney's office that saw them. If you
talk to even Alan Dershwitz, who was the attorney for
Epstein and or Yeah, he was Epstein's attorney for a while,
so he saw everything. People who have seen everything tell
(12:38):
you there's absolutely nothing in any file, in any grand
jury transcript, there's nothing anywhere in any of these documents
that would tell you anything you haven't heard already. All
the names that are in there, you've already heard. Oh,
there might be one or two little names, unknown people,
but there's every major name that's in there. You've already
heard about it if you talk to them. What's in
(12:59):
theo Epstein Father It's basically just witness transcripts of witness interviews.
Nothing to outrageous. So, but that's not Remember the same
thing with the MRI. They we're trying to get Trump's MRI.
The Left went nuts trying to get that MRI. Well
they finally got it in the same thing, Eh, it
was nothing. There uh one thing I like about Christmas?
(13:21):
All these artists you get to hear. You know, obviously
you can walk around in the world today and hear
Taylor Swift all the time or Dual Liapa, But how
often you get to hear Elvis nowadays? So every Christmas,
if you're in your teens or even in your twenties,
every Christmas, who the hell is this guy? And then
it's your only exposure to Elvia? And then I don't know,
(13:43):
maybe I would think a lot of them. If you
get interested in the guy, Oh, this guy's pretty interesting.
They start googling him youtubingham and start to hear his
other hits. Like, if you're twenty six, you'd never in
your life heard of this guy bing Crosby. Who the
hell's this guy? And they have no idea that from
like nineteen thirty to nineteen fifty, this guy was the
single most famous singer in the world. This guy was
(14:06):
the biggest figure in entertainment for like twenty five years
before Sinatra took over. This guy was the voice of
America for decades. Looking back on it, well, you admit
you were nuts listening to this Still you still so
you hear all these people now, you would never hear
nobody would ever hear Andy Williams today if it wasn't
for Christmas or Perry Como. I loved Perry Como lived
(14:28):
right there, right in Long Island, lived in Sand's Point.
Earth a Kit that's one of the biggest Christmas So
I love earth a Kit. She was one of the
greatest singers I know. Her daughter. Her daughter has a
kit Shapiro store in Westport, Connecticut. Clothing store actually put
out a perfume called Eartha if you want a great perfume.
And I hate to break it to you, but there's
(14:49):
a lot of kids today who really wouldn't know who
the hell Paul McCartney was about. What another The Beatles
broke up fifty five years ago. I mean, there's a
lot of wouldn't know, so one great thing about Christmas. Hey,
we'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten is the number, eight hundred three two
one zero seven.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Ten, mister mers Mark simone.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Wr Let's take some calls.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Let's go to Jean in Florida. Jean, how are you
doing Florida?
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Mark? I love you down here and I love you
in Connecticut.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Where are you in Florida?
Speaker 5 (15:28):
A bureau beach?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
The other day, President Trump took the time to honor
the Blessed Mother on the Feist the assumption. It was beautiful.
He gave a beautiful speech. I have not read one
thing about that in the in the papers. And I'm
just wondering if you can comment why there's been no
coverage of when he honored the Blessed Mother last week.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Gotta be honest, doesn't sound like the most exciting story
in the world. Well to Catay, you talk to you else.
You got a lot of energy. You talk very fast.
You know, if you don't want to be in Florida,
you can't talk like that. You got to learn how
to talk slow, to talk in Florida. You're not a
year round resident.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
I can tell no six months.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah, because you still got that Northeastern energy about you.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Get out of my way.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, that's good. Don't don't end up like those Florida
people that end up talking slow and everything. Well, sing,
great call, thanks for calling. Let's go. Let's go to Blouvelt.
Also in Florida, Blouvelt.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
How you doing, good morning, walksimone, how are you good?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Hey, everybody in Florida listens to us. Will you admit
that's because you miss New York? You all wish you
were back here.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
Oh God, I missed from New York. So the first
thing I do when I land man going to the Wordia,
I go right to the city and write down a
Lombardi's on Spring Street. Yeah, that's my favorite. That's my
favorite joint down there. Hey, two things, and I haven't
heard too much about the first thing. When I ask
you out affinity, Devin, I heard this story. Worry about
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the Omar how she had like she was worth sixty
five thousand dollars two years ago and now she's worth
ten million dollars.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
God bless America.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Yes, God, bless America. And another question is how come
Donald never sits back in a chair. He always leans
forward and he's got his hands on his knees.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
That's just because he's like a lion. He's like a tiger.
He's like ready to pounce. He never sits back.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
No, it's real, it's really that's the reason he never
sits back. He's ready to spring up and go into
action at any moment. You can learn a lot watching
that guy about how to be here.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
I do.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, all right, thanks for calling. Let's go to uh
Joel also in Florida, Joel, how you doing.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Good morning market, Yes, Joey, Florida. Okay, when I when
I was in college, my undergraduate studies and take the
learning psychology and sociology press, he used to tell us
that many people in their pre teens and teens used
to look at successful parents as being too authoritarian, and
they had a resentment for that. Well, it seems that
this is what's causing the Trump's arrangement syndrum.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Well, yeah, actually a mother number of psychologists have come
on this show and have written that it's daddy issues.
Exactly what you're saying. That's one reason they absolutely, Hey Trump,
not aybody has these issues, and that's why not everybody's
like that. Let's go to Hey Vincent and Brooklyn Vincent.
How you doing.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Good morning, Mark macaol Okay, good morning Mara Mark. I'm
gonna say this every time I get on the phone.
This so called unaffordability crisis is caused mainly by blue
state mayors and blue state governors. The previous call of
the young lady from Vero Beach, she got her Catholic
holidays mixed up. The Feast of the Assumption is August fifteenth,
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and the other day was the feast of the Immacula Conception.
That's December eighth, and in fact, in Italian we call
it la CONCHICIONI Okay. That being said, what's the next
thing these crazy democrats are going to do? When you
go to the dealership, they're gonna and you go to
buy an Audi, a Porsche or a BMW. Where are
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they going to pass the lord to city council and says, hey, uh,
that person over there only could afford a Volkswagen Golf.
So we're gonna put a twenty five percent tax on
the on the sticker price of your your Porsche or
your Audi. So we're gonna put this money in a
pool so those people could buy better cars. And you
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you're buying a filet mignon in the supermarket. No, while
your neighbors buying hot dogs and chop meat. You're gonna
have to pay a twenty five percent tax on it.
Where does this nonsense end? You live where you could afford,
You eat what you could afford, and if you can't
live in New York City, get that hell out. My
(19:50):
girlfriend had a secretary of years ago that when this
woman got divorced from her husband, she had two kids,
she figured out between the alimony and the salary she
was making, she could no longer live in New York City.
She went someplace in Pennsylvania and is living a very
very good life normal.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Hey, a lot of people in New York City could
not afford to live in Monte Carlo.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I just, oh, well, you can't. A lot of people
can't afford to live on Park Avenue, A some place,
so they go live someplace else. This is a bunch
of leftist democrat bs, that's all.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
It's a good point, Vincent, excellent call, Thanks for calling.
You know, we'll talk to and Culter next up bout
I'll ask her about this. This is a good topic.
We'll get to an Culter next on seven to ten.
Wo R It's more on Mark the Mark Simon Show
on WR Well and Culter the best selling author. You know,
she's got a lot of best selling books. You know,
(20:50):
a book is a great Christmas presence. You might you're
looking for Christmas presents. Get one of her books for somebody. Also,
of course, follow her on Twitter and substack. Even better,
she got interviews and videos and podcasts, all sorts of
stuff on substack. You go to and Culter dot substack
dot com and culture.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
How you doing fantastic? How are you Mark Simone?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Well, I'm good, I'm good. I love the Christmas season.
It seems to make the left wing cooks even more miserable.
I enjoy that.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I love it too. You remind me we have to
go see the tree in Rockefeller Center.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah, we're gonna walk by it every I walked by.
I'll will walk by it later today. So, uh, this
whole thing about affordable housing, you know when they said
we don't have affordable housing, Well, you're really not gonna
ever have any on Park Avenue, and there's certain areas
that are gonna be expensive and other areas that, well,
where did this thing come? Everywhere in the world has
(21:48):
to be affordable.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Well, rents are very high in New York. I'm glad
you mentioned affordability. What what causes rents and purchase prices
to be so high in New York? As as anyone
in econ one oh one class will take impacts, you
don't even have to take econ one oh one on
my financial illiterate reduce the supply of something. Prices go up.
(22:14):
Rent control every place in the universe, it's ever been tried.
They could try it on Mars. Suddenly you'll have massively
unaffordable housing. And oh my gosh, we need the government
to build affordable housing. Just just let the market cut loose.
Developers build more stuff that I obviously want to build
a quote affordable, that is to say, less expensive housing.
(22:37):
You know, Sam Walton has done pretty well by providing
affordable products to people. It's not like in the market
people are only going to build fabulous places on Fifth Avenue. No,
quite to the contrary, But they don't build those now
because they'll be subject to rent control. And as you
and probably your listeners. So a lot of landlorders in
(22:58):
New York have been forced to just walk away from
apartments because their fees, their taxes, their costs of repairs
are higher than what they're being paid in rent. So
what are they supposed to do, you know, carry these
people for the rest of their lives. No, you just
need the market. And of course one other issue, there's
no there's no problem under the sun that has not
(23:21):
helped by mass deportation of illegals.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Well, you know, I believe it or not. In the Hamptons,
in East Hampton, there was a movement because in Eastthampton
they didn't have low income housing, affordable movement to get
some and the whole town rose up and said, it's
the hamp that's not supposed to be any affordable housing
that's in the next time.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Very funny. Yeah, no, the affordable housing has to go
in the poor, middle class neighborhood. Let's screw those people.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Yeah, but all your life, you know, your parents are driving.
You see, you're in the car, you're driving, Oh look
at these mansions, What a beautiful And then you keep
driving and driving. Next thing you know, you're in a
really bad neighborhood. That's that's always been that way. You
can't equalize everything.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
No, that's a really good point. Actually, one of the
one of the wonderful things Trump did. What was the
name of it. There was this insane program under Obama
and Biden. Oh, it's on the tip of my tongue.
I can't think of it. But anyway, it was basically
doing exactly the madness you're describing. If someone couldn't afford
(24:24):
a family, couldn't afford to live, you know, in a
more expensive neighborhood fringe Connecticut or like you say, the
Hamptons Park Avenue. Uh, under law, we had to subsidize
them to allow them to live in homes where they
couldn't afford the neighborhood, which is crazy. That's you can
(24:47):
they can find housing. They can find plenty of housing.
Housing in the neighborhoods they can they can afford. It's
just like you know, affirmative action at colleges. No, you
can get into a college. Uh, and to have roughly
this SATs is everyone you're competing against. But no, we're
going to elevate you to a college that's going to
make you feel stupid. For the rest of your life.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yeah, but these crazy left wing Democrats, you know, the
double standards is unbelievable. Remember they dropped those illegals in
Nantucket Martha's Vineyards.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Thinking about that.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
They got rounded up and taken out of there so
fast that I didn't see any due process there. Did you?
Did you see any hearings before they got carried out
of there?
Speaker 6 (25:31):
No?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I was thinking about it because, and by the way,
I salute you, I have been so trying to ignore this.
You know, the Venezuela and Narco traffickers, whom Democrats are
wildly in favor of. It's the new pet seal on
the left. But I was thinking access should round them
all up and send them to Martha's vineyards.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah, that would you know?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
You're right?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Actually, in that little harbor, I'd love to see those
Narco speedboats coming in at one hundred and eighty mile
an hour.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
It's right, just move them in both build be affordable
housing up there, then put the Narco terrorists there.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
All right, But how if you're NBC News, if you're
the New York Times, and the boat clearly has four
outboard super high speed outboard motors that costs almost two
hundred thousand dollars and it's going one hundred and eighty
miles an hour through the water in the middle of
the night. How could you claim that's a fishing boat.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
How could they claim that Tucky Williams was, you know,
a hard working student. Frame for killing a cop or
Mumia Abu Jamal. This is their nature. You find a
predator on society and oh my gosh, we must start
a fundraiser for that person. I think they've moved on
from the fishermen. Now, well, this is what I'm writing
(26:52):
about this week. They have a scrolling series of preposterous
arguments in defense of narco terrorists, whom I'll give you
one one little high light. Last year was the last
year we have we have figures for cocaine, which is
absolutely one hundred percent being shipped. It goes from from
(27:13):
Colombia to Venezuela. Venezuela sends it to Mexico and then
it comes Mexicans truck it up to the United States.
Back before the media felt like it had to lie
about this, this was written about about once a year
in the New York Times. This will all be covered
in the column going up later today. But in any event,
twenty twenty three, thirty thousand Americans died of overdoses from cocaine.
(27:37):
Nine to eleven, three thousand Americans died, and we went
to war in two countries for twenty years. But thirty
thousand Americans, Oh, no, we can't do anything in our hemisphere.
You have to go seven thousand miles away. Then we
don't mind for killing innocence.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Well, you know, for years they tried to think of
what to do about these cartel smuggling drugs, and we
maybe set up a commission to talk to Mexico. And
then I like the Trump approach to watch a bomb
just hit the boat.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
And I mean, besides the joy of blowing up drug dealers,
you're absolutely right through through Republican administrations, Democratic administrations. US
attorneys keep indicting. I mean, all of all of Venezuela.
The only the only product they have is drugs, shipping drugs.
(28:24):
They're sitting on the largest reserve of oil in the world.
They can't get it out of the ground. Socialism works great.
So the entire country right up to about the government,
the military, law enforcement. It is a drug cartel. This
is a country that is a drug cartel. So Obama Trump,
they've all indicted Maduro, the head of intelligence. The indictment
(28:45):
they indict them, they accuse them of shipping cocaine to
the United States. Yes, your precious little Obama did this
New York Times. And then you know, maybe we'll get
an extradition. A couple of them have finally been caught
and gone to prison, and then some other somebody else
becomes the head of intelligence in Venezuela. Indicting people in
Abstentia is not working. What Trump is doing is working.
(29:09):
Therefore liberals are going nuts.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Yeah, so hey, also a Democrats, boy, they love tariff's Democrats.
You know, they call it a corporate tax, but it's
a tariff. The tariffing business is left and right, which
I think time you put a tax on the corporation
that raises the prices.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
So uh, that's a good point. No, I don't mind that.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
You're right. So hey, we just about at a time
if somebody wanted to give a Christmas present, what book
of Years would you recommend?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Because that's a good Oh that's a good question. Book,
great Christmas all my children. You know. The last book
Resistance is futile.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
It is.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
It is exactly what's happening right now. Liberals just have
lost their minds with with Trump. The point of the
book is because because they hate Trump so much, they
can't make they can't make serious, solid arguments, and they
just keep helping him with their with their lunatic hysterion.
I go through several examples of that. So that's a
great one and Trump we trust also great now that
(30:07):
he's being the man I wrote the book.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
About which okay, goot drive your approve.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Adios America of course, which which set off the phenomenon
that is the Trump.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Yeah, so we recommend this for a lot of authors.
You could go to a store a lot of stories
look for to get people books. It's a great gift.
It's nobody can complain. It's a it's a very important thing.
A books. So uh, go to and culture on Amazon
you can get a book as a gift. And of
course follower on Twitter and substack. It's a culter dot
(30:43):
substack dot com and culter thanks for being with us.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Good to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Mark Simone, Bye bye, take care I know forget coming
up at noon. Buck Sexton and Clay Travis that's a
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(31:08):
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Speaker 1 (31:15):
Now.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Now back to the Mark Simone Show on woor.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Well, it's the middle of the week. It's uh, what's
the day today? It is the tenth, So you got
fourteen days till two weeks till Christmas Eve. Two weeks
from today. It's almost New Year's normally, you know New
Year's Eve, what a time for celebration. But remember New
Year's Day. You're gonna have Mom Donnie sworn in. On
(31:45):
New Year's Day, you're gonna have a new mayor. It'll
be all right, though, Listen, you got through eight years
at de Blasio. You'll get through Mom Donnie, all right.
It'll it'll just be Deblasio all over again. It wasn't good,
but you got through it in one piece. Hey, we're
out of time. You know. I'm here every day ten
to noon. But remember you can listen to the show
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(32:06):
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