November 7, 2025 • 33 mins
Governor Kathy Hochul is most likely to encounter significant challenges in the upcoming gubernatorial race, as U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik has announced her candidacy for governor in New York City. This development sets the stage for a highly competitive contest between the two prominent political figures. Former CIA Director John Brennan is reportedly under investigation by the Department of Justice. Sources indicate that the inquiry may lead to an indictment. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews Roger Friedman from Showbiz 411. Roger and Mark talk about the 2026 Grammy nominations. A Michael Jackson biopic is coming out that is attracting many people.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here's more marks alone on seven to ten.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Woor.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Well, it's been quite a week. It's over. It's over.
We need a weekend to recover. It's getting cold out.
The Rockefeller Center tree they cut it down. It's on
its way. It'll be here there too. That's how you know.
I guess summer's over. Rockefeller Center tree is on its way.
(00:25):
I was in the Central Park. The skating rink is open.
I guess. I guess summer is finally over. Hey, by
the way, if you want to look at leaves, changing colors,
the leaves, apparently this is the peak weekend around here,
around the New York City area, in Long Island, Connecticut,
New Jersey, this is the peak weekend, So do it
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this weekend. Nancy Pelosi has announced she will not seek reelection.
That's great news. President Trump was asked about it. I
think she's an able woman. I'm glad she's retiring.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I think she did the country a great service by reteter.
I think she was a tremendous liability.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
For the country. Now you're saying, well, would he say
that he shouldn't talk like that? Why does he talk
like well? Because a couple of days before, did you
hear what she said about him. She's on a being
interviewed by somebody on some show. To listen to the hyperbole.
Listen to how crazy they get.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
He's just a vile creature, the worst thing on the
face of the earth.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
But anyway you think he's the worst thing on the
face of the earth.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I do, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
They just get so crazy about him, They get so crazy,
we're gonna there's a couple of prominent psychologists who actually said,
what sets them off so much? Why is he? You know,
they hated Bush and they they hated Reagan and they
went after him, but this is beyond anything. Some psychologists
think it's because you know, they're trying to be so
(01:57):
woke and you know DEI and he's just like this
old fashion macho guy, old fashion nineteen fifties sort of
macho kind of it's that that sets him off. And
then there's some psychologists that say it's like a daddy issues,
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Like they've got massive daddy issues with this guy, but
he just sets them up. I mean, listen to her,
this is nice. If I played the clip and I
didn't say who she's talking about, who would you guess
she's You probably think she's talking about Iotola Komani or
or Putin or bin Laden. But if you didn't know who,
(02:37):
she was.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Talking about creature, the worst thing on the face of
the earth.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
But anyway, you think he's the worst thing on the
face of the earth, I do. Yeah, it's pretty funny. Now.
The only sad thing about her leaving It was great
to watch her trade stocks. She was the greatest insider
trading in the history of the world. Nobody you know,
you're allowed to do inside trading in Congress. So a
lot of people made a couple of millions. She made, like,
(03:04):
got close to a billion dollars. Now, listen to this.
Over the last ten years. Because of her insider trading.
Over the last ten years, Nancy Pelosi outperformed Warren Buffett
Buffett's stock portfolio. Buffett grew his portfolio by one hundred
and eighty five percent. Pelosi grew hers by seven hundred
and twenty percent, almost four times the gains. You got
(03:28):
to give her credit for at least for that the
greatest insider trading in the history of the world. In
her case, it was legal. So alist Stephonic is going
to run for governor. She's why would she announce it
Now it's a year one year away. Do you really
need a whole year? Well, okay, it helps, you know.
Some say that was the big, big problem with Cuomo.
(03:48):
He was just so dead all through the primaries. He
didn't wake up until the last two weeks. One reason
you start early. It gives you an excuse to go
around and campaign, not in the big places but in
the little places. That's why the candidates go to Iowa
year ahead. You go to these little, tiny place where
nobody's really going to watch nobody. You're not gonna get
a lot of coverage, which is good, but you do speeches,
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you meet with voters, and that way you hone the message.
You're really you know, six months of that and then
you're ready for the real campaign. You have developed a message,
a stump speech, You've really got yourself up to speed.
So that's why you do it a year ahead of time. Now,
Hokeel is going to have a huge problem. Normally, these
Democrats will campaign on affordability and whatever crisis. Well, now
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you've got a Republican who can just look at you
and say you're the one in charge for the last
eight years. It's your fault. You created it, So I
don't know what she's going to do about that. The
other big problem she has is a Mom Donnie problem.
You can assume a year from now, Mom Donnie will
have been a terrible, terrible mayor and she endorsed them.
She is going to have to deal with that picture
of her and him they pose together, holding their hands
(04:57):
up together, clasp pa. So she's going to have to
answer for that, and that's not going to be easy.
It's going to be a big problem for her. Hey,
MSNBC a week from today will no longer exist. Friday,
the fifteenth final day of MSNBC. It's gone. They'll rebrand
(05:19):
it as they'll call it MS now. They gave people
a tour of their new studio. They've been kicked out
of Rockefeller Center. Their new studios kind of small. It's
a little cramped. They'll be operating out of there. But
you know, there's a lot of branding experts that say
they may not realize how dangerous this is. You know,
it's gonna be the same show, same anchors, won't look
(05:40):
as good because it'll be smaller studios. They will no
longer have NBC News resources or correspondence or all of that.
But anytime you rebrand, you know, you could just change
you know, well, if you said, yeah, but they're just
changing the name, or they just changing the logo, it
can affect things. What happened to Cracker Barrel. Cracker Barrel
(06:03):
just changed the logo and they redecorated the stores. Rebranding
is very, very, very dangerous, so it'll be interesting to
see what happens now. MSNBC apparently is worried about the
dangers of rebranding, so they put together a few million
dollars to do an ad campaign to promote the new brand.
(06:24):
You'll start seeing that everywhere. And this is a company
that was spun off from NBC in comcasts, so a
few millions a lot of money to them, but it's
going to be quite a struggle. Heyy, speaking of television,
sometime today, I'm going to go over to the Paley Center.
You know, that's like the Museum of Television and Radio.
They call it the Paley Center. But this is the
(06:48):
final weekend it's there, and I want to the museum
is going to be there forever. But what's there for
the final weekend is Johnny Carson's actual desk and parts
of the Tonight Show set. Want to go over there
and see it before it goes away. He'll be there
through Sunday at the Paley Center. You can actually see
the actual Johnny Carson desk, which is that's pretty cool.
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And then PaleyFest actually begins. Now they've got a whole
bunch of big events. The check the schedule. You can
get tickets. Where there's Trisha Yearwood, is there Ted Danson,
who's got this hot news series on Netflix. Just go
to a pale museum dot org. It's all for a
very good cause. Hey, there is some good news this week.
Looks like John Brennan that the dirty, dirty CIA director
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will be indicted. Apparently they are preparing indictments against him.
They will go after him. Hopefully they'll get him. But
even if they don't, just put him on trial. This
is the dirtiest CIA director we've ever had. Also communist,
by the way, I mean literally he admits to having
voted in presidential elections for the communist candidate. Now that's
(07:57):
the kind of guy. This is CIA director. You know,
Comy was at one time a communist. He's talked about
earlier in his life being an actual communist. He tries
to pose as some sort of Republican. He's always always
been very left wing Democrat, but he admits earlier in
his life he was an actual communist. Do you remember
the McCarthy stuff. McCarthy hearings, If you even happen to
(08:19):
walk into a Communist party meeting or a Communist club meeting,
you were banned from society for the rest of your life.
These guys were actual communists, declared communists. Cally Brennan. Also
remember it was Brennan who signed that ridiculous letter from
the fifty one former intelligence officials who said the Hunter
(08:40):
laptop was Russian disinformation. Absolutely insane stuff. You hear all
this talk. Everybody's moving, everybody's leaving. Everybody's fleeing New York
because of Mom Donnie. I don't know, well, there'll be
some people will leave, but everybody's going to leave that fast.
We went through this with de Blasio, same thing. Everybody's leaving.
(09:02):
Some people did, but not a lot. But they're panicking
in Florida and all the homes that are available in Florida.
You know, they figure everybody will move to Florida. Now,
all these rich people moved to Florida, So the homes
that would be that were available are all getting snapped
up like crazy, not by New Yorkers, but by local
Floridians who apparently, in the last weeks since Momdani, have
(09:27):
flooded the market because they're afraid all these New Yorkers
will come down and buy everything, and when they start
buying like crazy, it'll drive the pricest way up in Florida.
So local Floridians started buying stuff. There were homes that
were on the sitting on the market for months with
no activity that all of a sudden had dozens of
offers Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, And these homes are getting snapped
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up at the fastest rate they've ever seen. Condos that
sat through the whole summer with no bidders now have
multiple offers. It's going on all over the East Coast, Miami,
Boca Palm Beach. In fact, they're starting to see it
in Orlando and other places. Floridians snapping up these homes
because they know it's going to drive prices up like crazy. Hey,
(10:12):
you know podcasting is a big thing. Now, there's two
kinds of podcasts. There's the real ones, the professional ones.
iHeart is the biggest podcast in the world. Serious is
a big podcaster Spotify obviously, but nobody's bigger than iHeart,
and we've got all the top top names in the
world podcasting. Now, the other part of podcasting is every
(10:34):
amateur now has a podcast because anybody can do it. Now,
if you talk about a professional podcast, we have millions
and millions and millions of listeners. If you're Joe Rogan,
you got forty million listeners or whatever he's got the
one with President Trump, the campaign podcast, I think that
(10:56):
hit one hundred million listens at one point. Even my podcast,
they'll hit ten million this year, ten million listens. We
did nine point four million last year. But it's a
big deal these podcasts. Now, Netflix wants to get into
the podcasting business. They want to seriously get into the
podcasting business. Netflix of course the number one best known
(11:19):
streaming place, but they think that's not enough, that you
better expand all of that, so they want to get
into podcasting. They're making a deal. Well, they're in talks
with SERIOUSXM YouTube, by the way, it's a huge podcaster.
So Netflix is talking to SERIOUSXM to combine and have
all of their podcasts now they want to do it
(11:40):
audio and video. Serious XM has some big podcast call
Her Daddy, Morbid, Dateline NBC. But they're trying to strike
some kind of deal. Earlier they made a deal with Spotify.
They got the Bill Simmons podcast, Zach Lowe Conspiracy Theories,
and some others. Now, the biggest podcast of all is iHeart.
(12:02):
There's nobody bigger than iHeart. Hollywood reporter says Netflix has
also approached iHeart Media about a similar arrangement. iHeart has
some of the most important podcasts in the world, like
the Breakfast Club done over there right across the hall
and stuff you should know. Now, there's some trade magazines
this morning writing that it sounds impressive, but that they
(12:26):
think Netflix is way too late, way too late to
get into this, that they've missed the boat on it.
They'll never catch up. You know, when they started with
the streaming stuff, they were ahead of everybody else. That's
how they got so big. And you remember at the time,
you kids today, you won't know what I'm talking about.
(12:48):
Before Netflix, if you wanted to see a movie at home,
you had to go to a store like a Blockbuster
video store. And you had to rent the movie for
a day or two. At one time it was on cassette,
a VHS casset, and you'd have to rewind it. If
you didn't rewind it before you brought it back, you
get fined. And then later it was a DVD. This
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sounds crazy. Can you imagine a twenty three ye old listening?
What what do you mean you went to a street. Yeah,
you had to go to a blockbuster, rent the thing,
bring it back. You had to go back the next day.
And state of the art was they put it like
a slot in the door, so you didn't have to
go during the day. You could go late at night
and drop it through the slot. But then Netflix started.
(13:31):
Netflix actually started, I think it was DVDs. It was DVDs,
and then they started streaming. Eventually got rid of the
DVDs and streaming took over. So but again podcasting, they're
way too late to jump on board. Hey, King Charles, boys,
he had to get this, Prince Andrew. He stripped him
of his title, the Duke of this, the Duke of that,
(13:52):
the Earl of the Duke of Earl, whatever the hell
he was. King Charles keeps taking things away kicked him
out of the wherever he was living such palace, taken
everything final humiliation, he stripped his brother of his other titles.
He was left with Royal Highness and prince. So he's
no longer any of that stuff. Now this is all
(14:14):
because of the Jeffrey Epstein Gallaine Maxwell stuff. This woman
wrote a book with all the allegations, but it's never
been proven. Nothing's been proven. Just because somebody claimed it
hasn't been proven. But on the other hand, he's never
denied it. He's never actually denied the allegations. So the
only thing he has left he's a Vice Admiral of
(14:35):
the Royal Navy, that title given him in twenty fifteen.
He did spend twenty two years in the Royal Navy
and he actually he saw active service. Was a helicopter
pilot during the Falklands War. Ooh, a helicopter piloto. This
is like Mikey Cheryl. Two of them could start a
little helicopter company there. But this Prince Andrew, I don't
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know what he's gonna do. If I were him, I
would just leave. Just hey, come over here, come over here.
They'll treat you like a big tabloid star. But he
would face charges if he came out of here, so
that's why he has to stay in England. Hey, we'll
take some calls in a minute. Eight hundred three two
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Speaker 5 (15:25):
Now back to Mark Simon on wor.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Uh, let's
go to John and Florida. John, how you doing.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Morning, Mark?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Mark?
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Wa'm sean go from retail for the airlines to pick
up the control of salaries and then reimbursed them when
the government comes back.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Well, those airlines don't make much money to begin with.
The profit margin on an airline is practically nothing. It's
almost impossible to run an airline. As Donald Trump used
to point that out.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
You know. Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
He used to explain that he went to business school
with all these geniuses. Some of them became billionaires and
some of them didn't make that much money. And he
said the reason was some of them went into the
right businesses. They went into oil and made billions. Some
of them went into the airlines and you can barely
make a living there. It's not easy on those airlines.
I know they they can be really awful to customers,
(16:19):
but good news is they're not making much profit those airlines.
Let's go to Georgia and Long Island. George, how you
doing fine?
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Mak just a quick statement, Mendani has some type of
cult following where you can get a million votes like
he did. I think you'll have an impact on the
governor's election, whether it be st fined as we just said.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah, now, it's not a cult following. When you win
a majority of the votes in New York City, that's
more than a cult. That's a lot of people, but
a lot of that. These younger people who you know,
indoctrinated in all these universities, haven't seen a lot of history.
Don't know that. Every so often, every twenty years, somebody
comes along with this socialist nonsense and it always fails.
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And anytime the government jumps in and decided to do
stuff for the poor, it's always the rich that benefits
the most from it. In the end, they always figured
out how to benefit from it. Let's go to Nick
and basking Ridge. Nick, how you doing, Hi?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Mark? You mentioned Trump arrangement syndome, and I have a
three word explanation of exactly what that is. Go ahead,
Ego hates ego.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Well, that could be. That could be also. But a
lot of psychologists have talked about this. They think it's
just that he's everything that they tried to stamp out
in life, like old fashioned macho macho man and just
this like alpha male, this like old good, old fashioned
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American moxie. They thought they stamped that all out. They
don't want to see that anymore. Let's go to Bill
Bradley Beach. Bill, how you.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
Doing, good Mark, Good morning. Well we've had jeffaries on
saying about and across the living and everything. Yet the
Democrats couldn't care about the fifty year high inflation for
four years out of the Bider dictatorship, where they actually
eliminated the dollar store. When they left, everything was twenty
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five and more everything in the country.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
What are you saying, Democrats are hypocritical? You can't believe
that that's not the Democrats, I know, hypocrites. Why that's unheard? Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
No.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
The funniest thing is you watch these videos where they
all say Trump talked about getting rid of the philibuster,
and they all have these. You can see these online,
all of them, Bernie Sanders, Obama, all of them saying
why that's un American, that's a threat to our democracy.
To get rid of the philibuster. Then you'll see it
cut together with the video of them from four years
ago saying we must get rid of the philibuster. It's
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anti American, it's anti democracy. Let's go to Carl and Sayerville, Carl,
how you doing by Mark?
Speaker 4 (19:01):
How are you? You know Mark the incoming marriage. Do
you think he's going to like maybe scale down the
Independence Day celebration and shorten the Thanksgiving Day prosh?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
You know, I didn't talk about that. I didn't think
about that. Oh that's a very good point. I didn't
think about that. Excellent point. You know this guy, you know,
he can't raise your taxes. He can't give you free busses.
That's not in his power. But I didn't think about that.
He can start getting rid of the Rockefeller Center tree.
He could eliminate the Columbus Day parade. He could. I
(19:36):
don't know. That's because it's tough to do. That would
be really tough for him to do. But you're right,
we got to keep an eye on that. Let's go
to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Good morning, Mark, Good morning Anthony from the Bronx. Mark
maybe mondomial stall outdoor, loud speakers around city Hall and
instead of a minaret, we'll have to call the prayer
every day. The Muslim called the prayer Uh, Mark speaking
about the communists and everything about how Dora McCarty uh
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day that they come after you right after they caught
and executed to kidnappers Sacco and Vanzetti of Uh Lucky
Limburg's child in my grandfather's building at the time, and
my mother was alive and living there. She told me
on the top floor there was an Italian communist living
(20:28):
there with his wife and his kid, and one day
the FBI came to arrest him, came to get him
uh for communist activity, and the punk that he was,
he locked himself in the apartment and the punk killed
his wife, killed his kid, and then killed himself because
(20:49):
he couldn't face the music.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Mark.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
I wanted to ask you, man, and you're in the know, You're.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Out there story a little.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Yeah, Mark. I don't think Jessica is going to take
Madami to Kamie. It's offer to be police admission and
his why. Rumor has it that she wants to run
for mayor the next time around, and she would, She
would easily. She'd have the money, she could self fund.
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And I don't think she wants to be her name
in any way, in her family's name associated with Zora Mandai.
She doesn't need that because she'll fill out. She'll finish
out her term with Adams. She's doing a great job
and why would she want.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Bet No, she probably won't risk it for Vincent. Great call,
Thanks for calling. We were hearing if she leaves uh
Mondannie is looking at Rodney Harrison, Suffolk County Police Commissioner.
That's the guy he's looking at, former NYPD Chief of Department.
So that's not the world's worst choice. But hey, when
we come back, Roger Friedman will be with us, Great
(22:00):
Entertainment Reporter. We'll talk to him next on seven to ten.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
W R marks the motion on sevent ten, wor Well
Roger Friedman, the Great Entertainment Reporter.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
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and he'll turn that him there, Yeah, I see him there,
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Roger Friedman, how you doing, Roger Friedman? Are you there?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I am, Oh, there you are. I've just joured the
Grammy nominations.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah, so tell us about the Grammy nominations.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Well, uh, it's all the pop people who you know
on the radio if you're fourteen, Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber,
they're the main names. Lady Gaga got seven nominations for
her Man Eater album and she's going to win. The
others are just superfluous in the traditional pop section, which
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is more for you and me.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
No, actually, I believe it or not. I listened to
Z one like that stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Okay, I like see one hundred. Sabrina Carpenter, who I
just saw by the way at the garden and loved
her Manchild album and song got nominated. And that bunny
Billie Eilish got nominated for a song that I thought
came out the year before. But all right, but it's
(23:50):
Luther Kendrick Lamar for his song Luther with Sizza. Yeah,
but those are the ones. But the really the category
that you and I would enjoy the most would be
traditional pop, and that's Barber streisand Jennifer Hudson, Elton John
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and Brandy Carlisle. Uh, those are the main names. You
know who didn't get nominated for that category, which I
really would have liked to was Ringo Star. He had
this great country album called look Up, and they didn't
do anything for it. But I really liked that album.
I really liked it. But you know, I would say
(24:33):
that Chapel Rone she's nominated. But it's really the Grammys
are very narrow at this point because they're really just
looking at the top chart stars. They're they're they're looking
for a good TV show, which you can't blame them.
They want ratings, which are necessary to stay alive, and
(24:54):
they're not going into really uh like diverse or interesting
things you know, might surprise you, which they've done in
the past. This is a very straightforward list of you know,
top forty hits, commercial hits, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Well, but that's what we did that in the nineties.
The two thousands. They we did that.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
No, Yeah, it's been a little better in the past.
But the TV show February first, it'll be a big,
big show. And if they get some of these people,
if they get Loffe, she's do you know who she is? Yeah,
she's a fabulous singer around there, Phil being good shaped.
(25:37):
They nominated some Layla Bialily but for winter songs, and
we're going to have to look her up and see
who she is. Best new artist. Those are all good.
And this guy Somber. You know who Somber is? Yeah, Okay,
he's twenty years old. He's from the Lower East Side.
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He's about nine feet tall. He's the son of the
guy who does all the booking for like the Elton
Shawn and am Fhar shows and that kind of thing.
He's got a big I never knew his name is
Andy Boose. I never knew that he was a musician himself.
And his son's name is Sean Boose and I guess
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the middle initial is M, so it's SMB, and he
calls himself Somber. He's had two massive hits, are three
massive hits on the charts all year and a big
album into a Debut Album and he's going to win
Best New Artist. He is the Best New Artist. So
he's a real New York story. I think he dropped
(26:43):
out of school like seventeen to become a rock star
and became one sort of overnight wow. So that's a
big New York story.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Hey, where are the Grammys being held this year?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Grammys are in Los Angeles February first, from the what
I call the Staples Center, what others called the Crypto
crypt dot Com. And they'll be preceded by two events.
Music Cares Person of the Years of award on the
Friday of that weekend is going to Mariah Carey and
(27:13):
she'll show up sometime that evening, probably not on time,
but sometime that evening. The next night, Clive Davis throws
his annual pre Grammy dinner. He'll be almost ninety four
years old by then, Please God knock Wood, and it's
going to be that'll be an amazing night. So the
Grammy weekend is going to be terrific. And it's the
(27:36):
last Grammys. I believe it's the last Grammys on CBS.
CBS blew their chances to have the Grammys for the
next ten years and after this January goes to NBC.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Oh all right, yeah, Roger m tell me, what's the
deal with this Michael Jackson movie? Good Bad? What is it?
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
So, the Michael Jackson movie. I'm looking forward to it.
But originally the plan was this is crazy. The plan
was to have a like three hour movie where they
were going to take you through the nineties and the
two thousands where he gets arrested and there's like you know,
molestation charging and trials and all this other stuff. And
(28:18):
finally someone came to their senses and said, nobody wants
to see that in the movie. So they went back.
They went back and made a film that ends, you know,
around the time of nineteen ninety like after Bad and
thriller and dangerous and when he's at the peak of
his career before the bad stuff comes, and that movie
will be terrific. And it's very similar in that way
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to the MJ musical playing on Broadway and around the world,
which is a huge hit, by the way, huge And
that also stops at the end of the nineteen eighties
when Michael is at his peak powers and you know,
adored by everyone. The next twenty years are you know,
a crazy time that see that in a documentary, that's fine,
(29:02):
but nobody wants to see Michael going to court and
just not going to work.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
So Jermaine Jackson's son Ja'far is playing Michael in the movie,
and there's a great cast that goes with it, and
there's going to be Walter Wall music. And my prediction
is it's going to be like Bohemian Rhapsody. People are
going to come out dancing and they're not going to
think about any bad stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
You know.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Despite the fact that Michael had all that scandal that
we covered extensively and minutely, he is still one of
the top ten recording artists in the world. His estate
is worth a billion dollars. The records sell like crazy.
Thriller has been on the charts for the last month
because of Halloween, So there's no question that the movie
(29:51):
will be a hit. But that's what the movie will be.
Now today, I hear they might make a second movie.
My advice is, do not make that suff movie. Stop
Stop well, well things are good, you know.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Hey, we all got that's we'll get a minute left.
Tell me tell me about Broadway. What's the hottest thing
on Broadway? The latest newest, hottest thing on Broadway.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
The latest hottest news new thing on Broadway.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Tom Hanks.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
I know Tom Hanks is off Broadway and he has
a show called This World or Tomorrow. The prices started
out at four hundred dollars a ticket, and nobody bought
the tickets. And tell a couple of last week that
you could buy a ticket on any night in any
section because no one was going to spend four hundred dollars.
Now they've cut the price by fifty seven percent. The
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really good seats are two fifty nine, and decent seats
and very decent seats are one sixty nine. So now
everyone can see this play. Who wants to see a
regular play. I have friends who went in the first
week and said, it's a slight play, but charming in
the cast. It's wonderful to see them all on stage.
It's at the Shed in Hudson Yards. It's a small theater.
You can see Tom Hanks. You know you'll be able
(31:02):
to see him, really see him, and you know, I'm
probably not going to go, but I think a lot
of people will go. And already several nights are sold
out because at you know, one hundred and sixty nine
dollars a seat. People will go for that.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Yeah. Well, good thing about Off Broadway. There's no bad
seats because it's a small theater you're close with.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Yeah, there are no bad seats. And then if you're
thirty years old or younger, the tickets are forty five dollars.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Okay, But if you're thirty or younger, you're not going
to know who this guy is. If this Tom.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Hanks, that might be a problem. Yeah, but you and
I would have gone at thirty years old because we're
old souls.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
There you go. Well, great stuff, Roger Freeman. Check out
his website. There's new stories every day there. Showbiz for
one one dot com, Showbiz for one one dot com.
Roger Friedman, thanks for being with us, Thank you, take care, hey,
and now I'm here every day ten to noon. But
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(32:18):
been a rough week here in New York. The good
news all the big Democratic politicians are gone right now.
They're gone all weekend. They're all in Puerto Rico. They
have this conference after every election. It started as after
the election, just to you know, unwind, go take a break.
Candidates will go down to Puerto Rico. But now it's
(32:40):
every Democratic politician, official lobbyist. It's a lot of wheeling
and dealing, whereas Curtis would say whining, dining, pocket lining,
that kind of stuff. So it goes on all weekend.
They'll be back on Monday. I'm just warning you, hey,
we're out of time. I'll be back Monday every weekday
ten to noon, or listen anytime get podcast and if
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that was never on the air. You get an extra show.
Wherever you get your podcasts, I'll see a Monday at
ten seven ten woar
Here's more marks alone on seven to ten.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Woor.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Well, it's been quite a week. It's over. It's over.
We need a weekend to recover. It's getting cold out.
The Rockefeller Center tree they cut it down. It's on
its way. It'll be here there too. That's how you know.
I guess summer's over. Rockefeller Center tree is on its way.
(00:25):
I was in the Central Park. The skating rink is open.
I guess. I guess summer is finally over. Hey, by
the way, if you want to look at leaves, changing colors,
the leaves, apparently this is the peak weekend around here,
around the New York City area, in Long Island, Connecticut,
New Jersey, this is the peak weekend, So do it
(00:46):
this weekend. Nancy Pelosi has announced she will not seek reelection.
That's great news. President Trump was asked about it. I
think she's an able woman. I'm glad she's retiring.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I think she did the country a great service by reteter.
I think she was a tremendous liability.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
For the country. Now you're saying, well, would he say
that he shouldn't talk like that? Why does he talk
like well? Because a couple of days before, did you
hear what she said about him. She's on a being
interviewed by somebody on some show. To listen to the hyperbole.
Listen to how crazy they get.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
He's just a vile creature, the worst thing on the
face of the earth.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
But anyway you think he's the worst thing on the
face of the earth.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I do, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
They just get so crazy about him, They get so crazy,
we're gonna there's a couple of prominent psychologists who actually said,
what sets them off so much? Why is he? You know,
they hated Bush and they they hated Reagan and they
went after him, but this is beyond anything. Some psychologists
think it's because you know, they're trying to be so
(01:57):
woke and you know DEI and he's just like this
old fashion macho guy, old fashion nineteen fifties sort of
macho kind of it's that that sets him off. And
then there's some psychologists that say it's like a daddy issues,
(02:17):
Like they've got massive daddy issues with this guy, but
he just sets them up. I mean, listen to her,
this is nice. If I played the clip and I
didn't say who she's talking about, who would you guess
she's You probably think she's talking about Iotola Komani or
or Putin or bin Laden. But if you didn't know who,
(02:37):
she was.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Talking about creature, the worst thing on the face of
the earth.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
But anyway, you think he's the worst thing on the
face of the earth, I do. Yeah, it's pretty funny. Now.
The only sad thing about her leaving It was great
to watch her trade stocks. She was the greatest insider
trading in the history of the world. Nobody you know,
you're allowed to do inside trading in Congress. So a
lot of people made a couple of millions. She made, like,
(03:04):
got close to a billion dollars. Now, listen to this.
Over the last ten years. Because of her insider trading.
Over the last ten years, Nancy Pelosi outperformed Warren Buffett
Buffett's stock portfolio. Buffett grew his portfolio by one hundred
and eighty five percent. Pelosi grew hers by seven hundred
and twenty percent, almost four times the gains. You got
(03:28):
to give her credit for at least for that the
greatest insider trading in the history of the world. In
her case, it was legal. So alist Stephonic is going
to run for governor. She's why would she announce it
Now it's a year one year away. Do you really
need a whole year? Well, okay, it helps, you know.
Some say that was the big, big problem with Cuomo.
(03:48):
He was just so dead all through the primaries. He
didn't wake up until the last two weeks. One reason
you start early. It gives you an excuse to go
around and campaign, not in the big places but in
the little places. That's why the candidates go to Iowa
year ahead. You go to these little, tiny place where
nobody's really going to watch nobody. You're not gonna get
a lot of coverage, which is good, but you do speeches,
(04:11):
you meet with voters, and that way you hone the message.
You're really you know, six months of that and then
you're ready for the real campaign. You have developed a message,
a stump speech, You've really got yourself up to speed.
So that's why you do it a year ahead of time. Now,
Hokeel is going to have a huge problem. Normally, these
Democrats will campaign on affordability and whatever crisis. Well, now
(04:35):
you've got a Republican who can just look at you
and say you're the one in charge for the last
eight years. It's your fault. You created it, So I
don't know what she's going to do about that. The
other big problem she has is a Mom Donnie problem.
You can assume a year from now, Mom Donnie will
have been a terrible, terrible mayor and she endorsed them.
She is going to have to deal with that picture
of her and him they pose together, holding their hands
(04:57):
up together, clasp pa. So she's going to have to
answer for that, and that's not going to be easy.
It's going to be a big problem for her. Hey,
MSNBC a week from today will no longer exist. Friday,
the fifteenth final day of MSNBC. It's gone. They'll rebrand
(05:19):
it as they'll call it MS now. They gave people
a tour of their new studio. They've been kicked out
of Rockefeller Center. Their new studios kind of small. It's
a little cramped. They'll be operating out of there. But
you know, there's a lot of branding experts that say
they may not realize how dangerous this is. You know,
it's gonna be the same show, same anchors, won't look
(05:40):
as good because it'll be smaller studios. They will no
longer have NBC News resources or correspondence or all of that.
But anytime you rebrand, you know, you could just change
you know, well, if you said, yeah, but they're just
changing the name, or they just changing the logo, it
can affect things. What happened to Cracker Barrel. Cracker Barrel
(06:03):
just changed the logo and they redecorated the stores. Rebranding
is very, very, very dangerous, so it'll be interesting to
see what happens now. MSNBC apparently is worried about the
dangers of rebranding, so they put together a few million
dollars to do an ad campaign to promote the new brand.
(06:24):
You'll start seeing that everywhere. And this is a company
that was spun off from NBC in comcasts, so a
few millions a lot of money to them, but it's
going to be quite a struggle. Heyy, speaking of television,
sometime today, I'm going to go over to the Paley Center.
You know, that's like the Museum of Television and Radio.
They call it the Paley Center. But this is the
(06:48):
final weekend it's there, and I want to the museum
is going to be there forever. But what's there for
the final weekend is Johnny Carson's actual desk and parts
of the Tonight Show set. Want to go over there
and see it before it goes away. He'll be there
through Sunday at the Paley Center. You can actually see
the actual Johnny Carson desk, which is that's pretty cool.
(07:10):
And then PaleyFest actually begins. Now they've got a whole
bunch of big events. The check the schedule. You can
get tickets. Where there's Trisha Yearwood, is there Ted Danson,
who's got this hot news series on Netflix. Just go
to a pale museum dot org. It's all for a
very good cause. Hey, there is some good news this week.
Looks like John Brennan that the dirty, dirty CIA director
(07:35):
will be indicted. Apparently they are preparing indictments against him.
They will go after him. Hopefully they'll get him. But
even if they don't, just put him on trial. This
is the dirtiest CIA director we've ever had. Also communist,
by the way, I mean literally he admits to having
voted in presidential elections for the communist candidate. Now that's
(07:57):
the kind of guy. This is CIA director. You know,
Comy was at one time a communist. He's talked about
earlier in his life being an actual communist. He tries
to pose as some sort of Republican. He's always always
been very left wing Democrat, but he admits earlier in
his life he was an actual communist. Do you remember
the McCarthy stuff. McCarthy hearings, If you even happen to
(08:19):
walk into a Communist party meeting or a Communist club meeting,
you were banned from society for the rest of your life.
These guys were actual communists, declared communists. Cally Brennan. Also
remember it was Brennan who signed that ridiculous letter from
the fifty one former intelligence officials who said the Hunter
(08:40):
laptop was Russian disinformation. Absolutely insane stuff. You hear all
this talk. Everybody's moving, everybody's leaving. Everybody's fleeing New York
because of Mom Donnie. I don't know, well, there'll be
some people will leave, but everybody's going to leave that fast.
We went through this with de Blasio, same thing. Everybody's leaving.
(09:02):
Some people did, but not a lot. But they're panicking
in Florida and all the homes that are available in Florida.
You know, they figure everybody will move to Florida. Now,
all these rich people moved to Florida, So the homes
that would be that were available are all getting snapped
up like crazy, not by New Yorkers, but by local
Floridians who apparently, in the last weeks since Momdani, have
(09:27):
flooded the market because they're afraid all these New Yorkers
will come down and buy everything, and when they start
buying like crazy, it'll drive the pricest way up in Florida.
So local Floridians started buying stuff. There were homes that
were on the sitting on the market for months with
no activity that all of a sudden had dozens of
offers Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, And these homes are getting snapped
(09:51):
up at the fastest rate they've ever seen. Condos that
sat through the whole summer with no bidders now have
multiple offers. It's going on all over the East Coast, Miami,
Boca Palm Beach. In fact, they're starting to see it
in Orlando and other places. Floridians snapping up these homes
because they know it's going to drive prices up like crazy. Hey,
(10:12):
you know podcasting is a big thing. Now, there's two
kinds of podcasts. There's the real ones, the professional ones.
iHeart is the biggest podcast in the world. Serious is
a big podcaster Spotify obviously, but nobody's bigger than iHeart,
and we've got all the top top names in the
world podcasting. Now, the other part of podcasting is every
(10:34):
amateur now has a podcast because anybody can do it. Now,
if you talk about a professional podcast, we have millions
and millions and millions of listeners. If you're Joe Rogan,
you got forty million listeners or whatever he's got the
one with President Trump, the campaign podcast, I think that
(10:56):
hit one hundred million listens at one point. Even my podcast,
they'll hit ten million this year, ten million listens. We
did nine point four million last year. But it's a
big deal these podcasts. Now, Netflix wants to get into
the podcasting business. They want to seriously get into the
podcasting business. Netflix of course the number one best known
(11:19):
streaming place, but they think that's not enough, that you
better expand all of that, so they want to get
into podcasting. They're making a deal. Well, they're in talks
with SERIOUSXM YouTube, by the way, it's a huge podcaster.
So Netflix is talking to SERIOUSXM to combine and have
all of their podcasts now they want to do it
(11:40):
audio and video. Serious XM has some big podcast call
Her Daddy, Morbid, Dateline NBC. But they're trying to strike
some kind of deal. Earlier they made a deal with Spotify.
They got the Bill Simmons podcast, Zach Lowe Conspiracy Theories,
and some others. Now, the biggest podcast of all is iHeart.
(12:02):
There's nobody bigger than iHeart. Hollywood reporter says Netflix has
also approached iHeart Media about a similar arrangement. iHeart has
some of the most important podcasts in the world, like
the Breakfast Club done over there right across the hall
and stuff you should know. Now, there's some trade magazines
this morning writing that it sounds impressive, but that they
(12:26):
think Netflix is way too late, way too late to
get into this, that they've missed the boat on it.
They'll never catch up. You know, when they started with
the streaming stuff, they were ahead of everybody else. That's
how they got so big. And you remember at the time,
you kids today, you won't know what I'm talking about.
(12:48):
Before Netflix, if you wanted to see a movie at home,
you had to go to a store like a Blockbuster
video store. And you had to rent the movie for
a day or two. At one time it was on cassette,
a VHS casset, and you'd have to rewind it. If
you didn't rewind it before you brought it back, you
get fined. And then later it was a DVD. This
(13:10):
sounds crazy. Can you imagine a twenty three ye old listening?
What what do you mean you went to a street. Yeah,
you had to go to a blockbuster, rent the thing,
bring it back. You had to go back the next day.
And state of the art was they put it like
a slot in the door, so you didn't have to
go during the day. You could go late at night
and drop it through the slot. But then Netflix started.
(13:31):
Netflix actually started, I think it was DVDs. It was DVDs,
and then they started streaming. Eventually got rid of the
DVDs and streaming took over. So but again podcasting, they're
way too late to jump on board. Hey, King Charles, boys,
he had to get this, Prince Andrew. He stripped him
of his title, the Duke of this, the Duke of that,
(13:52):
the Earl of the Duke of Earl, whatever the hell
he was. King Charles keeps taking things away kicked him
out of the wherever he was living such palace, taken
everything final humiliation, he stripped his brother of his other titles.
He was left with Royal Highness and prince. So he's
no longer any of that stuff. Now this is all
(14:14):
because of the Jeffrey Epstein Gallaine Maxwell stuff. This woman
wrote a book with all the allegations, but it's never
been proven. Nothing's been proven. Just because somebody claimed it
hasn't been proven. But on the other hand, he's never
denied it. He's never actually denied the allegations. So the
only thing he has left he's a Vice Admiral of
(14:35):
the Royal Navy, that title given him in twenty fifteen.
He did spend twenty two years in the Royal Navy
and he actually he saw active service. Was a helicopter
pilot during the Falklands War. Ooh, a helicopter piloto. This
is like Mikey Cheryl. Two of them could start a
little helicopter company there. But this Prince Andrew, I don't
(14:57):
know what he's gonna do. If I were him, I
would just leave. Just hey, come over here, come over here.
They'll treat you like a big tabloid star. But he
would face charges if he came out of here, so
that's why he has to stay in England. Hey, we'll
take some calls in a minute. Eight hundred three two
one zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred three
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setting up presead for his podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Now back to Mark Simon on wor.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Uh, let's
go to John and Florida. John, how you doing.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Morning, Mark?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Mark?
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Wa'm sean go from retail for the airlines to pick
up the control of salaries and then reimbursed them when
the government comes back.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Well, those airlines don't make much money to begin with.
The profit margin on an airline is practically nothing. It's
almost impossible to run an airline. As Donald Trump used
to point that out.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
You know. Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
He used to explain that he went to business school
with all these geniuses. Some of them became billionaires and
some of them didn't make that much money. And he
said the reason was some of them went into the
right businesses. They went into oil and made billions. Some
of them went into the airlines and you can barely
make a living there. It's not easy on those airlines.
I know they they can be really awful to customers,
(16:19):
but good news is they're not making much profit those airlines.
Let's go to Georgia and Long Island. George, how you
doing fine?
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Mak just a quick statement, Mendani has some type of
cult following where you can get a million votes like
he did. I think you'll have an impact on the
governor's election, whether it be st fined as we just said.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah, now, it's not a cult following. When you win
a majority of the votes in New York City, that's
more than a cult. That's a lot of people, but
a lot of that. These younger people who you know,
indoctrinated in all these universities, haven't seen a lot of history.
Don't know that. Every so often, every twenty years, somebody
comes along with this socialist nonsense and it always fails.
(17:01):
And anytime the government jumps in and decided to do
stuff for the poor, it's always the rich that benefits
the most from it. In the end, they always figured
out how to benefit from it. Let's go to Nick
and basking Ridge. Nick, how you doing, Hi?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Mark? You mentioned Trump arrangement syndome, and I have a
three word explanation of exactly what that is. Go ahead,
Ego hates ego.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Well, that could be. That could be also. But a
lot of psychologists have talked about this. They think it's
just that he's everything that they tried to stamp out
in life, like old fashioned macho macho man and just
this like alpha male, this like old good, old fashioned
(17:52):
American moxie. They thought they stamped that all out. They
don't want to see that anymore. Let's go to Bill
Bradley Beach. Bill, how you.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
Doing, good Mark, Good morning. Well we've had jeffaries on
saying about and across the living and everything. Yet the
Democrats couldn't care about the fifty year high inflation for
four years out of the Bider dictatorship, where they actually
eliminated the dollar store. When they left, everything was twenty
(18:20):
five and more everything in the country.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
What are you saying, Democrats are hypocritical? You can't believe
that that's not the Democrats, I know, hypocrites. Why that's unheard? Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
No.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
The funniest thing is you watch these videos where they
all say Trump talked about getting rid of the philibuster,
and they all have these. You can see these online,
all of them, Bernie Sanders, Obama, all of them saying
why that's un American, that's a threat to our democracy.
To get rid of the philibuster. Then you'll see it
cut together with the video of them from four years
ago saying we must get rid of the philibuster. It's
(18:55):
anti American, it's anti democracy. Let's go to Carl and Sayerville, Carl,
how you doing by Mark?
Speaker 4 (19:01):
How are you? You know Mark the incoming marriage. Do
you think he's going to like maybe scale down the
Independence Day celebration and shorten the Thanksgiving Day prosh?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
You know, I didn't talk about that. I didn't think
about that. Oh that's a very good point. I didn't
think about that. Excellent point. You know this guy, you know,
he can't raise your taxes. He can't give you free busses.
That's not in his power. But I didn't think about that.
He can start getting rid of the Rockefeller Center tree.
He could eliminate the Columbus Day parade. He could. I
(19:36):
don't know. That's because it's tough to do. That would
be really tough for him to do. But you're right,
we got to keep an eye on that. Let's go
to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Good morning, Mark, Good morning Anthony from the Bronx. Mark
maybe mondomial stall outdoor, loud speakers around city Hall and
instead of a minaret, we'll have to call the prayer
every day. The Muslim called the prayer Uh, Mark speaking
about the communists and everything about how Dora McCarty uh
(20:07):
day that they come after you right after they caught
and executed to kidnappers Sacco and Vanzetti of Uh Lucky
Limburg's child in my grandfather's building at the time, and
my mother was alive and living there. She told me
on the top floor there was an Italian communist living
(20:28):
there with his wife and his kid, and one day
the FBI came to arrest him, came to get him
uh for communist activity, and the punk that he was,
he locked himself in the apartment and the punk killed
his wife, killed his kid, and then killed himself because
(20:49):
he couldn't face the music.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Mark.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
I wanted to ask you, man, and you're in the know, You're.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Out there story a little.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Yeah, Mark. I don't think Jessica is going to take
Madami to Kamie. It's offer to be police admission and
his why. Rumor has it that she wants to run
for mayor the next time around, and she would, She
would easily. She'd have the money, she could self fund.
(21:19):
And I don't think she wants to be her name
in any way, in her family's name associated with Zora Mandai.
She doesn't need that because she'll fill out. She'll finish
out her term with Adams. She's doing a great job
and why would she want.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Bet No, she probably won't risk it for Vincent. Great call,
Thanks for calling. We were hearing if she leaves uh
Mondannie is looking at Rodney Harrison, Suffolk County Police Commissioner.
That's the guy he's looking at, former NYPD Chief of Department.
So that's not the world's worst choice. But hey, when
we come back, Roger Friedman will be with us, Great
(22:00):
Entertainment Reporter. We'll talk to him next on seven to ten.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
W R marks the motion on sevent ten, wor Well
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Roger Friedman, how you doing, Roger Friedman? Are you there?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I am, Oh, there you are. I've just joured the
Grammy nominations.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah, so tell us about the Grammy nominations.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Well, uh, it's all the pop people who you know
on the radio if you're fourteen, Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber,
they're the main names. Lady Gaga got seven nominations for
her Man Eater album and she's going to win. The
others are just superfluous in the traditional pop section, which
(23:22):
is more for you and me.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
No, actually, I believe it or not. I listened to
Z one like that stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Okay, I like see one hundred. Sabrina Carpenter, who I
just saw by the way at the garden and loved
her Manchild album and song got nominated. And that bunny
Billie Eilish got nominated for a song that I thought
came out the year before. But all right, but it's
(23:50):
Luther Kendrick Lamar for his song Luther with Sizza. Yeah,
but those are the ones. But the really the category
that you and I would enjoy the most would be
traditional pop, and that's Barber streisand Jennifer Hudson, Elton John
(24:11):
and Brandy Carlisle. Uh, those are the main names. You
know who didn't get nominated for that category, which I
really would have liked to was Ringo Star. He had
this great country album called look Up, and they didn't
do anything for it. But I really liked that album.
I really liked it. But you know, I would say
(24:33):
that Chapel Rone she's nominated. But it's really the Grammys
are very narrow at this point because they're really just
looking at the top chart stars. They're they're they're looking
for a good TV show, which you can't blame them.
They want ratings, which are necessary to stay alive, and
(24:54):
they're not going into really uh like diverse or interesting
things you know, might surprise you, which they've done in
the past. This is a very straightforward list of you know,
top forty hits, commercial hits, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Well, but that's what we did that in the nineties.
The two thousands. They we did that.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
No, Yeah, it's been a little better in the past.
But the TV show February first, it'll be a big,
big show. And if they get some of these people,
if they get Loffe, she's do you know who she is? Yeah,
she's a fabulous singer around there, Phil being good shaped.
(25:37):
They nominated some Layla Bialily but for winter songs, and
we're going to have to look her up and see
who she is. Best new artist. Those are all good.
And this guy Somber. You know who Somber is? Yeah, Okay,
he's twenty years old. He's from the Lower East Side.
(26:00):
He's about nine feet tall. He's the son of the
guy who does all the booking for like the Elton
Shawn and am Fhar shows and that kind of thing.
He's got a big I never knew his name is
Andy Boose. I never knew that he was a musician himself.
And his son's name is Sean Boose and I guess
(26:22):
the middle initial is M, so it's SMB, and he
calls himself Somber. He's had two massive hits, are three
massive hits on the charts all year and a big
album into a Debut Album and he's going to win
Best New Artist. He is the Best New Artist. So
he's a real New York story. I think he dropped
(26:43):
out of school like seventeen to become a rock star
and became one sort of overnight wow. So that's a
big New York story.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Hey, where are the Grammys being held this year?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Grammys are in Los Angeles February first, from the what
I call the Staples Center, what others called the Crypto
crypt dot Com. And they'll be preceded by two events.
Music Cares Person of the Years of award on the
Friday of that weekend is going to Mariah Carey and
(27:13):
she'll show up sometime that evening, probably not on time,
but sometime that evening. The next night, Clive Davis throws
his annual pre Grammy dinner. He'll be almost ninety four
years old by then, Please God knock Wood, and it's
going to be that'll be an amazing night. So the
Grammy weekend is going to be terrific. And it's the
(27:36):
last Grammys. I believe it's the last Grammys on CBS.
CBS blew their chances to have the Grammys for the
next ten years and after this January goes to NBC.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Oh all right, yeah, Roger m tell me, what's the
deal with this Michael Jackson movie? Good Bad? What is it?
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
So, the Michael Jackson movie. I'm looking forward to it.
But originally the plan was this is crazy. The plan
was to have a like three hour movie where they
were going to take you through the nineties and the
two thousands where he gets arrested and there's like you know,
molestation charging and trials and all this other stuff. And
(28:18):
finally someone came to their senses and said, nobody wants
to see that in the movie. So they went back.
They went back and made a film that ends, you know,
around the time of nineteen ninety like after Bad and
thriller and dangerous and when he's at the peak of
his career before the bad stuff comes, and that movie
will be terrific. And it's very similar in that way
(28:41):
to the MJ musical playing on Broadway and around the world,
which is a huge hit, by the way, huge And
that also stops at the end of the nineteen eighties
when Michael is at his peak powers and you know,
adored by everyone. The next twenty years are you know,
a crazy time that see that in a documentary, that's fine,
(29:02):
but nobody wants to see Michael going to court and
just not going to work.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
So Jermaine Jackson's son Ja'far is playing Michael in the movie,
and there's a great cast that goes with it, and
there's going to be Walter Wall music. And my prediction
is it's going to be like Bohemian Rhapsody. People are
going to come out dancing and they're not going to
think about any bad stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
You know.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Despite the fact that Michael had all that scandal that
we covered extensively and minutely, he is still one of
the top ten recording artists in the world. His estate
is worth a billion dollars. The records sell like crazy.
Thriller has been on the charts for the last month
because of Halloween, So there's no question that the movie
(29:51):
will be a hit. But that's what the movie will be.
Now today, I hear they might make a second movie.
My advice is, do not make that suff movie. Stop
Stop well, well things are good, you know.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Hey, we all got that's we'll get a minute left.
Tell me tell me about Broadway. What's the hottest thing
on Broadway? The latest newest, hottest thing on Broadway.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
The latest hottest news new thing on Broadway.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Tom Hanks.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
I know Tom Hanks is off Broadway and he has
a show called This World or Tomorrow. The prices started
out at four hundred dollars a ticket, and nobody bought
the tickets. And tell a couple of last week that
you could buy a ticket on any night in any
section because no one was going to spend four hundred dollars.
Now they've cut the price by fifty seven percent. The
(30:40):
really good seats are two fifty nine, and decent seats
and very decent seats are one sixty nine. So now
everyone can see this play. Who wants to see a
regular play. I have friends who went in the first
week and said, it's a slight play, but charming in
the cast. It's wonderful to see them all on stage.
It's at the Shed in Hudson Yards. It's a small theater.
You can see Tom Hanks. You know you'll be able
(31:02):
to see him, really see him, and you know, I'm
probably not going to go, but I think a lot
of people will go. And already several nights are sold
out because at you know, one hundred and sixty nine
dollars a seat. People will go for that.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Yeah. Well, good thing about Off Broadway. There's no bad
seats because it's a small theater you're close with.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Yeah, there are no bad seats. And then if you're
thirty years old or younger, the tickets are forty five dollars.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Okay, But if you're thirty or younger, you're not going
to know who this guy is. If this Tom.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Hanks, that might be a problem. Yeah, but you and
I would have gone at thirty years old because we're
old souls.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
There you go. Well, great stuff, Roger Freeman. Check out
his website. There's new stories every day there. Showbiz for
one one dot com, Showbiz for one one dot com.
Roger Friedman, thanks for being with us, Thank you, take care, hey,
and now I'm here every day ten to noon. But
if you can't listen ten to noon, you know you
can always get the podcast. You can hear this show
(31:56):
anytime you want. And remember, if you're a podcast listener
on the weekends, you get a bonus segment, a whole
other segment that wasn't on the air. But you can
get the podcast of this show any place. You get
your podcast or you can just go to seven ten
WR dot com. I'm glad this week is over. It's
(32:18):
been a rough week here in New York. The good
news all the big Democratic politicians are gone right now.
They're gone all weekend. They're all in Puerto Rico. They
have this conference after every election. It started as after
the election, just to you know, unwind, go take a break.
Candidates will go down to Puerto Rico. But now it's
(32:40):
every Democratic politician, official lobbyist. It's a lot of wheeling
and dealing, whereas Curtis would say whining, dining, pocket lining,
that kind of stuff. So it goes on all weekend.
They'll be back on Monday. I'm just warning you, hey,
we're out of time. I'll be back Monday every weekday
ten to noon, or listen anytime get podcast and if
(33:01):
you're a podcast listener, remember you get a bonus segment
that was never on the air. You get an extra show.
Wherever you get your podcasts, I'll see a Monday at
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