November 21, 2025 • 33 mins
Some members of Congress are criticizing President Trump after he claimed that Democratic lawmakers who urged the military to disobey illegal orders were engaging in “seditious behavior,” which he said could be punishable by death. Why did CBS cancel the TV drama Blue Bloods? Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews NY Post Columnist Steve Cuozzo. Steve talks about the transformation of the former American Embassy in London into The Chancery, a stunning high-end hotel. Steve shares insights on how rooftops are creatively utilized in some Manhattan office buildings. They also discuss how commercial real estate in NYC generates enormous revenue for the city's economy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So Mark Simone Show on seven to ten. Wr Hey,
it's Friday, the week before Thanksgiving. I just texted doctor
Keith Ablow. He'll come on with us Monday. He's one
of the great psychiatrists in the world, psychologists. He's done
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incredible work on Trump derangement syndrome. What causes it exactly?
What is it about this guy that sets you crazy
liberals off so much? We'll get to that. Also, he'd
give us some advice on if you're going to Thanksgiving dinner,
how not to fight with your relatives, how not to
get crazy. You know, it's if you do this for
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a living, this kind of stuff, you don't ever talk
about it off the year. You don't sit there and
discuss politics with a bunch of people that you know
are basically just amateurs and you don't care what ybody
thinks him. It's fine. I mean, you know, people can
I've been at the party or something. Trump is the
worst Nightmary. He's a threat to democracy. I can't sleep
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at night. I just go yeah, me too, and just
walk away. Don't don't even argue it, don't even bother
with them. I love the New York Yankees, and sometimes
you'll be standing there and say, yank terrible. I love
the Mets. I don't get mad. It's fine. You love
the Mets that you hate Trump, You'll ave biding fine,
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don't just don't. Don't even worry about it. But we'll
talk to a professional, a real expert, on Monday about
what to do about that. At a Thanksgiving dinner. Now
here's the latest Trump controversy. These handful of people in
Congress put out this video telling the troops not to
listen to orders if they think they're not legal. If
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you're in the military, if you're a military person, if
you're there and the commander gives you an order, if
you don't feel it's legal. This is people in Congress,
men and women in Congress. Don't follow it. Don't follow
any order you think is illegal, and we'll have your back.
It's a ridiculous video to put out. This is horrible.
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First of all, you're you know, a soldier servant in
the middle of something. You're not a lawyer. You know
you can't actually evaluate correctly is this legal or illegal?
And you never tell the troops to disobey orders. It's
just absolutely ridiculous. So why would they do such a
dumb thing. Well, probably they were trolling Trump. This is
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the age of a tweeting and trolling and that kind
of stuff, So they're probably trying to get into his
head or get under his skin or make him overreact,
and he did. He overreacted like crazy. I mean, he
should have attacked him, really attacked him for this. But
he said, this is treason. This is sedition. Actually, if
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you tell our military to disobey orders. He's got a
point there, it's treeson, it's edition. But he did point
out sedition is treason is punishable by death. Okay, well
that's the law. But then they're claiming he called for
their execution. He told the said they should, we should
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hang them. He didn't say that, but he what he
did was wrong. There was somebody that tweeted that. It
said hang them. George Washington would have which is true.
George Washington would hang you for that. But Trump we
retweeted it. You know, if the president United States, you're
not supposed to retweet that kind of stuff. So Trump
was wrong, shouldn't have done it, went too far, But
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that's Trump. He's done it before. I can't honestly tell
you if he does it deliberately, or if he just
gets carried away, or he has this thing about being
the main story in every news cycle every day. He
wants to be the lead story on the news every day.
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He wants to put on any news talk channel, Fox,
MSN and be the lead story any day. So you're
not supposed to do that first role of publicity when
you need it. You know, if you're a big star
and your new movies coming out, suddenly you're everywhere. You're
on every show, you're on every TV show, you're in
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paper magazine, you're everywhere for two three weeks plugging your
new book, your new movie, and then you go away
for a couple of months, and then you come back,
you know, when Taylor Swift needs some publicity. That's all
you see is Taylor Swift for a week, and then
there'll be a month where you don't. He's supposed to
go away for a while. Trump doesn't believe that theory.
He thinks, do it every day. He's been doing it
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every day for forty years. So that's one reason he
goes over the top with these with these crazy things,
and they're all over the place, yelling and screaming. There
he was calling for their execution. Then you got the
quiet to quiet Mike Johnson, who's got to jump into this.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Sometimes he uses head rhetoric. Okay, but do any of
you agree that that's appropriate, that they should be telling
young members of the military to defy orders. You should
think about the implications of that. The President's trying to
make a point. I think he made the point. I'm
glad you're all covering it. You need to criticize and
ask the questions of the Democrats, not the Republicans.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Okay, yeah, so listen, he was wrong, but they were
wrong too. Everybody was wrong in this. Caroline Levitte had
to respond.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
They are literally saying to one point three million active
duty service members not to defy the chain of command,
not to follow lawful orders, every single refuse an illegal order,
which because they're suggesting, they're suggesting, Nancy, that the president
has given illegal orders, which he has not. Every single
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order that is given to this United States Military by
this Commander in chief and through this command chain of command,
through the Secretary of War is lawful.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, that these kindless people were absolutely wrong to do this.
Their claim is, well, we only meant if there's an
illegal order. Well, nobody's ever seen in illegal order. And
here's the real key to this. They've been running around
doing TV shows. That's the whole reason they did this,
to give themselves a lot of publicity, and all of
a sudden, they're all over TV, and a couple of
times on TV they said, well, when you say an
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illegal order, give us an example of what you were
talking about. And they couldn't think of an example. It's
never happened. Nobody could point to anything they when asked
about it. When they were asked about it, they could
not give an answer that question. They couldn't point to
any illegal order, So nobody knows exactly what the hell
they were talking about. Hey, Jasmine Crockett, this is an
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absolute bumbling idiot. Is the one that claimed Jeffrey Epstein
donated to Lee Zelden. Well, it's not true. It's a
different Jeffrey Epstein. It's a doctor in Long Island and
at the time of the donation, the real Jeffrey Epstein
had been dead for like four years, so obviously he's dead.
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He's not donating. When she was asked about it.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
I never said that it was that Jeffrey Epstein. My
team what they did is they googled. And that is
specifically why I said a Jeffrey Epstein. Unlike Republicans, I
at least don't go out and just tell lies because
it was not the same one. That's fine. But when
Lee Zelden had something to say, all he had to
say was it was a different jeff Jeffrey Epstein. He
admitted that he did receive donations from a Jeffrey Epstein,
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So at least I wasn't trying to mislead people.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah, she's s getting awards now for what is possibly
the dumbest excuse anybody's ever heard. It was one incredibly
stupid excuse. I think this is where she originally said.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
It folks who also took money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein.
As I had my team dig in very quickly, met Romney,
the NRCC, Lee Zelden, George Bush.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, of course it's a different Jeffrey Epstein. But she
was asked about it.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Do you want to correct the record on the people,
and I never said that it was that Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yes you did. It's an incredibly stupid excuse, absolutely ridiculous. Hey,
when it comes to exercise, now you think you're supposed
to be like sweating in the gym. You're supposed to
be out there running three miles. You're supposed to be sweating.
And well, there's all kinds of new studies out now
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showing that the best exercise what they call zone zero exercise.
It's more gentle, slower, as long as it's just real exercises,
as long as you're walking. A lot of people just
try walking now instead of running. But if you do
a lot of walking, you're supposed to do ten thousand steps,
you try to do fifteen thousand every day. But that
kind of stuff, and there's all kinds of new studies,
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scientific studies show that can be just as beneficial and
in some ways more beneficial, especially when you get older,
that the most important exercise is what they call zone zero.
It's gentle exercise, stretching, walking, light yoga or just like gardening,
that kind of stuff. Movement, lots of move you don't
have to be sweating, just constant movement. It improves circulation,
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regulates blood sugar, lowers cardiovascular risk, eases stress, supports mental health.
So you know, go to the gym now that some
studies say, well once a week or once a well,
you've got to go do some real exercise in a gym.
But most important thing daily is just gentle exercise, whether
it's just a lot of walking or stretching, it's very
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very important. Movement doesn't have to be hard. According to study,
gentle regular activity still counts and can give you major
health benefits. Also, you'll lose weight doing that. You won't
have to take that stupid ozempic. There's one side effect
after another coming from that ozempic. You know this ozempic
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face where it just your face looks older, your skin
gets droopy. Another problem now dentists reporting ozempic teeth. The
side effects of not just ozepic, but all those geo
injections can lead to dry mouth. There's an active ingredient
that affects the salivary glands that'll give you the dry mouth,
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and that causes all kinds of problems with your gums
and your teeth. The medications also cause people to drink
less water. They'll be less thirsty, so this increases the
risk of cavities, gum disease. You know who loves ozempic.
Of these plastic surgeons because they got to fix the
skin that ozempic face and now dentists love it, creating
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more work for them. Hey, the TV show Boston Blue, well,
I've been watching it. It's pretty good. It's like I
think the fifth episode is on tonight. It's instead of
Blue Bloods. You know, for fourteen years it was Blue
Bloods every Friday night at ten. I missed that show.
Love watching the reruns. But it's Boston Blue. It's Danny
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Reagan now in Boston. It's pretty good. It's not Blue Bloods,
but it's pretty good. I do watch it now every week.
But in one time, Bridget moynihan made a cameo from
the original Blue blood series. What about Tom Selick? Will
he do it well? He was asked the question sounds
like no. He was pretty blunt, pretty blunt. He seems
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kind of angry. Selick is not happy that CBS canceled
Blue Bloods, and he said, I think it's partly my
lot in life to make sure Blue Blood's has its
place in television history. But I don't think it's my
lot in life to keep playing Frank Reagan. He makes
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it pretty clear he's not interested in doing Boston Blue,
and he can't explain he's still mad. It was one
of CBS's top top shows, one of like the five
highest rated shows in television. He can't believe they canceled it,
he says, I still don't know why CBS did it.
Actually points out if you get rid of football, he
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was the sixth most popular series and all of television.
I don't know where my next job will be, he said,
I'd love a good western. I want to sit on
a horse again. What does anybody want to do a western?
They look terrible and they don't want to see in
a western. I love to do another comedy. He's very
good in comedy. Remember Friends and Hey, remember he was
on Boston Legal for a while. He was pretty good
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on that show. But why did CBS cancel it? Because
nobody watches TV anymore. It's people don't watch network television.
They're all streaming and all that stuff, but they're not
watching ABC, CBS or NBC much anymore. And you can't
afford to do these really expensive shows. You know, when
you do a game show, it doesn't cost much money.
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You know, you build one set that last year for
seven years, just that one set, and you don't have
to pay the people very much, even the celebrities to
come on a game show. It's it's like a late
night talk show. You're paying them basically scale. It doesn't
cost you anything. You do Blue Bloods or any drama
or Law and Order, you're spending a fortune. You got
to make a movie every week, you gotta spend millions
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out in the street card chases. You ever see him
film a movie out in the street. It's fifty trucks,
it's twenty seven trailers, it's one hundred people out there.
You know what that costs to do that. That's not
one scene. You got to do like thirty seven scenes
for each show. So it costs a fortune. That's why
you don't see Blue Bloods anymore. Boston Blue. It's a
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cheaper version.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
All.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
They still got to do those chasings, but they're smaller
chase scenes and you don't have to pay a whole cast.
Remember Blue Blood's had like eight stars all getting seven figures.
This is one star maybe getting seven figures. And that's
about it. So today's the meeting, Mom, Donnie and Trump.
It'll take place at three o'clock today. They'll meet in
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the Oval Office. It's closed to the press now here's
the deal. President Trump knows if they open it to
the press and there's video and pictures, it will elevate
Mom Donnie's in the world. You know, when you're sitting
on that yellow couch in the Oval Office talking to
the President, it gives you a gravitas there you are
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on the couch where the world leaders sit talking to
the President the United States. So those photographs will really
really elevate the status of Mam Donni. So it's closed
to the press. However, at the end of the meeting,
the President can decide depending on how it goes, he
can decide to bring the press in to take those
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pictures or do that video. They can even go live
on TV. So at the end of the meeting, depending
on what happens, the President will decide if he wants
to bring them in, and it will it will make
Mam Donnie look important. Now, the other thing you got
to watch for is who else is in the room,
Mam Donnie. And the President always tells you when you
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come to me, when he invites you to a meeting,
he'll say, bring whoever you want. Says that very often,
so Mam Donnie can bring his team. But h if
he looks to the you know, he'll be on this couch.
If he looks over at the other couch and it's
jd Vance and Steven Miller and Tom Holman. I don't
think Mom done will like that. So I don't know
what's going to happen, but we'll find out. At three
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o'clock today, we'll take some calls. Next eight hundred three
to two one zero seven ten is the number eight
hundred three two one zero seven ten in Mark on
Demand by setting up pre sad for his podcast on
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Speaker 4 (15:29):
Now back to Mark Simon on woor.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Stuart, South Carolina. Stuart,
how you doing?
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Hey, Mark her are you do you remember Lieutenant Colonel
Stuart Marine Corps colonel who complained about the Afghanistan withdrawal
and how it was an absolute disaster. They charged and
court martialed him under the UCMJ and discharged him from
the military because he actually spoke the truth and said,
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what a disaster is? You know, I'm a Vietnam veteran.
Both my parents and yeah actoutely yeah on our site.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
Yeah, well believe.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
It or not?
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Yeah, Well, sometimes Bobby seventy two, so I am up
for that age. But yeah, you know, it's just unbelievable
that these these Democrats would tell people to disregard orders.
I mean, it is phenomenal. These people have become the
enemy of the United States. I think they've they've gone
to have their ever loving minds.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I think, yeah, they've just gone it's Trump arrangement syndrome.
They've literally gone absolutely all right, Stuart, thanks for Colin.
Let's go to Mike and Florida. Mike, how you doing,
Good morning, Mark.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
Regard regarding that same subject, I think there's another motive
that you can add to why Trump responds the way
that he does, and he's because he's noticed for years
that Republicans, as they're getting bludgeoned by the Democrats and
the press and the mass media and getting their you know,
you know what kicked out of them, they never responded
in kind. They were always always very polite and genteel
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and gentlemanly and we'll just stick to the you know facts.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
And it got them nowhere.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
And I think he sees that you have to fight
firewood fire, because if you don't respond, all it gets
you is Rachel Maddow shows up at your funeral when
you're dead, and that's it.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
That's good, good way to put it. Thanks for calling.
Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave, how you doing.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Good morning, Mark. I'm doing very well, Thank you, Mark.
As we know recently in.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
The news that Joe Biden took a ride on an
Amtrak train with a reporter, my question is did the
Secret Service screen all of the passengers before the trip?
And finally, how much of Biden's family still receive Secret
Service protection?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Well, you see the wife, the kids. It's a good question. Yeah,
he was on a friend Brooks Singman, the great reporter
Fox News, was riding the Amtrak going down to Washington,
and there was Joe Biden. He just gets a ticket,
goes to her seat, and who's the guy next to her,
Joe Biden. It's kind of sad. This guy's a former president.
And normally when you're a former president, you got lots
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of wealthy friends who want to take care of everything
for you. Here's to borrow my plane whenever you want,
use my how everybody's given you everything when you're a
former president. But not Biden, Not Joe Biden. Got no
use for him. He's been seeing flying coach on an
airplane's he's been seeing. Take a look at the Brook
Singman's instagram. There there she is sitting next to Joe
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Biden on the Amtrak. It's a sad, sad case. Let's
go to Bob and New Rochelle. Bob, how you doing.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
I'm good and well, I'm good. Hey, looks, I got
a question for you. You talk about Blue Bloods a lot
and how these sh disappeared because it's so expensive to
make those scenes. Do you think at some point AI
or place all that and they'll be on it that way?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
That's an interesting question. Yeah, you could do it with AI.
You could have these guys just in the studio with
a green screen and then Ai'll put in all the
car chase and all that. Yeah, you could do that,
But then you got all these Hollywood unions. You're gonna
have to battle, and that's a big fight. That's the
reason it's so expensive to do all these shows. That's
why some of these shows go up and do it
in Toronto. In fact, I think some of that Boston Blue,
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most of that's done in Toronto. It's a lot cheaper
up there less union costs. Let's go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent,
how you doing. Good morning, Mark, Good morning Mara. Opposite
to what Stewart said about the patriot who talked about
the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and that they hung that
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guy out to dry. The only real unconstitutional order I
could think of what the military was. And you'll remember this,
when that sergeant ordered the Meli massacre Jordan, the Vietnam
War and there the sergeant I forget what his name,
and he was prosecuted for that. Remember that the meal
I met when he mowed down all those peasants, he
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ordered his troops to do that.
Speaker 10 (19:56):
Mark. Everyone knows Katy Hulkle doesn't have spine and isn't
the brightest light bulb in the box. The other night,
try to make a case for Zora Mundani's universal daycare
and for her raising the corporate tax on the corporations
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and everything. She's scouted all the jobs, mainly city union jobs.
Just where first off, where they're gonna put these daycare centers.
A lot of these private daycare centers a dumpson. They're
just ripe with fraud. And another thing, didn't miss bright
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over there. Take into account all the corporations that Oh
are already moving down to Florida and Texas, Dad are
gonna move out of New York, and you're gonna lose
that revenue. She's talking about the revenue gained. What about
the revenue lost?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah, but you're talking about high level management. This is
not her game. Her game is politics campaigning. Same thing
with Mom Donnie. They've never known these two have never
managed anything. They've never been managers. It's just what sounds
good in the campaign, what's the what campaign promise sounds right? Executing?
Managing It's not their field. But the Vincent could point. Hey,
when we come back. Steve Cuzo, the great New York
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Post reporter, nobody better on restaurants, on real estate on
New York. We'll see what he says about the coming
Mom Donnie situation for business. We'll get to all of
that next on seven to ten. Wor Mark Simone.
Speaker 11 (21:35):
Wr Well.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Steve Cuzel, the great New York Post column this nobody
better on restaurants, the real estate on New York. Stuff
is columns. You can read them all. They're in the
New York Post website. Steve Cuzoh, how you doing.
Speaker 11 (21:50):
I'm great, Mark, Thanks, It's hard to live up to
that doing. I'll try them, you'll do it, you'll hey, Yeah,
you're just back from London. Yeah Instagram great pictures. But
were there any English speaking people left in London?
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Well that's the thing I tell friends who haven't been
to London a long time, I say, I tell them
English is widely spoken. Now that's supposed to be a joke,
because it is, after all, London. It's England, you know.
So yes, English is still widely spoken, but not universally. No,
like New York. What was it?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
But all the great old London places they're not. They've
been overtaken by all kinds of new places. What's good
over there?
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Well, so what's new? Oh? So many great restaurants. But
the most interesting single thing, in my view is the
former American Embassy in Grove most Rare, which had been
there for I don't know. That was our embassy there
for a million years. The embassy moved away about ten
years ago to a new location. The building was a giant,
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brutalless style kind of a hulking building. It was never
well loved, and but that Katari Fune bought it and
converted the whole property God knows how much it might
must have cost into a spectacular new Rosewood managed hotel.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
You know, Rosewood is one of the premier hotel companies
in the world New York and I mean they operate
the Carlisle and it's called the Chancery. That's the end
of the new hotel. And when you go into the building,
you can't believe that this was once this miserable, you
know interior where people would line up for, you know,
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to get their passports renewed. They created a they carved
out an atrium. It's it's all soft and warm, unlike
the you know, the kind of still brooding exterior. The
interior is all warmth and light. And they have five restaurants,
including a Carbone from New York. I didn't eat there,
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but we did eat at a wonderful Mediterranean restaurant in
the hotel called Sarah. And they have a rooftop lounge
called the Eagle or the Eagle because it's got the
giant gold eagle that was there during the years that
the building was the Embassy. And apparently this giant eagle
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is made out of the fifty two parts and it's
a lounge and it's like it's a rooftop lounge like
the ones that we have that so many are in
New York and all together it's a must see for
people in visiting London who haven't been there for a
couple of years. The hotel opened only a few months ago.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, that's chancery. Hey, you know, it's fascinating. The rooftop
of every office building was the water tower, the AC system,
what they call the mechanicals. It wasn't untill like two
thousand and two that anybody figured out put the restaurant
on the rooftop, put the bar on the rooftop, and.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Put the bars up there. It's incredible. New York City
and Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn and even a few
parts of Queens and Washing have rooftop this in that
just a space that previously was used for nothing mechanical
uses or whatever. And one of the first transformations my
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late friend Steve the Greenberg created I think it's two
thirty fifth Avenue and I think it was called two
thirty fifth rooftop. And since then there are a gazillion
of them. And I was amused in London because our
British friends there were absolutely flabbergasted at the views from
the roof of the you know, the Eagle on top
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of the Chancery Hotel, and it's a nice view, but
nothing compared to the ones we have in New York.
There's one hotel I don't remember the name of it.
It's the Canal Street and the Bowery that has a
rooftop lounge that is simply not to be believed, facing
both Brooklyn and Manhattan. Nothing like it in the world.
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So it's all good time stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Yes, So we're talking about this. Yesterday Masa, the Japanese
restaurant Time Warner Center, nine hundred dollars a person got
wiped out more than that, more than that twelve hundred
with tax and tips and all that.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
Usually per head, yeah, not per couple, but per head.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
So there's another one now like seven fifty ahead.
Speaker 9 (26:22):
Michelin Story Sushiz or something.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
So what's happened is that Masa had three Michelin stars
since it opened in two thousand and nine when the
building was known as Time Warner Center. Now it's Deutsche
Bank Center and Masa, which is a very small restaurant
only twenty six seats. The best seats, which are at
the chef's counter, carried it's three Michelin stars all that time,
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and a couple of things happened during that time. The
competition grew enormously for omakasei style Japanese dining, where the
chef sets the menu from it changes nightly. Many many
courses usually built around sushi, but not always. I was
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at masilunton I had Kobe beef, which was extraordinary, or
rogy beef from Japan. But there's much more competition now
and however, and so they know they lost the star.
I don't believe a word Micheline says about anything, but
if you're in business, in the restaurant business, it matters
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enormously to you, because many many New Yorkers don't care
that much about Micheline stars. But it's a different story
in Europe and Asia. There are people with a lot
of money from Europe and Asia who come to New
York and when they decide where they're going to eat,
before they even come, they just look at what's got
three stars and they make their selections on that basis.
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And so friends in the industry told me that a restaurant,
high end restaurant that's cut from three stars to two,
as Masa happened to Masa, it can cost them twenty
five percent of their revenue, not immediately, not overnight, because
you know they're booked far in advance, but over time,
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and you know when the current reservations run out, it's
going to hurt them. And it's a small restaurant. Masa
unlike some other restaurants that lost the star and they
could they could weather it because there were large restaurants
and they were part of big companies. Masa is not.
So you know, they've got a tough time to hand them.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Why do you have your doubts about these micheline reviewers?
Speaker 6 (28:36):
I have my I never believed the only reviews of
or ratings and restaurants I ever believed Mark or my
own the ones that I've written for The New York Post.
I never believed Zagat ratings. I never believed micheline ratings.
I never believed in New York Times ratings, and so
I'm a skeptic. The only one I do believe is
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the three stars for Labernet them, which in my view is,
you know, the greatest restaurants in the world and retained
its three stars. But even they cannot afford to let
their guard down because all it takes, you know, Micheling
likes to upset the Every year Micheline likes to come
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up with one, you know, reduction in the star because
otherwise nobody would pay attention. So they've got to knock
somebody down every year. So this year it was poor Masa.
But in terms of in terms of quality, I don't
believe a word of it. I've been to plenty of
Michelin star, one star, two star restaurants that I thought
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absolutely stink.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yeah, good point. Now, before we run out of time,
what are all the real estate guys, all the restaurant guys,
what are they saying to you about the coming Mondani era?
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Well, I do the commercial side, as you know, not
residential but for the most part, but all the commercial people,
A don't worry. You know, we're bigger than any you know,
our industry is bigger than any political change. And they're
probably right. That doesn't mean that there isn't going to
be an effect on something in New York City. You know,
(30:15):
Mamdanie talks about uh, you know, residential rent control. He
wants to freeze rents and stabilize the pumps, but he
doesn't say anything like that about commercial estate. Commercial real
estate pays, provides, generates more tax revenue for the City
of New York and the state than any other industry,
(30:39):
more than Wall Street. I don't remember the exact numbers.
It doesn't matter. Anyone can look them up. And so,
you know, commercial real estate industry, which has been fortunately
dramatically revived over the last two years. It's extraordinary. What's
happened is really the driver of the New York City economy.
(30:59):
And even a you know, a communistic guy like Mam Donnie,
would be a fool to tamper with that.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Well, we got through Deblasio for eight years. We'll get
through this for four exactly. All right, Well, everybody reads
Steve Cuzo's excellent columns in the New York Post. If
you go to the New York Post website, all of
his columns are up there. You can read them all.
Just go to the New York Post website and just
type in Steve Cuzo. Steve Cuzo, thanks for being with us.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Thank you Mark always fun.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
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So Mark Simone Show on seven to ten. Wr Hey,
it's Friday, the week before Thanksgiving. I just texted doctor
Keith Ablow. He'll come on with us Monday. He's one
of the great psychiatrists in the world, psychologists. He's done
(00:21):
incredible work on Trump derangement syndrome. What causes it exactly?
What is it about this guy that sets you crazy
liberals off so much? We'll get to that. Also, he'd
give us some advice on if you're going to Thanksgiving dinner,
how not to fight with your relatives, how not to
get crazy. You know, it's if you do this for
(00:43):
a living, this kind of stuff, you don't ever talk
about it off the year. You don't sit there and
discuss politics with a bunch of people that you know
are basically just amateurs and you don't care what ybody
thinks him. It's fine. I mean, you know, people can
I've been at the party or something. Trump is the
worst Nightmary. He's a threat to democracy. I can't sleep
(01:04):
at night. I just go yeah, me too, and just
walk away. Don't don't even argue it, don't even bother
with them. I love the New York Yankees, and sometimes
you'll be standing there and say, yank terrible. I love
the Mets. I don't get mad. It's fine. You love
the Mets that you hate Trump, You'll ave biding fine,
(01:24):
don't just don't. Don't even worry about it. But we'll
talk to a professional, a real expert, on Monday about
what to do about that. At a Thanksgiving dinner. Now
here's the latest Trump controversy. These handful of people in
Congress put out this video telling the troops not to
listen to orders if they think they're not legal. If
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you're in the military, if you're a military person, if
you're there and the commander gives you an order, if
you don't feel it's legal. This is people in Congress,
men and women in Congress. Don't follow it. Don't follow
any order you think is illegal, and we'll have your back.
It's a ridiculous video to put out. This is horrible.
(02:10):
First of all, you're you know, a soldier servant in
the middle of something. You're not a lawyer. You know
you can't actually evaluate correctly is this legal or illegal?
And you never tell the troops to disobey orders. It's
just absolutely ridiculous. So why would they do such a
dumb thing. Well, probably they were trolling Trump. This is
(02:32):
the age of a tweeting and trolling and that kind
of stuff, So they're probably trying to get into his
head or get under his skin or make him overreact,
and he did. He overreacted like crazy. I mean, he
should have attacked him, really attacked him for this. But
he said, this is treason. This is sedition. Actually, if
(02:52):
you tell our military to disobey orders. He's got a
point there, it's treeson, it's edition. But he did point
out sedition is treason is punishable by death. Okay, well
that's the law. But then they're claiming he called for
their execution. He told the said they should, we should
(03:14):
hang them. He didn't say that, but he what he
did was wrong. There was somebody that tweeted that. It
said hang them. George Washington would have which is true.
George Washington would hang you for that. But Trump we
retweeted it. You know, if the president United States, you're
not supposed to retweet that kind of stuff. So Trump
was wrong, shouldn't have done it, went too far, But
(03:39):
that's Trump. He's done it before. I can't honestly tell
you if he does it deliberately, or if he just
gets carried away, or he has this thing about being
the main story in every news cycle every day. He
wants to be the lead story on the news every day.
(03:59):
He wants to put on any news talk channel, Fox,
MSN and be the lead story any day. So you're
not supposed to do that first role of publicity when
you need it. You know, if you're a big star
and your new movies coming out, suddenly you're everywhere. You're
on every show, you're on every TV show, you're in
(04:20):
paper magazine, you're everywhere for two three weeks plugging your
new book, your new movie, and then you go away
for a couple of months, and then you come back,
you know, when Taylor Swift needs some publicity. That's all
you see is Taylor Swift for a week, and then
there'll be a month where you don't. He's supposed to
go away for a while. Trump doesn't believe that theory.
He thinks, do it every day. He's been doing it
(04:41):
every day for forty years. So that's one reason he
goes over the top with these with these crazy things,
and they're all over the place, yelling and screaming. There
he was calling for their execution. Then you got the
quiet to quiet Mike Johnson, who's got to jump into this.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Sometimes he uses head rhetoric. Okay, but do any of
you agree that that's appropriate, that they should be telling
young members of the military to defy orders. You should
think about the implications of that. The President's trying to
make a point. I think he made the point. I'm
glad you're all covering it. You need to criticize and
ask the questions of the Democrats, not the Republicans.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Okay, yeah, so listen, he was wrong, but they were
wrong too. Everybody was wrong in this. Caroline Levitte had
to respond.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
They are literally saying to one point three million active
duty service members not to defy the chain of command,
not to follow lawful orders, every single refuse an illegal order,
which because they're suggesting, they're suggesting, Nancy, that the president
has given illegal orders, which he has not. Every single
(05:44):
order that is given to this United States Military by
this Commander in chief and through this command chain of command,
through the Secretary of War is lawful.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, that these kindless people were absolutely wrong to do this.
Their claim is, well, we only meant if there's an
illegal order. Well, nobody's ever seen in illegal order. And
here's the real key to this. They've been running around
doing TV shows. That's the whole reason they did this,
to give themselves a lot of publicity, and all of
a sudden, they're all over TV, and a couple of
times on TV they said, well, when you say an
(06:13):
illegal order, give us an example of what you were
talking about. And they couldn't think of an example. It's
never happened. Nobody could point to anything they when asked
about it. When they were asked about it, they could
not give an answer that question. They couldn't point to
any illegal order, So nobody knows exactly what the hell
they were talking about. Hey, Jasmine Crockett, this is an
(06:36):
absolute bumbling idiot. Is the one that claimed Jeffrey Epstein
donated to Lee Zelden. Well, it's not true. It's a
different Jeffrey Epstein. It's a doctor in Long Island and
at the time of the donation, the real Jeffrey Epstein
had been dead for like four years, so obviously he's dead.
(06:56):
He's not donating. When she was asked about it.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
I never said that it was that Jeffrey Epstein. My
team what they did is they googled. And that is
specifically why I said a Jeffrey Epstein. Unlike Republicans, I
at least don't go out and just tell lies because
it was not the same one. That's fine. But when
Lee Zelden had something to say, all he had to
say was it was a different jeff Jeffrey Epstein. He
admitted that he did receive donations from a Jeffrey Epstein,
(07:21):
So at least I wasn't trying to mislead people.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah, she's s getting awards now for what is possibly
the dumbest excuse anybody's ever heard. It was one incredibly
stupid excuse. I think this is where she originally said.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
It folks who also took money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein.
As I had my team dig in very quickly, met Romney,
the NRCC, Lee Zelden, George Bush.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, of course it's a different Jeffrey Epstein. But she
was asked about it.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Do you want to correct the record on the people,
and I never said that it was that Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yes you did. It's an incredibly stupid excuse, absolutely ridiculous. Hey,
when it comes to exercise, now you think you're supposed
to be like sweating in the gym. You're supposed to
be out there running three miles. You're supposed to be sweating.
And well, there's all kinds of new studies out now
(08:21):
showing that the best exercise what they call zone zero exercise.
It's more gentle, slower, as long as it's just real exercises,
as long as you're walking. A lot of people just
try walking now instead of running. But if you do
a lot of walking, you're supposed to do ten thousand steps,
you try to do fifteen thousand every day. But that
kind of stuff, and there's all kinds of new studies,
(08:42):
scientific studies show that can be just as beneficial and
in some ways more beneficial, especially when you get older,
that the most important exercise is what they call zone zero.
It's gentle exercise, stretching, walking, light yoga or just like gardening,
that kind of stuff. Movement, lots of move you don't
have to be sweating, just constant movement. It improves circulation,
(09:06):
regulates blood sugar, lowers cardiovascular risk, eases stress, supports mental health.
So you know, go to the gym now that some
studies say, well once a week or once a well,
you've got to go do some real exercise in a gym.
But most important thing daily is just gentle exercise, whether
it's just a lot of walking or stretching, it's very
(09:26):
very important. Movement doesn't have to be hard. According to study,
gentle regular activity still counts and can give you major
health benefits. Also, you'll lose weight doing that. You won't
have to take that stupid ozempic. There's one side effect
after another coming from that ozempic. You know this ozempic
(09:47):
face where it just your face looks older, your skin
gets droopy. Another problem now dentists reporting ozempic teeth. The
side effects of not just ozepic, but all those geo
injections can lead to dry mouth. There's an active ingredient
that affects the salivary glands that'll give you the dry mouth,
(10:10):
and that causes all kinds of problems with your gums
and your teeth. The medications also cause people to drink
less water. They'll be less thirsty, so this increases the
risk of cavities, gum disease. You know who loves ozempic.
Of these plastic surgeons because they got to fix the
skin that ozempic face and now dentists love it, creating
(10:32):
more work for them. Hey, the TV show Boston Blue, well,
I've been watching it. It's pretty good. It's like I
think the fifth episode is on tonight. It's instead of
Blue Bloods. You know, for fourteen years it was Blue
Bloods every Friday night at ten. I missed that show.
Love watching the reruns. But it's Boston Blue. It's Danny
(10:54):
Reagan now in Boston. It's pretty good. It's not Blue Bloods,
but it's pretty good. I do watch it now every week.
But in one time, Bridget moynihan made a cameo from
the original Blue blood series. What about Tom Selick? Will
he do it well? He was asked the question sounds
like no. He was pretty blunt, pretty blunt. He seems
(11:17):
kind of angry. Selick is not happy that CBS canceled
Blue Bloods, and he said, I think it's partly my
lot in life to make sure Blue Blood's has its
place in television history. But I don't think it's my
lot in life to keep playing Frank Reagan. He makes
(11:37):
it pretty clear he's not interested in doing Boston Blue,
and he can't explain he's still mad. It was one
of CBS's top top shows, one of like the five
highest rated shows in television. He can't believe they canceled it,
he says, I still don't know why CBS did it.
Actually points out if you get rid of football, he
(11:57):
was the sixth most popular series and all of television.
I don't know where my next job will be, he said,
I'd love a good western. I want to sit on
a horse again. What does anybody want to do a western?
They look terrible and they don't want to see in
a western. I love to do another comedy. He's very
good in comedy. Remember Friends and Hey, remember he was
on Boston Legal for a while. He was pretty good
(12:19):
on that show. But why did CBS cancel it? Because
nobody watches TV anymore. It's people don't watch network television.
They're all streaming and all that stuff, but they're not
watching ABC, CBS or NBC much anymore. And you can't
afford to do these really expensive shows. You know, when
you do a game show, it doesn't cost much money.
(12:41):
You know, you build one set that last year for
seven years, just that one set, and you don't have
to pay the people very much, even the celebrities to
come on a game show. It's it's like a late
night talk show. You're paying them basically scale. It doesn't
cost you anything. You do Blue Bloods or any drama
or Law and Order, you're spending a fortune. You got
to make a movie every week, you gotta spend millions
(13:03):
out in the street card chases. You ever see him
film a movie out in the street. It's fifty trucks,
it's twenty seven trailers, it's one hundred people out there.
You know what that costs to do that. That's not
one scene. You got to do like thirty seven scenes
for each show. So it costs a fortune. That's why
you don't see Blue Bloods anymore. Boston Blue. It's a
(13:23):
cheaper version.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
All.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
They still got to do those chasings, but they're smaller
chase scenes and you don't have to pay a whole cast.
Remember Blue Blood's had like eight stars all getting seven figures.
This is one star maybe getting seven figures. And that's
about it. So today's the meeting, Mom, Donnie and Trump.
It'll take place at three o'clock today. They'll meet in
(13:47):
the Oval Office. It's closed to the press now here's
the deal. President Trump knows if they open it to
the press and there's video and pictures, it will elevate
Mom Donnie's in the world. You know, when you're sitting
on that yellow couch in the Oval Office talking to
the President, it gives you a gravitas there you are
(14:09):
on the couch where the world leaders sit talking to
the President the United States. So those photographs will really
really elevate the status of Mam Donni. So it's closed
to the press. However, at the end of the meeting,
the President can decide depending on how it goes, he
can decide to bring the press in to take those
(14:30):
pictures or do that video. They can even go live
on TV. So at the end of the meeting, depending
on what happens, the President will decide if he wants
to bring them in, and it will it will make
Mam Donnie look important. Now, the other thing you got
to watch for is who else is in the room,
Mam Donnie. And the President always tells you when you
(14:51):
come to me, when he invites you to a meeting,
he'll say, bring whoever you want. Says that very often,
so Mam Donnie can bring his team. But h if
he looks to the you know, he'll be on this couch.
If he looks over at the other couch and it's
jd Vance and Steven Miller and Tom Holman. I don't
think Mom done will like that. So I don't know
what's going to happen, but we'll find out. At three
(15:12):
o'clock today, we'll take some calls. Next eight hundred three
to two one zero seven ten is the number eight
hundred three two one zero seven ten in Mark on
Demand by setting up pre sad for his podcast on
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Now back to Mark Simon on woor.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Stuart, South Carolina. Stuart,
how you doing?
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Hey, Mark her are you do you remember Lieutenant Colonel
Stuart Marine Corps colonel who complained about the Afghanistan withdrawal
and how it was an absolute disaster. They charged and
court martialed him under the UCMJ and discharged him from
the military because he actually spoke the truth and said,
(15:59):
what a disaster is? You know, I'm a Vietnam veteran.
Both my parents and yeah actoutely yeah on our site.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
Yeah, well believe.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
It or not?
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Yeah, Well, sometimes Bobby seventy two, so I am up
for that age. But yeah, you know, it's just unbelievable
that these these Democrats would tell people to disregard orders.
I mean, it is phenomenal. These people have become the
enemy of the United States. I think they've they've gone
to have their ever loving minds.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I think, yeah, they've just gone it's Trump arrangement syndrome.
They've literally gone absolutely all right, Stuart, thanks for Colin.
Let's go to Mike and Florida. Mike, how you doing,
Good morning, Mark.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
Regard regarding that same subject, I think there's another motive
that you can add to why Trump responds the way
that he does, and he's because he's noticed for years
that Republicans, as they're getting bludgeoned by the Democrats and
the press and the mass media and getting their you know,
you know what kicked out of them, they never responded
in kind. They were always always very polite and genteel
(17:06):
and gentlemanly and we'll just stick to the you know facts.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
And it got them nowhere.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
And I think he sees that you have to fight
firewood fire, because if you don't respond, all it gets
you is Rachel Maddow shows up at your funeral when
you're dead, and that's it.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
That's good, good way to put it. Thanks for calling.
Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave, how you doing.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Good morning, Mark. I'm doing very well, Thank you, Mark.
As we know recently in.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
The news that Joe Biden took a ride on an
Amtrak train with a reporter, my question is did the
Secret Service screen all of the passengers before the trip?
And finally, how much of Biden's family still receive Secret
Service protection?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Well, you see the wife, the kids. It's a good question. Yeah,
he was on a friend Brooks Singman, the great reporter
Fox News, was riding the Amtrak going down to Washington,
and there was Joe Biden. He just gets a ticket,
goes to her seat, and who's the guy next to her,
Joe Biden. It's kind of sad. This guy's a former president.
And normally when you're a former president, you got lots
(18:09):
of wealthy friends who want to take care of everything
for you. Here's to borrow my plane whenever you want,
use my how everybody's given you everything when you're a
former president. But not Biden, Not Joe Biden. Got no
use for him. He's been seeing flying coach on an
airplane's he's been seeing. Take a look at the Brook
Singman's instagram. There there she is sitting next to Joe
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Biden on the Amtrak. It's a sad, sad case. Let's
go to Bob and New Rochelle. Bob, how you doing.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
I'm good and well, I'm good. Hey, looks, I got
a question for you. You talk about Blue Bloods a lot
and how these sh disappeared because it's so expensive to
make those scenes. Do you think at some point AI
or place all that and they'll be on it that way?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
That's an interesting question. Yeah, you could do it with AI.
You could have these guys just in the studio with
a green screen and then Ai'll put in all the
car chase and all that. Yeah, you could do that,
But then you got all these Hollywood unions. You're gonna
have to battle, and that's a big fight. That's the
reason it's so expensive to do all these shows. That's
why some of these shows go up and do it
in Toronto. In fact, I think some of that Boston Blue,
(19:12):
most of that's done in Toronto. It's a lot cheaper
up there less union costs. Let's go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent,
how you doing. Good morning, Mark, Good morning Mara. Opposite
to what Stewart said about the patriot who talked about
the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and that they hung that
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guy out to dry. The only real unconstitutional order I
could think of what the military was. And you'll remember this,
when that sergeant ordered the Meli massacre Jordan, the Vietnam
War and there the sergeant I forget what his name,
and he was prosecuted for that. Remember that the meal
I met when he mowed down all those peasants, he
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ordered his troops to do that.
Speaker 10 (19:56):
Mark. Everyone knows Katy Hulkle doesn't have spine and isn't
the brightest light bulb in the box. The other night,
try to make a case for Zora Mundani's universal daycare
and for her raising the corporate tax on the corporations
(20:18):
and everything. She's scouted all the jobs, mainly city union jobs.
Just where first off, where they're gonna put these daycare centers.
A lot of these private daycare centers a dumpson. They're
just ripe with fraud. And another thing, didn't miss bright
(20:39):
over there. Take into account all the corporations that Oh
are already moving down to Florida and Texas, Dad are
gonna move out of New York, and you're gonna lose
that revenue. She's talking about the revenue gained. What about
the revenue lost?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah, but you're talking about high level management. This is
not her game. Her game is politics campaigning. Same thing
with Mom Donnie. They've never known these two have never
managed anything. They've never been managers. It's just what sounds
good in the campaign, what's the what campaign promise sounds right? Executing?
Managing It's not their field. But the Vincent could point. Hey,
when we come back. Steve Cuzo, the great New York
(21:18):
Post reporter, nobody better on restaurants, on real estate on
New York. We'll see what he says about the coming
Mom Donnie situation for business. We'll get to all of
that next on seven to ten. Wor Mark Simone.
Speaker 11 (21:35):
Wr Well.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Steve Cuzel, the great New York Post column this nobody
better on restaurants, the real estate on New York. Stuff
is columns. You can read them all. They're in the
New York Post website. Steve Cuzoh, how you doing.
Speaker 11 (21:50):
I'm great, Mark, Thanks, It's hard to live up to
that doing. I'll try them, you'll do it, you'll hey, Yeah,
you're just back from London. Yeah Instagram great pictures. But
were there any English speaking people left in London?
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Well that's the thing I tell friends who haven't been
to London a long time, I say, I tell them
English is widely spoken. Now that's supposed to be a joke,
because it is, after all, London. It's England, you know.
So yes, English is still widely spoken, but not universally. No,
like New York. What was it?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
But all the great old London places they're not. They've
been overtaken by all kinds of new places. What's good
over there?
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Well, so what's new? Oh? So many great restaurants. But
the most interesting single thing, in my view is the
former American Embassy in Grove most Rare, which had been
there for I don't know. That was our embassy there
for a million years. The embassy moved away about ten
years ago to a new location. The building was a giant,
(22:51):
brutalless style kind of a hulking building. It was never
well loved, and but that Katari Fune bought it and
converted the whole property God knows how much it might
must have cost into a spectacular new Rosewood managed hotel.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
You know, Rosewood is one of the premier hotel companies
in the world New York and I mean they operate
the Carlisle and it's called the Chancery. That's the end
of the new hotel. And when you go into the building,
you can't believe that this was once this miserable, you
know interior where people would line up for, you know,
(23:36):
to get their passports renewed. They created a they carved
out an atrium. It's it's all soft and warm, unlike
the you know, the kind of still brooding exterior. The
interior is all warmth and light. And they have five restaurants,
including a Carbone from New York. I didn't eat there,
(23:56):
but we did eat at a wonderful Mediterranean restaurant in
the hotel called Sarah. And they have a rooftop lounge
called the Eagle or the Eagle because it's got the
giant gold eagle that was there during the years that
the building was the Embassy. And apparently this giant eagle
(24:16):
is made out of the fifty two parts and it's
a lounge and it's like it's a rooftop lounge like
the ones that we have that so many are in
New York and all together it's a must see for
people in visiting London who haven't been there for a
couple of years. The hotel opened only a few months ago.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, that's chancery. Hey, you know, it's fascinating. The rooftop
of every office building was the water tower, the AC system,
what they call the mechanicals. It wasn't untill like two
thousand and two that anybody figured out put the restaurant
on the rooftop, put the bar on the rooftop, and.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Put the bars up there. It's incredible. New York City
and Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn and even a few
parts of Queens and Washing have rooftop this in that
just a space that previously was used for nothing mechanical
uses or whatever. And one of the first transformations my
(25:14):
late friend Steve the Greenberg created I think it's two
thirty fifth Avenue and I think it was called two
thirty fifth rooftop. And since then there are a gazillion
of them. And I was amused in London because our
British friends there were absolutely flabbergasted at the views from
the roof of the you know, the Eagle on top
(25:35):
of the Chancery Hotel, and it's a nice view, but
nothing compared to the ones we have in New York.
There's one hotel I don't remember the name of it.
It's the Canal Street and the Bowery that has a
rooftop lounge that is simply not to be believed, facing
both Brooklyn and Manhattan. Nothing like it in the world.
(25:57):
So it's all good time stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Yes, So we're talking about this. Yesterday Masa, the Japanese
restaurant Time Warner Center, nine hundred dollars a person got
wiped out more than that, more than that twelve hundred
with tax and tips and all that.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
Usually per head, yeah, not per couple, but per head.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
So there's another one now like seven fifty ahead.
Speaker 9 (26:22):
Michelin Story Sushiz or something.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
So what's happened is that Masa had three Michelin stars
since it opened in two thousand and nine when the
building was known as Time Warner Center. Now it's Deutsche
Bank Center and Masa, which is a very small restaurant
only twenty six seats. The best seats, which are at
the chef's counter, carried it's three Michelin stars all that time,
(26:48):
and a couple of things happened during that time. The
competition grew enormously for omakasei style Japanese dining, where the
chef sets the menu from it changes nightly. Many many
courses usually built around sushi, but not always. I was
(27:09):
at masilunton I had Kobe beef, which was extraordinary, or
rogy beef from Japan. But there's much more competition now
and however, and so they know they lost the star.
I don't believe a word Micheline says about anything, but
if you're in business, in the restaurant business, it matters
(27:30):
enormously to you, because many many New Yorkers don't care
that much about Micheline stars. But it's a different story
in Europe and Asia. There are people with a lot
of money from Europe and Asia who come to New
York and when they decide where they're going to eat,
before they even come, they just look at what's got
three stars and they make their selections on that basis.
(27:52):
And so friends in the industry told me that a restaurant,
high end restaurant that's cut from three stars to two,
as Masa happened to Masa, it can cost them twenty
five percent of their revenue, not immediately, not overnight, because
you know they're booked far in advance, but over time,
(28:13):
and you know when the current reservations run out, it's
going to hurt them. And it's a small restaurant. Masa
unlike some other restaurants that lost the star and they
could they could weather it because there were large restaurants
and they were part of big companies. Masa is not.
So you know, they've got a tough time to hand them.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Why do you have your doubts about these micheline reviewers?
Speaker 6 (28:36):
I have my I never believed the only reviews of
or ratings and restaurants I ever believed Mark or my
own the ones that I've written for The New York Post.
I never believed Zagat ratings. I never believed micheline ratings.
I never believed in New York Times ratings, and so
I'm a skeptic. The only one I do believe is
(28:57):
the three stars for Labernet them, which in my view is,
you know, the greatest restaurants in the world and retained
its three stars. But even they cannot afford to let
their guard down because all it takes, you know, Micheling
likes to upset the Every year Micheline likes to come
(29:18):
up with one, you know, reduction in the star because
otherwise nobody would pay attention. So they've got to knock
somebody down every year. So this year it was poor Masa.
But in terms of in terms of quality, I don't
believe a word of it. I've been to plenty of
Michelin star, one star, two star restaurants that I thought
(29:39):
absolutely stink.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yeah, good point. Now, before we run out of time,
what are all the real estate guys, all the restaurant guys,
what are they saying to you about the coming Mondani era?
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Well, I do the commercial side, as you know, not
residential but for the most part, but all the commercial people,
A don't worry. You know, we're bigger than any you know,
our industry is bigger than any political change. And they're
probably right. That doesn't mean that there isn't going to
be an effect on something in New York City. You know,
(30:15):
Mamdanie talks about uh, you know, residential rent control. He
wants to freeze rents and stabilize the pumps, but he
doesn't say anything like that about commercial estate. Commercial real
estate pays, provides, generates more tax revenue for the City
of New York and the state than any other industry,
(30:39):
more than Wall Street. I don't remember the exact numbers.
It doesn't matter. Anyone can look them up. And so,
you know, commercial real estate industry, which has been fortunately
dramatically revived over the last two years. It's extraordinary. What's
happened is really the driver of the New York City economy.
(30:59):
And even a you know, a communistic guy like Mam Donnie,
would be a fool to tamper with that.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Well, we got through Deblasio for eight years. We'll get
through this for four exactly. All right, Well, everybody reads
Steve Cuzo's excellent columns in the New York Post. If
you go to the New York Post website, all of
his columns are up there. You can read them all.
Just go to the New York Post website and just
type in Steve Cuzo. Steve Cuzo, thanks for being with us.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Thank you Mark always fun.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
All right, take care. They don't forget coming up at noon,
Buck and Clay, we'll be here at noon today. Now,
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You can go get the podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
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