October 7, 2025 • 31 mins
New audio reveals that Chicago's police department was ordered not to help ICE officers under attack at facilities. Mark reacts to the audio. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews Roger Friedman from Showbiz 411. Taylor Swift is a marketing genius and is expected to sell many more "The Life of a Showgirl" albums this week. Singer Bad Bunny will do well, according to Roger, at the Super Bowl halftime show in 2026.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now more marximone on sevent ten.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Wr Well, it's October seventh. It's a two year anniversary
of that horrible, horrible day that was the nine to
eleven for Israel. October seventh, its two years later. Hopefully
the peace agreement will happen at some point this week,
President Trump saying thought they were close. He did a
(00:24):
great interview last night. Greg Kelly reports The Great Show
on Newsmax every night at nine o'clock. President Trump called
in last night a great interview. You talked about everything
from a bad Bunny. You can if you go to
the Newsmax website or the Newsmax app, you can watch
last night's a great interview with President Trump, followed by me,
by the way, I was the next guest on there.
(00:47):
But great interview last night. So hey. Also, it's October seventh.
It's the twenty ninth anniversary of Well on this day.
In nineteen ninety October seventh, nineteen ninety six, it was
the debut of something called the Fox News Channel. Now
(01:08):
it was New Revolutionary. It just kind of came on
the air bill O'Reilly. I think was there from day one.
I think Sean Hannity was there from day one, but
the day before the Fox News Channel, it was the
cable landscape was basically CNN, was MSNBC there yet, No,
I don't think it was. It was CNN, and CNN
(01:30):
had a second channel called America's Talking that eventually became MSNBC.
But before Fox News started on this day in nineteen
ninety six, the biggest thing on cable, the one thing
everybody watched, was Larry King Live. Every night at nine o'clock,
it was Larry King Live from Washington. And there's nothing
(01:52):
like it today because Larry King Live one night might
be the House Majority Leader, or it might be a senator,
and the next night it might be Suzanne Summers. It
was you could do that back in those days. You
could be an entertainment show, you could be a news show.
You could have a wide variety of people. Well, I
guess you could still do that on a Jimmy Fallon
(02:13):
or The View. But that's the way it was. And
world leader, every world leader would come on Larry King
Live and it was a major show. It was the
number one show and cable until the Fox News Channel
came along and just wiped out everything CNN and everything
and then Bill O'Reilly became the biggest show, and then
Sean Hannity became the biggest show, and then everything that fucked.
But it's almost thirty years, twenty nine years, incredible success.
(02:37):
It's bigger than ever, doing better than ever, while all
the other cable networks just fizzle out. Last night, speaking
to Jimmy Fallon, Taylor Swift was the guest. Hey, Roger
Friedman will be with a little later this hour. We'll
talk to him about this. She is unbelievable at merchandising,
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at marketing, at all of that stuff. But there she
was last night on Fallon. This was like, well, the
big appearance was last week. It was right here down
the hall. She was on with Elvis Duran. That was
the first big interview. But Taylor Swift last night, Jimmy Fallon,
I think.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
For Travis the podcast was just sort of like a distraction,
sort of ruse to keep me not looking out the
windows of the house.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
It was all happening.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It was the backyard normal when.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
You got there, Like I don't every time he does
the podcast. It's not like he like blacks out all
the windows.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Like the drap.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
It's like fully like just blackout drapes on every single
window of the whole house.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Yeah, you're like, honey, this is real sacred, it's.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Serious about this, and I really appreciate that. But then
after what I kind of realized, like he's he's walking
around sort of nervous about the podcast. He's like, my
heart is racing. I just really want I know how
much this means to you, like really want this to
be what you hoped it would be.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Now, let me explain to the audience. This is supposed
to be a fascinating story. This is what late night
talk has become. It's not like when you watch Johnny
Carson highlights and there's Don Rickles, and there's this and this.
By today's standards of late night, this is supposed to
be a great story, fascinating. He's supposed to be hanging
on the edge of your seat watching this. And you
(04:18):
know they don't do an anniversary show. I remember Carson
used to do an anniversary show every year. We'd play
all the highlights. Fallon doesn't do that because there's no highlights.
But what would you play this there's no highlights by
the end of the year. Here's more.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
He's just my favorite person.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
He's talking about Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
He's just my favorite person I've ever met. No offense
to everyone else, but the fact that the fact that
this is the person that I get to hang out
with every day forever is just like that, that's the
whole thing of it. You look at that and you're like,
I didn't hang out with him forever and this represents that.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Oh oh now, let's be honest, you know, to each
his own. But when you look around the world at
all the people you've seen in the world, do you
say to yourself, when you see Travis Kelsey, that's the
guy I want to hang out with. I mean, if
you didn't know who he was, he just looks like
a bouncer at a club or something. This is Do
you look at him and say this, this is who
(05:09):
I want to hang out with. This is who I
want to talk But you got to give a credit. Hey,
we'll get we'll get to this later in the hour.
The merchandising, the marketing, this woman is a genius at it.
We'll get to all of that coming up. Hey, in Chicago,
you know, Ice is going around the country and they're
arresting illegals. This is what you want him to do.
(05:31):
They're arresting illegals. They're not arresting any immigrants. They're not
arresting migrants. They're arresting illegals that are here illegally. And
they're taking these illegals off the streets, taking them to
court and deporting them. This is the whole idea. Thanks
to Biden and company, millions and millions and millions of
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illegals broke into the country and they're being removed one
by one by Ice. He's doing a great job. So
you had these democrats are so angry, so nuts, so violent.
First you had protests around ICE and their headquarters and
the agents, and then you had riots around ICE, and
then you had attack, even had a guy shoot at
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ICE agents. And now in Chicago, these ICE agents, there's
a few cars. They're going through Chicago and these crazy
left wing violent democrats got a caravan of cars. They
got like ten cars, and these crazy left wing democrats
were armed automatic weapons, semi automatic weapons. They surrounded the
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ICE agents, their cars, surrounded the ICE cars, boxed them
in and trapped them. It was an out and out ambush,
just like you see on Blue Bloods. You know when
Danny Reagan's transporting the prisoner and the drug cartel surround
his car and start firing it. But the same thing. Now,
where were the Chicago police? It turned out the ICE
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agents they were in this ambush, in the standoff. Eventually
the ICE agents had to pull their guns out and
start shooting defensively. But where were the police. Why didn't
the police move in and protect them? Well, they were
ordered not to by the Mayor of Chicago, and we
think by JB. Pritzker that fat Ralph Cramden, governor. The
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police were there, they could have stopped this. They could
have saved the ICE agents, but they were told not to.
We have the actual audio. Now, this is the police
are there. They want to move in and save the
ICE agents. Here's the actual audio. This is the dispatcher're
ordering them not to do it.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
And again for the Chief of Patrol, we have all
the units. Chief of Patrol said, all units clear out
from there. We're not sending anybody over to that location.
Right and nine just took him from a thirty ninth
place in Kezzie. They were saying that they were being
surrounded by that large crowd and they were requesting the
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police were not sending waving off all of the cars
having the thirty ninth place and cassy.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Per chief of police do not respond, let them get
shot at in that ambush. So the chief of police,
of course did not decide this on his own. The
mayor was behind him, and we assumed the governor that's
that fat slab Ralph Cramden, the governor of Illinois, Pritzker.
Here's what he had to say. We don't have a
lot of facts.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Remember, these are the same folks who killed a person,
unarmed person, just a couple of weeks ago in Franklin Park.
At first they said that the officer had been threatened
with his life. The reality of it and the truth
of it has now come out and that wasn't the case.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
They killed somebody.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
They are just putting out their propaganda and then we've
got it later determine what actually happened.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
We already know what happened. We've got surveillance footage, we've
got witnesses. We absolutely know what happened. The ice car.
We're moving through Chicago. A group of violent, crazy left
wing democrats with ten cars surrounded them, boxed them in.
They had automatic weapons. We know this. This surveillance video.
(09:12):
Released the video. If you're gonna do that active we
don't have the facts, release the video. Let's see it. Hey,
you might not realize this, there's a government shutdown. I
don't think anybody notices, you know, even if you watch
the crazy left wing stations, like you know, if you
watch MSNBC, the shutdown is like story number twelve. It's
like twenty minutes into the hour they get to it.
(09:33):
And the problem is, you got Schumer, who's a ridiculous figure,
just the most ineffective leader in the world. Even John
Stewart last night calling him America's flat tire. He's like
just a bad flat tire. Speaking of flat, you got
this Haakim Jefferies, who looks like a robut who just
looks like a robut looks into the camera. He's all stiff,
and he's the worst spokesman. Either Leader Schumer or myself
(09:57):
have heard a wordministration about resolving this issue, making clear
to us that the White House wanted to shut the
government down. You could you got the uh I hate
to say, I hate to say continuing resolution CR, clean CR,
whatever the hell that is. You could do the extension.
I think it's a seven week extension. Just sign the
(10:19):
damn thing. But do you know what you don't want
to sign it? Don't sign it. Nobody notices this government shutdown. Uh,
some people say, hey, we just had a government shutdown
for four years. It was called the Biden administration. Oh,
mayoral race, Rudy Giuliani has endorsed Curtis Leewell officially endorsement
from Rudy Giuliani. Now his name, some will argue, well,
(10:42):
his name's a little tarnished right now. But you know,
whatever you think of Rudy Giuliani, he is the world expert,
the number one expert on earth on how to run
New York City. He's the greatest mayor in the history
of the world. Nobody knows more about how to be
mayor of New York than Rudy Giuliani. And he has
officially endorsed Curtis Sliwa. Now to counter that, Cuomo keeps
(11:06):
telling you how he keeps announcing these union into the
plumbers Union, the Electricians Union into who the hell cares
you know. If I wanted to know who's going to
be a good mayor, I would ask Rudy Giuliani. I
wouldn't call my electrician and say, what do you think?
Who should I vote for?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
It?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
If I needed a light switch fixed, I might ask him,
but not who to vote for for mayor. So big endorsement,
and the debate is a week from Thursday. It's next week,
next Thursday, the sixteenth. That's the debate. That's where Curtis
could turn things around. So you know, Amazon has now
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bought the rights to all the James Bond movies. They
own all the James Vontems. They're putting them up on
Amazon so you can watch them, buy them, rent them, whatever.
But Amazon, you know everybody's got to get that Charlie
Gasprino book, Go Woke, Go Broke. You got to read
that book Amazon Going Woke. I'm not kidding you. You know,
(12:05):
every James Bond movie had a great poster, you know,
on the movie theaters or on the cover of the
DVD or whatever. They have the great posters with Bond. Well,
they all had a gun. He remember, he'd posed with
the gun in his hand. Amazon has removed the guns
from the posters, so it's Bond with no gun. The
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whole movie is about Bond shooting people, killing people. He
has a license to kill. That's the whole idea of Bond.
But they've removed the gun from the posters. So here's
one where he's like this with the gun with his
hand up here, so that you got to put something there,
so it's just like him holding his fist up. It
just looks weird. It's absolutely insane. If you're that woke,
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don't sell Bond films. I mean, that's what he does
in the films. He blows up buildings, he shoots people,
he drives the people off a cliff. It's a license
to kill, which has never been explained by By the way,
who exactly issues that license to kill? Did you know
that England could issue you a license to kill? You
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can go anywhere in the world, kill anybody. Anybody says
a word, I got, I got a license to kill. Oh, okay,
go ahead. It's the crazies. The whole Bond thing never
made any sense. It's fascinating that people take it seriously.
It makes no sense. You know, he's supposed to be
a secret agent, top secret agent. Now you notice in
the film wherever he goes anywhere in the world. He
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goes to Monte Carlo, he goes to Hong Kong. He
walks into any bar, any hotel, and behind the desk
the guy says, mister Bond, Oh, mister Bond, welcome. What
kind of secret agent is If every hotel clerk in
the world seems to know this guy, every casino guy
knows him, it's just a and you remember the way
he would order a drink when he'd order that martini, gos,
(13:50):
I'll have it shaken, not stirred. You know, nowadays you're
lucky if the waiter even comes back. If you think
he's going to get that right, shaken, not stir you're
a little crazy. Hey, Well, take some calls in a minute.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
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Speaker 5 (14:15):
Set another for Mark's podcast to hear him anytime? Now
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Speaker 2 (14:25):
Hey, let's take some calls. Eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten is the number eight hundred three two
one zero seven ten. Let's go to doctor Bob, a
great surgeon in Long Island. Doctor Bob, how you doing?
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I'm good, Mark, how are you good. Let me tell
you this is great news with Rudy's endorsement of Curtis,
and I think it's the start of a new surge.
I'm hopeful that that Curtis has some really good debate
prep in mind, because I think it's going to turn
the tables on both his foes. I'd like to see
you as part of that debate prep. How can you
(14:59):
get involved with that?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Oh yeah, I talk to hers all the time and
he's good. Don't worry. He's got great people prepping him.
He's got really good people. Uh, the best economic people.
And remember he's a professional debater for thirty five years.
Uh and allmost of the world's worst debater. So you
do what's that beeping in the backgund What are you doing?
Surgery right now?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
As a matter of fact, they're working on one of
the neighbor's properties nearby, so it's a matter of fact
the golf course. So it's not a little little noisy there.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Oh what golf course are you on?
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Success? Oh okay, we're doing to the holes and unbelievable job.
And this crew is sensational. They're dealing with the courses.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Out in the wait what are you talking about. You're
a surgeon and you fixed golf courses.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
No, no, this is my time wolf.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Oh okay, a surgeon who cuts grass very surgically each
all right, thanks, thanks for calling. Let's go to uh
Sam and Staten Island. Sam.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
How you doing, Hi, Mock, how are you good? All right?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Good?
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Listen, Rudy. The Rudy endorsement is.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Huge and great.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I hate to break it to you now. It's now
twenty twenty five. It's huge with Republicans, but.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
Not it's the guy had a rough couple of years.
But believe me, he was still the world the best
mayor in the city. Yeah, but I got a question.
Where was these guys like John Kasta, Mattid. He's been
throughout this whole.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Thing we're talking about. He's on the air every day.
He's publicist. Hey, hey, hey, hey, stop yelling. Calm down.
What the hell are you talking about? That guy? How
the guy is on the radio every day talking?
Speaker 7 (16:37):
Okay, and is he endorsing the Curtis all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I don't think he's endorsing anybody. Remember, he's got a
radio show, he owns a radio station. I think he
you know, he loves Curtis. Curtis is part of his
family there, but I don't think he's endorsing anybody publicly.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Yeah that's a shame.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Well, no, it's not a shame. I mean, you haven't
heard me endorse anybody. Obviously, I love Curtis, but I
don't officially endorse anybody. All right now, listen, Sam, Yeah,
you got to get control of yourself. You know, one
of these guys calls up yelling and screaming, and then
you get the facts later. You gotta get you gotta
know what you're talking about first before the yelling.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Oh really, yeah, I'll practice that before I again.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Okay, thank you. See, some people don't really care. They're
not they're not that they're actually not that interested. If
you said, here's a four hundred page position paper to
explain the whole thing to you, they're not going to
They don't worry the one. I mean, they just like
to yell and scream and carry on. It's like it's
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like sports fans in a bar. They don't want to
really study the game that they just want to go.
Now the Jets are gonna win. Now, the Giants are
gonna win. Now the Jets are gonna win. So where's
all the calls. We don't have any calls. I never
heard this happen before, Is it me? There's no calls
all of a sudden, I've never ever seen that happen.
Oh hey, by the way, Chief Shell, great, the NYPD,
(18:03):
Chief John Shell. You see him all over television. You
know the face. He was like the face of the
NYPD there for a couple of years. But retiring. We
wish him well and everybody will miss him. Hey, great news.
President Trump on truth social and it's posted all over Twitter.
Really went after Al Sharpton yesterday, Great news, and he
(18:26):
put up a picture remember the old Al Sharpton with
the jogging suit when he was big fat Al Sharpton
with the big medallions around his neck and the jogging suit.
He put up one of those pictures and pointed out
that Sharpton was a close friend. He loved me. He
loved me for years. He begged me to come to
all of his fake rallies and I did a number
of times just to help him draw a crowd. And
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he goes on and you got to go read it.
It's really great. Then he points out at some point
Sharpton ran into Brian Roberts, who owned Comcasts, the big, big,
mega corporation that was buying NBC, And when they were
buying NBC they needed help with the FCC. Sharped and helped.
He went and testified on behalf of Comcast to their
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great racial hiring policies, all that kind of stuff, and
apparently was promised a TV show in return. That's why
he has an MSNBC TV show, Trump pointing out it's
the lowest rated show in the history of television. But
they're afraid to fire him and that's why he's still there. Oh,
here we go. Let's go to Bob in Montvale, New Jersey. Bob,
(19:30):
how you doing good?
Speaker 8 (19:32):
How are you marked that taking my call? Just wondering
what vendor say you? The vendor gave up, like the
rights to have them tap into senators like phone calls,
and under what pretense.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Oh well, if you're a special counsel, special prosecutor, Department
of Justice and you show up at the phone company,
they'll turn over the records you show up. You know
that Jack Smith could go to some left wing kook
DC judge get a warrant. What are you gonna do?
If you're the phone company, you're not going to fight
with the Justice Department. You turn it over.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
That's it.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Hey, when we come back, Roger Friedman, The Great Entertainment Reporter,
we got to talk about this Taylor Swift. I mean,
forget the singing, the songwriting, all that great, but this
woman is a hell of a marketer, a hell of
a businesswoman. She's figured out every angle. We'll get to
that next. On seven to ten, w R blogged.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Into Everything New York.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I'm the Voice of New York, Mark.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Simon on sevent Tenor.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Well, Roger Friedman The Great Entertainment Reporter is a website.
You should check it every day. There's always new stuff
up there. Showbiz for one one dot com, Showbiz for
one one dot com. Roger Friedman, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I'm okay? Are you? Have you been talking politics this morning?
Speaker 6 (20:49):
No?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
We never talked politics.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Well, Mark, who you're voting for? From there? Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
I love that? Mom, Donnie, He's great, don't you think
you know?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I just have to say before we get into a
conversation about Hollywood, which I want to do because I
saw a great movie last night. Everyone's gonna love this.
Cannot go on with Mom, Donnie. And you know his
mother is a film director and she's a wonderful person.
Let me tell you. I know her, and she's a
great lady. But this is not acceptable. And I'm voting
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for Andrew Cuomo despite all of his baggage. And I
just wanted to say to the Year listeners. I'm going
to say this four more times this month to make
sure everyone knows. Please vote for Andrew Cuomo. Okay, I'm
not going to vote for Curtis, but I like him
a lot.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Okay, I like him.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I like his spirit.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
This mom, Donnie mother, the filmmaker. She seem to a
great person, but how successful I'm not familiar with her
film I mean, she's a n year.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Oh she made a Monsoon wedding. She's made great movies. Oh,
The Namesake is a movie I adore. She's a great filmmaker.
And if you met her and you would say she's
a fabulous person. She's not anti Semitics, she's not any
of these things. But regardless of how much I love
the mother, I just have to say, the Sun really
(22:14):
should find another job.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
All right, Well, okay, they sound like great films, they're
not Casino or good fellows, but they sound like good.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
No, she made she's made great films, and she's and
she's very well liked and everyone should be nice to her.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And well, you know, we'll work on that.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
And I'm glad that her son wants a job. But
this isn't really We're going to go a different way,
all right.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Hey, but let's talk about something more important. Taylor Swift.
How success? My god, how successful was this album in numbers?
In actual metrics?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Okay, so they're saying that she sold they're saying that
she's going to sell through Friday three million albums or
maybe more, maybe four million. A lot of that is
from streaming. It's not from CBS, although a lot will
be from CBS. LPs cassettes.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Wait wait, wait, and you can buy us. I didn't
even know they still existed.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Oh well you can. People buy CBS all the time.
And in fact they're popular. Again I heard and LT's
are popular. And for some reason, Taylor Sworft sells cassettes.
I have no idea what people play them on. But
so she sold a lot of records then on Apple,
on iTunes. She's made it so that the album can
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only be bought in whole. You cannot buy a single
from it, it's only the whole album. And now she's
made the whole album four ninety nine because she wants
to break records so that you know, people will buy
so many copies of four ninety nine regular iTunes download
is like eleven ninety nine. So they're doing every they're
(23:45):
bending over backwards to get break records. Here Adele with
her twenty five album in twenty fifteen, she sold I
think three point four million, so they're trying to break
that record and they'll do anything they can.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
To do it. Did she also release like an extended
album with all sorts of extra stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yeah, she's got four more CDs that you can buy
in addition to this that are eight dollars apiece, and
they would add on to the sales. They keep looking
every day they add on some new thing to build.
These teenage girls, I have to say, they deserve to
be at the Wharton School of Business or at Harvard MBA.
(24:24):
They should be studying Taylor Swift's marketing. It is absolutely genius.
Well your right of thing I have. The negative thing
I have to say about Taylor Swift is that several
of the songs sound like other people's songs, and the
fans immediately discovered this on Friday when the album came out.
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And one of the songs is the title song of
the album is called The Life of a Showgirl, is
a direct ripoff of a Jonas Brothers song called Cool.
You listen to it and you think, well, how does
she get away with this? I don't know. I don't
know how she's going to get away with it, but
it's very weird. The whole thing with this album seems
to be more about having success with it than making
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it a good album, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Yeah, Now, she's also got everything else, sweaters, mittens, t shirts, right,
merchandise like crazy.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Oh yeah, she's very big on sweaters. You can buy
a Taylor Swift cardigan. It says it's emblazoned with the
letters TS on it. I guess you could say it's
Times Square. I don't know. I mean, she's selling everything
on her website, anything that isn't nailed down as being
sold for Taylor Swift. And you try to imagine that
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back in our heyday, that Joni Mitchell or Carol Ken
or Carly Simon would do didn't do anything like this.
They just put out records that have lasted fifty years.
But they didn't you know that. You couldn't buy key
chains or anything else that I know of, So it's
very strange the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah, but a question was a different world then. All
you had was radio and TV. It didn't have the Internet,
you didn't have special any of that.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
So, Hey, a lot of controversy over Bad Bunny, but
you know, I watched him on Saturday Night Live. He's
kind of a charming, charming guy, that Bad Bunny.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
He's very charming. He's very charming, and he has a
lot of fun. He'll make a great super Bowl show.
He's going to make a great show. I don't know what.
I don't know why people got so excited about.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Because he said horrible things about political stuff, but.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Well he didn't. He doesn't want to tour the country
because he doesn't want his fans to be arrested during
the shows. Yeah, but a legitimate concern. But but he
is Puerto Rican, and you know Puerto Ricans are actually American.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
You're kidding, Oh my god, no, did you know?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Now?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Just thing was my Oh, but how big is he.
I mean, I've I've heard of him, I've heard his music.
But for the super Bowl, aren't you supposed to be
like Michael Jackson Taylor Swift kind of big?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Oh he's already sold. He put out an album last January.
It's sold almost three million copies since then. Okay, this,
that's just that album altogether this year of twenty twenty five,
and it's only October or whatever it is. Seventh he
sold about five million records this year. So he's hugely popular.
(27:14):
And he just in Puerto Rico. He just did this,
you know, thirty day residency in one of their you know,
spectacular show places. People from the States were flying there
to see it.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
So it was sold out every night. Oh yeah, it
was like the hot ticket was going to Puerto Rico
to see Bad Bunny. So you know, he's going to
have a great super Bowl show. Everyone should be happy
with him when he does it. They're all going to say, like,
like you remember when Ricky Martin did the Grammys twenty
years ago. He did with a LaVita Loca, and people
were like, who is this guy? Everyone fall in love
(27:48):
with him. That's what Bad Bunny will be like. On
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Yeah, it's pretty good. You know, you go back, you
look at the original Super Bowl. The halftime was like
Anty Williams or people.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Yes, let's not knock Andy Williams. He was a great guy.
He was a lovely guy. Now, last night I went
to this movie at the New York Film Festival. It
was the surprise screening of the festival. Except by the
time you got there there was no secret. Even the
I said, even the hot dog vendors knew what was
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going on. But the place was packed. And it was
for a new movie starring Timothy Tallome. And the movie
is called Marty Supreme.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Oh yeah, it's about Marty Reesman. I actually knew the guy.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Did you know him very well? Yeah, you knew him.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yeah, it's about Marto player what he was, the world
champion ping pong player of all time? Yes, And Marty
Supreme is the movie, and it's gonna debut in Christmas Day,
I think, But what was.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
How good here? It's fabulous. It's an A plus movie.
It's four stars, it's everything. It was so great. It's
such exciting filmmaking by Josh Safty and Tallome is going
to probably get the Oscar for Best Actor. H was
the was the real guy, a fast talker, like a
Damon Runyon kind of characters.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
A real Damon Runyon captain. He talked like this and
he was Yeah, that was him.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Well, he's got it. He's Timothy Challome is twenty nine
years old. He'll be thirty in December. He has nailed
this thing down. And I'm telling you it's so exciting
and everyone in the cast is great. I'll tell your
friend Dresher plays his mother, which is really funny. She's terrific.
Santra Bernhardt's and oh, two of your friends.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
Are in it.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah, yeah, John Catsimatidas.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
And you know why John is in terrific?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
No, why did he know him too?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Yeah, in real life he was actually his landlord. He
owned the building where Marty's.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Had his Uh wow, they didn't tell us this last
night because we only saw the movie. But John Cassimatidas,
who looks great on screen by the way, he's he
should be doing character acting in every movie. Yeah, he's fabulous.
And Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank, Yeah, has a big
part in the movie, and he's terrific. He really holds
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his own he's really played a nasty guy. He's married
in the movie to Gwyneth Paltrow, who plays sort of
a has been movie star, and he's the rich guy
who married her and now she can't get away from him.
And it's a subplot in the movie. It's very good.
And there's a new girl in there whose name is
Odessa as Ion, who's going to get a nomination for
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Best Supporting afters. She's terrific. So the movie is going
to be spectacular. But I'm so impressed that two knew him.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Oh yeah, I'll in fact, we get off. I'll send
you some pictures to me and him, Marty Supreme. His
real name was Marty Reesman. And so you would say
next year this could be one of the biggest films
of the year.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yes, you know. Right now we have one battle after
another with Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean pan which is really
sort of on the fast track for the Best Picture.
But this one is going to give it a lot
of trouble. This that we're going to have a real
race in March for the Oscars. Well, great's gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Great stuff. We're out of time, but everybody go check
out Roger Friedman's website. You can read the review of
the movie. Go to showbiz for one one dot com
showbizfoe one dot com. Roger Friedman, thanks for being with us.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Thank you, take.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Care, hey, and don't forget to Buck and Clay coming
up at noon today, right after right after the news
at noon. Then you got the most listened to radio
show in America, Sean Hannity at three, Jesse Kelly six o'clock,
and then the We got a great new show every
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Speaker 1 (31:36):
Houster, New York, Mark Simone.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Wor Hey, we're out of time.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Thank god.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
This is enough excitement for one day. And now don't
go away. Buck and Clay are coming up next. They
got an excellent show for you right after the news.
I'll be back tomorrow. Every weekday ten to noon, right
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Now more marximone on sevent ten.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Wr Well, it's October seventh. It's a two year anniversary
of that horrible, horrible day that was the nine to
eleven for Israel. October seventh, its two years later. Hopefully
the peace agreement will happen at some point this week,
President Trump saying thought they were close. He did a
(00:24):
great interview last night. Greg Kelly reports The Great Show
on Newsmax every night at nine o'clock. President Trump called
in last night a great interview. You talked about everything
from a bad Bunny. You can if you go to
the Newsmax website or the Newsmax app, you can watch
last night's a great interview with President Trump, followed by me,
by the way, I was the next guest on there.
(00:47):
But great interview last night. So hey. Also, it's October seventh.
It's the twenty ninth anniversary of Well on this day.
In nineteen ninety October seventh, nineteen ninety six, it was
the debut of something called the Fox News Channel. Now
(01:08):
it was New Revolutionary. It just kind of came on
the air bill O'Reilly. I think was there from day one.
I think Sean Hannity was there from day one, but
the day before the Fox News Channel, it was the
cable landscape was basically CNN, was MSNBC there yet, No,
I don't think it was. It was CNN, and CNN
(01:30):
had a second channel called America's Talking that eventually became MSNBC.
But before Fox News started on this day in nineteen
ninety six, the biggest thing on cable, the one thing
everybody watched, was Larry King Live. Every night at nine o'clock,
it was Larry King Live from Washington. And there's nothing
(01:52):
like it today because Larry King Live one night might
be the House Majority Leader, or it might be a senator,
and the next night it might be Suzanne Summers. It
was you could do that back in those days. You
could be an entertainment show, you could be a news show.
You could have a wide variety of people. Well, I
guess you could still do that on a Jimmy Fallon
(02:13):
or The View. But that's the way it was. And
world leader, every world leader would come on Larry King
Live and it was a major show. It was the
number one show and cable until the Fox News Channel
came along and just wiped out everything CNN and everything
and then Bill O'Reilly became the biggest show, and then
Sean Hannity became the biggest show, and then everything that fucked.
But it's almost thirty years, twenty nine years, incredible success.
(02:37):
It's bigger than ever, doing better than ever, while all
the other cable networks just fizzle out. Last night, speaking
to Jimmy Fallon, Taylor Swift was the guest. Hey, Roger
Friedman will be with a little later this hour. We'll
talk to him about this. She is unbelievable at merchandising,
(02:57):
at marketing, at all of that stuff. But there she
was last night on Fallon. This was like, well, the
big appearance was last week. It was right here down
the hall. She was on with Elvis Duran. That was
the first big interview. But Taylor Swift last night, Jimmy Fallon,
I think.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
For Travis the podcast was just sort of like a distraction,
sort of ruse to keep me not looking out the
windows of the house.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
It was all happening.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It was the backyard normal when.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
You got there, Like I don't every time he does
the podcast. It's not like he like blacks out all
the windows.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Like the drap.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
It's like fully like just blackout drapes on every single
window of the whole house.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Yeah, you're like, honey, this is real sacred, it's.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Serious about this, and I really appreciate that. But then
after what I kind of realized, like he's he's walking
around sort of nervous about the podcast. He's like, my
heart is racing. I just really want I know how
much this means to you, like really want this to
be what you hoped it would be.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Now, let me explain to the audience. This is supposed
to be a fascinating story. This is what late night
talk has become. It's not like when you watch Johnny
Carson highlights and there's Don Rickles, and there's this and this.
By today's standards of late night, this is supposed to
be a great story, fascinating. He's supposed to be hanging
on the edge of your seat watching this. And you
(04:18):
know they don't do an anniversary show. I remember Carson
used to do an anniversary show every year. We'd play
all the highlights. Fallon doesn't do that because there's no highlights.
But what would you play this there's no highlights by
the end of the year. Here's more.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
He's just my favorite person.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
He's talking about Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
He's just my favorite person I've ever met. No offense
to everyone else, but the fact that the fact that
this is the person that I get to hang out
with every day forever is just like that, that's the
whole thing of it. You look at that and you're like,
I didn't hang out with him forever and this represents that.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Oh oh now, let's be honest, you know, to each
his own. But when you look around the world at
all the people you've seen in the world, do you
say to yourself, when you see Travis Kelsey, that's the
guy I want to hang out with. I mean, if
you didn't know who he was, he just looks like
a bouncer at a club or something. This is Do
you look at him and say this, this is who
(05:09):
I want to hang out with. This is who I
want to talk But you got to give a credit. Hey,
we'll get we'll get to this later in the hour.
The merchandising, the marketing, this woman is a genius at it.
We'll get to all of that coming up. Hey, in Chicago,
you know, Ice is going around the country and they're
arresting illegals. This is what you want him to do.
(05:31):
They're arresting illegals. They're not arresting any immigrants. They're not
arresting migrants. They're arresting illegals that are here illegally. And
they're taking these illegals off the streets, taking them to
court and deporting them. This is the whole idea. Thanks
to Biden and company, millions and millions and millions of
(05:51):
illegals broke into the country and they're being removed one
by one by Ice. He's doing a great job. So
you had these democrats are so angry, so nuts, so violent.
First you had protests around ICE and their headquarters and
the agents, and then you had riots around ICE, and
then you had attack, even had a guy shoot at
(06:13):
ICE agents. And now in Chicago, these ICE agents, there's
a few cars. They're going through Chicago and these crazy
left wing violent democrats got a caravan of cars. They
got like ten cars, and these crazy left wing democrats
were armed automatic weapons, semi automatic weapons. They surrounded the
(06:34):
ICE agents, their cars, surrounded the ICE cars, boxed them
in and trapped them. It was an out and out ambush,
just like you see on Blue Bloods. You know when
Danny Reagan's transporting the prisoner and the drug cartel surround
his car and start firing it. But the same thing. Now,
where were the Chicago police? It turned out the ICE
(06:55):
agents they were in this ambush, in the standoff. Eventually
the ICE agents had to pull their guns out and
start shooting defensively. But where were the police. Why didn't
the police move in and protect them? Well, they were
ordered not to by the Mayor of Chicago, and we
think by JB. Pritzker that fat Ralph Cramden, governor. The
(07:16):
police were there, they could have stopped this. They could
have saved the ICE agents, but they were told not to.
We have the actual audio. Now, this is the police
are there. They want to move in and save the
ICE agents. Here's the actual audio. This is the dispatcher're
ordering them not to do it.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
And again for the Chief of Patrol, we have all
the units. Chief of Patrol said, all units clear out
from there. We're not sending anybody over to that location.
Right and nine just took him from a thirty ninth
place in Kezzie. They were saying that they were being
surrounded by that large crowd and they were requesting the
(07:58):
police were not sending waving off all of the cars
having the thirty ninth place and cassy.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Per chief of police do not respond, let them get
shot at in that ambush. So the chief of police,
of course did not decide this on his own. The
mayor was behind him, and we assumed the governor that's
that fat slab Ralph Cramden, the governor of Illinois, Pritzker.
Here's what he had to say. We don't have a
lot of facts.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Remember, these are the same folks who killed a person,
unarmed person, just a couple of weeks ago in Franklin Park.
At first they said that the officer had been threatened
with his life. The reality of it and the truth
of it has now come out and that wasn't the case.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
They killed somebody.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
They are just putting out their propaganda and then we've
got it later determine what actually happened.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
We already know what happened. We've got surveillance footage, we've
got witnesses. We absolutely know what happened. The ice car.
We're moving through Chicago. A group of violent, crazy left
wing democrats with ten cars surrounded them, boxed them in.
They had automatic weapons. We know this. This surveillance video.
(09:12):
Released the video. If you're gonna do that active we
don't have the facts, release the video. Let's see it. Hey,
you might not realize this, there's a government shutdown. I
don't think anybody notices, you know, even if you watch
the crazy left wing stations, like you know, if you
watch MSNBC, the shutdown is like story number twelve. It's
like twenty minutes into the hour they get to it.
(09:33):
And the problem is, you got Schumer, who's a ridiculous figure,
just the most ineffective leader in the world. Even John
Stewart last night calling him America's flat tire. He's like
just a bad flat tire. Speaking of flat, you got
this Haakim Jefferies, who looks like a robut who just
looks like a robut looks into the camera. He's all stiff,
and he's the worst spokesman. Either Leader Schumer or myself
(09:57):
have heard a wordministration about resolving this issue, making clear
to us that the White House wanted to shut the
government down. You could you got the uh I hate
to say, I hate to say continuing resolution CR, clean CR,
whatever the hell that is. You could do the extension.
I think it's a seven week extension. Just sign the
(10:19):
damn thing. But do you know what you don't want
to sign it? Don't sign it. Nobody notices this government shutdown. Uh,
some people say, hey, we just had a government shutdown
for four years. It was called the Biden administration. Oh,
mayoral race, Rudy Giuliani has endorsed Curtis Leewell officially endorsement
from Rudy Giuliani. Now his name, some will argue, well,
(10:42):
his name's a little tarnished right now. But you know,
whatever you think of Rudy Giuliani, he is the world expert,
the number one expert on earth on how to run
New York City. He's the greatest mayor in the history
of the world. Nobody knows more about how to be
mayor of New York than Rudy Giuliani. And he has
officially endorsed Curtis Sliwa. Now to counter that, Cuomo keeps
(11:06):
telling you how he keeps announcing these union into the
plumbers Union, the Electricians Union into who the hell cares
you know. If I wanted to know who's going to
be a good mayor, I would ask Rudy Giuliani. I
wouldn't call my electrician and say, what do you think?
Who should I vote for?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
It?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
If I needed a light switch fixed, I might ask him,
but not who to vote for for mayor. So big endorsement,
and the debate is a week from Thursday. It's next week,
next Thursday, the sixteenth. That's the debate. That's where Curtis
could turn things around. So you know, Amazon has now
(11:45):
bought the rights to all the James Bond movies. They
own all the James Vontems. They're putting them up on
Amazon so you can watch them, buy them, rent them, whatever.
But Amazon, you know everybody's got to get that Charlie
Gasprino book, Go Woke, Go Broke. You got to read
that book Amazon Going Woke. I'm not kidding you. You know,
(12:05):
every James Bond movie had a great poster, you know,
on the movie theaters or on the cover of the
DVD or whatever. They have the great posters with Bond. Well,
they all had a gun. He remember, he'd posed with
the gun in his hand. Amazon has removed the guns
from the posters, so it's Bond with no gun. The
(12:26):
whole movie is about Bond shooting people, killing people. He
has a license to kill. That's the whole idea of Bond.
But they've removed the gun from the posters. So here's
one where he's like this with the gun with his
hand up here, so that you got to put something there,
so it's just like him holding his fist up. It
just looks weird. It's absolutely insane. If you're that woke,
(12:47):
don't sell Bond films. I mean, that's what he does
in the films. He blows up buildings, he shoots people,
he drives the people off a cliff. It's a license
to kill, which has never been explained by By the way,
who exactly issues that license to kill? Did you know
that England could issue you a license to kill? You
(13:07):
can go anywhere in the world, kill anybody. Anybody says
a word, I got, I got a license to kill. Oh, okay,
go ahead. It's the crazies. The whole Bond thing never
made any sense. It's fascinating that people take it seriously.
It makes no sense. You know, he's supposed to be
a secret agent, top secret agent. Now you notice in
the film wherever he goes anywhere in the world. He
(13:28):
goes to Monte Carlo, he goes to Hong Kong. He
walks into any bar, any hotel, and behind the desk
the guy says, mister Bond, Oh, mister Bond, welcome. What
kind of secret agent is If every hotel clerk in
the world seems to know this guy, every casino guy
knows him, it's just a and you remember the way
he would order a drink when he'd order that martini, gos,
(13:50):
I'll have it shaken, not stirred. You know, nowadays you're
lucky if the waiter even comes back. If you think
he's going to get that right, shaken, not stir you're
a little crazy. Hey, Well, take some calls in a minute.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. Set up
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Speaker 5 (14:15):
Set another for Mark's podcast to hear him anytime? Now
back to Mark Simon on wor.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Hey, let's take some calls. Eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten is the number eight hundred three two
one zero seven ten. Let's go to doctor Bob, a
great surgeon in Long Island. Doctor Bob, how you doing?
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I'm good, Mark, how are you good. Let me tell
you this is great news with Rudy's endorsement of Curtis,
and I think it's the start of a new surge.
I'm hopeful that that Curtis has some really good debate
prep in mind, because I think it's going to turn
the tables on both his foes. I'd like to see
you as part of that debate prep. How can you
(14:59):
get involved with that?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Oh yeah, I talk to hers all the time and
he's good. Don't worry. He's got great people prepping him.
He's got really good people. Uh, the best economic people.
And remember he's a professional debater for thirty five years.
Uh and allmost of the world's worst debater. So you
do what's that beeping in the backgund What are you doing?
Surgery right now?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
As a matter of fact, they're working on one of
the neighbor's properties nearby, so it's a matter of fact
the golf course. So it's not a little little noisy there.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Oh what golf course are you on?
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Success? Oh okay, we're doing to the holes and unbelievable job.
And this crew is sensational. They're dealing with the courses.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Out in the wait what are you talking about. You're
a surgeon and you fixed golf courses.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
No, no, this is my time wolf.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Oh okay, a surgeon who cuts grass very surgically each
all right, thanks, thanks for calling. Let's go to uh
Sam and Staten Island. Sam.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
How you doing, Hi, Mock, how are you good? All right?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Good?
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Listen, Rudy. The Rudy endorsement is.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Huge and great.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I hate to break it to you now. It's now
twenty twenty five. It's huge with Republicans, but.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
Not it's the guy had a rough couple of years.
But believe me, he was still the world the best
mayor in the city. Yeah, but I got a question.
Where was these guys like John Kasta, Mattid. He's been
throughout this whole.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Thing we're talking about. He's on the air every day.
He's publicist. Hey, hey, hey, hey, stop yelling. Calm down.
What the hell are you talking about? That guy? How
the guy is on the radio every day talking?
Speaker 7 (16:37):
Okay, and is he endorsing the Curtis all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I don't think he's endorsing anybody. Remember, he's got a
radio show, he owns a radio station. I think he
you know, he loves Curtis. Curtis is part of his
family there, but I don't think he's endorsing anybody publicly.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Yeah that's a shame.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Well, no, it's not a shame. I mean, you haven't
heard me endorse anybody. Obviously, I love Curtis, but I
don't officially endorse anybody. All right now, listen, Sam, Yeah,
you got to get control of yourself. You know, one
of these guys calls up yelling and screaming, and then
you get the facts later. You gotta get you gotta
know what you're talking about first before the yelling.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Oh really, yeah, I'll practice that before I again.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Okay, thank you. See, some people don't really care. They're
not they're not that they're actually not that interested. If
you said, here's a four hundred page position paper to
explain the whole thing to you, they're not going to
They don't worry the one. I mean, they just like
to yell and scream and carry on. It's like it's
(17:41):
like sports fans in a bar. They don't want to
really study the game that they just want to go.
Now the Jets are gonna win. Now, the Giants are
gonna win. Now the Jets are gonna win. So where's
all the calls. We don't have any calls. I never
heard this happen before, Is it me? There's no calls
all of a sudden, I've never ever seen that happen.
Oh hey, by the way, Chief Shell, great, the NYPD,
(18:03):
Chief John Shell. You see him all over television. You
know the face. He was like the face of the
NYPD there for a couple of years. But retiring. We
wish him well and everybody will miss him. Hey, great news.
President Trump on truth social and it's posted all over Twitter.
Really went after Al Sharpton yesterday, Great news, and he
(18:26):
put up a picture remember the old Al Sharpton with
the jogging suit when he was big fat Al Sharpton
with the big medallions around his neck and the jogging suit.
He put up one of those pictures and pointed out
that Sharpton was a close friend. He loved me. He
loved me for years. He begged me to come to
all of his fake rallies and I did a number
of times just to help him draw a crowd. And
(18:48):
he goes on and you got to go read it.
It's really great. Then he points out at some point
Sharpton ran into Brian Roberts, who owned Comcasts, the big, big,
mega corporation that was buying NBC, And when they were
buying NBC they needed help with the FCC. Sharped and helped.
He went and testified on behalf of Comcast to their
(19:10):
great racial hiring policies, all that kind of stuff, and
apparently was promised a TV show in return. That's why
he has an MSNBC TV show, Trump pointing out it's
the lowest rated show in the history of television. But
they're afraid to fire him and that's why he's still there. Oh,
here we go. Let's go to Bob in Montvale, New Jersey. Bob,
(19:30):
how you doing good?
Speaker 8 (19:32):
How are you marked that taking my call? Just wondering
what vendor say you? The vendor gave up, like the
rights to have them tap into senators like phone calls,
and under what pretense.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Oh well, if you're a special counsel, special prosecutor, Department
of Justice and you show up at the phone company,
they'll turn over the records you show up. You know
that Jack Smith could go to some left wing kook
DC judge get a warrant. What are you gonna do?
If you're the phone company, you're not going to fight
with the Justice Department. You turn it over.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
That's it.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Hey, when we come back, Roger Friedman, The Great Entertainment Reporter,
we got to talk about this Taylor Swift. I mean,
forget the singing, the songwriting, all that great, but this
woman is a hell of a marketer, a hell of
a businesswoman. She's figured out every angle. We'll get to
that next. On seven to ten, w R blogged.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Into Everything New York.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I'm the Voice of New York, Mark.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Simon on sevent Tenor.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Well, Roger Friedman The Great Entertainment Reporter is a website.
You should check it every day. There's always new stuff
up there. Showbiz for one one dot com, Showbiz for
one one dot com. Roger Friedman, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I'm okay? Are you? Have you been talking politics this morning?
Speaker 6 (20:49):
No?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
We never talked politics.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Well, Mark, who you're voting for? From there? Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
I love that? Mom, Donnie, He's great, don't you think
you know?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I just have to say before we get into a
conversation about Hollywood, which I want to do because I
saw a great movie last night. Everyone's gonna love this.
Cannot go on with Mom, Donnie. And you know his
mother is a film director and she's a wonderful person.
Let me tell you. I know her, and she's a
great lady. But this is not acceptable. And I'm voting
(21:23):
for Andrew Cuomo despite all of his baggage. And I
just wanted to say to the Year listeners. I'm going
to say this four more times this month to make
sure everyone knows. Please vote for Andrew Cuomo. Okay, I'm
not going to vote for Curtis, but I like him
a lot.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Okay, I like him.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I like his spirit.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
This mom, Donnie mother, the filmmaker. She seem to a
great person, but how successful I'm not familiar with her
film I mean, she's a n year.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Oh she made a Monsoon wedding. She's made great movies. Oh,
The Namesake is a movie I adore. She's a great filmmaker.
And if you met her and you would say she's
a fabulous person. She's not anti Semitics, she's not any
of these things. But regardless of how much I love
the mother, I just have to say, the Sun really
(22:14):
should find another job.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
All right, Well, okay, they sound like great films, they're
not Casino or good fellows, but they sound like good.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
No, she made she's made great films, and she's and
she's very well liked and everyone should be nice to her.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And well, you know, we'll work on that.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
And I'm glad that her son wants a job. But
this isn't really We're going to go a different way,
all right.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Hey, but let's talk about something more important. Taylor Swift.
How success? My god, how successful was this album in numbers?
In actual metrics?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Okay, so they're saying that she sold they're saying that
she's going to sell through Friday three million albums or
maybe more, maybe four million. A lot of that is
from streaming. It's not from CBS, although a lot will
be from CBS. LPs cassettes.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Wait wait, wait, and you can buy us. I didn't
even know they still existed.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Oh well you can. People buy CBS all the time.
And in fact they're popular. Again I heard and LT's
are popular. And for some reason, Taylor Sworft sells cassettes.
I have no idea what people play them on. But
so she sold a lot of records then on Apple,
on iTunes. She's made it so that the album can
(23:22):
only be bought in whole. You cannot buy a single
from it, it's only the whole album. And now she's
made the whole album four ninety nine because she wants
to break records so that you know, people will buy
so many copies of four ninety nine regular iTunes download
is like eleven ninety nine. So they're doing every they're
(23:45):
bending over backwards to get break records. Here Adele with
her twenty five album in twenty fifteen, she sold I
think three point four million, so they're trying to break
that record and they'll do anything they can.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
To do it. Did she also release like an extended
album with all sorts of extra stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yeah, she's got four more CDs that you can buy
in addition to this that are eight dollars apiece, and
they would add on to the sales. They keep looking
every day they add on some new thing to build.
These teenage girls, I have to say, they deserve to
be at the Wharton School of Business or at Harvard MBA.
(24:24):
They should be studying Taylor Swift's marketing. It is absolutely genius.
Well your right of thing I have. The negative thing
I have to say about Taylor Swift is that several
of the songs sound like other people's songs, and the
fans immediately discovered this on Friday when the album came out.
(24:45):
And one of the songs is the title song of
the album is called The Life of a Showgirl, is
a direct ripoff of a Jonas Brothers song called Cool.
You listen to it and you think, well, how does
she get away with this? I don't know. I don't
know how she's going to get away with it, but
it's very weird. The whole thing with this album seems
to be more about having success with it than making
(25:08):
it a good album, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Yeah, Now, she's also got everything else, sweaters, mittens, t shirts, right,
merchandise like crazy.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Oh yeah, she's very big on sweaters. You can buy
a Taylor Swift cardigan. It says it's emblazoned with the
letters TS on it. I guess you could say it's
Times Square. I don't know. I mean, she's selling everything
on her website, anything that isn't nailed down as being
sold for Taylor Swift. And you try to imagine that
(25:36):
back in our heyday, that Joni Mitchell or Carol Ken
or Carly Simon would do didn't do anything like this.
They just put out records that have lasted fifty years.
But they didn't you know that. You couldn't buy key
chains or anything else that I know of, So it's
very strange the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah, but a question was a different world then. All
you had was radio and TV. It didn't have the Internet,
you didn't have special any of that.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
So, Hey, a lot of controversy over Bad Bunny, but
you know, I watched him on Saturday Night Live. He's
kind of a charming, charming guy, that Bad Bunny.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
He's very charming. He's very charming, and he has a
lot of fun. He'll make a great super Bowl show.
He's going to make a great show. I don't know what.
I don't know why people got so excited about.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Because he said horrible things about political stuff, but.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Well he didn't. He doesn't want to tour the country
because he doesn't want his fans to be arrested during
the shows. Yeah, but a legitimate concern. But but he
is Puerto Rican, and you know Puerto Ricans are actually American.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
You're kidding, Oh my god, no, did you know?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Now?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Just thing was my Oh, but how big is he.
I mean, I've I've heard of him, I've heard his music.
But for the super Bowl, aren't you supposed to be
like Michael Jackson Taylor Swift kind of big?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Oh he's already sold. He put out an album last January.
It's sold almost three million copies since then. Okay, this,
that's just that album altogether this year of twenty twenty five,
and it's only October or whatever it is. Seventh he
sold about five million records this year. So he's hugely popular.
(27:14):
And he just in Puerto Rico. He just did this,
you know, thirty day residency in one of their you know,
spectacular show places. People from the States were flying there
to see it.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
So it was sold out every night. Oh yeah, it
was like the hot ticket was going to Puerto Rico
to see Bad Bunny. So you know, he's going to
have a great super Bowl show. Everyone should be happy
with him when he does it. They're all going to say, like,
like you remember when Ricky Martin did the Grammys twenty
years ago. He did with a LaVita Loca, and people
were like, who is this guy? Everyone fall in love
(27:48):
with him. That's what Bad Bunny will be like. On
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Yeah, it's pretty good. You know, you go back, you
look at the original Super Bowl. The halftime was like
Anty Williams or people.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Yes, let's not knock Andy Williams. He was a great guy.
He was a lovely guy. Now, last night I went
to this movie at the New York Film Festival. It
was the surprise screening of the festival. Except by the
time you got there there was no secret. Even the
I said, even the hot dog vendors knew what was
(28:17):
going on. But the place was packed. And it was
for a new movie starring Timothy Tallome. And the movie
is called Marty Supreme.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Oh yeah, it's about Marty Reesman. I actually knew the guy.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Did you know him very well? Yeah, you knew him.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yeah, it's about Marto player what he was, the world
champion ping pong player of all time? Yes, And Marty
Supreme is the movie, and it's gonna debut in Christmas Day,
I think, But what was.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
How good here? It's fabulous. It's an A plus movie.
It's four stars, it's everything. It was so great. It's
such exciting filmmaking by Josh Safty and Tallome is going
to probably get the Oscar for Best Actor. H was
the was the real guy, a fast talker, like a
Damon Runyon kind of characters.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
A real Damon Runyon captain. He talked like this and
he was Yeah, that was him.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Well, he's got it. He's Timothy Challome is twenty nine
years old. He'll be thirty in December. He has nailed
this thing down. And I'm telling you it's so exciting
and everyone in the cast is great. I'll tell your
friend Dresher plays his mother, which is really funny. She's terrific.
Santra Bernhardt's and oh, two of your friends.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
Are in it.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah, yeah, John Catsimatidas.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
And you know why John is in terrific?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
No, why did he know him too?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Yeah, in real life he was actually his landlord. He
owned the building where Marty's.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Had his Uh wow, they didn't tell us this last
night because we only saw the movie. But John Cassimatidas,
who looks great on screen by the way, he's he
should be doing character acting in every movie. Yeah, he's fabulous.
And Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank, Yeah, has a big
part in the movie, and he's terrific. He really holds
(30:04):
his own he's really played a nasty guy. He's married
in the movie to Gwyneth Paltrow, who plays sort of
a has been movie star, and he's the rich guy
who married her and now she can't get away from him.
And it's a subplot in the movie. It's very good.
And there's a new girl in there whose name is
Odessa as Ion, who's going to get a nomination for
(30:26):
Best Supporting afters. She's terrific. So the movie is going
to be spectacular. But I'm so impressed that two knew him.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Oh yeah, I'll in fact, we get off. I'll send
you some pictures to me and him, Marty Supreme. His
real name was Marty Reesman. And so you would say
next year this could be one of the biggest films
of the year.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yes, you know. Right now we have one battle after
another with Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean pan which is really
sort of on the fast track for the Best Picture.
But this one is going to give it a lot
of trouble. This that we're going to have a real
race in March for the Oscars. Well, great's gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Great stuff. We're out of time, but everybody go check
out Roger Friedman's website. You can read the review of
the movie. Go to showbiz for one one dot com
showbizfoe one dot com. Roger Friedman, thanks for being with us.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Thank you, take.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Care, hey, and don't forget to Buck and Clay coming
up at noon today, right after right after the news
at noon. Then you got the most listened to radio
show in America, Sean Hannity at three, Jesse Kelly six o'clock,
and then the We got a great new show every
night at nine Jimmy Fala nine at midnight on seven ten, Wor.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Houster, New York, Mark Simone.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Wor Hey, we're out of time.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Thank god.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
This is enough excitement for one day. And now don't
go away. Buck and Clay are coming up next. They
got an excellent show for you right after the news.
I'll be back tomorrow. Every weekday ten to noon, right
here on seven ten Woir
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