December 16, 2025 • 33 mins
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer faces criticism for saying “Go Bills” before addressing Australia’s recent mass shooting tragedy. Howard Stern remains with Sirius XM, but with new conditions to his contract. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews former NYC mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa. Curtis reflects on his experiences and adjustments since losing the NYC mayoral election, sharing insights into his personal and professional life. He discusses Andrew Cuomo’s continued presence in the political arena and reveals that he will be filling in for Mark Simone for two weeks on 710 WOR beginning December 22nd.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
On seventeen wr he it's more of the marks emosia.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Well, a lot going on. So Nick Reiner, son of
Rob Reiner, should be in court for his first court
appearance later today. We'll see what happens there. There were
other people at that party the night before the Conan
O'Brien Christmas party. Jane Fonda was there and she tweets.
Rob and Michelle Reiner were wonderful, caring, smart, funny, generous people,
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always coming up with ideas for how to make the
world better kinder. Now that brings us back to the
question again. I talked to Rob Reiner a many many times.
He was a warm, fun sweet guy. So why when
it came to the Trump derangement syndrome was he so vicious?
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If you look at my Twitter, there's a montage of
his tweets. I mean, they weren't just I don't like Trump,
I disagree with him on this, I don't think he's
right about this, or I hate when Trump does. They
were vicious, the F word, cursing and screaming, calling him
an f in rapist of this, I mean, just the worst,
hate filled And it's not just him, Many of these people,
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many Hollywood types that you know and love and they're
lovable and sweet, and then when they get on the
subject of Trump, they become these raging, angry, vicious people.
What is it about Trump that does that? I mean,
we didn't like Joe Biden so much, but you didn't
get no rage about it. And you said, you know,
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he made fun of Biden bumping into walls and the
way he talked and hated his policy on the border,
and he didn't like Biden's law there. But you know,
they didn't stay up all night raging about it. We
didn't get into a There wasn't smoke coming out of
your ears, foam coming out of your mouth in a
mad rage talking about it. We just didn't like that guy.
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But and again Rob Reiner is a good example of
a very sweet, warm guy. Why how did he get
himself into such a rage about Trump? It's not just politics,
as I was saying before, he did a lot of
great work in politics. For many years before that. He
was working on programs for kids and children in trouble,
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and he worked with the governor of California, not Newsome,
whoever it was back then, and the governor was so
impressed with this work He put him in the head
of a committee and a commission, and Rob Reiner would
fly to a Sacramento to meet with the governor every
month and did excellent work of political work. You know,
whether he agreed with him or not, but he was
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very reasonable guy who talked reasonably. That he'd run the
committee commission meetings. But when it came to Trump a
raging maniac about it. I don't know what that's just
him again. You see this all over. Check out some
of your favorite star on Facebook or Twitter or they're
like nuts when they talk about Trump. I don't know.
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He just sets them off, and I don't nobody's ever
been able to really explain it now.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Susie Wiles is the chief of staff in the White House.
She's been excellent, best person Trump has had around him.
She's been in politics for a long time. She worked
for DeSantis, she worked in the Reagan administration back then.
She was Susie Summer All. Her father was Pat Summer. All.
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Susie Wiles great and she stays behind the scenes, she
stays under the radar. She's not looking for any attention
or publicity. But she did this big interview with Vanity
Fair where she sat down with this big Vanity Fair
writer for like eleven hours and eleven different sessions. I
don't know why. Now, the guy does have a history
of covering chiefs of staff and has written extensively about them.
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But on the other hand, the guy's a bit Trump hater.
It's Vanity Fair. He's a you know, left wing Trump
arrangement syndrome type. I don't know why she sent down
with him, but she did, and a big, long interview
has come out. There's stuff in there that people are
a little surprised by. It just seemed like things you
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wouldn't want to say publicly. She said, you know, she's
talking about JD. Vance. She said, well, he was always
a conspiracy theorist. And she's talking about revenge, you know,
law fair And I've tried to get Trump to stop
the law fair, to stop the revenge, stop going after
his enemies, and I tried to stop. You know, why
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would you say this to Vanity Fair. Then at one
point she said, he's got an alcoholic personality in that
like an alcoholic when they're in that stage, they think
they can do anything. They believe they could get away
with anything, do anything. I mean, I don't know why
she would say this stuff. Now it wasn't an off
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the record interview, or maybe it wasn't. The guy violated it,
but she hasn't said that. At one point she denied
one of these comments. She said, well, I didn't actually
say that, and then the guy produced a tape of
her saying, Now, what's made it even worse? If you
read the Vanity Fair lengthy article, most of it, although
some of it's negative, it's quite thoughtful and negative. But
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the problem is, I guess they gave it to the
New York Times to write an article about the Vanity
Fair interview, and the New York Times guy when he
wrote it, because it's the New York Times, completely distorted it.
He took quotes out of context, and he made everything
sound fifty times worse than it actually was in the interview.
But the problem is most people don't read Vanity Fair.
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You got to have a subscription and pay for its people.
Most of the world does not read Vanity Fair. Very
few people actually do. A lot of people read the
New York Times, so more people will just read the
New York Times summary of the interview, and it's really
taken out of context. Slanted, bias, distorted, So that's going
to make it sound even worse. I mean, President Trump
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won't like it when he reads it, but somebody will
have printed out the Vanity Fair article, the actual article,
and handed it to him. He'll see that it looks
a little better. There. What else is she saying there?
She said he didn't know Kallaine Maxwell got moved to
a nicer prison and he wasn't happy about it. Well,
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I mean, if he was that unhappy, he could have
moved her back. But it's just not stuff you say,
especially if you're Susie wils who's an old Washington hand
who knows how things work. Yeah, it's one thing that
was Remember Anthony Scaramucci got himself in trouble. I don't
know why, but he started talking to the New York Times.
He thought it was off the record. He said awful things,
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and well, oh, actually what happened was he said all
this awful stuff and then at the end of the
call he said, by the way, this is off the record.
Well he was an amateur at this, you know, coming
to Washington working in the White House politics, total amateur.
So he didn't know how things worked. He didn't know that.
You can't say at the end of the call it's
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off the record. You have to get that set before
you start talking. That has to be done at the beginning.
So he didn't realize and at the end he said,
this is off the record. Well it's too late. Then
he didn't know that, so and then it got him fired.
He was I think they set the all time record
for shortest employment in the White House. It was just
like a couple of days. And as they said, he
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got fired before the first direct deposit even got to
his bank account for getting paid. Hey, Chuck Schumer has
become the most annoying guy in the world. There's this
video that's gone viral from the weekend where he's talked
what was he talking about. He was talking about the
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brown shooting or the terrible tragedy in Australia, and he
was just awful about it, so tone deaf and weird.
He's just a cheap, fake, pandering politician. So he wants
to address the terrible tragedy. But listen to this guy,
Listen to this. This is just how bad he's become. Listen.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Of course, I'm gonna say a few words about the
terrible shooting in Sydney, Australia. Okay, so in first, of course,
as I always say, no matter what, go Bills. They
beat the Patriots today, it's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Everybody thought that was just awful. He's supposed to be
addressing this terrible shooting, this massacre in US, but before that,
let's go Bill. He started talking about football game, and
everybody knows this guy's not a football fan. This guy's
never watched a football game in his life. He just
needs Upstate voters, so he's pandering. He has no interest
in the in the Buffalo Bills. And then he had
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the nerve to say this yesterday. He's just the phoniest
guy in the world.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Listening to this and this tragedy in Sydney shows the
abject danger of letting anti Semitic propaganda, rhetoric and action
go unchecked.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
He's the guy that did that. He's the king of that.
You remember when Jewish students were being terrorized at Columbia
University physically and mentally, the Jewish students living in fear
being terrorized. Remember the anti Semitis were marching all over
the campus. Schumer went and hid, never said a word.
In fact, people were yelling and screaming publicly, where's Chuck Schumer?
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Why doesn't he do something? He never did, never did
anything the whole time that went on for six months,
the horrors of anti Semitism all over New York, at NYU,
at Columbia, everywhere. Schumer ran and hid, just didn't do
a damned thing about it. So for him to have
the nerve to say this.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
And this tragedy in Sydney shows the abject danger of
letting anti Semitic propaganda, rhetoric and action go unchecked.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Well, Schumer's the king of doing that. Oh but he
did it more than Schumer. So the gall of this
guy is just unbelievable. Oh, Howard Stern contract is up.
It's up tomorrow. That's the end of the Howard Stern contract.
You know, he had five year contracts, one after the
other with Sirious. When he left Terrestrial Radio went over
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to Sirius. It was for a massive, crazy amount of money.
What was it hundred million a year? It was one
hundred million a year I think. And then over the
years his audience dwindled a little. They didn't quite need
him as much anymore. And there was a period of
was it five years ago or ten years They decided
to cut him back from one hundred to like fifty
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million a year. So the compromise was, instead of five
days a week, he would do three days a week
and he would get a lot more vacation. So they
cut him to fifty million. The contracts up. They don't
really need him anymore. He had a lot of listeners
in the beginning, but when he went totally woke, crazy
trumped arrangement syndrome, he lost an enormous amount of his
(11:01):
audience and very very very big loss of audience. So
the subscribers are just a fraction of what they were.
So they really don't want to pay them all that
money anymore, so there was a massive pay cut coming
or just get rid of them all together. Well, they've
been in talks and they reached an agreement over the weekend.
Howard Stern will stay. Now he's being very fuzzy about
(11:26):
how he's staying. He just said, signed a new contract
and I've decided to stay another three years. And he
said I was able to win it all, get it all,
get everything I want. And then he kept talking about
free time, how free time is the most valuable thing.
He wants his free time. He said, I've worked all
my life. I need me time, free time to do
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what I want. Well, it's a three year contract, which
is less than five years. When they cut the length
of the contract down, that's a lack of confidence. Now,
the most insulting thing you can get in broadcasting is
a one year contract. They didn't do that to him,
and he knows that's too insulting, that would be humiliating.
So he got a three year contract. They wouldn't give
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him a five year deal. They got a three year deal.
And nobody knows the details. Some are speculating he's going
to work one day a week. That he's taken a
massive pay cut, and so in exchange for that, it'll
be something like one day a week or something like that.
He already in the last contract when he took the
huge pay cut, went to some ridiculous amount of vacation time.
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It's like thirty weeks of vacation a year. So this
will probably be like one day, two days a week,
very few weeks a year. They have the right to
all his old shows. He's got a ton of old shows.
I think they have the rights to him for the
next twelve years, so they'll still be a stern channel,
but it'll be very few live shows. The details again,
(12:51):
the fact that he's not explaining the details means they're
not impressive to him. So we'll see. Hey, the healthcare
situation got to do something. Healthcare costs are scheduled to
just explode increase. Everybody'll paying a lot more for healthcare.
It's because of Obamacare turned out not to work. The
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whole idea of Obamacare was a disaster for two reasons. One,
if you have the government take over a business, it's
going to cost a lot more money because government is
all bloat, waste, fraud. So if the private sector were
running healthcare, they would streamline it get the cost down.
If you put it all into government running, it cost
go way up. The other problem was the idea of
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Obamacare was you'd force or you'd force everybody on it. Now,
older people use a lot of healthcare. They got all
kinds of serious medical things that costs a fortune, So
the insurance comps got to pay a fortune for these
older people. But the idea was you get all the
younger people, people in the twenties thirties, They never get
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any healthcare. They don't need anything, so they're paying in
and taking nothing. So all the money they're paying in
will pay for the old people who were taking money out. Well,
that idea of forcing everybody on it didn't pass. They
couldn't get that through, so the younger people are not
forced to be on it. And younger people twenties, thirties,
they don't need health care coverage. They don't ever have
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any big healthcare needs, so they weren't buying Obamacare. They
didn't buy it, they rejected it. So all you had
were the older people taking money out. You didn't have
the younger people putting money in, so the whole thing
fell apart. That's why they're talking about subsidies. You know,
it was called the Affordable Care Act, but it got
so out of control that nobody could afford it, so
you had to have subsidies to pay for it. Obviously
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it was affordable, you wouldn't need the subsidies, So Democrats
would like to just keep the subsidies, keep the taxpayers
funding it. But Trump, and he's probably right about this,
is you got to redo this whole thing. You got
to get the government out of it, You got to
make it efficient and make it work, so make the
cost not astronomical. Then you got the crazy Democrats, Hakeem Jeffreys.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
All we need are four House Republicans to join us.
They're two hundred and twenty of them. All we need
are four and we can extend the Affordable Care Act
tax credits in a straightforward fashion.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah. Now, Democrats don't mind big bloated government programs. You know,
Republicans too. Most of these Republicans just as bad as
the Democrats. They like these big bloated government programs. Why
because big bloated government programs. While that means contracts, to
hand out massive contracts, you hand it out the donors
to people you want to have become donors. You can
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make a lot of money for your campaign and for
your packs with these contracts. So that's why they like it. Hey,
I saw Bruce Blakeman yesterday. He got a very good
chance to be the next governor of New York. He's
the perfect choice to be the next governor of New York.
News Max had a great Christmas party yesterday. Bruce Blakeman
came later in the party and everybody applauding him. They
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love this guy's gonna do very well in the governor's
race January, which is January twelfth, I think it is
a few weeks from now he gets inaugurated again's second
term as county executive. Now, President Trump likes Elise Stefanic
and he loves Bruce Blakeman. Been close to Blakeman for years.
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He has said all kinds of wonderful things about Elise
Stefanic and was back in her. But now with Blakeman
in the race, what does he do? I don't know.
I don't know. Now they're both great. But Elise Stephonic
is a legislator. She's a great talker. You put her
on those congressional committees. She's a great interrogator. Voy does
she tear into people. But that's her talent. Blakeman, on
the on the other hand, his talents are what you
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need in the governor. He is a governor now he's
the governor of Nassau County. He's a manager. He runs things.
That's what it's really what the governor's job is. It's
it's you know, you don't always want a legislator in
that job. You want a manager. And that's Blakeman. So
to me be the much better choice for that. Hey,
we'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three to two
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one zero seven ten is the number eight hundred three
to two one zero seven ten.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
It hits in.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Access to Mark by setting a freeset in the iHeartRadio
app for his live show and his podcast.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Now back to the Mark Simone Show on woor.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to uh Steve
in White Plains, Steve, how you doing?
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Merry Christmas? Mark?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Thanks Steve.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Mark. The Democrats caused most of these issues with healthcare,
and over the last ten to fifteen years they have
been very successful at convincing the American public, at least
according to all the polls. I see that it was
the Republican's fault for all these healthcare issues that we're having.
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And if the Republicans don't do something to extend the
subsidies or something else quick and healthcare costs increase, like
they will forget the midterms. Am I missing something here?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yes? Too early to work. There are a million years
from now. The whole landscape will change eight times before
the midterms. Hey, let me ask you a better question.
Are you a former radio guy? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
You asked me that usually.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
When I call it, well, you sound like a radio
sort of announce here. You either that or your car salesman.
Which is it?
Speaker 5 (18:27):
No, I did radio for thirty five years.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Oh okay, do you have that radio sound or Lexus
salesman Lexus of West Yes.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
I don't like the salesman concept.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
No, definitely not. All right, Well, you sound great, Thanks
for calling. Let's go to Chris and Queen's Chris, how
you doing?
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Hey, Mark, the big fan for.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
I can't believe that they're talking about a long time
what do you call it?
Speaker 5 (19:00):
But they don't give anything.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Well, I don't know what you said, but as long
as you did, you got your point across the k. Yes,
you made your point. We don't know what it is,
but you made it. That's important. Let's go to uh
Dave in Chicago. Dave, how you doing?
Speaker 7 (19:16):
Good morning?
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Mark. I'm doing very well. Thank you, Mark.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
If I had the capability to be an advisor to
suse you whiles, I would recommend that she'd go on
Fox News channel and asks Sean aunt Hannity to interview her,
and knowing Sean, he would probably give her the full hour.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Well, yeah, he's saying, you know, to explain this vanity
fair piece, I don't know. The better better idea might
be just let it go. Uh, don't waste too much
time on it. It's it's good fighter for MSNBC and
the Trump Arrangement syndrome crowd. But it'll burn out on
its own by after a day or two. Let's go
to Pam and Patterson. Pam, how you doing?
Speaker 7 (19:55):
Hey, I have answers to your two questions.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
Rob Ryer's son went back to that hotel room after
the murders. Yeah, I had heard that. Yeah, And so
I think he brought some of the blood back with
him on a sheet or whatever and kind of swathed
himself in it like a serial killer, because that's part
of the control, Like, look, I got control of you.
That's something a serial killer would do. And then second
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I think, oh god, I'm running a blank here. Oh
and in terms of why his father would be so
vitriolic all of a sudden, while everybody describes him as
so sweet, well, perhaps the apple doesn't fall far from
the tree. Well, did you get my drift?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
It's not just him, there's a lot. Well, we all
know people like this. They're nice, sweet normal people. You
get him on the subjec of Trump. They're like vicious,
hate filled maniacs when they talk about Trump. It's it's
just unbelievable.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
But perhaps he was that way with his family at times,
and we don't know about it. A lot of people
hide that.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
You know, well, well, I don't know. The other kids
look pretty nice. The rest of the family looks pretty nice.
They all I don't know. I'm not a psychiatrist, but
you know who is Curtis Leiwell, we'll talk to him next,
Curtis next. We had a lot of questions to ask
him now that the mayoral race is totally over, completely over.
It's a few things I want to we'll well, we'll
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get to that next on seven to ten w R.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
It's more of Mark Simone on seven tenor.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Well, ladies and gentlemen, the man who should be the
mayor of New York right now A Curtis Lee Well,
of course, also one of the great radio hosts of
the last few decades, had the number one morning show
for many, many, many, many many years, and he'll be
filling in for me. I'll be off the last two
weeks of the year next week and the week after, Curtis,
we'll be filling in ten to noon every weekday, and
he's with us. Now, Curtis sliwa, how you doing?
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Oh great now that you've given me an opportunity to
let my voice be heard on my favorite radio station,
w R. Nope, he doesn't get any better than this, Mark,
because obviously you lead and everybody else follow. So I
know you've got a huge following because all during the campaign,
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people would stop me wherever I was going and says, well,
Mark's talking about you. Now. I didn't get that from
any other radio station or any other talk program.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Hey, now that it's all over, let me ask you
about this campaign. First of all, Now, obviously you could win.
You could out talk everybody in the race. You got
a much longer career resume than mom Donnie. But they
started this mantra he can't win, Curtis can't win. Curtis
can't win. They just drilled this into people. I heard
people start repeating it like it's true. It was ridiculous.
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How did that ever get started?
Speaker 6 (22:49):
But actually got started right after Andrew Cuomo tossed in
the towel because he got so badly beaten in the
primary that. If you remember Mark, when he had the
race on March first, he was at forty percent in
the Democratic polls, Zorhan Mandammi was last at one percent.
By the time of June twenty four, they hadn't even
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counted the rank choice of votes, yet he lost by
thirteen percent and it was no Moss.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Now.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
The big savior then was gonna be Eric Adams. They
were gonna somehow resurrect the crook out of the grave
and put, you know, put a new set of clothes
on him and say, oh no, he's a new Eric Adams.
And the people didn't buy it. And then every day thereafter,
the masters of the universe, the billionaires, the influences, the
insiders kept this dropout game. Dropout, you got to drop out.
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So it became very difficult Mark to engage in any
kind of conversation because the first question I'd have to
ask every day. Answer every day was no, I'm not
dropping out. They bribed me, people were threatening to kill me,
my wife, Dohmed, my staff, and I said, no, I'm
not dropping out. And I lived up to that until
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November fourth, where clearly Johan Mandami was elected mayor of
the city of New York by the people of New York.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yeah, now here's a better question. You knew Andrew Cuomo
can't win. I knew he can't win. He was a
terrible governor. He did awful things as governor. Everybody can't
stand the guy. But he went around for the three
or four years to every big donor, every big Upper
East Side Southampton, all this craft, and he convinced them
that only he could win. And these are otherwise very
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smart people. How did they fall for this nonsense? They
actually convinced themselves only he can win.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
Look, Mark, there's nobody better connected than you with all
the heavy hitters in New York, whether it's the Hampton's
or in New York City or around America. They may
be good on Wall Street, but they know nothing about
the streets in New York City. And by the way,
they know nothing about politics. As was evidence, they backed
Clomo in the primary, he lost, then they backed Derek Adams,
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then they went back to back in Clomo. Look, they
may invest your money. Well in a hedge funt, you'll actmen,
actman every day. This guy would tweet out ten and
fifty two words in his midlife crisis. But they couldn't
have been more hopelessly wrong, and clearly they At first
they disparaged Cuomo when he lost to Dami, then they
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revived him, and all they kept doing was supporting Democrats.
So I guess what you got what you wanted, Johann Mondommi.
You just strengthened him and Mark. What was that love
class between Donald Trump the President and Johan Mondomie at
the White House? Come on, they played us. We were
played all during the campaign.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
So what do you think Mondanni? I? Somehow I still
think maybe he was counting the socialists. Maybe, and maybe
he's not as bad as we think. What do you think?
Speaker 6 (25:48):
Well, look, he is what he is. He has not surrendered,
he has not retreated. He is an idea log. Everybody
who gets elected mayors entitled to a grace period. He'll
have his grace period. But unlike everybody else in fear
frightened stereo shirt, I'm selling my prisoners. I'm moving the Florida. Hey,
where have they gone? Mark is still here? Are you kidding?
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Having backdoor meetings with Rohaimandami? So the fact is, I'm improved,
o't And by the way, may I compliment you for
a second, Mark, because you're going on this well deserved vacation.
What are they gonna do over your competition? You realize
that Greg Kelly for years would listen to your program
before he would come on, uh in the twelve o'clock hour.
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Basically you would do his show prep for him, like
Comedian's up in the porch belt. They used to steal
jokes from one another.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Wow, but does a great show?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
They do it you away, but we all.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Listen to each other. We all take from each other.
It's it's so but now.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
Come on, Mark, But you're the best. That's why they
do it from you. They know that.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Then you got to you gotta do a good job
in the next two weeks. Curtis will be filling in
for me the next two weeks. Now you have done.
They used to make fun of how many hours you'd
be on the radio twenty hours a day, fourteen hours
a day six Will you be able to fit it
into just two hours a day?
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Yeah, Oh, there's no doubt about it. Hey. Look, there
was a time at WABC, as you know, because you
and I we were together there doing the morning show
with Ron Koby whose mommy is a comedy who was
the predecessor to Johan Mandami. Yeah, I mean you wanted
to know what Oran Mandami was. Look, that was Don
Coopy and the three of us would sit in that
(27:25):
room doing the morning show. That was total chaos.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
I don't know how you. I don't know how you
survived that much.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I forgot you. Yeah, you two weren't talking for about
six months. I had to like host the uh or
be the moderator of the show while you two were there.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
But it's it's much better doing the show by yourself,
isn't it. It's always much better.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
Oh yeah, and I and I insisted on that. I
had always done shows that partners, and I insisted that no,
if I'm the do talk radio anymore, it's gonna be solo.
I will either sink or swim based on what I say,
not be on what my partners say. But boy, you
deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. Every morning for four hours,
(28:07):
Mark Simone the referee between Ron Koby who was Doorhan
Mondomi before he was even born and Curtis Sleewan, and
I mean it got hey, it got pretty hot and
heavy there. You almost had to put in a nine
one one call sometimes.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
So well, next week will be You'll have fun here.
If you've come up, you've seen the studio, you've visited,
you've in fact, a lot of your old coworkers were
here when you came. Right.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Well, let me let me tell you something for people
who don't know. Because War was the first radio station
I was ever interviewed on. I was the newspaper boy
of the year. I had gone Washington d C got
an award for Richard Nixon, and my first interview was
with Arlene Frances whoa did the afternoons mid to mid days,
and I got the bug. You know what it's like.
(28:57):
You had the bug for years. I've had the bug.
And then when Bob Grant went to War, I mean
it was a continuation. And by the way, I remember
when I transported all of his items from WABC where
they exiled him to wr and then he kicked off
books over at WABC. You remember that you worked with
him at WBCA, back with R. Peter Strauss and Ellen.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
That's true, although Bob Grant and I didn't get along.
So Bob Grant was a complicated guy. I think you'd agree.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Off the air, Oh, no doubt about it. But let
me tell you something. He was magic on the radio.
And that's all it counts. Yeah, that's all it counts.
And that's what you've been for so many years, Mark Simon.
So to be able to substitute for you while away,
I mean, it doesn't get any better than that. And
I listened to wo R Now you got a lot
of great shows. I have no reason to listen to
(29:48):
anything else, including always blaming Curtis WABC the station.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
But since you announced you're going to be here, did
they contact you? Have you heard from anybody there?
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (30:00):
They're worried, aren't They're worried because remember, I haven't told
the true story of what went on there, all that
drop out you got to drop out? Where do you
think it started?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Mark?
Speaker 6 (30:11):
It started at WABC, And there are a lot of
bones buried there. And the question is, in the two
weeks that you've given me the opportunity of management at
WOR and iheartnesscepstitute for you, will I dig up any
of those bones and air the trunk of what went
on during the most historical and unprecedented Mayor Old campaign
(30:33):
in the history of New York City politics.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Well, I wouldn't go after them. But I can't just
blame them. I heard this from every Upper east Side idiot,
every Hedge fund idiot. Curtis can't win, Curtis Kit, that
was ridiculous. He's got to drop out. It was ridiculous.
And as you say, these guys made billions at what
they know and have never made a penny given political
advice to anybody.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
So, by the way, where's their friend Andrew Cuomo? Where
is he?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Wait?
Speaker 6 (31:00):
You go? As he fled to Barda like he said
he would do if Jore on Monday got elected. Man,
come on, Mark, you know everything? Where is into?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
I think they now realized we were right. This guy
couldn't win anything anymore. And I don't think we're done
with him. He'll try and come back again. But hey,
we're out of time. But everybody listen. Next week, for
the next two weeks, Curtis Lee will be filling in
for me ten to noon, curtisly with ten to noon.
Be listening, and of course follow him on Instagram and
Twitter and all of that. So well, Curtis, good luck
(31:32):
next week. I'll be listening, have a good time.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
Well, thank you. I know where all the bones are
buried them to bury them, and I may be digging
them up for the two weeks that you're away.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
All right, we'll talk to you again soon. Thanks. Take care,
h Thank you Mark. Thanks. Yeah, make sure next week.
I'll be off next week, in the week after. I've
been taking the next two weeks off. Final two weeks
the year by Christmas break. Curtis will be here every morning.
This should be really interesting stuff. Curtis every morning for
the next two weeks, ten to noon here on seven
(32:03):
to ten. Wr mister new yours marximone, you're the best. Well,
let's see. Nick Reiner, the son of Rob Reiner, is
expected to be in court at any moment. Right, that's
(32:23):
noon here. It's so, it's nine o'clock in Los Angeles,
nine in the morning. The very secretive about everything, the
Los Angeles police. Even when the word came out that
two dead bodies were found at Rob Briiner's house, they
wouldn't say it was him and his wife. They kept
that quote. So they keep everything very quiet. But they've
arrested Nick Reiner and he's expected to be brought into
(32:47):
court today, first time in court. They will arraign him.
They will formally charge him. He's being held in isolation.
He's on suicide watch. So you may see some video
of this at any moment, appearing on TV. They we're
out of time. I'll be back tomorrow ten to noon.
And remember, if you can't listen ten to noon, get
the podcast. You can hear the show anytime you want.
(33:08):
Dare night, but I'll be back tomorrow ten. I'll talk
to you then on seven ten WR
On seventeen wr he it's more of the marks emosia.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Well, a lot going on. So Nick Reiner, son of
Rob Reiner, should be in court for his first court
appearance later today. We'll see what happens there. There were
other people at that party the night before the Conan
O'Brien Christmas party. Jane Fonda was there and she tweets.
Rob and Michelle Reiner were wonderful, caring, smart, funny, generous people,
(00:32):
always coming up with ideas for how to make the
world better kinder. Now that brings us back to the
question again. I talked to Rob Reiner a many many times.
He was a warm, fun sweet guy. So why when
it came to the Trump derangement syndrome was he so vicious?
(00:53):
If you look at my Twitter, there's a montage of
his tweets. I mean, they weren't just I don't like Trump,
I disagree with him on this, I don't think he's
right about this, or I hate when Trump does. They
were vicious, the F word, cursing and screaming, calling him
an f in rapist of this, I mean, just the worst,
hate filled And it's not just him, Many of these people,
(01:16):
many Hollywood types that you know and love and they're
lovable and sweet, and then when they get on the
subject of Trump, they become these raging, angry, vicious people.
What is it about Trump that does that? I mean,
we didn't like Joe Biden so much, but you didn't
get no rage about it. And you said, you know,
(01:37):
he made fun of Biden bumping into walls and the
way he talked and hated his policy on the border,
and he didn't like Biden's law there. But you know,
they didn't stay up all night raging about it. We
didn't get into a There wasn't smoke coming out of
your ears, foam coming out of your mouth in a
mad rage talking about it. We just didn't like that guy.
(01:59):
But and again Rob Reiner is a good example of
a very sweet, warm guy. Why how did he get
himself into such a rage about Trump? It's not just politics,
as I was saying before, he did a lot of
great work in politics. For many years before that. He
was working on programs for kids and children in trouble,
(02:22):
and he worked with the governor of California, not Newsome,
whoever it was back then, and the governor was so
impressed with this work He put him in the head
of a committee and a commission, and Rob Reiner would
fly to a Sacramento to meet with the governor every
month and did excellent work of political work. You know,
whether he agreed with him or not, but he was
(02:43):
very reasonable guy who talked reasonably. That he'd run the
committee commission meetings. But when it came to Trump a
raging maniac about it. I don't know what that's just
him again. You see this all over. Check out some
of your favorite star on Facebook or Twitter or they're
like nuts when they talk about Trump. I don't know.
(03:07):
He just sets them off, and I don't nobody's ever
been able to really explain it now.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Susie Wiles is the chief of staff in the White House.
She's been excellent, best person Trump has had around him.
She's been in politics for a long time. She worked
for DeSantis, she worked in the Reagan administration back then.
She was Susie Summer All. Her father was Pat Summer. All.
(03:34):
Susie Wiles great and she stays behind the scenes, she
stays under the radar. She's not looking for any attention
or publicity. But she did this big interview with Vanity
Fair where she sat down with this big Vanity Fair
writer for like eleven hours and eleven different sessions. I
don't know why. Now, the guy does have a history
of covering chiefs of staff and has written extensively about them.
(03:58):
But on the other hand, the guy's a bit Trump hater.
It's Vanity Fair. He's a you know, left wing Trump
arrangement syndrome type. I don't know why she sent down
with him, but she did, and a big, long interview
has come out. There's stuff in there that people are
a little surprised by. It just seemed like things you
(04:19):
wouldn't want to say publicly. She said, you know, she's
talking about JD. Vance. She said, well, he was always
a conspiracy theorist. And she's talking about revenge, you know,
law fair And I've tried to get Trump to stop
the law fair, to stop the revenge, stop going after
his enemies, and I tried to stop. You know, why
(04:40):
would you say this to Vanity Fair. Then at one
point she said, he's got an alcoholic personality in that
like an alcoholic when they're in that stage, they think
they can do anything. They believe they could get away
with anything, do anything. I mean, I don't know why
she would say this stuff. Now it wasn't an off
(05:01):
the record interview, or maybe it wasn't. The guy violated it,
but she hasn't said that. At one point she denied
one of these comments. She said, well, I didn't actually
say that, and then the guy produced a tape of
her saying, Now, what's made it even worse? If you
read the Vanity Fair lengthy article, most of it, although
some of it's negative, it's quite thoughtful and negative. But
(05:23):
the problem is, I guess they gave it to the
New York Times to write an article about the Vanity
Fair interview, and the New York Times guy when he
wrote it, because it's the New York Times, completely distorted it.
He took quotes out of context, and he made everything
sound fifty times worse than it actually was in the interview.
But the problem is most people don't read Vanity Fair.
(05:45):
You got to have a subscription and pay for its people.
Most of the world does not read Vanity Fair. Very
few people actually do. A lot of people read the
New York Times, so more people will just read the
New York Times summary of the interview, and it's really
taken out of context. Slanted, bias, distorted, So that's going
to make it sound even worse. I mean, President Trump
(06:05):
won't like it when he reads it, but somebody will
have printed out the Vanity Fair article, the actual article,
and handed it to him. He'll see that it looks
a little better. There. What else is she saying there?
She said he didn't know Kallaine Maxwell got moved to
a nicer prison and he wasn't happy about it. Well,
(06:26):
I mean, if he was that unhappy, he could have
moved her back. But it's just not stuff you say,
especially if you're Susie wils who's an old Washington hand
who knows how things work. Yeah, it's one thing that
was Remember Anthony Scaramucci got himself in trouble. I don't
know why, but he started talking to the New York Times.
He thought it was off the record. He said awful things,
(06:46):
and well, oh, actually what happened was he said all
this awful stuff and then at the end of the
call he said, by the way, this is off the record.
Well he was an amateur at this, you know, coming
to Washington working in the White House politics, total amateur.
So he didn't know how things worked. He didn't know that.
You can't say at the end of the call it's
(07:08):
off the record. You have to get that set before
you start talking. That has to be done at the beginning.
So he didn't realize and at the end he said,
this is off the record. Well it's too late. Then
he didn't know that, so and then it got him fired.
He was I think they set the all time record
for shortest employment in the White House. It was just
like a couple of days. And as they said, he
(07:30):
got fired before the first direct deposit even got to
his bank account for getting paid. Hey, Chuck Schumer has
become the most annoying guy in the world. There's this
video that's gone viral from the weekend where he's talked
what was he talking about. He was talking about the
(07:51):
brown shooting or the terrible tragedy in Australia, and he
was just awful about it, so tone deaf and weird.
He's just a cheap, fake, pandering politician. So he wants
to address the terrible tragedy. But listen to this guy,
Listen to this. This is just how bad he's become. Listen.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Of course, I'm gonna say a few words about the
terrible shooting in Sydney, Australia. Okay, so in first, of course,
as I always say, no matter what, go Bills. They
beat the Patriots today, it's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Everybody thought that was just awful. He's supposed to be
addressing this terrible shooting, this massacre in US, but before that,
let's go Bill. He started talking about football game, and
everybody knows this guy's not a football fan. This guy's
never watched a football game in his life. He just
needs Upstate voters, so he's pandering. He has no interest
in the in the Buffalo Bills. And then he had
(08:48):
the nerve to say this yesterday. He's just the phoniest
guy in the world.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Listening to this and this tragedy in Sydney shows the
abject danger of letting anti Semitic propaganda, rhetoric and action
go unchecked.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
He's the guy that did that. He's the king of that.
You remember when Jewish students were being terrorized at Columbia
University physically and mentally, the Jewish students living in fear
being terrorized. Remember the anti Semitis were marching all over
the campus. Schumer went and hid, never said a word.
In fact, people were yelling and screaming publicly, where's Chuck Schumer?
(09:28):
Why doesn't he do something? He never did, never did
anything the whole time that went on for six months,
the horrors of anti Semitism all over New York, at NYU,
at Columbia, everywhere. Schumer ran and hid, just didn't do
a damned thing about it. So for him to have
the nerve to say this.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
And this tragedy in Sydney shows the abject danger of
letting anti Semitic propaganda, rhetoric and action go unchecked.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Well, Schumer's the king of doing that. Oh but he
did it more than Schumer. So the gall of this
guy is just unbelievable. Oh, Howard Stern contract is up.
It's up tomorrow. That's the end of the Howard Stern contract.
You know, he had five year contracts, one after the
other with Sirious. When he left Terrestrial Radio went over
(10:20):
to Sirius. It was for a massive, crazy amount of money.
What was it hundred million a year? It was one
hundred million a year I think. And then over the
years his audience dwindled a little. They didn't quite need
him as much anymore. And there was a period of
was it five years ago or ten years They decided
to cut him back from one hundred to like fifty
(10:41):
million a year. So the compromise was, instead of five
days a week, he would do three days a week
and he would get a lot more vacation. So they
cut him to fifty million. The contracts up. They don't
really need him anymore. He had a lot of listeners
in the beginning, but when he went totally woke, crazy
trumped arrangement syndrome, he lost an enormous amount of his
(11:01):
audience and very very very big loss of audience. So
the subscribers are just a fraction of what they were.
So they really don't want to pay them all that
money anymore, so there was a massive pay cut coming
or just get rid of them all together. Well, they've
been in talks and they reached an agreement over the weekend.
Howard Stern will stay. Now he's being very fuzzy about
(11:26):
how he's staying. He just said, signed a new contract
and I've decided to stay another three years. And he
said I was able to win it all, get it all,
get everything I want. And then he kept talking about
free time, how free time is the most valuable thing.
He wants his free time. He said, I've worked all
my life. I need me time, free time to do
(11:48):
what I want. Well, it's a three year contract, which
is less than five years. When they cut the length
of the contract down, that's a lack of confidence. Now,
the most insulting thing you can get in broadcasting is
a one year contract. They didn't do that to him,
and he knows that's too insulting, that would be humiliating.
So he got a three year contract. They wouldn't give
(12:10):
him a five year deal. They got a three year deal.
And nobody knows the details. Some are speculating he's going
to work one day a week. That he's taken a
massive pay cut, and so in exchange for that, it'll
be something like one day a week or something like that.
He already in the last contract when he took the
huge pay cut, went to some ridiculous amount of vacation time.
(12:31):
It's like thirty weeks of vacation a year. So this
will probably be like one day, two days a week,
very few weeks a year. They have the right to
all his old shows. He's got a ton of old shows.
I think they have the rights to him for the
next twelve years, so they'll still be a stern channel,
but it'll be very few live shows. The details again,
(12:51):
the fact that he's not explaining the details means they're
not impressive to him. So we'll see. Hey, the healthcare
situation got to do something. Healthcare costs are scheduled to
just explode increase. Everybody'll paying a lot more for healthcare.
It's because of Obamacare turned out not to work. The
(13:13):
whole idea of Obamacare was a disaster for two reasons. One,
if you have the government take over a business, it's
going to cost a lot more money because government is
all bloat, waste, fraud. So if the private sector were
running healthcare, they would streamline it get the cost down.
If you put it all into government running, it cost
go way up. The other problem was the idea of
(13:35):
Obamacare was you'd force or you'd force everybody on it. Now,
older people use a lot of healthcare. They got all
kinds of serious medical things that costs a fortune, So
the insurance comps got to pay a fortune for these
older people. But the idea was you get all the
younger people, people in the twenties thirties, They never get
(13:56):
any healthcare. They don't need anything, so they're paying in
and taking nothing. So all the money they're paying in
will pay for the old people who were taking money out. Well,
that idea of forcing everybody on it didn't pass. They
couldn't get that through, so the younger people are not
forced to be on it. And younger people twenties, thirties,
they don't need health care coverage. They don't ever have
(14:18):
any big healthcare needs, so they weren't buying Obamacare. They
didn't buy it, they rejected it. So all you had
were the older people taking money out. You didn't have
the younger people putting money in, so the whole thing
fell apart. That's why they're talking about subsidies. You know,
it was called the Affordable Care Act, but it got
so out of control that nobody could afford it, so
you had to have subsidies to pay for it. Obviously
(14:39):
it was affordable, you wouldn't need the subsidies, So Democrats
would like to just keep the subsidies, keep the taxpayers
funding it. But Trump, and he's probably right about this,
is you got to redo this whole thing. You got
to get the government out of it, You got to
make it efficient and make it work, so make the
cost not astronomical. Then you got the crazy Democrats, Hakeem Jeffreys.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
All we need are four House Republicans to join us.
They're two hundred and twenty of them. All we need
are four and we can extend the Affordable Care Act
tax credits in a straightforward fashion.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah. Now, Democrats don't mind big bloated government programs. You know,
Republicans too. Most of these Republicans just as bad as
the Democrats. They like these big bloated government programs. Why
because big bloated government programs. While that means contracts, to
hand out massive contracts, you hand it out the donors
to people you want to have become donors. You can
(15:38):
make a lot of money for your campaign and for
your packs with these contracts. So that's why they like it. Hey,
I saw Bruce Blakeman yesterday. He got a very good
chance to be the next governor of New York. He's
the perfect choice to be the next governor of New York.
News Max had a great Christmas party yesterday. Bruce Blakeman
came later in the party and everybody applauding him. They
(16:02):
love this guy's gonna do very well in the governor's
race January, which is January twelfth, I think it is
a few weeks from now he gets inaugurated again's second
term as county executive. Now, President Trump likes Elise Stefanic
and he loves Bruce Blakeman. Been close to Blakeman for years.
(16:22):
He has said all kinds of wonderful things about Elise
Stefanic and was back in her. But now with Blakeman
in the race, what does he do? I don't know.
I don't know. Now they're both great. But Elise Stephonic
is a legislator. She's a great talker. You put her
on those congressional committees. She's a great interrogator. Voy does
she tear into people. But that's her talent. Blakeman, on
the on the other hand, his talents are what you
(16:43):
need in the governor. He is a governor now he's
the governor of Nassau County. He's a manager. He runs things.
That's what it's really what the governor's job is. It's
it's you know, you don't always want a legislator in
that job. You want a manager. And that's Blakeman. So
to me be the much better choice for that. Hey,
we'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three to two
(17:04):
one zero seven ten is the number eight hundred three
to two one zero seven ten.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
It hits in.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Access to Mark by setting a freeset in the iHeartRadio
app for his live show and his podcast.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Now back to the Mark Simone Show on woor.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to uh Steve
in White Plains, Steve, how you doing?
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Merry Christmas? Mark?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Thanks Steve.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Mark. The Democrats caused most of these issues with healthcare,
and over the last ten to fifteen years they have
been very successful at convincing the American public, at least
according to all the polls. I see that it was
the Republican's fault for all these healthcare issues that we're having.
(17:52):
And if the Republicans don't do something to extend the
subsidies or something else quick and healthcare costs increase, like
they will forget the midterms. Am I missing something here?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yes? Too early to work. There are a million years
from now. The whole landscape will change eight times before
the midterms. Hey, let me ask you a better question.
Are you a former radio guy? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
You asked me that usually.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
When I call it, well, you sound like a radio
sort of announce here. You either that or your car salesman.
Which is it?
Speaker 5 (18:27):
No, I did radio for thirty five years.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Oh okay, do you have that radio sound or Lexus
salesman Lexus of West Yes.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
I don't like the salesman concept.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
No, definitely not. All right, Well, you sound great, Thanks
for calling. Let's go to Chris and Queen's Chris, how
you doing?
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Hey, Mark, the big fan for.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
I can't believe that they're talking about a long time
what do you call it?
Speaker 5 (19:00):
But they don't give anything.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Well, I don't know what you said, but as long
as you did, you got your point across the k. Yes,
you made your point. We don't know what it is,
but you made it. That's important. Let's go to uh
Dave in Chicago. Dave, how you doing?
Speaker 7 (19:16):
Good morning?
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Mark. I'm doing very well. Thank you, Mark.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
If I had the capability to be an advisor to
suse you whiles, I would recommend that she'd go on
Fox News channel and asks Sean aunt Hannity to interview her,
and knowing Sean, he would probably give her the full hour.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Well, yeah, he's saying, you know, to explain this vanity
fair piece, I don't know. The better better idea might
be just let it go. Uh, don't waste too much
time on it. It's it's good fighter for MSNBC and
the Trump Arrangement syndrome crowd. But it'll burn out on
its own by after a day or two. Let's go
to Pam and Patterson. Pam, how you doing?
Speaker 7 (19:55):
Hey, I have answers to your two questions.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
Rob Ryer's son went back to that hotel room after
the murders. Yeah, I had heard that. Yeah, And so
I think he brought some of the blood back with
him on a sheet or whatever and kind of swathed
himself in it like a serial killer, because that's part
of the control, Like, look, I got control of you.
That's something a serial killer would do. And then second
(20:22):
I think, oh god, I'm running a blank here. Oh
and in terms of why his father would be so
vitriolic all of a sudden, while everybody describes him as
so sweet, well, perhaps the apple doesn't fall far from
the tree. Well, did you get my drift?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
It's not just him, there's a lot. Well, we all
know people like this. They're nice, sweet normal people. You
get him on the subjec of Trump. They're like vicious,
hate filled maniacs when they talk about Trump. It's it's
just unbelievable.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
But perhaps he was that way with his family at times,
and we don't know about it. A lot of people
hide that.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
You know, well, well, I don't know. The other kids
look pretty nice. The rest of the family looks pretty nice.
They all I don't know. I'm not a psychiatrist, but
you know who is Curtis Leiwell, we'll talk to him next,
Curtis next. We had a lot of questions to ask
him now that the mayoral race is totally over, completely over.
It's a few things I want to we'll well, we'll
(21:20):
get to that next on seven to ten w R.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
It's more of Mark Simone on seven tenor.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Well, ladies and gentlemen, the man who should be the
mayor of New York right now A Curtis Lee Well,
of course, also one of the great radio hosts of
the last few decades, had the number one morning show
for many, many, many, many many years, and he'll be
filling in for me. I'll be off the last two
weeks of the year next week and the week after, Curtis,
we'll be filling in ten to noon every weekday, and
he's with us. Now, Curtis sliwa, how you doing?
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Oh great now that you've given me an opportunity to
let my voice be heard on my favorite radio station,
w R. Nope, he doesn't get any better than this, Mark,
because obviously you lead and everybody else follow. So I
know you've got a huge following because all during the campaign,
(22:14):
people would stop me wherever I was going and says, well,
Mark's talking about you. Now. I didn't get that from
any other radio station or any other talk program.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Hey, now that it's all over, let me ask you
about this campaign. First of all, Now, obviously you could win.
You could out talk everybody in the race. You got
a much longer career resume than mom Donnie. But they
started this mantra he can't win, Curtis can't win. Curtis
can't win. They just drilled this into people. I heard
people start repeating it like it's true. It was ridiculous.
(22:45):
How did that ever get started?
Speaker 6 (22:49):
But actually got started right after Andrew Cuomo tossed in
the towel because he got so badly beaten in the
primary that. If you remember Mark, when he had the
race on March first, he was at forty percent in
the Democratic polls, Zorhan Mandammi was last at one percent.
By the time of June twenty four, they hadn't even
(23:10):
counted the rank choice of votes, yet he lost by
thirteen percent and it was no Moss.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Now.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
The big savior then was gonna be Eric Adams. They
were gonna somehow resurrect the crook out of the grave
and put, you know, put a new set of clothes
on him and say, oh no, he's a new Eric Adams.
And the people didn't buy it. And then every day thereafter,
the masters of the universe, the billionaires, the influences, the
insiders kept this dropout game. Dropout, you got to drop out.
(23:42):
So it became very difficult Mark to engage in any
kind of conversation because the first question I'd have to
ask every day. Answer every day was no, I'm not
dropping out. They bribed me, people were threatening to kill me,
my wife, Dohmed, my staff, and I said, no, I'm
not dropping out. And I lived up to that until
(24:03):
November fourth, where clearly Johan Mandami was elected mayor of
the city of New York by the people of New York.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yeah, now here's a better question. You knew Andrew Cuomo
can't win. I knew he can't win. He was a
terrible governor. He did awful things as governor. Everybody can't
stand the guy. But he went around for the three
or four years to every big donor, every big Upper
East Side Southampton, all this craft, and he convinced them
that only he could win. And these are otherwise very
(24:29):
smart people. How did they fall for this nonsense? They
actually convinced themselves only he can win.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
Look, Mark, there's nobody better connected than you with all
the heavy hitters in New York, whether it's the Hampton's
or in New York City or around America. They may
be good on Wall Street, but they know nothing about
the streets in New York City. And by the way,
they know nothing about politics. As was evidence, they backed
Clomo in the primary, he lost, then they backed Derek Adams,
(24:57):
then they went back to back in Clomo. Look, they
may invest your money. Well in a hedge funt, you'll actmen,
actman every day. This guy would tweet out ten and
fifty two words in his midlife crisis. But they couldn't
have been more hopelessly wrong, and clearly they At first
they disparaged Cuomo when he lost to Dami, then they
(25:19):
revived him, and all they kept doing was supporting Democrats.
So I guess what you got what you wanted, Johann Mondommi.
You just strengthened him and Mark. What was that love
class between Donald Trump the President and Johan Mondomie at
the White House? Come on, they played us. We were
played all during the campaign.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
So what do you think Mondanni? I? Somehow I still
think maybe he was counting the socialists. Maybe, and maybe
he's not as bad as we think. What do you think?
Speaker 6 (25:48):
Well, look, he is what he is. He has not surrendered,
he has not retreated. He is an idea log. Everybody
who gets elected mayors entitled to a grace period. He'll
have his grace period. But unlike everybody else in fear
frightened stereo shirt, I'm selling my prisoners. I'm moving the Florida. Hey,
where have they gone? Mark is still here? Are you kidding?
(26:09):
Having backdoor meetings with Rohaimandami? So the fact is, I'm improved,
o't And by the way, may I compliment you for
a second, Mark, because you're going on this well deserved vacation.
What are they gonna do over your competition? You realize
that Greg Kelly for years would listen to your program
before he would come on, uh in the twelve o'clock hour.
(26:32):
Basically you would do his show prep for him, like
Comedian's up in the porch belt. They used to steal
jokes from one another.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Wow, but does a great show?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
They do it you away, but we all.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Listen to each other. We all take from each other.
It's it's so but now.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
Come on, Mark, But you're the best. That's why they
do it from you. They know that.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Then you got to you gotta do a good job
in the next two weeks. Curtis will be filling in
for me the next two weeks. Now you have done.
They used to make fun of how many hours you'd
be on the radio twenty hours a day, fourteen hours
a day six Will you be able to fit it
into just two hours a day?
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Yeah, Oh, there's no doubt about it. Hey. Look, there
was a time at WABC, as you know, because you
and I we were together there doing the morning show
with Ron Koby whose mommy is a comedy who was
the predecessor to Johan Mandami. Yeah, I mean you wanted
to know what Oran Mandami was. Look, that was Don
Coopy and the three of us would sit in that
(27:25):
room doing the morning show. That was total chaos.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
I don't know how you. I don't know how you
survived that much.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I forgot you. Yeah, you two weren't talking for about
six months. I had to like host the uh or
be the moderator of the show while you two were there.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
But it's it's much better doing the show by yourself,
isn't it. It's always much better.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
Oh yeah, and I and I insisted on that. I
had always done shows that partners, and I insisted that no,
if I'm the do talk radio anymore, it's gonna be solo.
I will either sink or swim based on what I say,
not be on what my partners say. But boy, you
deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. Every morning for four hours,
(28:07):
Mark Simone the referee between Ron Koby who was Doorhan
Mondomi before he was even born and Curtis Sleewan, and
I mean it got hey, it got pretty hot and
heavy there. You almost had to put in a nine
one one call sometimes.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
So well, next week will be You'll have fun here.
If you've come up, you've seen the studio, you've visited,
you've in fact, a lot of your old coworkers were
here when you came. Right.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Well, let me let me tell you something for people
who don't know. Because War was the first radio station
I was ever interviewed on. I was the newspaper boy
of the year. I had gone Washington d C got
an award for Richard Nixon, and my first interview was
with Arlene Frances whoa did the afternoons mid to mid days,
and I got the bug. You know what it's like.
(28:57):
You had the bug for years. I've had the bug.
And then when Bob Grant went to War, I mean
it was a continuation. And by the way, I remember
when I transported all of his items from WABC where
they exiled him to wr and then he kicked off
books over at WABC. You remember that you worked with
him at WBCA, back with R. Peter Strauss and Ellen.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
That's true, although Bob Grant and I didn't get along.
So Bob Grant was a complicated guy. I think you'd agree.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Off the air, Oh, no doubt about it. But let
me tell you something. He was magic on the radio.
And that's all it counts. Yeah, that's all it counts.
And that's what you've been for so many years, Mark Simon.
So to be able to substitute for you while away,
I mean, it doesn't get any better than that. And
I listened to wo R Now you got a lot
of great shows. I have no reason to listen to
(29:48):
anything else, including always blaming Curtis WABC the station.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
But since you announced you're going to be here, did
they contact you? Have you heard from anybody there?
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (30:00):
They're worried, aren't They're worried because remember, I haven't told
the true story of what went on there, all that
drop out you got to drop out? Where do you
think it started?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Mark?
Speaker 6 (30:11):
It started at WABC, And there are a lot of
bones buried there. And the question is, in the two
weeks that you've given me the opportunity of management at
WOR and iheartnesscepstitute for you, will I dig up any
of those bones and air the trunk of what went
on during the most historical and unprecedented Mayor Old campaign
(30:33):
in the history of New York City politics.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Well, I wouldn't go after them. But I can't just
blame them. I heard this from every Upper east Side idiot,
every Hedge fund idiot. Curtis can't win, Curtis Kit, that
was ridiculous. He's got to drop out. It was ridiculous.
And as you say, these guys made billions at what
they know and have never made a penny given political
advice to anybody.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
So, by the way, where's their friend Andrew Cuomo? Where
is he?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Wait?
Speaker 6 (31:00):
You go? As he fled to Barda like he said
he would do if Jore on Monday got elected. Man,
come on, Mark, you know everything? Where is into?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
I think they now realized we were right. This guy
couldn't win anything anymore. And I don't think we're done
with him. He'll try and come back again. But hey,
we're out of time. But everybody listen. Next week, for
the next two weeks, Curtis Lee will be filling in
for me ten to noon, curtisly with ten to noon.
Be listening, and of course follow him on Instagram and
Twitter and all of that. So well, Curtis, good luck
(31:32):
next week. I'll be listening, have a good time.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
Well, thank you. I know where all the bones are
buried them to bury them, and I may be digging
them up for the two weeks that you're away.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
All right, we'll talk to you again soon. Thanks. Take care,
h Thank you Mark. Thanks. Yeah, make sure next week.
I'll be off next week, in the week after. I've
been taking the next two weeks off. Final two weeks
the year by Christmas break. Curtis will be here every morning.
This should be really interesting stuff. Curtis every morning for
the next two weeks, ten to noon here on seven
(32:03):
to ten. Wr mister new yours marximone, you're the best. Well,
let's see. Nick Reiner, the son of Rob Reiner, is
expected to be in court at any moment. Right, that's
(32:23):
noon here. It's so, it's nine o'clock in Los Angeles,
nine in the morning. The very secretive about everything, the
Los Angeles police. Even when the word came out that
two dead bodies were found at Rob Briiner's house, they
wouldn't say it was him and his wife. They kept
that quote. So they keep everything very quiet. But they've
arrested Nick Reiner and he's expected to be brought into
(32:47):
court today, first time in court. They will arraign him.
They will formally charge him. He's being held in isolation.
He's on suicide watch. So you may see some video
of this at any moment, appearing on TV. They we're
out of time. I'll be back tomorrow ten to noon.
And remember, if you can't listen ten to noon, get
the podcast. You can hear the show anytime you want.
(33:08):
Dare night, but I'll be back tomorrow ten. I'll talk
to you then on seven ten WR
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