October 17, 2025 • 10 mins
Mark and Ann try to understand why the No Kings protests are called their name. Can CBS’s Editor-in-Chief of CBS News, Bari Weiss, raise the ratings?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now Mark Simon Show on seven tr.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey and Culter, the great columnist, the best selling author.
Make sure you follow her on Twitter. Also even better
at substack where she's got her columns. He's got her interviews, podcasts, videos,
all sorts of stuff and Culter dot substack dot com
and Culter how you doing fantastic?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
John Bolton's been indicted? How about them apples?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah? Boy, he was all over Trump yelling and screaming
way back when that tell's classified documents. You got to
be convicted. You should go to jail. You should bet
he'd like to get back all that video, wouldn't he.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yes, I think he might also want to get back. Well,
Trump ought to want to get back even hiring Bolton,
I mean that was preposterous. It was one of the
most ridiculous things of term one. And Bolton is a
total neocon, wants to go to war every place all
the time. It was insane. It was completely contrary to
two thousands.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Well, but he always explained the recently hired him was
because he was a warmonger and it was just a
scare of ran scaredybody to see Bolton in the room.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
It didn't seem to really scare of them, but it
should have scared Trump in any event. The indictment, it's
very different, very different coverage on CNN and MSNBC, I
suppose because this prosecution was started under Joe Biden, and
prosecutors under Joe Biden described it as very troubling. And
(01:29):
oh my gosh, she does sound troubling, sending thousands of
classified documents to family members who do not have security clearances,
and then his email gets hacked by Iran. So well,
this if true, this sounds like quite a case.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, I'm confused though. I thought that Democrats didn't like neocons.
This is the first neo kon they love, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Uh, Basically, anyone who was against Trump they're going to like,
even if it is completely contrary to everything they've always
said and believed. I mean, you know, suddenly they love
human traffickers. That's a little kind of an odd position
for them. They will not give up on how much
(02:18):
they love transing children despite its overwhelming unpopularity, and in fact,
you know, thanks to probably in part Trump and the
American public, apparently these children trans operations and transitions have
plummeted in the last year so that's good news. We
(02:39):
will someday look back on this period as something probably
you know, akin to Mengale, where the medical profession just
did something so hideously horrible, deforming and harming people, and
they did it for the money, made a lot of
money on the transgender stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Hey, and cult it. This is the everywhere all over
America tomorrow No Kings protest. What exactly is a No
King's protest? I'm not sure what they're protesting.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
No, it doesn't make any sense, and it's a very
dumb name. I mean, I'd heard about it sort of
in the background. They did this once before. I mean,
it sounds like, you know, six Kings Day. It doesn't
sound at all. What Usually Liberals are so good at
slogans and naming things. Boy, did they blow it here.
It makes no sense. It is not focused. No one
(03:32):
hears it and thinks, oh, that must refer to Trump,
which I gather, like everything else they ever do, that
they're meaning to refer to Trump.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah. No, it's the silliest thing in the world. What
did Mike Johnson call it the Hate America Rally tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, see, that's at least descriptive.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
But is this the problem the Democrats have. They're so
busy resisting, hating, go after Trump, they've forgot to debate issues,
and they're just not doing that anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yes, and I will say one thing that I will
give Trump enormous credit for. We've talked about government shutdowns before.
I've lived through a lot of government shutdowns in Washington,
and just as a political observer, I've never seen a
government shutdown that doesn't within like five minutes start hurting Republicans,
(04:22):
or at least that's what the media claims. Who knows,
We've never tried to say, nope, we're not capitulating. This
is the first time I can remember Republicans not immediately capitulating.
And boy, doesn't seem to have hurt them.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
No. In fact, you look at these rules. Congressmen and
women still get paid, but the staff doesn't get paid.
How did that happen?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, that's not so good. They that's a bypart is
an issue, is my guess. Except for a few very
principled individuals, I would assume, like Thomas Massey and a
few others, you know, paying themselves is usually pretty bipartisan.
But I haven't checked, so maybe I shouldn't slanunder my
side on that. But no, this is I mean, I
(05:11):
think a lot of us have been saying this for
a while that if you don't run scared from from
the media. Uh, and if your position is correct, as
it certainly is here, Democrats shutting down the government so
mostly so that illegals can get you know, the subsidies
and full health care. Well, that's that's fantastic. I can't
(05:32):
imagine how they think that's going to be popular with
with Americans. And this was, as John Fetterman Blessed his
Heart said yesterday, this was in the original Democrat past bill,
this sunset provision. You're acting like Republicans have foisted this armor. No,
it's in the bill. So you're shutting down the government
(05:55):
for something you wrote into law. Uh and most don't
want so great.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, Hey, CBS News, they've brought in Barry Weiss to
straighten out CBS News, make it more balanced, more fair.
You think that'll actually work? Are we beginning a new
era of fair news? Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
My gosh, I hope. So. It seems it's always baffled
me since I wrote slander about how the media slanders Republicans.
Willy Nilly, I wondered why it would be so so easy.
You know, they have these these fights for the ratings.
It would be so easy for some network to say, Okay,
that's it, We're going to be fair and start stealing
(06:39):
voter or viewers. Have you can totally crush Look at
Fox News. It's not even that good, but it gives
both sides. You can hear things you want to hear
on any other network about how about some other network
try that?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, how about some website try it?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And the political what's the websites do? I mean, this
is why I'm a huge defense of social media and
I'm opposed to these ridiculous attacks on get your children
off their phones. No, No, social media is the one
place we can go to get the truth. We certainly
can't get it from TV news. We can't get it
from the major mainstream media. They have foisted hoax after
(07:17):
hoax after hoax hon us, starting with with Dan Rather
and his claim about President George Bush shirking his his
his military service. Well, how is that exposed social media?
This is I see why liberals want to pretend, oh,
this is so bad for you and impact the evidence.
Just by the way, I will be writing about this again,
(07:38):
but the evidence is quite to the contrary. These games
young men play, they are way better educational devices than
the public schools, way better.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Well that's not hard. I mean that's pretty.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Fair point.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Hey, you know what you're talking about the things that
are slanted. Okay, expected CBS, ABC, but something like Police
to Go, you wouldn't expect it to be so biased
and so slanted. What where do you go for a
non partisan website? Is there such a thing?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah, that's funny you say that. I was just noticing that. Well,
of course you can come to and called their dot
suvisac dot com, Real clear Politics, Bright bart Uh, Daily Caller.
And now we have the American version of the UK Spectator,
which is spectacular and appears in magazine form. You know,
(08:30):
see many magazines are very slick, attractive magazine they're really smart,
great writers. And the Twitter Twitter, of course Twitter? What
am I? How can I be forgetting about that? Yeah?
Because you have the entire world searching for articles that
may be of interest to you. You find which people
to follow, who posts real articles that turn out to
(08:51):
be true, and who posts you know, nonsense conspiracy theory.
So I mean, if you want to keep up with
the conspiracy theories, go ahead and follow them. But if
you don't, don't follow them. Twitter. I mean Twitter has
everything and has it immediately.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, it's still the best place for uh if you
want like instant reaction coverage whatever. Twitter is still the
best place. And what's that one? The liberals all use
what's it called blue Sky or something.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I've heard of it, but mostly as a punchline. I mean,
this is such a sissy thing for liberals to do.
The original Twitter was so great back before they had
all these controls and shadow bands in because because you
could it was liberals and conservatives. Are you doing talking
to one another? You could tweak a New York Times reporter?
(09:38):
Why are they so afraid of debate even online where
they have time to think about what they're saying and
if they're they're you know, really triggered by by jokes
being told by by right wingers. Okay, don't follow those
right wingers. I've never understood why there should be any
censorship on Twitter. If you don't like what someone's saying,
(09:59):
if it's really that's scary to you to see another
point of view, don't follow that person. And it won't
show up in your feet.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Good point. Well, we're out of time, but everybody follow
and Culture on Twitter. Great stuff there, even better as substacks.
You's got columns and videos and podcasts and all sorts
of stuff. Go to and Culture dot substack dot com
and culture dot substack dot com and Culture. Thanks for
being with us.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Good to talk you, Mark Simone, by bye.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Take care. Hey, don't forget Buck and Clay coming up
at noon today.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Also, if you can't listen to this show live, if
ten to noon doesn't work, you can listen to the
show anytime you want, day or night. Just get the
podcast wherever you get podcasts, and if you're listening to
the podcast on the weekends, you get a bonus segment.
It's like a whole other show there that isn't on
the air, so you can hear that too, but this
show the bonus segment wherever you get podcasts or otherwise.
(10:52):
Live every day ten to noon, seven to ten wor
Now Mark Simon Show on seven tr.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey and Culter, the great columnist, the best selling author.
Make sure you follow her on Twitter. Also even better
at substack where she's got her columns. He's got her interviews, podcasts, videos,
all sorts of stuff and Culter dot substack dot com
and Culter how you doing fantastic?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
John Bolton's been indicted? How about them apples?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah? Boy, he was all over Trump yelling and screaming
way back when that tell's classified documents. You got to
be convicted. You should go to jail. You should bet
he'd like to get back all that video, wouldn't he.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yes, I think he might also want to get back. Well,
Trump ought to want to get back even hiring Bolton,
I mean that was preposterous. It was one of the
most ridiculous things of term one. And Bolton is a
total neocon, wants to go to war every place all
the time. It was insane. It was completely contrary to
two thousands.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Well, but he always explained the recently hired him was
because he was a warmonger and it was just a
scare of ran scaredybody to see Bolton in the room.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
It didn't seem to really scare of them, but it
should have scared Trump in any event. The indictment, it's
very different, very different coverage on CNN and MSNBC, I
suppose because this prosecution was started under Joe Biden, and
prosecutors under Joe Biden described it as very troubling. And
(01:29):
oh my gosh, she does sound troubling, sending thousands of
classified documents to family members who do not have security clearances,
and then his email gets hacked by Iran. So well,
this if true, this sounds like quite a case.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, I'm confused though. I thought that Democrats didn't like neocons.
This is the first neo kon they love, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Uh, Basically, anyone who was against Trump they're going to like,
even if it is completely contrary to everything they've always
said and believed. I mean, you know, suddenly they love
human traffickers. That's a little kind of an odd position
for them. They will not give up on how much
(02:18):
they love transing children despite its overwhelming unpopularity, and in fact,
you know, thanks to probably in part Trump and the
American public, apparently these children trans operations and transitions have
plummeted in the last year so that's good news. We
(02:39):
will someday look back on this period as something probably
you know, akin to Mengale, where the medical profession just
did something so hideously horrible, deforming and harming people, and
they did it for the money, made a lot of
money on the transgender stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Hey, and cult it. This is the everywhere all over
America tomorrow No Kings protest. What exactly is a No
King's protest? I'm not sure what they're protesting.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
No, it doesn't make any sense, and it's a very
dumb name. I mean, I'd heard about it sort of
in the background. They did this once before. I mean,
it sounds like, you know, six Kings Day. It doesn't
sound at all. What Usually Liberals are so good at
slogans and naming things. Boy, did they blow it here.
It makes no sense. It is not focused. No one
(03:32):
hears it and thinks, oh, that must refer to Trump,
which I gather, like everything else they ever do, that
they're meaning to refer to Trump.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah. No, it's the silliest thing in the world. What
did Mike Johnson call it the Hate America Rally tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, see, that's at least descriptive.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
But is this the problem the Democrats have. They're so
busy resisting, hating, go after Trump, they've forgot to debate issues,
and they're just not doing that anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yes, and I will say one thing that I will
give Trump enormous credit for. We've talked about government shutdowns before.
I've lived through a lot of government shutdowns in Washington,
and just as a political observer, I've never seen a
government shutdown that doesn't within like five minutes start hurting Republicans,
(04:22):
or at least that's what the media claims. Who knows,
We've never tried to say, nope, we're not capitulating. This
is the first time I can remember Republicans not immediately capitulating.
And boy, doesn't seem to have hurt them.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
No. In fact, you look at these rules. Congressmen and
women still get paid, but the staff doesn't get paid.
How did that happen?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, that's not so good. They that's a bypart is
an issue, is my guess. Except for a few very
principled individuals, I would assume, like Thomas Massey and a
few others, you know, paying themselves is usually pretty bipartisan.
But I haven't checked, so maybe I shouldn't slanunder my
side on that. But no, this is I mean, I
(05:11):
think a lot of us have been saying this for
a while that if you don't run scared from from
the media. Uh, and if your position is correct, as
it certainly is here, Democrats shutting down the government so
mostly so that illegals can get you know, the subsidies
and full health care. Well, that's that's fantastic. I can't
(05:32):
imagine how they think that's going to be popular with
with Americans. And this was, as John Fetterman Blessed his
Heart said yesterday, this was in the original Democrat past bill,
this sunset provision. You're acting like Republicans have foisted this armor. No,
it's in the bill. So you're shutting down the government
(05:55):
for something you wrote into law. Uh and most don't
want so great.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, Hey, CBS News, they've brought in Barry Weiss to
straighten out CBS News, make it more balanced, more fair.
You think that'll actually work? Are we beginning a new
era of fair news? Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
My gosh, I hope. So. It seems it's always baffled
me since I wrote slander about how the media slanders Republicans.
Willy Nilly, I wondered why it would be so so easy.
You know, they have these these fights for the ratings.
It would be so easy for some network to say, Okay,
that's it, We're going to be fair and start stealing
(06:39):
voter or viewers. Have you can totally crush Look at
Fox News. It's not even that good, but it gives
both sides. You can hear things you want to hear
on any other network about how about some other network
try that?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, how about some website try it?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And the political what's the websites do? I mean, this
is why I'm a huge defense of social media and
I'm opposed to these ridiculous attacks on get your children
off their phones. No, No, social media is the one
place we can go to get the truth. We certainly
can't get it from TV news. We can't get it
from the major mainstream media. They have foisted hoax after
(07:17):
hoax after hoax hon us, starting with with Dan Rather
and his claim about President George Bush shirking his his
his military service. Well, how is that exposed social media?
This is I see why liberals want to pretend, oh,
this is so bad for you and impact the evidence.
Just by the way, I will be writing about this again,
(07:38):
but the evidence is quite to the contrary. These games
young men play, they are way better educational devices than
the public schools, way better.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Well that's not hard. I mean that's pretty.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Fair point.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Hey, you know what you're talking about the things that
are slanted. Okay, expected CBS, ABC, but something like Police
to Go, you wouldn't expect it to be so biased
and so slanted. What where do you go for a
non partisan website? Is there such a thing?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah, that's funny you say that. I was just noticing that. Well,
of course you can come to and called their dot
suvisac dot com, Real clear Politics, Bright bart Uh, Daily Caller.
And now we have the American version of the UK Spectator,
which is spectacular and appears in magazine form. You know,
(08:30):
see many magazines are very slick, attractive magazine they're really smart,
great writers. And the Twitter Twitter, of course Twitter? What
am I? How can I be forgetting about that? Yeah?
Because you have the entire world searching for articles that
may be of interest to you. You find which people
to follow, who posts real articles that turn out to
(08:51):
be true, and who posts you know, nonsense conspiracy theory.
So I mean, if you want to keep up with
the conspiracy theories, go ahead and follow them. But if
you don't, don't follow them. Twitter. I mean Twitter has
everything and has it immediately.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, it's still the best place for uh if you
want like instant reaction coverage whatever. Twitter is still the
best place. And what's that one? The liberals all use
what's it called blue Sky or something.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I've heard of it, but mostly as a punchline. I mean,
this is such a sissy thing for liberals to do.
The original Twitter was so great back before they had
all these controls and shadow bands in because because you
could it was liberals and conservatives. Are you doing talking
to one another? You could tweak a New York Times reporter?
(09:38):
Why are they so afraid of debate even online where
they have time to think about what they're saying and
if they're they're you know, really triggered by by jokes
being told by by right wingers. Okay, don't follow those
right wingers. I've never understood why there should be any
censorship on Twitter. If you don't like what someone's saying,
(09:59):
if it's really that's scary to you to see another
point of view, don't follow that person. And it won't
show up in your feet.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Good point. Well, we're out of time, but everybody follow
and Culture on Twitter. Great stuff there, even better as substacks.
You's got columns and videos and podcasts and all sorts
of stuff. Go to and Culture dot substack dot com
and culture dot substack dot com and Culture. Thanks for
being with us.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Good to talk you, Mark Simone, by bye.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Take care. Hey, don't forget Buck and Clay coming up
at noon today.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Also, if you can't listen to this show live, if
ten to noon doesn't work, you can listen to the
show anytime you want, day or night. Just get the
podcast wherever you get podcasts, and if you're listening to
the podcast on the weekends, you get a bonus segment.
It's like a whole other show there that isn't on
the air, so you can hear that too, but this
show the bonus segment wherever you get podcasts or otherwise.
(10:52):
Live every day ten to noon, seven to ten wor
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