October 3, 2025 • 6 mins
Kathy in North Carolina called Mark to ask him where the billions of dollars Elon Musk and DOGE saved are. Dave in Chicago calls Mark to discuss the latest status of the alleged TikTok ban.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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back to Mark Zimone on woar.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Hey, we'll take some calls. Eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten is the number. Let's go to Kathy North, Carolina. Kathy,
how you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Hey? Mark, it's good to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
It's good to hear you.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I have a random question. I know you're not a
financial guru, but of course your friend Larry Cudlow is,
so maybe he can answer this someday. All that money
that Doge saved billions and billions, where does that show up?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Like?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Where is it being pocketed? Is it in the It
doesn't seem to be in the budget. The budget would
have been missing several billion dollars because we didn't have
to pay out to that. So I just I remember
talking about it and hearing about it. But where does
it physically show up?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Well, it doesn't show up. It's just the actual budget
drops bending drops a little.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
The problem is you got Congress, and Republicans are just
as bad as Democrats. Whenever there's money, they start spending
it again. That's the problem. You can keep cutting the spending,
but Democrats and Republicans in Congress keep bringing it back.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
But you're telling me that if if we didn't if
we didn't do dose, then this outrageous budget would be
that many more billion more.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I mean, yes, yes, yes, yes, So.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
You are a financial guru.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
No, it's a simple common sense. If you get rid
of seven hundred thousand people, your pay roll is less money. Obviously,
I know, but I know it's North Carolina, but this
is not hard to figure out what's going on down
there in North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It's beautiful today. Fall is coming. I'm not my favorite season.
I really love summer, but it's here. It's quite nice.
And we have that big we have a big governor's
race going on, I guess, or no, I guess the
governor is running for the Senate seat. So we're going
to look for that. I'm going to try to stock
you out with that.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Say hello to Barney, wife and OPI and everybody down there,
and hey, hey, we love North Carolina. It's a great place.
Thanks for calling. Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave,
how you doing, good morning, Mark.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
I'm doing very well.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Mark.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
I know in the recent past we were all told
not to use TikTok because it came from China and
it stole all of our personal information. My question is
what's the latest status, because I know President Trump does
have a TikTok account.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah you can. Well, you know he's got so many phones.
You can have one on a phone that is not
on his phone. But it'll get safer and safer. I
get to wait till it's completely turned over to the
new Board of Directors. So instead of the communist Chinese
having all your data, Larry Ellenson will have it. It'll
be Oracle and some other people running it. But should
be safer. It should be safe. Hey, nowadays all these
(02:52):
apps steal everything. You just don't want to go into
the communist Chinese government. Who knows what they're up to there.
Let's go to Mike and Florida. Mike, how you doing,
Good morning, Mark, that's Mike.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
He listening to the ads you played from the candidates.
Don't you find it funny that in this day and age,
the ads haven't changed much. It's still I'll be ready
on day one. They'll have one eventually with the guy
sitting in the diner. It's like there's a million people
online who have like clever memes and you know, have
unique takes on things, and these politicians still can't get
out of the twentieth century.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, it's a very good point. Now, the reason for
that is there's only a handful of these political consultants,
and they go from campaign to campaign and teach everybody
the same exact ad. You know, if you're a great
consultant and incredible marketing video, you're gonna go to work
for all these big corporations. You're not gonna do politics.
But that's a good point. Yeah, they all do this.
I'll be ready on day one. So what everybody's ready
(03:47):
on day one? Every hey, iHeart every major company. We
hire people all the time. Day one, they show up,
they're ready. We've never had anybody who we hired say
I'm not ready. I can't stop, I'll have to come
back another time. I'm just not ready. Everybody is ready
day one. Let's go to Stan in Forest Hills, Stan.
(04:08):
How you're doing, How you doing?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Happy holidays? I just want to say, you know, I
keep hearing that's socialism, which I'm not a.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Communist, but you sound like a communist.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
No, no, I'm not a sound like one. Do you
ever hear yourself?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
But that's a little bit of a communist, you don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
The point is, we have socialistic programs in this country
that are extremely successful. Well I mean to name them.
They called social Security. We pay into it, but it's
for the masses. We have Medicare, we pay that into it.
It's for the masses, and the greatest one is Medicaid,
which is.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
In Southern I know that's an old old cliche Democrat.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
It's not a cliche.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
We got to cut you off there. It's an old
democratic cliche talking point. It's a government program. It's not socialist.
I mean, you could say that's what socialism is, government handouts,
but it's not a socialist. You can opt in, you
can opt out, you can do whatever the hell you want.
You cannot take it. Let's go to David in New Jersey. David,
how you.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Doing all right? Good morning? Thank you very much for
taking my call. This is the first time I ever called.
I listened to you. You're I think you're great. Thank
you for what you do.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
When a guy butters you up first, it means he's
up to something. All right, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I like to hear your opinion on this. We know this, Mondamie.
He's a he's an anti semi. The Jews in New
York has, from my understanding, has the biggest population outside Israel.
We know Como's a thief and a bump. What's wrong
with these Jews not voting against this guy? And they
(05:40):
aren't putting your.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Well, most of the Jewish community is totally against him,
working hard against him. And let me just defend and Cuomo,
I don't think that he's a thief, the worst governor ever. Yes,
a complete incompetent, a disgrace. Yes, all his sexual Yes,
a thief. No, we don't know if I'm actually stealing money.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
But why aren't they putting their vote towards Sleeva?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I do A lot of them are? A lot of
them are.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
So Sliwa should be running away with this instead of.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Well, we love the Jewish community, but it's a tiny,
tiny part of the electorate. It's not a big part
of it's not a big percentage of the votes, but
they are much of the Jewish community back in Sliva
and well, let's hope. So yeah, No, it's just unfortunately,
it's not a big enough part of the electorate. Again,
it's a turnout race. If you get huge turnout, Montdomie loses.
(06:31):
If you get what we've been getting for like Deblasio
or Eric Adams, where it's eighteen percent turnout twenty that's
where you have a problem. Hey, when we come back,
Liz Peak will be with us next, the great columnist.
Let's see what she thinks about all of this. We'll
get to that next on seven to ten. Wor
Set up pre sat on the iHeartRadio app to wor
to hear Mark live.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Set another for Mark's podcast to hear him anytime. Now
back to Mark Zimone on woar.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Hey, we'll take some calls. Eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten is the number. Let's go to Kathy North, Carolina. Kathy,
how you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Hey? Mark, it's good to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
It's good to hear you.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I have a random question. I know you're not a
financial guru, but of course your friend Larry Cudlow is,
so maybe he can answer this someday. All that money
that Doge saved billions and billions, where does that show up?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Like?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Where is it being pocketed? Is it in the It
doesn't seem to be in the budget. The budget would
have been missing several billion dollars because we didn't have
to pay out to that. So I just I remember
talking about it and hearing about it. But where does
it physically show up?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Well, it doesn't show up. It's just the actual budget
drops bending drops a little.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
The problem is you got Congress, and Republicans are just
as bad as Democrats. Whenever there's money, they start spending
it again. That's the problem. You can keep cutting the spending,
but Democrats and Republicans in Congress keep bringing it back.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
But you're telling me that if if we didn't if
we didn't do dose, then this outrageous budget would be
that many more billion more.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I mean, yes, yes, yes, yes, So.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
You are a financial guru.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
No, it's a simple common sense. If you get rid
of seven hundred thousand people, your pay roll is less money. Obviously,
I know, but I know it's North Carolina, but this
is not hard to figure out what's going on down
there in North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It's beautiful today. Fall is coming. I'm not my favorite season.
I really love summer, but it's here. It's quite nice.
And we have that big we have a big governor's
race going on, I guess, or no, I guess the
governor is running for the Senate seat. So we're going
to look for that. I'm going to try to stock
you out with that.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Say hello to Barney, wife and OPI and everybody down there,
and hey, hey, we love North Carolina. It's a great place.
Thanks for calling. Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave,
how you doing, good morning, Mark.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
I'm doing very well.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Mark.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
I know in the recent past we were all told
not to use TikTok because it came from China and
it stole all of our personal information. My question is
what's the latest status, because I know President Trump does
have a TikTok account.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah you can. Well, you know he's got so many phones.
You can have one on a phone that is not
on his phone. But it'll get safer and safer. I
get to wait till it's completely turned over to the
new Board of Directors. So instead of the communist Chinese
having all your data, Larry Ellenson will have it. It'll
be Oracle and some other people running it. But should
be safer. It should be safe. Hey, nowadays all these
(02:52):
apps steal everything. You just don't want to go into
the communist Chinese government. Who knows what they're up to there.
Let's go to Mike and Florida. Mike, how you doing,
Good morning, Mark, that's Mike.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
He listening to the ads you played from the candidates.
Don't you find it funny that in this day and age,
the ads haven't changed much. It's still I'll be ready
on day one. They'll have one eventually with the guy
sitting in the diner. It's like there's a million people
online who have like clever memes and you know, have
unique takes on things, and these politicians still can't get
out of the twentieth century.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, it's a very good point. Now, the reason for
that is there's only a handful of these political consultants,
and they go from campaign to campaign and teach everybody
the same exact ad. You know, if you're a great
consultant and incredible marketing video, you're gonna go to work
for all these big corporations. You're not gonna do politics.
But that's a good point. Yeah, they all do this.
I'll be ready on day one. So what everybody's ready
(03:47):
on day one? Every hey, iHeart every major company. We
hire people all the time. Day one, they show up,
they're ready. We've never had anybody who we hired say
I'm not ready. I can't stop, I'll have to come
back another time. I'm just not ready. Everybody is ready
day one. Let's go to Stan in Forest Hills, Stan.
(04:08):
How you're doing, How you doing?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Happy holidays? I just want to say, you know, I
keep hearing that's socialism, which I'm not a.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Communist, but you sound like a communist.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
No, no, I'm not a sound like one. Do you
ever hear yourself?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
But that's a little bit of a communist, you don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
The point is, we have socialistic programs in this country
that are extremely successful. Well I mean to name them.
They called social Security. We pay into it, but it's
for the masses. We have Medicare, we pay that into it.
It's for the masses, and the greatest one is Medicaid,
which is.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
In Southern I know that's an old old cliche Democrat.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
It's not a cliche.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
We got to cut you off there. It's an old
democratic cliche talking point. It's a government program. It's not socialist.
I mean, you could say that's what socialism is, government handouts,
but it's not a socialist. You can opt in, you
can opt out, you can do whatever the hell you want.
You cannot take it. Let's go to David in New Jersey. David,
how you.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Doing all right? Good morning? Thank you very much for
taking my call. This is the first time I ever called.
I listened to you. You're I think you're great. Thank
you for what you do.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
When a guy butters you up first, it means he's
up to something. All right, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I like to hear your opinion on this. We know this, Mondamie.
He's a he's an anti semi. The Jews in New
York has, from my understanding, has the biggest population outside Israel.
We know Como's a thief and a bump. What's wrong
with these Jews not voting against this guy? And they
(05:40):
aren't putting your.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Well, most of the Jewish community is totally against him,
working hard against him. And let me just defend and Cuomo,
I don't think that he's a thief, the worst governor ever. Yes,
a complete incompetent, a disgrace. Yes, all his sexual Yes,
a thief. No, we don't know if I'm actually stealing money.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
But why aren't they putting their vote towards Sleeva?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I do A lot of them are? A lot of
them are.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
So Sliwa should be running away with this instead of.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Well, we love the Jewish community, but it's a tiny,
tiny part of the electorate. It's not a big part
of it's not a big percentage of the votes, but
they are much of the Jewish community back in Sliva
and well, let's hope. So yeah, No, it's just unfortunately,
it's not a big enough part of the electorate. Again,
it's a turnout race. If you get huge turnout, Montdomie loses.
(06:31):
If you get what we've been getting for like Deblasio
or Eric Adams, where it's eighteen percent turnout twenty that's
where you have a problem. Hey, when we come back,
Liz Peak will be with us next, the great columnist.
Let's see what she thinks about all of this. We'll
get to that next on seven to ten. Wor
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