October 10, 2025 • 6 mins
Pat in Westchester called Mark to tell him that people have Trump Derangement Syndrome because of his success over the years with money and women. Al in Yonkers, NY, calls Mark to mention how disrespectful US Rep Mike Lawler and Hakeem Jeffries were to each other when they clashed in Washington earlier in the week.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Now.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Now back to the Mark Simone show on woor Hey.
Let's take some calls. Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave,
how you doing.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Good morning, Mark.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
I'm doing very well. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Mark.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I have a proposition that I think would be best
suited for Allen's y Bell in your next interview, and
it has to do with writing scripts for television. Now,
the major networks ABC, NBC, CBS, etc. They restrict time
and scripts because they have to allow for commercials. Yeah,
anles such as HBO, you know they run shows like this.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Well, it's the proposal.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Well, they vary in length and they can include profanity
and nudity. So essentially, for writers, is the easier to write.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
That's a good question. Yeah, we'll ask him that next time.
You know, in the old days of the fifties, I
Love Lucy the Honeymooners, when you wrote the script for
the sitcom about I think it was twenty four minutes
because they had to leave six minutes for commercials during
the half hour. Do you know that by the Seinfeld
days it was down to like sixteen minutes because they
(01:12):
kept adding and adding commercials, so a sitcom script was
really only about sixteen seventeen minutes. Now it's kind of
different because television is dying. There's very few viewers left
on television primetime, even primetime, so it's less commercials, so
the scripts are probably getting longer. Now let's go to
Rich in Myrtle Beach. Rich, how you doing.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Thanks thanks to Mark. That's a good point he just
brought up to get fellows from Chicago. I mean, just
think about how they roll four complete stories for four
characters in fifteen or sixteen minutes. Early was unbelievable. You know,
I got a lot of joy, you say, watching Martha
raditshot old hag. Have to actually give Donald credit some
Donald Trump some credit, and it's gone by the time
he's done. He's going to deserve that last space of
(01:55):
Mount Rushmore. Never mind an Nobel Peace Prize. Put him
on the mountain.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, no, idea, that's president we have all right knowing him.
Apparently you can't put somebody on Mount Rushmore. They keep
explaining to you, who knows, maybe it's just partisan nonsense,
that the the rock you can't you can't carve anything.
Knowing Trump, he'll start a second Mount Rushmore somewhere else.
(02:20):
He'll do a second Mount Rushmore. He'll put Reagan, he'll
put himself. Actually a good idea, Actually, a good idea,
second Mount Rushmore. Let's go to Pat in Westchester. Pat,
how you doing?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Hey, Mark? You have terrific guests on you have each week?
Liz s peak, Miranda divine. The one thing that you
were talking about Trump derangement syndrome. And I think some
of it could be jealousy if you look at that
he has a beautiful wife, he's amassed billions of dollars
in wealth, and he's a national icon and you know,
(02:55):
a world icon. So it could be an a jealousy.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, I don't think it's jealous because you look at
these Trump haters. There are all these old hag women
that live on the Upper West Side. They don't want
to be in a glitzy Trump Tower apartment, they don't
want to be married to a supermodel. They're I think
Miranda divine. If you didn't hear last hour, it was fascinating.
Will follow up on this. She's been talking to a
psychiatrist like doctor Keith Ablau and it's daddy issues. It's
(03:23):
a super strong, forceful, dominant male that they can't stand.
And if you look back on presidents, first of all,
you have to put on this fake formality, and Paul
you can't just you know, be an outrageous kind of
guy like Trump is. You can't in real life. That's
where it comes. But could she might have put her
(03:46):
finger on it. You know, every great politician, no matter
how strong, and they are great presidents, Bill Clinton, they
show a lot of vulnerability and the humbleness. And George
Bush could look very vulnerable at times, humble. And Obama,
yeah he could look humble at times and show some
(04:07):
vulnerability and self deprecating and all that. But they all
could do that. But not Trump. There's no vulnerability anywhere.
It's like the roughest, toughest, strongest, the most masculine, dominating.
It just sets off those women. They can't deal with it.
Let's go to Alan Yonkers. Al, how you doing.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Good?
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Mark? Thanks for taking my call. You know, I just
wanted your personal opinion. You know, I saw Mike Lawler
when he stopped the minority leader Jefferies, and not that
it was a political stunt. I just thought it was
inappropriate because of security reasons. As you know, the minority
leader being in the leadership has Secret Service protection, and
(04:51):
I just started to put the Secret Service in uncomfortable positions.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah, would you agree or do?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
There's no security problem. They can protect him. But what
it was is, you know how we tell you don't
argue with Democrats. If you got a friend who hates
don't argue because it'll be like that lawler Jeffrey's conversation.
You're just yelling at each other for twenty minutes. You're
not going to change their mind. Don't even bother. It's
like arguing with a statue. I mean, don't bother. Don't
(05:16):
argue with him. So when they say to hey, it
happens to me all the time. I was with this
group of entertainment business people and one of them says,
this is the worst nightmare we've ever lived through this Trump.
I can't sleep at night. And it looked at me
and go, yeah, me too, me too. Just yes, I'm
to death. Change the subject, get out of there, don't
(05:37):
even try to argue with them. Whatever they think. Just
let it go. Hey, today would have been John Lennon's
eighty fifth birthday. It would have been eighty five today.
You know, it's interesting some people you just never saw
them get old. A lot of them you see. You
know Billy Joel, you see them now, you wouldn't if
(05:59):
you can't. He came in a time machine from nineteen
seventy eight to now, you wouldn't recognize Billy Joe's it did.
Totally different looking. McCartney obviously looks his age, well not really,
but he looks older, but he still looks like McCartney,
still sounds like McCartney. But if you die young, people
never see you age. It's like Jack Kennedy, John F. Kennedy.
(06:20):
We always see him as young, dynamic president. We never
saw him get like Ted Kennedy, old and plump and boom.
So John Lennon would have been eighty five years old today. Hey,
when we come back, Ed Rollins will be with us,
the greatest political analyst, the Dean himself. We'll talk to
him next on seven to ten wor
If you're listening to Mark on the iHeartRadio app, save
time and tap the preset button.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Now.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Now back to the Mark Simone show on woor Hey.
Let's take some calls. Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave,
how you doing.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Good morning, Mark.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
I'm doing very well. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Mark.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I have a proposition that I think would be best
suited for Allen's y Bell in your next interview, and
it has to do with writing scripts for television. Now,
the major networks ABC, NBC, CBS, etc. They restrict time
and scripts because they have to allow for commercials. Yeah,
anles such as HBO, you know they run shows like this.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Well, it's the proposal.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Well, they vary in length and they can include profanity
and nudity. So essentially, for writers, is the easier to write.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
That's a good question. Yeah, we'll ask him that next time.
You know, in the old days of the fifties, I
Love Lucy the Honeymooners, when you wrote the script for
the sitcom about I think it was twenty four minutes
because they had to leave six minutes for commercials during
the half hour. Do you know that by the Seinfeld
days it was down to like sixteen minutes because they
(01:12):
kept adding and adding commercials, so a sitcom script was
really only about sixteen seventeen minutes. Now it's kind of
different because television is dying. There's very few viewers left
on television primetime, even primetime, so it's less commercials, so
the scripts are probably getting longer. Now let's go to
Rich in Myrtle Beach. Rich, how you doing.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Thanks thanks to Mark. That's a good point he just
brought up to get fellows from Chicago. I mean, just
think about how they roll four complete stories for four
characters in fifteen or sixteen minutes. Early was unbelievable. You know,
I got a lot of joy, you say, watching Martha
raditshot old hag. Have to actually give Donald credit some
Donald Trump some credit, and it's gone by the time
he's done. He's going to deserve that last space of
(01:55):
Mount Rushmore. Never mind an Nobel Peace Prize. Put him
on the mountain.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, no, idea, that's president we have all right knowing him.
Apparently you can't put somebody on Mount Rushmore. They keep
explaining to you, who knows, maybe it's just partisan nonsense,
that the the rock you can't you can't carve anything.
Knowing Trump, he'll start a second Mount Rushmore somewhere else.
(02:20):
He'll do a second Mount Rushmore. He'll put Reagan, he'll
put himself. Actually a good idea, Actually, a good idea,
second Mount Rushmore. Let's go to Pat in Westchester. Pat,
how you doing?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Hey, Mark? You have terrific guests on you have each week?
Liz s peak, Miranda divine. The one thing that you
were talking about Trump derangement syndrome. And I think some
of it could be jealousy if you look at that
he has a beautiful wife, he's amassed billions of dollars
in wealth, and he's a national icon and you know,
(02:55):
a world icon. So it could be an a jealousy.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, I don't think it's jealous because you look at
these Trump haters. There are all these old hag women
that live on the Upper West Side. They don't want
to be in a glitzy Trump Tower apartment, they don't
want to be married to a supermodel. They're I think
Miranda divine. If you didn't hear last hour, it was fascinating.
Will follow up on this. She's been talking to a
psychiatrist like doctor Keith Ablau and it's daddy issues. It's
(03:23):
a super strong, forceful, dominant male that they can't stand.
And if you look back on presidents, first of all,
you have to put on this fake formality, and Paul
you can't just you know, be an outrageous kind of
guy like Trump is. You can't in real life. That's
where it comes. But could she might have put her
(03:46):
finger on it. You know, every great politician, no matter
how strong, and they are great presidents, Bill Clinton, they
show a lot of vulnerability and the humbleness. And George
Bush could look very vulnerable at times, humble. And Obama,
yeah he could look humble at times and show some
(04:07):
vulnerability and self deprecating and all that. But they all
could do that. But not Trump. There's no vulnerability anywhere.
It's like the roughest, toughest, strongest, the most masculine, dominating.
It just sets off those women. They can't deal with it.
Let's go to Alan Yonkers. Al, how you doing.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Good?
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Mark? Thanks for taking my call. You know, I just
wanted your personal opinion. You know, I saw Mike Lawler
when he stopped the minority leader Jefferies, and not that
it was a political stunt. I just thought it was
inappropriate because of security reasons. As you know, the minority
leader being in the leadership has Secret Service protection, and
(04:51):
I just started to put the Secret Service in uncomfortable positions.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah, would you agree or do?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
There's no security problem. They can protect him. But what
it was is, you know how we tell you don't
argue with Democrats. If you got a friend who hates
don't argue because it'll be like that lawler Jeffrey's conversation.
You're just yelling at each other for twenty minutes. You're
not going to change their mind. Don't even bother. It's
like arguing with a statue. I mean, don't bother. Don't
(05:16):
argue with him. So when they say to hey, it
happens to me all the time. I was with this
group of entertainment business people and one of them says,
this is the worst nightmare we've ever lived through this Trump.
I can't sleep at night. And it looked at me
and go, yeah, me too, me too. Just yes, I'm
to death. Change the subject, get out of there, don't
(05:37):
even try to argue with them. Whatever they think. Just
let it go. Hey, today would have been John Lennon's
eighty fifth birthday. It would have been eighty five today.
You know, it's interesting some people you just never saw
them get old. A lot of them you see. You
know Billy Joel, you see them now, you wouldn't if
(05:59):
you can't. He came in a time machine from nineteen
seventy eight to now, you wouldn't recognize Billy Joe's it did.
Totally different looking. McCartney obviously looks his age, well not really,
but he looks older, but he still looks like McCartney,
still sounds like McCartney. But if you die young, people
never see you age. It's like Jack Kennedy, John F. Kennedy.
(06:20):
We always see him as young, dynamic president. We never
saw him get like Ted Kennedy, old and plump and boom.
So John Lennon would have been eighty five years old today. Hey,
when we come back, Ed Rollins will be with us,
the greatest political analyst, the Dean himself. We'll talk to
him next on seven to ten wor
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