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Bob in Montvale, NJ, called Mark to tell him to watch out for crazy liberals today participating in the Starbucks strike, due to working conditions. Dave in Chicago calls Mark to ask him if Minority Leader Chuck Schumer could get hired as a commentator on a TV Show?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now back to the Mark Simon Show on WR.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey, let's take some calls eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten is and then let's go to Bob
in Montvale, New Jersey. Bob, how you doing good? Mark?

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Thanks for taking my call. And just as an awareness,
I hope everybody's okay on the Red Cup. But Thursday
there's a big rally in Brooklyn later on today, Chris,
they're on strike.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Union? No coffee, old Starbucks. Oh, I hope it's going
to be extra angry libs out there today.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Be careful, please, Oh what would you say? Red Cup?

Speaker 1 (00:39):
It's today?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Is there?

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Red Cup? Thursday day that they kick off their holiday
and the baristas are on strike. Yeah, of course, I
guess thirty dollars an hour isn't enough.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
And yeah, that's a good point. You know. I gave
up on Starbucks. Actually since we moved into our new
place here because the kitchen is right down there, we
got like twelve different coffee machines and make you any
kind of coffee you want, it's free. They got like
forty seven different brands of coffee you can choose. And
I imagine a lot of people where they go to
work in a nice, big office. But the coffee's free.

(01:14):
Why would just stand in line at Starbucks and pay
twelve dollars or something? And it's like getting coffee from
the motor vehicle department. You wait in line. Finally you
get up there, you place your order. Now they say,
all right, now go over there and wait in that
line to go get it. It's like motor vehicle. Here's
your temporary coffee. You'll get the real coffee in that
line over there. It's absolutely ridiculous. And you always get

(01:35):
in the line behind that one guy with the most
complicated order, and it takes forever. And you know, and
they have food at Starbucks. But you notice the food
case got smaller. It used to be like the whole counter.
Now it's like a little tiny section. And it's avoid Starbucks.

(01:56):
You know. There's all these other places springing up. What's
the one over there? I can't remember. There's one right
across the street, Blank Street. Blank Street is a great
one that they're bringing up all over the place. Gregory's
coffee is pretty good. Hey, and dunkin Donuts. Dunkin Donuts
has much better coffee than Starbucks. It tastes much better
than Starbucks. I mean, I wouldn't exactly hire their decorator.

(02:19):
I mean, they're the most depressing looking stories you've ever seen.
But the coffee is great. It's probably the best coffee
you can get dunkin Donuts. It's one tenth the price
of Starbucks. And everybody that works there looks like they're
gonna kill themselves as soon as you leave. They don't
look too thrilled. But but it's much better coffee. Let's
go to Aaron in Indianapolis. Erin, how you doing, good morning, Mark.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
I'm sure you saw some of the clips of Gavin
Newsom partying with the indigenous folks in Brazil.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well, listen, let the guy enjoy himself.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Well, my point is that I think he should return
the favor and treat them to the French Laundry.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Well, that's a famous Thomas Keller restaurant out in California
in the middle of the pandemic, when you were not
allowed to go to a restaurant, he was seen at
the French Laundry, which is it doesn't sound very good,
the French laundry, but it's one of the most expensive,
one of maybe the ten best restaurants in the world,
and there he was. Now this other problem is his
campaign director got caught embezzling funds a quarter of a

(03:23):
million dollars. It's not his fault, Gavin Newsom, and there's
no governor or candidate goes line by line over the
accounting stuff. But it's the guy he picked, so reflects
on him. Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave, how
you doing. Good morning, Mark.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
I'm doing very well.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Mark.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
We all know that Chuck Schumer's career was over, as
well as his fake Sunday press conferences.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
So I have to ask, first of all, if he writes.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
A book, will he go on the liberal networks to
promote it? Secondly, will he get hired as a commentary
And when people touches him and Kamala Harris write books,
are they artificially inflated for The New York Times by
having people buying thousands of copies?

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yes, that can be done. All good questions. If Chuck
Schumer writes a book, nothing will happen. Nobody will buy it.
We just tested that about six months ago. Remember he
wrote that book. What's it called anti Semitism? Here's the
guy who looked the other way when the worst anti Semitism,
the most frightening anti semitism, was taking place on our
college campuses in his district, and he looked the other way.

(04:34):
He left town, ran away. Then he has a gall
to write a book called anti Semitism. It didn't sell.
He's a disaster. No, he cannot get a job as
a TV commentator because he's an old, depressing, fossil old
dinosaur who just sounds awful talking. That's why he always
reads everything off these index cards. What's the other question? Oh,

(04:55):
if he leaves, you know, if he leaves as bad
as he is, you can get somebody worse. Is senate
to minority leader. You're going to get like a Chris Murphy,
that real dirty, uh, you know, lying, thieving, rotten Connecticut senator.
And then speaking of Connecticut, you guys got Richard Blumenthal.
He's your Chuck Schumer. Just depressing old man. Uh. Let's

(05:18):
let's go to Jimmy and New Milford. Jimmy, how you doing.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
Thanks, Good morning, Mark. Mark. You know the way you
were saying that every time it turned around, people were
saying that Curtis can't When Curtis can't win.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Curtis can't win.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
You know, I love w All and I love the DJs.
But the problem is, I think when they always have
to repeat or they're a bad You know, the nuts
are saying about Donald Trump. You know you got to say,
uh course they have to say to lad, who's ever
saying anything bad? They have to repeat it to make

(05:55):
the point. You know, look at what they're saying.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
WHOA.

Speaker 5 (05:58):
But I'm so sick to it.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
We're talking about it. Oh do you know what he said?
I don't know what he said. He's sounded good. He's
got a good voice. It said something catchy about his way.
You like listening to him. But I have no idea
what you're talking about. But and did he say? The
DJs at w R I think the last DJ here

(06:20):
I'm trying to remember, well, it would have been somewhere
in John Gambling. I think he used to play music.
Gene Claven used to be here in the afternoons. He
played music. But I think that was in the late seventies,
so I don't think we've had a DJ since then.
When we come back, we'll see if we can talk
to Steve Moore. I think he'll show up Steve Moore.
The brilliant Economists will be with us next on seven

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