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Jacob in Queens, NY, calls Mark to talk about the campaign mail he gets and how it's different from what he is used to getting during elections. Mike in Florida finds it funny how people are trying to shield themselves before the Jeffrey Epstein files fully get released.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mark on demand by setting a preset for his podcast
on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Now back to Mark Simon on woor.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Jacob and
Queen's Jacob. How you doing?

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Hey, good Morney, how are you good? I every time
I moved in New York City, every apartment I got,
I got like he's in five and ten voter stuff
for the people who used to live there. This year
they made a change, but they put.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
A barcode on it. So it used to be if let's.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Say someone wants to vote on someone else's name when
he used to be the paper map, that you would
come there and they would they would look up your
name in a book. You know, you have to rememorize
the name now as the barcode, So they send out
before election. They actually send up this booklet with a barcode,
and you come there and they scan it and write
away the name and the address all populated. So you

(00:52):
have now a situation where we have millions of these
booklets being mailed there before elections, and the people don't
even there, and anybody can just go with all these
bookloaks and vote. You don't even need to memorize the
name or anything.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Oh yeah, I know. We have the world's sloppiest devoting
system here in New York City, deliberately for a lot
of reasons. It allows for a lot of shenanigans to
go on. Let's go to Mike and Saint James. Mike,
how you doing good?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Walk? Are you? Uh? When they want to terminate a
late night comedian host, don't they have to worry about
paying him full length of his contract?

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, but the Kimmel's contract is just about up. They
did this with Colbert. His contract still goes till May,
so you got to pay off the last year. But
they don't mind doing that. You can pay him off.
But if he's causing you problems, if he's costing you
trouble with the FCC, if he's causing you trouble with sponsors, boycotts,
it's worth paying the guy off. Look at Megan Kelly.

(01:50):
How many times has she been paid off to leave early?
I think she's made a total of thirty millions getting
paid off by various networks to leave. It's a good
business to be getting paid to leave. Let's go to
Mike in Florida. Mike, how you doing.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Good morning, Mark. Yes, Mike, isn't it a little bit
ironic that Jeffrey Epstein was a resident of the Virgin Islands.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Uh, well, he had an island that he bought somewhere,
And you've got to be really a bad guy if
you need to do it on an island, a private island.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
So, you know, I wanted to say that I have
a friend and I hear pundits say that, you know,
why does Trump have to fight these personal battles, you know,
with Jimmy Kimmel or Montana whoever. And it's like, because
he's the only one who does it. His party doesn't
defend him the way the Democrat parties would defend any
Democrat Dopey Jasmine Crockett, you know the one, you know,

(02:44):
the ya you know. So it's like he's a it's
a one man war against his vast machine.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Uh yeah, now that's a good question. People ask all
the time, why does he just lets go? They would
like every president to act like George W. Bush, who
was the same problem. The media went after him, fake news,
they hated him, and he was always very dignified and
formal and didn't respond. Yeah, wait to get him exactly,
so thanks for calling. You know, I don't know. Most

(03:13):
of us can't behave like Trump. You just wouldn't do it.
It's too much. Who could who has the energy or
the thick skin to beat be like him all day
and night. But that's the way he is. And again
it was George W. Bush. And every comedian's attacking you,
and they're calling you dumb, and they're calling you a
war criminal. You know, you just act dignified, very polite,
very formal. But that's not Trump. Trump believes punchback. Every

(03:36):
time anybody comes out, you just punch whatever they do,
punch back twice as hard. Do it constantly. Seems like
a lot of effort and energy, and it seems to us,
like you said, who could behave like that? But but
look at Trump. The guy goes into real estate, becomes
the most famous real estate developer in the world. He's
a total amateur. When he goes into television, two minutes later,

(03:59):
he's got the number one show in television. He's a
total amateur. Goes into politics. How many times you've seen
an amateur try to run for governor, try to run
for mayor, or try to run for congress. Total amateur.
They don't usually get anywhere. Trump total amateur. First time
he runs, He's president of the United States. Just like
that gets real. So and look at go back to

(04:22):
last year. The guy's indicted in four different cities, he's
convicted of six thousand felonies, he's shot at, and despite
all that, he wins again he's president. So that whole
Trump method, that hold Trump behavior. Obviously it works. Obviously
you got to have the talent for it and the
thick skin for it. But he's made it work. Hey,

(04:43):
when we come back, the great economist Steve Moore will
give us the truth about the affordability crisis and all that,
and about Mom Donnie and his way of trying to
fix the affordability crisis how bad it is. We'll get
to that next on seven to ten w Owar